Astrolabe :: Astrolabe (n.) An instrument for observing or showing the positions of the stars. It is now disused.

Astrolabe :: Astrolabe (n.) A stereographic projection of the sphere on the plane of a great circle, as the equator, or a meridian; a planisphere..

Biflabellate :: Biflabellate (a.) Flabellate on both sides.

Cosmolabe :: Cosmolabe (n.) An instrument resembling the astrolabe, formerly used for measuring the angles between heavenly bodies; -- called also pantacosm..

Flabel :: Flabel (n.) A fan.

Flabellate :: Flabellate (a.) Flabelliform.

Flabellation :: Flabellation (n.) The act of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance.

Flabelliform :: Flabelliform (a.) Having the form of a fan; fan-shaped; flabellate.

Flabellinerved :: Flabellinerved (a.) Having many nerves diverging radiately from the base; -- said of a leaf.

Flabellum :: Flabellum (n.) A fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers..

Glabell/ :: Glabell/ (pl. ) of Glabell.

Glabella :: Glabella (n.) The space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon..

Glabella :: Glabella (pl. ) of Glabellu.

Glabellum :: Glabellum (n.) The median, convex lobe of the head of a trilobite. See Trilobite..

Labefaction :: Labefaction (n.) The act of labefying or making weak; the state of being weakened; decay; ruin.

Labefy :: Labefy (v. t.) To weaken or impair.

Label :: Label (n.) A tassel.

Label :: Label (n.) A slip of silk, paper, parchment, etc., affixed to anything, usually by an inscription, the contents, ownership, destination, etc.; as, the label of a bottle or a package..

Label :: Label (n.) A slip of ribbon, parchment, etc., attached to a document to hold the appended seal; also, the seal..

Label :: Label (n.) A writing annexed by way of addition, as a codicil added to a will..

Label :: Label (n.) 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..

Label :: Label (n.) A brass rule with sights, formerly used, in connection with a circumferentor, to take altitudes..

Label :: Label (n.) The name now generally given to the projecting molding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture. It always has a /quare form, as in the illustration..

Label :: Label (n.) In mediaeval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription..

Label :: Label (v. t.) To affix a label to; to mark with a name, etc.; as, to label a bottle or a package..

Label :: Label (v. t.) To affix in or on a label.

Labeled :: Labeled (imp. & p. p.) of Labe.

Labeler :: Labeler (n.) One who labels.

Labeling :: Labeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Labe.

Labella :: Labella (pl. ) of Labellu.

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