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DICTIONARY 

OF THE 

ENGLISH LANGUAGE: 

IN WHICH 

THE WORDS ARE DEDUCED FROM THEIR ORIGINALS, 

AND ILLUSTRATED IN THEIR DIFFERENT SIGNIFICATIONS BY EXAMPLES FROM THE BEST WRITERS. 1 

i 

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, 

A HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE, 

A X D 

AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 

BY SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL. D. 

\ 

IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. 

THE SIXTH EDITION. 



Cum tabulis animum cenforis fumet honefti : 
Audebit quascunque parum fplendoris habebunt, 
Et fine pondere erunt, et honore indigna ferentur, 
Verba movere loco ; quamvis invita recedant, 
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Obfcurata diu populo bonus eruet, atque 
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DICTIONARY 



OF THE 



ENGLISH LANGUAGE, 



LAB 

LA liquid confonant, which pre- 
ferves always the fame found 
in Englifli. In the Saxon it 
^ was afpirated, a Jjlap, loaf; 
Jjlzpbis, lady. 

At the end of a monofyllable it is al- 
ways doubled; as, jball, ft ill, full; 
except after a diphthong; as, fail, feel, 
veal, caul. In a word of more fyllables, 
it is written fmgle ; js, channtl, canal, 
tendril. It is fometimes put before e, 
and founded feebly after it ; as, bible, 
title. 

LA. interjefl. {corrupted by an effeminate 
pronunciation from la; unlefs it be the 
French la.] See; look; behold. 

La you ! if you fpeak ill of the devil, 

How he takes it at heart. Stall. Twelfth Night. 

LA'BDANUM. n.J. A refin, of a ftrong 

not unpleafant ftnell, and an aromatick, 

but not agreeable ufte. This juice 

exndates from a low fpreading fhrub in 

Crete. Hill. 

Tc LA'BEFV. o>. a. [lalefacio, Latin.] To 

weaker ; to impair. Difl. 

LA'BEL. n.J. [labellum, Latin.] 

1. A fmall flip or fcrip of writing. 

When wak'd, I found 
This laid on my bofom ; whofe containing 
I> fo from fer.fe in hardnefs, that 1 can 
Make no collection of it. Sbattff. Cymteliite. 

2. Any thing append ant to a larger writing. 

On the label of lead, the heads of St. Peter and 
St. Paul are imprefled from the papal feal. 

Ayiiffe'i Parergoti. 

3. [In law.] A narrow flip of paper or 
parchment affixed to a deed or writing, 
in order to hold the appending feal. 
So alfo any paper, annexed by way of 
addition or explication to any will or 
telhment, is called a label or codicil. 

Harris. 

Godjoin'd my heart to Romeo's; thou our hands; 
And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo feal'd, 
Shall be the labt! to another deed, 
Or my true heart with treacherous revolt 
Turn to another, thi s flull iby tliembyth. 

VOL. II. 



LAB 

LA'BENT. adj. \labens, Latin.] Sliding; 
gliding ; flipping. Di3. 

LA'BIAL. adj. \labialis, Latin.] Uttered 
by the lips. 

The Hebrews have afligned which letters are 
labial, which dental, and which guttural. 

Bacon's Natural Uijiory. 

Some particular affection f found in its paflage 
to the lips, will teem to make tome competition in 
any vowel which is labial. 

Holder's Elements of Speech. 

LA'BIATED. adj. [labium, Lat.] Formed 
with lips. . 

LABIODENTAL, adj. \lalium and denta- 
lis.~\ Formed or pronounced by the co- 
operation of the lips and teeth. 

The dental confonants are very eafy j and firft 
the labiodentals, f, -v, alfo the linguadentals, t b, 
a h. Udder. 

LABO'RANT. u.f. [labcrans, Latin.] A 
chernilt. Not in ufe. 

I can fliew you a fort of fixt fulphur, made by 
an induftrious laborant. Boyle. 

LA'BORATORY. n.f. [laboratoire, French.] 
A chemift's work-room. 

It would contribute to the hiftory of colours, if 
chemifts would in their laboratory take a heedful 
notice, .and give us a faithful account, of the 
colours obferved in the fteam of bodies, either fub- 
litned or diftilled. Beyle. 

The flames of love will perform thofe miracles 
they of the furnace boaft of, would they employ 
themfelves in tliis labcratc r y. Decay of Piety. 

LABO'RIOUS. adj. [laborieux, French ; 
laboriofut, Latin.] 

1. Diligent in work; aSiduous. 

That which makes the clergy glorious, is to be 
knowing in their profeflions, unfpotted in their 
lives, active and laborious in their charges, bold 
and refolute in oppofing feduccrs, and daring to 
look vice in thevface; and, laftly, to be gentle, 
courteous, and compaflionate to all. South. 

A fpacious cave within its farmoft part, 
Was hew'd and fafhion'd by laborious art, 
Through the hill's hollow fides. DryJcn. 

To his laborious youth confum'd in war, 
And lading age, adorn'd and crown'd with peace. 

Prior. 

2. Requiring labour; tircfome ; not eafy. 



LAB 

Do'ft thou love watchings, abftmence, and toll, 
Laborious virtues all ? learn them from Cats. 



LABORIOUSLY, adv. [from laborious.^ 
With labour ; with toil. 

The folly of him, who pumps Tery laboricujly in 
a ihip, yet neglects to flop the leak. Detay of Piety. 

I chufe laborioujly to bear 

A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air. Pope. 
LABO'RIOUSNESS. n.f. [f torn laborious.] 

1. Toilfomenefs ; difficulty. 

The parallel holds in the gainleflhefs, as well as 
the laborioufnefs of the work ; thofe wretched crea- 
tures, buried in earth and darknefs, were never 
the richer for all the ore they digged ; no more is, 
the infatiate mifer. Decay af Piety. 

2. Diligence; affiduity. 

LA'BOUR. n.f. [labeur, French; labor, 
Latin.] 

1. The aft of doing what requires a pain- 
ful exertion of ftrength, or wearifome 
perfeverance ; pains ; toil ; travail ; 
work. 

If I 6nd her honeft, I lofe not my labour ; if 
(he be otherwife, it is labour well beftowed. Sbatcf, 

I fent to know your faith, left the tempter have 
tempted you, and our labour be in vain. 

1 Tief. iii. 5. 

2. Work to be done. 

Being a labour of fo great difficulty, the exact 
performance thereof we may rather wifh than l-jok 
for. Heoktt . 

If you had been the wife of Hercules, 
Six of his labours you'd have done, and fav'd 
Your hulband fo much fweat. Sbakcf. Corhlarius. 

3. Exercife; motion with fome degree of 
violence. 

Moderate labour of the body conduces to the 
prefervation of health, and curing many initial 
difeafes ; but the toil of the mind deftroys health, 
and generates maladies. Harvey. 

4. Childbirth ; travail. 

Sith of women's labours thou haft charge, 
Anil generation goodly doeft enlarge, 
Incline thy will tu afreet our wifliful vow. Sfanjer. 

Not knowing 'twas my labour, I complain 
Of fudden ihootini/s, and of grinding pain; 
My throws come thicker, and my cries encieas'd, 
Which with her hand the confciousnuifc fupprefb'd. 



Not 



\ B 

Noc act 3cua *f cwo h jr. J.-- . 

HU *.-- 

with - , and ii ... . bed: 

livcred. 

1. To toil ; to aft with paipful crl'jrt. 

Wbn &J- I come T.I t'.r tap cf t'.Jt I'.im* bill 
. . turn ^Inofc h >w wtub^r- 



For your hlfhnefr good 1 ever .'-' 
More than mine own. Sbair,f. lt-r. Vlll 

Who is with ium ? ' 

None but the fool, w'.j ijturt to out-jeft 
. heart-ftrnck injuries. Sbtktjp. K. I. 

Let more r k be laid upon the men, thit tin 
BUT Iftftr therein. Em.1. v. 9 

He/t ft tnu|Td *iih 'h rnem.ii* of her bBF 

- protection, Ural h < foul .* 
cxpfcC.ua I* reicur.: .:. .'. j:- / 

Epaphru faluteth you, always labouring let 
vratly for you in prjycrs, that jc nu) lijixi perfect 

C./. iv. iz 

2. To do work ; to take pains. 

The matter cf the ceremonies hid wrought, "fo 

the moft pirt, only upon light-heUcJ, w<.ak men 

wh< ' was not to be/.jiir ej for. Claren 

A laionriof man that ii given to drunkennefs 

ftill ay. be rich. K:.-hj. <i<. r 

That in the night they may be a guard to us 

and labxir on the day. AV. iv. i: 

A* a maa had a right to alt he could empUy hi: 

labour upon, fo h* had no temptation to Ubmr fen 

taut than he could make ufe of. Ln. k, 

j. To move with difficulty. 

The (tone that Ulr.'> up the hill, 
Mocking the UVrcr's toil, returning itill, 
It love. Crm-iHi 

4. To be difeafcJ with, [\lorbo laborare, 
Latin.] Not in ufe. 

They abound with horfe, 
Of which one want our camp doth o ''* hi 

B. 

I was called ta another, who in childbed fakn'urtd 
of an ulcer in her Uft hip. 

5. To be in diftrefs ; to be prefled. 

To this infernal lake the fury rlie>, 
Here hides her hated head, and frees the Wv/uj 

flies. DrydiH, 

Tiumpets and drums fliali frijht her f.om the 

throne, 
Al founding cymbal; aid the lab'rir.g moon. 

Dryden'l Aurengzfbe. 

This etercife will call down the favour of Heaven 
upon you, to remove ihoicafrlitlions you now .'ab-i.r 
under from you. Wake'i Prefarathafor Dealt. 

6. To be in child-birth ; to be in travail. 

There lay a log unlighted on the earth, 
When (he was labouring in throws of birth ; 
For til' unborn chief the fatal Afters came, 
And nii'd it up, and Jofs d it on the flame. 

Drydcn'l Ovid. 

Here, like fome furious prophet, Pin Jar rode, 
And Icem'd to laiiMr with th ' infpiriuj God. fuft. 

7o LA'BOUR. i>. a. 

\. To work at ; to move with, difficulty ; 

to form with labour; to profecute with 

effort. 

To ufe brev'ty, ar.d avoid much labouring of the 
work, ii to be granted to him that will mskc an 
abridgment. 

Had you reoulr'd my helpful hand, 
Th' artificer and art you might command, 
To latour arms for Troy. Drydcn't MntU. 

An eager defire to know fomcthing concerning 
Him hu cciiiined mankind to lalaur the point, 
under tllcfc difadvantages, and turn on all hands to 
fen if there were any thing left which might have 
the kaft appearance of information. 

. . Effajf n Hamer. 
3. To beat ; to belabour. 

Tike, ftrpherd, take a plant of flubborn oak, 
And l*kair him with many a fturdy (liakt. 



LAC 

n.f. [laioureur, French.] 
1. One who is employed in coarfe an 
toilfome work. 

It a Aiu run moft to nsblemen and gentle 

r:-n, and that tiie huibandmen be but as thei 

folks and Itfafrtri, you. may have a good 

y, but never good viable rxt. Baton 

Ti e Inn but fccm d the lab'reroi the year, 

Bach waxing moon Apply 'd her wat'ry (tore, 

To fn-cU thole tides, which from the line did bea 

Their brimful vcll'ds fj the Belgian (horc. Drye, 

L.tlezrert and idle perfons, children and Iliip 

ling;, old mea :.i, muft have diver 

dieu. Arbutbnet 

Not balmy deep to lak'm fainr; with pain, 
No: fliow'rs to laiks, or fun-lhine to the bee, 
Are half fo charming, as thy fight to me. i . f . 
~Vt hertcc 'A pjo: are cloth'd, the hangry fed 
Healtb to l-.irofelf, ar.d to bis infants bread, 
The tab'rer tears; Pof 

The prince cannot fay to the merchant, I ha 
n need of thee ; nor the merchant to the labourer 
I have no need of thce. Swift 

Z-- Ojje who takes, pains in any employ 
ment. 

Sir, I am a true talcureri I earn that I eat 
get that I wear ; owe no man hate ; envy no man' 
happinefs. Sbaleffearc 

The flnne that hbogri up the hill, 
Mocking the laa'rcr't toil, returning ftiil, 
I lov. GraiimUe 

LA'BOUHSOME. act), [from labour.] Made 
with great labour and diligence. No 
in ufe. 

Forget 

Your tatturfcmt and dainty trims, wherein 
You made great Jove angry. Sbaief. C,.,, 
He hath, my lord, by lakourfmc petition, 
Wrung from me my (low leave. Shrtlcf. Hamfrr 

LA'BRA. *. / [Spanilh.] A lip. Not 
ufed. Haamer 

Word of denial in thy lal-rai here ; 
Word of denial, froth and fcum thou lieft. Stak. 
LA'BYRINTH. n./. \labyrinthus, Latin.] 
A maze; a place funned with inex- 
tricable windings. 

Suffolk, (lay; 

Thoii may ft not wander in that lai^in:. 
There minotaurs, and ugly treafons lurk 

Words, which would tear 
The tender labyrinth of a maid's fot't ear. Dilute. 

My clamours tear 

The ear's foft lalyrintb, and cleft the air. Sandys. 
The earl of Efl'-je had not proceeded with 
his accuftomed warinefs and /kill; but run into 
labyrinths^ (torn whence he could not difentangje 
UiftK Clannd-.n. 

My foul is on her journey ; do not now 
Divert, or lead her back, to lol'c herfelf 
I' th' maze aod wiuding -Ijlyrintki o' th' world. 

.AC. n.f. 

Ea< is ufually Jiftinguiihcd by the name of a 
gum, but improperly, bccsuf- it ii inflammable, 
and not foUble in ter. We have three forts or 
it, which are all tiie projuft of ths fame tree. 
i. The ftick he. 2. The feed lac. 3. The fliell 
lac. Authors leave us uncertain wiirther this drug 
belongs to the animal or the vegetable kingdom. 

.ACE. n.f. [facet, French ; Iafueus,Lat.] 
. A firing ; a cord. 

There the fond tly entangled, ftruggled long, 
Himlelf to free tru-reout; but all in vain : 

ior driving moic, the more in lacet ftrong 
Himfclf he tied, and wrapt his winges twain 

In limy Inures, the fubtil loops among. Sptnfcr. 
. A fnare ; a gin. 

The king had fnared been in love's ftrong luce. 

Fairfax. 

. A plaited firing, with which worcen 
fallen their clothes. 



LAC 

O ! cut my lj:i, left, my heart cricking, it 
Break too. Sbat 

Doll !!-'< was call'd to cut he 
Or thro.v cold \vater in her face. Sivifi. 

4. Ornaments of fine thread cnriouily 
woven. 

Our tnglifh dames are mocli given to the weir- 
ing of coltiy laces ; and, if (hey be brought from 
Italy, they are in-great cflccm. 

5. Texture^ of thread, with gold or filvcr. 

He wears a Hurt', whofe thread is coarfe and 

round, 
But trimm'd with curious Ijce. Hertnt. 

6. Sugar. A cant word, now out of uie. 

If haply he the (eft purfuec, 
That read and comment upon news ; 
He takes up, their myfterbus face, 
He drinks his coffoe without ijct. Pritr. 

To LACB. v. a. [from the noun.] 
I. To fallen with a firing run through 
eilet holes. 

I caufed a fomentation to be made, and put 
on a laced fock, by which the v.cak paiti KM 
"strengthened . fPifanjn. 

At this, for new replies he did not ftay, 
But lac'd his creftcd helm, and ftrode away. DryJ. 

Thcfeglitt'ring fpoils, now made the victor's gain, 
He to his body fuits j but fuits in vain : 
Mefl'apus' helm he finds among the r<-il. 
And htei on, and wears the waving c:e:K 

Like Mrs. Primly's great belly j ill,- rrny 
down before, but it burniflies on her hips. C 

Whea Jenny's flays are newly 
Fair Alma plays about her waift. , ,, . 

z. To adorn with gold or filver textures 
fewed on. 

It is but a night-gown in refpeft of yours ; 
cloth of gold and (oats, and lac'd with (i 

Sbakcfftctn. 

3. To embellifli with variegations. 

Look, love, what envious (beaks 
Do lace the fevering cloud.; in yonder Eaft ; 
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day 
Stands tiptee on the mifty mountains tops. Sbakclp. 

Then clap four dices of pilatter on't, 
That, Ixc'd with bits of ruttic, makes a front. Ptpr. 

4. To beat ; whether from the form which 
L'Eftrangt ufes, or by corruption of lajb. 

Go you, uRd find me out a man that has no 
cuiiofity at all, or I'll IMC your toat for ye. 

LACED Mutton. An old word for a whofe. 

Ay, Sir, J, a loft mutton, gave your letter to 
her a lac'd muttcn, and ihe gave me nothing for my 
labour. Sbakt/feare. 

LA'CEMAN. n.f. [/Wand man.] Onewho 
deals in lace. 

1 met with a nonjuror, engaged with a 
rr..in, whether the late French king was molt like 
Augudus Czf.u, or Nero. 'MJif'.Kt Sj 

LA'CERABLE. adj. [horn lacerate.] Such 
as may be torn. 

Since the lungs are obliged to a perpetual com- 
merce with the air, they mu:t necc:larily lie open 
to great damages, bccaufe of their thin and lacc- 
rablc cnmnofure. Harvey. 

Tt LA'CliRATE. i>. a. {lactro, Latin".] 
To tear; to rend; to feparate by vio- 
lence. 

And my font lacerali and rip up, viper-like, 
the womij thai broujht them forth. 

Tea's. 

The heat breaks through the water, fo as to 
and lift up great bubbles too heavy for the 
air to buoy up, and caufeth boiling. 

Durham's Pbyji i-TbcJigy. 
Here lacerated friendship claims a tear* 

Vanity cf Human fPiJbcs. 

JACERA'TION. n.f. [from lacerate.] The 
aft of tearing or rending ; the breach 
made by tearing. 

The 



LAC 



LAC 



LAD 



The efFefls are, extenfion of the great veflcls 

comrrefiion OJ the Idler, and fanraMU upon fmal 
;c3. slrtiutbtict 

LA'CERATIVE. adj. [from lacerate.] Tear- 
ing; having the power to tear. 

Some depend upon the intemperament of the 
part ulcerated, others upon the continual afflux o 
laceraiive humours. Harvey onlZsafumptioiis 

LA'CHRYMAL. adj. [latirjmal, French. 
Generating tears. 

It is of an exquifite fenfe, that upon any touch 
:-:ars might be fcueezed fVo:n the lacbtyma, 
glands, to walh and clean it. 

Cbiyne's P ^i'^ fofbiral "Principles. 

LA'CHRYM ARY. adj. \lacbryma, Latin.] 
Containing tears. 
How rfiany drefies are there for each particular 
? what a variety of ihaptt in the ancient urr.s, 
lamps, and lactrytxary vefiili? Add'ja, 

LACHRYMA'TION. n. f. [from lacbryma, 
Latin.] The aft of weeping, or (hed- 
cing tears. 

LA'CHRYM ATORY. a./, [lacbrimatoire, 

French.] A veflel in which tears are 

gathered to the honour of the dead. 

LACI'NIATED. adj. [from lacinia, Lat.] 

Adorned with fringes and borders. 

91 LACK. v. a. [laecken, to leflen, 

Dutch.] To want ; to n?ed ; to be 

without. 

Every good and holy defire, though it lack the 

form, lath notwithl^anding in itfelf the fubitance, 

and with him the force of prayer who regardeth 

the very moaning s, groans, and fiijhs of the heart. 

Haktr. 

A land wherein thou flialt eat bread without 
fcarcenefs : thou (halt not lack any thing in it. 

Den:, viii. o. 

One day we hope thou flialt bring bick, 
Dear Eolingbroke, the juftice that we lack. Daniel. 
Intreat they may; authority they lack. Dar.lt.. 
To LACK. i/. n. 
i. To be in wanr. 

The lion; do lark and fuffer hunger. Con. Prayer. 
l. To be wanting. 

Peradventure there (hall lack 6ve of the fifty 
righteous; ilt thou deftroy all the city for hck of 
five? Gcn'jh, viii. zS. 

There was nothing lacking to them : David re- 
covered all. I Sam. xxx. iq. 

That which was lacking on your part, they have 
fupplied. i Car. xvi. 1 7. 

LACK. n.f. [from the verb.] 

1. Want; need; failure. 

In the feripture there neither wanteth any 
thing, the lack whereof might deprive us of life. 

Oktr. 

Many that are not mad 
Have fure more laik of reafon. Sbakeffeart. 

He was not able to keep that place three daySj 
for lark of victuals. Knollcs. 

The trenchant blade, toledo trufry, 
F< : want of fighting was grown ruftv, 
And ea: into itfelf, for lack 
Of I'/Ttebody to hew and hack. Hudibras. 

2. Lark, whether noun or verb, is now 
almoft obfolete. 

LA'CKBRAIN. n.f. [lack and brain.] On* 
that wants wit. 

What a laekirait is this ? Our plft is as good a 

plot as er wa laid. Sbakeffeares Henry IV. 

LA'CKER.B./ A kind of varnilh, which, 

fpread upon a white fubftance, exhibits 

a gold colour. 

To LA'CKER. v. a. [from the nou-n.] To 
fmear over with lacker. 

What fnoolc the ftagr, and msJc the ft fie (t,-rc ? 
Cato'j long wij, flt.vei'J j ..v.,, a.-w e.t,r'd ctwir. 

P'fe, 



LA'CKEY. n.f. [lajuais, Fr.] An attend 
ing fervant ; a foot-boy. 

They would fhame to make me 
Wait elfe at door; a fellow councilor, 
'Mong boys, and grooms, an-1 la keys ! 

Shake/fare's Hen.yill 

Though his youthful Wood be fir'd with wine, 
He's cautious to avoid the cfiach and fix, 
And on the lackeys will no quarrel fix. 

Dryden's Juvenal 

Lacqu-ys were never fo faucy and pragmatical a 
they are now-a-days. Addifan's Sfeffatfr, 

To LA'CKEY. <ti. a. [from the noun.j To 
attend fervilely. I know not whether 
Milton has ufed this word very properly. 

This common body, 
Like to a vagabond flag upon the ftrearn, 
Goes to and back, Iscjueying the varying tide, 
To rot itfelf with motion. 

Sbakffptare's Antcny and Cleipaira. 
So dear to heav'n is faintly chaility, 
That when a foul is found fincerely fo, 
A thouland liveried angels lackey her, 
Driving far off each thing of fin and guilt. Milton. 
To LA'CKEY. <v. n. To aft as a foot- boy ; 
to pav fervilc attendance. 

Oft have 1 fervants feen on horfes ride, 
The free and noble l.i.yuty hy their fide. Sandys 
Our Italian tranflator of the jEneis is a foot 
poet; he lail:-/s by the fide of Virgil, but never 
mounts behind him. Dryden. 

LA'CKLINEN. adj. [/rfr/frand linen.] Want- 
ing ihirts. 

You poor, bafe, rafcally, cheating, lacklmcn 
mate; away, you mouldy rogue, -.way. 

Sbai^jf fare's Henry IV. 

LA'CKLUSTRE. adj. \lack and luftre.] 
Wanting brightnefs. 

And then he drew a dial from his poke, 
And looking on it with laMvftrc eye, 
Says very wifely, It is ten o'clock. Skakefpeare. 
LACO'NICK. adj. [laconicus, Lzi.' laco- 
nique, Fr.] Short, brief; from Lacones, 
the Spartans, who ufed few words. 

1 grow lacdmck even beyond laconicifm ; for 
fometimes I return only yes, or no, to queitionary 
or petitionary epiltles of half a yard long. 

Pvfe to Swift. 

LA'CONISM. n.f. [laconi/me^r.laconifmus, 
Lat.] A concife ftile : called by Pope, 
laconicifm. See LACONICK. 

As the language of the face is univerfal, fo it 
is very comprehenfive : no lacemjm can reach it. 
It is the (hort-hand of the mind, and crowds a 
great deal in a little room. Cdlier r,f t be jlfyeB. 
LACO'NICAI.LY. adv. [from laconick.] 
Briefly ; concifely. 

Alexander Nequam, a man of -great learning, 

and defirous to enter into religion there, writ to the 

abbot laconically. / Camden'i Remains. 

LA'CTARY. adj. \laianus, Lat.] Milky; 

full of juice like milk. 

From lacljry or milky plants, which have a 
white and laclcous juice difperfed through every 
part,' there arife flowers blue and yellow. 

KrGiun'i Vulgar Errzurs. 

LA'CTARY.*./ \laclarium t Lat.] Adairy 

houfe. 
LACTA'TION. n.f. \lafto, Lat.] The aft 

or time of giving fuck. 
LA'CTEAI.. adj. [from lac, Lat.] Milky; 

conveying chyle of the colour of milk, 

As the food pafles, the chyle, which is the 
nutritive part, is Separated from the excrementitious 
by the lafleal veins ; and from thence conveyed 
into the blood. Locke. 

LA'CTHAL. n.f. The vefTel that conveys 
chyle. 

The months of the fafjej/! n-.ay rrrmit aliment,' 
acrimoruoin or not fuflkiwtly aJfnmt'j, to enter 



Inpeepiecf lax conftitutions, whereas their fphfnc- 
ters v.iil Ihut againlt them in fuch as have ftrong 
fibres. Arbu-.bna. 

LACTE'OUS. adj. \lafleus, Latin.] 

i. Milky. 

, Though we leave out the laclfctit circle, yet ar* 
there mote by four tha.i Philo mentions. 

Brown's Vulgar Errcurt. 

z. Lafteal ; conveying chyle. 

The lungs are fwitable for refpiration, and the 
laflecus veffelb for tiic reception of the chyle. 

Bentley. 

LACTE'SCENCE. n.f. \laflefio, Latin.] 
Tendency to milk, or milky colour. 

This lafft-fcence dees commonly enfue, when. 
wine, being impregnated with gums, or other ve- 
getable concretions, that abound with fulphureous 
corpnfcles, fair water -is fuddenly poured upon the 
foiution. Boyle on Colours* 

LACTE'SCENT. adj. \laf}efcens, Latin.] 
Producing milk, or a white juice. 

.Amongft the pat-heibs are fome lat~l-:jcent plants, 
as lettuce and endive, which contain a wholefonie 
juice. jQfbuthnot* 

LACTI'FEROUS.^<J)'. [lac and_/>ro.] What 
conveys or brings milk. 

He makes the breafts to be nothing but glandules, 

made up of an infinite number of little knots, each 

whereof hath its excretory vcflel, or lecJiferous duct. 

Ray on the Criatfan. 

LAD. n.f. [leobe, Saxon, which com- 
monly fignifies people, but fometimes, 
fays Mr. Lye, a boy.] 

1. A boy ; a tripling, in familiar language. 

We were 

Two larls, that thought there was no more behind, 
But fuch a day to-morrow as to-day, 
And to be boy eternal. Sbakejf. if inter's Tale. 

The poor liiti who wants knowledge muft fet his 
invention on the rack, to fay fomcthing where he 
knows nothing. Locke. 

