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Dryden.

Syn. -- To deplore; mourn; bewail. See Deplore.

La*ment", n. [L. lamentum. Cf. Lament, v.] 1. Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.

Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage.

Milton.

2. An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.

Lam"en*ta*ble (?), a. [L. lamentabilis : cf. F. lamentable.] 1. Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance. "Lamentable eye." Spenser.

2. Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error. "Lamentable helplessness." Burke.

3. Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense. Bp. Stillingfleet.

-- Lam"en*ta*ble*ness, n. -- Lam"en*ta*bly, adv.

Lam`en*ta"tion (?), n. [F. lamentation, L. lamentatio.] 1. The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning.

In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping.

Matt. ii. 18.

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

La*ment"ed (?), a. Mourned for; bewailed.

This humble praise, lamented shade ! receive.

Pope.

La*ment"er (&?;), n. One who laments.

La*men"tin (?), n. See Lamantin.

La*ment"ing (?), n. Lamentation.

Lamentings heard i' the air.

Shak.

La*ment"ing*ly, adv. In a lamenting manner.

Lames (lmz), n. pl. [F. lame a thin plate, L. lamina.] (Armor) Small steel plates combined together so as to slide one upon the other and form a piece of armor.

||La*met"ta (?), n. [Cf. It. lametta, dim. of lama a thin plate.] Foil ||or wire made of gold, silver, or brass. De Colange. || La"mi*a (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;.] (Class. Myth.) 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.

Lam"i*na (lm"*n), n.; pl. L. Laminæ (- n) E. Laminas (-nz). [L. cf. Lamella.] 1. A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.

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

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