PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW; I JOHNSON: W. J. AND J. RICHARDSON; J.WALKER: R. BALDWIN; F. AND C. RIVINGTON T PAYNE; R. FAULDER; L, A liquid consonant, which pre-So also any paper, annexed by way of serves always the same sound in 19 English. In the Saxon it was aspirated; as, hlap, loaf; hlærdig, lady. At the end of a monosyllable it is always doubled; as, sball, stile, full except after a diphthong; as, fail, feels veal, cool. In a word of more syllables it is written single; as, channel, canal, tendril. It is sometimes put beforee, and sounded feebly after it; as, bible, title. LA, interject. [corrupted by an effeminate pronunciation from lo; unless it be the French la.] See; look; behold. La you! if you speak ill of the devil, How he takes it at heart. Shak. Twelfth Night. LA'BDANUM. n. S. A resin, of a strong not unpleasant smell, and an aromatick, but not agreeable taste. This juice exudates from a low spreading shrub in Crete. Hill. To LA'BEFY. v. a. [labefacio, Lat.] To weaken; to impair. Dict. LABEL. n. s. [labellom, Latin.] 3. A small slip or scrip of writing. Sbaksp. Cymbeline. 2. Any thing appendant to a larger writing. On the label of lead, the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul are impressed from the papal seal. Aylifje's Parergon. 3. [In law.) A narrow slip of paper or parchment affixed to a deed or writing, in order to hold the appending seal. VOL. III. addition or explication to any will or testament, is called a label or codicil. Harris. The Hebrews have assigned which letters are labial, which dental, and which guttural. Bacon. Some particular affection of sound in its passage to the lips, will seem to make some composition in any vowel which is labial. LA BIATED. adj. [labium, Lat.] with lips. Holder. Formed LA BIODENTAL. adj. [labium and dentalis.] Formed or pronounced by the co-operation of the lips and teeth. The dental consonants are very easy; and first the labiodentals, f, v, also the linguadentals, tb, db. Holder. LABORANT. n. s. [laborans, Lat.] A chymist. Not in use. I can shew you a sort of fixt sulphur, made by an industrious laborant. Boyle. LABORATORY. n.s. [laboratoire, Fr.] A chymist's workroom. It would contribute to the history of colours, if chemists would in their laboratory take a heedful notice, and give us a faithful account, of the colours observed in the steam of bodies, either sublimed or distilled. Boyle. The flames of love will perform those miracies they of the furnace boast of, would they employ theinselves in this laboratory. Decay of Piety. B |