A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed to Homer.
Law-fall:
Depression of the jaw; hence, depression of spirits.
L:
As a numeral, L stands for fifty in the English, as in the Latin language.
L:
An extension at right angles to the length of a main building, giving to the ground plan a form resembling the letter L; sometimes less properly applied to a narrower, or lower, extension in the direc ...
L:
A short right-angled pipe fitting, used in connecting two pipes at right angles.
La:
A syllable applied to the sixth tone of the scale in music in solmization.
La:
The tone A; -- so called among the French and Italians.
La:
Look; see; behold; -- sometimes followed by you.
La:
An exclamation of surprise; -- commonly followed by me; as, La me!
Laas:
A lace. See Lace.
Lab:
To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab.
Lab:
A telltale; a prater; a blabber.
Labadist:
A follower of Jean de Labadie, a religious teacher of the 17th century, who left the Roman Catholic Church and taught a kind of mysticism, and the obligation of community of property among Christians.
Labarraque's solution:
An aqueous solution of hypochlorite of sodium, extensively used as a disinfectant.
Labara:
of Labarum
Labarum:
The standard adopted by the Emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity. It is described as a pike bearing a silk banner hanging from a crosspiece, and surmounted by a golden crown. It bo ...
Labdanum:
See Ladanum.
Labefaction:
The act of labefying or making weak; the state of being weakened; decay; ruin.
Labefy:
To weaken or impair.
Label:
A tassel.
Label:
A slip of silk, paper, parchment, etc., affixed to anything, usually by an inscription, the contents, ownership, destination, etc.; as, the label of a bottle or a package.
Label:
A slip of ribbon, parchment, etc., attached to a document to hold the appended seal; also, the seal.
Label:
A writing annexed by way of addition, as a codicil added to a will.
Label:
A barrulet, or, rarely, a bendlet, with pendants, or points, usually three, especially used as a mark of cadency to distinguish an eldest or only son while his father is still living.
Label:
A brass rule with sights, formerly used, in connection with a circumferentor, to take altitudes.
Label:
The name now generally given to the projecting molding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture. It always has a /quare form, as in the illustration.
Label:
In mediaeval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.
Labeled:
of Label
Labelled:
of Label
Labeling:
of Label
Labelling:
of Label
Label:
To affix a label to; to mark with a name, etc.; as, to label a bottle or a package.
Label:
To affix in or on a label.
Labeler:
One who labels.
Labella:
of Labellum
Labellums:
of Labellum
Labellum:
The lower or apparently anterior petal of an orchidaceous flower, often of a very curious shape.
Labellum:
A small appendage beneath the upper lip or labrum of certain insects.