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To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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.

An aqueous solution of hypochlorite of sodium, extensively used as a disinfectant.

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 bore a monogram of the first two letters (CHR) of the name of Christ in its Greek form. Later, the name was given to vario…

See Ladanum.

The act of labefying or making weak; the state of being weakened; decay; ruin. There is in it such a labefaction of all principles as may be injurious to morality. Johnson.

To weaken or impair. [R.]

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

One who labels. [Written also labeller.]

A small appendage beneath the upper lip or labrum of certain insects.

Slipping; sliding; gliding. [R.]

See Labium.

Of or pertaining to the lips or labia; as, labial veins.

The quality of being labial; as, the labialism of an articulation; conversion into a labial, as of a sound which is different in another language. J. Peile.

The modification of an articulation by contraction of the lip opening.

To modify by contraction of the lip opening.

In a labial manner; with, or by means of, the lips.

To labialize. Brewer.

Same as Labiate, a. (a).

Having labiate flowers, as the snapdragon.