Definition of lament

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Lament (v.) An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like..

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Byssaceous :: Byssaceous (a.) Byssuslike; consisting of fine fibers or threads, as some very delicate filamentous algae..
String :: String (n.) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein..
Oscillaria :: Oscillaria (n.) A genus of dark green, or purplish black, filamentous, fresh-water algae, the threads of which have an automatic swaying or crawling motion. Called also Oscillatoria..
Chive :: Chive (n.) A filament of a stamen.
Tear :: Tear (n.) That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
Leptothrix :: Leptothrix (n.) A genus of bacteria, characterized by having their filaments very long, slender, and indistinctly articulated..
Plain :: Plain (v. t.) To lament; to mourn over; as, to plain a loss..
Micrococcus :: Micrococcus (n.) A genus of Spherobacteria, in the form of very small globular or oval cells, forming, by transverse division, filaments, or chains of cells, or in some cases single organisms shaped like dumb-bells (Diplococcus), all without the power of motion. See Illust. of Ascoccus..
Phacellus :: Phacellus (n.) One of the filaments on the inner surface of the gastric cavity of certain jellyfishes.
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..
Rueful :: Rueful (a.) Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.
Twire :: Twire (n.) A twisted filament; a thread.
Monadelphia :: Monadelphia (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having the stamens united into a tube, or ring, by the filaments, as in the Mallow family..
Threadfin :: Threadfin (n.) Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.
Stringy :: Stringy (a.) Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root..
Crow-silk :: Crow-silk (n.) A filamentous fresh-water alga (Conferva rivularis of Linnaeus, Rhizoclonium rivulare of Kutzing)..
Mourn :: Mourn (v. t.) To grieve for; to lament; to deplore; to bemoan; to bewail.
Pitiful :: Pitiful (a.) Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.
Bemoan :: Bemoan (v. t.) To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with.
Monothecal :: Monothecal (a.) Having a single loculament.
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