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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.]

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

Flabellate on both sides.

A fan. [Obs.] Huloet.

Flabelliform.

The act of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance. Dunglison.

Having the form of a fan; fan-shaped; flabellate.

Having many nerves diverging radiately from the base; -- said of a leaf.

A fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers. Shipley.

The space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon. -- Gla*bel"lar, a.

The median, convex lobe of the head of a trilobite. See Trilobite.

Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.

A label, placed upon or in a book, showing its ownership or its position in a library.

ng some direction, as the name of the owner, or the place to which they are to be sent; a label. Bailey.

An inscription, label, or the like, in a book indicating its ownership; esp., a bookplate.

very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), sea plume (G. setosa), and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis.

ut divers schedules of my beauty; it shall be inventoried, and every particle and utensil labeled. Shak.

esh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically that of the palmyra (Borassus flabelliformis). [Written also jagghery.]

Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United States, the garden balsam (Impatiens Balsamina).