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Labinsk (Russia)
city and administrative centre of Labinsk rayon (sector), Krasnodar kray (region), western Russia. Labinsk lies along the Laba River where it flows into a plain. Founded in 1840 as a fortress, it was known as Labinskaya Stanitsa (stanitsa meaning “Cossack village”) until 1947, when it became a town. An agricultural centre, it has canning factories and timber mil...
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Labinskaya Stanitsa (Russia)
city and administrative centre of Labinsk rayon (sector), Krasnodar kray (region), western Russia. Labinsk lies along the Laba River where it flows into a plain. Founded in 1840 as a fortress, it was known as Labinskaya Stanitsa (stanitsa meaning “Cossack village”) until 1947, when it became a town. An agricultural centre, it has canning factories and timber mil...
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labiovelar stop (linguistics)
The development of the Indo-European labiovelar stop kw is more complex. (A labiovelar stop is a sound pronounced with simultaneous articulation—movement—of the lips and the velum, the soft palate.) From this sound there has resulted a qu in Latin, p in Osco-Umbrian and South Picene, c in Irish, and p in Brythonic Celtic;......
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labium (biology)
...maxillae, each consisting of a bladelike lacinia, a hoodlike galea, and a segmented palp bearing sense organ. The paired second maxillae are partly fused in the midline to form the lower lip, or labium. Sometimes a median tonguelike structure, called the hypopharynx, arises from the floor of the mouth....
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Lablache, Luigi (Italian singer)
Italian operatic bass admired for his musicianship and acting....
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Labonne, Eirik (French general)
...Nazis. This caused rioting in Fès and elsewhere in which some 30 or more demonstrators were killed. As a result, the sultan, who in 1947 persuaded a new and reform-minded resident general, Eirik Labonne, to ask the French government to grant him permission to make an official state visit to Tangier, passing through the Spanish Zone on the way. The journey became a triumphal procession......
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labor (childbirth)
in human physiology, the physical activity experienced by the mother during parturition, or childbirth....
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labor (economics)
in economics, the general body of wage earners. It is in this sense, for example, that one speaks of “organized labour.” In a more special and technical sense, however, labour means any valuable service rendered by a human agent in the production of wealth, other than accumulating and providing capital or assuming the risks that are a normal part of business undertakings. It includes...
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Labor, American Federation of (labour organization)
American federation of autonomous labour unions formed in 1955 by the merger of the AFL (founded 1886), which originally organized workers in craft unions, and the CIO (founded 1935), which organized workers by industries....
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Labor and Aid Society (American organization)
...Women’s Prison Association, of which she became president, and with the Hopper Home, and over the next several years she often lobbied the state legislature for financial support. She founded the Labor and Aid Society to help veterans find work and to provide relief to war widows and orphans. In 1873 she helped found the New York Diet Kitchen Association, which, upon a physician’s...
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Labor Day (holiday, United States)
in the United States and Canada, holiday (first Monday in September) honouring workers and recognizing their contributions to society. In many other countries May Day serves a similar purpose....
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Labor, Department of (United States government)
in the United States and Canada, holiday (first Monday in September) honouring workers and recognizing their contributions to society. In many other countries May Day serves a similar purpose.......
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Labor Party (political party, Australia)
one of the major Australian political parties. The first significant political representation of labour was achieved during the 1890s; in 1891, for example, candidates endorsed by the Sydney Trades and Labor Council gained 86 out of 141 seats in the New South Wales legislature. The entry of labour into national politics came with the first federal elections in 1901, when labour candidates associat...
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Labor Statistics, Bureau of (United States government)
According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 1989 the typical household spent $27,810. Housing accounted for $8,609; transportation (mainly automobiles) accounted for $5,187; and food accounted for $4,152. Looking at the age of consumers, those under 25 spent the highest proportion of their income, after housing, on transportation; presumably much of this went for automobiles......
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Labor Union Women, Coalition of (American organization)
organization of women trade unionists representing more than 60 American and international labour unions. ...
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Labor–Management Relations Act (United States [1947])
(1947), in U.S. history, law—enacted over the veto of Pres. Harry S. Truman—amending much of the pro-union Wagner Act of 1935. A variety of factors, including the fear of Communist infiltration of labour unions, the tremendous growth in both membership and power of unions, and a series of large-scale strikes, contributed to an anti-union climate in the United States after World War I...