Too far from the ancient forms of teaching fe- 
veral good grammarians have departed, to the great 
detriment of fuch lads as have been removed to other 
fchools. Watti. 

2. A boy ; a young man, in paftoral lan- 
guage. 

For grief whereof the lad would after joy, 
But pin'd away in anguifli, and fc!f-vviU*J annoy. 

Spenjer, 

The (hepherd laJ, 

Whnfe offspring on the throne of Judah fat 
So many ages. Miltcn.- 

LA'DDER. n.f. [Jjlaferie, Saxon.] 
. A frame made with fteps placed between 
two upright pieces. 

Whofe comport is rotten, and carried in time, 
And fpread Js it fliould be, thrift's ladder may climb. 

TiJ/cr. 

Now ftreets grow throng'd, and bufy as by day, 
Some run for buckets to the hallow'd quire; 

Some cut the pipes, and fome the engines play, 
And fome more bold mount ladders to the fire. Dryd. 

E.ify in words thy ftile, in fenfe fublime; 
*Tis like the ladder in the patriarch's dream, 
Its foot on earth, its height above the fkies. Prior. 

I faw a ftage erecfted about a foot and a half from 
the ground, capable of holding four of the inhabit- 
ants, with two or three ladders to mount it. 

Gulliver's Travels. 
z. Any thino; by which one climbs. 

Then took /he help to her of a fervant near about 
her huiband, whom fhe knew to be of a haflry am- 
bition ; and fuch a one, who wanting true fuffi- 
ciency to raife him, would make a ladder of any 
mifchief. Sidney*. 

I muft climb her window, 
The ladder made of cords. Sbakefpeare. 

Northumberland, thou ladder, by the which 
My coufin Bolingbroke afcends my throne. i^Lak'*- 

I^wlinefs is- young ambition's ladder, 
Whereto the climber upward turns his face. > ' '. 

B 2 3. A gra- 



LAD 



LAG 



L A I 



3. A gradual riff. 

Endow'd with ill there accomplishment:, we leavf 
Mm in the full carter of fuccefs, mounting fad to- 
-.nrji the top of the ladder ecdea(lical, which he 
'nth a f.Vir probability to reach. Swift. 

LADE. n.f. 

L..-.V i& the mouth of i river, tad is derived 
ti;-m '.- Sjnn lare>. which fignifies a purging or 
dif-hirgirg ; there beinj a difciiarge of the waters 
into the tii, or inco feme greater river. 

Gibfcrfs Camder.. 

To LADE. <v. a. preter. laJid ; and part. 
p.iflive, laded or laden, [from Jjlaben, 
Saxon.] It is now commonly written 
load. 

1. To load ; to freight ; to burthen. 

And they laJcd their afles with corn, and de- 
parted thence. Gene/!.', xlii. 2.6. 

The experiment which iheweth the weights of 
feveral bodies in comparifon with water, is of ule 
in lading of fliips, and (hewing what burthen they 
will bear. Safari. 

The veflels, heavy laden, put to fea 
With profpjous winds j a woman leads the way. 

Drydtn. 

Though the peripatetick doflr'me does not fa- 
tisfy, yet it is as efy to account for the difficulties 
lie charges on it, as for thofe his own hypothefis is 
latin with. Locke. 

2. [jjlaban, to draw, Saxon.] To heave 
out ; to throw out. 

He chides the fea that funders him from them, 
Saying, Tie'll larfi it dry to have his way. Shattff. 

They never let blood ; but fay, if the pot boils 
too faft, theie is no need of lading out any of the 
water, but only of taking away the fire; and fo 
they allay all heats of the blood by abftinence, and 
cowling herbs. Temple. 

if there be fprings in the flate marl, there muft 
be help to ladt or pump it out. Mortimer. 

LA'DING. n. f. [from laJt.~\ Weight; 
burthen. 

Some we made prize, while others burnt and rent 
With their rich Itd'mg to the bottom went. Waller. 

The dorm grows higher and higher, and threatens 
the utter lofs of the fliip : there is but one way to 
fave it, which is, by throwing its rich lading over- 
board. Scutb. 

It happened to be foul weather, fo that the ma- 
riners caft their whole !adirtg overboard to fave 
them f 1 ve . L 'Eft range. 

Why (hould he fink where nothing feem'd to prefs ? 
His l.iding little, and his ballad lefs. Swift. 

LA'DLE. n. / [Jplzble, .Saxon, from 
Jjlaoan ; leaugb, Erfe.] 

1. A large fpoon ; a veflel with a long 
handle, ufed in throwing out any liquid 
from the veflel containing it. 

Some ftirr'd the molten ore with ladles great. Speti. 

When the materials of glafs have been kept long 
in fufion, the mixture cafts up the fuperfluous fait, 
which the workmen take off with ladles. Boyle. 

A ladle for our filver dilh 
Is wrjat I want, is what I wifh. Friar. 

2. The receptacles of a mill wheel, into 
which the water falling turns it. 

LA'I>!. E-FUL. n.f. [ladle and full ~\ 

If a footman be going up with a dirt) of foup, let 
the cook with a ladli-ful dribble his livery all the 
way up flairs. Sivft. 

L.VDY. n.f. [JjlipbiT, Saxon.] 
I. A woman of high rank ; the title of lady 
properly belongs to the wivesof knights, 
r>f all degrees above them, and to the 
daughters nf earls, and all of higher ranks. 
J am muc 1 ! afraid, my lady, his mother, play'd 
farfe with a Imith. St, :l 

1 would thy hulband were dead; I wou! I r.i ike 

thee my /i./v I y ur >,idy, S'r John ? ala;, I ihould 

be a pitiful lad}. Sbakeff. M.rry Wmes <,f Winder. 

I 'am lorry my relation to lo dcferving a lady 



ihould be any occafion of lier d>nger and afflic- 
ti n. Kwg Charles. 

2. An illuftrions or eminent woman. 

fooliih fairy's fon, what fury mad 
Hath thee incens'd to hafte thy doleful fate? 

Were it not better I that lady had, 
Thin that rliou hadft repented it too late ? Sfenfer. 

Before Homrr'; time this gieat lady was fcarce 
heard of. Raleigh. 

May every lady an Evadne prove, 
That mail divert me from Afpafia's love. Waller. 

Should I ihun the dangers of the war, 
With fcorn the Trojans would reward my pains, 
And their proud hdits with their fweeping trains. 

Diyden. 

We find on medals the reprefehtations of fadi-.s, 
that have given occafion to whole volumes on the 
account only of a face. Addifon on Ancient Medah. 

3. A word of complaifance ufed of women. 

Say, good Caefar, 

That I fome lady trifles have referv'd, 
Immoment toys, things of fuch dignity 
As we greet modern friends withal. 

Sbak,jp..Ant. andClaf. 

1 hope I may fpeak of women without offence to 
the ladies. Guardian. 

4. Miftrefs, importing power and domi- 
nion ; as, lady of the manor. 

Of all thefe bounds, ev'n from this line to this, 
With (hadowy forefts, and with champaigns rich'd, 
With plenteous rivers, and widc-lkirted meads, 
We make tkee lady. Shakeff tare's King Lear. 

LA'DY-BEDSTR AW. n.f. [Gallium.] It 
is a plant of the ftellate kind. Miller. 
LA'DY-BIRD. 7 / A c u i r n. 
LA'DV-COW. f*'* A fmall red mfeft 
LA'DY-FLY. \ vagmopennoui. 

Fly lady-bird, north, fouth, or eaft or weft, 
Fly where the man is found that I love beft. Gay. 

This lady-f.y I take from off the grafs, 
Whofe fpotted back might fcarlet red furpafs. Gay. 

LA'DY-DAY. n.f. \lady and day.~\ The 

day on which the annunciation of the 

bleffed virgin is celebrated. 

LA'DY-LIKE. adj. \lady and Iikt.~\ Soft; 

delicate ; elegant. 
Her tender conftitution did declare, 

Too lady -like a long fatigue to bear. Dry den. 

LA'DY-MANTLE. n.f. [Alchimilla.] A 
plant. Miller. 

LA'DYSHIP. n.f. [homlady.] The title 
of a lady. 

Madam, he fends your ladypiif this ring. Shah. 
If they be nothing but mere ftatefmcn, 
Your ladfjk'ip fhall obferve their gravity, 
And their refervednefs, their many cautions, 
Fitting their perfons. Ben Jcrfon't Catiline. 

I the wronged pen to pleafe, 
Make it my humble thanks exprefs 

Unto your ladyjkif in thefe. Waller. 

'Tis Galla ; let hor ladyjbif but peep. 

Dryden's Juv. 

LA'DY'S-SLIPPER. n.f. [Calceblus.] A 
plant. Miller. 

LA'DY'S-SMOCK. n.f. [Cardamine.] A 
plant. Miller. 

When dazies pied, and violets blue, 
And tatly's-jmoilii all fjiver white, 
Do paint the meadows much boiight. Statfif. 
See here a boy gathering lilies and lady-fmnis, 
and there a girl cropping culvcrkeys and cowflips, 
all to make g ii landb. Wtiltcn's Angler. 

LAG adj. [laenj, Saxon, long; lagg, 

Swedifh, the end.] 
I. Coming behind ; falling fhort. 

I could be well content 
To entertain the lag end of my life 
With quiet hours. Stakeffcare's Henry IV. 

The floweft footed who come lag, fupi ly the 
fliow of a rearward. Careiv's Survey. 



I am fomc twelve or fourteen moonlninei 
Lag of a brother. Sbaktjpeare's King Lea*. 

2. Sluggilh ; flow ; tardy. It is out of 
ufe, but retained in Scotland. 

He, poor man, by your firft order died, 
And that a winged Mercury did bear ; 
Some tardy cripple had the countermand, 
That came too lag to fie him buried. 

Shaltcfp, arc's Richard III. 

We know your thoughts of us, that laymen ate 
Lag fouls, and rubbifh of remaining cby, 
Which Heav'n, grown weary of more perfect work, 
Set upright with a little puff of breath, 
And bid us pfs for men. Diydin's Ds.n Sel>ajT;M. 

3, Lad ; long delayed. 

Pack to their old play-fellows ; there I take 
They may, cum privilege, wear away 
The lag end of their lewdnefs, and'be laugh'd at. 

Sta- 
LAG. n. f. 

1. The lowed clafs ; the rump; the fag 
end. 

The reft of your foes, O gods, the fenators of 
Athens, together with the common lag of people, 
what is amifs in them, make fuitablc for deftruc- 
tion. Sbakcfpwe* 

2. He that comes lad, or hangs behind. 

The laft, the lag of all the race. Dryden's I'rg. 
What makes my ram the lag of all the flock ? 

Pcpe. 

To LAG. <z>. n. 
I . To loiter ; to move flowly. 

She pafs'd, with fear and fury wild ; 
The nurfe went lagging after with the child. D*yd. 

The remnant of his days he fafely paft, 
Nor found they lagg'd too flow, nor flow'd too faft. 

Prim: 
z. To day behind ; not to come in. 

Behind her far away a dwarf did lag. Fairy >iitn. 
I (hall not lag behind, nor err 
The way, thou leading. Miitat. 

The knight himfelf did after ride, 
Leading Crowdero by his fide, 
And tow'd him, if he lagg'd behind, 
Like boat againft the tide and wind. Hudiiras. 

If he finds a fairy lag in light, 
He drives the wretch before, and Ulhes into night. 

Dryden. 

She hourly prefs'd for fomething new; 
Ideas came into her mind 

So faft his leflbns lagg'd behind. Swift. 

LA'GGER. n.f. [from lag.] A loiterer ; 

an idler; one that loiters behind. 
LA'ICAI.. adj. [/a/jue, Fr. laicus, Latin; 
?vcte> .] Belonging to the laity, or people, 
as diftincl from the clergy. 

In all ages the clerical will flatter as well as the 
hieal. Catr.J^t;. 

LAID. Preterite participle of lay. 

Money laid up for the relief of widows and 

fatherlefs children. i Mac. iii. 10. 

A fcheme which was writ fnme years lince, and 

laid by to be ready on a fit occ.M'i i:% Siuift. 

LAIN. Preterite participle of lye. 

Mary fccth two angels in white, fitting, the one 

at the head, and the other at the ieet, where the 

body of Jefus had lain. Jbi>, xx. 12. 

The parcels had lain by, before they were opened, 

between four and five years. ./?;>/< 

LAIR., n.f. [lai, in French, fignifies a wild 

fow, or a foreft : the derivation is eafy 

in either fenfe ; or from leger, Dutch.] 

The couch of a boar, or wild beait. 

Out of the ground uprofe, 

As from his lair, the wild bealt, win-re he w.ons 
In foreft wild, in thicket, brake or den. Milton. 

But range the foreft, by the diver fide 
Of fome cool ftream, where nature rtiall provide 
Green grafs and fatt'ning clover for your fare, 
And moffy caverns for your noon-tide lair. 

Dry dtn's Virgil. 

LAIRD. 



"LAM 

LAIRD, n.f. [jjlaporib, Saxon.] The 
lord of a manor in the Scottifh dialeft. 

Shrive but their title, and their money's poize, 
A h:rd and twenty pence pronounc'd with noife, 
When conltru d but for a plain yeoman go 
And .1 good fober two pence, and well fo. 

LA'ITV. / [**-.]. 

1. The people, as dilhnguiihed from the 
clergy. 

An humble clergy is a very good one, and an 
humble hity too, lince humility is a virtue tint 
eoujily a-ljrns every llation of li fe. Swift. 

2. The ftate of a layman. 

The mote ufual caule of this deprivation is a 
mere laiy, or wmt of holy orders, dyliffs Pjrer. 
LAKE. n.f. [lac, French ; !acus,Lzt.~\ 
I. A large diffufion of inland water. 

He adds the running fprings and (landing lakes, 
And bounding banks tor winding rivers makes. 

Dryden. 

z. Small pla(h of water. 

3. A middle colour, betwixt ultramarine 
and vermillion, yet it is rather fweetthan 
harm. It is made of cochineal. Dryden. 

LAMB. n.f. [lamb, Gothick and baxon.] 
i. The youn^ of a fheep. 

I'm yung ; but fomething 

You may deferve of him through me, and wifdom, 
To offer up a weak, pour, innocent lamb, 
'i" appeafe an angry god. Sbatefpeari i Macbeth. 

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, 
Had he thy knowledge would he Ikip and play ? Pip-:. 
Z. Typically, the Saviour of the world. 

Thou Ljmi of God that takeft away the fins of 
the world, have mercy upon us. Ccmmon Prayer. 
LA'MBKIN. n. / [from lamb.] A little 
lamb. 

'Twixt them both they not a hmtkin left, 
And when lambs fail'd, the old (heepslives they reft. 
Hutbeid's Tale. 

Pan, thou god of fhepherds all, 
Whichofourtender/jmitiw takeft keep. Spenf.PaJ). 

Clean as young lamkllv, or the goofe's down, 
And like the goidnnch in her Sunday gown. Cay. 
LA'MBATIVE. adj. [from lanibo, 10 lick.] 
Taken by licking. 

In affcflions both of !u:-gs and wcann, phyfi- 
cians make ufe of fyrups, and iambative medicines. 



LA'MBATIVE. n.f. A medicine taken by 
licking with the tongue. 

I ibtch'd up the wound, and let him blood in the 
arm, advifing a lamtativt^ to be taken as neceffity 
fhouU require. "-urgtiy. 

LAMBS-WOOL, n.f. \lamb anditW.] Ale 
mixed with the pulp of roafted apples. 
A cup of lambi-iuc,!'! they drank to him ti. 

Seng of the King anil tie M /'.'.<. 
LA'MBENT. aJj [lamieni, Lat.] Pla>ing 
about ; gliding over xvithout harm. 

From young lulus hca-1 
A Ltmbent flame arol'e, which gently fptead 
Around his brows, and on hi., temples ltd. Dryd. 

His brows tliick [o^, ir.ftcad of gl -jiics, grace, 
And lambent dulnrfs played aroilnd his face. 
LAMDOI'DAL. n. J. ['a'uoz and 

Having the form of the letter lamda or A . 

Thecourfeof th- '. linusdown t!.. 

the middle of it, makes it advifiable to trepan at the 
1 >wrr part of the os parietalc, or at leaf! upon the 
lamd'j'idal future. Shjrf't i: 

LAME. adj. [laam, lama, Saxon; lam, 
Dtcb.] 

1. Crippled; difabled in the limbs. 

Who reproves the lame, muft go upright. Dttitl. 

A greyhound, of a iu; ule colour, lame of one leg, 

belongs to a lady. Arbathmt and P'pc. 

2. Hobbling; not fmooth : alluding to the 
feet of a \erfe. 

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L A,M 

Oar author] write 

Whether in profe, or verfe, 'tis all the fame} 
The profe is fuft:an, and the numbers hme. DryJ. 
3. Imperfect; unfatisfadlory. 

Shrubs are formed into fundry ihapes, by mould- 
ing them within, and cutting them without; but 
they are but lame, things, being too fmall to keep 
figure. JJw.. 

Swift, who could neitlier fly nor hide, 
Came fneaking to the chariot fide; 
And offer'd many a Itimt: excufe, 
He never meant the Jealt abufe.'" Swift. 

To LAME. <v. a. [from the adjeftive.] '1 o 
mskelame; to cripple. . | 

I never heard of fuch an'otherSncounter, which 
hmes report to follow it, and undoes delcn, 
<jo it. Ofbakeffeiire. 

The fon and heir. 

Affronted once a cock of noble kind, 
And either Iffm'.-i hislegs, or ftruck hirn blind. DryJ, 
If you happen to let the child fall, -and Unit it, 
never confefs. Swift. 

LA'MELI.ATED. adj. [lamella, Lat.] Co- 
vered with films or platos. 

The lamtllatcd antennae of fome infects are fur- 
pr<ngly beautiful, when viewed through a micro- 
fcope. DCILMI. 

LA 'MELY. ad-v. [from lame.} 
ii. Like a cripple j without natural force 
or activity. 

Thofe mufcles become callus,and, having yielded 
to the eitenfion, the patient makes (hift to go upon 
it, though lamely. ffif:man's Surgery. 

2. Imperfeftlv ; without a full or complete 
exhibition of all the parts. 

Look' not ev'ry lineament to fee ; 
Some will be caft in (hades, and fome will be 
So lamely drawn, you fcarcely know 'tis (he. Dryd. 

3. Weakly; unfteadily ; poorly. 
LA'MEKESS. n.f, JTrom lame.} 

1 . The ftate of a cripple ; lofs or inability 
of limbs. 

Let blindnefs, lamer.eft come ; are legs and eyes 

Of equal value to fo great a prize ? Dryden i Juv. 

Lamtneis kept me at home. Digby to Popt. 

2. Imperfeftion ; weaknefs. 

If the (lory move, or the ador help the lamenrfs 
of it with his performance, either of thefe are fuffi. 
cient to effedl a prcfent liking. Dry. Span. Fryar. 
To LAME'NT. v. a. [lamenter, Latin ; 
lamenter, Fr.] To mourn ; to wail ; to 
grieve ; to exprefs forrow. 

The night has been unruly where we lay; 
And chimneys were blown down: and, as they fay, 
Lamenting! heard i' th' air, ftrange fcream. of death. 

Sbakejpecrt:. 

Ve (hall weep and lamtnt, but the world (hall re- 
joice. 'J'ibn. 
Jeremiah lamented for Jofiah, and all the finging- 
IT.CU and women (pake of Jofiah in their lamenta- 
tions. Ciron. 

Far lefs I now lament for one whole world 
Of wicked funs deftroyed, than I rejoice 
For one man found fo perfedt and fo jutt, 
That God vouchsafes to raife another world 
From him. Miltm. 

To LAME'NT. -v. a. To bewail ; to mourn; 
to bemoan ; to exprefs forrow for. 

As you arc weary of this weight, 
Reft you, while I lament king Henry's corfe. 

Sbakej'peare. 

The pair of fages praife; 
One pity'd, one contemn'd the woful times, 
One laugh'd at follies, ont lamented crimes. Dryd. 
:LAME'NT. n.f. \lamtntum, Lai. from the 

verb.] 

i. Sorrow audibly exprefied ; lamentation ; 
grief uttered in complaints or cries. 

We, long ere our approaching, heard withm 
Noife, other than the found of dance, or fong ! 
Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. Miltm. 



I. A M 

The loud laments arife 
Of one diftrefs'd, and maftiffs mingled crtt. Drfi. 

2. Exprefiion of forrow. 

To a.ld to your lamtr.ts, 

Wherewith you now bedew king Hspry's hearfe, 
I mull inform you of a Jiirual fight. Slalujftare'. 
LA'MENTABLE. adj. \lamentabilit, Laun ; 

lamentable, French ; from lament, ,} 
l. To be lamented caufing forrow. 

The lalHlhiabte change is from the beft j 

The worll returns to laughter. Sbairfptarc. 

z. Mournful ; forro.vlu. ; exprefling forrow. 

A lamentable, tune is the fwceteft raufick to a 

woful mind _ Sidnej. 

The viftors to their vcflcls bear the prizeV 
And hear behind loud groans, and Limtntabie cries. 

Dryden* 

3. Miferable, in a ludicrous or low fenfe ; 
pitiful ; ciefpicable. 

This bifliop, to make out the difparity between 
the heathens and them, flies to this lamentable re- 
fuge. StiHingjitet. 

LA'MENTABLY. athi. [from lamentable.} 

1. With expreffions or tokens of forrow ; 
mournfully. 

- The matter in itfelf lamentable, lamentably ex- 
prefled by the old prince, greatly moved the two 
princes to companion. Sidney. 

2. So as to caufe forrow. 

Our fortune on the fea is out of breath, 
And finks moft lamentably. Shuk. Ant. andCleop. 

3. Pitifully ; defpicably. 
LAMENTA'TION. n.f. [lamentatio, Lat.] 

Expreflion of forrow ; audible grief. 

Be't lawful that I invocate thy ghoft, 
To hear the lamentations of poor Anne. 

Sbakcfpeare's Richard III. 

His fons buried him, and all Ifrael made great 
lamentation for him, I Mac. ii. 10. 

LAME'NTER. n. f. [from lament.} He 
who mourns or laments. 

Such a complaint good company muft pity-, whe- 
ther they think the lamenter ill or not. Speftatcr* 

LA'MENTINE. n.f. A fifh called a fea- 
cow or manatee, which is near twenty 
feet long, the head refembling that of a 
cow, and two fhort feet, with which it 
creeps on the (hallows and rocks to get 
food ; but has no fins : the flefh is com- 
monly eaten. Bailey. 

LA'MINA. n.f. [Lat.] Thin plate; one 
coat laid over another. 

LA'MINATED. adj. [from lamina.} Plated: 
ufed of fuch bodies whofe contexture dif- 
covers fuch a difpoiition as that of plates 
lying over one another. 

From the appofition of different coloured gravel 
arifc, for the moft part, the laminated appearance 
of a (tone. Sbarp* 

To LAM M. <v. a. To beat foundly with a 
cudgel. Di<3. 

LA'MMAS. n.f. [This word is faid by 
Bailey, I know not on what authority, to 
be derived from a cuftom, by which the 
tenants of the archbilhop of York wsre 
obliged, at the time of mafs, on the firft 
of Auguft, to bring a lamb to the altar. 
In Scotland they are faid to wean lambs 
on this day. It may elfe be corrupted 
from lattermatk.~\ The firft of Augnt. 
In i 578 was that famous lammas day, which 
buried the reputation of Don John of Auitria. hue- 

LAMP. n.f. \Jamfe, Fr. lampas, Lat.] 

l. A light made with oil and a wick. 

O thieviih night, 

Why (hould'fr, thou, but for fome felonious end. 
In thy dark lanchorn thus clofe up the {tars 

That 



L A N T 

That lu'Mn hung in ktMca. tft 'T.l'J their lamft 

With crerUfting oil, to ( iv 

To the miflcd and lonely trav:". i .1 ' ' 

In lamf tVnacei . . of oil , 

and Ui* lajnc flame has nieitcd Ju' ,^ guid. H^ic. 
2. Any kind of light, in poetical language, 
real or metaphorical. . 

Thy gentle rye& fend forth aqulckning fpirit, 
And feed the dying .'.. of life within roc. Rmui 

Cynthii, fair regent -of the night, 
O may thy filvcr/^irfi from heaven's hi^h bow r, 
Dirtfl my footlteps in the midnight hour. Gay. 
LA'MPASS. n.f. [lamfas, Fr.] A lump of 
fiffh, about the bignefs of a nut, in ihe 
roof of ft horle'j mouth; which rile; 
above the teeth. Ferriir't Difl. 

Hit iiorfe pofleft with the glanders, troubled with 
thctamfjfs, infedrd with the lalhionc. Stateff. 
LA'MPBLACK. n.f. [/amfund black.} it 
is mide by holding a torch under the 
bottom of a bafon, and as it is furred 
flriking it with a feather into fome 
/hell, and grinding it with gum water. 
Psacoafn on Draining, 
LA'M.PISG. adj. [A af ri,..>.] Shining: 
fparkling. Not ufed. 

t'V lines, on wruch with ftarry light 
Thofc iattf.it!* eyes wiU^e^gn fometimcs to look. 

Sjxnfcr. 

LAMPO'ON. n.f. [Bailcj, derives it from 
lamfoai, a drunken long. It imports, let 
us tiring, from the old French Icuuptr, and 
was repeated at the end of each couplet 
at caroufals. Trcv.] A perfonal fa- 
tire; abufe; cenfure written not tore- 
form but to vex. 

They fay my talent is fatire ; if fo, it is a fruit- 
ful age: they have fo.wn the dragon's teeth them- 
ielves, and it is but jvft they mould reap each 
other in Umpwni. . Bryden. 

Mtke faiir< a lamfwt, ftfe. 

Ta LAMPO'ON. ir. a. [from the noun.] 

To abufe with perfonal fatire. 
LAMPO'ONER. n.f. [from lampotn.} A 
fcribbler of perfonal fatire. 

We are naturally difpleafed with an unknown cri- 

tick, as the ladies are wilh a lemptvitr, becaufe we 

r* bitten in the dark. Drydtn. 

The fquibs are thofe who are called libellers, 

hmftanert, and pamphleteers. Taller. 

LA'MPREY. n.f. [lamfrcje, Fr. lamfrcye, 

Dutch.] 

Many rilh much like the eel frequent both the fea 
nd frcfh rivers; as, the Umprcl, /ujn/>rr>',and lam- 
perne. Walton. 

LA'MPRON. n.f. , A kind of fea fi(h. 

Thefe rocks are frequented by tamproni, and 

greater fillies, that devour the bodies of the drowned. 

Brtiomt on tbt Odyjfey. 

LANCE, n.f. [lanct, Fr. Jancta,L*t.] A 
Jong fpear, which, in the heroick ages, 
feems to have been generally thrown 
from the hand, as by the Indians at this 
day. In later times the combatants 
thruft them againlt each other OH horfe 
back. Spear ; javelin. 

