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prefs the falling of vail rocks, or parts of mountains, and 
their rolling down in the fame manner into the flat coun¬ 
try ; this is a mifchief very frequent in the fame places, 
after frolls, and often very fatal. 
LABIODENTAL, adj. [, labium and dentalis.] Formed 
or pronounced by the co-operation of the lips and teeth. 
•—The dental confonants are very eafy ; and iirlt the labi¬ 
odentals, f, v alfo the linguadentals, th, dh. Holder. 
LABIODENTAL, f One of the letters pronounced 
by the co-operation of the lips and teeth. 
LA'BIS,yi A kind of forceps, an inftrument to lay 
bold of any thing. Not much ufed. Scott. 
LA'BIUM VEN'ERIS. See Dipsacus. 
LAB'LAB. See Dolichos. 
LA'BO, a town on the welt coaft of the ifland of Su¬ 
matra, whofe chief trade is in pepper. Lat. 3. 20. N. 
LABO'MAS, a town of the ifland of Cuba: feven miles 
■fouth-eaft of Spiritu Santo. 
LA'BON, a town on the well coaft of Sumatra, cele¬ 
brated for gold-dull and camphor; but the inhabitants 
are fny of trading with ftrangers: 150 miles fouth-fouth- 
eall of Acheen. Lat. 3. to. N. Ion. 96. 40. E. 
LABOO'N, a town on the ealt coaft of the ifland of 
Borneo, fltuated on a peninl’ula which projects into the 
fea. Lat. 5. 9. N. Ion. 119. 5. E. 
LA'BOR, f. See Labour. 
LA'BOR, a town of New Navarre : 280 miles fouth- 
eaft of Cafa Grande. 
LAB'ORANT, f. [ laborans , Lat.] A chemift. Not in 
ufe. —I can Ihew you a fort of fixt fulphur, made by an 
indullrious laborant. Boyle. 
LABORA'TION,/ [from labor, Lat.] The aft of la¬ 
boring. Scott. 
LAB'ORATORY, f. \_laboratoire, Fr.] A chemift’s 
•workroom.—It would contribute to the hiltory of colours, 
if chemills would in their laboratory take a heedful notice, 
and give us a faithful account, of the colours obferved in 
the fleam of bodies, either fublimed or diftilled. Boyle. 
■—See the article Chemistry, vol. iv. p. 191 & feq. the 
eorrefponding Engravings, eleven in number, includ¬ 
ing every inftrument that can be wanted in a laboratory. 
See alfo the article Furnace, vol. viii. 
LAB'ORATORY, adj. Belonging to a place ufed for 
chemical operations ; belonging to the place where the 
bombardiers prepare their works. 
LABORIF'EROUS, adj. [from labor, Lat. labour, and 
fero, to bear.] Cauflng labour j enduring labour. Scott. 
LABORIOS'ITY, f. [from laborious.’] The Hate of 
being laborious. Cole. 
LABORIOUS, adj. [ laborieux , Fr. laboriofus, Lat.] Di¬ 
ligent in work; afliduous.—That which makes the clergy 
glorious, is to be knowing in their profeflion, unfpotted 
in their lives, aftive and laborious in their charges, bold 
and refolute in oppoling feducers, and daring to look vice 
in the face; and, laftly, to be gentle, courteous, and cora- 
paffionate, to all. South. 
A fpacious cave within its farmoft part, 
Was hew’d and fafliion’d'by laborious art. 
Through the hill’s hollow fides. Dryden. 
Requiring labour; tirefome ; not eafy: 
Do’ft thou love watchings, abftinence, and toil, 
’Laborious virtues all ? learn them from Cato. Addifon. 
1 LABORIOUSLY, adv. With labour; with toil.—The 
folly of him, who pumps very laborioitfly in a ftiip, yet ne- 
glefts to flop the leak. Decay of Piety. 
I chufe lalorioufly to bear 
A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air. Pope. 