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Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (United States history)
a legislative response to widespread publicity about corruption and autocratic methods in certain American labour unions during the 1950s. Even though the AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations) expelled three of the worst offenders (the Teamsters, the Bakery and Confectionery Workers, and the Laundry Workers Union), President Dwight D....
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laboratory (science)
A summary, though not comprehensive, of the common laboratory measurements that can be performed to supplement information obtained by another analytical procedure is provided in this section. Many of the methods can be used in the field or in process control apparatus as well as in the laboratory....
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laboratory diagnosis
Laboratory tests can be valuable aids in making a diagnosis, but, as screening tools for detecting hidden disease in asymptomatic individuals, their usefulness is limited. The value of a test as a diagnostic aid depends on its sensitivity and specificity. Sensitivity is the measure of the percentage of individuals with the disease who have a positive test result (i.e., people with the......
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Laboratory Schools (school, Chicago, Illinois, United States)
a pioneer school in the progressive education movement in the United States. The original University Elementary School was founded in Chicago in 1896 by American educator John Dewey as a research and demonstration centre for the Department of Pedagogy at the University of Chicago. The school was designed to exhibit, test, and conduct research in educational me...
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Laboratory Schools of the University of Chicago (school, Chicago, Illinois, United States)
a pioneer school in the progressive education movement in the United States. The original University Elementary School was founded in Chicago in 1896 by American educator John Dewey as a research and demonstration centre for the Department of Pedagogy at the University of Chicago. The school was designed to exhibit, test, and conduct research in educational me...
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Laboratory Schools of the University of Iowa (schools, Iowa City, Iowa, United States)
elementary and secondary schools founded in Iowa City in 1916 to experiment with curriculum development and to serve as model schools for Iowa. Over the next several decades the schools exercised national and international influence through their pioneer studies in educational testing. The Iowa Tests of Basic Skills and the Iowa Tests of Educational Development, originating in the laboratory scho...
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Labori, Fernand-Gustave-Gaston (French lawyer)
French lawyer who served as defense counsel in the prosecution of Alfred Dreyfus for treason....
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Laborio, Pedro (sculptor)
...sculpture. In Santafé de Bogotá, which in 1717 became the capital of an independent Viceroyalty of New Granada, polychrome wooden sculpture was executed by its most dynamic creator, Pedro Laborio. The dramatic sway he gave his figures makes them appear to be in a dance; in St. Joseph and the Child Virgin Mary (1746), for example, he depicted a......
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Laborit, Henri Marie (French neurologist)
French neurologist and discoverer of some of the earliest known tranquilizing drugs, including chlorpromazine (b. Nov. 21, 1914--d. May 18, 1995)....
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Labouchere, Henry Du Pré (British journalist)
British politician, publicist, and noted wit who gained journalistic fame with his dispatches from Paris (for the Daily News, London, of which he was part owner) while the city was under siege during the Franco-German War (1870–71). The dispatches, which he sent via balloon to Henrietta Hodson, an actress whom he later married, were widely read and later publis...
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Laboulaye, Edouard de (French historian)
A French historian, Edouard de Laboulaye, made the proposal for the statue. Funds were contributed by the French people, and work began in France in 1875 under sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi. The statue was constructed of copper sheets, hammered into shape by hand and assembled over a framework of four gigantic steel supports, designed by......
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Laboulbeniales (fungal order)
an order of fungi in the class Laboulbeniomycetes (phylum Ascomycota, kingdom Fungi) that includes more than 1,800 species, which live off the chitin (exoskeleton) of arachnids (e.g., spiders) and insects. The minute species are highly specialized, some attacking only specific areas on one sex of the host species. Asexual reproduction does not occur....
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Laboulbeniomycetes (class of fungi)
...in subclass Mycocaliciomycetidae; examples of genera include Mycocalicium, Chaenothecopsis, Stenocybe, and Sphinctrina.Class LaboulbeniomycetesPrimarily parasitic on insects; contains two orders.Order LaboulbenialesParasitic on...
