including the Lizard, Crocodile, &c., a genus of amphibious animals, belonging to the order of reptilia. See Reptology Index.

Laches, (from the French lacher, i.e. luxure, or lache, ignavus), in the English law signifies slackness or negligence, as it appears in Littleton, where laches of entry is a neglect of the heir to enter. And probably it may be an old English word: for where we say there is laches of entry, it is all one as if it were said there is a lack of entry: and in this signification it is used. No laches shall be adjudged in the heir within age; and regularly, laches shall not bar infants or female coverts for not entry or claim, to avoid decents; but laches shall be accounted in them for non-performance of a condition annexed to the estate of the land.