lappet
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Is lappet a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of lappet?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (zoology) A wattle or flap-like structure on the face.Examples: "Some vultures have lappets of bare flesh on the sides of the head."; "Tompot blennies are distinguished by a pair of lappets above the eyes and dark stripes along the body."
2. (obsolete, anatomy) A lobe (division of an organ).Examples: "In the tender lappet of the eare is supposed to rest the seat of remembrance, which we vse to touch when we mean to take one to beare witnesse of an arrest or other thing done,"; "[…] he ran him in with the spit a little above the navel, towards the right flank, till he pierced the third lappet of his liver,"obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To decorate with, or as if with, lappets.Examples: "I would fain merit your esteem, heedless of these pursy fellows from hulks and warehouses, with one ear lappetted by the pen behind it […]"transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary