lameness

(lam’nes), n. 1. The state of being of Jeremiah, one of the poetical books of the Old lame; defect or unsoundne of a limb or limbs; Testament. In the Septuagint, as in the English Bible, especially, impairment of locomotive capacity it stands immediately after the Book of Jeremiah, of which it probably originally formed a continuation. Its subject by injury or deformity: as, lamene of the hand is the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. It was or foot; lamene caused by a broken or a deprobably composed immediately after the taking of the formed leg.— 2. Imperfection; want of finish city (586 B. 0.), while the wounds of the nation were still fresh. Jeremiah has been generally regarded by Christian or completene ; defect; insufficiency; weak scholars as its author. ne : as, the Jamene of a verse or a rime; the 3. [cap.] pl. The music to which the first three lamene of an argument or an apology. le ons, taken from the Lamentations of Jere- Speak of my lamene , and I straight will halt. miah, are sung in the Roman Catholic Church, Shak., Sonnets, lxxxix. in the office called Tenebrae, on Thursday, Fri- If the story-move, or the actor help the lamene of it day, and Saturday of Holy Week. =gyn. 1, Mourn with his performance. Dryden, Spanish Friar. ing, complaint, plaint, moan, moaning, wailing, outery. lament (la-ment’), ». [= Sp. Pg. It. lamento, See lament, v. 7.