He carried his lancet, which were (Irong, to give 
a lanctly blow. Sidney. 

Plate fin with gold, 

And the- (Irong lance of jurticc hurtlefs breaks: 
Aim it in rags, a pigmy's ftuw doth pierce ir. 

Sbaktjpeare. 
Thiry Oiall hold the bow and the lance. 

Jercmiabj I. 41. 

Hector beholds his jav'Iin fall in vain, 
Nor other lance, nor other hope remain ; 
He calls Deiphobus, demands a Ipi-.ir 
te vain, foi no Deiphobus wjt theie. Pep:. 



L-.A N" 

.To LANCE, v. a. [from the noun.] 
i. To pierce ; to cut. 

With his prepared fword he charges homr 
My unprovided body, lanc'd my aim. t>t 

In their cruel worlhip they lance themfelves with 
knires. Gtanville^s Scefjii, 

Th % Infernal minifter advanc'd, 
Serz'd the due victim, and with fury Ltnc'et 
Her back, and piercing through her inmoft heart, 
Drew backward. Drydcn. 

z. To open chirurgically ; to cut in order 
to a cure. 

We do Iciue 
Difcafcs in; osr k< Staitffeare. 

Fell forrow's tooth deth neve- rankle more 
Than whj:n it bites, but lancsih not the fore. Sba^. 
That differs i3 far from, pur ufual feverities, a: 
the tancit's of a phyfichn do froni tho wounds of 
aa advcriiry. Dtcay cfPuy. 

Lane: the fore, 

And cut the head; for till the core U fuund 
The fecret vice is fed. Dtydin. 

The fliepherd (land;, 

And when the /au.-mg knife icquircs his hands, 
Vain help, with idle j'tay'rs, ffom heav'n demands. 

LA'NCELY. adj. [from lance.} Suiwbie 
to a lance. NOT in ufc. 

He tarried his Imces; which were ftrong, to give 
a lanccly blow. Sidney. 

LANCEPE'SA DE.-./ \lancefptzzate, Fr.] 
The officer under the corporal : not now 
in ufe among us. 

To th* fnUfes of her arm he flies, 
Fraught both with eaft and wefterri prize, 
Which, when he had in vain efla) d, 
Arm'd like a dapper Itmccpefadf 
With Spaniih pike, he broach'd a pore. Qiitrvtland. 

LA'NCET. n.f. [lancette, Fr.] A final! 
pointed chirurgical inftrument. 

I gave vent to it ky an apertion with a lancet, 
and discharged white matter. Wifemaa's Surgery. 

A vein, in an apparent blue runneth along the 
body, and if dexteroufty pricked with a lancet, 
emttteth a red drop. Brown's Vulgar Errcurs. 

Hippocrates faith, blo->d-letting (hould be done 
with broad faucets or fwords, in order to make a 
large orifice: the manner of opening a vein then 
was by {tabbing or pertufion, as in horfes. Arbutb. 

70LANCH. v. a. [lancer, Fr. This word 
is too often written launch : it is only a 
vocal corruption of /.] To dart; 
to caft as a lance; to throw ; to let fly. 

See whofe arm can lamb the furer bolt, 
And who's the better Jove. Dryd. andLet's Ordif . 

Me. only me, the hand of fortune bore, 
Unbleft to tread that interdicted more : 
When Jove tremendous in the fable deepr, 
Launcb'd his red lightning at our fcatter'd (hips. 

Fofe. 
LANCINA'TION. n.f. [from lancino, Lat.] 

Tearing ; laceration. 
To LA'NCINATE. <v. a. [lancina, Latin.] 

To tear ; to rend ; to lacerate. 
LA\D. n.f [lan&, Gothick, Saxon, and 

fo all the Teutonick dialects.] 
I. A country; a region ; diftinft from 
ether countries. 

The nations of Scythia, like a mountain flood, 
did overflow all Spain, and quite wafli.-d .nv.iy what- 
foever reliquei there were left of the laml-brtd 
people. ,-'i State of Inland. 

Thy ambition, 

Thou fcartft fin, tobb'd t'i ; ii- w-iilir. 
Ofn bit Buckingham. Stakelfejn'i tt ,/_ VII I. 
Whit had he done to make him fly the /</? 

The chief men of the land had great authority ; 
though the < \-rnment w;is monarchical, tc was 
not dtfnjiicit. famous A'vj t tin Odyjcy. 



L A *r 

2. Earth; diflinft from water. 

ti they found that hug* and mighty coun- 
try- Aibr 

Yet, if thou jo'ft by /W, tho' grief poflefs 
My foul, ev'n then, my fears would be the left -. 
But, ah ! be warn'd to lhan the wit rjf wi . Jt.yd. 

They turn their heads to fea, their fttrns to , 
And greet with greedy joy th' Italian ilrind. Z) 

3. It is often ufed in compofuion, as op- ' 
pofed to fta. 

The princes delig'nting their conceits with con- 
firming th:ir knowledge, feeing wherein the I 
difcipline differed frjm the tund-Jcrvjit, tliey had 
r.g entertainment. Sidr.,-,. 

He to-nijjluhath boarded a lanit-carrtnk ; 
If it prove lawful prize, he's made for ever. Sbjk, 

With eleven thoufand laxd-fild'urs, and twenty- 
fix inips of war, we within two months have wort 
one town. ,j 

Necefiity makes men ingen!6us and hardy; and 
if they have but hnJ-ri'.-a or fij-rmn, they find 
fupplies for their hunger. Hale'sOrig. cfMji-i 

I ink not always in -the proper terms of n.- 
tion, or !tr.d-fervice. Drydct's Mr.eid. 

The French are to pay the fame duties at the dry 
porti through which tbey pafs by hr.d-carriig , 
we pay upon importation or exportation by fea. 

Ad::-, - .'.vr 

The Phoenicians orricJ on a land-trad; to Syria 
and Mefopatamia, and liopt not more, without 
pufhing their trade to the Indies. Arkatk. on Ccim. 

The i'pecies brought by hud-carriage were much 
better than thole which came to Egypt by fea. 

Ark:. 

4. Ground; furfaceof the place.JUnufual, 

Beneath his ftcely caique he frit the blow, 
And roll'J, with limbs relax'd, along the land. Pope* 

5. An eftate real and immoveable. 

To forfeit all your goods, lands, and tenements, 
Caftles, and goods whatfoever, and to be 
Out of the king's proteaion. Sbakcjf. Htr.ryVlll. 

He kept himfelf within the bounds of loyalty, 
and enjoyed certain lands and towns in the borders 
of Polonia. 

This man is freed from fervilc hands 
Of hope to rife, r fear to fall : 

Lord of himfeif, though not of lands, 
And having nothing, yet hath all. 

6. Nation ; people ; the inhabitants of 
the land. 

Thefe anfwers in the filent night recciv'd, 
The king himfelf divulg'd, the /am/ believ'd. Dryd. 

7. Urine, fjjlonb, Saxon.] As 

Probably land-damn was a coarfe expreflion in 
the cant drain, formerly in common ufc, but fince 
laid alide and forgotten, which meant the taking 
away a man's life. For land or hut is an oldv.uiJ 
for urin?, and to ftop the common paflages and 
functions of nature is to kill. Har.rr.tr. 

You are abufed, and by fome putter on, 
That will be damn'd for'tj would 1 knew the 

villain, 
I wcnild Lind-damn him. Skalcff. Winter 'i Tale. 

To LAND. ij. a. [from the noun.] To fet 
on fhore. 

The legions, now in Gailia. fooncr landed 
In Britain. Skalicffeare'i Cymlielir.i. 

He who rules the raging wind, 
To thee, O facred fliip, be kind, 
Thy committed pledge teltore, 
And land him fafely on ihe more. Dryd. llira::* 

Another Typhis (hall new fcas explore, 
Another Argo lard the chiefs upon th' Iberian more. 

Drydta*. 

7"c LAND. v. a. To come to fhore. 

Let him hud, 

AnJ foltmnly (ce him fct on to London. Sbakeff, 
1. aid ye not, none of you, and provide to be 
jon- from this coaft within lit- 

Bacan's AVw Allanlis* 
I land, with lucklcfs omens : then adore 
Their god. Dr\d.-n'i JEneid. 

LA'NDKD. adj. [from load.] Having a 

fortune, 



LAI? 

fortune, not in money but in-land ; had- 
ing 4 real eft.ite. 



LAN 



ofe living li?th togs^her in O<;L. 
are cminmly counter 

whofe living are riifperfed. Sacbn. 

Gro:Tiv-.-e.r3 officers, '>ho w-"-- ; Isp.Js 

they had none, when they grew /> 

to cryi::_; up magna charta.\ TtHtylc. 

A houfe of commons rmiii confift, for the moit 

part, of icxdcd men. Addijon's Fretlxldcr. 

LA'MJFALL. n. f. \land and fall.] A 

.''idvien tranflaiion of properly in land 

by the death of a rich man. 

LA'KDPLOOD. n. f. \land andjftu;/.] Tn- 

uon. r 

Apprehensions of die affecKons ' of . Kent, and 
all other places, looked like ~ . 
roll they kne-.v no! 

LA'ND-FORCES. n. f. [land and force.} 
AVaiiike powers not naval; foldif rs that 
lerve oJi land. 



^ , 

any AWAr^j, tliere (tail.. Iw'aia:-,};, oi" them placed 

'V.i.vr/-/rr/W. 
i 

i"it, Ikik., and c'on- 
C/arr/a. 

^., The lusflcrpf an inn. 

t'i(.i UL arrival ar tile inn, my ompanion fctch- 
. ed out' the jollv' latt!ior.t!, who knew him by his 

v.h : . Adiifa. 

LA'N;D<A*K. . /. [/aw/androar^.] Any 

thiw? fet up to preferve 1 the boundaries 

.of.i 



We behold in Frar.s* tfiagreateft land-form that 
hive ever been Icno vn under a*y'C!ri-irHan prince 



LANDHOLDER. . f. [lsn<( an'd 
One who holds lands. 

Money, as necefi'ary to trade, may be confiderej 

as in hii lianJs that pays the labourer and land- 

holder; and if tl-.U nun wjrjt money, the nv.r.-i- 

faftute is no: made, aa j fu the tr-Je- i> ioft. Luke. 

LA'NDJOBBER. ./ [/<Wandy'.] One 

who buys and fell* lands for other men. 

If yo'jr matter be a minifter of ftate, let him be 

at home to none but land-jokers, or inventors of 

new funds. Sviifr. 

LA'NDGRAVE. n. f. \laxd and grave, a 

count, German.] A German title of 

dominion. 

LA'NDI.VG. ) n. / [from /,/.] 

LA'KDINC-PLACE. } The top of ftairs. 

Let the ftairs to the upper rooms, be upon a t.':r 

open newal, and a fair Ijmtiirg-plereM. the top. Sac. 

_The Itxiinf -place is the uppermofr. rtep of a 

'.-' ftairs, viz. the flow of the room you afcend 



There is a (lair-cafe that (hangers are generally 
carried to fee, where the eafmefs of the afcent, the 

difpofition of the lights, and the convenient landii.tt, 
are admirably well contrived. Ad''i^n ;/: 7;<r/v. 

What the Romans called veftibulum was no.part 
of the houfe, but the court and landing-place foe- 
tw;en it and the ftreet. Arbutbnv or. Ccim. 

LA'NDLADY. n. f. [/aWand lady.] 

1. A woman who has tenants holding 
from he>. 

2. The miftrefs of an inn. 

If a foldier drinks his pint, and offers payment 

in Weod's half-pence, the ,W,Wy may be 'under 

fome difficulty. Siuift. 

L.'/NDLESS. adj. [from land.] Without 

property ; without fortune. 

Young Fcidnbras 

Hath in the (kirts of Norway, here and thf-m, 
Shark'd up a lift nf laadUji rcfolutes. &bak . H.iml, >. 
A lar.ditjt knight hath m<ae a landed fquire. 

LA'NDLOCKED. adj. [/rtWartd/er/f.] Shut 
in, or enclofed with land. 

There are few natural p:wti bctrer Icmilacltcd, and 
clofed on all fides, than this feems to have bc-n. 

Add:;^n en /v/y. 

A landman ; a term of reproach ufed 

by feamen of thofe who pafs their lives 

on (liore. 

LA'NDLORD. n. f. [/and and lord.] 
\. One who owns lands or houfes, and 

has tenants under him. 



R 1 mat.::. 

places in the church 

Then land-mr.r'\s limited to cad? hi; right; 
for all before wa the light. - Drydeti. 

Though they are r.ot felf-evident principles, yet 
- if they have been made outlfrnm them by a wary 
and unquedionable deduction, they -mnj' ferve as 
/</! *>vi.rj to (hew whwiies it 'the direct way of 
truth, or it quite bdidss it. Locke. 

LANDSCAPE, a.-/. [laMfchipe, Dittch.] 
1 '.- A- region ; the proiped -of a country. 

Lovely feem'd 1 ' 

That UUJfgfi ! and of pure, now purer air, 
Meets his ajfpmaih. A!:l:cn. 

The (un fcarce uprifen, 
Shot parallel to th" earth his dewy ray, 
Difcovering in wiiie landscape all the eaft 
Of paradile, and-EAjft's happy i lains. ' Mlisn. 

Straight mine eye hath. c;w jh/ new pleafures, 
Whiift the randjiape i^und it meafu 
Ruflit law-s and>,a!l-. ws gr?>\ 
Where the nibuiin^ lioc.'cs do Ilrav. Xfi.'tm. 

We are like men entertained with the view of a 
fpacious lar.djcapt, where the eye pafles oer one 
pleafing prol'peci into another. Addihn. 

2. A picture, reprefenting an extent of 
fpace, with the various objects in it. 

As good a yoct a; yoo are, you cannot make finer 
latij'rjf:-! than thofe about the king's houfe. AddiJ. 

(3ft in her glafs the mufirlg ftepherd fpies 
The wit'ry lutulfcap! of the pendant woods, 
And abfer.t trees, that tremble in the flood". Pope. 
LAND-TAX, n. f. [land and tax.] Tax 
laid upon land and houfes. 

I: mortgages were regiftered, land-taxis might 

reach the lender to pay his proportion. Locke. 

LAND-WAITER, n. f. [/Wand tuaitir.] 

An officer of the cnlloms, who is to 

watch what goods are landed. 

Give a guinea to a knavifli lat:J-tualtcr, aid he 
/hall connive at the rrn- cha.it far cheating the queen 
of an hundleJ. Swift's Exam-r.cr. 

LA'J. CWARD. adv. [from land] To- 
wards the land. 

v. are invir- ible ly reafjn of the overpouring 
noun-aim that L.. . :m4 (lend. -r fortifica- 

tion of the other to l,t*.dioe>d. Sanajl't Jvirmy. 

LANE. n. f. [iaen, Dutch ; lana, Saxon.] 
i. A narrow way between hedges. 

All flying 

Through a ftraight tune, the enemy full hearted 
Struck- down fome mortally. Shakcfp. Cymbclim. 

f know each /.me, and every alley green, 
Dingle or bnfhy dell, of this wild wood, 
And every bo(ky burn. Milt, 

Through a elofu lane ai I purfu'd my journey. 

Otway. 

A pick-horfc i; driven conflantly in a narrow 
lane and dirty road. Licit. 

2. A narrow ftreet ; an alley. 

'J here 13 no ftreer, not many lanes, where there 
does not live one that has relation to the church. 
Spratt't Sermons. 

3. A paflage between men Aanding on 
each fide. 

The earl's fervant: flood ranged on both fides, 
and made th king a lent. Bacm'i Hairy VJI. 
5 



L A tf 

?***..*./. ' X -little 

LA'VCBAGE. n. /. [langage, French ; tin- 

gua, Latin.] 
; 'Haman fpeech. 

We may define fangttatrp, If we confiiOT it more 
materially, to be letteis forming and | reducing 
words and fentencts ; t>ut if we confider itaccnrd- 
ing to the defi^u thereof, then Is.xgL'a?e is apt (igns 
for communication of tl oughts. ' ' Kclder. 

2. The tongue of One nation as diftinct 
from others. 

O ! good sny lord, no Latin; 
I am not filth a tiuunt fince my coming, 
As rot to know the ij*.*vage I have liv'd in. Stall. 

f'--- not from Rrme a'one, but Greece, 
L!ke{j il ''t>r.j bought the ^olien-fieece j 
To him that language, though to none 
._Of th' othm-s, as liis'pwn was known. Dttrkam. 

3. Stile; manrer of expreilion. 

Though his language (hftuld net be rcfin'd 
It muft not be obfcure and Impudent. Rofctnny.it. 

Others for tngxagt all their care eiprtts, 
And value books, as women, men, for drefi ; 
'i 'heir prail'e is ftill-^the.iiiie is excellent; 
The fen!?, they humbly take upon Content. 'Pope. 
LA'NCUAGED. adj. ' [from the noun.] 
^Ja-ving various languages. 

He v.and'ring long a wider circle made, 
And many faxguigd nations has furvey'd. Po.'r. 
LANGUAGE- MASTER, u'.f. [language and 
majier] One whofe profeffion is to teach 
languages. 

The third isafortof language-maj}cf,\\'ho is tein- 
ftrufl them in the ftile proper for a mjnifter. Speft. 

thing cut in the form of a tongue. 
LA'NGUID. adj. [languid, Latin.] 
I. Faint ; weak ; feeble. 

Whatever renders the motion of the blood Ian* 
gt'id, difpofcth to an acid acrimony ; what accele- 
: e motion of the blood, difpofeth to an al- 
kaline acrimony'. Arlutlmt. 
No fpace can be afligned fo vaft, but (till a larger 
may br imaginrd ; no. motion Saf fwift or languid 1 , 
but a greater velocity or flownefs may (till be con- 
ceived. Bcntlty, 
z. Dull ; heartlefs. 

I'll haften to my troopj, 
And fire their languid fouls with Cato's virtue. 

AdJifm. 

LA'K^-MDLY. adv. [from languid^ 
Weakly; feebly. 

11-e mnftrunm worfc'd as languidly upon the 
coral as it did iefore. Beyle. 

LA'NGUIDNESS. n. f. [from languid.] 
Weaknefs; feeblenefs; want of ftrcngth. 

To LA'NGLTISH. v. n. [languir, French ; 
lungtico, La, in.] 

1. To grow feeble ; to pine away; to lofe 
ftrcngth. 

Let her languijh 

A drop of blood a-day ; and, being agfd, 
Die of this folly. Statl/ft&t^ Cymhfae. 

We a;,d our fathers do lansrui/b of fuch difeafe's. 

2 Efdras. 

What can we erpefl, but that her luifMiJkirtgt 
fliould end in death ? Dicay of Pletj. 

His furrows bore him ofT; and foftly laid 
His lar.guijtj'd lirrjbs u; on his homely bed. Diyd. 

2. To be no longer vigorous in motion; 



not to be vivid in appearance. 

The troops with hate infpir'd, 
Their darts with clamour at a diltar.ce drie, 
And only keep the latiguijb'd war alive. Utytfin. 

3. To link or pine under forrow, or any 
flow paffion. 

Whit man who knows 
What woman is, yea, what flic cannot chufe 
But mud be, will his free heurs lar:gui/b out 
For aflur'd bunJ Jje f Sta/tefftart'i Cymtdfoe. 

The 



LAN 

Toe UnJ dull mown, o4 erery oo Out (Jwetl- 
tth tkertin UnfniA. >v. 3 

I bare been talking with * fuitor here, 
A nun thst laituiftxi in your difplefurt. 

Skatrfp. Oti,,!!*. 

I wu about fifteen when I took the liberty to 
ehule for mylVlf, and have ever fincc Inguijii.t 
under the difpleafure of an inexorable lather. 

yMrfi/tii'l SprtJaor. 

let Leonora contider, that, at the very time in 
which (he Ijtguijeti for the K.fs of her deceafed 
lover, there are perfons juft perithing in a (hipwreck. 

' 



Pepe. 



4. To look with foftnefs or tendernefsv 

What poeros ihink you foft, and to be read . 
With Itofui/boif regards, and bending ht-ui 

LA'WOUISH. *./ [from the verb.] J>oft 
appearance. 

And the blue languijh of foft Allia's eye. 

Then lorth be walks, 

Beneath the trembling langmjb of her beam, 
With foften'd foul. Ttaajtm' i Spring. 

LA'NCUISHINGLY. cul-v. [from languijb- 

ing-] 

1. Weakly; feebly; with feeble foftnefs. 

Leave fuch to rune their own dull rhimes, and 

know 
What's roundly fmooth or languijbinglj flow. tope. 

2. Dully ; tedioufly. 

Alas ! my Dorus, thon feed how long and 

langtiijbirgly the week* are paft over lince our lalt 

talking. Sidney. 

LA'NCUISHMENT. . f. \languijfammtnt, 

French ; from languish.] 

1. State of pining. 

By that count which lovers books invent, 
The fphere of Cupid forty years contains ; 

Which I have wafted in long langniftmtnt, 
That feem'd the longer for my greater pains. 

Spfnftr. 

2. Softnefs of mien. 

Humility it expreflcs, by the (looping or bend- 

ing of the head ; laaguijbtncat, when we hang it on 

one fide. Drfden. 

LA'NGUOR. n f. \languor, Lat. langueur, 

French.] 
t. Faintnefs ; weariTomenefs. 

Well hoped I, and fair beginnings had, 
That he ray captive languor Ihould redeem. Spenftr. 

For thefe, thefe tribunes, in the du'ft I write 
My heart s deep langxcr, and my foul's fad tears. 

Shaktjpeare. 

2. Liftleffnefs ; inattention. 

Academical difputation gives vigour and brilk- 
nefs tj the mind thus excicifcd, and relieves the 
languor of private ftudy and meditation. 

Wtff/j'i Improvement t.f the Aftntt. 

3. Softnefs ; laxity. 

To iflts of fragrance, lily-filvcr'd vales, 
DifTufmg lar.gusr in the panting gales. Dvncictd. 

4. [In phyfick.] 

Lar.ucr and latitude fignifi;s a faintnefs, which 
may aiife from want or decay of fpirits, through 
indigeftion, or too much exercife ; or from an 
additional weight of fluids, from a diminution of 
fecretion by the common difcharges. S>;i;f_v. 

LA'NCUOROUS. adj. [languoreux, French.] 
Tfdious ; melancholy. Not in ufe. 

Dear lady, how (hall I declare thy cafe, 
Whom late I left in langucrats constraint ? Spenf-r. 

yLA'NiAT. v. a. \lania, Latin.] To 
tear in pieces ; to rend ; to lacerate. 

LA'NIFICE. n./. [ianlficiura, Lat.] Wool- 
len manufacture. 

The moth breedeth upon cloth and other lani- 
ftis, efpccially if they be laid up dankifh and wet. 

Baccn. 

LA'NIOEROUS. adj. [/axiger, Lat.] Bear- 

ing wool. 
LANK. aJj. \lwki, Dutch.] 



LAN 

1. Loofe ; not filled up ; not differed out ; 
not fit ; not plump ; (lender. 
The commons haft thou rack'd ; the clergy's bags 

Are Itr.i and lean with i\y extortions. Stticjp. 

T^ime not Winrerfaic, whofe (kin's flack, 
Ljr.l, a> an ur.trrrit't's puifc. 

We let down iffto the' rseeiver a great bladder 
:\ at the neck, but very lank, tt not con- 
taining above a pint of air, but capable of contrin- 
ing ten times as much. 

Moift earto produces coin nnd grafc, bot'both 
Too rank and tpluuiiant In their growth. 
Let not my land fo large a promilc boaft, 
Left the lar.k ears in length of Item be loft. Dryd:n. 

N'uw, now my bcaidcd bat'veft gilds' the pUjo. 
Thu . , and vainly thus dreams on. 

Till ' i'^s hfs money gone. Drjjd. 

Meajre and tank with fafting grown, 
Ar.d nothing lei": lut (kin and bonej 
They juft keep life and foul together. Swift. 

2. Mi/ton feems to ufe this word for faint; 
languid. 

He, piteous of hei! \yoes rear'd her lar.Jt head, 
And gave her to his daughters to iinbathc 
In ncitnr'd Uvcfs' ftrcw'd with afphbdil. Milieu. 
. .13:,. ;;./. [from lank.} Want of 
plumpnefs. 
LA'NNER. tuf. [lanier, French; /aaaarius, 

Latin.] A fpecies of hawk. 
LA'NSQJJENET. a. f. [lance and knetbt, 

Dutch.] 

(. A common foot foldier. 
i. A game at cards. 

LA'NTERN. n. f. [lantrrnc, French; la- 
urjta, Latins it is by miftake often 
written lanthorn.} A tranfparent cafe 
for a candle. 

God (hall be my hope, 
My (ray, my guide, my lantborr, to my feet. 

Sbaieffeare. 

' Thou art our admiral ; thou beared the .' 
in the poop, but 'tis in the no/c of thee ; th -a 
art the knight of the burning lamp. 

SiAejpia>e'i Henry IV. 

A candle lafteth longer in a /.iMi-.rn than at large. 

Sactn. 

Ainongft the excellent afls of that king, one 
hath the pre-eminence, the ereftion and mftitution 
ofafociety, which we call Solomon's hou!< 
noblelt foundation that ever was, and the lantVorn 
of this kingdom. ' Bacon's j4t/antis* 

O thievifh night, 

Why (hovild'ft thou, but for fome felonious end, 
In thy dark lar.lbirn thus clofe, up the liars 
That nature hung in heav'n, an4 fill'd their lamps 
With everlafting oil ? M:!:t,r,. 

Vice is like a dark lantborn,' which turns its 
bright fide only to him that bears it, but looks 
black and difmal in another's hand. 

Gov. cftte Tinguc. 

Judge what a ridiculous thing it were, that the, 
conwiued (hadow of the earth fhould be broken by 
fudden miraculous eruptions of light, to prevent the 
art of the lantern-maker. Mart's Divint Dialogues. 
Our ideas fuccecd one another in our minds, 
not much unlike the images in the infide of a lan- 
ti.n:, turned round by the heat of a candle. 

Locke. 

, A lighthoufe ; a light hung out to guide 
ihips. 

Caprea, xvhere the lambent fix'd on high 
Shines like a moon through the benighted (ky, 
While by it* beams the wary failor (Icus. 

jldrlifir.. 

iA'NTERNy<J<u)/. A term ufed of a thin 
vifage, fuch as if a candle were burn- 
ing in the mouth might tranfmi: the 
light. 

Being very lucky in a pair of lang/anltorrt-ja-u/s, 
he wrung his face into a hideous grimace. 

' Spefiator. 



LAP 

LANU'GIKOUS. adj. \Janaginofni, Latin.] 
Downy ; covered with foft hair. 

LAP. a. /. [Izppe, Saxon; lafpe, Ger- 
man.] 

1. The loofe part of a garment, which 
may be doubled at pleafure. 

If a joint of meat falls on thr ground, take it up 
gently, wipe it with the lap of your coat, and then 
put it into the difli* ! :m. 

2, The part of the clothes that is fpread 
horizontally over the knees as one fits 
down, fo as any thing may lie in it. 

