LAB 



LAli 



Silica 29. 2 



Alumina 55. 



Lime 2.25 



Magnesia 2. 



Oxide of iron 6.65 



Water and loss 4. 9 



100.00 



It is peculiar to the primitive moun- 

 tains, where it occurs imbedded in talc 

 slate, and mica slate, accompanied with 



grenatite. It is found in many parts ot 

 Europe. It is reckoned the link which 

 connects talc with actynolite and treno. 

 lite. 



KYLLINGIA, in botany, a genus of 

 the Triandriu Monogynia class and order. 

 Natural order of Gramma. Cyperoidex, 

 Jussieu. Essential character : ament 

 ovate or oblong, imbricate ; flowers with 

 a bivalve calyx and corolla. There are 

 seven species, natives of the East and 

 West Indies. 



L. 



LOr 1, the eleventh letter and eighth 

 ' consonant of our alphabet. It is a 

 semi-vowel, formed in the voice by inter- 

 cepting the breath between the tip of the 

 tongue and the fore-part of the palate, 

 with the mouth open. 



There is something of aspiration in its 

 sound, and therefore the Welsh usually 

 double it, or add an h to it ; as in //an, or 

 Ihan, a temple. 



In English words of one syllable, it is 

 usually doubled at the end ; as in all, ivull, 

 mill, &c. but in words of more syllables 

 than one, it is only single at the end; as 

 in foretel, proportional, &.c. It may be 

 placed after most of the consonants, as 

 in blue, clear, fame, &c. but before none 

 of them. As a numeral letter, L denotes 

 50 ; and with a dash over it, thus, L, 

 50,000. 



LA, in music, the syllable by which 

 Guido denotes the last sound of each 

 hexachord : if it begins in C, it answers 

 to our A ; if in G, to E ; and if in F, to 

 D. 



LAUDANUM, or LADANUM, is a resin 

 obtained from the surface of the crystus 

 creticus, a shrub which grows in Syria 

 and the Grecian islands. It is collected 

 while moist by drawing over it a kind of 

 cake, with thongs fixed to it, from which 

 it is afterwards scraped. When it is very 

 good it is black, soft, and has a fragrant 

 odour and a bitterish taste. Water dis- 

 solves about a twelfth part of it, and the 

 matter taken up possesses gummy pro- 

 perties. When distilled with water, a 

 small quantity of volatile oil arises. Al- 



cohol may also be impregnated with a 

 taste and odour of labdanum. 



LABATIA, in botany, a genus of the 

 Tetrandria Monogynia class and order. 

 Natural order of Guajacanse, Jussieiu Es- 

 sential character : calyx tour-leaved, in- 

 ferior ; corolla subcampanulate, four-cleff, 

 with two minute segments in the .division 

 of the corolla ; capsule four celled ; seeds 

 solitary. There are two species, rtz. L. 

 sessilifiora, which is a native of Ilispa- 

 niola ; anil L. guianensis is a tree exceed- 

 ing forty feet in height, and three in dia- 

 meter; the baik is of a russet colour ; 

 the wood is hard and white ; the largest 

 leaves are eight inches in length, and 

 three in width ; flowers axillary, or on 

 the branches in pairs or threes ; each 

 on its pedicle ; corolla greenish. It is 

 called by the natives of Guiana, pourama 

 pouteri. 



LABEL, in heraldry, a fillet usually 

 placed in the middle along the chief of 

 the coat, without touching its extremities. 

 Its breadth ought to be a ninth part of the 

 chief. It is adorned with pendants ; and 

 when there are above three of these, the 

 number must be specified in blazoning. 

 This is a kind of addition to the arms of a 

 second brother, to distinguish him from 

 the first, and is esteemed the most honour- 

 able of all differences. 



LABEL, in law, a narrow slip of parch- 

 ment hanging from a deed, writ, or other 

 writing, in order to hold the appending 

 seal. 



LABEL of a rircwnferKntor, a long thin 

 brass ruler, with a sight at one end, and 



