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LABEL n. 10 definitions

nything, usually by an inscription, the contents, ownership, destination, etc.; as, the label of a bottle or a package.

One who labels. [Written also labeller.]

LABELLUM n. 2 definitions

The lower or apparently anterior petal of an orchidaceous flower, often of a very curious shape.

LI BELLA n. 2 definitions

A small balance.

LIBEL n. 8 definitions

d, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc. [Obs.] Chaucer. A libel of forsaking [divorcement]. Wyclif (Matt. v. 31).

One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court. [Written also libellant.] Cranch.

One who libels. [Written also libeller.] " Libelers of others." Buckkminster.

LIBELLEE n. 2 definitions

The party against whom a libel has been filed; -- corresponding to defendant in a common law action.

Like or pertaining to the dragon fi

Containing or involving a libel; defamatory; containing that which exposes some person to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule; as, a libelous pamphlet. [Written also libellous.] -- Li"bel*ous*ly, adv.

A small lobe; a lobule.

A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for…

LOBELIACEOUS a.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants of which the genus Lobelia is the type.

A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic.

A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odor.

LOWBELL n. 3 definitions

A bell used in fowling at night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly into a net. The fowler's lowbell robs the lark of sleep. King.

A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.

MAKE-BELIEVE n. 2 definitions

A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.