Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LA-MEL'LI-CORN, n.

A coleopterous insect, having antennæ terminating in lamellar joints.

LAM-EL-LIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. lamella, and fero, to produce.]

Producing plates; an epithet of polymers presenting lamellar stars, or waved furrows garnished with plate. – Dict. Nat. Hist.

LAM'EL-LI-FORM, a. [L. lamella, a plate, and form.]

Having the form of a plate. – Journ. of Science.

LA-MEL-LI-ROS'TRAL, n. [L. lamella and rostrum.]

One of a tribe of swimming birds, in which the margin of the beak is furnished with lamels, or thin dental plates, as the goose, duck, and swan. – Brande.

LAME'LY, adv. [See Lame.]

1. Like a cripple; with impaired strength; in a halting manner; as, to walk lamely.
2. Imperfectly; without a complete exhibition of parts; as, a figure lamely drawn; a scene lamely described.
3. Weakly; poorly; unsteadily; feebly.

LAME'NESS, n.

1. An impaired state of the body or limbs; loss of natural soundness and strength by a wound or by disease; particularly applied to the limbs, and implying a total or partial inability; as, the lameness of the leg or arm.
2. Imperfection; weakness; as, the lameness of an argument or of a description.

LA-MENT', n. [L. lamentum.]

Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a weeping. Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. – Milton. [This noun is used chiefly or solely in poetry.]

LA-MENT', v.i. [L. lamentor.]

1. To mourn; to grieve; to weep or wail; to express sorrow. Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. – 2 Chron. xxxv.
2. To regret deeply; to feel sorrow.

LA-MENT', v.t.

To bewail; to mourn for; to bemoan; to deplore. One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes. – Dryden.

LAM'ENT-A-BLE, a. [Fr. from L. lamentabilis.]

1. To be lamented; deserving sorrow; as, a lamentable declension of morals.
2. Mournful; adapted to awaken grief; as, a lamentable tune.
3. Expressing sorrow; as, lamentable cries.
4. Miserable, pitiful; low; poor; in a sense rather ludicrous. [Little used.] Stillingfleet.

LAM'ENT-A-BLY, adv.

1. Mournfully; with expressions or tokens of sorrow. – Sidney.
2. So as to cause sorrow. – Shak.
3. Pitifully; despicably.

LAM-ENT-A'TION, n. [L. lamentatio.]

1. Expression of sorrow; cries of grief; the act of bewailing. In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping. Matth. ii.
2. In the plural, a book of Scripture, containing the lamentations of Jeremiah.

LA-MENT'ED, pp.

Bewailed; mourned for.

LA-MENT'ER, n.

One who mourns, or cries out with sorrow.

LA-MEN'TIN, n. [See LAMANTIN.]

LA-MENT'ING, n.

A mourning; lamentation.

LA-MENT'ING, pp.

Bewailing; mourning; weeping.

LA-MENT'ING-LY, adv.

With lamentation.

LA'MI-A, n. [L.]

A hag; a witch; a demon.

LAM'IN, or LAM'IN-A, n. [L. lamina; W. llavyn, from extending, W. llav.]

1. A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; applied to the plates of minerals, bones, &c. – Encyc.
2. A bone, or part of a bone, resembling a thin plate, such as the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone. – Parr.
3. The lap of the ear. – Parr.
4. The border, or the upper, broad or spreading part of the petal, in a polypetalous corol. – Martyn.
5. The part of a leaf which is an expansion of the parenchyma or pith of the petiole. It is traversed by veins. – Lindley.

LAM'IN-A-BLE, a.

Capable of being formed into thin plates. – Kirwan.

LAM'IN-AR, a.

In plates; consisting of thin plates or layers.

LAM'IN-ATE, or LAM'IN-A-TED, a.

Plated; consisting of plates, scales or layers, one over another.

LAM-I-NA'TION, n.

State of being laminated.

LAM'ING, ppr.

Crippling.