Meaning of lakish | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Wet; moist.
   rare
2. Characteristic of the Lake poets.

Examples

“I know he knowes that watrie lakish hill”

“These men first gouerned the Citty in her Nonage, and some are of the minde, that they were the first Authors of the Padnaus slight, and their retyrement to the Lakish or marshie Isles, as also of their first building there.”

“We have next ‘Playhouse Musings,’ by Mr Coleridge—a piece which is unquestionably Lakish—though we cannot say that we recognize in it any of the peculiar traits of that powerful and misdirected genius whose name it has borrowed.”

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