DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE; BY CHARLES RICHARDSON. VOL. II.-TO Z. PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY E. H. BUTLER & CO. A NEW ENGLISH DICTIONARY L. Lis called by B. Jonson a letter half-vowelish, LA'BIAL, adj. Lat. Labium; Fr. Lèvre; lips.-Wilkins. Real Character, pt. iii. c. 14. I sente you to repe that whereon ye bestowed no labour other me laboured, & ye are entred into their labours. Bible, 1551. John, c. 4. Dead be thei, that liue not to God, and in the space of this temporall death laboriously purchase themself eternall death.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 16. With wery trauel, and with laborous paines which though the Italians (especially the Floren-which letters are labiall, which dentall, which gutturall. LAB. "I am no lab;" i.e. no be-lab, or blab; Dut. Labberen. (See BLAB.) Consequentially,To pour forth from the lips whatever occurs to us; to tell all that we think or know; to prate or talk, thoughtlessly, carelessly, without reserve or discrimination. I am no labbe, Ne though I say it, I n' am not lefe to gabbe. Chaucer. The Milleres Tale, v. 3505. I have a wif, though that she poure be; Id. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,301. LABEL, n. Fr. "Lambeau, a shread, rag, LA'BEL, V. or small piece of stuff. Labels hanging downe on garlands or crownes, a labando of falling downe," (Minshew.) Skinner prefers the Ger. Lapp. See LAP. Any thing falling or depending, suspended or appended; a name, title or description, appended, or, (as now used,) otherwise affixed. Then haste thou a labell, that is shapen like a rule, saue that it is strait and hath no plates on either ende. Chaucer. The Astrolabie. It [my beautie] shalbe inuentoried and euery particle and vtensile labell'd to my will. Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Act i. sc. 5. The said Sir William said on his oth in the tenth yeare of Until the subtlest of their conjurors VOL. IL LA'BILE. There is greater store growing in the tops of the mounLat. Labi, to fall or fail. See tains then below in the valleis: but it is wonderfull labourLAPSE. some and also dangerous traueiling vp vnto them and downe againe, by reason of the height and steepenesse of the hilles. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 824. But sensibility and intelligence, being by their nature and essence free must be labile, and by their lability may actually lapse, degenerat, and by habit acquire a second nature. LA'BOUR, v. Cheyne. On Regimen, Dis. 5. Fr. Labourer; It. Lavorare; Sp. Laborear; Lat. Laborare; (of uncertain etymology.) Scheidius thinks from Λαβ-ειν, whence ελα Boy, used as the 2d Aor. of Aaußav-ew, to take, to seize. Dixerunt (he adds) λaußarEL Eрyov, arripere opus : unde notio operis, s. laboris. To work hard; to work To Frankis & Normanz, for thar grete laboure. And right anon he changed his aray, Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1411. Id. The Freres Tale, v. 7009. Adam, well may we labour still to dress Who but felt of late, Milton. Paradise Lost, b. il Besides, the king set in a course so right, Drayton. Legend of Thomas Cromwell. Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act iii. sc. I sing the conqueror of the universe. Dryden. The Art of Poetry. Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. ix. Laboriousness shuts the doors and stops all the avenues of the mind, whereby a temptation would enter, and (which is yet more) leaves no void room for it to dwell there, if by any accident it should chance to creep in.-South, vol. vi. Ser.10. Whence labour or pain is commonly reckoned an ingredient of industry; and laboriousness is a name signifying it. Barrow, vol. iil Ser. W. 7 M |