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Becoming smooth or glabrous from age. Gray.

Below the gills; -- applied to the ventral portion of the pallial chamber in the lamellibranchs.

A region of British America on the Atlantic coast, north of Newfoundland. Labrador duck (Zoöl.), a sea duck (Camtolaimus Labradorius) allied to the eider ducks. It was formerly common on the coast of New England, but is now supposed to be extinct, no specimens having been reported since 1878. -- Labrador feldspar. See…

y of colors, and hence much used for ornamental purposes. The finest specimens come from Labrador. See Feldspar.

Lips. [Obs. & R.] Shak.

Of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchiæ.

An idle, ragged person. Nares. Grose.

The saddlecloth or housing of a cavalry horse.

Situated above the branchiæ; -- applied especially to the upper division of the gill cavity of bivalve mollusks.

An order of Cephalopoda having four gills. Among living species it includes only the pearly nautilus. Numerous genera and species are found in the fossil state, such as Ammonites, Baculites, Orthoceras, etc.

Of or pertaining to the Tetrabranchiata. -- n.

A granular igneous rock composed almost exclusively of a soda- lime feldspar, usually labradorite.

ish or equip with weapons of offense or defense; as, to arm soldiers; to arm the country. Abram . . . armed his trained servants. Gen. xiv. 14.

ng together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion. Effected by attrition of the inward stomach. Arbuthnot.

also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana or Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.

To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.

An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species.

to the time when; -- sometimes with the additional idea of purpose; in order that. Before Abraham was, I am. John viii. 58. Before this treatise can become of use, two points are necessary. Swift.

much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit. (b) A variety of mint (Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata).

In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; -- sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.