Defn: The act of pouring a liquid or liquor, usually wine, either on the ground or on a victim in sacrifice, in honor of some deity; also, the wine or liquid thus poured out. Dryden. A heathen sacrifice or libation to the earth. Bacon.
LIBATORY
Li"ba*to*ry, a.
Defn: Pertaining to libation.
LIBBARD
Lib"bard, n. Etym: [See Leopard.]
Defn: A leopard. [Obs. or Poetic] Spenser. Keats.
LIBBARD'S BANE
Lib"bard's bane`
Defn: . Leopard's bane. [Obs.]
LIBEL Li"bel, n. Etym: [L. libellus a little book, pamphlet, libel, lampoon, dim. of liber the liber or inner bark of a tree; also (because the ancients wrote on this bark), paper, parchment, or a roll of any material used to write upon, and hence, a book or treatise: cf. F. libelle.]
1. A brief writing of any kind, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc. [Obs.] Chaucer. A libel of forsaking [divorcement]. Wyclif (Matt. v. 31).
2. Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.