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  • English Word Lambert pine Definition The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.
  • English Word Lambing Definition of Lamb
  • English Word Lambkin Definition A small lamb.
  • English Word Lamblike Definition Like a lamb; gentle; meek; inoffensive.
  • English Word Lamboys Definition Same as Base, n., 19.
  • English Word Lambrequin Definition A kind of pendent scarf or covering attached to the helmet, to protect it from wet or heat.
  • English Word Lambrequin Definition A leather flap hanging from a cuirass.
  • English Word Lambrequin Definition A piece of ornament drapery or short decorative hanging, pendent from a shelf or from the casing above a window, hiding the curtain fixtures, or the like.
  • English Word Lambskin Definition The skin of a lamb; especially, a skin dressed with the wool on, and used as a mat. Also used adjectively.
  • English Word Lambskin Definition A kind of woolen.
  • English Word Lambskinnet Definition See Lansquenet.
  • English Word Lamdoidal Definition Lambdoid.
  • English Word Lame Definition Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.
  • English Word Lame Definition To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect action of a limb; crippled; as, a lame man.
  • English Word Lame Definition Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
  • English Word Lame Definition To make lame.
  • English Word Lamed Definition of Lame
  • English Word Lamel Definition See Lamella.
  • English Word Lamella Definition a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of which certain shells are composed.
  • English Word Lamellae Definition of Lamella
  • English Word Lamellar Definition Flat and thin; lamelliform; composed of lamellae.
  • English Word Lamellarly Definition In thin plates or scales.
  • English Word Lamellary Definition Of or pertaining to lamella or to lamellae; lamellar.
  • English Word Lamellas Definition of Lamella
  • English Word Lamellate Definition Alt. of Lamellated
  • English Word Lamellated Definition Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. See Illust. of Antennae.
  • English Word Lamellibranch Definition One of the Lamellibranchia. Also used adjectively.
  • English Word Lamellibranchia Definition Alt. of Lamellibranchiata
  • English Word Lamellibranchiata Definition A class of Mollusca including all those that have bivalve shells, as the clams, oysters, mussels, etc.
  • English Word Lamellibranchiate Definition Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia.