Now rare. [ad. L. lāmella (see next).] = LAMELLA.
1676. Coles, Lamel, a little thin plate.
1677. Grew, Anat. Plants, IV. III. i. § 8 (1682), 180. From this utmost Parenchyma Nine or Ten Insertions or Lamells are produced.
1681. H. More, Postscr. to Glanvill’s Sadducismus, 39. By vertue of any Lamels or Plates of Metal.
1848. in Craig.
1871. Miss Yonge, Cameos (1877), II. xiv. 159. Every mottoed lamel, so tersely and correctly sculptured, associated also so closely with his historical and English recollections.
