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Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable. Individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable conditious than any others. Burke.

The act of deploring or lamenting; lamentation. Speed.

To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over. To find her, or forever to deplore Her loss. Milton. As some sad turtle his lost love deplores. Pope.

Lamentably.

A Linnæan class of plants whose stamens are united into two bodies or bundles by their filaments.

pertaining to the class Diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); grouped into two bundles or sets by coalescence of the filaments (said of stamens).

Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans. Milton. Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire. Milton.

ige. Wyclif. Resort, I pray you, unto my sepulture To sing my dirige with great devotion. Lamentation of Mary Magdalene.

grief; sorrow; lamentation. [Archaic] And she died. So that day there was dole in Astolat. Tennyson.

Feathery or wool-like down; filament of a feather. Shak. No feather, or dowle of a feather. De Quincey.

The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.

A wailing; lamentation. [Obs.] "Ejulation in the pangs of death." Philips.

An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts.

Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains. Elegiac griefs, and songs of love. Mrs. Browning.

To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail. Carlyle.

A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation. Shak.

; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction. Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. Pope. Confound your hidden falsehood, and award Either of you to be the other's end. Shak. I shall see an end of him. Shak.

gue or of deportment; exorbitance of demands. "a curb to your exorbitancies." Dryden. The lamentable exorbitances of their superstitions. Bp. Hall.

r away from the axis of growth; -- said esp. of anthers occupying the outer side of the filament.

A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm. Sir T. Browne.