v. i.
To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab.
n.
A telltale; a prater; a blabber.
n.
A follower of Jean de Labadie, a religious teacher of the 17th century, who left the Roman Catholic Church and taught a kind of mysticism, and the obligation of community of property among Christians.
An aqueous solution of hypochlorite of sodium, extensively used as a disinfectant.
n.
The standard adopted by the Emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity. It is described as a pike bearing a silk banner hanging from a crosspiece, and surmounted by a golden crown. It bore a monogram of the first two letters (CHR) of the name of Christ in its Greek form. Later, the name was given to various modifications of this standard.
n.
The act of labefying or making weak; the state of being weakened; decay; ruin.
v. t.
To weaken or impair.
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.
n.
A slip of ribbon, parchment, etc., attached to a document to hold the appended seal; also, the seal.
n.
A writing annexed by way of addition, as a codicil added to a will.
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.
n.
A brass rule with sights, formerly used, in connection with a circumferentor, to take altitudes.
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.
n.
In mediaeval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.
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