Lamination
the arrangement of rocks in thin layers or laminæ, the conor lamine, the condition of a large proportion proportion of the earth's ortion of the earth's strata. Shale deposits exhibit this structs exhibit this strucing frequently easily ture very plainly, being frequently easily separable into the thin laminæ in which in laminse in which they were originally deposited. The deposited. The laminæ indicate interruption in the supon in the supply of the materials, which may have may have been occasioned by successive tides, by des, by frequent or periodical floods, or by the by the carrying medium having access to a suping a supply of different material, passing, e. g., 6 6. 9. from mud to sand, and back again to again to mud.
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Lammas
a name given to the first given to the first day of August, though the origin of the cribs of the ity, it is the term is involved in obscurity. It is the day of the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula, Peter ac Vincula, or St. Peter in Bonds, which was insti- Lich was instituted in 317, and, according to some aurding to nome authorities, received its title from the Dititle from the Di- LÄMMERGEIER vine commission to Peter, "Feed my lambs." Others state that it is a corruption of the Saxon Loaf-mass, because an annual feast was then celebrated to return thanks for the first-fruits of corn. LÄMMERGEIER (lem-mer-gi'er) (Gypaetos barbatus), a large bird of prey, also called the bearded vulture or bearded griffin. The full-grown bird is of a shining brownish-black color on the upper parts, with a white stripe along the shaft of each feather; the head is whitish, with black stripes at the eyes; the neck and underpart of the body are rusty yellow. It is the largest bird of prey in the Old World, measuring almost 4 feet high when sitting, nearly 5 feet in length, and from 9 to 10 feet in expanse of wing. Though by no means brave, it is bold and rapacious, swooping down on hares, lambs, young goats, chamois, etc. Once common in the Alps, it is now very rare, but occurs not infrequently in Sardinia, the Pyrenees, North African mountains, and the Himalayas.
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Lammermoor
or LAMMERMUIR (-mür') HILLS, a range of Scotch hills stretching in a generally E. direction from S. E. Midlothian to the German Ocean at St. Abb's Head, and forming part of the boundary between Berwick and Haddington shires. Highest summit Lammer Law, 1,733 feet.
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Lampblack
the soot or amorphous carbon obtained by burning bodies rich in that element, such as resin, petroleum, and tar, or some of the cheap oily prodprod. S., ucts obtained from it. The supply of y of gra pro- East air is limited or controlled so as to promoke duce a smoky flame, and the smoke passes into a chamber with some ararrangement for receiving the abundant dant deposit of soot. A larg quantity of y of large q an lamp-black has been made in the United nited n of calle States by the imperfect combustion of lana natural gas. Lampblack is a useful pigpig- thel ment for artists both in oil and water water color, a coarser kind being employed by ed by house-painters. It is the chief ingredient dient shir in Indian ink, and along with boiled lin- 1 lin- Clyd seed oil, forms printing ink. Of it is it is has formed the pigment for the carbon paper paper pop used in autotypography. Lampblack is ck in m some vil also employed in the preparation of some kinds of leather, and for various other other and purposes.
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Lampman
ARCHIBALD, a Cana- Canadian poet; born in Morpeth, County bunty Kent, Ontario, Nov. 17, 1861. He was was cour a graduate of Trinity College, Toronto ronto by (1882), and after 1883 held an appoint- Doint lin ment in the Postoffice Department at Ott Ot tawa. He published two collections of as of S. poems, "Among the Millet" (1888), and and bra "Lyrics of Earth" (1895). He died in Ottawa, Feb. 10, 1899.
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Lamps, Magic
There dwelt at Paris in the time of St. Louis, a famous Jewish Rabbi called Jachiel, a great manufacturer of prodigies, who was regarded by the Jews as one of their saints, and by the Parisians as a sorcerer. During the night when everyone was asleep, he was wont to work by the light of a magic lamp which cast through his chamber a glow like that of day itself. He never replenished this lamp with oil, nor otherwise attended to it, and folks began to hint that he had acquired it through diabolic agencies. If anyone chanced to knock at his door during the night they noticed that the lamp threw out sparks of light of various colours, but if they continued to rap the lamp failed and the Rabbi turning from his work touched a large nail in the middle of his table which connected magically with the knocker on the street-door, giving to the person who rapped upon it something of the nature of an electric shock. (See France .) Lamps of this description were supposed to be known to the Rosicrucians , and it is said that in opening the tomb of a daughter of Cicero several lamps were found burning upon it. It is of course possible that the light from these was luminous or phosphorescent and not living flame. The magic lamp of Aladdin will occur to everyone in this connection; and romance abounds in such vehicles of light.
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Lampshells
the familiar designa- Eusks, ucts tion of certain brachiopodous mollusks, especially those of the genus Terebratula, atula, It is which when closed bear a close resemesem- and blance to the shape of the old Roman oman exte lamp. ter, AM- duc
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Lamsacus
or LAMmac SAKI (läm´sä-kē) (ancient Lampsacus), cus), imp a maritime village of Asia Minor, on the en the ton Hellespont, nearly opposite Gallipoli. It 1.It citie was in ancient times given by Xerxes to zes to twe Themistocles.
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Lamu
an island and town town on the coast of East Africa; lat. 2° 20′ ation of which was S., the administration of which was granted in 1889 to the Imperial British the imperial British East Africa Company. any.
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