labiose 
lablose(la'iii-os), . l< ! /'"/. lip, + -<'.] 
In Iml., having the (distinct ) petals MI arranged 
as In iuiitiile a labiate eonilla. 
labipalp (lii'bi-palp), . [< XL. iHlii/iiil/iitx. < 
\i. l/iliiinn, lip,+ NL.poJpW, a feeler: see fial/i. | 
A labial palp or feeler of au insect or a mol- 
lusk. 
labipalpus (lii-bi-pal'pus), .; pi. labipal/ii (-pi). 
[NL.] Same- as Itibi/iiilp. 
labis (la'bis), n. [MGr. LGr. ^./?<f, a spoon, 
(ir.a holder, handle, forceps, tonns, < ),au/iavetv, 
/a.liiv, take.] In the Greek and ot her Oriental 
churches, a small spoon, usually of silver, and 
with a cruciform handle, used to administer 
the eucharistic elements (the species of bread 
dipped in that of wine : see in Hurt inn ) to the laity. 
The name is derived from the fact that the Greek word htli- 
(A<i/3i<) is used in the Septuagint in the passage Isa. vi. U 
for tile tongs with which the angel took the live coul from 
oil the altur and gave it to the prophet, the 'live coal' 
being a frequent name in early Christian times for thu 
eiirluirist. Before it was applied to the spoon, this name 
was given to the hand or fingers of the eomminiieant. The 
labis is not in ordinary use in the Armenian Church. Also 
called cocfdear and eucharixtic spoon. See spoon. 
labiuiu (la'bi-uin), .; pi. Ittbia (-&). [L., a lip. 
also labrum, a lip, prob. akin to E\ ltj>: see lip.] 
1. In anat. and gool.. a lip or lip-like part. 
Specifically (a) In anal.: (1) Rltlier lip, upper or under, 
of the mouth, respectively railed labium superiore and 
lahinin inferiore. (2) Either lip, inner or outer, on each 
side of the vulva, respectively ealled labium internum 
;t! itl labium externutn : generally named in the plural the 
fonner, right and left, being the lalria mtnora or nympho? ; 
the latter, right and left, being the labia nntjnt. (:;) Either 
lip, upper or lower, of the grooved border of the spiral 
lamina of the cochlea: the upper is called labium msti- 
buiare, from its relation to the acala vestibuli; the latter, 
labium tympanicutn, from its relation with the scala tym- 
pani. (') In entom., specifically, the lower lip of an in- 
sect, the upper being called the labrum. It is morpho- 
logically the third pair of gnathites united together on 
the median line, and believed to correspond to the second 
pair of inaxillte of a crustacean. The labium is a com- 
posite organ, whose composition varies much in different 
groups of insects. Hence there is great confusion in the 
names of the parta of which it is composed. The term is 
now applied to the whole under lip, which may or does 
consist of parta named (1) stipes, mentum, and palpiger, 
the palpiger itself bearing the lingua, paraglosste, and pal- 
pi labiates ; or (2) submentum, inentum, and ligula, the last 
bearing the glossa, paraglossffi, and labial palps. See these 
terms, and cuts under mouth-part. 
It is hardly open to doubt that the mandibles, the maxil- 
l;f, and the lithium answer to the mandibles and the two 
pairs of maxillie of the crustacean mouth. 
Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 343. 
(el In Arachnida, the shield forming the floor of the mouth, 
which in spiders is very conspicuous, and is often, bat in- 
correctly, called the labrum. (d) In Arthropoda generally, 
the lower lip, attached to the inentum ; a coalesced second 
pair of maxillie, forming the lower part of the mouth ; the 
metastoma, as of a crustacean. See cut under Aittacidae. 
The resemblance between the labium and a pair of maxil- 
l;e which have coalesced is obvious. 
Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 347. 
() One of the lips or labiate prolongations of the neuro- 
podfuni of a polychcetous worm, between which is the ap- 
erture of the trlchophore. (/) In conch., the inner or colu- 
mellar lip of a univalve shell, the outer lip being called 
the labrum. See cut under uaimlee. (;/) The lip of an 
organ-pipe. Sec lip. 
2. In hot. : (a) The lower or anterior lip of a 
bilabiate corolla. (6) In Isoetes, a lip-like struc- 
ture formed by the lower margin of the foveola. 
3. [co/).] A genus of ichneumon-flies, with 
one small New Quinean species, L. bicolor. 
llnilli'; 1 840.^. Labia cerebri.the lips of the brain; 
the margins of tile inner surface of the two hemispheres, 
overlapping the corpus caUosiim like lips, each forming 
the border of the gyrus fornicatus. 
lablab (lab'lab), n. The Egyptian or black 
beau, Doliohos Lablab, a native of India, widely 
cultivated, and naturalized in most warm coun- 
tries. The species as named includes several varieties, 
formerly treated as species of a genus Lablab, as L. ml- 
oarig and L. cultratus ; also L. perennans, the white China 
lablab, and D. or L. lignosus, the horse-eye bean. 
labor 1 , labour (la'bor), n. [The second spelling 
is still prevalent in England; early mod. E. 
labour, < ME. labour, liriioirre, labor (f), < OP. 
labor, liilnir, labour, labeur, V. labcur= Sp. labor 
= Pg. lavor = It. labore, < L. labor, laoot (la- 
bor-), labor, toil, work, exertion ; perhaps re- 
motely akin to robur, strength: see robust.] 
1. Work done by a human being or an animal ; 
exertion of body or mind, or both, for the ac- 
complishment of an end ; effort made to attain 
useful results, in distinction from exercise for 
the sake of recreation or amusement. 
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, 
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath. 
SAa*., Macbeth, ii. 2, 38. 
What is obtained bylabour will of right be the property 
of him by whose labour it is gained. Johnson, Rambler. 
Heath is the I'nd of life; ah, why 
Should life all labour be? 
Tennyson, Lotos- Eaters, Choric Song. 
3317 
Labour, I should say, Is any painful exertion of mind or 
liody niiilerKnne piirtly or wholly with a view to future 
good. Jevons, Vol. Econ., T. 
2. Specifically, bodily toil; physical exertion 
for the sake of gain or reward ; the use of mus- 
cular strength for the satisfaction of wants, in 
distinction from purely mental exertion and 
from the productive use of capital, stilled labor 
is that employed in arts and handicrafts which hare to 
lie learned tiy apprenticeship or study and practice ; un- 
skilled labor is that requiring no preparatory training. 
Nearly all work of both classes U included in the phrase 
manual labor. 
A habit of labor In the people is as essential to the health 
and vigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to 
the welfare of the .state. .1 . Hamilton, Works, I. 267. 
3. Work done or to be done ; that which re- 
quires exertion or effort ; a work ; a perform- 
ance ; au achievement : as, the twelve labors of 
Hercules. 
By one labour, he left to posterl tie three notable bookea. 
Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 128. 
Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their la- 
bours; and their works do follow them. Rev. xiv. is. 
These brought back 
A present, a great labour of the loom. 
Tennyson, Princess, i. 
4. The laboring class ; productive work as rep- 
resented by those devoted to it : as, the claims 
or rights of labor; the te&or-market. 
When labor quarrels with capital, or capital neglecU 
the interests of labor, it is like the hand thinking it does 
not need the eye, the ear, or the brain. 
J. F. Clarke, Self-Culture, p. 288. 
5. The pangs and efforts of childbirth; partu- 
rition ; travail. The first stage of labor is from the 
beginning to the complete dilatation of the os uteri ; the 
second stage consists In the expulsion of the child, and 
the third in that of the afterbirth. 
Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. 
<ien. xxxr. 16. 
