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To castrate. [Obs.]

Libation. [Obs.] Holland.

Sipping; touching lightly. [R.] Landor.

r of some deity; also, the wine or liquid thus poured out. Dryden. A heathen sacrifice or libation to the earth. Bacon.

Pertaining to libation.

A leopard. [Obs. or Poetic] Spenser. Keats.

. Leopard's bane. [Obs.]

ind, 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.

A libeler.

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

A dragon fly.

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.

therefore, the part from which the fiber of the plant is obtained, as that of hemp, etc. Liber cells, elongated woody cells found in the liber.

ing a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spirit; liberal arts or studies. " Liberal education." Macaulay. " A liberal tongue." Shak.

Liberal principles; the principles and methods of the liberals in politics or religion; specifically, the principles of the Liberal party.

A liberal.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions.