12729 Jolie, I may 1957 8423 R39 1838 V. 2 A NEW ENGLISH DICTIONARY L L. is called by B. Jonson a letter half-vowelish, which though the Italians (especially the Florentines) abhor, we keep entire with the Latins, and so pronounce. It is not used (says Wilkins) by the Brasileans, nor the men of Japan: others style it the sweetest of all letters. It melteth (B. Jonson adds) in the sounding, and is therefore called a liquid, the tongue striking the root of the palate gently; Wilkins, the top of the tongue striking against the foremost part of the palate. It unites very easily with C and G in pronunciation, as in Clinch, Gloom, (qqv.) It is doubled, where the vowel sounds hard upon it; with no necessity: unless a syllable follow which may require the continuance of its sound; as in kil-ling, fil-ling, wil-ling. 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. No 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 stuh 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 Henrie the fourth, that before the times of Edward the third, the labell of three points was the different appropriat and appurtenant for the cognizance of the next heire. Holinshed. Rich. II. an. 1390. Until the subtlest of their conjurors LA'BIAL, adj. Lat. Labium; Fr. Lèvre; LA'BIAL, n. It. Labbra, labio; the lip. That may be, that are, (formed by, spoken by) the lips. The Hebrews have been diligent in it, and have assigned, which letters are labiall, which dentall, which gutturall. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 198. lips.-Wilkins. Real Character, pt. iii. c. 14. The labials are represented by two curve figures for the P and B are labial: Ph and Bh, or F and V, are labiodental.-Holder. Elements of Speech. LA'BILE. Lat. Labi, to fall or fail. Wyatt. Complaint vpon Loue, &c. He [Julius Cæsar] labourously and studiously discussed controversies.-Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. iii. c. 10. There is greater store growing in the tops of the mounSee tains then below in the valleis: but it is wonderfull laboursome 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. LA'BOUR, n. LA'BOURER. LABO'RIOUS. LABORIOUSLY. LABO'RIOUSNESS. LABO'RANT. LABORATORY. LA'BOURLESS. LABOUROUS. LABOUROUSLY. 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 λaußav-ev, to take, to seize. Dixerunt (he adds) λaußavev pyov, arripere opus : unde notio operis, s. laboris. To work hard; to work with difficulty or diligence; to bear up against or support, or sustain with diligence, with difficulty, with pain; to exert, to persist, pursue, or prosecute with care or diligence, pain or difficulty; to do any thing with exertion or effort. LA'BOURSOME. Adam, well may we labour still to dress When down he came like an old o'ergrown oak, Who but felt of late, Millon. Paradise Lost, b. ii. Then we caused the laborant with an iron rod dexterously to stir the kindled part of the nitre. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 604. For thankless Greece such hardships have I brav'd, Her wives, her infants, by my labours sav'd; 1.ong, sleepless nights in heavy arms I stood, And sweat laborious days in dust and blood. 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 ingre dient of industry; and laboriousness is a name signifying it. Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 18. 7 M and labourless work. They intend not your precise abstinence from any light The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life, which it annually consumes, and which consists always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations. Smith. Wealth of Nations, vol. i. Introd. The number of useful and productive labourers, is every where in proportion to the quantity of capital stock which is employed in setting them to work, and to the particular way in which it is so employed.-Id. Ib. Why does the juice, which flows into the stomach, contain powers which make that bowel the great laboratory, as it is by its situation the recipient, of the materials of future nutrition?