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noun 
  1. Large, landlocked, naturally occurring stretch of water.
  2. In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
  3. (In the plural) an area characterised by its many lakes; e.g., the English Lake District is often shortened to The Lakes.
  4. a, A large amount of liquid: a wine lake.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: meer
    1. Dutch, meer
    2. French: laque
    3. German: Farbstoff
    4. Italian: lacca
    5. Spanish: laca
verb 
  1. to present an offering (obsolete)
  2. to leap, jump, exert oneself, play (mainly dialectal)
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