It feeis each living plant with liquid fapf 

And till, with flow rs lair Flora's painted /../>. 

Sfr; 

Upon a day, as hvc lay fweetly flumbYmf 

All in his mother's tap, 
A gentle -bee, with his loud trumpet murm'ring, 

About him flew by hap. Sp< 

I'll make my haven in a lady's lap, 
And 'witch fweet ladie.3 with my words and looks. 

Si-akt 

She bida you 

All on the wanton rufhes lay you down, 
And reft your rentlc head upon her lap, 
And (he 'Will fing the fang tb.it pleafcth you. Soat. 

Our ft'rrnng 

Can from the fap of Egypt's widow pluclc 
The ne'er-luft-wearitd Antony. 'peart, 

Heav'n's almighty fire 
Melts oh the bt/fom of his love, and pours 
Himfelf into her lap in fruitful fhow'rs. Cr.ijhaiv. 
Men expect, that religion Ihould coft them na 
pains, and tliat happinefs ihould drop into thrir 
laps. Tillotjii.. 

He ftruggles into breath, and cries for aid j 
Then, helpless, in his mother's lap is laid. 
He creeps, he walks, and ifluing into man, 
Grudges their lite from whence his own began i 
Retchlefs of laws, aftecls to rule alone, 
Anxious to reign, and reftlefs on the throne. Diyil. 
To LAP. v..a. [from the noun.] 

1. To wrap or twift round any thing. 

"He hath ritonj tail, which as he defcends from 
a tree, he laps round about the b'onghs, t 
hlmfclf from fah: Grid's Mi 

About the paper whofe two halves \verc t 
with red and blue, and which v.as ft iff like thin 
pafteboard, I tapped fcveral times a (lender thread of 
very black (ilk. ffnt'itn. 

2. To involve in any thing. 

As through the flow'ring foreit raft (he fled, 
In her rude hairs fweet flowers themfelves did laf, 
And Hourilhing ftcfh leaves and bloflbms did enwrap. 

The thane of Cawder 'gan a difmal conflict, 
Till that Bcllona's bridegrootti, la ft in proof, 
Confronted him. I'P. Macbeth. 

When we both lay in the field, 
Frozen almoft to death, how he did lap me, 
Ev'n in his garments, and ci-1 give himfelf, 
All thin and naked, to the numb cold night. 

Ever againft eating cares, 
Lap me in foft Lydian airs. Mi!nn. 

Indulgent fortune does her care employ, 
And fmiling, broods upon the naked boy ; 
Her garment fpreads ; and lapi him in the folds, 
And covers with her wings trora nightly colds. 

/>.'-, 

Here was the repofjtony of all the wife conten- 
tions for power between the nobles and commons, 
lapt up fafery in the bofom of a Nero and a Cali- 
gula. Swift. 

TLAF. 11. . To be fpread or turned 

over any thing. 
The upper wings are opacous ; at their hinder 

ends, where they tjp over, tranfuarcnt, like the 

wing of a fly. Gr<?w. 

To LAP. -v. n, [lappian, Saxon ; lappen, 

Dutch.] To feed by quick reciproca- 



tions of the tongue. 



The 



LAP 

The dogs by the river Niius' CJe, being thirlry 

l.if hailily as they run along the /here. Digty 

They had Coups ferved up in broad diflies, and f 

the fox fell to lapping himlelf, and bade his gue( 

heartily welcome. L'fjlrjngc 

The tongue ferves not only for rafting, but fo 

maftication and deglutition, in man, by licking ; in 

the dog and cat kind by lapping. Ray an Creation 

To LAP. i/. a. To lick up. 

For all the red 
They'll take fuggeition, as a cat laps milk. Stab 

Upon a bull 
Two horrid lyons raropt, and feiz'd, and tugg'd oft" 

bellowing itill, 

Both ir.en and dogs came ; yet they tore the hide 
and left their fill. Chapman* Iliad. 

LA'PDOC. n. /. \lap and <%.] A little 
dog, fondled by ladies in the lap. 

One of them made his court to the lap-dig, to 
improve his intcreJt with the lady. Collar. 

Thefe, if the ia-.vs did that exchange afford, 
Would fave their Lf dig fooner than their lord. 

Dryd^n 

Ljp-Jegt give themfelves the routing ftake, 
And Ilceplefs lovers juft at twelve awake. Pope. 
LA'PFUL. n.f. [lap and full.] As much 
as can be contained in the lap. 

One fjund a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild 
gourds his iapful, and ihrtj them into the pot ol 
pottage. 2. Kings 

1 four percent, increafe the number of lend 
ers ? if it will not, then ail the plenty of money 
thefe conjurers Leftow upon us, is but like the gold 
and filvcr which old women believe other c&njin 
beftow by whole lapfuls on poor credulous girls 
/ Lock,. 

LA PIC IDE.*./ [laficida, Lat.] A flone 
' cutter. Dia. 

LA'PIDARV. n.f. [lafiJaire, FT.] One 
who deals in Hones or gems. 

As a cock was turning up a dunghill, he efpjcd a 
diamond : Well (fays he , this fparkling foollery 
now to a lapidary would have been the making of 
him ; but, as to any ufe of mine, a barley-corn h.id 
teen worth forty on't. L'Fjlrangc. 

Of ail the many forts of the gem kind reckoned 
up by the lapidarits, there are not above three or 
four that are original. WciJwarft Nat. H-jl.ry. 

To LA'PIDATE. v.a. [lapido, Latin.] To 
ftone ; to kill by (toning. Dia. 

LAPIOA'TION. n.f. [lapidaiio, Lat. lafi- 
dation, Fr.] A ftoning. 

LAPI'DEOUS.^'. [lafideus, Lat.] Stony; 
of the nature of ftone. 

There might fall down into the lapidnus matter, 
before it was concreted into a (lone, fome ('mall 
toad, which might remain there imprifoned, till the 
matter about it were condenfed. Kay. 

LAPIDE'SCENCE. n.f. [Lapidtfco, Latin.] 
Stony concretion. 

Of lapis ceratilcs, or corrm foflile, in fubter- 
raneous cavities, there are many to be found in Ger- 
many, which are but the lapidtfcaicies, and putre- 
u mutations, of hard bodies. Jirewn. 

L.M'iDk'sc-ENT. adj. [lapidefcem , Latin.] 

Growing or turning to ftone. 
LAPIDIFICA'TION. . /. \lapidificatian, 
French.] The aft of forming Hones. 

Induration or lapidif.-atKn of fubftances more foft 
is another degree of conden;'..' : Bacoa. 

LAPIDJ'FICK. adj. [lapidtfyue, French.] 
Forming ftone;. 

The atoms of the lapid-.jict, as well as faiine prin- 
ciple, being regular, do concur in producing regular 
ftones. Grew. 

LA'JMDIST. a. /. [from lapidet, Latin.] 
A dealer in ftones or gems. 

Hardnefs, wherein fome (tones exceed all other 
bodies, being exalted to that degree, that art in 
vain endeavours to counterfeit it, the fictitious 

Vat. H. 



LAP 

ftones of chymiiis in imitation being eafiiy detect 
ed by an ordinary Ijpidifi. Ray 

LA'PIS. n. f. [Latin.] A ftone. 

LA'PIS Lazuli. 

The lapis lazuli, or azure ftone, is a copper ore 
very compact and hard, fo as to take a high polilli 
and is worked into a great variety of toys. It i: 
found in detached lumps, of an elegant blue colour 
variegated with clouds of white, and veins of a 
(lining gold colour: to it the painters are indebted 
for their beautiful ultra-marine colour, which is only 
a calcination of lapis lazuli. Hill. 

LA'PPER. n f. [from /a/.] 

1. One who wraps up. 

They may be 'uppers, of linen, and bailiffs of the 
manor. Sivift. 

2. One who laps or licks. 

LA'PPET. n.f. [diminutive of lap.} The 
parts of a head-drefs that hang loofe. 

How naturally do you apply your hands to each 
other's lafpeti, and ruffles, and mantuas ? Swift. 

LAPSE, n.f. [lap/us, Latin.] 

1. Flow; fall; glide; fmooth courfe. 

Round I faw 
Hill, dale, and (hady woods, and funny plains, 
And liquid lafft of murm'rrng ftreams. Milton. 
Notions of the mind are prcl'erved in the memory, 
notwithflanding hpfc of time. Halt. 

2. Petty error; Imall miftake ; flight of- 
fence ; little fault. 

Thefe are petty errors and minor Icpfcs, not con- 
CJerably injurious unto truth. Rr'.ivr's. I^ulg.Er. 

The weaknefs of human underllanding all will 
confefs ; yet the confidence of mod practically dif- 
owns it j and it is ealier to perfuade tliem of it 
from others laf.j;s than their own. Cla>.v;':'f. 

This fcripturc may be ufeful'y applied as a caution 
to guard againft thole lapj'cs and failings, to which 
our infirmities daily expole us. Ragcrs. 

It hath been my conftant bufmefs to examine 

whether I could find the fmallcft lapjt in (lile or 

propriety through my whole collection, that I might 

fend it abroad as the moft finiflied piece. Swift. 

j. Tranflation of right from one to another. 

In a prcfentation to a vacant church, a layman 
ought to prefent within four months, and a clergy- 
man within fix, otherwife a devolution, or lapft of 
right, happens. Ayfiffc. 

To LAPSE, v.a. [from the noun.] 

1. To glide flowly ; to fall by degrees. 

This difpofition to (horten inir words, by re- 
trenching the vowels, is nothing elfe but a tendency 
to lapjt into the barbjrity of thofe northern nations 
from whom we are defccnded, and whofe languages 
labour all under the fame defect. Sivift. 

2. To fail in any thing ; to flip ; to com- 
mit a fault. 

I have ever verified my friends, 
Of whom he's chief, with all the f:ze that verity 
Would without lapfing fuffir. Hbakefpeare. 

To lapft in fulnefs 

Is forer than to lie for need ; and fal/hood 
Isworfejn kings than beggars. Sbaktfpearc'sCymb. 

3. To flip, as by inadvertency or miftake. 

Homer, in his charaflers jf Vulcan and Therfites, 
has lapftd into the burlcfque character, and departed 
from that ferious air eflential to an cpick poem. 

Addijnn. 

Let there be no wilful perverfion of another's 
meaning ; no I'uddcn fcizure of a lapfed fyllable to 
play upon it. Watts. 

4. To lofe the proper time. 

Myfelf ftond out ! 

For which if I be lapfed in this place, 
I (hall pay dear. Sbaktfpeare's Twelfth Nifb't. 

As an appeal may be deferted by the appellant's 
"tfi'f the term of law, fo it may alfo be deferred 
by a lapfc of the term of a judge. Ay life. 

5. To fall by the negligence of one pro- 
prietor to another. 

If the archbifnop (hall not fill it up within fix 
months enfuiij, it lapja to the king. AyUffi. 



L A R 

6. To fall from perfection, truth, or faith. 

Once more I will renew 

His lapjcd pow'rs, though forfeit, and inthrall'd 
By fin to foul exorbitant defues. Milter. 

A fprout of that rig-tree which was to hide the 
nakcdnefs of lapfed Adam. Decay of Pii^l 

All publick forms fuppofe it the mod prir.cip)!, 
univerfal, and daily requifite to the lapfing ftate or' 
human corruption. Decay of I 

Thefe were looked on ustapfea 1 perfons, and great 

fcverities of penance were prei'cribed them, as ap- 

pears by the canons .of Ancyra. Stitlingfat. 

LA'PVVING. n.f. [lap and iving.] A cla- 

morous bird with long wings. 

Ah ! but I think him better than I (ty, 
And yet would herein others eyes were worfc : 

Far from her nefr, the lef!vii.g cries away ; 
My heart prays for him, though my tongue di 



t 

And how in fields the lapwing Tereus reigns, 
The warbling nightingale in woods complains. Dryd. 
LA'PWORK. n.f. [lap and 'work.] Work 
in which one part is interchangeably 
wrapped over the other. 

A balket made of porcupine quills : the ground 
is a pack-thread caul woven, into which, by the In- 
dian women, are wrought, by a kind of lap-work, 
the quills of porcupines, not fplit, but of the young 
ones intire ; mixed with white and black in even 
and indented waves. Crew's Mtifarum. 

LA'RBOARD. n.f. 

The left-hand lide of a (nip, when you ftand 
with your face to the head : oppofed to the far. 
*Mf' . Harris. 

Or when UlylTes on the Itsfltoard ihunn'd 
Charybdis, and by the other whirlpool fteer'd. 

Miltm. 

Tack to the larboard, and ihnd off to fea, 
Veer (larboard fea and land. Dryden* 

LA'RCENV. n.f. [larcin,fr. latrocimum, 
Latin.] Petty theft. 

Thofc laws would be very unjuft, that fliould 
chaftife murder and petty larctny with the fame 
punifhment. Sfeflahr. 

LARCH, n.f. [larix, Latin.] A tree. 

Some botanical ciiticks tell us, the poets have 
not rightly followed the traditions of antiquity, in 
metjmorphofrng the fitters of Phaeton into poplars, 
who ought to have been turned into larch trees } 
for that it is this kind of tree which flieds a gum, 
and is commonly found on the banks of the Po. 

Addijon on Italy. 
LARD. n.f. \lardum, Latin; lard, Fr.] 

1. The greafe of fwine. 

So mny thy parrures with their flow'ry feafb, 
As fujdcnly as lard, fat thy lean hearts. Dame. 

2. Eacon ; the flefh of fwine. 

By this the boiling ketilc had prepar'd, 
And to the table fcnt the fmoaking lard; 
On which with eager appetite they dine, 
A fav'ry bit, that ferv'd to relirti wine. Dr?<ic. 

The facrifice they fpcd ; 

Chopp'd ofT their nervous thighs, and next.prcpar'i 
T' jnvolvc the lean in cauls, and mend with lard. 

Drydcn. 

^LARD. <v. a. [larder, French; from 
the noun.] 
i. To ftuiT with bacon. 

The larded thighs on loaded altars laid. Drydtr., 
No man lanh f.ilt pork with orange peel, " 
Or g.irniflics his lamb with fpitch-cockt eel. Kinr 
z. To fatten. 

Now FalftatT fweats to death, 
And lards the Iran earth as he walks along. Sbak. 

Brave foldicr, doth he lie 
LjrJirg the plain ? Sta^jfean', Htr.ry V. 

3. To mix with fomething elfe by way 
of improvement. 

An exaft command, 
Larded with many feveral forts of rcafons. Siak. 

Let no alien interpofc 

To hrit with wit thy hungry Epforo profe, Dryd. 
C He 



L A R 

He UrJi with flour! ihes his long harangue, 
'Tis fine, tay'ft thou. Oryeten. 

Swearing by heaven ; the poets think thii no- 
thing, their play re fo much larcUJ with it. 
Calliei's V'uvi / Itt Stage. 

LA'RDE*. n. f. [lardier, old French; 
from lard.} The room where meat is 
kept or falted. 

This fimilitude is not borrowed of the lardtr 

houfe, but out of the fchool houfe. Afchtm. 

Fledi is ill kept in a room that is not cool ; 

whereas in a cool and wet Urdtr'a. will keep longer. 

Baccn. 

So have I fcen in lardtr dirk, 
Of veal a lucid loin. I>t _'.:. 

Old age, 

Morofe, perverfe in humour, diffident 
The more he ftill abounds, the lefs content : 
His larder ami his kitchen too cM- 
And now, left he ftould want hereafter, ftarves. 

King. 

LA'RDERER. n. f. [from larder.} One 
who has the charge of the larder. 

LJ'RDON. a./. [French.] A bit of 
bacon. 

LARGE, adj. [large, French ; largus, 



Latin.] 
1. Big ; bulky. 



ig , 

Charles It. alked me, \Vhnt couM be the reafon, 
that in mountainous countries the in-'n were com- 
monly larger, and yet the cat:L- of all forts fmaller .' 

Great Theron, large of limbs, of 

drfitn 

Warwick, Leicefter, and Buckingham, hear a 
large boned fliecp of the beft (hape and deepeft 

Mirtinur, 



2. Wide; extenfive. 

Their former large peopling was an effect of tho 
countries impoverifliing. Carcw's Survey. 

Let them dwell in the land, and trade therein ; 
for it is large enough for them. Gen. xxxiv. 2 1 . 

There he conquered a thoufand miles wide am 
Itrgtt Abbot's Dtf. riftion nf the Werld, 

3. Liberal; abundant; plentiful. 

Thou malt drink of thy fitter's cup deep and 
large. Extkltl 

Vernal funs and mowers 
Diffufe their warmcft, largtji influence. TLotnf.n 

4. Copious ; diffufive. 

Skippon gave a large teftimony under his hand 
th.it lliey had carried thtrnfcivcs with great civility 

(.',',. 

I might be very large upon the importance an; 
advantages of education, and fay a great many thing 
which have been faid before. Felttn in tit Clafliet!, 

5. At LARGE. Without rellraint j with- 
out confinement. 

If you divide a cane into two, and one fpeak a 
the one end, and you lay your ear at the other, i 
will carry the voice farther than in the air at large 

Bai.n 

Thus incorporeal fpirits to fmalleft forms 

Reduc'd their (hapcs immenfe; and were at lergr 

;1> without number ftill. Miln* 

The children are bred up in their fathers' way 

or fo plentifully provided for, that they are left a 

large. f-'fi-ati 

Your zeal becomes importunate ; 
I've hiiheno permitted it t ) rave 
And tilk at larfe^ but learn to keep it in, 
Left it Ihould take more frecdjm than I'll give 'it 

6. At LARGE. Diffufely ; in the full ex- 
tent. 

Rifcover more at large what caufe that was, 
For I m ignorant, and cannot guefs. SI .' 

It docs not belong to this place to have that poin 
debated at large. }f' u :ts 

LA'RCELY. aJv. [from large.] 
i* Widely ; extenfively. 



L A R 

. Copioufly; diffufely; amply. 

Where the author treats more larg'ty, it mill 
explain the fhorter hints and brief intimations. 

Wattt <,n tbt MM. 
. Liberally ; bounteoufly. 

How he lives and cats : 
How largely gives ; how fplendidly he treats. Dryd. 

Thofe, who in warmer climes complain 
From Phabus' rays they futfer pain, 
Muft own, that pain is largely paid 
By gcn'rouj wines beneath the (hade. Swift. 

4. Abundantly ; without fparing. 

They their fill of love, and love's difport, 
Took larg. ly ; of their mutual guilt the feal. Milton. 
A'RCLNESS. n.f, [from large.} 

1. Bigncfs ; bulk. 

London excels any other city in the whole 
world, either in largtnefs, or number of inhabitants. 

Sfratt. 

Nor muft Bumaftus his old honours lofe, 
In length and largtnefi like the dugs of cows. Diyd 

2. Greatnefs; comprehenfion. 

TheiL- will be occafion for largemfs of min.i and 
agreeablcnefs of temper. Collier of Frtendjbip 

3. Extenfion ; amplitude. 

They which would file away mod from the large- 
titfi of that offer, do in moft fparing terms acknow- 
ledge little lefs. Htokcr. 

The ample propofition that hope makes, 
In :i!l defigns b:gun on earth below, 
Falls in the promis'd largcmp. Sb.:' 

Knowing beft the largertrfs of my own heart to- 
ward my people's good aud juft contentment. 

Kir;: ' 

Shall grief contract the fargiacfs of that heart, 
In which nor fear nor anger has a pa:t ? ffa/lfi: 

Man as .far tranfcends the beafts in tarfete/l ol 
dtfire, as dignity of nature and employment. 

If the largmcfs of a man's heart carry him be- 
yondSprudence, we may reckon it illuftrious weak- 
ncfs. L'EJIrangi 

4. Widenefs. 

Suppofing that the multitude and largcuefi o: 
rivers ought to continue as great' as now; we can 
eafily prove, that the extent of the ocean could be 
no lefs. Btntley 

LA'RCESS. n. f. [targt/t, French.] A 
prefent; a gift ; a bounty. 

Our coffers with too great a court, 
And liberal largifs, are grown fomewhat light 

Sba'l 

He affigned two thoufar.d ducats, for a bount; 
to me and my fellows : for they give gre.it 
where they come. Baccr.'s '. 

A pardon to the captain, and a largrji 
Among the foldiers, had apwas'd their fury. Dfnlarr. 

The paltry Itrgcfs too feverely watch'd, 
That no intruding guefts ufurp a (hare. Dryjtn 
Irus's condition will not admit of largrjjls. Addij 
LARGI'TION. n.f. \largitio, Lai.] Th< 
aft of giving. Difi 

LARK. n.f. [lapepce, Saxon; Itrk, D.i 
nifh ; la-iirack, Scottiih.] Afmallfing 
ing bird. 

It was the lark, the herald of the morn- Stat 
Look up a height, ths Ihrill-gorg'd lari [j far 
Canr.ot be feen or heard. Skttkcfo. Kivg Lear 

'I'll' i'.imple of the hcav'uly lark, 
Thy fellow poet, Cowlcy, mark, Cc-ur/y 

Mark how the lark and linnet iirg ; 

With riv.i! " ;. 
They ftrajn their waibling throats, 

To weleomc in the fprr. Drydcn 

LA'RKtR.. n.f. [from lark.} A catcher o 

larks. D 

LA'RKSPUR. n.f. [delphinium.] A plant 
LA'RVATED.^'. [lar<valus,Lac>..] Marked 

LA'RUM. n.f. [froth alarum or alarm.} 
i. Alarm; nolle noting danger. 



LAS 

His /drum bell might loud and wide be heard, 
When caufc recjuir'd, but never out of time. .*>; 

The peaking cornute, her hulband, dwelling in 
a continual larum of jealoufy, comes to me in ths 
inftant of our encounter. Sbaltejpeartt 

How far off lie thefe armies ? 
.Within a mile and half. 

Then fliall we hear their larum, and they ours. 

Sbaktftxan. 

She is become formidable to all her neighbours, 
as (he puts every one to (land upon his guard, and 
have a continual larum bell in his ears. //./. 

2. An iiiltrument that makes a noife at a 
certain hour. 

Of this nature was that larum, which, though 
it were but three inches big, yet would both wake 
a man, and of itfelf light a candle for him at airy 
let hour. ft'' 

I fee men as lufty and ftrong that eat but two 
meals a day, as others, that have fct their fton 
like larutns, to call on them for four or five. 

The young ./Eneas, all at once let down, 
Stunn'd with his gidJy larum half the town. 

Du 

LARY'NCOTOI.IY. n. /. [\i' s -!/-> and . 
laryngotomie, French.] An operation 
where the fore-part of the larynx is 
divided to afiiit refpiration, during large 
tumours upon the upper parts; as in a 
quinfey. S^uincy. 

LA'RVNX. n. /. [t.xcvrZ-] The upper 
part of the trachea, which lies belo.v 
the root of the tongue, before the 
pharynx. l^uiacy. 

There are thirteen mufcles for the motion of 
the five cartilages of the larynx. Derijin. 

LASCI'VIENT. adj. [la/ci-vient, Latin.] 

Frolickfome ; wantoning. 
LASCIVIOUS, adj. [la/civui, Latin.] 

1. Lewd ; luftful. 

In what habit will you go along ? 
Not like a woman j for I would prevent 
The loofe encounters of lafcii-icus men. Staktff. 

He on Eve 

Began to cart laf-lv'uus eyes; flie him 
As wantonly repaid ; in lull they burn. 

Notwithstanding all their talk of reafon and 
philofophy, and thofe unanswerable difficulties 
which, over their cups, they pretend to have ai,aiu(t 
chriftianity ; perfuade but the covetous inan not 
to Jcify his rr,..'Kcy, the l,ifcif':<iui man to throw 
off his lewd amours and :.li their giant-like objec- 
tions againft chriftianity fliall prcfently vanirti. 

2. Wanton; foft ; luxurious. 

Grim vif.ig'd war hath fmooth'd his wrinkl'd 

front ; 

And nnw, inftead of mounting barbed Heeds, 
To fright the fouls of fc.irful advcifaries, 
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, 
To the IjfcrjiKi! pleaJing of a lute. Stjktfftere. 
LASCJ'VIOUSNESS. n f. [ijomlafci'vious.] 
Wanlanncf?; loofenefs. 

The n.al'on pretended by Auguflus was the laf. 
ci-vkuf-.rji cf his Elegies, and his Art of Love. 

. Ovut. 
LASCIVIOUSLY, aa'u. [from lajf.i'vteus.] 

Lcttdly; wantonly; loofely. 
LAbH. n.f. [The rooft probable etymo- 
lopv'cf thii word feeros to be that of 
Skinner, from fc biagiu, Dutch, to lliikc; 
wheiHry!V)/A> and I a ft.*.} 
I. A ftroke with any thing pliant and 
tough. 
From'hcnce are heard the groans of Cherts, the 

Of founding lafan, and of Jrairgint; chains. />/_>.'. 

Rou;.'d by the lajb of Ms own (hibborn tail, 
Our lion saw wiii foreign I'gct aflail. Z>iW<-n. 

z. The 



LAS 

z. The thoog or point of the whip which 
gives the cut or blow. 

H.T w'.vp -:" cricket's bor.e, her Isfo of film, 

- 

\ oblsrved that your wiiip want.-d a l.-jb to it. 

Ai. - 

^. A leafh, or firing in which an animal 
is he'd ; a fnare : OIK of ufe. 

The farmer they leave in ti,: 
With loiTes on every tide. 1'tijf-r'i Hufianiry. 

jj.. A llroke of fatire ; a farcafm. 

The moral is a lajb at the vanity of arrogarH,; 
t ourieives wh;ch luc^reds well. Z/'r 

7VLASH. <v. a. [from the noun.] 

1. To llrike wi-.h-any thing pliar.t; to 
fcourge. 

i. -'ers o'er the fcas n; 

?r- weening rags of France. Sbak. 
He charg'd the rl imcs, and thole that difobej'd 
.;ht. Dryder.. 
' on by fate, 

Drfdcn. 
, .,: ..) i, UI::!;E h.Trl, 

rirjutlt. 

Leaning > n tr hvce, \r~ m writs his car, 
Hi- liery f<mder*tr/Hrtg through the air. Gartl*. 

2. To move with a iudden fpring or jirk. 

'1 hcclub hung round lv. c cars, and batter' a 
He fills ; and /.yi/rj up his heeis, his rider throvts. 

Dry din. 

3. To beat ; to ftnke with a (harp found. 

The winds gr.,w h'gh, 
ImpenJlng tempef^ charge the Iky ; 
The lightning fiies, th; thunder rna's, 
Ar.d big waves !cjh the frighted Aores. Pikr. 

4. To Icourge with fatire. 

Could penfion'd BoUeau lajb in honcft fttaia, 
urs and bigots even in Louis' rejgn. Pvpi. 

5. To tie any thing down to the fide or 
mad of a (hip : properly to lace. 

To LASH. <v. H. To ply the whip. 

They lajb aloud, each other they provoke, 
And hnd their little Jbuls nt ev'ry ftroke. Dry Jin. 

