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[Eng. labor; -le .] Free from or without labor; not laborious; easily done. "They intend not your precise abstinence from any light and labor le work."-Brere wood: On the Sabbath (1630), p. 48. *la-bor-ous, a. [Eng.labor; -ous.] Laborious, a iduous. "With wery trauel, and with laborous paines Alwaies in trouble and in tediousne ." Wyatt: Complaint upon Love. *lā-bõr-oŭs-ly, adv . [Eng. laborous ; -ly .] Laboriously, a iduously. "He [Julius Cæsar] laborously and studiously discu ed controversies."- Sir T. Elyot : Govern our, bk iii., ch. x. *lā-bor-some, a. [Eng. labor ; -some .] 1. Laborious, a iduous, studious, persevering. "He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave By labor some petition. Shakesp.: Hamlet , i. 2. 2. Requiring much pains, labor, and industry; elaborate. IMG:content-0301.png:[blocks in formation] Geol.: A series of North American rocks, the same as the Upper Lauren tian rocks. [LAUREN TIAN.] Labrador-tea, s. Bot.: The genus Ledum (q. v.). lab-ra-dör-ite, s. [Named from the locality whence first obtained; suff. -ite (Min.).] [LABRADOR.] Min.: A member of the Feldspar group (q. v.), in which the protoxide bases are lime and sed a, the sesquioxide base being alumina. Crystallization, triclinic; independent crystals, however, are rare. Twin habit very common, the repetition of one form of twin producing a lamellar structure. Cleav ages, three; the first very distinct, the second le so, of the third only traces. Luster on principal cleavage pearly, pa ing into vitreous: elsewhere vitreous or sub-resinous. Hardne , 6; sp. gr. 2672-76; fracture imperfectly conchoidal; streak white; translucent. Doubly refracting, optical properties, analogous to those of albite and anorthite (q. v.), but much obscured by the pre ure of twin lamellæ. Colors, gray, brown, greenish; sometimes colorle . The cleavable ma ive varieties sometimes exhibit, in the direction of the second cleavage, a lively play of color, blue and green predominating, but firered and yellow also occur. This phenomenon has not yet received a satisfactory explanation. It is most marked in that from Labrador, which also frequently includes numerous exce ively thin, minute crystals, which have been referred to gothite and hæmatite. It forms an e ential constituent 2451 of many rocks, in which it is a ociated with hornblende, augite, diallage, or hypersthene, also in many modern lavas; in distinct crystals in those of Etna and Vesuvius. The colored varieties are sometimes used in jewelry. Called also Labrador-felspar. lā-brax, s. [Gr. labrax =the sea-wolf, or ba e, a ravenous sea-fish, from labros = furious, boisterous.] Ichthy.: A genus of Percidæ, having teeth on the tongue, only nine spines in the dorsal fin, and scales on the gill-covers. Labrax lupus is the Ba e (q.v.). Called also the Sea-dace and the Sea-perch. lăb-ri-dæ, s. pl. [LABRUS.] Ichthy: A family of fishes belonging to the order Teleostei, and the sub-order Pharyngognatha. The lips are fleshy; the body is covered with large cycloid scales; the mouth can be protruded, and has formidable teeth. lab-rōse, a. [Lat. labrosus, from labrum (q.v.).] Having thick lips. lā-brŭm, s . [Lat. a lip, whence Ital. labbro and Fr. lèvre a lip.] 1. Entom.: The upper lip of an insect; the under lip is termed labium . 2. Zoology : (1) The upper lip in the Arachnid a, Crustacea, and Myriapod a. (2) The outer lip of a shell. *3. Cla . Antiq .: A basin or vase containing hot water, placed in the warm bath-room of the ancients for those who used the vapor-bath. lā-brus, s. [From Lat. labrum a lip, the lips being fleshy and conspicuous.) Ichthy.: A genus of fishes, the typical one of the family Labride (q.v.). As the name imports, they have conspicuous lips; these are fleshy and thick. The fishes of this genus are called wra es. [WRASSE.]