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.

A plastic operation for making a new lip, or for replacing a lost tissue of a lip.

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

A labial palp.

One of the labial palpi of an insect. See Illust. under Labium.

A lip, or liplike organ.

an East Indian name for several twining leguminous plants related to the bean, but commonly applied to the hyacinth bean (Dolichos Lablab).

To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.

Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor; as, labor-saving machinery; labor-saving appliances{4}; labor-saving devices like washing machines.

A chemist.

The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile.

Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.

In a labored manner; with labor.

One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.

That labors; performing labor; esp., performing coarse, heavy work, not requiring skill also, set apart for labor; as, laboring days.

Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome.

Not involving labor; not laborious; easy.

Laborious.

Made with, or requiring, great labor, pains, or diligence.

Same as labor; -- British spelling.

same as labored; -- British spelling

a laborer; someone who works with their hands.

characterized by toilsome effort; same as laborious; -- British spelling.

a member of the British Labour Party.

A region of British America on the Atlantic coast, north of Newfoundland.

A kind of feldspar commonly showing a beautiful play of colors, and hence much used for ornamental purposes. The finest specimens come from Labrador. See Feldspar.

Lips.

A piece of wood, shell, stone, or other substance, worn in a perforation of the lip or cheek by many savages.

Like the genus Labrus; belonging to the family Labrid/, an extensive family of marine fishes, often brilliantly colored, which are very abundant in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The tautog and cunner are American examples.

Having thick lips.

A lip or edge, as of a basin.

A genus of marine fishes, including the wrasses of Europe. See Wrasse.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the laburnum.

A poisonous alkaloid found in the unripe seeds of the laburnum.

A small leguminous tree (Cytisus Laburnum), native of the Alps. The plant is reputed to be poisonous, esp. the bark and seeds. It has handsome racemes of yellow blossoms.

An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate; labyrinthian.

Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.

Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthici. One of the Labyrinthici.

Like or pertaining to a labyrinth.

An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes.

Having the form of a labyrinth; intricate.

Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal; labyrinthian.

A genus of very large fossil amphibians, of the Triassic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta. Called also Mastodonsaurus.

Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthodonta. One of the Labyrinthodonta.

An extinct order of Amphibia, including the typical genus Labyrinthodon, and many other allied forms, from the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic formations. By recent writers they are divided into two or more orders. See Stegocephala.

A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but to some extent on other trees, by the Laccifer lacca (formerly Coccus lacca), a scale-shaped insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from the margin of her body this resinous substance.

Pertaining to lac, or produced from it; as, laccic acid.

A yellow amorphous substance obtained from lac.

A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata.

To be fastened with a lace, or laces; as, these boots lace.

To attack vigorously; -- used of physical or verbal attacks; as, the boss laced into him for coming to the meeting late.

A shrub in the West Indies (Lagetta Iintearia); -- so called from the lacelike layers of its inner bark.

Having thin, transparent, reticulated wings; as, the lace-winged flies.

A small tree or shrub (Hoheria populnea) of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage.

Fastened with a lace or laces; decorated with narrow strips or braid. See Lace, v. t.

Of or pertaining to Laced/mon or Sparta, the chief city of Laconia in the Peloponnesus. A Spartan.

A man who deals in lace.

That can be lacerated or torn.

torn roughly; -- of skin.

Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound.

The act of lacerating.

Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate; as, lacerative humors.

A muscle of the human body.

A genus of lizards. See Lizard.

Like a lizard; of or pertaining to the Lacertilia. One of the Lacertilia.

Any lizard of the family Lacertidae, a family of Old World terrestrial lizard.

A natural family of Old World lizards.

An order of Reptilia, which includes the lizards.

Same as Lacertian.

Like or belonging to the Lacertilia.

Lacertian.

A bundle or fascicle of muscular fibers.

Any one of several species of neuropterous insects of the genus Chrysopa and allied genera. They have delicate, lacelike wings and brilliant eyes. Their larv/ are useful in destroying aphids. Called also lace-winged fly, and goldeneyed fly.

Neglect; negligence; remissness; neglect to do a thing at the proper time; especially, a delay in asserting a claim, sufficient to cause a person to lose the right to adjuducation of the claim by a court.

Lamentable.

A rich, sweet, red Neapolitan wine.

Of or pertaining to tears; as, lachrymal effusions.

Tears; also, lachrymal feelings or organs.

Containing, or intended to contain, tears; lachrymal.

To weep.

The act of shedding tears; weeping.

A chemical substance that causes tears to flow; same as lacrimator.

A /tear-bottle;/ a narrow-necked vessel found in sepulchers of the ancient Romans; -- so called from a former notion that the tears of the deceased person's friends were collected in it. Called also lachrymal or lacrymal.

Relating to or inducing tears; -- especially of chemical substances.

Having the form of a tear; tear-shaped.

Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.

The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces.

One of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers. A narrow, slender portion of the edge of a monophyllous calyx, or of any irregularly incised leaf.

Fringed; having a fringed border.

Consisting of, or abounding in, very minute lacini/.

A diminutive lacinia.

Exclamation of regret or surprise.

Affectedly pensive; languidly sentimental; dreamy.

Lackadaisical.

Alack the day; alas; -- an expression of sorrow, regret, dissatisfaction, or surprise.

One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person.

See Lacquer.

To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.

Wanting luster or brightness.

See Litmus.

Of or pertaining to Laconia, a division of ancient Greece; Spartan. An inhabitant of Laconia; esp., a Spartan.

Laconism.

Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; concise; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form.

See Laconic, a.

In a laconic manner.

Same as Laconism.

A vigorous, brief manner of expression; laconic style.

To imitate the manner of the Laconians, especially in brief, pithy speech, or in frugality and austerity.

To cover with lacquer.

One who lacquers, especially one who makes a business of lacquering.

The act or business of putting on lacquer; also, the coat of lacquer put on.

shedding tears; same as lachrymation.

a chemical substance that causes tears to flow; same as lachrymator.

relating to or inducing tears; -- especially of chemical substances; same as lachrymatory.

Plaintive; -- a term applied to a mournful or pathetic movement or style.

A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a /crosse/. The ball is not handled but caught with the crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the field.

See Lachrymatory, n., and Lachrymal, a.

See Lachrymatory.