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▪ I. lab, n.1 Obs. or dial.|læb|
Also 4–5 labbe, 8 labb.
[Belongs to lab v.]
A blab, tell-tale.
c1386Chaucer Miller's T. 323, I nam no labbe Ne though I seye I am not lief to gabbe. c1422Hoccleve Jereslaus's Wife 542, I neuere was yit of my tonge a labbe. c1440Promp. Parv. 282/2 Labbe, or he that can kepe no counsel, anubicus. 1746Exmoor Scolding (E.D.S.) 25 Ees dedent thenk tha had'st a be zich a Labb o' tha Tongue. 1847Halliwell, Lab, a tittle-tattle; a blab. Also called a lab-o-the-tongue. West.
▪ II. lab, n.2 colloq.|læb|
[Shortened from laboratory.]
A laboratory. Also attrib. and Comb., as lab assistant, lab boy, lab coat, etc.
1895W. C. Gore in Inlander Nov. 64 Lab, laboratory. 1900Captain III. 312/1 Permission to footle in the lab. on half-holidays. 1912Chums 5 Oct. 69/3 They walked along the corridor towards the chemistry lab. 1918P. Maubyn Wartime Ballad 26 Be sure they say the lab's the place For bold experiment. 1937Auden & Macneice Lett. from Iceland v. 57 A Prince must be anonymous, observant, A kind of lab-boy, or a civil servant. 1949R. Chandler Let. 10 Apr. in R. Chandler Speaking (1966) 206 There might be excellent reasons for picking up a letter with a handkerchief:..to avoid putting more prints on it and thus making more work for the lab men. 1951‘J. Wyndham’ Day of Triffids ii. 50 He..lacked the qualifications for lab work. 1955Times 26 July 10/5 Everyone who did even elementary ‘stinks’ at school remembers the name of Bunsen and his burner—even if nothing else remains in memory from those hours in the ‘labs’. 1957E. Hyams Into Dream 114 In no time at all he'd be furnace-man, lab-boy. 1961A. Wilson Old Men at Zoo ii. 87, I must also give preliminary seeding out interviews for Beard's four new lab assistants. 1962L. Deighton Ipcress File xviii. 108 Practically all the little countries have got their labs working on this. 1962‘E. McBain’ Like Love (1964) xvi. 214 We just got a lab report... I'm talking about your fingerprints on the glass. 1964R. Petrie Murder by Precedent iii. 63 Pollard, covered by a white lab coat. 1967‘E. Peters’ Black is Colour v. 92, I hope to have some specimens for the lab. boys. 1972Listener 6 Apr. 467/1 An honest lab assistant loses his job for refusing to work on a poison gas project. 1972Lebende Sprachen XVII. 72/2 Every hospital approved by the American College of Surgeons has all tissues lab-examined right after their surgical removal.
▪ III. † lab, v. Obs.|læb|
[? Onomatopœic; cf. Du. labben = klappen ‘garrire, blaterare, fabulari’ (Kilian).]
trans. and intr. To blab. Hence ˈlabbing ppl. a.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xi. 102 No þinge þat is pryue publice þow it neuere, Neyther for loue laude [MS. B. lab] it nouȝt ne lakke it for enuye. 1393Ibid. C. xiii. 39 Noþer for loue labbe hit out ne lacke hit for non enuye. c1386Chaucer Epil. Merch. T. 10 Of hir tonge a labbyng shrewe is she. c1475Partenay 3751 By your labbyng tonges iongling. |