a lake, cognate with the Lat. _lacus_ and the Cel. _loch_ or _lwch_. These words in the various dialects originally signified a _hollow_, from the roots _lag_, _lug_, and Grk. _lakos_; _e.g._ Lachen, Lat. _Adlacum_ (at the lake), a town on Lake Zurich; Interlachen (between the lakes), in Switzerland; Biberlachen (beaver lake); Lago Maggiore (the greater lake), with reference to Lake Lugano, which itself means simply the lake or hollow; Lago Nuovo (new lake), in Tyrol,--it was formed a few years ago by a landslip; Lagoa (on a lake or marsh), in Brazil; Lagow (on a lake), in Prussia; Lagos, in Portugal (on a large bay or lake); Laguna-de-Negrillos (the lake of the elms) and Laguna-Encinillos (of the evergreen oaks), in Spain; Laach, in the Rhine Provinces (situated on a lake), the crater of an extinct volcano; Anderlecht or Anderlac (at the lake or marsh), in Belgium; Chablais, Lat. _Caput-lacensis_ (at the head of the lake, _i.e._ of Geneva); Missolonghi, _i.e._ _Mezzo-laguno_ (in the midst of a marshy lagoon); Beverley, in Yorkshire, anc. _Biberlac_ (the beaver lake or marsh); Lago-dos-Patos (the lake of geese), in Brazil; Niederhaslach and Oberhaslach (lower and upper lake), in Bas Rhin; Lake Champlain takes its name from a Norman adventurer, Governor-general of Canada, in the seventeenth century; Alagoas (abounding in lakes), a province in Brazil, with its capital of the same name; Filey, in Yorkshire, in Doomsday _Fuielac_ (_i.e._ bird lake, _fugæ_). [Sidenote: LAD (Scand.),] a pile or heap; _e.g._ Ladhouse, Ladhill, Ladcragg, Ladrigg (the house, hill, crag, ridge of the mound or cairn), probably so named from a heap or cairn erected over the grave of some Norse leader. [Sidenote: LADE, or LODE (A.S.),] a way, passage, or canal; _e.g._ Ladbrook (the passage of the brook); Lechlade, in Gloucester (the passage of the R. Lech into the Thames); Evenlode (at brink of the passage or stream); Cricklade, anc. _Crecca-gelade_ or _Crecca-ford_ (the creek at the opening or entrance of the Churn and Key into the Thames). [Sidenote: LAEN (Teut.), LEHEN,] land leased out, a fief; _e.g._ Kingsland or Kingslaen, in Middlesex, Hereford, and Orkney; Haylene (the enclosed fief), in Hereford; Lenham (the dwelling on the laen); Lenton, ditto. [Sidenote: LAESE (A.S.),] pasture, literally moist, wet land; _e.g._ Lewes, in Sussex; Lesowes, in Worcester (the wet pasture); Lewisham (the dwelling on the pasture), in Kent; Leswalt (wood pasture), in Dumfriesshire. [Sidenote: LAG, LUG (Gadhelic), LÜCKE (Ger.),]