Definition of lake

• n. - A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.
• n. - A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.
• v. i. - To play; to sport.
• n. - 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.