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aving the marks made by the wires of the deckle. The choice of coloring matter occasions the names cream-laid, blue-laid, etc. Laid-on. （Joinery.) A term applied to moldings which are got out in strips and nailed on to the surface of the object. Laid-pa′per. Paper made with a ribbed surface like that formerly made in the hand-frame. Lam′bre-quin. 1. A curtain on the helmet to protect from the rays of the sun, like the cap with a valance named from the East Indian hero Havelock. 2. A festooned drapery, forming an ornament at the upper part of a window, and covering the curtain rings and bar. Lamb′s tongue. A plane with a deep, narrow bit for making quirks. Lam′e-ro. A walled receiver, where the slimes (mud charged with auriferous or argentiferous particles, or both) are deposited from the arrastra, to part with a portion of their water, and accumulate till sufficient to form a torta, in which the amalgamation is performed. See amalgamator. L