... stars would write his will in heaven,
As once when a labarum was not deemed
Too much for the old founder of these walls
[Constantinople].
R. Browning, Paracelsus, ii.
Labe (2 syl.), the sorceress-queen of the Island of Enchantments. She tried to change Beder, the young king of Persia, into a halting, one-eyed hack; but Beder was forewarned, and changed Labê herself into a mare.—Arabian Nights (“Beder and Giauharê”).
Labe´rius, a Roman writer of mimes contemporary with Julius Cæsar.
Laberius would be always sure of more followers than Sophoclês.—J. Macpherson, Dissertation on Ossian.
La Creevy (Miss), a little talkative, bustling, cheery miniature-painter. Simple-minded, kind-hearted, and bright as a lark. She marries Tim Linkinwater, the old clerk of the brothers Cheeryble.—C. Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby[Nickleby] (1838).
Lackitt (Widow), the widow of an Indian planter. This rich, vulgar widow falls in love with Charlotte Weldon, who assumes the dress of a young man, and calls herself Mr. Welden. Charlotte even marries the widow, but then informs her that she is a girl in male apparel, engaged to Mr. Stanmore. The widow consoles herself by marrying Jack Stanmore.—Thomas Southern, Oroonoko (1696).