Gentle or (harp, according to thy choice, 
To laugh at follies, or to l.ijb at vice. Dryrlen. 
Let men out of their way lajb on ever (i fait, 
they are not at all the nearer their journey's end. 

Scutb. 
Wheels claih with wheels, and bar the narrow 

ftreet ; 
The Ijjiing whip refounds. Gay': 

LA'SHLR. n.f. [from lajk.} One that 
v. hips or blhe?. 

. n.f. [from latfh formed laddcfs, by 
contradVion lafs. Hickes.~\ A girl; a 
rnaid ; a young woman : ufed now only 
of mean girls. 

Now was the time for vig'rous lads to fliow 
What love or honour could invite them to ; 
A goodly theatre, where rock> are round 
With reverend age, and lovely laffn crown'd. 

I 

A girl was worth f >rty cf "ur v.-idov.-s ; and an 
i:onc!t, donmight, plain-ccalirg laft it was. 

ISZJjrengc. 

They fometimes an hafty kifs 
Steal from unwary lajfu ; they with fcorn, 
And neck reclin'd, refent. Philip;. 

ITUDE. n.f. [lajjlludo, Latin ; laffi- 
tude, French.] 

i. Wearinefs ; fatigue; the pain arifing 
from hard labour. 

L:i/:tudt it remedied by bathing, or anointing 

with oil and warm water ; fr all iaj/iiudt is. kind 

of contufion and cornprerti'in of the part: ; and 

.nj and anointing give a relaxation or emulij- 

tion. Bacon'i A'aturat Hijlcry. 

A/Cduity in cogitation is mnre than our enibo- 

. m bear without tajjitude or diftemp'r 

GUmuH'l Silfjii 



LAS 

She lives ana bleeds in n'r ; the largencfs -tnd 

lightnefs of her wings and tail fuftain her without 

: fit. M: re's Artidlte agahjt Atbeifn. 

~Do not over-fatigue the fphits, kit the mind be 

..ie, and thereby be tempted to 

naufeate, and grow tired. fVatts. 

From mouth and nofe the briny tortent ran, 

11 \n'!alT:'ade lay all the man. Pofis Otfyf. 
2. [In phyfuk ] 

':stt!c generally expreffe; that wcarinefs which 

proceeds f/om 'a tiiltempered ftate, and not from 

exf-cife, which wants no remedy but reft : it pro- 

- bulk, from a diminution 

of pro; n,or from too gre.it a conrninp- 

;i]iry to maintain the fpring of 

the ^blids, a> in fevers ; or from a vitiated (ecretion 

of that juice, wheieby tiie iibrcs are not fupplicd. 

{u;ticy. 

LA'SSLORN. . /. \Jafs and lorn.} For- 
faken by his midrefs. Not ufed. 

Brown groves, 

Whaf.; flndw th: Jifn:ilTi.d h.itchelor l;>vcs, 
Bel- , .'i TcKp'fti 

LAST. " 7i. f. [!awjT-r, Saxon; loetjle, 
Dutch.] 

1. Latert; that which follows all the reft 
in time. 

Why nreyc the 'hfl to bring tnckingback? 5flwi7. 
O, mvi feme I'park of yur celcltiil fire, 

:ji, the meaneit, of your fens infpire ! Pope. 

2. Hindmoft ; which follows in order of 
place. 

'on purfued at greater diftance itiil, 
I " t.i":-: Admctu;, tliy unhappy Ion. Pope. 

3. Beyond which there is no more. 

I will (lay the /! of them with the Iword. -jlmos. 

Unhappy (lave, and pupil to a bell, 
Unhappy to thek/7 the kind rcleafing knell. CMU//V. 

The fwans, that on Cayltcr often try'd 
Their tuneful fongs, now fung their loll, aud 

! may fam'd Brunfwick br the hf!, 
The lap, the happieft Britilh king, 
Whom thou flialt paint, or } (hall ling. 

liut, w'jile I take my /<.y? adieu, 
Heave thou no figh, nor ihed a tear. /'/, r. 

Here, Ijft of Britons, let your names be read. 

ifift. 

Wit not alone hjs mon- on ag"s part, 
But liglits the prefcnt, and fiijll wiim tic lejl. 

4. The loweft ; the roenn'pfl. 

Antitochns 

,anil takv, itivjth 

c,. Next before the prefent ; as, ntjl 

6. Utmofl. 

Fools ambttioudy contend 
For wit and pow'r ; their lajl endeavour- bend 
T' outfhine each other. Dry Jin's Lucrci'ms. 

7. At LAST. In conclufion ; at the end. 

Gad, a troop (hill ovtfCl :ae him ; but he fliall 
overcome at the lajl. <-^. Jiltx. ^9. 

Thus weather-cock's, that fur a while 
urn'd about with tv':y bi.iii, 

GIM -oil, 

Ruft to a point, arrd fi" at /aft. 

8. The LAST ; the end. 

All politicians chew on wifdom pair, 
And blunder on in bufinefs to the l,:ft. Pope. 

LAST. adv. 

1. The laft time; the time next before 
the prefent. 

How long is't now fince /.</? yourf-If nnd T 
Were in a malk? 

When /<j/? l-d;J'd, and, dMr ! I 
As often as from tliee 1 go, 

1 can remember yet that I 

Something did fay, and fomething did beftow. 

DoHge. 

2. In conclufion. 

I', .ttd-wi-h his idol, he commends, admires, 
Adores ; ar.4 .'i//, the thing ador'd defircs. >>yrl. 



L A T: 

v ?'o LAST. v. . [Isj-tan, Saxon.] To 
endure; to continue; to perfevere. 

All man lofting than beautiful. Sidney. 

I thought it agreeable to my affeftion to your 
grace,, to prefix your name before the efTays : for 
the Latin volume of them, being in the univerfal 
language', may hft as long as books /aft. Bacw. 

\\'ith fever*! degrees of laf.'iFg, ideas are im- 
printed on the memory. Lcckr. 

Thefe are (landing marks of facts delivered by 

thofe who were eye-witneffes to them) and which 

wsre contrived with great wifdom to laft till time 

fiiould be no more. Ad,l-J r.. 

LAST. n.f. [Isep:, Saxon.] 

l. The mould on which (hoes are formed. 

The cobler is not tTgo beyond his laft. L'E/lrangc. 

A cobler produced fevcr^l new grins, having been 
ufed to cut faces over his lc.fl. shtdifcn's Sptfiator. 

Should the bijr lajl extend the (hoe too wide, 
Each (tone would wrench th' unwary ftep afide. Gay. 
z. [La/7, German.] A load; a certain 

weight or meafure. 
LA'STLRY. n.f.' A red colour. 

The bafhful bbod her fnowy checks did fpread, 
Th ~,t her became as poliih'd ivory, 

Which cunning craftfman's hand hath overlaid 
With fair vermilion, of pure lajliry. Sfenjei: 

LA'STAGE. n.f. [leJJage,fr. la/tagtt,>at. 
J)la;r*c, Sax.' a load.] 

1. Cullom paid for freightage. 

2. The ballaft of a fliip. 
LA'STIKG. farticipial adj. [from //?.] 

1. Continuing; durable. 

Every violence offered weakens and impairs, and 
renders the body lefs durable and lafiirg. Ray. 

2. Of long continuance ; perpetual. 

WUite parents may have bhck children, as negroes 
fometimes have /lifting white ones. Boyle en Colours. 

The grateful work is done, 
Ths feeds of difcord fow'd, the war begun: 

, fears, and fury, have poflefc'd the ftate, 
And fix d the caufes of a lajling hate. Dryden. 
A finew crack jd feldom recovers its former 
:i, and the memory of it leaves a lajling cau- 
tion in the man, not to put the part quickly again, 
to any robuft employment. Locke. 

LA'STINOLY. aet-v. [from /afling.'] Per- 
petually ; durably. 

LA'STI::ON-RSS. n.f. [fron\lajfig.] Dur- 
. abler.cfs; continuance. 

All more laft'mg thiiybcrtutlful, but that the con- 
firleration of the exceeding !i:jl:"\\i"jl made the e\c 

. c -it v.'.ts exr : ,il. ' 

ContHcr ;' '' '. motions rx:ited in 

the bottom of the eye by light. K.vutcm'sOpticks. 
LA'STLY. ad-v. [from laf,\ . 

1. In the laft place. 

I wil! juftify the qirn-rel ; fccoml'y, ruUncc tjie 
forces; and, Ijft/y, propound variety of del" 
choice, but not advifc the choice. 

2. In the conclufion ; aHaft; finally. 

LATCH: ."/: \_htfe, Dutch; /*<</,, 

Italian.] A catch of a door moved by 
a firing, or a handle. 

The latch mov'd up. Gay's Paf.aral:. 

Then comes roTy heal th from hfr cottage of thatch, 
Where never phydcian had lifted the latch. Smart. 
To LATCH. <v. a. [from the noun.] 

1. To fatten with rt Intch. 

tic hv! (lirngth tn reach his father's houfe : tlie 
door w,V> only latched; and, when he had the latch 
in l.is hanJ, he turned about his head to fee his 
purfucr. Lacte. 

2. [Lecl>er y French.] To fmear. 

But haft thou yet latch' d the Athenian's eyes 
With the love juice, as 1 did bid thee do ? Shalt 
LA'TCHES. n.f. 

Latches or lafkets, in a (hip, arc fmall lines like 

loops, fattened by Is wing into the bonnets and 

C 2 Urablcrs 



L A. T 

dr 'biers of > (hip, in order to lace the bonnets to 
the rourfe,or the dnblcrs to the bonnets. Harm. 

LA'TCHET. n f. [lacct, French.] The 
llnrg that fallens the (hoe. 

There cometh one mightier than I, the lactet 
of whole ihoci 1 am not worthy to unloofc. 

Mart, i. 7. 

LATE. adj. [Iser, Saxon; /act, Dutch; 
in the comparative lattir or later, in 
the fupcrlative latejt or laji. Lajl is 
abfolute and definite, more than lattft.] 

1. Contrary to early ; flow; tardy; long 
delayed. 

My hading days fly on with full career, 
But my late fpring no bud nor bloflbm flicweth. 

Milan. 

Juft was the vengeance, and to latrft days 
Shail long poltcriry icluund thy praifc. 

Poft', Odyfiy. 

2. Lad in any place, office, or character. 

All the difference between the late fervants, and 
thofe who ft iid in the family, w.v, that thofe latter 
were fi.ier gentlemen. MJij*r.' i ."'/ 

3. The deceafed : as, the works of the late 
Mr. Pope. 

4. Far in the day or night. 
LATE. ad-v. 

1. After long delays ; after a long time. 
It K ufed often with too, when the pro- 
per time is pall. 

boy ! thy father gave thee lift too foon, 
And hath bereft thee ef thy life too late. Hbakeff. 

A fccond Silvurs after thcfc appears, 
Mivius /neas, for thy name he bears: 
For arms and jufticc equally renown'd, 
Who/art reftor'd in Alba (hall be crown'd. Dryd. 

He laughs at all the giddy turns of (late, 
When mortals Icarch too loon, and fear too late. 

Drjin, 

Tt'e la'.er it is before any one comes to have thcfe 
ideas, the I0er alfo will it be befoie he comes to 
thofc maxims. Lcckc. 

1 might have fpar'd his lire, 
But now it is tea late. Pbi/ifs's Dijireft Mother. 

2. in a later feafon. . 

To make rofes, or other flowers, come late, is an 
experiment of picafure ; for tht ancients efteemed 
much of the rola fcra. Bacsn's Natural Hiftory. 

There be feme flowers which come more early, 
and others which come more la'-e, in the year. 

Bacan'i Natural Hiflmy, 

3. Lately ; not long ago. 

They arrived in that pleafant ifle, 
Where fleeping late, Ae left her other knight. 

Sfenfcr. 

In reafon's abfence fancy wakes, 
Ill-matching words and deeds long parr or late. 

Milton. 

The goddefs with indulgent cares, 
And focial joys, the late transform'd repairs. Pope. 

from frefh pafrures, and the dewy ncld, 
The lowing herds return, and round them throng 
With leaps and bounds the late imprifon'd young. 

J'-.f. . 

4. Far in the day or night. 

Was it fo late, friend, ere you went to bed, 
That you do lie fo late t 

bir, we were caroufing till the fecond cock. 

Skaitffearc. 

T.jte the nclurnal facrifice begun, 
Nor enHed till the next returning (un. Diydcn. 

5. Of late; lately; in times pad; near 
the prefect. Lali in .this phrafe feems 
to be an adjfdtive. 

Who but felt ef late f Milten. 

Men have of late made ufe of a pendulum, as a 

more Iteady regulator. Lotke. 

LA'TED. adj. [from/a/.] Belated; iur- 

prifed by the n^ght. 

1 am fo lateJ in the world, that I 

tny way for ever. Stake/peart. 



L A T 

The weft glimmers with Come ftreaks of day t 
Now fpurs the hied traveller apace 
To gain the timely inn. Sbaktfpeare'i Macbeth. 

LA'TELY. ad-v. [from late.] Not long 
ago. 

Paul found a certain Jew named Aquila, lately 
come from Italy. Jn,, xviii. i. 

LA'TEN-ESS. n.f [from //.] Time far 
advanced. 

L.utrtfs in life might bs improper to begin the 
wjrld with. Sviift it Gay. 

LA'TEKT. adj. [latent, Latin.] Hidden; 
concealed ; fecret. 

If we look into its retired movements, and more 
fecret latnir fprings, we may there trace out a fteady 
hand producing good out of evil. ffnJwertl. 

Who drinks, alas ! but to forget ; nor fees, 
That melancholy llith, fcvere difeafc, 
Mem'ry confui'd, and interrupted thought, 
Death's harbingers, lie latent in the draught. Pr'ar. 

What were Wood's vifible cofts I know not, and 

what were his/jf.-uf is variouflyconjefkured. Sivift. 

LATERAL. aJj. [lateral, French ; late- 

ralis, Latin.] 

i. Growing out on the fide; belonging 
to the fide. 

Why may they not fprtad their lateral branches 
till their distance from the centre of gravity deprefs 
them ? R ay . 

The fmalicfl veflels, winch carry the blood by 
lateral branches, feparate the nctt thinner fluid or 
fcrum, the diameters of which -lateral branches arc 
lefs than the diameters of the blood-vcfll-is. 

Arbutknet ca Aliment!. 

z. Placed, or afting on the fide. 

Forth rufli the Levant, and the ponent winds 
Eurus and Zephyr, with their lateral noife, 
Sirocco and Libecchio. Milton. 

LATERA'LITY. n.f. [from lateral.] The 
quality of having dilHnft firies. 

We may reafonably conclude a right and left 
laterally in the ark, or naval edifice of Noah. 

Brown. 

LA'TERALLY. ad-v. [from lateral.'] Ey 
the fide ; fidewi/e. 

The days are fct laterally againft the columns of 
the golden number. Haider on Taint 

LA'TEWARD. ad-v. [late and peapb, Sax.] 

Somewhat late. 

LATH. n. f. [latra, Saxon; late, latte, 

French.] A fmall long piece of wood 

ufed to fupport the tiles of houfes. 

With dagger of latb. Sbakefptart. 

Penny-royal and orpin they ufe in the country to 

trim their houfes ; binding it with a Ajri or ftiek, 

and fetting it againft a wall. Bacon's Nat.IM. 

Laths are made of heart of oak, for outride 

work, as tiling and plaiftcring ; and of fir far infide 

plaiftering, and pantile lathing. Moan. 

The god who frights away, 

With his latb fword, the thieves and birds of prey. 

Dtjdtn. 

To LATH. a/, a. [latter, Fr. from the 
noun.] To fit up with laths. 

A fmall kiln confifts of an oaken frame, If tied 
on every fide. Mortinur's Ilu/kar.dry. 

The plaiftcrer's work is commonly done by the 
yard Iquare for lathing. Mortimer's Hujbar.dry. 
LATH. n.f. fix's, Saxon. It is explained 
by Du Cange, 1 Alppofe from Sfclman, 
Portia comilatui major trcs vet flu res bun- 
dredas conlinens : this is apparently con- 
trary to Sfenftr, in the following ex- 
ample.] A part of a county. 

If all that tything failed, then all that latb was 
charged for th.it tything; and it' the Litb failed, 
then all that hundred was demanded for them ; and 
if the hundred, then the ihire, who Would not reft 
till they had found that undutiful fellow, which 
was not amclnaUe to law. tfer't Irelaxd. 



L A T . 

The fee-firms refcrved upon charters granted t* 
cities and towns corporate, and the blanch rents and 
latb filver anfwercd by the flicrift'i. 
LATHE, n.f. The tool of a turner, by 
which he turns about his matter fo as to 
fhape it by the chizel. 

Thofr black circular lines we fee on turned vefleli 
of wood, are the effects of ignition, caufed by the 
preflure of an cdgi,d ftick U(t tnrnt'4 

nimbly in the /.. Ray. 

To LA'THER. v. n. [leSrian* Sax.] 'la 
form a foam. 

Chufe water pure, 
Such as will latter cold with foap. Baynara 1 * 

To LA'THER. v. a. To cover with foam 

of water and foap. 
LA'THER. n.f. [from the verb.] A foam 

or froth made commonly by beating 

foap with water. 
LATIN, adj. [Latiaus.] Written or fpoken 

in the language of the old Romans. 
Auguftus himiclf could not nuke a new Latim 

word. 
LA TIN. n.f. An exercife prailifed by 

fchool-boys, who turn Englifh into 

Latin. 
In learning farther his fyntaxis, he (nail not ofe 

the common order in ichools for making of Latin. 

Slf.iam. 

LA'TINISM. n.f. [latinifme, French; la- 
tinifwus, low Latin.] A Latin idiom; a 
moiie of fpeech peculiar to the Latin. 

Milton has made ufe of frequent tranfpolitions, 
Lafiriftns, antiquated words and phrafcs, that he 
jnii;ht the better deviate from vulgar and oi 
eJprcflions. Addi^a. 

LA'TINIST. n.f. [from Latitt ] One 
(killed in Latin. 
Oldham was cor.fijercd as a good Latin'ft. 

OUiam's Life. 

LATI'NITY. ._/". [Infinite, French ; la- 
tinitat, Latin.] Parity of Latin ftile; 
the Latin tongue. 

If Shakefpeare v. as able to read Plautns with eafe, 

nothing in Latinity could be hard to him. Dcxnis. 

To LA'TJNIZE. -v. a. [lafiaifer, French; 

from Latin.] To ute words or phrafes 

borrowed from the Latin. 

I am liable to be charged that I latinize too much. 

Drydtr.. 

He ufes coarfe and vulgar words, or terms and 

phrafc that are latinized, fcholaltkk, and hard t 

be underftood. 77 ';/;.. 

LA'TISH. adj. [from late. ] Somewhat late. 

LATIRO'STROUS. aJj. \latus and roJJrum, 

Latin.] Broad-beaked. 

In quadrupeds, in regard of the figure of their 
heads, the eyes are placed at feme diitoncc ; in lati- 
rt.flr-.us ar.d flat-billed birds, they are more laterally 
feated. Er:wn. 

LA'TITANCY. n.f. [from latitans, Lat.J 
Delitefcence ; the Hate of lying hid. 

In vipers (he has abridged their malignity by their 
fcctfiion or lutitancy. Brmva's yulgai Erraurs. 

LA'TITANT. adj. [latitans, Latin.] De- 
litefcent ; concealed ; lying hid. 

Snakes and lizards, laiitar.t many months in the 
year, containing a weak heat in a copious humid::;, 
dj long fvibllft without nutrition. Br.ivn. 

Force the fmall Lit'uaii: bubbles of air to difclofe 
themfclves and break. Style. 

It muft be fome other fubrtance loiitant in the 
fluid matter, and really difringuifhable from it. 

More. 

LATITA'TION. n.f. [from latito, Lat.] 

The ilate of lying concealed. 
LA'TITUDE. n.f. [latitude, French j /- 

tititdo, Latin.] 

1. Breadth; 



LAT 

, . Breadth ; width; in bodies of unequa 
dimenfions the fliorter axis ; in equa 
bodies the line drawn from right to left 
Whether the exact quadrat, or the long fquare, be 
the better, I find not well determined ; though 
mud prefer the latter, provided the length do no 
exceed the latitude above one third part. 7%A 

2. Room ; fpace ; extent. 

There is a difference of degrees in men's under 
/landings, to fo grejf a Ic-.tlrm'n, that one may affirm 
that there is a greater difference between fome me: 
and others, than between fomc raoi and beads. 

Ltd* 

3. The extent of the earth or heavens, 
reckoned from the equator to either 
pole : oppofed to longitude. 

We found curfeives in the latitude of thirty de- 
grees two minutes fouth. Swift. 

4. A particular degree, reckoned from the. 
equator. 

Another effect the Alps have on Geneva is, that 
the fun here rifes later and fets fooner than it does 
to other places of the fame latitude. Md:ji,r., 

5. Unrcllrained acceptation ; licentious or 
lax interpretation. 

In fuch la:i--jdes of fenfe, many that love me 
and the church well, may have taken the covenant. 

King Ctarles. 

Then, in comet the benign latitude of the doc- 
trine of good-will, and cuts al'under all thofe hard, 
pincing cords. South. 

6. Freedom from fettled rules ; laxity. 

In hum.m actions there are no degrees, and pre- 
cife natural limits defcribed, but a latitude is in- 
dulged. Taylor. 

i took this kind of verfe, which allows more la- 
titudc than any other. Dryde/i. 

7. Extent ; difFufion. 

Albertus, bifhop of Ratifbon, for his great learn- 
ing, and latitude of knowledge, funamed Magnus, 
bcfides divinity, hath written many tracts in phi- 
loibphy. B'Kiin. 

Mathematicks, in its latitude, is ufually divided 
into pure and mixed. WiHim. 

I pretend not to treat of them in their full lati- 
tude ; it fuffices to (hew how the mind receives them, 
from fecfation and reflection. Locke. 

LATITUDIN A'RIAN. adj. [latitudinatre, 
French ; latiludinarius, low Latin.] Not 
reftrained ; not confined; thinking or 
afting at large. 

Le.-iniJiaar'aa love will be expenfive, and there- 
fore I would be informed what is to be gotten by it. 
C'J'iir on Kiitdnefs. 

LATITUDIN A'RIAN. n.f. One who de- 
parts from orthodoxy. 
LA'TRANT. adj. [latrans. Lat.] Barking. 

Thy care be full the various gifts to trace, 
The minds and scnius of the latrext race. Tickell. 

L ATRIA, *./ [^Tp.* ; latrie, Fr.] The 
highellkindofworfhip: diilinguifhed by 
the papifh from Julia, or inferior worfhip. 
The practice of the catholick church makes ge- 
nuflection;, prof! rations, fupplications, and other 
acts of latria to the crofs. StiUmrJitct. 

LA'TTEN. n.f. [leton, French; lateen, 
Dutch ; latt-wa, Welfh.J Brafs; a mix- 
ture of copper and calaminaris ftone. 

To make lamp-black, take a torch or link, and 
hold it under the bottom of a latttn bafon, and, as 
it jroweth black within, (trike it with a feather into 
fome (hell. P tJL ham. 

LATTER, adj. [This is the compara- 
tive of /an, (hough univerfally written 
with //, contrary to analogy, and to our 
own practice in the fuperlative late/1. 
When the thing of which the compari- 
fon is made is mentioned, we ufe later ; 
as, this fruit it later than the reft ; but 



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latter when no comparifon is expreiTed 
but the reference is merely to time ; as 
tbofe are latter fruits. 

Volet ufus 

>uem penes arbitrium ejl, y <vit, & norm 

loquendi. ] 

. Happening after fomething elfe. 
, Modern ; lately done or part. 

Hath not navigation difcovered, in thcfe latte 
ages, whole nations at the bay of Soldania ? L;cke 
Mentioned fall of two. 
The difference between reafon and revelation, ar 
in what fenfe the latter is fuperior. H'.itt 

LA'TTERLY. adv. [from latter.] Of late 
in the lad part of life : a low word lately 
hatched. 

Latterly Milton was (hort and thick. Rictardfn 
LA'TTICE. . / [lattis, French ; b> 
jfunius written lettice, and derived from 
lire lepn, a hindring iron, or iron flop ; 
by Skinner imagined to be derived from 
latte, Dutch, a lath, or to be corrupted 
from tiettice or network : I have fome- 
timei derived it from let and eye ; leteyes, 
that which lets the eye. It may be de- 
duced from laterculus.] A reticulated 
window ; a window made with flicks or 
irons croffing each other at fmall dif- 
tances. 

My ?ood window of lattice, fare thee well ; thy 
cafement 1 need not open, ] look through thee. 



The mother of Siferj looked out at a window, 
and cried through the lattefs. J"'lg- v. 28. 

Up into the watch-tower get, 
And fee all thinfs defpoil'd of fallacies : 
Thou llult not peep through latticn of eyes, 
Nor hear through labyrinths of ears, nor learn 
By circuit or collections to difccrn. Donne. 

The trembling leaves through which he play'd, 
Dappling the walk with light and made, 
Like lattice windows, give the fpy 
Room but to peep with half an eye. Clraveland. 

To LA'TTICE. <v. a. [from the noun.] To 
decuffate, or crofs ; to mark with crofs 
parts like a lattice. 

LAVA'TION. a. /. [/avatio, Lat.] The 
aft of warning. 

Such filthy ftuffwas by loofe lewd varlcts fung 
before the chariot on the folcmn day of her lavatim. 

Hakfivill. 

LA'VATORY. n.f. [from Ia-vo, Latin.] 
A wafti ; fomething in which parts 
difeafed are warned. 

Lavatories, to waft the temples, hands, wrifts, 
and jugula/s, do potently profligate, and keep off 
the ven:jm. liarvty. 

LAUD. n.f. [l us , Latin.] 

1. Praife ; honour paid ; celebration. 

Doubtlefs, Ogueft, great taudand praife were mine, 
Reply'd the fwain, for fpotlefs faitk divine : 
If, after focial rites, and gifts beftow'd, 
I Itain'd my hol'pitable hearth with blood. Psfe. 

2. That part of divine worfhip which con- 
fids in praife. 

We have certain hymns and fervices, which we 
fay daily of laud and thanks to God for his mar- 
vellous works. BJKUI. 

In the book of Pfalms, the lauds make up a very 
great part of it. Gavcrnmir.t if tit Tttigu,. 

To LAUD. 11. a. [laudo, Lat.] To praife ; 
to celebrate. 

O thmi almighty and eternal Creator, having con- 
fidrred the heavens the work of thy fingers, the 
moon and the ftars whicn rhou haft ordained, with 
all the company of he.iven, we ijad and magnify 
thy glorious name. Btr.tLy. 

A'UUAB^E. adj. \laudalilis, Latin ] 



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1. Praife-worthy ; commendable. 

I'm in this earthly world, where to do harm 
Is often laudable ; but !o do good, fometlme 
Accounted dang'rous folly. Sbakcffeare'i Mace-elk* 

Affectation endeavours to correct natural defects, 
and has always the laudable aim of pleating, though 
it always miil'es it. L-^ke. 

