Labadist

n. pl. Labara (#).

L is the twelfth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It is usually called a semivowel or liquid. Its form and value are from the Greek, through the Latin, the form of the Greek letter being from the Phœnician, and the ultimate origin prob. Egyptian. Etymologically, it is most closely related to r and u; as in pilgrim, peregrine, couch (fr. collocare), aubura (fr. LL. alburnus).
As a numeral, L stands for fifty in the English, as in the Latin language.
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.
(Mech.) A short right-angled pipe fitting, used in connecting two pipes at right angles.
Having the general shape of the (capital) letter L; as, an L beam, or L-beam.
Elevated; -- a symbol for el. as an abbreviation of elevated in elevated road or railroad.
Look; see; behold; -- sometimes followed by you.
An exclamation of surprise; -- commonly followed by me; as, La me!
A telltale; a prater; a blabber.
Laboratory.
A tassel.
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.
A slip of ribbon, parchment, etc., attached to a document to hold the appended seal; also, the seal.
A writing annexed by way of addition, as a codicil added to a will.
(Her.) A barrulet, or, rarely, a bendlet, with pendants, or points, usually three, especially used as a mark of cadency to distinguish an eldest or only son while his father is still living.
A brass rule with sights, formerly used, in connection with a circumferentor, to take altitudes.
(Gothic Arch.) The name now generally given to the projecting molding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediæval architecture. It always has a square form, as in the illustration.
In mediæval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.
To affix a label to; to mark with a name, etc.; as, to label a bottle or a package.
To affix in or on a label.
(Bot.) The lower or apparently anterior petal of an orchidaceous flower, often of a very curious shape.
(Zoöl.) A small appendage beneath the upper lip or labrum of certain insects.
Of or pertaining to the lips or labia; as, labial veins.
(Mus.) Furnished with lips; as, a labial organ pipe.
(Phonetics) Of or pertaining to the labium; as, the labial palpi of insects. See Labium.
(Phonetics) A letter or character representing an articulation or sound formed or uttered chiefly with the lips, as b, p, w.
(Mus.) An organ pipe that is furnished with lips; a flue pipe.
(Zoöl.) One of the scales which border the mouth of a fish or reptile.

A syllable applied to the sixth tone of the scale in music in solmization.
The tone A; -- so called among the French and Italians.
Articulated, as a consonant, mainly by the lips, as b, p, m, w.
Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, as Ō (fŌd), ō (ōld), etc., and as eu and u in French, and ö, ü in German. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 11, 178.
Having the limb of a tubular corolla or calyx divided into two unequal parts, one projecting over the other like the lips of a mouth, as in the snapdragon, sage, and catnip.
Belonging to a natural order of plants (Labiatæ), of which the mint, sage, and catnip are examples. They are mostly aromatic herbs.

At the end of monosyllables containing a single vowel, it is often doubled, as in fall, full, bell; but not after digraphs, as in foul, fool, prowl, growl, foal. In English words, the terminating syllable le is unaccented, the e is silent, and l is preceded by a voice glide, as in able, eagle, pronounced ā"b'l, ē"g'l. See Guide to Pronunciation, §241.

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