LABEL

Definitions

1. 1. A tassel. [Obs.] Huloet. Fuller.
2. 2. A slip of silk, paper, parchment, etc., affixed to anything, usually by an inscription, the contents, ownership, destination, etc.; as, the label of a bottle or a package.
3. 3. A slip of ribbon, parchment, etc., attached to a document to hold the appended seal; also, the seal.
4. 4. A writing annexed by way of addition, as a codicil added to a will.
5. 5. A barrulet, or, rarely, a bendlet, with pendants, or points, usually three, especially used as a mark of cadency to distinguish an eldest or only son while his father is still living.
6. 6. A brass rule with sights, formerly used, in connection with a circumferentor, to take altitudes. Knight.
7. 7. The name now generally given to the projecting molding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediæval architecture. It always has a Arch. Pub. Soc.
8. 8. In mediæval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription. Fairholt.