-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 7. Those who have dragged their understanding laboriously along the tiresome circuit of ancient demonstration, may be unwilling to grant that they have taken all these pains to no purpose. Beddoes, On the Elements of Geometry, Ded. 11. LABURNUM. See the quotation from Plinie. The cypresse, walnut, chesnut-trees, and the laburnum, cannot in any wise abide waters. This last named, is a tree proper unto the Alpes, not commonly knowne: the wood thereof is hard and white: it beareth a blossome of a cubite long, but bees will not settle upon it. Holland. Plinie, b. xvi. c. 18. And pale laburnum's pendent flowers display In streaming gold. Cowper. Task, b. vi. LAC And on her legs she painted buskins wore, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 5. For striving more, the more in laces strong Cooke. And whom for mutton and kid? Id. Muiopotmos. B. Jonson. Neptune's Triumph. A Masque. Prior. The Widow and her Cat. He is forced every morning to drink his dish of coffee by Swift from her head she loos'd, with eager haste, Hoole. Jerusalem Delivered, b. xv. ; Fr. Lacérer; It. Lacerare; Sp. Lacerar Lat. Lacerare, from the Gr. Aakew, which not only denotes sonare, crepare, but also cum crepitu rumpi, ut fit in iis, quæ lacerantur. LA'CERABLE. To rend or tear asunder; to sever-with the parts torn, (and not cut evenly.) And if the heat breaks through the water with such fury, lacerate, what we call boyling. LABYRINTHIAN. } Sp. Labarin, Lat. Labas rinthus; Gr. AaBupiveos; Locus viarum ambagibus ad capiendum aptus, from λaß-ew, to take. A place formed to take or hold, confine, or keep within; difficult to pass through or escape from; formed with many windings or turnings, or intricate, involved, or perplexed ways or paths: as applied generally,-intricacy, perplexity. Since wee have finished our obeliskes and pyramides, let us enter also into the labyrynthes; which we may truly say, are the most monstrous works that ever were divised by the hand of man.-Holland. Plinie, b. xiii. c. 13. Mark, how the labyrinthian turns they take; LAC No lamps, included liquors, lachrymatories, or tear-bottles, attended these rural urnes, either as sacred unto the Manes or passionate expressions of their surviving friends: Browne. Ürne-Burial, c. 3. It is of an exquisite sense, that, upon any touch the tears might be squeezed from the lachrymal glands, to wash and clean it. Cheyne. Philosophical Principles. What a variety of shapes in the ancient urns, lamps, lachrymary vessels.-Addison. Italy. Rome. The learned Mr. Wise, late Radclivian librarian, had a glass lachrymatory, or rather a sepulchral aromatic phial, dug up between Noke and Wood-Eaton. Warton. History of Kiddington, p. 57. water, too heavy for the air to carry or buoy up, it causeth Some depend upon the intemperament of the part ulce- LACK, v. Dut. Laechen, minuere, dimi. To diminish, consequentially, to degrade, to find fault with, to blame. Shakespeare uses the compounds lack-beard, -brain, -linen, -lustre. And like a wanton girl, oft doubting in her gate, LACE, n. } Las. Fr. Lacer, lucet, from the Lat. Laqueus, (Skinner.) The Lat. Laqueus, and It. Laccio, as well as the Eng. Latch, and lace, are the past tense and past part. of the A.S. Lacc-an, lec-gan, lacc-ean, prehendere, apprehendere, to catch, to hold, (Tooke.) A lace, any thing which catcheth or holdeth, tieth, bindeth, or fasteneth; applied to cords, or strings, or threads, plain or interwoven of various materials; also to the substance formed by such interweaving. Laced, as laced coffee, i. e. coffee inter-laced, intermingled, or intermixed with some other ingredient. Nailing the speres, and helmes bokeling, Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2506. Hire shoon were laced on hire legges hie. Where is & shall be eternall Joy, incomparable myrth without heaviness, By nom hym al that he hadde.-Piers Ploulman, p. 141.7 The first point of slouth I call Lasting interminable, lacking no goodness. Fair scho was. thei seiden, & gode withouten lak. R. Brunne, p. 95. Piers Plouhman, p. 18. Ac ich wolle lacke no lyf. quath that lady sotthly. The law also determines that in the king can be no negli. gence, or laches, and therefore no delay will bar his right. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c. 7. LACHRYMAL. Id. The Marchantes Tale, v. 10,078. Fr. Lachrymal; It, Lagrimal Sp. Lacrymoso; Lat. Lacrima; Gr. Aaxpu What helpeth a man haue mete, ua, & changed into 1, a tear. Fncertaine Auctors. The Louer thinkes no paine, go, I weep. 1186 In lacke of them, that be vnware Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. li. c. 7. Davies. Wit's Pilgrimage. Frugal, where lack, supplies with what redounds, Brooke. Universal Beauty, b. i. But tho' each Court a jester lacks, Dodsley. The Kings of Europe. The lack of Tonquin is a sort of gummy juice, which drains out of the bodies or limbs of trees. The cabinets, desks, or any sort of frames to be lackered, are made of fir, or pine tree. The workhouses where the lacker is laid on, are accounted very unwholesome. Dampier. Voyages, an. 1638. Dyer. The Fleece, b. iv. Cawthorn, The Antiquarians Jago. Edge Hill, b. ill |