Lettuce
['letɪs] or ['lɛtɪs]
Definition
(noun.) leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa.
(noun.) any of various plants of the genus Lactuca.
Edited by Annabel--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A composite plant of the genus Lactuca (L. sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactucarium is obtained. The commonest wild lettuce of the United States is L. Canadensis.
Editor: Michel
Definition
n. a plant containing a milky juice its leaves used as a salad.
Typed by Lillian
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see lettuce growing green and thrifty, denotes that you will enjoy some greatly desired good, after an unimportant embarrassment. If you eat lettuce, illness will separate you from your lover or companion, or perhaps it may be petty jealousy. For a woman to dream of sowing lettuce, portends she will be the cause of her own early sickness or death. To gather it, denotes your superabundant sensitiveness, and that your jealous disposition will cause you unmitigated distress and pain. To buy lettuce, denotes that you will court your own downfall.
Checker: Salvatore
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An herb of the genus Lactuca 'Wherewith says that pious gastronome, Hengist Pelly, God has been pleased to reward the good and punish the wicked. For by his inner light the righteous man has discerned a manner of compounding for it a dressing to the appetency whereof a multitude of gustible condiments conspire being reconciled and ameliorated with profusion of oil the entire comestible making glad the heart of the godly and causing his face to shine. But the person of spiritual unworth is successfully tempted to the Adversary to eat of lettuce with destitution of oil mustard egg salt and garlic and with a rascal bath of vinegar polluted with sugar. Wherefore the person of spiritual unworth suffers an intestinal pang of strange complexity and raises the song. '
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Examples
- Teeth and bones and nails need a constant supply of mineral matter, and mineral matter is frequently found in greatest abundance in foods of low fuel value, such as lettuce, watercress, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Cold neck of mutton and a lettuce can ill compete with the luxuries of Mr Boffin's board. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- These boys had a horse and small wagon intrusted to them, and every morning in the season they would load up with onions, lettuce, peas, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Some foods, such as lettuce, cucumbers, and watermelons, make proper and satisfactory changes in diet, but are not strength giving. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- We'll have lettuce and make a salad. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Some of the young ladies washed the lettuces for him, and sliced them under his directions. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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