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<blockquote>This humble praise,<b>lamented</b> shade ! receive. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Lamenter</h1> <Xpage=826>

<hw>La*ment"er</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who laments.</def>

<h1>Lamentin</h1> <Xpage=826>

<hw>La*men"tin</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Lamantin</er>.</def>

<h1>Lamenting</h1> <Xpage=826>

<hw>La*ment"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Lamentation.</def>

<blockquote><b>Lamentings</b> heard i' the air. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Lamentingly</h1> <Xpage=826>

<hw>La*ment"ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a lamenting manner.</def>

<h1>Lames</h1> <Xpage=826>

<hw>Lames</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>lame</ets> a thin plate, L. <ets>lamina</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Armor)</fld> <def>Small steel plates combined together so as to slide one upon the form a piece of armor.</def>

<h1>Lametta</h1> <Xpage=826>

<hw>La*met"ta</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. It. <ets>lametta</ets>, dim of <ets>lama</ets> a thin plate.]</ety> <def>Foil or wire made of gold, silver, or brass.</def>

<i>De Colange.</i>

<h1>Lamia</h1> <Xpage=826>

<hw>La"mi*a</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., fr. Gr. <?/.]</ety> <fld>(Class. Myth.)</fld> <def>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 with.</def>

<h1>Lamina</h1> <Xpage=826>

<hw>Lam"i*na</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. L. <plw>Lamella</plw>. <p><b>1.</b> <def>A thin plate or scale; a laying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals</def>.

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower.</def>

<i>Gray.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather.</def>

<h1>Laminability</h1> <Xpage=826>

<hw>Lam`i*na*bil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality or state of being laminable.</def>

<h1>Laminable</h1> <Xpage=826>

<hw>Lam"i*na*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being split into lamin\'91 or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip.</def>

<blockquote>When a body can be readily extended in all directions under the hammer, it is said to be malleable; and when into fillets under the rolling press, it is said to be <b>laminable</b>.

<i>Ure.</i>