Laphygma 
It is a variable form, and two varieties, fulnosa and obscura, 
have been described. The caterpillars often occur in great 
3352 
Lapithae 
its elasticity is well adapted to operate upon curved BUT- We must suppose that an interval of time elapsed be- 
faces of shells and stones. fore the commencement of lapidification, during which 
lapidate (lap'i-dat), V. t. ; pret. and pp. lapi- the cellular tissue was obliterated. 
dated, ppr. lapidating. [< L. lapidatus, pp. of sir c - ^J" 1 ^ tlem - ' Geo1 - ( 6th <*U P- . 
lapidare (>It. lapidare = Sp. Pg. Pr. lapidar = lapidify(la-pid'i-fi),.2.; pret. and pp. lapidified, 
F. lapider), throw stones at, stone, < lapis (la- ppr. lapidifying. [= F. lapidifier = Sp. Pg. 
jw'd-),astone: see lapis. Cf. dilapidate.'] 1. To lapidificar,<.'NL.'lapidificare, make stone, turn 
stone; throw stones at; hit with stones. [Rare.] into stone, < L. lapis (lapid-), a stone, + facers, 
I have been in the catacombs caves very curious in- make. Cf. lapidific.] To convert into stone ; 
deed we were lapidated by the natives pebbledtosome petrify. [Rare.] 
purpose, I give you my word. Scott, StRonan's Well.xxxi. lapidist (lap'i-dist), n. [< L. lapis (lapid-), a 
The season for lapidating the professors is now at hand ; stone (see lapis), + -ist."] If. A lapidary. 
keep him quiet at Holland House till all is over. 
Sydney Smith, To Lady Holland. 
2. To out and polish, as a stone by a lapidary. 
The ruby-colored ones [tourmalines] when lapidated 
being easily mistaken for rubies. 
Eng. Consul at Bahia, quoted in Phila. Times, May 3, 1886. 
Fall Array-worm ( 
a, larva; #,raoth; c, wings of var. obscura ; ct, wings of v&r.fulvosa. 
numbers and damage cereal crops and pastures, occasion- 
ally even vegetable-gardens. Ritey, 7th Mo. Ent Rep., 
p. 49. 
lapicidet (lap'i-sid), . [< L. lapicida, prop. 
(LL.) lapidicida, a stone-cutter, < lapis (lapid-), 
a stone, 4- -cida, < ccedere, cut.] A stone-cut- 
ter. Coles, 1717. 
lapidablet (lap'i-da-bl), a. [< lapid(ate) + 
Bailey, 1731. 
The factitious stones of chymists in imitation [of ada- 
mant] being easily detected by an ordinary lapidtet. 
Ray, Works of Creation, i. 
2. An expert in precious and semi-precious 
stones ; a student of mineralogy, especially in 
relation to stones used for decoration, 
lapidation (lap-i-da'shon), n. [= F. lapidation lapidose (lap'i-dos), a. [ME. lapidose = F. la- 
= Pr. lapidatio = Sp. lapidacion = Pg. lapida- pideux = Sp. It. lapidoso, < L. lapidosus, stony, 
ySo = It. lapidaziom,< L. lapidatio(n-), a ston- * '-- -'- " ' J " - - - 
ing, < lajaidare, stone: see lapidate.] The act 
of throwing stones at a person or of striking a 
person with stones; punishment or execution 
< lapis (lapid-), a stone: see lapis. Cf.lapide- 
ous.'] If. Stony. 
Ther [where] cleyi landes are & lapidose; 
With dounge is goode to help hem. 
Paltadiui, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 215. 
., o WB ; vne , 2 - *?.? ot -' Bowing in stony places. 
ancienter punishment was burning : death always, though laplllliorm (la-pll 1-iorm), a. [s Li. laplllus, a 
in divers forms. Bp. HaU, Contemplations, iv. 15. little stone (see lapillus), + forma, form.] Hav- 
Adultery, if detected, would be punished by lapidation i n g the form of small stones, 
according to the rigor of the Koranic law. lapillus (l^-pil'us), .; ph lapilli (-1). [L., dim. 
R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 284. o f i ap i Si a stone : see lapis.'] 1. A small stone ; 
by stoning. 
All adulterers should be executed by lapidation; the 
ious (lap-i-da'ri-us), a. 
rim, belonging to stones: see lapidary."] "Con 
sisting of stones ; stony. Cotes, 1717. [Rare.] 
lapidarist (lap'i-da-rist), . [As lapidar(y) + 
-ist.'] A person versed in the lapidary art; a 
connoisseur of fine stones or gems ; a lapidist. 
