Also 8–9 lamentine, lamentin, 9 lamantine. [a. F. lamantin, lamentin.] The manatee.
1666. J. Davies, trans. Rochefort’s Caribby Isl., I. xvii. 103. A certain fish by the French called Lamantin, by the Spaniards Namantin and Manaty. Ibid., 300. Their not eating of salt, Swines-flesh, Tortoises, and Lamantin.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Lamentine.
1762. Gentl. Mag., 208. Tortoises also and lamantins are found here in great plenty [in Granada].
1797. Naval Chron., VII. 333. The lamentin (sea-cow or manattee).
1827. G. Higgins, Celtic Druids, 138. The bones of mammiferous sea animals namely, of the Lamentin and of seals.
1865. Lubbock, Preh. Times, viii. (1869), 250. The Manatee or Lamantin.