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labour (childbirth)
in human physiology, the physical activity experienced by the mother during parturition, or childbirth....
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labour (economics)
in economics, the general body of wage earners. It is in this sense, for example, that one speaks of “organized labour.” In a more special and technical sense, however, labour means any valuable service rendered by a human agent in the production of wealth, other than accumulating and providing capital or assuming the risks that are a normal part of business undertakings. It includes...
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Labour and Socialist International
organization in existence from 1923 until the advent of World War II that defined itself in its constitution as “a union of such parties as accept the principles of the economic emancipation of the workers from capitalist domination and the establishment of the Socialist Commonwealth as their object.”...
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Labour and the New Social Order (British Labour Party policy statement)
...and through his constant supply of disinterested advice, Sidney became a member of the executive committee and drafted the party’s first and, for a long time, its most important policy statement, Labour and the New Social Order (1918). Shortly afterward he consolidated his position by serving as one of the experts chosen by the Miners’ Federation to sit on the Sankey Commis...
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labour arbitration (negotiation)
Another way of regulating rates of pay is a by-product of arbitration systems set up originally as a means of avoiding strikes and lockouts. In Australia it has become the practice, accepted by both employers and trade unions, to have the main proportions of the wage structure and the movements of the general level of wages determined by the awards of arbitrators to whom these issues are......
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Labour Code (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
Soviet law recognized three distinct categories of employees: workers for state enterprises, employees of collective farms, and inmates in labour camps. Under the Labour Codes, employees at state enterprises enjoyed protection against arbitrary discipline or discharge. Except during and immediately after World War II, state-enterprise employees also had the right to change jobs. Restrictions on......
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Labour Code (Honduras [1954])
...economic policies since the mid-20th century. In 1954 striking banana workers led the trade union movement to one of its most resounding triumphs, which resulted in the promulgation (in 1955) of a labour code that is considered one of the most complete instruments of its kind in Latin America. The code has generally resulted in a higher standard of living for the worker and better operating......
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Labour Code for Overseas Territories (France [1952])
...of many states that were formerly British dependencies and remains in force subject to modifications made since independence. Much of the French Labour Code became applicable through the 1952 Labour Code for Overseas Territories to the states that were formerly French dependencies and remains the basis of their labour law. The U.S. legislation of the period from the 1930s onward has been......
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labour combination (labour organization)
...the one form of organization and the emergence of the other. Examples of the trade-union form of organization are hard to trace before the late 17th century; but during the following hundred years, combinations, as they were known to contemporaries, became widespread, emerging among groups of handicraft workers such as tailors, carpenters, and printers. Their emergence at this period was a......
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labour, contract (industrial relations)
the labour of workers whose freedom is restricted by the terms of a contractual relation and by laws that make such arrangements permissible and enforceable. The essence of the contract labourer’s obligation is his surrender for a specified period of the freedom to quit his work and his employer. Other stipulations cover such matters as repayment of the costs of transport...
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Labour Court (court, Ireland)
...Wages and employment conditions are normally subject to free collective bargaining, though industrial disputes may be referred to the Labour Relations Commission (created in 1990) or to the Labour Court (set up in 1946). In the late 1980s, when the economy faced serious problems, the government, employers, and unions agreed on a recovery program. Similar partnerships were adopted in the......
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labour, division of
the separation of a work process into a number of tasks, with each task performed by a separate person or group of persons. It is most often applied to systems of mass production and is one of the basic organizing principles of the assembly line. Breaking down work into simple, repetitive tasks eliminates unnecessary motion and limits the handling of different...
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labour economics
study of the labour force as an element in the process of production. The labour force comprises all those who work for gain, whether as employees, employers, or as self-employed, and it includes the unemployed who are seeking work. Labour economics involves the study of the factors affecting the efficiency of these workers, their deployment between different industries and occu...
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labour force (economics)
in economics, the general body of wage earners. It is in this sense, for example, that one speaks of “organized labour.” In a more special and technical sense, however, labour means any valuable service rendered by a human agent in the production of wealth, other than accumulating and providing capital or assuming the risks that are a normal part of business undertakings. It includes...
