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.
Lam`i*na*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being laminable.
Lam"i*na*ble (?), a. Capable of being split into laminæ or thin plates,
as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or
strip.
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 laminable.
Ure.
{ Lam"i*nar (?), Lam"i*nal (?), } a. [Cf. F. laminaire. See Lamina] In,
or consisting of, thin plates or layers; having the form of a thin
plate or lamina.
||Lam`i*na"ri*a (?), n. [NL. See Lamina.] (Bot.) 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.
||
Lam`i*na"ri*an (?), a. 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.
Lam"i*na*rite (?), n. [See Lamina.] (Paleon.) A broad-leafed fossil
alga.
Lam"i*na*ry (?), a. Laminar.
Lam"i*nate (?), a. [See Lamina.] Consisting of, or covered with,
laminæ, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.
Lam"i*nate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Laminated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Laminating (?).] [See Lamina.] 1. To cause to separate into thin plates
or layers; to divide into thin plates.