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A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood.

Ornament. [Obs.] Bailey.

Delineation; sketch. Dr. H. More.

A wandering of the mind; a crazy fancy. [Obs.] Heywood.

The act of disarming.

A liquid obtained from fat, or fat fish, by pressure.

A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.

Having the character of, or formed by, a filament.

Like a filament.

Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.

Fixed foundation; established basis. [Obs.] Custom is the . . . firmament of the law. Jer. Taylor.

Pertaining to the firmament; celestial; being of the upper regions. Dryden.

Foundation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. The fundamental reasons of this war. Shak. Some fundamental antithesis in nature. Whewell. Fundamental bass (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of t…

y; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. "Fundamentally defective." Burke.

Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir. Blackstone.

A bad state; as, the intemperament of an ulcerated part. [R.] Harvey.

Interpretation. [Obs.] Milton.

An oath.

To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn. Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. 2 Chron. xxxv. 25. Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. John xvi. 20.