Definition of lament

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Lament (v.) Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.

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Bewailing :: Bewailing (a.) Wailing over; lamenting.
Elater :: Elater (n.) An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts..
Harl :: Harl (n.) A filamentous substance; especially, the filaments of flax or hemp..
Wailer :: Wailer (n.) One who wails or laments.
Complaint :: Complaint (n.) Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding..
Extrorse :: Extrorse (a.) Facing outwards, or away from the axis of growth; -- said esp. of anthers occupying the outer side of the filament..
Leptothrix :: Leptothrix (n.) A genus of bacteria, characterized by having their filaments very long, slender, and indistinctly articulated..
Lamented :: Lamented (a.) Mourned for; bewailed.
Complain :: Complain (v. i.) To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel..
Pitiful :: Pitiful (a.) Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.
Monothecal :: Monothecal (a.) Having a single loculament.
Wayment :: Wayment (n.) Grief; lamentation; mourning.
Threne :: Threne (n.) Lamentation; threnody; a dirge.
Lamentation :: Lamentation (n.) A book of the Old Testament attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and taking its name from the nature of its contents..
Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver..
Hyphae :: Hyphae (n. pl.) The long, branching filaments of which the mycelium (and the greater part of the plant) of a fungus is formed. They are also found enveloping the gonidia of lichens, making up a large part of their structure..
Stringy :: Stringy (a.) Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root..
Loculus :: Loculus (n.) One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament.
Monody :: Monody (n.) A species of poem of a mournful character, in which a single mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice..
Diadelphia :: Diadelphia (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants whose stamens are united into two bodies or bundles by their filaments.
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