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Labour Group (Russian political group)
...strata that wished to go beyond the October Manifesto to a full constitutional monarchy on the British model and to grant autonomy to the non-Russian nationalities. The next largest caucus, the Labour Group (Trudoviki), included a large number of peasants and some socialists who had ignored their comrades’ boycott. The two parties demanded amnesty for political prisoners, equal rights fo...
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labour, hours of
the proportion of a person’s time spent at work. Hours of labour have declined significantly since the middle of the 19th century, with workers in advanced industrial countries spending far fewer hours per year in a given place of work than they did formerly....
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labour law
the varied body of law applied to such matters as employment, remuneration, conditions of work, trade unions, and industrial relations. In its most comprehensive sense the term includes social security and disability insurance as well. Unlike the laws of contract, tort, or property, the elements of labour law are somewhat less homogeneous than the rules governing a particular legal relationship. I...
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Labour, Liberation of (Russian Marxist organization)
first Russian Marxist organization, founded in September 1883 in Geneva, by Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov and Pavel Axelrod. Convinced that social revolution could be accomplished only by class-conscious industrial workers, the group’s founders broke with the Narodnaya Volya and devoted themselves to translating works by Marx and Engels and to writing their own works emp...
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labour market (economics)
in economics, the general body of wage earners. It is in this sense, for example, that one speaks of “organized labour.” In a more special and technical sense, however, labour means any valuable service rendered by a human agent in the production of wealth, other than accumulating and providing capital or assuming the risks that are a normal part of business undertakings. It includes...
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labour movement (sociology)
organization of women trade unionists representing more than 60 American and international labour unions. ...
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labour, organized
association and activities of workers in a trade or industry for the purpose of obtaining or assuring improvements in working conditions through their collective action....
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labour pain (childbirth)
Early in labour, uterine contractions, or labour pains, occur at intervals of 20 to 30 minutes and last about 40 seconds. They are then accompanied by slight pain, which usually is felt in the small of the back....
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Labour Party (political party, New Zealand)
political party established in 1916 in a merger of various socialist and trade-union groups, including the Unified Labour Party (founded in 1910) and the Social Democratic Party (founded in 1913). It has traditionally been strongest among trade unionists and low-income voters....
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Labour Party (political party, South Africa)
...and separate school systems for Afrikaans- and English-speaking whites. The June 1924 election propelled Hertzog to the position of prime minister through a coalition between the National and Labour parties known as the Pact government....
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Labour Party (political party, United Kingdom)
British political party whose historic links with trade unions have led it to promote an active role for the state in the creation of economic prosperity and in the provision of social services. In opposition to the Conservative Party, it has been the major democratic socialist party in Britain since the early 20th century....
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Labour Party (political party, Australia)
one of the major Australian political parties. The first significant political representation of labour was achieved during the 1890s; in 1891, for example, candidates endorsed by the Sydney Trades and Labor Council gained 86 out of 141 seats in the New South Wales legislature. The entry of labour into national politics came with the first federal elections in 1901, when labour candidates associat...
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Labour Party (political party, Israel)
Israeli social-democratic political party founded in January 1968 in the union of three socialist-labour parties. It and its major component, Mapai, dominated Israel’s government from the country’s independence in 1948 until 1977, when the rival Likud coalition first came to power. Thereafter, Labour and Likud alternated in government, though the...
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Labour Party (political party, Ireland)
main party of the left in the Republic of Ireland....
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Labour Party (political party, Argentina)
Perón campaigned for the presidency in the elections of 1946. He organized the Labour Party, which was resisted by all the old parties and by the major vested-interest groups. His victory, though narrow, gave him control of both houses of Congress and all the provincial governorships. Perón’s political strategy and tactics were authoritarian and personalistic. He politically.....
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Labour Party (political party, Fiji)
In 1987, however, the Indian-dominated National Federation Party joined in coalition with the new Labour Party (led by a Fijian, Timoci Bavadra), which had strong support from Fijian and Indian trade unionists. The coalition was successful in elections held in April. The new government, which had a majority of Indian members in the legislature, was greeted with widespread Fijian protest. After......
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Labour, Party of (political party, The Netherlands)
...1990s were always dependent on the Christian Democrat parties of the centre. The first postwar governments were dominated by an alliance of the Labour and Catholic parties, which continued until the Labour Party went into opposition in 1958. Thereafter, with the exception of 1973–77, when the country had a left-led government, and 1981–82 and 1989–91, when it was ruled by a...