6 (Sp. pron. la-bor'). In the quicksilver-mines 
of California, any place where work has been 
or is going on ; especially, in the plural, those 
parts of the mine from which ore is being ex- 
tracted in some quantity; workings Commis- 
sioner of Labor. See commissioner. Division of la- 
bor. See division. Hard labor, in lair, compulsory me- 
chanical employment, or other work requiring continuous 
physical exertion, imposed on some criminals in addition 
to imprisonment. Hard-labor Bill. See Blackgtone's 
Hard-labor Bill, under W. Knights Of Labor. See 
kniyht.- Labor oflove. See lomi. Premature labor, 
labor which takes place before the normal date of termina- 
tion of pregnancy, but late enough to make possible the 
survival of the child. Sometimes defined as labor in the 
last three months of pregnancy. Statute labor, in Scot- 
land, the amount of work appointed by law to be furnished 
annually for the repair of highways. = Syn, 1. Toil, Drudy- 
ery, etc. (see uvrlc) ; effort, pains. 
labor 1 , labour (la'bor), v. [< ME. laboiircn, la- 
boren, labren, < OF. laborer, laburer, labourer, 
F. labourer = Pr. laborar, laorar, laurar = Sp. 
labrar = Pg. lavrar = It. laborare, larorare, < 
L. laborare, intr. labor, strive, exert oneself, 
suffer, be in distress, tr. work out, elaborate, 
< labor, labor: see labor, n. Cf. collaborate, 
elaborate.] I. intmns. 1. To make a physical 
or mental effort to accomplish some end ; exert 
the powers of body or mind for the attainment 
of some result ; work ; strive. The word often 
implies painful or strenuous effort. 
Six days Shalt thou labour, and do all thy work. 
Ex. xx. 9. 
Against my soul's pure truth, why latnmr you 
To make it wander in an unknown Held ? 
SAo*.,C.of E., ill. 2, 37. 
How much soever I laboured to keepe them company, 
I could not possibly perform it, Coryat, Crudities, I. 77. 
Oh, my heart 
Labours a double motion to impart 
So heavy tidings ! 
Fletcher, Faithful Shepherdess, v. 3. 
Ever will I labor as I can 
To make my ill forebodings come to nought. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, III. 107. 
2. Specifically, to exert the muscular power of 
the body for the attainment of some end ; en- 
gage in physical or manual toil. 
In sudore and swynk thou schalt thi mete tilic, 
And I'thr, for thi lytlode, for so vr lord hi ;'e 
Pien Plouman (A), vU. 219. 
The! maken the Ox to laboure 6 zeer or 7, and than the! 
etc him. ManderUle, Travels, p. 170. 
Adam, well may we labour still to dress 
This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower. 
Our pleasant task enjoin'd. Milton, P. L., ix. 205. 
3. To be burdened; be oppressed with diffi- 
culties; proceed or act with difficulty: used 
absolutely, or followed by tinder or (formerly) 
of. 
Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, 
and I will give you rest. Mat. xL 28. 
The vulgar labour under a high degree of superstition. 
Bacon, Fable of Pan. 
laboratory-forge 
If we labour nj a bodily disease, we send for a phyilclan. 
Burtnn, Anat. of Mel., To the Header, p. 46. 
Absolute monarchy labours under the wont of ill dis- 
advantages. Brougham. 
4. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; be in 
travail. 
My Muse labours, 
And thus she is delivered. 
Shot., Othello, Ii. 1, 128. 
5. To move forward heavily and with difficulty ; 
specifically, of a ship, to roll and pitch heavily 
in a seaway, or in such a manner as to bring a 
dangerous strain upon the masts, rigging, and 
hull. 
And let the labnuriny bark climb hills of seas 
Olympus-high, and duck again as low 
As hell 's from heaven ! .S7,A., Othello, U. 1, 189. 
To labor on the way, to go on ; plod on. To labor 
with, to argue or plead earnestly with : as, we labored 
with him for hours, but could not persuade him. To 
take the laboring oar, to undertake the most toilsome 
or efficient part In an employment or enterprise. = 8yn. 1. 
