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at is given with words only. -- Lip comforter, one who comforts with words only. -- Lip labor, unfelt or insincere speech; hypocrisy. Bale. -- Lip reading, the catching of the words or meaning of one speaking by watching the motion of his lips without hearing his voice. Carpenter. -- Lip salve, a salve for sore lip…

uire a livelihood; to subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils. Those who live by labor. Sir W. Temple.

nd, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due. We wash a wall of loam; we labor in vain. Hooker.

ere they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn. Longfellow. [U.S.]

To hand extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or a log when heated with labor or exertion. The triple porter of the Stygian seat, With lolling tongue, lay fawning at thy feet. Dryden .

To belong; -- used with to, unto, or for. [Obs.] The labor which that longeth unto me. Chaucer.

One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.

oss) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the Western United States.

elaborate double eyeglasses.

To elaborate, perfect, or compose, by night study or by laborious endeavor.

Composed by candlelight, or by night; of or pertaining to night studies; laborious or painstaking. Pope.

er of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames. J. & H. Smith. H. Martineau.

A laborer who is employed to load or unload vessels when in harbor.

One who labors at night and sleeps in the day.

hine. -- Machine work, work done by a machine, in contradistinction to that done by hand labor.

bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply with what is needed. Glad, by his labor, to maintain his life. Stirling. What maintains one vice would bring up two children. Franklin.

An imperfect elaboration by the tissues of the materials brought to them by the blood.

Of or pertaining to the hand; done or made by the hand; as, manual labor; the king's sign manual. "Manual and ocular examination." Tatham. Manual alphabet. See Dactylology. -- Manual exercise (Mil.) the exercise by which soldiers are taught the use of their muskets and other arms. -- Seal manual, the impression of a…

To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture. [Obs.] To whom we gave the strand for to manure. Surrey. Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved; And with vain, outward things be no more moved. Donne.

unfinished, or elementary materials that are adapted to use only by processes of skilled labor. Cotton, wool, ore, logs, etc., are raw material.