Lakists

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lake \Lake\, n. [AS. lac, L. lacus; akin to AS. lagu lake, sea,
     Icel. l["o]gr; OIr. loch; cf. Gr. la`kkos pond, tank. Cf.
     {Loch}, {Lough}.]
     A large body of water contained in a depression of the
     earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or
     less extended area.


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     Note: Lakes are for the most part of fresh water; the salt
           lakes, like the Great Salt Lake of Utah, have usually
           no outlet to the ocean.
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     {Lake dwellers} (Ethnol.), people of a prehistoric race, or
        races, which inhabited different parts of Europe. Their
        dwellings were built on piles in lakes, a short distance
        from the shore. Their relics are common in the lakes of
        Switzerland.
  
     {Lake dwellings} (Archaeol.), dwellings built over a lake,
        sometimes on piles, and sometimes on rude foundations kept
        in place by piles; specifically, such dwellings of
        prehistoric times. Lake dwellings are still used by many
        savage tribes. Called also {lacustrine dwellings}. See
        {Crannog}.
  
     {Lake fly} (Zool.), any one of numerous species of dipterous
        flies of the genus {Chironomus}. In form they resemble
        mosquitoes, but they do not bite. The larvae live in
        lakes.
  
     {Lake herring} (Zool.), the cisco ({Coregonus Artedii}).
  
     {Lake poets}, {Lake school}, a collective name originally
        applied in contempt, but now in honor, to Southey,
        Coleridge, and Wordsworth, who lived in the lake country
        of Cumberland, England, Lamb and a few others were classed
        with these by hostile critics. Called also {lakers} and
        {lakists}.
  
     {Lake sturgeon} (Zool.), a sturgeon ({Acipenser rubicundus}),
        of moderate size, found in the Great Lakes and the
        Mississippi River. It is used as food.
  
     {Lake trout} (Zool.), any one of several species of trout and
        salmon; in Europe, esp. {Salmo fario}; in the United
        States, esp. {Salvelinus namaycush} of the Great Lakes,
        and of various lakes in New York, Eastern Maine, and
        Canada. A large variety of brook trout ({Salvelinus
        fontinalis}), inhabiting many lakes in New England, is
        also called lake trout. See {Namaycush}.
  
     {Lake whitefish}. (Zool.) See {Whitefish}.
  
     {Lake whiting} (Zool.), an American whitefish ({Coregonus
        Labradoricus}), found in many lakes in the Northern United
        States and Canada. It is more slender than the common
        whitefish.
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