-able.] That may be stoned. .t>e, 101. , - 
lapidarian (lap-i-da'ri-an). a. [As lapidary + laPHmpr (j a p i-da-tor), n. [= It. lapidatore, < specifically, in the plural, fragmentary mate- 
-.] Same as lapidary. Croker. [Rare] . Mpidator, a stoner, < lapidare, stone: see lap- rialsejectedfrom volcanoesineruption, varying 
lapidarious (lap-i-da'ri-us), a. [< L lapida- . ida . t ?-~) One who stones. [Rare.] in size from that of a pea to that of a walnut. 
' ' idarv~\ C!on la piaeon (la-pid e-on), n. [< L. lapis (lapid-), They are sometimes so cellular in structure as 
a stone, + -eon, as in melodeon, etc.] A musical to float on the surface of water. 2. In anat., 
instrument, invented by M. Baudry, consisting an ear-stone ; an otolith ; one of the hard con- 
of a graduated series of flints so suspended on a 
frame that they can be sounded by blows from 
wooden or stone hammers. 
The stone called sapphire by Pliny is now known to 
lapidarists as lapis lazuli. Sri. Amer., N. 8., LV. 84. 
lapidary (lap'i-da-ri), a. and n. [= F. lapi- 
daire = Sp. Pg. It. lapidario, < L. lapidarius, of 
or belonging to stones or stone ; as a noun, a 
stone-cutter; < lapis (lapid-), a stone : see lapis.'] 
La. 1. Pertaining to a stone or stones; hav- 
ing relation to stones: as, the lapidary bee 
(which see, below). 2. Pertaining or relating lapides n. 
to, or used in, the working of stone or stones, " 
especially of fine stones or gems, as cutting, 
polishing, engraving, etc. : as, the lapidary art; 
a lapidary wheel. 3. Engraved or inscribed 
upon stone : as, lapidary verses. 
lapideous (la-pid'e-us), a. [= Sp. lapideo = Pg. 
lapideo, < L. lapi 
'apideus, stony, < lapis (lapid-), a 
stone: see tapis. Cf. lapidose."] Of the nature 
of stone ; consisting of stone ; stony. [Rare.] 
A chylifactory menstruum or digestive preparation, 
drawn from species or individuals whose stomachs pecu- 
liarly dissolve lapideous bodies. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., ii. 6. 
Plural of lapis. 
process of petrifying. 
The lapidary alphabet, used for inscriptions and coins, 
is square and angular, the letters being of equal height, 
Urgel 
They [chemists] do with much confidence entirely as- 
cribe the induration and especially the lapidescence of 
bodies to a certain secret internal principle, lurking for the 
most part in some liquid vehicle. Boyle, Works, I. 434. 
-si),n. SameasZopi- 
The lapidesceneies and petrifactive mutations of hard 
bodies. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., ill. 23. 
Both styles of capital writing were obviously borrowed 
from the lapidary alphabets employed under the empire. 
Encyc. Brit., XVIII. 152. 
4. Of or pertaining to inscriptions cut in stone, lapidescentt (lap-i-des'ent), a. and n. [=F. la- 
ortoanyformal inscriptions; monumental: as, pidescent = It. lapidescente, < L. lapidescen(t-)s, 
+!, 7,vi,,. *! :*- _ _*i_j.i__s_ ppr. of lapidescere, become stone, petrify, < la- 
pis (lapid-), a stone: see lapis.] 1. a. 1. Turn- 
ing to stone ; petrifying. 
A spring within the bowells of y earth, very deepe, & so 
excessive cold that the drops meeting w* some lapides- 
cent matter converts them into an hard stone, which hangs 
about it like icicles. Evelyn, Diary, June 20, 1644. 
, 
the lapidary style of composition or of lettering. 
A nobler euloginm than all the lapidary adulation of 
modern epitaphs. Connoisseur, No. 131. (Latham.) 
Lapidary bee, Bombus lapidarius, a bumblebee with a 
black body and red end of the abdomen. It nests in stony 
places. Lapidary mill (a) A lapidaries' grinding-, cut- 
ting-, and polishing-apparatus, including the bench and the 
machinery for the wheels or laps, the slitting-, roughing- 
smoothing-, and polishing-mills, and the slitting- and grind- 
ing-wheels. (6) A lapidary wheel. Lapidary style, in 
lit., a style appropriate for monumental and other in- 
scriptions, or characteristic of inscriptions. Lapidary 
wheel, a wheel for cutting and polishing, used bylapida- 
riea. There are two kinds of these wheels : (1) the slicer, a 
thin iron wheel edged with diamond-dust, used like a saw ; 
(2) the lap or mill, used for grinding and polishing usually 
working horizontally and performing its function by means 
of its upper face or disk, which is faced with metal, wood, 
leather, or other material, and is strewn with polishing or 
abrading powder of different degrees of hardness and fine- 
ness. E. H. KnigM. 
