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Labrador|ˌlæbrəˈdɔː(r)|
the name of a large peninsula in Eastern Canada, used attrib. in the following specific collocations: Labrador blue, the tint of blue reflected from labradorite; Labrador (dog, retriever), a medium-sized, black or yellow, short-coated retriever belonging to a breed originally developed in Newfoundland and Labrador; Labrador duck, a sea-duck of the north-east coast of North America, Camptolæmus labradorius; Labrador falcon, a very dark variety of gerfalcon found in Labrador, Falco labradorius; Labrador feldspar, spar, stone (also simply labrador) = labradorite; Labrador hornblende = enstatite (so called because it comes from Labrador and resembles hornblende); Labrador pine, the grey or jack pine, Pinus banksiana, native to the northern parts of North America; Labrador tea, either of the two shrubs of the genus Ledum (family Ericaceæ) of North America, viz. L. latifolium and L. palustre, which have evergreen leathery leaves that have been used for tea.
1881A. Leslie Nordenskiöld's Voy. Vega II. xi. 55 If..one walks along the beach on the snow which at ebb is dry..there rises at every step one takes an exceedingly intense, beautiful, bluish-white flash of light, which in the spectroscope gives a one-coloured *labrador-blue spectrum.
[1829G. Head Forest Scenes 41 The dog was of the Labrador breed, extremely powerful, and of enormous stature.] 1842R. H. Bonnycastle Newfoundland in 1842 II. ix. 24 They [sc. water-dogs] are of two kinds; the short, wiry-haired *Labrador dog, and the long, curly-haired Newfoundland species. 1921Blackw. Mag. Dec. 794/1 All the guns had dogs—beautifully trained Labradors. 1963A. Smith Throw out Two Hands xix. 195 John arrived..with a remarkable collection of people, plus a black labrador who loathed nettles, and a rifle. 1973Country Life 8 Feb. 325/1, I have just chosen a new labrador puppy.
1884–5Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) IV. 151 The *Labrador duck is now extinct, or at least very nearly so.
1794Kirwan Min. I. 324 *Labradore Felspar of Werner. 1807Aikin Dict. I. 428 Labradore Felspar..is smoak-grey.
1794Kirwan Min. I. 221 *Labradore Hornblende. 1819Bakewell Min. 315 Hypensthene, Labrador Hornblende.
1803A. B. Lambert Descr. Genus Pinus I. 7 *Labradore Pine... Habitat in Americâ Septentrionali. 1921H. Kephart Camping & Woodcraft (new ed.) I. 239 The gray (Labrador) pine or jack pine is considered good fuel in the far North.
1910Kennel Encycl. III. iii. 1099 *Labrador Retrievers..were originally imported from Labrador. 1971C. Fick Danziger Transcript (1973) 155 Finding out..whether he liked Brahms, silk pajamas, Labrador retrievers and such.
1799W. Tooke View of Russ. Emp. I. 121 If we except..window-mica, and a little *labrador spar.
1778Woulfe in Phil. Trans. LXIX. 23 The *Labradore stone is also a Feld spar. 1794Kirwan Min. I. 324, I conclude Labradore to be specifically different from common felspars. 1834Allan Min. 134 A grey felspar totally distinct from the species Labrador.
1784M. Cutler in Life, Jrnls. & Corr. (1888) I. 103 Large beds of what is called the *Labrador tea, of a very aromatic taste and smell. 1882Garden 29 Apr. 286/2 Labrador Tea..is really a good and distinct hardy bush.
Add: Labrador current Geogr., a cold surface current running south between Greenland and Baffin Island and continuing along the Newfoundland coast until it meets the warm Gulf Stream.
1837W. C. Redfield in E. M. Blunt Amer. Coast Pilot (ed. 13) 666, The current in question is neither more nor less than a direct continuation of the polar or *Labrador current, which bears southward the great stream of drift ice from Davis' Strait. 1910Encycl. Brit. II. 857/1 At this point the Gulf Stream water mixes with that from the Labrador current..and a drift current eastwards is set up. 1965F. Russell Secret Islands (1966) vii. 116, I imagined the island..naked as a statue against the silent hiss of mist coming out of the Labrador Current. 1984A. C. & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans iv. 140 When the warm, moist air over the Gulf Stream flows over the cold water of the Labrador Current, the famous fogs of the Grand Banks result. |