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A thin plate or scale; a laying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.

The quality or state of being laminable.

is said to be malleable; and when into fillets under the rolling press, it is said to be laminable. Ure.

In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers; having the form of a thin plate or lamina.

A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil's apron. The fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length. See Illust. of Kelp.

Pertaining to seaweeds of the genus Laminaria, or to that zone of the sea (from two to ten fathoms in depth) where the seaweeds of this genus grow.

A broad-leafed fossil alga.

Laminar.

sisting of, or covered with, laminæ, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.

Laminate. Laminated arch (Arch.), a timber arch made of layers of bent planks secured by treenails.

Forming, or separating into, scales or thin layers.

The process of laminating, or the state of being laminated.

Formed of, or having, two laminæ, or thin plates.

Formation and separation of laminæ or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated.

Between lammellæ or laminæ; as, interlamellar spaces.

Placed between, or containing, laminæ or plates.

The state of being interlaminated.

To retard the motion of, as a carriage, by preventing one or more of its wheels from revolving, either by means of a chain or otherwise. [Obs.]

apparatus. -- Mineral charcoal, a term applied to silky fibrous layers of charcoal, interlaminated in beds of ordinary bituminous coal; -- known to miners as mother of coal.

A thin lamina of gray matter in each cerebral hemiphere of the brain of man. -- Claus"tral, a.