Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LA-MEL'LI-CORN, n.

A coleopterous insect, having antenna 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-ROST'RAL, 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. Brandt.

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 ergoment 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,

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. lumina; 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 polypetalons 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.