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Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over. "A lambent flame." Dryden. "A lambent style." Beaconsfield.

The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.

A small American ericaceous shrub (Kalmia angustifolia); -- called also calfkill, sheepkill, sheep laurel, etc. It is supposed to poison sheep and other animals that eat it at times when the snow is deep and they cannot find other food.

A small lamb.

Like a lamb; gentle; meek; inoffensive.

Same as Base, n., 19.

A kind of pendent scarf or covering attached to the helmet, to protect it from wet or heat.

The skin of a lamb; especially, a skin dressed with the wool on, and used as a mat. Also used adjectively.

See Lansquenet.

Lambdoid. [R.]

or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.

See Lamella.

a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of which certain shells are composed.

Flat and thin; lamelliform; composed of lamellæ. -- Lam"el*lar*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to lamella or to lamellæ; lamellar.

Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. See Illust. of Antennæ.

One of the Lamellibranchia. Also used adjectively.

A class of Mollusca including all those that have bivalve shells, as the clams, oysters, mussels, etc.

Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n.

Having antennæ terminating in a group of flat lamellæ; -- said of certain coleopterous insects.