The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . troft(««. Billberg, (lathwerk), n. Lathing; any work in laths, or resembling lathing,lathy (lathi), o. [< /rtWii +-//I.] Long and slender, like a lath. The which he tossed to and fro eft his latliy falchion brandished. West, Abuse of Travelling. A lathy young man, bent sideways over a spar, wasstruggling, with a very red face, to right himself. B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 204. lathyrism (lathi-rizm), n. [< Lathjirus + -ism.]A condi
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . troft(««. Billberg, (lathwerk), n. Lathing; any work in laths, or resembling lathing,lathy (lathi), o. [< /rtWii +-//I.] Long and slender, like a lath. The which he tossed to and fro eft his latliy falchion brandished. West, Abuse of Travelling. A lathy young man, bent sideways over a spar, wasstruggling, with a very red face, to right himself. B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 204. lathyrism (lathi-rizm), n. [< Lathjirus + -ism.]A condition produced by the use of the seedsof Lathyrus tieera and other species as is characterized by formication, tremors, andparaplegia. Lathyrus (lath i-rus), n. [NL. (Linnn-us), <Gr. Aiitlipog, a kind of pulse.] A genus of legu-minous plants of the tribe Vicica, oi- vetchfamily, agreeing in the structure of the flowerswith Iisum, the true pea, except that its styleis not grooved on the back. See risiim. Thereare probably about 120 species of these plants, inhabitingthe northern hemisphere and South America. They aw. Flowering of EverListitig Pea l^Lathyrus 7eHasuj).a, llowcr: *, fniit. vines creeping or climbing by tendrils, often with largeanrl handsome flowers. Several si)ecie8 are known IDcultivation, and the wild species are generally known aspeas, with qnalifyiug names, that of everlastiny ;irrt beingai»itlicable to the genus in general. L. macrirrhizug, %European species, is the bitter-vetch, caramcile, hcatn-pea, or mouse-pea; L. maritimus, of wide distribution onthe sea-coast, is the beach-pea; //. lulnralm, a native ofSicily, is the common sweet pea of the gardens; L. wtt-/olius, the everlasting pea of the gardens, is a cultivatedvariety of the European species L. sUvcstris. Thirteenspecies are native in the United States, several of which,as L. ornatus and L. venosns (see cut), have broad leafletsand handsome, showy flowers. latialite latialite (l
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