2. Healthy ; falubrinus. 

Good blood, and a due projectile motion or sir- 
culation, are necefl'ary to convert the aliment into 
laudable animal juices. ArbutbiM. 

LA'UDABLENESS. n. f. [from laudable] 
Praife-worthinefs. 

LA'UDABLY. adv. [from laudable.] In 
a manner deferving praife. 

Obfolcte words imy be laur.ablt revived, when 
either they are founding or figniticant. Drydin. 

LA'UDANUM. n.f. [A cant word, from 
laudo, Latin. A foporifick tin&ure. 

To LAVE. v. a. [/a--jo, Latin.] 

1. To wafh ; to bathe. 

Unfafe, that we muft lave our honours 
Jn thefe fo flatt'ring ftreams. Sbak^care, 

But as I role ut of the laving ftream, 
Heav'n open'd her eternal doors, from whence 
The fpirit delcended on me like a dove. MUtin. 

With roomy decks, her guns of mighty flrciv-'ii, 
Whofe low-laid mouths each mounting billcAv/awj,. 

Deep in her draught, and warlike in her lengthj 
She feems a fea-wafp flying on the waves. Drydcn. 

2. [Le-ver, Fr.] To throw up ; to lade.; 
to draw out. 

Though hills were fet on hills, 
And leas met fcas to guard thee, I would through : 
I'd plough up locks, frecp as the Alps, in du(t, 
And la-vc the Tyrrhene waters into clouds, 
But 1 would reach thy head. Ben jfoafon. 

Some (tow their oars, or ftop the leaky fidss, 
Another bolder yet the yard beftrides, 
And folds the fails ; a fourth with labour laves 
Th' intruding feas, and waves ejects on waves. 



To LAVE. v. a. To wafh himfelf: to 
bathe. 

In her chafte current oft the goddefs laves, 
And with celeftial tears augments the waves. Pope. 
To LAVE'ER. o. n. To change the direc- 
tion often in a courfe. 

How eafy 'tis when dcftiny proves kind, 
With full- fpread fails to run before the wind : 
But thofe that 'gainft ftiff gales /jveerirg go, 
Mult be at once rcfolv d, and (kilful too. DryJin. 

LA'VENDER. n.f. \lavendula, Lat.] A 

plant. , 

It is one of the verticillate plants, whofe flower 
confirts of one leaf, divided into two lips : the upper 
lip, (landing upright, is roundiih, and, for the mo(t 
part, bifid ; but the under lip is cut into three feg- 
ments, which are almoll equal : thefc flowers are 
dilpofed in whorles, anj are collected into a (Vnder 
fpike upon the top of the (talks. Miller. 

The whole levaubr plant has a highly aromatick 
fmcll and taftc, and is famous as a ccphalick, ner- 
vous, and uterine medicine. Hill. 

And then again he turneth to his play, 
To fpoil the pleafures of that paradifc : 

The wholefomc fage, and lavender ftill grey, 
Rank fmelling rue, and cummin good for eyes. 

Sfenfcr. 

.A'VER. ./. [la-voir, Fr. from lave.] A 
wafjiing veflel. 

Let us go find the body where it lies 
Soak'd in his enemies blood, and from the (rreim 
With /avers pure, and deanfing herbs, walk off 
The clodded gore. Milton's AgMifct. 

He gave her to his daughters, to imbathc 
In nectar'd /avert ftew'd with afophodil. Milttn. 

Young Arctus from forth his bviihil bow'r 
Brought the full lavtr o'er their hands to poiir. . 

PC ft' i OfrfT. 

LAUGH, v. n, [Jjlajian, Saxon ; 

Iteoof, 



L A U 



L A U 



L A U 



laeben, Grrman tnd Dutch ; lad, Scot 
t.lh.] 

1. To make that noife which fudden mer- 
riment excites. 

You faw my rruflw wink aad hugl upon you. 


There's one did laugh in's deep, and one cried, 

Muithcr ! 
They wak'd each other. Skjkcfftjre. 

At this fulry ftufT 

The large Achilles, on his preft-bed lolling, 
.From his deep chelt 'jugki out a loud applaufe. 

Kba' 

Lai'gl'.r.g canfetkta continued cxpnlfion of the 
breatli with the loud noife, which niak'.-th the inter- 
jection of tjugLing, (haking of the b.*e;'.ft and fijcs, 
running of the eyes with wi:rr, if it be violent. 

,'j Natural Hijlcry. 

2. [In poetry.] To appear gay, favour- 
able, pleafant, or fertile. 

Entreat her not the worfe, in that I pray 
You ufe her well ; the \ ji- 3ga : n, 

And I may live to da you kindncl's, if 
You do it her. Staktj-.-jre'i llmry VI. 

Then Ijttgti tlie childilh year with 

crown d. 

The plenteous board, high-hejp'd will- catejd'vir.e, 
And o'er the foaming bowl the Iaugbii:g wine. I' ft . 

3. 7c LAUGH at. To treat with contempt; 
to ridicule 

Prefently prepare thy grave ; 
Lie where the light foam of the fea may beat 
Thy grave-ftone daily : make thine epitaph, 
That death in thec at others lives may i.u/gb. 

Sbaltfftarc. 

'Twere better for you, if 'twere not known in 
council ; you'll be laugbtJ at. Ktak'ffeare. 

ThediiTblutcmdab3ndoned,beforethey areaware 
of it, are betnyeJ to laagb at themfelvcs, and upon 
reflection find, that they are merry at their own ex- 
pence. MJifcn. 

No wit to natter left of all his (lore ; 
No tool t9 laugh at, which he valued more. Pope. 
7"<r LAUGH, -v. a. To deride ; to fcorn. 
Be bloody, bold, and refolute ; laugh to fcorn 
The pow'r of man. Shake/flare's Macbeth. 

A wicked foul (hall make him to be luugl'd to 
fcorn of his enemies. Ecdiu, vi. 4. 

LAUGH, n.f. [from the verb.] The con- 
vulfion caufed by merriment ; an inarti- 
culate exprrffion of fudden merriment. 

Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, 
Then hid in ftadci, eludes her eager (wain ; 
But feigns a laugh, to fee me feareh aiound, 
And by that laugb the willing fair is found. Pufe. 
LA'UCHABLE. adj. [from laugh.] Such 
as may properly excite laughter. 

Nature hath fram'd (Irange fc!K>ws in her time : 
Some that will evermore peep through their eye, 
And luagb like parrots at a bagpiper ; 
And others of (uch vinegar afpcft, 
That they'll not (how their teeth in way of fmile, 
Though Nellor fwear the jcft be !au 

Sbakefptarc. 

Cafaubon confedes Terfius was not good at turn- 
Ing things into aplcafant ridicule ; or, in other words, 
that he was not a latigkablt writer. Dryden. 

LA'UCHER. n.f, [from laugh."} A man 
fond of merriment. 

I am a common higher. Skal ff.-aie. 

Some fobci men cannot be of the general opinion, 

k.it the laurbtri are much the majority. fife. 

LA'UCHINCLY. adv . [from Utugb'ng. ] I n 

a merry way ; merrily. 
LA'UCHINGSTOCK n.f. \laugb vt\& flock ] 
A butt ; an ntject of ridicule. 

The forlorn maiden, \vhom your eyes have fcen 
The laifbmg-Jltcl ot' fortune's mockcrie. SfenJ'er. 

I'ray you, let us nut be layping-Jlests to other 
ifn's humours. Stjkrjpcare. 

Supine credulous frailty cxpofcs a nun to be b jth 
a frry ud laugbing-Jlask at once. L'Kflreng 



LA'COHTER. n.f. [from laugh.] Con- 
vullive merriment ; an inai ticulate cx- 
prcOion of fudden merriment. 

To be worft, 

The loweft, moft d^jeflcJ thing of f. : 
Stands dill in efpcrancc ; lives not in fear. 
Thr lamentable change is from the belt, 
Th? writ returns to favgbter. Stalttpare. 

The afl of Ijtighi.T, which is a fueet contrac- 
tion of th: mufcles of the face, and a pleafant agita- 
tion f the vocal organs, is not merely voluntary, or 
totally within the jurifdiftion of oun 

V,'c tind not that ti:e /aa^i.'tr-loving dame 
Mourn d for Anchifes. Walitr. 

Pain or pleafure, grief or '.atigbttr. frior. 

LA'VISH. adj. [Of this word I have been 
able to find no fatisfa&ory etymology. 
It may be plaufibly derived from to lave, 
to throw cut ; s prcfundere ofci, is to be 
la-vifi ] 

I. Prodigal; wafteful ; indifcreetly li- 
beral. 

His jolly brother, oppoiite in fenfe, 
Lati^Lj at iiib thrift ; and iavijh of'expence, 

crams, and guttks,' in his own defence. 



The dame his been too lamfi of her feaft, 

And fed him till he loaths. Rnue*s ^fane Sbore. 

2. Scattered in w.lle ; profufe : as, the 

ccft was lavijb, 
J. Wild ; unreilrair.er!. 

Bellona's brideg..> .m, Lipt in proof, 
Confronted him, cuibing his !ai>l{l.> fpirit. Sbtiktff. 
To LA'VISH. i/. . [from the acljetlive.] 
To fcatter with profufion ; to wafte ; 
to fquander. 

Should we thus lead them to a field pf (laughter, 
Mijln not th' impartial world with r.ai >n fay, 
We lav'ijh'd at our deaths the blood of thousands ? 

LA'VISHER. n.f. [from lavifa."\ A pro- 

digal : a profufe man. 
LA'VJSHLY. adv. [from lai>ijh.~\ Pro- 
ftifely ; prodigally. 

My father's purpifcs have been miftook 5 
And fome about him have too lavijijly 
Wrefted his meaning and authority. Sbakefptan. 
Then laughs the childilh year with flowrets 

cr.jwn'd, 
And /a-vijblj |-ci fumes the fields around. JJryJ.n. 

1'raifi: tu a wit is lil:e rain t ) a tender F; 
if it be moderately beftowcd, it cheers and n 
but if too lavjtyfj ove:charges and deprefles him. 

L*'VJSHMENT. 7 n.f. [from la-vijh.'] Pro- 
LA'VISHNESS. j digality ; profiilion. 

I irl got with guile, and then prefcrv'd with dread, 
And after (pent with pride and /avijb>:cfe. f'a'ny Qu. 

T^LAONCH. -v. n. [It is derived by Skin- 
ner from Ian e, becaufe a fhip is pufiied 
into water with great force.] 

1. To force a veflel into the fea. 

L.iuncb out into the deep, and let down your nets 
for a draught. Ltkf, v. 4. 

So (hort a Hay prevails ; 
He fion equips the (hip, fuytplics the . 
And gives the word to ,. 

For general hiftory, Raleigh and Howe! arc to be 
had. He who would L:,. into the ocean, 

; confult Whear. 

2. To rove at large ; to expatiate ; to 
make excurfions. 

From hence that gen'ral care and ftudy fprings, 
That launching and progreliion of the minJ. Djvict. 

Whoever purfues his own thoughts, will find them 
Liur.;h out beyond the extent of body into the infi- 
nity of fpace. L'.tkc. 

Spcnfcr has not contented himfelf with fubmifiive 
imitation : he tauncbts out intj very-flowery paths, 
whicil ftiU conduct him into one great road, fr'ar. 
'3 



He luj not aflcd in tlie character of a fuppliant, 

it" he had launched out into a long otalion. BIKKC. 

I have IjaixbeJ out of my fubjcft on this article. 

^4/-ii- 

7c LAUNCH, v. a. 
i . r l'o pu(h to fea. 

All art is ufed to fink epifcopicy, and 
prelbytery, in England. 

With ftajs and cordage lad he rigg'd me fliip, 
And roil'd on Icav ,' her in the deep. 

Pofl. 

2. To dart from the hand. This perhaps, 
for diftindion fake, might better be 
written lancb or lance. 

The King of Hcav'n, obfcure on high, 
Bar'd his red arm, and launching from tl.c fky 
His writhen bolt, not fluking empty frrutke, 
Down to the deep abyfs the flaming fellow Itroolc. 

/>)</:. 

LA-UND. n.f. \lanJe, Fr. lawn, Wel'fli.J 
Lawn ; a plain extended between woods. 

Hanmtr. 
Under this thick-grown brake we'll ihroud our- 

lelves, 

For through tliis latind anon the deer will come ; 
And in tins covert will we make our (rand. ! 

LA'UNDRESS. n.f. [IavaJiere, French; 
Skinner imagines that lavandareffic may 
have been the old word.] A woman 
whofe employment is to warn clothes. 

, The countefs of Richmond would often fry, 
On condition the princes of Chrirrendum wouij 
maich againft the Turks, (he would willingly at. 
tend them, and be their laundrejs. 

T.ike up thefe cloaths here quickly ; carry them 
U the laur.Jnf! in Datchet Mead. Sbakfyearc. 
The lauvdrtf; mufl be Cure to tear her (mocks In 
the walhing, and yet wjfli them but half. 
LA' UN DRY. n.f. [as if lavanderie .~\ 
i . The room in which clothes are walhed. 
The affairs of the family ought to be confulted, 
whether they concern the liable, dairy, the pantry, 
or Lmndry. S-wift. 

2. The aft or (late of wafhing. 

Chalky water is too fretting, as appeareth in 
laundiy cf cbaths, which -,\v:ir out apace. B.ictr,. 

LAVO'LTA. n.f. [la volte, French.] An 
old dance, in which was much turning 
and much capering. Hanmtr. 

1 cannot fmg, 

Nor heel the high hvat ; nor fweeten talk ; 
Nor play at fubtle games. Slat 

LA'UREATE.^'. [laureatut,Lat.] Decked 
or invelted with a laurel. 

Bid Amarauthus .ill hit, beauty fheJ, 
And daffodilliej fill their cups with tears, 
To ftrew the laurtate hcarfe where Lycid lies. 

Soft on her lap her laurcjte fon reclines. Pope. 
LA VREA'I ION. n.f. [from laureale.~\ It 
denotes, in the Scottilh univerfities, the 
adl or ftate of having degrees conferred, 
as they have in fome of them a flowery 
crown, in imitation of laurel among the 
ancienis. 

LA'URKL. n.f. [taurus, Lat. launer, Fr.] 
A tree, called alfo the cherry bay. 

The fjur-us or laurel of the ancients is affirmed 
by n.itnralifts to be \ :!ic bay tree. 

The /.^'_/, meed of mighty conquerors, 
Am! p.vt, F.:;. i ! 

The launl or cherry-bay, by cutting away the 
fide branches, will rife to a large tree. Mcrtrn.r. 
LA'URELED. adj. [ from laurel.] Crowned 
or decorated with laurel; laureate. 

Hcar'll thou the news ? my friend ! th' exprcft 

is dime 
With Ijurcli'il letters from the camp to Rome. 



Then 



LAW 

Then future ages with delight /hall fee 
How Plato's, Bacon's, Newton's, looks agree j 
Or in fair feries laurell'd b.wds be mown, 
A Virgil there, and here an Addifon. Pofc. 

LAW. n.f. [la s a, Saxon; lot, French; 

laugh, Erfe.] 
j. A rule of ailion. 

That which doth afiign uqjp each thing the kind, 
that which djth moderate the force and power, that 
which doth appoint the form and meafure of work- 
ing ; the Lime we term a law. lij.litr. 

Unhappy man ! to break the pious la-ws 
Of nature, pleading in his children's caufe. Drydcti. 

2. A decree, edift, itatute, orcuftom, pub- 
lickly eftablifhed as a rule of juftice. 

Ordain them laws, part fuch as appertain 
To civil juftice, part religious rites. Mdlon. 

Our nation would not give hius to the Iri/h, 
therefore now the Iriih gave uws to them. Dailies. 

3. A decr.e authoritatively annexing re- 
wards or punifhments to cenain aflions. 

So many law! argue fo many fins. Miltir,. 

L :ii'S politique among men prefuming man to be 

rebellious. Hater. 

4. Judicial procefs. 

When every cafe in la-si is right. Sbahfftarc. 

He hath refilled law, 

And therefore law (hall fcorn him further trial 
Than the feverity of publick power. St.-: 

n Touchy is a fellow famous for taking the 

y : there is not one in t'- 
> he lives that he has not fued at a quartcr- 
femons. Addon's -\- 

5. A diftinft edift or rule. 

One lir.a is fplit into two. Bakir en Learning. 

6. Conformity to law ; any thing lawful. 

In a rebellion, 

When what's not meet, but what muft be, was /.rit 1 , 
Then wer? they chofen. Shjksfpcjrfi Cukhnus. 

j. The rules or axioms of fcience: as, 
the laws of mechanicks. 

8. An eftablifhed and conflant mode or 
procefs ; a fixed correfpondence of caufe 
and effeft : as, the laws of magnetifm. 

Natural agents have their Li-.u. Halcr. 

I dy'd, whilft in the womb he ftay'd, 
Attending Nature's law. Sbakefpearc't Cymlelim. 

9. TheMofaicalinftitution : diftinguifhed 
from the goffel. 

Law can difcover fin, but not remove, 
Save by thefc fliadowy expiations. Millim. 

10. The books in which the Jewiih re- 
ligion is delivered : dillinguilhed from 
the prof bets. 

1 1. A particular form or mode of trying 
and judging : as, latv martial, ianv 
mercantile, the ecclefiaftical la-w where- 
by we are governed. 

12. Jurifprudence ; the ftudy of law : as, 
a dodkor of /aw. 

LA'WFUL. adj. [law and full.] Agree- 
able to law ; conformable to law ; al- 
lowed by law ; legitimate ; legal. 
It is not lawful for thee to have her. 

Mattt. xiv. 4. 

Glofter's baftard fon was kinder to his father, 
than my daughter! got 'tween the Iwf*/ fhcet,. 
Sbakrfpcart i Ku:g Ltat . 

LA'WPULLY. ad<v. [from lawful.] Le- 
gally ; agreeably to law. 

This bond ii forfeit; 
And 1-mfuHy by thi: the Jew may claim 
A po'jnd of fleih. Stalejpearc't Merck, cffrnice. 
Though it be not againft rtrift juftii-c for a man 
to d-> tliofe things which he might otherwif-; tj-w- 
fultj do, albrit his neighbour doth take 

rhcnce to cr.nc'.'ivT in h'i mind a falfe be- 
yet Chriftian thaiity will, ia ma: 
rcArain a man. S,tu:L- 



LAW 

I may be allowed to tell your lordfiiip, the king of 
poets, what an extent of power you have, and how 
lawfully you may excrcife it. Dryden. 

LA'WFULNESS. n.f. [from lawful.] Le- 
gality; allowance of law. 

It were an errur to (peak further, till I may fee f.mic 

found foundation laid of the lawfulneft of the 

action. Bacor. 

LA'WGIVER. n.f, [law and giver.] Le- 

giflator ; one that mxkes laws. 

Solomon we cfteern a: the lawgiver of our na- 
tinn. SacsK. 

A law may be very reafonable in itfelf, although 
one does not know the reafon of the /.rwgiiv-i. 

Swift. 

LA'WCIVING. adj. [law and giving*] 
Legislative. 

Laii-ginjing heroes, fam'd for taming brutes, 
And railing cities \vita their charming lutes. Waller. 
LA'WLESS. adj. [from /aw.] 

1. Unrellrained by any law ; not fubjeft 
to law. 

The neceffity of war, which among human 
actions is the moft litial^s, hath fome ki;U of affi- 
nity with the neccflity of law. Raleigh's EjJ'jys. 

The Ifvffffs tyrant, who denies 
To know their God, or mefl'age to regard, 
Muft be cMmpci) d. Milan. 

Orpheus did not, as pceti feign, tame favage bealts, 
But men .u ,'aiulcft, and as wild as they. Rtfctmrnsn. 

Not the gods, nor angry Jove, will bear 
Thy /ijsf/<i wand'ring walks in open air. DryJen. 

Elinj ai the Cyclop;, and as blind as he, 
They own'd a lat-jl^ favage liberty. 
Like that our painted anccltors fo priz'd, 
Ere empire s arts their bread; had civili/'d. DryJ. 

He, meteor- l.kc, fames lju'ltfs through the void, 
Deftroying others, by hinfelf deftroy'd. Pcfe. 

2. Contrary to law ; illegal. 

, Take not the quarrel from his poweiful arms, 
He needs no indirect nor h-a-lcft courfe 
To cut oft thofe that have offended him. 

Sbakeffeare. 
We cit our faults, 
That they may hold excus'd our lawlifs lives. 

Shakefpeare. 

Thou the firft, by down thy la-wlifi claim j 
Thou of my bloed who beat'ft the Julian name. 

Dryden. 

LA'WLESSLY. adv. [from laivltft.] In a 
manner contrary to law. 

Fear not, he bears an honourable mind, 
And will not ufe a woman jaivlejrly. Shakefpearc. 
LA'WMAKER. n. f. \_laiv and maker.] Le- 
giflator ; one who makes laws ; a law- 
giver. 

Their judgment is, that the church of Chrift 
mould admit no lawmakeri but the evangelilrs. 

Hukcr. 

LAWN. n.f. [land, Danifh ; lawn, Welfh ; 
lande, French.] 

1. An open fpace between woods. 

Betwixt them laivtis, or level downs, and flocks 
Grazing the tender herb, were interpos'd. Milton. 

His mountains were ihadcd with young trees, 
that gradually ihot up into groves, woods, and 
forefts, intermixed witfc walks, and Imi-n', u u 
gardens. Mdijvn. 

Stern beads in trains that by his tmnchcoj jell, 
Now griiiy forms /hoot o'er the laiuns of hell. Paps. 

Jolcrif-ers'd in Li'tt/i: ui\d opening gl.ui , 
Thin trees arife that (him each other s ihadcs. Papt. 

2. [Linon, French.] Fine linen, remark- 
able for being ufcd in the fleeves of 
biihops. 

Should'lt thou bleed, 

To (lop the wounds my finri! latvx I'd tear, 
Wa/h them with tears, and wi[-c them with my 
hair. t'liu. 

From high life high character; aic drawn, 
A l^,;.t in u.-.p is tivjcc a faint in U-wn. I'.-.-. 



LAX 

What awe did the flow folemn knell Irrfpirc ; 
The duties by the /awff-rob'd prelate pay'd, 
And the laft words, that duft to duft convey'd ) 

Ticket!. 

LA'WSUIT. n. f. \lais andfuit.] A pro- 
cefs in law ; a litigation. 

The giving the pricft a right to the tithe would 
produce la.vjuits and wrangles ; his attendance nn. 
the courts of juftice would leave hi; people without 
a fpiritual guide. Swift. 

LA'WYER. n.f. [from law.} Profeflbr of 
law; advocate; pleader. 

It is like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer, you 
give me nothing for it. Shaktrjxare't K:rg /,;-,:.' 

Is the law evil, becaufc lume k-uycrs in their 
office fwerve from it ? Wbitgiftc. 

I have entered into a work touching laws, in a 
middle term, between the Speculative and reverend 
difcourfes of philofophers, and the writing; or 
lawitri* Baton's Hclj ffvr. . 

The nymphs with fcorn beheid tlieiv foes, 
When the defendant's council rofe ; 
And, what no lawyer ever lack'd, 
With impudence flwn'd al! the faft. 



LAX. adj. [laxus, Latin.] 
I. Loole ; not confined. 

Inhabit lax, ye pow'r-s of heav'n 1 ! Afjicn. 

2 Difunited ; not ftrongly combined. 

In mines, thole parts of the earth which abound 
with ftrata of ftor.e, fuffer much more than thole 
which confift of gravel, and the like Lsxcr matter, 
which more eafily give way. Wood-ward. 

3. Vague; not rigidly exaft. 

Dialogues were only lax and moral difcourfes. 

Baker. 

4. Loofe in body, fo as to go frequently 
to ftool ; laxative medicines are fuch 
as promote that difpofition. J^wry. 

5. Slack ; not tenfe. 

By a branch of the auditory nerve that goes be- 
tween the car and the palate, they can hear them- 
felves, though their outward ear be ftopt by the lax 
membrane to all founds that come that way. 

Holder's Elements cf Speech* 
LAX. n.f. A loofenefs ; a diarrhcea. 
LAXA'TION. u.f. [laxalio, Latin.] 

1. The aft of loofening or flackening, 

2. The ftate of being loofenedorflackened. 
LA'XATIVE. adj. [laxatif, French; laxo, 

Latin.] Having the power to eafe 
coftivenefs. 

Omitting honey, which is of a laxative power 
itfelf ; the powder of loadftones doth rather tonfti- 
pate and bind, than purge and loofen the belly. 

Brown. 

The. oil in-wax is emollient, laxative, and ano- 
dyne. Afbutbnat <,n jilimcnti. 

LA'XATIVE. n f. A medicine flight'y 
purgative ; a medicine that relaxes the 
bowels without Simulation. 

Nought profits him to fave abandon'd life, 
Nor vomits upward aid, nor downward laxative. . 

LA'XATIVENESS. n.f. [from laxative ] 

Power of eafing collivenefs. 
LA'XITY. n.f. [laxi/as, Latin.] 

1. Not compreffion ; not clofe cohefiop. 

The former caufes could never .beget whirlpools 
in a chaos of fo great a laxity and tliinnefs. Bcntlcy. 

2. Contrariety to rigorous precifion : as, 
laxity of exprcffion. 

3. Loofenefs ; not coftivenefs. 

If fometimes it caufe any laxity, it is in the fume 
way with iron unprepared, which will diilurb fome 
bodies, and work by purge and vomit. Brwri. 

4. Slacknefs ; contrariety to ten/ion. 

Laxity of a fibre, is that degree of colu-liun in it3 
parts which a fmall foicc can alter, lii z> to incicr.ilc 
its length beyond what is natural. W, v . 

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LAY 



LAY 



LAY 



In c mfiJi rj;ion of the ijxiy of t'ncir CYM, they 
an fulijcct to rclapfc. tf ijin.an' i Surgery. 

5. Opennefs; not clofenefs. 

i piece of paper clofe by the flame of 

candle, and by little and little remove it further off, 

and there i up.m the pjper fame put of that which 

1 fee in the candle, and it growl ftill lrf> and lrf 

a; I remove ; fo that if I would truft my fenfc-j_J 

fiiould believe it as v:ry a body upon the paper as in 

mdle, though infceb'.ed by the laxity of the 

channel in which it flows. D'&ty c " Bodies. 

LA'XNESS. ./. Laxity ; not tenlion ; not 

precifion ; not coftivene f. 

For the free paflage of the found into the ear, it 

is requifitc that the tympanum be tenle, and hard 

ftretched ; etherwife the laxnefs of that membrane 

will certainly dead and damp the found. H;Utr. 

LAY. Preteiite of lye. 

Oh! would the quarrel Ayr upon our heads. Stall. 

He was familiarly acquainted with him at fuel) 

timeasheAjyemballador at Conftjntinoplc. Kr.illti. 

When Ahab had heard thofe words, he failed, 

and Uj in fackclotb. i Kings, xxi. 27. 