To struggle, plod, drudge, slave, suffer. 
U. trdns. 1. To cause to work; exercise. 
Labour not either your mind or body presently after 
meales. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.X p. 262. 
2. To work at; specifically, to till; cultivate. 
[Now rare.] 
Concerning the tillage of the Island they made answere, 
moreouer, that no part of It was plowed or laboured. 
Halcluyt'i Voyages, II. 129. 
Labouring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop. 
Milton, P. L., xit 18. 
Diodorus Siculus states that the Celtiberians divided 
their land annually among Individuals, to be laboured for 
the use of the public. 
Sir J. Lubbodt, Ortg. of Civilisation, p. 310. 
3. To produce by labor; make or work out with 
effort; expend labor on ; strive for. [Archaic.] 
The artificer and art you might command. 
To labour arms for Troy. Dryden, ;neld, viiL 525. 
The largest mantle her rich wardrobes hold. 
Most priz'd for art, and labour'd o'er with gold. 
Pope, Iliad, Ti. 114. 
No time will be lost to labour your return. 
Waljivle, Letters, II. 432. 
4f. To urge ; labor with. 
He hath been laboured by his nearest kinsfolk and friends 
in Germany to have left the states, . . . but he would not. 
Quoted in Motley's United Netherlands, I. 
5f. To beat ; belabor. 
Take, shepherd, take a plant of stublxirn oak, 
And labour him with many a sturdy stroke. 
Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, lit 668. 
labor 2 (la-bor'), . [Sp., lit. labor: see labor 1 , 
n.] A Mexican land-measure, equal to 177 
acres. 
A labor, ill Mexican law, Is composed of one million 
square varas, that is to say one thousand varas on each 
side. Hall, Mexican Law, p. 104. 
laborantt (lab'o-rant), . [< L. laboran(t-)*, 
ppr. of laborare, Jabor, work: see labor 1 , v.] 
One who labors; a workman; specifically, a 
working chemist. 
Then we caused the laborant with an iron rod dexter- 
ously to stir the kindled part of the nitre. 
Boyle, Works, I. 604. 
laboratory (lab'6-ra-to-ri), .; pi. laboratories 
(-riz). [= F. laboratoire = Sp. Pg. It. labora- 
torio, < ML. laboratoriiim, a place for labor or 
work, < L. laborare, labor, work: see laborl, v.] 
1. A room, building, or workshop especially 
fitted with suitable apparatus for conducting 
investigations in any department of science or 
art, or for elaborating or manufacturing chemi- 
cal, medicinal, or any similar products : as, a 
chemical or pharmaceutical laboratory; hence, 
also, figuratively, any place where or in which 
similar processes are carried on by natural 
forces. 
Why does the juice which flows into the stomach con- 
tain powers which make that Iwwel the great laboratory. 
as it is by its situation the recipient, of the materials of 
future nutrition? Paley, Nat. Theol., vll. 
The roots of many of these ancient volcanoes have been 
laid bare. We have been, as it were, admitted Into the se- 
crets of these subterranean laboratories of nature. 
GeMe, Geol. Sketches, U. 36. 
Medical investigation was carried on actively and suc- 
cessfully in all the [Medical) School laboratories, four out 
of the fifteen subjects relating to human food. 
Rep. of Pres. of Harvard College, 1887-8, p. 18. 
2. Milit., an establishment for the manufacture 
of rockets, port-fires, fuses, percussion-caps, 
quick- and slow-matches, friction-primers, elec- 
tric primers, etc., designed for military opera- 
tions. In Great Britain laboratories are in charge of 
officers of the Royal Artillery ; in the United States they 
are under the officers of the Ordnance Department. 
laboratory-forge (lab'o-rfi-to-ri-forj), n. A 
small and compact forge adapted to laboratory 
use, as for operations with the blowpipe. 
