*ament*

n. See Afforcement. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. amentum thong or strap. ] (Bot.) A species of inflorescence; a catkin. [ 1913 Webster ]

The globular ament of a buttonwood. Coues. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. amentaceus. ] (Bot.) (a) Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence. (b) Bearing aments; having flowers arranged in aments; as, amentaceous plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] (Med.) Mental retardation. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

prop. n. 1. used in some classification systems for plants that bear catkins.
Syn. -- group Amentiferae [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. amentum + -ferous. ] (Bot.) Bearing catkins. Balfour. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. amentum + -form. ] (Bot.) Shaped like a catkin. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Amenta Same as Ament. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. amerciamentum. ] Same as Amercement. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Logic) A prerequisite to a clear understanding of the predicaments and categories, such as definitions of common terms. Chambers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. What is peculiarly one's own; peculiar qualification. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

If you can neglect
Your own appropriaments. Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. arbitramentum. ] 1. Determination; decision; arbitration. [ 1913 Webster ]

The arbitrament of time. Everett. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gladly at this moment would MacIvor have put their quarrel to personal arbitrament. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The award of arbitrators. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. armamenta, pl., utensils, esp. the tackle of a ship, fr. armare to arm: cf. LL. armamentum, F. armement. ] 1. A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force. “The whole united armament of Greece.” Glover. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil. & Nav.) All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any equipment for resistance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. armamentarium, fr. armamentum: cf. F. armamentaire. ] An armory; a magazine or arsenal. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. atramentum ink, fr. ater black. ] Black, like ink; inky; atramental. [ Obs. ] Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. atramentaire. See Atramentaceous. ] Like ink; suitable for making ink. Sulphate of iron (copperas, green vitriol) is called atramentarious, as being used in making ink. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to ink; inky; black, like ink; as, atramental galls; atramentous spots. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. attemprement. ] A tempering, or mixing in due proportion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. capillamentum, fr. capillus hair: cf. F. capillament. ] 1. (Bot.) A filament. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) Any villous or hairy covering; a fine fiber or filament, as of the nerves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The first rudiments of an embryo in generation. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ L. crassamentum, fr. crassare to make thick. See Crass, a. ] A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. decoramentum. See Decorate, v. t. ] Ornament. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Delineate. ] Delineation; sketch. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. deliramentum, fr. delirare. See Delirium. ] A wandering of the mind; a crazy fancy. [ Obs. ] Heywood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. désarmement. ] The act of disarming. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A liquid obtained from fat, or fat fish, by pressure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. filament, fr. L. filum thread. See File a row. ] A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the character of, or formed by, a filament. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Filament + -oid. ] Like a filament. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. filamenteux. ] Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. firmamentum, fr. firmare to make firm: cf. F. firmament. See Firm, v. & a. ] 1. Fixed foundation; established basis. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Custom is the . . . firmament of the law. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The region of the air; the sky or heavens. [ 1913 Webster ]

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. Gen. i. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament. Gen. i. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In Scripture, the word denotes an expanse, a wide extent; the great arch or expanse over out heads, in which are placed the atmosphere and the clouds, and in which the stars appear to be placed, and are really seen. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Old Astron.) The orb of the fixed stars; the most remote of the celestial spheres. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the firmament; celestial; being of the upper regions. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. fundament, fundement, fondement, OF. fundement, fondement, F. fondement, fr. L. fundamentum foundation, fr. fundare to lay the bottom, to found, fr. fundus bottom. See Fund. ] 1. Foundation. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks; specifically (Anat.), the anus. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. fondamental. ] Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fundamental reasons of this war. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some fundamental antithesis in nature. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fundamental bass (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of the chords. --
Fundamental chord (Mus.), a chord, the lowest tone of which is its root. --
Fundamental colors, red, green, and violet-blue. See Primary colors, under Color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A system of beliefs based on the interpretation of every word in the Bible, both old and new testaments, as literal truth. It is primarily held by a branch of American Protestants. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The beliefs or practises based on a rigid adherence to some traditional doctrine; extreme conservatism; as, Moslem fundamentalism; the political fundamentalism of the Christian right. [ PJC ]

n. a supporter of fundamentalism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to fundamentalists or fundamentalism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. characteristic of a fundamentalist; -- especially, resembling the behavior of a fundamentalist; as, a fundamentalist dislike of new ideas. [ PJC ]

adv. Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. “Fundamentally defective.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. hereditamentum. See Hereditable. ] (Law) Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A corporeal hereditament is visible and tangible; an incorporeal hereditament is not in itself visible or tangible, being an hereditary right, interest, or obligation, as duty to pay rent, or a right of way. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bad state; as, the intemperament of an ulcerated part. [ R. ] Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. interpretamentum. ] Interpretation. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Juramenta [ L. ] (Roman & Old Eng. Law) An oath. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ F. lamenter, L. lamentari, fr. lamentum a lament. ] To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. 2 Chron. xxxv. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. John xvi. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Lamented; p. pr. & vb. n. Lamenting. ] To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail. [ 1913 Webster ]

One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes. Dryden.

Syn. -- To deplore; mourn; bewail. See Deplore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. lamentum. Cf. Lament, v. ] 1. Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping. [ 1913 Webster ]

Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. lamentabilis: cf. F. lamentable. ] 1. Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance. [ Archaic ] “Lamentable eye.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; regrettable; unfortunate; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error. “Lamentable helplessness.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense. Bp. Stillingfleet.

-- Lam"en*ta*ble*ness, n. -- Lam"en*ta*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. lamentation, L. lamentatio. ] 1. The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning. [ 1913 Webster ]

In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping. Matt. ii. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (Script.) A book of the Old Testament attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and taking its name from the nature of its contents. [ 1913 Webster ]