Lō'ment, n.

n. [Lat. lomentum, a mixture of bean meal and rice, used by the Roman ladies for preserving the smoothness of their skin, a wash, cosmetic, a kind of blue color, azure, from lavare, lotum, to wash. Cf. infra.] (Bot.) An elongated pod, consisting, like the legume, of two valves, but divided transversely into small cells, each containing a single seed.