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a. Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. blâmable. ] Deserving of censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable; blameworthy. -- Blam"a*ble*ness, n. -- Blam"a*bly adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. calamancus, calamacus; cf. camelaucum; a head covering made of camel's hair, NGr. kamelay`kion, and F. calmande a woolen stuff. ] A glossy woolen stuff, plain, striped, or checked. “A gay calamanco waistcoat.” Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros quæsita. Called also Coromandel wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. calamari, fr. LL. calamarium inkstand, fr. L. calamus a reed pen: cf. F. calmar, calemar, pen case, calamar. ] (Cookery) Squid, used as a food; -- from the Italian word. See Squid. [ PJC ]

a. [ L. clamans, p. pr. of clamare to call. Cf. Claimant. ] Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorously. “Clamant children.” Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. clamatio, fr. L. clamare to call. ] The act of crying out. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L. clamator, pl. clamatores, a bawler. ] (Zool.) A division of passerine birds in which the vocal muscles are but little developed, so that they lack the power of singing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the Clamatores. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. conclamatio. ] An outcry or shout of many together. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Before his funeral conclamation. May (Lucan). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Convallaria + L. amarus bitter. ] (Chem.) A white, crystalline, poisonous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the lily of the valley (Convallaria Majalis). Its taste is first bitter, then sweet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. declamatio, from declamare: cf. F. déclamation. See Declaim. ] 1. The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. [ 1913 Webster ]

The public listened with little emotion, but with much civility, to five acts of monotonous declamation. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A set or harangue; declamatory discourse. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] A declaimer. [ R. ] Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. declamatorius: cf. F. déclamatoire. ] 1. Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A disavowing or disowning. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. exclamatio: cf. F. exclamation. ] 1. A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Exclamations against abuses in the church. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thus will I drown your exclamations. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A festive exclamation not unsuited to the occasion. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Rhet.) A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Print.) A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [ ! ]; -- called also exclamation point. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. exclamatif. ] Exclamatory. Earle. -- Ex*clam"a*tive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or speaker. South. -- Ex*clam"a*to*ti*ly adv. [1913 Webster]

‖n. [ NL.; cf. Gr. &unr_;, L. gramiae, Gr. &unr_; blear-eyed. ] (Med.) A copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A tropical American tree (Annona diversifolia) grown in the southern U. S. having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
Syn. -- ilama tree, Annona diversifolia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. whitish tropical fruit with a pinkish tinge related to custard apples, grown in the southern U. S. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. inclamatio. See 1st In-, and Claim. ] Exclamation. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. The the capital city of Pakistan. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. pl.; sing. Klamath (Ethnol.) A collective name for the Indians of several tribes formerly living along the Klamath river, in California and Oregon, but now restricted to a reservation at Klamath Lake; -- called also Clamets and Hamati. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Llama. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Tibet. blama (pronounced a chief, a high priest. ] In Tibet, Mongolia, etc., a priest or monk of the belief called Lamaism. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Grand Lama, or
Dalai Lama [ lit., Ocean Lama ], the supreme pontiff in the lamaistic hierarchy. Until the Chinese occupied Tibet he resided in Lhasa, but now (1998) is in exile. See Lamaism. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to Lamaism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A modified form of Buddhism which prevails in Tibet, Mongolia, and some adjacent parts of Asia; -- so called from the name of its priests. See 2d Lama. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Lamaism. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. One who believes in Lamaism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. lamantin, lamentin, prob. from the name of the animal in the Antilles. Cf. Manater. ] (Zool.) The manatee. [ Written also lamentin, and lamantine. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or involved in, the doctrines of Lamarckianism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) Lamarckism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Lamarck, a distinguished French naturalist. ] (Biol.) The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and esp., in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs. It is a discredited theory, not believed by modern biologists. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ See 2d Lama. ] A monastery or convent of lamas, in Tibet, Mongolia, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Peruv. ] 1. (Zool.) A South American ruminant (Auchenia llama), allied to the camels, but much smaller and without a hump. It is supposed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco. It was formerly much used as a beast of burden in the Andes, and is also kept on some ranches in the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The fleece of the llama{ 1 }, a fine, soft wool-like hair. [ PJC ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of malamic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. mo`nos single + qa`lamos a chamber. ] (Zool.) A division of Foraminifera including those that have only one chamber. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Monothalamous. ] (Zool.) A foraminifer having but one chamber. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) Lamarckism as revived, modified, and expounded by recent biologists, esp. as maintaining that the offspring inherits characters acquired by the parent from change of environment, use or disuse of parts, etc.; -- opposed of Neo-Darwinism (which see, above). This theory has been thoroughly discredited, though it had some support for a time in the Soviet Union due to the influence of the biologist Lysenko.-- Ne`o-La*marck"i*an, a. & n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

‖n.; pl. Palamæ [ NL., fr. Gr. pala`mh the palm. ] (Zool.) A membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Palma. ] (Zool.) Web-footed. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. proclamation, L. proclamatio. See Proclaim. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of proclaiming; official or general notice; publication. [ 1913 Webster ]

King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted. 1 Kings xv. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is proclaimed, publicly announced, or officially declared; a published ordinance; as, the proclamation of a king; a Thanksgiving proclamation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. réclamation, L. reclamatio. See Reclaim. ] 1. The act or process of reclaiming. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Representation made in opposition; remonstrance. [ 1913 Webster ]

I would now, on the reclamation both of generosity and of justice, try clemency. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. salamandre, L. salamandra, Gr. &unr_;; cf. Per. samander, samandel. ] 1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of Urodela, belonging to Salamandra, Amblystoma, Plethodon, and various allied genera, especially those that are more or less terrestrial in their habits. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The salamanders have, like lizards, an elongated body, four feet, and a long tail, but are destitute of scales. They are true Amphibia, related to the frogs. Formerly, it was a superstition that the salamander could live in fire without harm, and even extinguish it by the natural coldness of its body. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have maintained that salamander of yours with fire any time this two and thirty years. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whereas it is commonly said that a salamander extinguisheth fire, we have found by experience that on hot coals, it dieth immediately. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The pouched gopher (Geomys tuza) of the Southern United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A culinary utensil of metal with a plate or disk which is heated, and held over pastry, etc., to brown it. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A large poker. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Metal.) Solidified material in a furnace hearth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Giant salamander. (Zool.) See under Giant. --
Salamander's hair or
Salamander's wool (Min.), a species of asbestos or mineral flax. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) A suborder of Urodela, comprising salamanders. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a salamander; enduring fire. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Salamander + -oid. ] (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the salamanders. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) A division of Amphibia including the Salamanders and allied groups; the Urodela. [ 1913 Webster ]