Lament () Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.

Lament () An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.

Lamentable () Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance.

Lamentable () Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error.

Lamentable () Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense.

Lamentation () The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning.

Lamentation () A book of the Old Testament attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and taking its name from the nature of its contents.

Lamented () Mourned for; bewailed.

Lamenter () One who laments.

Lamentin () See Lamantin.

Lamenting () Lamentation.

Lamentingly () In a lamenting manner.

Lames () Small steel plates combined together so as to slide one upon the other and form a piece of armor.

Lametta () Foil or wire made of gold, silver, or brass.

Lamia () 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 () of Lamina

Laminas () of Lamina

Lamina () 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 () The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower.

Lamina () A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather.

Laminability () The quality or state of being laminable.

Laminable () Capable of being split into laminae or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip.

Laminar () Alt. of Laminal

Laminal () In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers; having the form of a thin plate or lamina.

Laminaria () 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 () 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 () A broad-leafed fossil alga.

Laminary () Laminar.

Laminate () Consisting of, or covered with, laminae, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.

Laminated () of Laminate

Laminating () of Laminate

Laminate () To cause to separate into thin plates or layers; to divide into thin plates.

Laminate () To form, as metal, into a thin plate, as by rolling.

Laminate () To separate into laminae.

Laminated () Laminate.

Laminating () Forming, or separating into, scales or thin layers.

Lamination () The process of laminating, or the state of being laminated.

Laminiferous () Having a structure consisting of laminae, or thin layers.

Laminiplantar () Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.

Laminitis () Inflammation of the laminae or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse; founder.

Lamish () Somewhat lame.

Lamm () See Lam.

Lammas () The first day of August; -- called also Lammas day, and Lammastide.

Lammergeir () Alt. of Lammergeier

Lammergeier () 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 () Same as Hyracoidea.

Lamp () A thin plate or lamina.

Lamp () 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 () Figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp.

Lamp () A device or mechanism for producing light by electricity. See Incandescent lamp, under Incandescent.

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