1 try'd whatever in the Godhead lay. DiyJtn. 

He rode to rouze the prey, 

That {haded by the fern in harbour lay, 

And thcnte dillodged. Dryden's Kmglt's Tale, 

Leaving Rome, in my way to Sienna, 1 lay the 

/irft night at a village in the territories of the ancient 

Veii. Addijon. 

Hew could he have the retirednefsof the cloilier, 

to perform all thofe acts of devotion in, when the 

burthen of the reformation lay upon his (boulders ? 

Francis Atttrbury. 

The preftyterians argued, That if the Pretender 
ihould invade thofe parts where the numbers and 
eftates of the diii'cnters chiefly lay, they would lit 
ftill. Swift. 

To LAY. <v. a. [lecjan, Saxon ; leggtn, 
Dutch.] 

1 . To place ; to put ; to repofite. This 
word being correlative to lie, involves 
commonly immobility or e xtttijien ; a 
punifhment laid, is a punifhment that 
fannot be Jhaken of; in immobility is in- 
cluded weight. One houfe laid to 
another, implies extension. 

tic laid his rofee from him. Jcnitb. 

They have laid their fwords under their heads. 

Exckicl. 
Soft on the flow'ry herb I found me laid. Milton. 

He facrificing laid 
The entrails on the wood. Milton. 

2. To place along. 

Seek not to be judge, being not able to take 
away iniquity, left at any time thou fear the perfon 
of the mighty, and lay a Mumbling- block in the way 
of thy uprightnefs. Ealas. 

A (tone was laid on the mouth of the den. Daniel. 

3. To beat down corn or grafs. 

Another ill accident is laying of corn with great 
rains in harvcft. Bacon's Natural llijlory. 

Let no (keep there play, 
Nor friflcing kids the flowery meadows lay. May. 

4. To keep from riling ; to fettle ; to ftill. 

I'll ufe th' advantage of my power, 
And lay the furamer's duit with (howers of blood. 

Sbakcffeaie. 

It was a fandy foil, and the w.iy had btvn full 
of duft ; but an hour or two before a refrcfhmg 
fragrant (howcr of rain had laid the diift. Ray. 

5. To fix deep; to difpofe regularly : 
either of thefe notions may be conceived 
from the following examples ; but re- 
gularity feems rather implied ; fo we 
fay, to lay bricks; to lay planks. 

Srhifmaticks, outlaws, or criminal pcrfons, are 
not fit to lay the foundation of a new colony. 

Bacon. 

] lay the deep foundations of a wall, 
And Eaot, nam'd from me, the city call, Dryden. 



Men will be apt to call it pulling up the old foun- 
( knowledge ; I perfuade myfelf, thj* tlie 
way I have purfucJ lays thofe foundations fuier. 

6. To put ; to place. 

Then he offered it to him again ; then he put it 
by again ; but, to my tr-.in.king, he was very loth to 
L-\ his fingers oiFit. Sbiikfjj>eare'i Julius Ctrjar. 

Till us dcith lay 
To ripe and mcilow, we arc but rtubborn clay. 

Donne. 
They (hall lay hands on the fick, and recover. 

Mart. 

They, who fo (late a queltion, do no more but 
feparate and difentangle the parts of it, one from 
another, and lay them, when fo difentangled, in 
their due order. Locke. 

We to thy name our annual rites will pay, 
And on thy altars fjcrilices lay. Pofe'i Statins. 

7. To bnry ; to inter. 

P.ivid fell on deep, and was laid unto his fathers, 
and faw corruption. Acii, xiii. 36. 

8. To llation or place privily. 

Lay thce an ambufli for tne city behind thec. 

Jojh. viii. 2. 

The wicked have laid a fnare for me. Pfalms. 

Lay not wait, O ! wicked man, againft the 

dwelling of the righteous. Prov. xxiv. 15. 

9. To fpread on a furface. 

The colouring upon thofe maps mould be laid on 
fo thin, as not to obfcure or conceal any part of the 
lines. Watts, 

10. To paint ; to enamel. 

The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fad- 
ing colours ; and, if not fometimes refreflied, vanifli 
and disappear. Locke. 

11. To put into any ftate of quiet. 

They bragged, that they doubt-'d not but to 
abufe, and lay aflcep, the queen and council of 
England. Bacon. 

12. To calm; to fiill ; to quiet; to allay. 
Friends, loud tumults are not laid 

With half the eafinefs that they arerais'd. B. Jmtfon. 
Thus pafs'd the night fo foul, till morning fair 
Came forth with pilgrim fteps in amice grey, 
Who with her radiant finger (HUM the roar 
Of thunder, chas'd the clouds, and laid the winds. 

Milton. 

After a tempsft, when the winds are laid, 
The calm fea wonders at the wrecks it made. 

Waller. 

I fear'd I mould have found 

A temped in your foul, and came to lay it. Detrbam. 

At once the wind was laid, the whifp'ring found 

Was dumb, a rifing earthquake rock'd the ground. 

Drydfn. 

13. To prohibit a fpirit to walk. 

The hufband fouij'l no charm to lay the devil in 
a petticoat, but the rattling of bladder with beans 
in it. L'EJIrangc. 

14. To fet on the table. 

1 laid meat unto them. Hof. xi. 4. 

15. To propagate plants by fixing their 
twigs in the ground. 

The chief time of lading gilliflowers is in July, 
when the flowers are gone. Mortimer's Hujbandiy. 

1 6. To wager ; to (lake. 

But fincc you will be mad, and fince you may 
Sufpcct my courage, if I (hould not /<;>> ; 
The pawn I proffer (hall be full as good. Dryden. 

17. To repofite any thing. 

The fparrow hath found an houfe, and the fwal- 
low a neft, for herfelf, where (he may lay her 
young. PJ'al. Ixxxiv. 3. 

181 To exclude eggs. 

After the egg ley'tt, there is no further growth 
or nourilhment from the female. Bacon's Nat. H:J). 

A hen miftakes a piece of chalk for an egg, 
and fits upon it ; (he is i'nfcnfiblc of an incrcafe or 
diminution in the number of thofe (he lays. Addifon. 

19. To apply with violence; as, to lay 
blows. 



L.:y ficgc againft it, and build a fort a-jalnd 
it, and cafi a mount againlt it. Ezck. iv. ;. 

Never more (hall my torn mind be heal'd, 
Nor tarte the gentle comfoits of icpofe ! 
A dreadful band of gloomy cares furround me, 
And Aiy ftrong ficge to my diffracted foul. 

Pi 
20 To apply nearly. 

She layttb her hands ta the fpindle, and her 
hands hold the diftaff. Prsv. xxxi. 19. 

It is better to go to the houfe of mourning than 
to go to the houfe of fcafting ; for that is the end f 
all men, and the living wTO lay it to his heart. 

Eic/cf. v\i. i. 

The peacock laid it extremely to heart, tli -r, 
being Juno's darling bird, he had not the nightin- 
gale's voice. L'EJh-angc. 

He that really lays thefe two things to heart, 
the extreme necefllty that he K in, and th 
poflibility of help, will never come coldly to a work 
of that concernment. Duffs. 

21. To add ; to conjoin. 

Wo unto them that lay field to field. Jja. v. S. 

22. To put in a fta:e ; implying fome- 
what of difclofure. 

If the finus lie diftant, Ijf it open firft, and 
cure that apcrtion before you divide that in ano. 

KJcmtm. 
The wars have laid whole countricswaftc. A.'- 

23. To fcheme ; to contrive. 
Every bread (he did with fpirit inflame, 

Yet ftill frefh projects .'../,' the grcy-ey'J dame. 

Cbafma*. 

Homer is like his Jupiter, has his terrors, (hak- 
ing Olympus ; Virgil, like the fame power in his 
benevolence, counfelling with the gods, laying plans 
for empires. Pofe, 

Don Diego and we have hid it fo, that before 
the rope is well about thy neck, he will break in 
and cut thee down. slrivtbrot. 

24. To charge as a payment. 

A tax laid upon land feems hard to the land- 
holder, becaufe it is fo much money going out of 
his pocket. Lickt. 

25. To impute ; to charge. 

Preoccupied with what 

You rather muft do, than what you (hould do, 
Made you againft the grain to voice him conful. 
Lay the fault on us. Sbakifpttrc, 

How (hall this bloody deed be anfwercd ? 
It will be laid to us, whofe providence 
Should have kept (hort, rcftrain'd, and out of haunt, 
This mad young man. Sba/aff tare's Hamlet. 

We need not lay new matter to his charge. Slat. 

Men groan from out of the city, yet God layab 
not folly to them. Joh, xxiv. n. 

Let us be glad of this, and all our fears 
Lay on his providence. ParaJile Regain'd, 

The writers of thofe times lay the d'ifgraces and 
ruins of their country upon the numbers and fierce- 
nefs of thofe favage nations that invaded them. 

Temple. 

They lay want of invention to his charge : a 
capital crime. Drydtn's jEueid. 

You reprefented it to the queen as wholly in- 
nocent of thofe crimes which were laid unjuftly to 
its charge. Dryden. 

They lay the blame on the poor little ones. Locke. 

There was eagernefs on both fides ; but this is 
far Irom laying a plot upon Luther. Atttrbury* 

26. To impofe, as evil or punifhment. 
The wearieft and moft loathed life 

That age, ach, penury, imprifonment, 

Can lay on nature, is a paradife 

To what we fear of death. Sbakeff. MiaJ. forMt.if. 

Thou (halt not be to him as "an ufurer, neither 
(halt thou lay upon him ufury. Exoa 1 . xx. 1=,. 

The Lord (hall lay the fear of you, and the dread 
of you, upon all the land. Deut. xi. 15. 

Thefe words were not fpoken to Adam : neither, 
indeed, was there any grant in them made to 
Adam ; but a punimment laid upon Eve. Locke. 

27. To enjoin as a duty, or a rule of 
aftion. 

It 



LAY 

It feemed good to/aji upon you no greater burden. 
Adi, xv. 2^. 

"Whihl you lay on your friend the favour, acquit 
him of" the o?bt. lyycber'.ty. 

A prince who never difobey'd, 
Not when the mo('c fevere commands were laid, 
Nor want, nor exile with his duty weigh'd. Dryd. 

You fee what obligation the profeiiion of Christi- 
anity lays upon us to holinef c of life. Tilhffin. 

Neglects the rules each verbal critick lays, 1 
For njt to know forne trifles is a praife. Pope. 

28. To exhib.i ; to offer. 

It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver 
any man to die, before that he which is accufcd 
have the accufers face to fcce, and have licence to 
anfwer for hiuifclf co.iccrning the crime laid againfl 
him. Arts, xxv. i6. 

Till he lays his indict naentir. fome certain country, 
we do not think our/elves bound to aiifwer. Atterb. 

29. To throw by violence. 

He bringeth down them that dwell on high \ the 
lofty city he .Vj.ft it low, even to the ground. 

I/a. xxvi. 5. 

Bra\f Caencus I.I'-L! Ortygius on the plain, 
The viclcr Cafneus was by Turnus (lain. Drjdcn. 

He took the quiv:r, and the trufty bow 
Achates us'd to bear ; the leaders firil 
He laid okm?, and then the vulgar pierc'd. Drtd. 

30. To place in comparifon. 

Lay down by thnfe pleafures the fearful and dan- 
gerous thunders and lightnings, and then there will 
be found no comparifon. Raleigk. 

31. To LAY a -art. Torejetl; to put away. 
Lay afjn ail f.lthincfs. James, i. 21. 

32. To LAY ajide. To put away ; not to 
retain. 

Let us lay ajidr every weight, and the fin which 
doth fo eafily bei . xii. i. 

Amaze us not wi:ii that majeftick frown, 
But lay jjidt the greatnefi of your crown. Wallet. 

RoicomoTinririt, then Mulj^avc rofc, iikclight ; 
The StJgyritt, and Horace, laid afide, 
Inform'd by them, we need no foreign guide. 

Retention is the power to revive again in ourminds 
thole ideal which, after imprinting, havedidppearcd, 
or have been laid afide out of fight. Locke. 

When by juft vengeance guilty mortals periih, 
The gods behold thtir punifhunent with pleafure, 
And lay the uplifted thunJer- bolt ajide. Addij^n. 

33. To LAY a<uiay. To put from one ; not 
to keep. 

Queen Efthcr hid away her glorious apparel, and 
put on the garments of anguilh. Ejficr, xiv. 2. 

34. To LAY before. To expoie to view; 
to (hew ; to difplay. 

I CT 'tiify your piety, than by hyirg 

t of your labours. 
Thzt trcty hath been laid befon the common;. 

Tlioir "fficc it is to hy the bufinefj of the nati.m 

35. Fo LAY ly. To ref*rve for fome fu- 
ture cime. 

Let ever)' on* lay l/y him in (lore, a? Cod hath 
profpered him. I Cer. xvi. ^. 

36. To LAY by. To put from one; 10 
difmifs. 

Let brjre fyirirs that have fifed tltrmfdves for 
command, rittier by lea or land, not be /.,</ ly as 
per(;ns unneceiTiiry for the time. &.(-,;. 

She went away, and lai<l by her veil. Gene/it. 
'iicy not (wear to live and die 
!.ii x, and lhaiglit ia'ul him if ' I/tietilrai. 
For that lo.k, which does your people awe, 

in your throne and robes you give 'em law, 
/ . it by here, and give a gentler fmilr. Wall,, . 

Darkn'-Js, whuh tiiic.'i nymphs d. firms, 
Dff ' > Mira's cnarms j 

nu'y Ay, 
'1 aki- no advantage of the eye, 

Jll that 1^'ly's art can uk*J 
And yet a thoul .1:1 1 (jptivyt nwjcc. 
You. II. 



LAY 

Then hf lays ly the public k care, 
Thinks of providing for an heir ; 
Learns how to get, and how 1 3 1'^aie. Denbam. 

The Tufcan king 
Laid by the lance, and took him to the Iling. Dryd. 

Where Daed \ius his borrow'd wings l.iid ly, 
To that obfcure retreat I chufe to fly. Dryden. 

My zeal for you muft lay the father ly, 
Andplcidmycountry'scauleagainftmy fon. Dryd. 

Fortune, conlcious of your deftiny, 
E'en thn took care to lay you foftly by ; 
And wrapp'd your fate among her precious things, 
Kept fre/h to be unfolded with your kings. Dryden. 

Uifmifs your rage, and lay your weapons by, 
Know I protect them, and they (hall not die. Dryd. 

When their difpleafure is onte declared, they ought 
not prelently to lay by the feveiity of their brows, 
but rcrtort their children to their former grace with 
fome difficulty. Locke. 

37. To LAY doivn. To depofite as a 
pledge, equivalent, or fatisfaftion. 

I hy d<nan my life for the fhcep. John, x. 1 5. 

For her, my lord, 

I dare my life lay dovin, and will do't, Sir, 
Pleafe you f accept it, that the queen is fpotlefs 
1' th' eyes of Heaven. Sbatej'fcare. 

38. To LAY Joivn. To quit ; to reilp;n. 
The foldier being once brought in for the fervice, 

I will not have him to lay dcncn his arms any more. 
Sptnfcr's Ireland. 

Ambitious conquerors, in their mad career, 

Chtck'd by thy voice, lay down the fword and 

fpear. Bh^kmore's Creation. 

Tbe ftory of the tragedy is purely fiction ; for I 

take it up where the hiftory has laid it Jxua. Dryd. 

39. Ta LAY e/oivn. To commit to repofe. 
I will lay medium in peace and rteep. Pfal. xlviii. 
And they by themlelves do^an upon cloaths laid 

to pledge by every altar. Ami, ii. 8. 

We lay us down, to fleep away our cares ; night 
(huts up the lenfes. Glan-jillt's Sccpjis. 

Some god conduct me to the f-icred (hades, 
Or lift me high to Haemus' hilly crown, 
Or in the plains of Tempe lay me dvwn. Dryden. 

40. To LAY do-wn. To advance as a pro- 
pofition. 

I have laid down, in fome meafure, the defcrip- 
tion of the old known world. Abbot. 

Kircher lays- it it-j^ti as a cerlr.in principle, that 
there never wa any people fo rude, which did not 
acknowledge and vvordiip one fuuremc deity. 

I muft lay down this for your encouragement, 
that we are no longer now under the heavy yoke of 
a perfect unfinning obedience. I'/ake. 

PUto lays it dcm n a> a principle, that whatever is 
permitted to befal a jufl man, whether poverty or 
ficknefs, (hall, either in life or death, conduce to 
his good. Aadijon. 

From the maxims laid down many mJy cjnclude, 
that there had lieen abufes. 

41. To LAY far. To attempt byambuih, 
or infidiou^ practices. 

He embarked, bcii-.j; hn.nl'y laid f.r at lea by 
Cortug-ogli, a famous pirate. 

42. TV LAY f',rth. 'J'u tiiffufe ; to expa- 
tiate. 

O bird ! the delight of gods and of men ! and 
fo he iayi himielf forth upon the graci-tulnefs of 
the raven. L'fijiran^e. 

43. To L.iY forth. To place vvhsn dead 
in a decent p(.lt"re. 

i.n.bilm me, 

Then lay me forth ; ailhoujli unqueen'd, yet lilie 
A queen, and daughter to a. king, inter me. 

Sbfhffean. 

44. To LAY bMof. To feize ; tocatcli. 
Then (hall his father and his mother Ijy b-lrl '.n 

him, and bring him out. Debt. xxi. ly. 

Favourable leafiuii of jpi.bide ani inclination, be 

heedfiilly laid b-Ad if. Locke. 

45. To LAY in. To ftore ; to treafire. 
Let t'.ie main part of the ground employed to 



LAY 



gardens or torfi be to a common flock ; and laid 
in, and ftored up, and then delivered out in pro- 
portion. Jljcon. 

A veflel and provifiont laid in large 
For man and bead. Milton. 

An equal ftock of wit and valour 
He had laid'm, by birth a taylor. Hudibras. 

1 h 'j faw the happinef; of a private life, but they 
thought they had not yet enough to make them 
happy, they would have more, and laid in to mak 
their fotitude luxurious. Dryden. 

Readers, who are in the flower of their youth, 
ihould labour at thofe accomplishments which may 
fct oft' their perfons when their bloom is gone, and 
to lay in timely provifions for manhood and old 
age. Addifons Guardian. 

46. To LAY on. To apply with vio- 
lence. 

We make no excufes for the obflinate : blows are 
the proper rcmejies , but blows laid en in a way dif- 
ferent from the ordinary. Locke r *n Edu.nti^n. 

47. To LAY open. To (hew ; toexpofe. 

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and fpeak, 
Lay '.pen to my eaithy grofs conceit, 

Smother'd in errours, feeble, fhallow, weak, 
The folded meaning of your word's deceit. Sbakcff. 

A fool layetb open his folly. Proij. xiii. 16. 
4 s !. ToLfiYover. Toincruft; to cover j 
to decorate fupcrfidally. 

Wo unto him that fjith to the wood, Awake ; 
to the dumb ftone, Arife, it (hall teach : behold, 
it is laid ct-fr wif*i gold and iilvcr, and there is no 
breath at all in the midft of it. Hath. ii. 19. 

49. To LAY out. To expend. 

Fathers are wont to lay up for their fons, 
Th.tu tV.r thy fon art bent to lay out all. Milton. 

Tycho Brahc laid out, befides his time and in- 
duftry, much greater furhs of money on'inftruments 
than any man we ever heard of. Boyh. 

The blood and treafure that's laid out, 
Is thrown away, and goes for nought. Hudiiral. 

If you can get a good tutor,- you will never reper.: 
the charge; but will always have the fati>faction 
to think it the'money, of all other, the belt laid 
cut. Lute, 

I, in this venture, double gains purfue, 
And laid out all my ftock to purchafe you. Dryden. 

My father never at a time like this 
Would lay out his great foul in words, and w.ifte 
Such precious moments. Addifon's Cato. 

A melancholy thing to fee the diforuers of a 
houflinld that is under tiie conduct of an angry 
ftatefwoman, who lays out all her thoughts upon 
the publick, and is only attentive to find out m:(car- 
riagcs in the miniftry. AdJiJo^s FrecMdcr. 

When a man fpends his whole life among the 
(lars and planets, or lays out a twelve-month on ih* 
ifots in the fun, however n^blc his fpeculations may 
be, they are very apt to fall into burlefque. A 

Nature has laid out all her art in Lt-autifying tha 
face ; ihc has touched it with vermilion, planted in 
it a double row of ivory, and made it the feat of 
liriles and blu(hc. j&JiJtru 

50. -/a LAY out. To difplay ; to difcover. 
He was dangerous, and takes occafion to lay r.ut 

bigoiry, and falfe confidence, m alt iu colours. 

Atteriury, 

51. To LAY oat. To difpofe ; to plan. 
The garden is laid out into a grove for fruiis, a 

vineyard, and an allotment for olive> and herbs. 

yVc/rs <.n the Qdyjfey. 

52. To LAY out. With rhe reciprocal 
pronoun, to exert ; to put forth. 

No felfiJh man will be concerned to lay cut him- 
fclf for the good of his country. Sn:alr;dge. 

53. To LAY to. To charge upon. 

When we began, in courteous manner, to lay his 
unkindnefs tuto him, he, feeing himf.'lf co;i 
by fomany,liUearefolutcoraior, went not to denial, 
bin tojuftify his cruel falfliood. K'ulney. 

54. To LAY to. To apply with vigour. 

Let children be hired to lay to their bones, 
Fiom fallow as nccdeth, to githci up ftones. '!': flcr. 
D Wt 



LAY 

We iliould now lay (oour handi to root them up, 
ar.d cannot tell for what. 

Offtrd Reafm egainj} tte Covenant. 

55. To LAY to. Toharafs; to attack. 

The great matter having a careful eye over every 
part of the city, went himfelf unto the (talion, which 
wot then hardly liuilcby the BaflaMuftapha. Kn-llci. 

Whilft he this, and that, and each man's blow, 
Doth eye, defend, and flu ft, being la:d te fore : 
Backward* he bears. Daniel's Cn-il War. 

56. Te LAV togetbir. To col left ; to 
bring into one vie*-. 

If we lay all thefe things tcgetter, and confider 
the parts, rife, and degrees uf his tin, we Bull find 
that it was not for nothing. Smth. 

Many people apprehend danger for want of taking 
the trne meafure of things, and laying matters rightly 
tige'btr. L'Eftronge. 

My readers will be very well plcafrd, to fee fo 
many ufeful hints upon this fubject laid tegaktr in 
fo clear and concife a manner. jfddtjcn's Guardian. 

One feries of confequences will not ferve the turn, 
-fcut many different and oppofite deductions mud be 
examined, and laid together, -before a man can come 
to make a right judgment of the point in queftion. 

Ltctt. 

57. To LAV under. To fubjeft to. 

A Roman foul is bent on higher views, 
To civilize the rude unpoliuYd world, 
And lay it under the reftraint of laws. Addifrn. 

58. To LAY uf. To confine to the bed 
or chamber. 

In the Eaft Indies, the general remedy of all fub- 
jcct to the gout, is nibbing with hands till the mo- 
tion raife a violent heat about the joints : where it 
was chiefly ufcd, no one was ever troubled much, 
or laid uf by that difeafe. Temple. 

59. Te LAY up. To ftore; to treasure; 
to repofite for future ufe. 

St. Paul did will them of the church of Corinth, 
every man to lay up fomewhat by him upon the 
Sunday, till himfelf did come thither, to fend it to 
he church of Jerufalcm for relief of the poor there. 

Hanker. 

Thofe things which at the firft are obfcure and 
hard, when memory hath laid them up for-a.time, 
judgment afterwards growing explaineth them. 

timber. 

That which remaineth over, lay up to be kept 
ntil the morning. Exod. xvi. 13. 

The king muft preferve the revenues of his crown 
without diminution, and lay up treafurcs in ftorc 
againft a time of extremity. Bacon. 

The whole was tilled, and the harveft laid up in 
fcveral. granaries. Temple. 

I w'U lay up your words for you till time (hall 
>rve. Dryden. 

This faculty of laying tip, and retaining ideas, 
feveral other animals have to a great degree, as well 
as man. >,,. 

What right, what true, what fit, we juftly call, 
Let this be all my care ; for this is all j 
To lay this harveft up, and hoard with hafte 
What every day will want, and moft, the laft. 1'cpe. 
fo LAY. 'V. n. 

1. To bring eggs. 

Hens will greedily eat the herb which will make 
them lay the better. Mortimer's Hujbandry. 

2. To contrive ; to form a fcheme. 

Which mov'd the king, 
By all the apteft means could be procur'd, 
To lay to draw him in by any train. 

Daniel', Civil War. 

3. To LAT abnut. To ftrike on all fides ; 
to ad with great diligence and vigour. 

^ At once he wards and ftrikes.he takes and pays, 
How forc'd to yield, now forcing to invade, 

Before, behind, and roundoiW him lays. Spenftr. 
And laid alaut in fight more bulily, 
Than th' Amazonian dame Penthefile. Huditras. 
In the late fucccfsful rebellion, how ftudioudy 
id they lay attmt them, to taft a flur usnn the 



LAY 

* 

He providet-elkow-room enough for hit confcience 
to lay about, and have its full play in. South. 

4. To LAY at. To ftrike ; to endeavour 
to ilrike. 

Fiercely the good man did at htm Icy, 
The bbde oft groaned under the blow. Spcnfer. 

The fword of him that l.iycb at him cannot 
hold. Jcb. 

5. To LAY in far. To make overtures of 
oblique invitation. 

I have l.iid in for thefe, by rebating the fatire, 
where juftice would allow it, from carrying too fharp 
an cd^e. Dryden. 

6. ToLf.vta. To ftrike; to beat without 
intermillion. 

His heart hid en, as if it try'd 
To force a pafl'agc through his fide. Huditras. 

Anf'wer, or anfwer not, 'tis all the fime, 
He I, ys me a:, and makes me bear the blame. Dryd. 

7. To LAY on. To ail with vehemence : 
ufed of expences. 

My father has made her miftrefs 
Of the feaft, and (he lays it on. Kbakefpcare. 

8. To LAY out. To take meafures. 

I made ftrict enquiry wherever I came, and la\d 
our for intelligence of all places, where the intrails of 
the earth were bid open. Wood-ward. 

9. To LAY uf on. To importune; to re- 
queft with earneftnefs and inceflantly. 
Obfoleie. 

All the people laid fo earneftly upon him to take 
that war in hand, that they faid they would never 
bear arms more a^ainit the Turks, if he omitted 
that occafion. Kntlles. 

LAY. n.f. [from the verb.] 
i. A row ; a ftratum ; a layer ; one rank 
in a feries, reckoned upwards. 

A viol ihould have a lay of wire-ftrings below, 
as clofe to the belly as the lute, and then the firings 
of guts mounted upon a bridge as in ordinary viols, 
that the upper ftrings ftrucken might make the 
lower refound. Bacon. 

Upon this they lay a layer of ftone, and upon that 
a/<iyofwood. Mai timer's lluftandry. 

z. A wager. 