LABOR IOUSNESS,yi Toilfomenefs; difficulty.—The 
parallel holds in the gainlclfnefs, as well as the laboriouf- 
nefs, of the work; thole wretched creatures, buried in earth 
and darknefs, were never the richer for all the ore they 
digged ; no more is the infatiate jnifer. Decay of Piety ,— 
jDiligence; aflfiduity. 
LAB 
LAB'OROUS, adj. [a poetical word for] Laborious.— 
For lnifband’s life is laborous and hard. Spenf. Hubberd. 
LABOSAR'DACH, oi'Laborosoarchod, king of Ba¬ 
bylon, Ion of Nerigliffar, reigned nine months, according 
to Berofus. He was flain by his own people, and- fuc- 
ceeded by Mabonidas, fays Berofus; or Nabannidoch, ac¬ 
cording to Abydinus; or Labynitus, according to Hero¬ 
dotus. Many are of opinion, that this is the Belfhezzar 
of Daniel. The fucceffion of Nebuchadnezzar’s ions i* 
extremely perplexed. 
LA ; BOUR,y] [ labeur , Fr. labor, Lat.] The aft of do¬ 
ing what requires a painful exertion of ltrength, or wea- 
rifome perfeverance ; pains; toil; travail; work.—If I 
find her honeft, I lofe not my labour-, if ihe be otherwife, 
it is labour well bellowed. Shakefpeare, —Work to be done. 
—Being a labour of fo great difficulty, the exaft perform¬ 
ance thereof we may rather wiih than look for. Hooker. 
If you had been the wife of Hercules, 
Six of his labours you’d have done, and f3v’d 
Your huiband fo much fweat. Shakefpeare. 
Work done; performance.—Exercife; motion with fome 
degree of violence.—Moderate labour of the body con¬ 
duces to the prefervation of health, and curing many ini¬ 
tial difeaies; but the toil of the mind deftroys health, 
and generates maladies. Harvey. —Childbirth; travail. See 
the article Parturition. —Not one woman out of tw$ 
hundred dies in labour. Graunt . 
Not knowing ’twas my labour, I complain 
Of fudden ihootings, and of grinding pain; 
My throws come thicker, and my cries encreas’d, 
Which with herliand the confcious nurfefupprefs’d. Dry den* 
LABOUR, before the revolution, a diftrift of France, 
in Gafcony, of which Bayonne was the capital. 
To LAfBOUR, v. n. [ laboro , Lat.] To toil 5 to aft with 
painful effort.—Let more work be laid upon the men, thaj 
they may labour therein. Exod. 
For your highnefs’ good I ever labour'd 
More than mine own. Shakefpeare. 
To do work; to take pains.-—The matter of the ceremo¬ 
nies had wrought, for the moil part, only upon light¬ 
headed weak men, whofe fatisfaftion was not to be la¬ 
boured for. Clarendon. —A labouring man that is given to 
drunkennefs, fliall not be rich. Ecclus. —That in the night 
they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day. Neln - 
miah. —To move with difficulty : 
The ftone that labours up the hill, 
Mocking the lab’rer’s toil, returning ftill, 
Is love. Glanville. 
To be difeafed with. Not in ufe. —I was called to another, 
who in childbed laboured of an ulcer in her left hip. Wife- 
man. 
They abound with horfe. 
Of which one want our camp doth only labour. B. fonfon . 
To be in diftrefs; to be preffed.—This exercife will call 
down the favour of Heaven upon you, to remove thole 
affiiftions you now labour under from you. Wake's Prepa¬ 
ration for Death. 
Trumpets and drums fliall fright her from the throne. 
As founding cymbals aid the lab'ring moon. Dryden, 
To be in childbirth ; to be in travail: 
There lay a log unlighted on the earth, 
When flie was lab'ring in the throws of birth; 
For th’ unborn chief the fatal fillers came. 
And rais’d it up, and tofs’d it on the flame. Dryden, 
Here, like fome furious prophet, Pindar rode. 
And feem’d to labour with th’ infpiring god. Pope. 
To LA'BOUR, v. a. To work at; to move with diffi¬ 
culty; to form with labour; to profecute with effort.—- 
"To ufe brevity, and avoid much labouring of the work, 
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