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Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus.

bat); he came in (i. e., into the house). Their vacation . . . falls in so pat with ours. Lamb.

e nation. C. Buchanan. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*tive*ly, adv. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*tive*ness, n. Lamb. His usual incommunicativeness. G. Eliot.

Not to be diverted or turned aside. [R.] Lamb.

on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb. Inhibitory nerves (Physiol.), those nerves which modify, inhibit, or suppress a motor or secretory act already in progress.

guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright. To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb. Shak. I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. Matt. xxvii. 4. The aidless,innocent lady, his wished prey. Milton.

A failure to recognize; absence of recognition. Lamb.

Wrangling; altercation. Lamb.

; -- generally used satirically. He has prolonged his complaint into an endless jeremiad. Lamb.

To push; to crowd; to hustle. None jostle with him for the wall. Lamb.

us evergreen foliage and corymbs of showy flowers. Called also mountain laurel, ivy bush, lamb kill, calico bush, etc.

; guard; care; heed; charge. Chaucer. Pan, thou god of shepherds all, Which of our tender lambkins takest keep. Spenser.

A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin.

The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking. Lamb. A massy fragment from the rich kissingcrust that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf. W. Howitt.

hedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful. You should have seen his lachrymose visnomy. Lamb. -- Lach"ry*mose`ly, adv.

Lambdoid. [R.]

A game at cards, vulgarly called lambskinnet. [They play] their little game of lansquenet. Longfellow.

tained. The commonest wild lettuce of the United States is L. Canadensis. Hare's lettuce, Lamb's lettuce. See under Hare, and Lamb. -- Lettuce opium. See Lactucarium. -- Sea lettuce, certain papery green seaweeds of the genus Ulva.

In a lively manner. [Obs.] Lamb.

A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture.