Word Meanings - SURFOOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Tired or sore of foot from travel; lamed. Nares.
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- LAMBERT PINE
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. - TIRE
A tier, row, or rank. See Tier. In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder. Milton. - LAMINARITE
A broad-leafed fossil alga. - TRAVEL
1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; - TIRO
See TYRO - LAMELLICORNIA
A group of lamellicorn, plant-eating beetles; -- called also Lamellicornes. - LAMENTING
Lamentation. Lamentings heard i' the air. Shak. - LAMELLIBRANCHIATE
Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n. - LAMPERS
See LAMPAS - TIRING-HOUSE
A tiring-room. Shak. - LAMINABLE
Capable of being split into laminæ or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip. When a body can be readily extended in all directions under the hammer, it is said to be malleable; and when - LAMINARY
Laminar. - LAMBENT
1. Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over. "A lambent flame." Dryden. "A lambent style." Beaconsfield. 2. Twinkling or gleaming; fickering. "The lambent purity of the stars." W. Irving. - LAMPLIGHTER
The calico bass. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps. - LAMPYRIS
A genus of coleopterous insects, including the glowworms. - TRAVELER
A traveling crane. See under Crane. (more info) 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. 2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc. - LAMPYRINE
An insect of the genus Lampyris, or family Lampyridæ. See Lampyris. - LAMINIPLANTAR
Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks. - LAME
akin to D. lam, G. lahm,OHG., Dan., & Sw. lam, Icel. lami, Russ. Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle. To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect - LAMPOONER
The writer of a lampoon. "Libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers." Tatler. - DECLAMATOR
A declaimer. Sir T. Elyot. - CHLAMYPHORE
A small South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus, and C. retusus) allied to the armadillo. It is covered with a leathery shell or coat of mail, like a cloak, attached along the spine. - BELAMY
Good friend; dear friend. Chaucer. - UNATTIRE
To divest of attire; to undress. - MONOTHALAMAN
A foraminifer having but one chamber. - INFLAMER
The person or thing that inflames. Addison. - SATIRIST
One who satirizes; especially, one who writes satire. The mighty satirist, who . . . had spread through the Whig ranks. Macaulay. - GLOWLAMP
An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic. - LUDLAMITE
A mineral occurring in small, green, transparent, monoclinic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron. - FILAMENTOUS
Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray. - CLAMOROUS
Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness,