"Lar" is a word in ENGLISH
A species of gibbon (Hylobates lar), found in Burmah. Called
also white-handed gibbon.
A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector
of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house;
household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house.
The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.
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The levelers in the reign of Hen. I., who acknowledged no head or superior. Leges H. 1; Cowell. Also certain …
Read the complete definitionIntermingled with. “A thing which is among others is intermingled with them. Commerce among the states cannot stop at the …
Read the complete definitionAny arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates, of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. …
Read the complete definitionA small black gibbon (Hylobates hoolock), found in the mountains of Assam.
Read the complete definitionAny species of the genus Hylobates; a gibbon, or long-armed ape. See Gibbon.
Read the complete definitionHaving long arms; as, the long-armed ape or gibbon.
Read the complete definitionThe power to regulate commerce, vested ln congress, ls the power to preserlbe the rules by which lt shall be …
Read the complete definitionA tax imposed in England and France, in 1188, by Pope Innocent III., to raise a fund for the crusade …
Read the complete definitionA gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web.
Read the complete definitionThe agile gibbon; -- called also ungka-pati, and ungka-etam. See Gibbon.
Read the complete definitionThe agile, or silvery, gibbon; -- called also camper. See Gibbon.
Read the complete definitionThe crowned gibbon (Hylobates pileatus), native of Siam, Southern China, and the Island of Hainan. It is entirely arboreal in …
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