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Affectedly pensive; languidly sentimental. -- Lack`a*dai"si*cal*ly, adv.

made of other ingredients, esp. the tough, solid varnish of the Japanese, with which ornamental objects are made.

The expression of ideas by writing, or any other instrumentality.

Of or pertaining to monumental inscriptions; as, lapidary adulation. Lapidary style, that style which is proper for monumental and other inscriptions; terse; sententious.

presence of a court. [Obs.] See Wager of law, under Wager. Avogadro's law (Chem.), a fundamental conception, according to which, under similar conditions of temperature and pressure, all gases and vapors contain in the same volume the same number of ultimate molecules; -- so named after Avogadro, an Italian scientist.…

is often marked by yellow spots or veins of sulphide of iron, and is much valued for ornamental work. Called also lapis lazuli, and Armenian stone.

That which illumines or makes clear to the mind; mental or spiritual illumination; enlightenment; knowledge; information. He shall never know That I had any light of this from thee. Shak.

f making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers. [R.] Ball lightning, a rare form of lightning sometimes seen as a globe of fire moving from the clouds to the earth. -- Chain lightning, lightning in angular, zigzag, or forked flashes. -- Heat lightning, more or…

A person of small impotance or mental ability. [Colloq., Chiefly U. S.]

To illumine, as books or parchments, with ornamental figures, letters, or borders.

e (Min.), a kind of serpentine from near Lizard Point, Cornwall, England, -- used for ornamental purposes.

lender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree. In England it is called acacia.

Detrimental. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A large ornamental drinking vessel having two or more handles, intended to pass from hand to hand, as at a banquet.

A variety of black limestone, often polished for ornamental purposes.

be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation. Brande. Burrill. Your kindred shuns your house As beaten hence by your strange lunacy. Shak.

Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line.

Crazy; mentally unsound. [Written also loony.] [Law, U.S.]

A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, or the like, generally of an ornamental character. Pope.

Hence, a fundamental constitution which guaranties rights and privileges.