In a lame, crippled, disabled, or imperfect manner; as, to walk lamely; a figure lamely drawn.

The condition or quality of being lame; as, the lameness of an excuse or an argument.

Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.

Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance.

The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning.

Mourned for; bewailed.

One who laments.

See Lamantin.

Lamentation.

In a lamenting manner.

Small steel plates combined together so as to slide one upon the other and form a piece of armor.

Foil or wire made of gold, silver, or brass.

A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch.

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

The quality or state of being laminable.

Capable of being split into lamin/ or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip.

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.

To separate into laminae.

Consisting of, or covered with, laminae, or thin plates, sheets, scales, or layers, one over another; laminate.

Forming, or separating into, scales or thin layers.

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

Having a structure consisting of lamin/, or thin layers.

Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.

Inflammation of the lamin/ or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse; founder.

Somewhat lame.

See Lam.

The first day of August; -- called also Lammas day, and Lammastide.

A very large vulture (Gypa/tus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle.

A natural family of oceanic sharks.

Same as Hyracoidea.

A light-producing vessel, device, instrument or apparatus; a vessel with a wick used for the combustion of oil or other inflammable liquid, for the purpose of producing artificial light; also, a similar device using a gas as the combustible fuel; an electric lamp. See sense {3}.

a protective ornamental covering used to screen the light bulb in a lamp from direct view.

A mollusklike marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food, found worldwide.

A post (generally a pillar of iron) supporting a lamp or lantern for lighting a street, park, etc.

A lamp or candlestick.

One who gained the prize in the lampadrome.

A race run by young men with lighted torches in their hands. He who reached the goal first, with his torch unextinguished, gained the prize.

An inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the roof of the mouth immediately behind the fore teeth in the horse; -- called also lampers.

A supposed salt of lampic acid.

The fine impalpable soot obtained from the smoke of carbonaceous substances which have been only partly burnt, as in the flame of a smoking lamp. It consists of finely divided carbon, with sometimes a very small proportion of various impurities. It is used as an ingredient of printers' ink, and various black pigments and cements.

See Lamprey.

The river lamprey (Ammoc/tes fluviatilis syn. Lampetra fluviatilis).

See Lampas.

Pertaining to, or produced by, a lamp; -- formerly said of a supposed acid.

Shining; brilliant.

Being without a lamp, or without light; hence, being without appreciation; dull.

Light from a lamp.

One who, or that which, lights a lamp; a person who in former times lighted street lamps which were illuminated by a combustible gas; -- such lamps are now little used, and primarily as nostalgic ornaments.

Illuminated by a lamp.

To subject to abusive ridicule expressed in a work of art; to make (a person, behavior, or institution) the subject of a lampoon.

The writer of a lampoon.

The act of lampooning; a lampoon, or lampoons.

See Lamprey.

An eel-like marsipobranch of the genus Petromyzon, and allied genera; called also lamprey eel and lamper eel. The lampreys have a round, sucking mouth, without jaws, but set with numerous minute teeth, and one to three larger teeth on the palate (see Illust. of Cyclostomi). There are seven small branchial openings on each side.

See Lamprey.

A natural family of insects comprising the fireflies.

A genus of coleopterous insects, including the glowworms.

A local area network; a network{3} connecting computers and word processors and other electronic office equipment within a small area, to create an inter-office system, typically within one building or one site of a corporation. Contrasted to WAN, a wide-area network.

an island in the Hawaiian chain.

A mineral consisting of sulphate of lead, occurring either massive or in long slender prisms, of a greenish white or gray color.

A place for storing wool.

A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end.

A city in Northwest England on the river Lune.

Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster, of England, in which advanced pupils in a school teach pupils below them.

A member (or supporter) of the house of Lancaster.

To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.

A lancepesade.

A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast; -- called also sand lance.

A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II.

A small fishlike animal (Amphioxus lanceolatus), remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type of the class Leptocardia. See Amphioxus, Leptocardia.

Like a lance.

Lanceolate.

Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.

An assistant to a corporal; a private performing the duties of a corporal; -- called also lance corporal.

One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations.

A set of quadrilles for 8 or 16 couples.

A surgical knife-like instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.

A large, elongated, scaleless, voracious, deep-sea fish (Alepidosaurus ferox), having long, sharp, lancetlike teeth and a long saillike dorsal fin.

A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonase/).

To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.

Bearing a lance.

Having the form of a lance.

To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab.

Piercing; seeming to pierce or stab; as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains).

A tearing; laceration.

To come to the end of a course; to arrive at a destination, literally or figuratively; as, he landed in trouble; after hithchiking for a week, he landed in Los Angeles.

In Ireland, a combination of tenant farmers and other, organized, with Charles Stewart Parnell as president, in 1879 with a view to the reduction of farm rents and a reconstruction of the land laws.

Connecticut; -- a nickname alluding to the moral character of its inhabitants, implied by the rigid laws (see Blue laws) of the early period.

Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land.

A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons.

A four-wheeled covered vehicle, the top of which is divided into two sections which can be let down, or thrown back, in such a manner as to make an open carriage.

A small landau.

Having an estate in land.

One who lands, or makes a landing.

A sudden transference of property in land by the death of its owner.

An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet.

A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France.

The territory held by a landgrave.

The wife of a landgrave.

A holder, owner, or proprietor of land.

ownership of land; the state or fact of owning land.

A going or bringing on shore.

The wheels and attached structures under an airplane that support it and allow it to move when on the ground; also, the floats or pontoons of an amphibious airplane together with their supporting structures. Landing gear may be fixed rigidly in place, or retractable when in flight.

A runway at an airport, at which airplanes land{3}; the long smooth surface used for takeoff or landing{4}.

A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants.

See Landlouper.

Having no property in land.

To inclose, or nearly inclose, as a harbor or a vessel, with land.

Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, by land; having no border on the sea; as, a landlocked country.

Same as Landlouper.

The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants.

The state of being a landlord; the characteristics of a landlord; specifically, in Great Britain, the relation of landlords to tenants, especially as regards leased agricultural lands.

The state of a landlord.

A vagabond; a vagrant.

Vagrant; wandering about.

One who passes his life on land; -- so called among seamen in contempt or ridicule.