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labour productivity (economics)
in economics, the ratio of what is produced to what is required to produce it. Usually this ratio is in the form of an average, expressing the total output of some category of goods divided by the total input of, say, labour or raw materials. ...
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labour relations
the behaviour of workers in organizations in which they earn their living....
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Labour Representation Committee (political party, United Kingdom)
British political party whose historic links with trade unions have led it to promote an active role for the state in the creation of economic prosperity and in the provision of social services. In opposition to the Conservative Party, it has been the major democratic socialist party in Britain since the early 20th century....
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labour theory of value (economics)
...trade to the differences among countries in the relative opportunity costs (costs in terms of other goods given up) of producing the same commodities. In Ricardo’s theory, which was based on the labour theory of value (in effect, making labour the only factor of production), the fact that one country could produce everything more efficiently than another was not an argument against......
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labour union
association and activities of workers in a trade or industry for the purpose of obtaining or assuring improvements in working conditions through their collective action....
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labour-cost model (international trade)
...two countries and only two commodities were involved, although the principles are by no means limited to such cases. Again for clarity, the cost of production is usually measured only in terms of labour time and effort; the cost of a unit of cloth, for example, might be given as two hours of work. The two countries will be called A and B; and the two commodities produced, wine and cloth. The......
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labour-market policy (economics)
...to other kinds of work and, often, other places. Though part of this adaptation has been unplanned and undirected, a number of governments have undertaken to foster the process of adaptation by a labour-market policy. One means of applying this policy is the provision of information to job seekers as to vacancies immediately available, and to workers at large as to the prospects and......
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Labourers, Statute of (English history)
...or France. Fresh visitations of the Black Death in England in 1361 and 1369 intensified social and economic disturbances, and desperate but not very successful efforts were made to enforce the Statute of Labourers (1351), which was intended to maintain prices and wages as they had been before the pestilence. Other famous laws enacted during the 1350s had been the Statutes of Provisors......
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Labours of the Months (work by Bruegel)
...reduced the number of figures drastically, the few being larger and placed closely together in a very narrow space. In 1565, however, he turned again to landscape with the celebrated series known as “Labours of the Months.” In the five of these that have survived, he subordinated the figures to the great lines of the landscape. Later on, crowds appear again, disposed in densely......
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Labov, William (American linguist)
...Applying the statistical methods of modern sociology, linguists have worked out investigative procedures sharply different from those of traditional dialectology. The chief contributor has been William Labov, the pioneer of social dialectology in the U.S. The basic task is to determine the correlation between a group of linguistic variables—such as the different ways of pronouncing a......
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Labqi (ancient city, Libya)
largest city of the ancient region of Tripolitania. It is located 62 miles (100 km) southeast of Tripoli on the Mediterranean coast of Libya. Lying 2 miles (3 km) east of what is now Al-Khums (Homs), Leptis contains some of the world’s finest remains of Roman architecture. It was designated a UNES...
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Labrador (region, Newfoundland, Canada)
northeastern portion of the Canadian mainland. Together with the island of Newfoundland, it constitutes the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Labrador has an area of approximately 113,641 square miles (294,330 square km). It is bounded by the Hudson Strait (north), the Labrador Sea (east), the Gulf of St. Lawrence (south), and the province of Quebec (west)....
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Labrador City (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
town, southwestern Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, near the Quebec border. It was developed in the 1950s as a planned community to serve the surrounding mining region (Carol Lake), one of Canada’s largest producers of iron-ore concentrates and pellets. The community has an airport and rail connections with Schefferville, Que. (124 miles [20...
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Labrador Current (current, Labrador Sea, North America)
surface oceanic current flowing southward along the west side of the Labrador Sea. Originating at the Davis Strait, the Labrador Current is a combination of the West Greenland Current, the Baffin Island Current, and inflow from Hudson Bay. The current is cold and has a low salinity; it maintains temperatures of less than 32° F (0° C) and salinit...
