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To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn. Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. 2 Chron. xxxv. 25. Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. John xvi. 20.

Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance. "Lamentable eye." Spenser.

wailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning. In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping Matt. ii. 18.

Mourned for; bewailed. This humble praise,lamented shade ! receive. Pope.

One who laments.

See Lamantin.

Lamentation. Lamentings heard i' the air. Shak.

In a lamenting manner.

A filament. [R.]

A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.

Having the character of, or formed by, a filament.

Like a filament.

Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.

The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.

A vortex tube of infinitesimal cross section.

ity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.

Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous. Gray.

nic cohesion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.

To grieve; to lament. [Obs.]

Having the filaments of the stamens divided into two parts.