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y; to implore. And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice. Matt. xxvii. 46. Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice. Shak. Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry unto thee. Ps. xxviii. 2. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Is. xl. 3. Some cried a…

jocosely so called from the analogy of the sound of a bell induced by the stroke of the clapper.

Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, a double-breasted coat.

One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Overlapping each other; -- said of leaves whose bases are folded so as to overlap and bestride the leaves within or above them, as in the iris.

A defense for the shoulder, composed of flexible overlapping plates of metal, used in the 15th century; -- the origin of the modern epaulette. Fairholt.

ace, inhabiting Northern and Eastern Europe, including the Magyars, Bulgarians, Permians, Lapps, and Finlanders. [Written also Fins.]

s do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air. The crows flapped over by twos and threes. Lowell.

The siliceous shell of a diatom. It is composed of two valves, one overlapping the other, like a pill box and its cover.

A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth. A clapper clapping in a garth To scare the fowl from fruit. Tennyson.

tely across and obliquely, in such a manner that the sections are of the same shape, then lapping the ends so that the one cut surface exactly fits the other, and securing them by tying or otherwise. -- Whip grafting, tongue grafting, the same as splice grafting, except that a cleft or slit is made in the end of both…

or flower, as of most trees and shrubs in the temperate zone, is protected by closely overlapping scales.

To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface.

ales on the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in æstivation.

An overlapping of the edges, like that of tiles or shingles; hence, intricacy of structure; also, a pattern or decoration representing such a structure.

Having the edges rolled inward and then arranged about the axis without overlapping; -- said of leaves in vernation.

orous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad. [Obs.] A jig shall be clapped at, and every rhyme Praised and applauded. Beau. & Fl.

held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; -- called also clapper. Halliwell.

of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping; as, the second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.

ically, the lap, or fold, of the front of a coat in continuation of collar. [Written also lappel and lapelle.]