Definition of Laso
Lasso, a well-plaited strip of hide, with a noose, to catch wild
horses or cattle with.
- Wikipedia
Lass"o (lăs"s&osl;) n.;
pl. Lassos (-sōz). [Sp. lazo,
L. laqueus. See Lace.] A rope or long thong of
leather with a running noose, used for catching horses, cattle,
etc.
Lasso cell (Zoöl.), one of a
peculiar kind of defensive and offensive stinging cells, found in
great numbers in all cœlenterates, and in a few animals of
other groups. They are most highly developed in the tentacles of
jellyfishes, hydroids, and Actiniæ. Each of these cells is
filled with, fluid, and contains a long, slender, often barbed,
hollow thread coiled up within it. When the cell contracts the thread
is quickly ejected, being at the same time turned inside out. The
thread is able to penetrate the flesh of various small, soft-bodied
animals, and carries a subtle poison by which they are speedily
paralyzed and killed. The threads, at the same time, hold the prey in
position, attached to the tentacles. Some of the jellyfishes, as the
Portuguese man-of-war, and Cyanea, are able to penetrate the
human skin, and inflict painful stings in the same way. Called also
nettling cell, cnida, cnidocell.
Las"so, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Lassoed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Lassoing.] To catch with a lasso.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A long rope with a sliding loop on one end, generally used in ranching to catch cattle and horses.
- (computing) An image editing function for drawing a line around an object.
- to catch with a lasso
Italian
- lax
- precess, passage
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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