Lament (v.) Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.
Lament (v.) An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.
Lamentable (a.) Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance.
Lamentable (a.) Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error.
Lamentable (a.) Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense.
Lamentation (n.) The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning.
Lamentation (n.) A book of the Old Testament attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and taking its name from the nature of its contents.
Lamented (a.) Mourned for; bewailed.
Lamenter (n.) One who laments.
Lamentin (n.) See Lamantin.
Lamenting (n.) Lamentation.
Lamentingly (adv.) In a lamenting manner.
Lames (n. pl.) Small steel plates combined together so as to slide one upon the other and form a piece of armor.
Lametta (n.) Foil or wire made of gold, silver, or brass.
Lamia (n.) A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch.
Laminae (pl. ) of Lamina
Laminas (pl. ) of Lamina
Lamina (n.) A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.
Lamina (n.) The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower.
Lamina (n.) A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather.
Laminability (n.) The quality or state of being laminable.
Laminable (a.) Capable of being split into laminae or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip.
Laminar (a.) Alt. of Laminal
Laminal (a.) In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers; having the form of a thin plate or lamina.
Laminaria (n.) A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil's apron. The fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length. See Illust. of Kelp.
Laminarian (a.) Pertaining to seaweeds of the genus Laminaria, or to that zone of the sea (from two to ten fathoms in depth) where the seaweeds of this genus grow.
Laminarite (n.) A broad-leafed fossil alga.
Laminary (a.) Laminar.
Laminate (a.) Consisting of, or covered with, laminae, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.
Laminated (imp. & p. p.) of Laminate
Laminating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Laminate
Laminate (v. t.) To cause to separate into thin plates or layers; to divide into thin plates.
Laminate (v. t.) To form, as metal, into a thin plate, as by rolling.
Laminate (v. i.) To separate into laminae.
Laminated (a.) Laminate.
Laminating (a.) Forming, or separating into, scales or thin layers.
Lamination (n.) The process of laminating, or the state of being laminated.
Laminiferous (a.) Having a structure consisting of laminae, or thin layers.
Laminiplantar (a.) Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
Laminitis (n.) Inflammation of the laminae or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse; founder.
Lamish (a.) Somewhat lame.
Lamm (v. t.) See Lam.
Lammas (n.) The first day of August; -- called also Lammas day, and Lammastide.
Lammergeir (n.) Alt. of Lammergeier
Lammergeier (n.) A very large vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle.
Lamnunguia (n. pl.) Same as Hyracoidea.
Lamp (n.) A thin plate or lamina.
Lamp (n.) A light-producing vessel, instrument or apparatus; especially, a vessel with a wick used for the combustion of oil or other inflammable liquid, for the purpose of producing artificial light.
Lamp (n.) Figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp.
Lamp (n.) A device or mechanism for producing light by electricity. See Incandescent lamp, under Incandescent.
Lampad (n.) A lamp or candlestick.
Lampadist (n.) One who gained the prize in the lampadrome.
Lampadrome (n.) A race run by young men with lighted torches in their hands. He who reached the goal first, with his torch unextinguished, gained the prize.
Lampas (n.) An inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the roof of the mouth immediately behind the fore teeth in the horse; -- called also lampers.
Lampate (n.) A supposed salt of lampic acid.
Lampblack (n.) The fine impalpable soot obtained from the smoke of carbonaceous substances which have been only partly burnt, as in the flame of a smoking lamp. It consists of finely divided carbon, with sometimes a very small proportion of various impurities. It is used as an ingredient of printers' ink, and various black pigments and cements.
Lamper eel () See Lamprey.
Lampern (n.) The river lamprey (Ammocoetes, / Lampetra, fluviatilis).
Lampers (n.) See Lampas.
Lampic (a.) Pertaining to, or produced by, a lamp; -- formerly said of a supposed acid.
Lamping (a.) Shining; brilliant.
Lampless (a.) Being without a lamp, or without light; hence, being without appreciation; dull.
Lamplight (n.) Light from a lamp.
Lamplighter (n.) One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps.
Lamplighter (n.) The calico bass.
Lampoon (n.) A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress.
Lampooned (imp. & p. p.) of Lampoon
Lampooning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lampoon
Lampoon (v. t.) To subject to abusive ridicule expressed in writing; to make the subject of a lampoon.
Lampooner (n.) The writer of a lampoon.
Lampoonry (n.) The act of lampooning; a lampoon, or lampoons.
Lamp-post (n.) A post (generally a pillar of iron) supporting a lamp or lantern for lighting a street, park, etc.
Lamprel (n.) See Lamprey.
Lampreys (pl. ) of Lamprey
Lamprey (n.) An eel-like marsipobranch of the genus Petromyzon, and allied genera. The lampreys have a round, sucking mouth, without jaws, but set with numerous minute teeth, and one to three larger teeth on the palate (see Illust. of Cyclostomi). There are seven small branchial openings on each side.
Lampron (n.) See Lamprey.
Lampyrine (n.) An insect of the genus Lampyris, or family Lampyridae. See Lampyris.
Lampyris (n.) A genus of coleopterous insects, including the glowworms.
Lanarkite (n.) A mineral consisting of sulphate of lead, occurring either massive or in long slender prisms, of a greenish white or gray color.
Lanary (n.) A place for storing wool.
Lanate () Alt. of Lanated
Lanated () Wooly; covered with fine long hair, or hairlike filaments.
Lacashire boiler () A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end.
Lacasterian (a.) Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster, of England, in which advanced pupils in a school teach pupils below them.
Lance (n.) A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
Lance (n.) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
Lance (n.) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
Lance (n.) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
Lance (n.) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
Lanced (imp. & p. p.) of Lance
Lancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lance
Lance (v. t.) To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
Lance (v. t.) To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
Lance (v. t.) To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch.
Lance fish () A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast; -- called also sand lance.
Lancegay (n.) Alt. of Lancegaye
Lancegaye (n.) A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II.
Lancelet (n.) A small fishlike animal (Amphioxus lanceolatus), remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type of the class Leptocardia. See Amphioxus, Leptocardia.
Lancely (a.) Like a lance.
Lanceolar (a.) Lanceolate.