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To beat soundly; to thrash. [Obs. or Low] Beau. & Fl.

See Llama.

Of or pertaining to Lamaism.

golia, and some adjacent parts of Asia; -- so called from the name of its priests. See 2d Lama.

One who believes in Lamaism.

Of or pertaining to Lamaism.

The manatee. [Written also lamentin, and lamantine.]

Pertaining to, or involved in, the doctrines of Lamarckianism.

Lamarckism.

The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and esp., in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs.

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Any person who is as innocent or gentle as a lamb.

A name given to several plants of the Goosefoot family, sometimes used as pot herbs, as Chenopodium album and Atriplex patulsa.

A feast at the time of shearing lambs.

To beat severely. [Low] Nares.

Taken by licking with the tongue. "Sirups and lambative medicines." Sir T. Browne.

The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull. Lambda moth (Zoöl.), a moth so called from a mark on its wings, resembling the Greek letter lambda (

A fault in speaking or in composition, which consists in too frequent use of the letter l, or in doubling it erroneously.

Shaped like the Greek letter lambda (as, the lambdoid suture between the occipital and parietal bones of the skull.

Same as Lambdoid.