Definition of Laney

1. Noun. United States educator who founded the first private school for Black students in Augusta, Georgia (1854-1933).

Exact synonyms: Lucy Craft Laney
Generic synonyms: Educator, Pedagog, Pedagogue

Lexicographical Neighbors of Laney

Landsteiner-Donath test
Landstrom
Landstrom's muscle
Landtag
Landtags
Landwehr
Landwehrs
Landzert
Landzert's fossa
Lane
Lane's Prince Albert
Lane's disease
Lane's plates
Laney
Lang
Langdon
Lange
Lange's solution
Lange's test
Langenbeck's triangle
Langendorff's method
Langer's arch
Langer's lines
Langer's muscle
Langerhans
Langerhans' cells
Langerhans' granule

Literary usage of Laney

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ecclesiastical History of England: The Church of the Restoration by John Stoughton (1870)
"Wren was succeeded by Dr. Benjamin laney, previously Bishop of Peterborough, who was translated ... laney seems to have been kind-hearted as well as able, ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1920)
"... and Woody Fractures in Nickel-steel Gun Forgings BY CHARLES Y. CLAYTON,* MET. E., ROLLA, MO., FRANCIS B. FOLEY, f PITTSBURGH, PA., AND FRANCIS B. laney ..."

3. Cases on the Law of Partnership by Floyd Russell Mechem, Frank Lincoln Sage (1903)
"laney vs. FICKEL, et al Court of Appeals of Missouri, 1899. Mo. App. 60. Appeal from the Knox Circuit Court. Hon. Edwin E. McKee, Judge. Affirmed. ..."

4. The Court and Times of Charles the First: Illustrated by Authentic and by Thomas Birch, Cyprien de Gamaches, Cyprien, Robert Folkestone Williams (1848)
"Dr. Benjamin laney* to the Rev. John Cosens.3 Winton House, Jane 25, 1629. Your congratulations and well-wishes do add much to my living, though of itself ..."

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