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Labrador Eskimo (people)
...Bible was available in 1862, the work of W. Mason, also a Wesleyan missionary. The New Testament appeared in Ojibwa in 1833, and the whole Bible was translated for the Dakota Indians in 1879. The Labrador Eskimos had a New Testament in 1826 and a complete Bible in 1871....
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Labrador Highlands (mountains, Canada)
...In the north the rim is about 7,000 feet (2,000 metres) above sea level, and fjords with walls from 2,000 to 3,000 feet (600 to 900 metres) high extend many miles into the mountain masses. The Labrador Highlands, including the Torngat, Kaumajet, and Kiglapait mountains, lie south of Hudson Strait. Along the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, the shield rim is a 2,000-foot......
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Labrador retriever (breed of dog)
breed of sporting dog that originated in Newfoundland and was brought to England by fishermen about 1800. It is an outstanding gun dog, consistently dominating field trials. Standing 21.5 to 24.5 inches (55 to 62 cm) and weighing 55 to 80 pounds (25 to 36 kg), it is more solidly built than other retrievers and has shorter legs. Distinctive features include its otterlike tail, th...
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Labrador Sea (sea, North America)
northwestern arm of the North Atlantic Ocean, between Labrador, Canada (southwest), and Greenland (northeast). It is connected with Baffin Bay (north) through Davis Strait and with Hudson Bay (west) through Hudson Strait. The cold, low-salinity Labrador Current flows southward along the Canadian coast, while the warmer and more saline West Greenland Current mo...
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Labrador tea (plant)
common name for two species of low-growing, perennial evergreen shrubs in the Rhododendron genus of the heath family (Ericaceae). R. tomentosum is circumpolar and also native to eastern North America. The name is also sometimes applied to a closely related shrub of the Rocky Mountains region. The plants used to be in the now eliminated genus Ledum, which differed from Rhododendron...
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Labrador Trough (geological region, Canada)
Lake Superior-type BIFs are known and mined on all continents. Among the most famous are the Lake Superior deposits of Michigan and Minnesota, the Labrador Trough deposits of Canada, Serra dos Carajas in Brazil, the Transvaal Basin deposits of South Africa, and the Hamersley Basin of Australia....
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labradorite (mineral)
a feldspar mineral in the plagioclase series that is often valued as a gemstone and as ornamental material for its red, blue, or green iridescence. The mineral is usually gray or brown to black and need not be iridescent; when used as a gem it is usually cut en cabochon (with a rounded convex surface). Labradorite is one of the more common plagioclase varieties and occurs in ma...
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Labranda (ancient city, Greece)
...with palace and harbour built on monarchical lines that surely owed some inspiration to Dionysius of Sicily. The importance of other sites associated with the Hecatomnid dynasty, above all that of Labranda in the hills not far from the family seat of Mylasa, would not have been guessed from the literary sources....
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labret (ornament)
objects, usually ring-shaped, inserted into the lips to alter their shape, used as decoration by certain primitive peoples. The lip plug is also known as a labret....
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Labridae (fish)
any of nearly 500 species of marine fishes of the family Labridae (order Perciformes). Wrasses range from about 5 centimetres (2 inches) to 2 metres (6.5 feet) or more in length. Most species are elongated and relatively slender. Characteristic features of the wrasses include thick lips, smooth scales, long dorsal and anal fins, and large, often protruding canine teeth in the front of the jaw....
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Labriola, Antonio (Italian philosopher)
philosopher who systematized the study of Marxist socialism in Italy. The first in his nation to expound orthodox Marxism, he profoundly influenced contemporaries of diverse political persuasions....
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Labrit (France)
...celebrated in French history. The lords (sires) of Albret included warriors, cardinals, and kings of Navarre, reaching the height of their power in the 14th to 16th century. Their name derives from Labrit, a small village on the road from Bordeaux to Dax and Bayonne. The family gradually acquired more land through marriages and grants....
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Labroidea (fish family)
Mutual relationships among species are found in many perciform fishes. The cleaner fishes of the wrasse genus Labroides (Labridae) are well-known for their role in the removal of parasites from larger carnivorous fishes. The larger fishes recognize the cleaner fish and will not devour it. They allow free passage into their cavernous mouths and gill chambers, in which the cleaner......
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Labrouste, Henri (French architect)
French architect important for his early use of iron frame construction....
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Labrouste, Théodore (French architect)
...his Louisiana childhood, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1860 to 1862, when the Civil War at home cut off his income. He then worked in the office of the French architect Théodore Labrouste until he returned to the United States in October 1865. In Paris he mastered the analytical architectural planning that characterizes much of his mature work and that was.....
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Labrunie, Gérard (French poet)
French Romantic poet whose themes and preoccupations were to greatly influence the Symbolists and Surrealists....
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Labrus ossiphagus (fish)
...a western Atlantic food species growing to a weight of about 7 kilograms (15 pounds); the moon wrasse (Thalassoma lunare), an Indo-Pacific species, green, red, and purplish in colour; the cuckoo wrasse (Labrus ossiphagus), an eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean species that is blue and orange if male, orange or reddish if female; and the tautog, or blackfish, a common western......
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Labuan (island, Malaysia)
island, East Malaysia, 6 miles (10 km) off northwestern Borneo in the South China Sea. Commanding the entrance to Brunei Bay, it is roughly triangular. Its chief town, Victoria, on the southeastern coast, is a free port whose deep, well-sheltered harbour is the principal transshipment point for the state of Brunei, northern Sarawak, and much of western Sabah. Low-lying and well-cultivated, the isl...
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Labuan (Malaysia)
island, East Malaysia, 6 miles (10 km) off northwestern Borneo in the South China Sea. Commanding the entrance to Brunei Bay, it is roughly triangular. Its chief town, Victoria, on the southeastern coast, is a free port whose deep, well-sheltered harbour is the principal transshipment point for the state of Brunei, northern Sarawak, and much of western Sabah. Low-lying and well-cultivated, the......
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laburnum (plant)
any member of the genus (Laburnum) of trees and shrubs having butterfly-like flowers, and belonging to the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family (Fabaceae). The leaves are composed of three leaflets, and the flowers are disposed in hanging clusters (see ). The pods are slender and compressed. Laburnum anagyroides, often called golden chain, is native to sout...
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Laburnum anagyroides (tree)
any of several small trees of the genus Laburnum, of the pea family (Fabaceae), especially L. anagyroides. This species, which is native to southern Europe, is also cultivated in other regions as an ornamental. It grows to approximately 6 m (20 feet) tall and begins to branch at a point quite near the ground. The alternate leaves are compound, bearing three leaflets. The yellow flow...
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Labyrint světa a ráj srdce (work by Komenský)
...Komenský (John Amos Comenius) was preeminent. His Latin works on education and theological problems and his works in Czech revealed him as a writer and thinker of European stature. His Labyrint světa a ráj srdce (1631; “Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of the Heart”) stands as one of Czech literature’s great achievements in prose. By th...
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Labyrinten (work by Baggesen)
...its supposed lack of nationalism), Baggesen traveled through Germany, Switzerland, and France. The journey became the basis of his most important book, the imaginative prose work Labyrinten (1792–93; “The Labyrinth”), a “sentimental journey” reminiscent of the work of the 18th-century English novelist Laurence Sterne. Baggesen was......
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labyrinth (architecture)
system of intricate passageways and blind alleys. “Labyrinth” was the name given by the ancient Greeks and Romans to buildings, entirely or partly subterranean, containing a number of chambers and passages that rendered egress difficult. Later, especially from the European Renaissance onward, the labyrinth or maze occurred in formal gardens, consisting of intricate paths separated by...
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labyrinth (arthropod excretory system)
...itself. When unraveled the tubule is seen to comprise three or four easily recognizable regions. The tubule arises internally as a small sac, the coelomic sac, which opens into a wider region, the labyrinth, having complex infoldings of its walls. The labyrinth opens either directly into the bladder, as in marine lobsters and crabs, or into a narrow part of the tubule, the canal, which in turn....
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labyrinth fish (fish)
any of the small tropical fish of the suborder Anabantoidei (order Perciformes). Labyrinth fishes, like most other fishes, breathe with their gills, but they also possess a supplemental breathing structure, the labyrinth, for which they are named. This apparatus, located in a chamber above the gills, is liberally supplied with blood vessels. It enables the fishes to use oxygen from air gulped in ...
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