Dictionary

"L is the twelfth letter of the English alphabet and a vocal consonant. It is usually called a semivowel or liquid. Its form and value are from the Greek through the Latin the form of the Greek letter being from the Pho

"Alt. of L'envoy"

"One or more detached verses at the end of a literary composition serving to convey the moral or to address the poem to a particular person; -- orig. employed in old French poetry." — "A conclusion; a result."

"A syllable applied to the sixth tone of the scale in music in solmization." — "The tone A; -- so called among the French and Italians." — "Look; see; behold; -- sometimes followed by you." — "An exclamation of sur

"A lace. See Lace."

"To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab." — "A telltale; a prater; a blabber."

"A follower of Jean de Labadie a religious teacher of the 17th century who left the Roman Catholic Church and taught a kind of mysticism and the obligation of community of property among Christians."

"of Labarum"

"An aqueous solution of hypochlorite of sodium extensively used as a disinfectant."

"The standard adopted by the Emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity. It is described as a pike bearing a silk banner hanging from a crosspiece and surmounted by a golden crown. It bore a monogram of th

"See Ladanum."

"The act of labefying or making weak; the state of being weakened; decay; ruin."

"To weaken or impair."

"A tassel." — "A slip of silk paper parchment etc. affixed to anything usually by an inscription the contents ownership destination etc.; as the label of a bottle or a package." — "A slip of ribbon parchment etc. a

"of Label"

"One who labels."

"of Label"

"of Labellum"

"of Label"

"of Label"

"The lower or apparently anterior petal of an orchidaceous flower often of a very curious shape." — "A small appendage beneath the upper lip or labrum of certain insects."

"of Labellum"

"Slipping; sliding; gliding."

"See Labium." — "of Labium"

"Of or pertaining to the lips or labia; as labial veins." — "Furnished with lips; as a labial organ pipe." — "Articulated as a consonant mainly by the lips as b p m w." — "Modified as a vowel by contraction of

"The quality of being labial; as the labialism of an articulation; conversion into a labial as of a sound which is different in another language."

"The modification of an articulation by contraction of the lip opening."

"To modify by contraction of the lip opening."

"In a labial manner; with or by means of the lips."

"To labialize." — "Having the limb of a tubular corolla or calyx divided into two unequal parts one projecting over the other like the lips of a mouth as in the snapdragon sage and catnip." — "Belonging to a natural

"Same as Labiate a. (a)."

"Alt. of Labiatifloral" — "Having labiate flowers as the snapdragon."

"A forceps with a measuring attachment for ascertaining the size of the fetal head."

"Liable to slip err fall or apostatize."

"Liability to lapse err or apostatize."

"See Labidometer."

"Formed or pronounced by the cooperation of the lips and teeth as f and v." — "A labiodental sound or letter."

"Formed by the lips and the nose." — "A labionasal sound or letter."

"Having the appearance of being labiate; -- said of certain polypetalous corollas."

"of Labipalpus"