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LAMENTATION n. 2 definitions
wailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning. In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping Matt. ii. 18.
LAMENTED a.
Mourned for; bewailed. This humble praise,lamented shade ! receive. Pope.
LAMENTER n.
One who laments.
LAMENTIN n.
See Lamantin.
LAMENTING n.
Lamentation. Lamentings heard i' the air. Shak.
LAMENTINGLY adv.
In a lamenting manner.
LAMES n.
Small steel plates combined together so as to slide one upon the form a piece of armor.
LAMETTA n.
Foil or wire made of gold, silver, or brass. De Colange.
AFLAME adv.
Inflames; glowing with light or passion; ablaze. G. Eliot.
BILAMELLATE; BILAMELLATED a.
Formed of two plates, as the stigma of the Mimulus; also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers.
BLAME v. 5 definitions
censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. We have none to blame but ourselves. Tillotson.
BLAMEFUL a. 2 definitions
Faulty; meriting blame. Shak.
BLAMELESS a.
Free from blame; without fault; innocent; guiltless; -- sometimes followed by of. A bishop then must be blameless. 1 Tim. iii. 2. Blameless still of arts that polish to deprave. Mallet. We will be blameless of this thine oath. Josh. ii. 17.
BLAMELESSLY adv.
In a blameless manner.
BLAMELESSNESS n.
The quality or state of being blameless; innocence.
BLAMER n.
One who blames. Wyclif.
BLAMEWORTHY a.
Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible. -- Blame"wor`thi*ness, n.
CAPILLAMENT n. 2 definitions
A filament. [R.]
CYCLAMEN n.
A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbit's ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.
DISBLAME v.
To clear from blame. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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