It is efteemed an even lay, whether any man lives 
ten years longer : I fuppole it is the fame, that one 
of any ten might die within one year. Craunt. 
LAY. n.f. [ley, Jeaj, Saxon; ley, Scot- 
tifli.] Grafly ground ; meadow ; ground 
unplowed, and kept for cattle : more 
frequently, and more properly, writ- 
ten lea. 

A tuft of dailies on a flow'ry lay 
They faw. Dryden s Hnutr and Leaf. 

The plowing of layet is the firft plowing up of 
grafs ground for corn. Mortimer's Hujbandry. 

LAY. n.f. [lay, French. It is faid ori- 
ginally to fignify forroiu or complaint, 
and then to have been transferred to 
poems written to exprefs forrow. It is 
derived by the French fromJe/us, Latin, 
a funeral fong ; but it is found like- 
wife in theTeutonick dialed: ley, Ieo3, 
Saxon; key, Danifh.] A fong ; a poem. 
It is fcarcely ufed but in poetry. 

To the maiden's founding timbrels fung, 
In well attuned notes, a joyous lay. Fairy Queen. 

Soon he flumbcr'd, fearing not be harm'd, 
The whiles with a loud lay, (he thus him fwectly 
charm'd. Sfenfer's Fairy S^aeen. 

This is a mort majeftick vilion, and 
Harmonious charming lays. Sbalefpearc. 

Nor then the folemn nightingale 
Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her foft layt. 

Milttm. 
If Jove's will 

Have link'd that amorous power to thy foft lav, 
Now timely fmg. Milten. 



L A Z 

He rwch'd the nymph with his harmonious lay, 
Whom all his charms could not incline to rtiy. 

Waller. 

On Ceres let him call, and Ceres praife 
With uncouth dances, and with country lays. Dryd. 

Ev'n gods incline their ravilh'd ears, 
And tune their own harmonious fphcrcs 
To his immortal l.iys. Dennis* 

LAY. adj. [laicui, Latin ; Xa'<&-.] Not 
clerical ; regarding or belonging to the 
people as dillinft from the clergy. 

All this they had by law, and none rcpin'd, 
The prcf'rence was but due to Levi's kind : 
But when fome lay preferment fell by chance, 
The Gourmands made it their inheritance* Dryden* 
Lay perfons, married or unmarried, being doctors 
of the civil law, may be chancellors, officials, &c, 
dyl'ife't fanrgon, 
It might well ftartle 

Our Jay unlearned faith. Rowe* 

LA'YER. n.f. [from /ay.] 

1. A ftratum, or row ; abed; one body 
fpread over another. 

A l.iycr of rich mould beneath, and about this 
natural earth to nourifli the fibres. Evelyn. 

The tcrreftrial matter is difpofed into ftrata or 
l.iyers, placed one upon another, in like manner as 
any earthy fediment, fettling down from a flood in 
great quantity, will naturally be. Wticdivard* 

2. A (prig of a plant. 

Many trees may be propagated by layers: this is 
to be performed by flitting the branches a little way, 
and laying them under the mould about hair" a foot ; 
the ground ihould be firft made very light, and, after 
they are laid, they ihould have a little water given 
them : if they do not comply well in the laying or" 
them down, they muft be pegged down with a hook 
or two ; and if they have taken fufficient root by 
the next winter, they muft be cut off from the main 
plants, and planted in the nurfery : fome twift the 
branch, or bare the rind ; and if it be out of the* 
reach of the ground, they faften a tub or bafkct near 
the branch, which they fill with good mould, and 
Ijy the branch in it. Miller. 

Transplant alfo carnation fcedlings, give your 
layers frefli earth, and fet them in the fliade for a 
week. Evelyn. 

3. A hen that lays eggs. 

The oldcft are always reckoned the belt fitters, 
and the youngeft the belt layers. Mortimer . 

LA'YMAN. n. f. [lay and man.~\ 

1. One of the people diftind from the 
clergy. 

Laymen will neither admonilh one another them, 
felves, nor fuffer minifters to do it. 

Government t>f tte Ten f tie* 

Since a truft muft be, (he thought it beft 
To put it out of laymen's pow'r at lead, 
And for their folemn vows prepar'd a prieft. Dryd. 

Where can be the grievance, that an ccclcfialVic.il 
landlord fliould expect a third part value for his 
lands, his title as antient, and as legal, as that of 
i layman, who isfeklom guilty of giving fuch bene- 
ficial bargains. Swift* 

2. An image ufed by painters in contriving 
attitudes. 

You are to have a layman almoft as big as the 
life for every figure in particular, beiides die natural 
figure before you. Dryden' t Dufrefncy. 

LA'VSTALL. n. f. An heap of dung. 

Scarce could he footing find in that foul way, 
For many codes, like a great lay-flail 

Of murdered men, which then-in (trowed lay. 

Spcnjcr, 

LA'ZAR. n.f. [from Lazarus in the gof- 
pel.] One deformed and naufeous with, 
filthy and peftilential difeafes. 

They ever after in moft wretched cafe, 
Like loathfome laxars, by the hedges lay. 

Fairj Queen, 

I'll be fworn, and fworn upon't, ihe never ihrowd- 
cd an) but Ijxart, fbaii fpeare. 

I Jin 



L A Z 



LEA 



LEA 



Iim weary with drawing the deformities of fife, 
tad laxars of the people, where every figure of im- 
perfection more refembles me. Drydcn. 

Life he labours to refine 
Daily, nor of his little (lock denies 
Fit alms to lazars, merciful and meek. FKBpt. 
LA'ZAR-HOUSE. I n f. [lazartt, French; 
LAZARE'TTO, J laz-zaretto, Italian; 
from lazar.~\ A hoafe lor the reception 
of the difeaied ; an hofpical. 

A place 

Before his eyes appear'd, fad, noifome, dark, 
A lazar-t*ufc it feemcd, where were laid 
N ambers of all difeas'd. MilKn. 

LA'ZARWORT. n.f. [La/erfitium.] A plant. 
LA'ZILY. adv. [from lazy.~\ Idly; flug- 
gifhly ; heavily. 

Watch him at play, when following his own in- 
clinations ; and fee whether he be ftirring and 
active, or whether he laxity and liltlefly dreams 
away his time. Lcckc. 

The eaftern nations view the rifing fires, 
Whilft night (hades us, and lazily retires. Creech. 
LA'ZINESS. n. f. [from lazy.] Idlenefs ; 
fluggiftinefs ; liltleffnefs ; heaviness in 
action ; tardinefs. 

That inftance of fraud and laz'tmfs, the unjuft 
Reward, who pleaded that he could neither dig nor 
beg, would quickly have been brought both to dig 
and to beg too, rather than ftarve. Sou:b. 

My fortune you have refcued, not only from the 
power of others, but from my own modcfty and 
lazinefi. Dry den. 

LA'ZING. adj. [from lazy.] Sluggilh; 
idle. 

The hands and thefeetmutinied againft the belly : 
they knew no reafon, why the one Ihould be lazing, 
and pampering itfelf with the fruit of the other's 
labour. L'EJirange. 

1 he fot cried, Utinam hoc effct Ittoran, whilt he 
lay lazing and lolling upon his couch. . South. 
LA'ZULI. n.f. 

The ground of this (tone is blue, veined and fpot- 
ted with white, and a glittering or merallick yel- 
low : it appears to be compofed of, firft, a white 
fparry, or cryftalline matter ; fecondly, flakes of 
the golden or yellow talc ; thirdly, a (hining yellow 
fubftance; this fumes oft in the calcination of the 
ftone, and carts a fulphureous fmell ; fourthly, a 
bright blue fubftance, of great ufe among the 
painters, under the name of ultramarine ; and when 
rich, is found, upon trial, to yield about one-fixth of 
copper, with a very little filver. Wood-ward. 

LA'ZY. adj. [This word it derived by a 
correfpondent, with great probability, 
from a faife, French ; but it is howe- 
ver Teutonick ; lijfer in Danifh, and 
hf.gb in Dutch, have the fame mean- 
ing ; and Sfelman gives this account of 
the word: Dividebantur antiqui Sax- 
ones, ut teftaiur Nithardus, in tres 
ordines ; Edhilingos, Frilingos & 
Lazzoj ; hoc eft nobiles, ingenues & 
ferviles : quam & nos diftinctionem diu 
retinuimus. Sed Ricardo autem fe- 
cundo pars fervorum maxima fe in li- 
bertatem vindicavit ; fie ut hodie apud 
Anglos rarior inveniatur fervus, qui 
mancipium dicitur. Reflat nihilominus 
antiqux appellationis commemoratio 
Ignavos enim hodie lav.it dicimus.] 
1. Idle ; fluggifh ; unwilling to work. 

Our foldiers, like the night-owl's lazy flight, 
Or like a lazy thraiher with a flail, 
Fall gently down, as if they (truck their friends. 

Sbakffpcarc. 

Wickd condemned men will ever live like rogues, 
a*il not fall to work, uut be Ifzy, and-fp cttd victuals. 

lam- 



Whofe laxy waters without motion lay. , 

RofanmoH, 

The lazy glutton fafe at home will keep, 
Indulge his iloch, and batten with his deep. Drydin. 

Like Eaftern kings a lazy (late they keep, 
And clofe confm'd in their own palace deep. Pope. 

Or lazy lakes unconfcious of a flood, 
Whofe dull brown Naiads ever lleep in mud. Parnel. 
What amazing ftupidity is it, for men to be ne- 
gligent of faivation thcmfclves ! to fit down lazy 
and unactive. Rogers. 

2. Slow ; tedious. 

The ordinary method for recruiting their armies, 
was now too dull and lazy an expedient to refill this 
torrent. Clarendon. 

LD. is a contraction of lard. 
LEA. n.f. [ley, Saxon, a fallow; leaj, 
Saxon, a pafture.] Ground inclofed, 
not open. Obfolete. 

Greatly agaft with this pittious plea ^ 
Him refted the good man on the lea. Spenfir. 

Ceres, moft bounteous lady, thy rich leas 
Of wheat, rye, barley, fetches, oats and peas. 

Sbakejpeare. 
Her fallow Iras 

The darnel, Hemlock, and rank fumitory 
Doth root upon. Shakespeare. 

Dry up thy harrow'd veins, and plough torn leas, 
Whereof ingrateful man with liqu'riili draughts, 
And morfels unctuous, greafes his pure mind. 

Sbatcfpcart. 
Such court guife, 
As Mercury did firtt devife, 
With the mincing Dryades, 

On the lawns, and on the leas. Milton. 

The lowing herds wind (lowly o'er the lea. Gray. 

LEAD. n.f. [Izb, Saxon.] 

1. Leaein the heavieft metal except gold 
and quickftlver. Lead is the foftelt of 
all the metals, and very ductile, though 
lefs fo than gold : it is very little fub- 
ject to rult, and the leaft fonorous of 
all the metals except gold. The fpe- 
cifkk gravity of lead is to that of water 
as 1 1,322 to 1000. Lead, when kept in 
fufion over a common fire, throws up 
all other bodies, except gold, that are 
mixed, all others being lighter, except 
Mercury, which will not bear that de- 
gree of heat : it afterwards vitrifies with 
the bafer metals, and carries them off, 
in form of fcoriac, to the fides of the 
veflel. The weakeft acids are the bed 
folvents for lead: it diflblves very rea. 
dily in aqua fortis diluted with water, 
as alfo in vinegar. The fmoke of lead 
works js a prodigious annoyance, and 
fubjects both the workmen, and the 
cattle that graze about them, to a mor- 
tal difeafe. Hill. 

Thou art a foul in blifs, but I am bound 
Upon a wheel of fire ; that mine own tean 
Do fcald like molten lead. Sbakcfpcare. 

Of lead, fome I can (hew you fo like fteel, and 
fo unlike common lead ore, that the workmen call 
it fteel ore. Boyle. 

Lead is employed for the refining of gold and fil- 
ver by the cupel j hereof is made common ccrufs 
with vinegar; of cerufs, red lend; of plumbum 
uftum, the beft yellow ocre ; of lead, and half as 
much tin, folder for lead. Grew. 

^. [In the plural.] Flat roof to walk on ; 
becaufe houfcs are covered with had. 

Stalls, bulks, windows, 

Are fmother'd up, kadt fill'd, and ridges hors'd 
With variable complexions ; all agreeing 
Jn earneftnefs to fee him. Sbakefptare. 

Iwouldhavethc tower two ftories, and goodly leads 
upon the top, raifcd with (Utucs interpofcd. Baton. 



To LEAD. v. a. [from the noun.] Tofit 
with lead in any manner. 

He faflnoneth the clay with his arm, hcapplieth 
himfelf to lead it over ; and he is diligent to make 
clean the furnace. Ecclur, xxxviii. 30. 

There is a traverfe placed in a loft, at the right 
hand of the chair, with a piivy door, and a carved 
window of glafs leaded with gold and blue, where 
the mother fitteth. Bacon. 

To LEAD. <v. a. preter. \hd; part, led* 

[Ixban, Saxon ; Itidtn, Dutch.] 
I. To guide by the hand. 

There is a cliff, whofe high and bending heai- 
Looks fearfully on the confined deep : 
Bring me but to the very brim of it, 
And I'll repair the mifery thou doft bear, 
With fomething rich about me : from that place* 
I (hall no leading need. Stak.fpea^. 

Doth not each on the fabbath loofe his ox or 
his afs from the ftall, and lead him away to water- 
ing ? Luke, xiii. 15. 

They thruft him out of the city, and led him 
unto the brow of the hilt. Lute, iv. 29. 

z. To conduct to any place. 

Save to every man his wife and children, that 
they may lead them away and depart. 

i Sam. xxx. 22. 

Then brought he me out of the way, and lid 
me about the way without unto the utter gate. 

Exek. xlvii. 2> 

He maketh me to lie down in green paftures ; he 
leadeib me befide the ftill waters. Pfal. xxiii. 2. 

3. To conduct as head or commander. 

Would you Iced forth your army againft the ene- 
my, and feek him where he is to fight ? Spenfer. 

He turns head againft the lion's armed jaws ; 
And being no more in debt to years than thou, 
Leads antient lords, and rev'rend biihops, on 
To bloody battles. Shakefpearc't Henry IV. 

If thou wilt have 

The leading of thy own revenges, take 
One half of my commillion, and fet down 
As bcft thou art experienc'd. Sbalieffearit 

He led me on to mighticft deeds, 
Above the nerve of mortal arm, 
Againft the uncircumcis'd, our enemies: 
But now hath caft me off. Milton"* Agtrnfn* 

Chrift took not upon him flem and blood, that 
he might conquer and rule nations, lead armies, or 
poflefs places. South. 

He might mufter his family up, and lead them 
out againft the Indians, to feek reparation upon any 
injury. Locke* 

4. To introduce by going firft. 

Which may go out before them, and which may 
go in before them, and which may lead them out, 
and which may bring them in. Numb, xxvii. 17. 

His guide, as faithful from that day, 
As Hefperus that leads the fun his way. Fairfax. 

5. To guide ; to fhow the method of at- 
taining. 

Human teilimony is not fo proper to lead us into 
the knowledge of the effence of things, as to 
acquaint us with the existence of things. If alts, 

6. To draw ; to entice ; to allure. 

Appoint him ameeting, give him a (hew of com- 
fort, and lead him on with a fine baited delay. 

Sbakefpearg* 

The lord Cottington, being a rrnlrer of temger, 
knew how to lead him into a miftake, and then 
drive him into choler, and- then expoic him. 

C/artnetcn* 

7. To induce ; to prevail on by pleafing 
motives. 

What I did, I did in honour, 

Led by th' impartial conduft of my foul. Skaltfp. 

He was driven by the neceflities of the times, more 

than lid by his own dilpofition, to any rigour of 

actions. K. Charles. 

What I fay will have little influence on thofc whoi'e 

ends lead them to wifli the continuance of the war. 

Swnft* 

3. Topafs; to fpend in any certain manner. 



D a 



Th 



LEA 

The fweet woman l.jJi an ill lUc with him. 

isljkrffett, 

So (halt thou had 

Jiftft tliy lift, and beft prepir'd endure 
Thy nu>rtal paffa^e when it comes. frTiltot 

Hiirij fair Lavinia, thy furviving wife 
Shall breed in groves, to Icsd a folita.y life. Dryatn 

Luther's lift was ltd up to the doflrincs h 
freached, and his death was the death of the rightc 
us. Frantit Atteritttiy 

Celibacy, as then praftifed in tha church of Rome 
was commonly forced, taken up under a. bold yow 
and ltd in all unclcannct. Freneii jitterbury 

This difteraper is moft incident to AK' 
fedcntary life. jtrbmtmt an Al'aunU 

To LEAD. <v. n. 

\. To go firrt, and fhow the way. 

I will Irad on foftlv, according as the cattle tha 
g x.:h before me, and the children, be able to endure 

Gen. xxxiii 

2. To conduft as a commander. 

Cyrus was beaten and (lain under the leading of a 
woman, whofe wit and conduit made a great figure 

Tcmpli 

3. To fhew the way by going firft. 

He left his mother a countefs by patent, which 
was a new liading example, grown before fomewha 
rare. Wvtttn, 

The way of maturing of tobacco mult, be from 
the heat of the earth or fun ; we fee fome leading 
of this in mufk-mclons fownupon a. hot-bed dunget 
kelow. Bacm 

The ve/Tels heavy-laden put to fea 
With profp'rous gales, a woman leads the way. 

Dryden, 

LEAD. n.f. [from the verb.] Guidance ; 
firit place : a low defpicable word. 
Yorkshire takes the lead of the other counties. 

Herring. 

LE'ADEN. adj. [leaben, Saxon.] 

1. Made of lead. 

This tiger-footed r.ige, when it (hall find 
The harm of un/kann'd fwiftnefs, will, too late, 
Tye leaden pounds to 's heels. Sbakfffcare. 

O murth'rous (lumber ! 
Liy'ir. thou the leadt* mace upon my boy, 
1 hat plays tb.ce mulkk > Shakefo. Juliui C*far. 

A If.iden bullet (hot from one of thcie guns againfr 
a (tone wall, the fpace of twenty-four paces from it, 
will be beaten into a thin plate. ll'uklns. 

2. Heavy; unwilling; motionlefs. 

If thou do'ft find him traftable ti u , 
Encourage him, and ttli him all our re.ifuns : 
If he be l-:.:aen, icy, cold, unwiiliiy. 
Be thou fo to. Stakeff. arc's Ridard III. 

3. Heavy ; duU. 

I'll ftrivc with troubled thoughts to ukc a r.ap ; 
Left Laden (lumber poize me down to- morrow, 
When I (hould mount with win-s . . 

. , > 

Li ADE.R. n.f. [frOJn had.] 

1. One that leaas, or condufts. 

2. Captain ; commander. 

I'll dru.v the form ami model a:' our battle, 
AB : proportion our 1'mJi ir-ength. 



e. 

I have given him for a leader and co mn >.,; 
thep 

'1 hole efcaped by flight, not without i (harp jeft 
againft theji :,,,.. haj 

-i them ii:t>' the fi Id, lo it v.'Ji K od realvn 
they Jhould foil..-* them out. ' //. ^ ward, 

n our Lyci.ms fee 

Our brave examples, tliry admiring lay, 
Bl,f.Uou.- ,,. , 

Thcbr. c'ne Lycian crew. ./ 

3. One who goes fii-ft. 

N'ay, keep you, . ; ,. , wcre 

won t to be a follower, now you ai 

4- <~>w: at tie head ,o/an/ juny 



LEA 

(s, the deteftable \Vharton was the kailc 
of the whigs. 

The undtrifandings of a fenatc arc e- 
three or four l;.idert, fet to get or to keep employ 
mcntJ. 

LE'ADINC. participial adj. Principal 
ch,if; capital. 

la organized bodies, which ue propagated by (bed 

the (Jiape is the lading quality, and moA ciiarac 

teiiitkal part, that determines tha fpccies. Locke 

Miftakes arife from the influence of private yer 

fons, upon great numbws (tiled hading men an 

parties. .\. :L -,f t 

LEADING-STRINGS, n.f. [lead zn&ftriag. 

Strings by which children, when th 

learn to walk, are held from falling. 

Scund may ferve fuch, ere they tofeufe are grown 
Like leading-firings, till they can walk alanc. Dry. I 
Was he ever able to walk without Icidir.e-JIrmgs 
or fwim without bladders, without being difcovcrc 
by his hobbling and his (inking ? Swift 

LB'ADMAX. n.f. [lead and man.] On 
who begins or leads a dance. 
Such a light and mettled dance 

Saw you never, 
And by lea.imcn fjr the nonce, 
That turn round like grindlc (tones. Ben Jotibn 
LE'ADWORT. n / \lead and 'wort ; plum 

bago ] A flower. 
LEAF. n.f. leaves, plural. [leap, Saxon 

leaf, Dutch.] 

i. 1 he green deciduous parts of plants 
and flowers. 

This is the (late of man ; to-day he puts forth 
The tender 1,-avn of hopes, to-uiorrow blolFoms. 

A man /hall feldom fail of having cherries boin^ 
by his graft the fame year in which his incifton is 
made, if his graft have blollbni buds j whereas if 
it were only leaf buds, it will not bear fruit till tl 
fccond feafon. j?0yA. 

Thofe things which are removed to a diilant vfcw, 

ought to make but one mafs ; as the Itat-ei on the 

trees, and the billows in the fea. Dr\-dcr.. 

1. A part of a book, containing two pages. 

Happy ve I wet, when as thnfe lily hands 
Shall handle y-u. Sfenter. 

Pcrufe m> l:avei through cv'ry part, 
And think thou feelr ray owner's heart 
Scrawl'd o'er with trifles. Swift. 

3. One fide of a double door. 

The two I java of the one ii jor were folding. 

I Kings. 

4. Any thing foliated, or thinly beaten. 

Eleven ounces two pence. (terling ought to be of 

fo ;'urc filvcr, as is caJed leaf iihcr, ;mJ then the 

inelter muft add of other weight fcvcnteen pence 

im> lartliin,;. . CamJer,. 

Lej; 'i'.cs in the air as light as down, 

is ai truiy gold ai that in an ingot. Digh. 

To LEAF. v. n, [from the noun.] To 

briog leaves ; to bear leaves. 

Moft tiees fall or)' the leaves at autumn; and 
if not kept back by cvld, would haf about the 
f'J.itice. Brnan. 

.E'AFI.ESS. adj. [from leaf.] Naked of 
leaves. 

fc.ire honffty, without fome tthcr adornmtnt, 
. on as a trajlefi tree, nobodv will take 

Gisvtrninen! of 'the '! 

AVhere doves in flocks the fr.ijirfs trees o'erihade, 
i>:iely woodcock? haunt the wat'ry t -laJe. 2'.'v. 
e'AtY. adj. [from leaf.] Full of leaves 

The frauds of men were ever fo, 
Since fummer wa.: firft l.-afy. Sbirtrffiare. 

What ciiance, good lady, hath bereft you thus ? 
Dim daiknt-ii,.and this ieafy labyrinth. M:i:>-.. 

O'er b.iru-; mountains, o'cr'the riow'ry plain, 
The 1'afy fo.eft, and the liquid m:iin, 
Lxu-cds thy uiii.ODt.uul d and bjundicfs reign. 



LEA 

Hv /f.i/jp arms with fuch catcat were (preaV 
That ouits of bir^H that wing the I'quid air, 
Percb'd in the boughs. ZVyrfti'j l-lnutr otdLctf. 

So when fome Iwclfring travellers retire 
To leafy IhaJes, near the cool funleli vjrjjc 
Of Paraba, Bradlan ttitam ; h;r tail 
A grilly hydtt liiddcnly (hoots forth. Pkilipt. 

LEAGUE, a /. [Itgue, Frenth ligo, Lat.] 
A confederacy ; a combinaiiou eiiher of 
interell or fiiendfeip. 

You peers, continue this united league: 
I every day cxpccl an embail'i^ 
From my Redeemer, to rcllciin me hence. 
And now in peace my foul Cull p.irt to hejv'n, 
Since 1 have nude my friends at ptace on earth. 

Xbat 

We come to be informed by yonrfelves, 
What the conditions of that leagui mult be. Sbakefp. 

'i'hou (liait be in league with the (tones of the 
field ; and the beads of the field fliall be at peace 
with thee. 'Job, 

Co break thy league with BaaOn, that he may 
depart from me. - i Chin. xvi. 3. 

It is a great error, and a narrowness of mind, to 
think, that nations have nothing to do one with, 
another, except there be either an union iu fovc- 
rcijnty, or a conjunction in pafts or leagues: there 
are other bands of focicty and implicit confedera- 
tions- Back's HJy War. 

I, a private perfon, whom my country 
As a league breaker gave up bound, prefum d 
Single rebellion, and did hjftile acls. Mi'tui. 

Oh Tyrians, with immortal lute 
Purfnc this hated race : and let there be 
"Twixt us and them no league nor amity. DenLu*. 
To LEAGUE. <v. n. To unite ; to confe- 
derate. 

Where fraud and falfhcod invade fociety, the 
band prefi'ntly biealcs, and men are put to a loft 
where to l.-agin- and to falten their dependences. 

Soutt. 
LEAGUE, n.f. [litue, French.] 

1 . A league ; leuca, Latin ; from Itch, 
WelQi ; a Hone th^t was ufed to b? ered- 
ed at the end of every league. Camdi*. 

2. A mfafure of- length, containing- three 

I'.rc tlie (ni,-"i cniM :n"t by twice five Aw 
Wewei 

Ev'n Italy, tirju^h m.viy i l.-aguc ;e; 
In diliant echo-.'i - 

LE'AGUED. aiij. (from league.] Confede- 
rated. 

And now thus !,-jgu'ti by an eternal bond, 
What (haUr.-taid tbcfiripuu b >ld deigns ? Philips. 
LE'AGUER. n.f. [Meggenn, Du: 
Siege ; inveilmcnt i>l" a (own. 

Wt will bi:-.<l anc! ,, f n , that he ftaM 

fuppofe no other but that he ii tar.ic-i intn the 
leaguei of the adver:V:cs, wl.c.i w. -bi;,,. : him to 
our own tents. Sbjkclfra',, 

,EAK. n f. [leek, /tie, Dutch.] A breach 
or hole which lets in water. 

There wilt be ,.l.v.i;> c\ii=, which no art of man 
md t.-<iks more than man's wit 
hath hands to itop. Hserer. 

The witer ruihcj in, as it doth ufi 

Whether (he fpmn c ' a leak I cannot CmJ, 
Or whether (he wr, overOt with wind, 
Or that fomc n)tk lnlr.v her bottom rent, 
Butdowna:o:iccvv ; . ihe uent. Drjd. 

'o LEAK. <v. >:. 
. To let w;>u r in or oar. 

They will allow us ne'er a Jordan, and then we 

<ftart. 

liis le.; Ihould be v.'.ulicd every day in coij wa- 
ter; aid have hi; ilioes fo tiiin, that they might 
!cuk, anJ L-t in water. