Liassic
(Li*as"sic) a. (Geol.) Of the age of the Lias; pertaining to the Lias formation. — n. Same as
Lias.
Lib
(Lib) v. t. [Cf. Glib to geld.] To castrate. [Obs.]
Libament
(Lib"a*ment) n. [L. libamentum.] Libation. [Obs.] Holland.
Libant
(Li"bant) a. [L. libans, p. pr. of libare to taste, touch.] Sipping; touching lightly. [R.] Landor.
Libation
(Li*ba"tion) n. [L. libatio, fr. libare to take a little from anything, to taste, to pour out as an
offering: cf. F. libation.] 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. Pertaining to libation.
Libbard
(Lib"bard) n. [See Leopard.] A leopard. [Obs. or Poetic] Spenser. Keats.
Libbard's bane
(Lib"bard's bane`) Leopard's bane. [Obs.]
Libel
(Li"bel) n. [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 2. Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.
3. (Law) A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other
signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is indictable at
common law.
The term, in a more extended sense, includes the publication of such writings, pictures, and the like,
as are of a blasphemous, treasonable, seditious, or obscene character. These also are indictable at
common law.
4. (Law) The crime of issuing a malicious defamatory publication.
5. (Civil Law & Courts of Admiralty) A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of his cause of
action, and of the relief he seeks.
Libel
(Li"bel), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Libeled (-beld) or Libelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Libeling or Libelling.]
1. To defame, or expose to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, by a writing, picture, sign, etc.; to lampoon.
Some wicked wits have libeled all the fair.
Pope. 2. (Law) To proceed against by filing a libel, particularly against a ship or goods.
Libel
(Li"bel) v. i. To spread defamation, written or printed; — with against. [Obs.]
What's this but libeling against the senate?
Shak.
[He] libels now 'gainst each great man.
Donne.