II. n.; pi. lapidaries (-riz). 1. A stone-cutter; 
one who cuts and prepares and inscribes tomb- 
stones. 2. Specifically, a workman in fine and 
hard stones ; one who does any kind of skilled 
work on precious or semi-precious stones, as 
cutting, polishing, engraving, the formation of 
useful or decorative articles, etc. 
The lapidaries now shall learn to set 
Their diamonds in gold, and not in Jet. 
Broine, To his Mistress. 
When 
2. Petrifactive; lapidific; having the power of 
converting to stone. 
Beneath the surface of the Earth there may be sulphu- 
reous and other steams, that may be plentifully mixed 
with water, and there, in likelihood, with lapidetcent li- 
quo". Boyle, Works, III. 557. 
II. n. A substance which has the quality of 
petrifying another substance, or converting it 
to stone. 
cretions found in the fluid of the labyrinth of 
the ear of many animals. See otolith. 
lapis (la'pis), n. : pi. lapides (-pi-dez). [L., a 
stone; akin to Gr. A&raf, a bare rock, Af7r/f, a 
flake, scale,< /.7ro>,peel, scale off : see lepis.] 1. 
A stone : used only as a Latin word. See phrases 
below. 2. A kind of calico-printing with in- 
digo in which the resists are so composed that 
they act as a mordant for other dyes, those parts 
of the cloth which by the resist are protected 
from the action of the indigo, and are thus left 
white, being dyed in turn by madder or quer- 
citron-bark. The patterns so produced were 
thought to bear some resemblance to lapis la- 
zuli; hence the name Lapis causticus (caustic 
stone), caustic potash. Lapis dlvinus (divine stone), a 
preparation of copper sulphate, potassium nitrate, and 
alum, 16 parts each, and camphor one part, fused together 
Lapis Infernalls (infernal stone^ fused nitrateof silver, 
orlunar caustic. Lapis lazuli (azure stone), a silicate of 
sodium, calcium, and aluminium with asulphurcompound 
of sodium, allied in composition to haiiyne and nosean. It 
occurs massive, and has usually a rich ultramarine-blue 
color, which makes it highly esteemed as an ornamental 
stone. It is hard enough to be engraved and cut into 
cameos, but large masses cannot be used in this way, be- 
cause of flaws. That which comes from Persia and China 
is finest in color. By isolating and powdering the blue 
coloring matter the pigment called native or real ultra-ma- 
rine is obtained. See ultramarine. Lapis-lazull blue 
a deep blue used in decoration, especially in Oriental 
porcelain and in the porcelain of Sevres. The Sevres blue 
is deeper in color than that which bears the same name in 
Oriental porcelain, and is commonly clouded or mottled, 
and sometimes veined with gold. Lapis-lazull ware.a 
name given by Josiah Wedgwood to a variety of his peb- 
bleware which was veined with gold upon blue. See peb- 
Wewore. Lapis Lydlus (Lydian stone), touchstone or 
basanite, a variety of silicious slate. Lapis ollaris (pot- 
stone), soapstone, potstone, or talc, a hydrated silicate of 
magnesium. 
Lapith (lap'ith), n. ; pi. Lapithce or Lapiths 
(-i-the, -iths). [< L. Lapithce.< Gr. Aavteai : see 
LapithcE.] One of the LapitW 
The Lapiths [Parthenon) are youthful, beardless, slim, 
A. S. Murray, Greek Sculpture, II. 55. 
lapidific (lap-i-dif'ik), a. [= F. lapidifiave = bat flrmly knlt A ' S ' Murray ' OreekScuI P 1 
Sp. lapidifico = It. lapidifieo, < L. lapis (lapid-) Lapithae (lap'i-the), n. pi. [L., < Gr. 
a stone, + facere, make.] Forming or convert- In 6r - *>* a people of Thessaly, h 
. . , .. orming or convert- 
ing into stone. 
Arguing that the atoms of the lapidifick, as well as of the 
saline principle, being regular, do therefore concur in pro- 
ducing regular stones. If. Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, i. 3. 
But have we any better proof of such an effort of nature 
than of her shooting a lapidifie juice into the form of a 
8ne UV Jefferson, Correspondence, I. 431. 
lapidifical (lap-i-dif 'i-kal), a. [< lapidific + 
-al.] Same as lapidific. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. 
Err., ii. 5. 
held to be 
cloth is wound closely until the diameter of the wheel is 
about 10 inches. The cloth or list face is dressed true and 
even with an iron heated to a dull red. This mill is used 
generally with pumice-stone and water, and by reason of 
cess of conversion into stone. 
Induration, or lapidification of substances more soft, is 
likewise another degree of condensation. 
Bacon, Nat. Hist., 82. 
1 ..initli Fighting with Centaur. Metope of the Parthenon. 
