L (l), n. 1. An extension at right angles to the length of a main
building, giving to the ground plan a form resembling the letter L;
sometimes less properly applied to a narrower, or lower, extension in
the direction of the length of the main building; a wing. [Written also
ell.]
2. (Mech.) A short right-angled pipe fitting, used in connecting two
pipes at right angles. [Written also ell.]
La (?), n. (Mus.) (a) A syllable applied to the sixth tone of the scale
in music in solmization. (b) The tone A; -- so called among the French
and Italians.
La (?), interj. [Cf. Lo.] 1. Look; see; behold; -- sometimes followed
by you. [Obs.] Shak.
2. An exclamation of surprise; -- commonly followed by me; as, La me!
[Low]
Laas (?), n. A lace. See Lace. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Lab (?), v. i. [Cf. OD. labben to babble.] To prate; to gossip; to
babble; to blab. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Lab, n. A telltale; a prater; a blabber. [Obs.] "I am no lab." Chaucer.
Lab"a*dist, n. (Eccl. Hist.) 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.
La`bar`raque's" so*lu"tion (?). [From Labarraque, a Parisian
apothecary.] (Med.) An aqueous solution of hypochlorite of sodium,
extensively used as a disinfectant.
||Lab"a*rum (&?;), n.; pl. Labara (#). [L.] 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 various modifications of this standard.
||
Lab"da*num (?), n. (Bot.) See Ladanum.
Lab`e*fac"tion (?), n. [See Labefy.] 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.
Lab"e*fy (?), v. t. [L. labefacere; labare to totter + facere to make.]
To weaken or impair. [R.]
La"bel (l"bl), n. [OF. label sort of ribbon or fringe, label in
heraldry, F. lambeau shred, strip, rag; of uncertain origin; cf. L.
labellum, dim. of labrum lip, edge, margin, G. lappen flap, patch, rag,
tatter (cf. Lap of a dress), W. llab, llabed, label, flap, Gael. leab,
leob, slice, shred, hanging lip.] 1. A tassel. [Obs.] Huloet. Fuller.
2. A slip of silk, paper, parchment, etc., affixed to anything, and
indicating, usually by an inscription, the contents, ownership,
destination, etc.; as, the label of a bottle or a package.
3. A slip of ribbon, parchment, etc., attached to a document to hold
the appended seal; also, the seal.