lamait.html - n.
a Tibetan or Mongolian Buddhist monk.

Lamaism n. Lamaist n. & adj. [Tibetan blama (with silent b)]

lamait.html - n.
the theory of evolution devised by Lamarck, French botanist and zoologist (d. 1829), based on the inheritance of acquired characteristics.

Lamarckian n. & adj.

lamait.html - n.
(pl. -ies) a monastery of lamas. [F lamaserie irreg. f. lama LAMA]

lamait.html - See: ON THE LAM.

lamait.html - See: GOD TEMPERS THE WIND TO THE SHORN LAMB, IN TWO SHAKES OF A LAMB'S TAIL.

lamait.html - {n.}, {informal} An elected public official who has been either defeated in a new election or whose term cannot be renewed, but who has a short period of time left in office during which he can still perform certain duties, though with somewhat diminished powers. * /In the last year of their second terms, American presidents are lame ducks./