Lā′bourer, one who labours: one who does work requiring little skill Lā′bourist, one who contends for the interests of workmen.- adjs. Lā′boured, bearing marks of labour or effort in the execution.- ns. Labō′rious, full of labour: toilsome: wearisome: devoted to labour: industrious.- adv. to undergo labour: to work: to take pains: to be oppressed: to move slowly: to be in travail: ( naut.) to pitch and roll heavily.- adj.
when fatiguing: work: pains: duties: a task requiring hard work: the pangs of childbirth.- v.i. a chemist's workroom: a place where scientific experiments are systematically carried on: a place for the manufacture of arms and war material: a place where anything is prepared for use. Labioden′tal, of a sound pronounced both by the lips and teeth: a letter representing such ( f, v.).- n. Lā′biate, -d ( bot.), having two unequal divisions, as in the monopetalous corolla of the mints.- adj. Labiā′tæ, a natural order of gamopetalous plants, the mint family having four-cornered stems and opposite branches.- adjs. a sound formed by the lips: a letter representing a sound formed either by both the lips, or by the upper lip and under teeth- p, b, m, f, v.- v.t. pertaining to the lips: formed by the lips.- n. to affix a label to: to describe by or on a label:- pr.p.
a small slip of writing affixed to anything to denote its contents, ownership, &c.: ( law) a paper annexed to a will, as a codicil: ( her.) a fillet with pendants: ( archit.) the dripstone over a Gothic window or doorway arch.- v.t. a weakening decay-also Labefactā′tion.- v.t. It bore the Greek letters XP (Chr), joined in a monogram, to signify the name of Christ: a similar ecclesiastical banner borne in processions: any moral standard or guide. a Roman military standard adopted as the imperial standard after Constantine's conversion.
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