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An outcry or shout of many together. [R.] Before his funeral conclamation. May (Lucan).

A white, crystalline, poisonous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the lily of the valley (Convallaria Majalis). Its taste is first bitter, then sweet.

public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. The public listened with little emotion, but with much civility, to five acts of monotonous declamation. Macaulay.

A declaimer. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.

Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.

A disavowing or disowning. Bp. Hall.

of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc. Exclamations against abuses in the church. Hooker. Thus will I drown your exclamations. Shak. A festive exclamation not unsuited to the occasion. Trench.

Exclamatory. Earle. -- Ex*clam"a*tive*ly, adv.

Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or speaker. South. -- Ex*clam"a*to*ti*ly, adv.

A copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude.

Exclamation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A collective name for the Indians of several tribes formerly living along the Klamath river, in California and Oregon, but now restricted to a reservation at Klamath Lake; -- called also Clamets and Hamati.

A South American ruminant (Auchenia llama), allied to the camels, but much smaller and without a hump. It is supposed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco. It was formerly much used as a beast of burden in the Andes.

A salt of malamic acid.

A division of Foraminifera including those that have only one chamber.

A foraminifer having but one chamber.

Lamarckism as revived, modified, and expounded by recent biologists, esp. as maintaining that the offspring inherits characters acquired by the parent from change of environment, use or disuse of parts, etc.; -- opposed of Neo-Darwinism (which see, above). -- Ne`o-La*marck"i*an, a. & n.

A membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together.

Web-footed.

The act of proclaiming; official or general notice; publication. King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted. 1 Kings xv. 22.