The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . s-lazuli bluea deep blue used in decoration, especially in orientalporcelain and in the porcelain of Sevres. 1 he Sevres blueis deeper in color than tliat which bears the same name inOriental porcelain, and is commonly clouded or mottled,and sometimes veined with gold.—Lapls-lazuU Ware, aname given by .losiah Wedgwood to a variety of his peb-bleware which was veined with gold upon blue. See pelt-iificrtre.—Lapis Lydius (Lydian stone), touchstone orbasanite, a var
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . s-lazuli bluea deep blue used in decoration, especially in orientalporcelain and in the porcelain of Sevres. 1 he Sevres blueis deeper in color than tliat which bears the same name inOriental porcelain, and is commonly clouded or mottled,and sometimes veined with gold.—Lapls-lazuU Ware, aname given by .losiah Wedgwood to a variety of his peb-bleware which was veined with gold upon blue. See pelt-iificrtre.—Lapis Lydius (Lydian stone), touchstone orbasanite, a variety of silicious slate.— Lapis oUarls (pot-stone), soapstiuie, potstone, or talc, a hydratcd silicate ofmagiiesiuin. Lapith (lapith), 11.; pi. Lapithm or Lapitlw(-i-the, -iths). [< L. Lapitli(r,< Or. \aniOai: seeLapithec.] One of the Lapithas. The /^rr/nVfts I Parthenon I are youthful, beardless, slim,but flriiily knit. .-1. S. Murray, Greek .Sculpture, II. 65. Lapithse (lapi-the), «. ;)/. [L., < Gr. AaTTiGai.]In (ir. myth., a people of Thessaly, held to be tflWInlmfiflW ,? j- riir:ii?(!ff:^^?;Uj. ? l-iijhtiiiii with \jy,|i,i(iiiiiiiw;,4[n:iifiiiii(iiiniitiiiniiiGiM Metope of the Parthenon. Lapithae the descendants of Lapithes. son of Apollo,celebrated for their wars with the Centaius,and esjieeially for their chastisement, with theaid of Tlieseus, of the Centaui-s for an attemptto cany off Hippodameia and other womenfrom the feast at her marriage with Pii-itlious,ruler of the LapithiE. The word is of frequent oc-currence in treatises on Greek ai-t, combats betweenLapithfc and Centaurs having been a favorite subjectwith Greek artists. lap-joint (lapjoint), H. A joint in which oneedge of a board, plank, or plate overlaps theedge of another piece, the edges being partly-cut away so that the pieces are in parallel rela-tion with eafh other. The term is used in contradis-tinction to hutUiiii jfdnt. The
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