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noun

Lattice n.

1.

Any work of wood, metal, plastic, or other solid material, made by crossing a series of parallel laths, or thin strips, with another series at a diagonal angle, and forming a network with openings between the strips; as, the lattice of a window; called also latticework. "The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice."

2.

(Her.) The representation of a piece of latticework used as a bearing, the bands being vertical and horizontal.

3.

(Crystallography) The arrangement of atoms or molecules in a crystal, represented as a repeating arrangement of points in space, each point representing the location of an atom or molecule; called also crystal lattice and space lattice.

Lattice bridge, a bridge supported by lattice girders, or latticework trusses.

Lattice girder (Arch.), a girder of which the wed consists of diagonal pieces crossing each other in the manner of latticework.

Lattice plant (Bot.), an aquatic plant of Madagascar (Ouvirandra fenestralis), whose leaves have interstices between their ribs and cross veins, so as to resemble latticework. A second species is Ouvirandra Berneriana. The genus is merged in Aponogeton by recent authors.

verb

Lattice v. i. (past & past part. latticed; pres. part. latticing)

1.

To make a lattice of; as, to lattice timbers.

2.

To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice; as, to lattice a window.

To lattice up, to cover or inclose with a lattice. "Therein it seemeth he (Alexander) hath latticed up Caesar."

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Etymology of 'Lattice'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lattice" Quotes from Famous Books

... walls were covered with a pretty creamy paper festooned all over with bunches of pink-tipped daisies tied together with blue ribbons; two little white beds, with snowy curtains and quilts, stood with a table between them. But most fascinating of all was the long, low, lattice-window with its white dimity curtains, and frill across the top. They flew to it to look out, and there before them lay the river winding in and out on its crooked course, and beyond it the moor stretching away, as far as the eye could see, to where, in the distance, ...

— The Carroll Girls • Mabel Quiller-Couch

... to her tiny room in the roof that night, her head felt too full of confusing thoughts to make it possible to go to bed at once. She knelt on a box that stood in the window, fastened back the lattice, and, leaning on the sill, looked out into the night. The greyness of evening was falling over everything, but it was not nearly dark yet, so that she could see the windings of the chalky road which led down to the valley, and the ...

— White Lilac; or the Queen of the May • Amy Walton

... hurry thee, gentle mavis, Find the bothie, and flutter about the doorway. Touch the lattice tenderly, bid my mother Fetch ...

— Ionica • William Cory (AKA William Johnson)

... adjectives, and then, losing all control of himself, he sprang at one of the members of the deputation—the youngest and strongest—and lifting him up in his arms, literally forced the unfortunate young man out of the house—not by the door, but through the side, tearing a hole in the thin lattice woodwork big enough to admit a bollock. The remainder of the deputation at once retired, and, as I have mentioned in the previous chapter, "Bully" and ...

— Concerning "Bully" Hayes - From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other - Stories" - 1902 • Louis Becke

... don't care how nice he is, she has spoiled him. I wonder who she was. Pretty, was she? I don't believe a word of it—some bold-faced, brazen creature. Oh! I shall hate myself if I cry;" but that was past praying for, and she closed her lattice and went to bed for fear the stars should ...

— The Bread-winners - A Social Study • John Hay

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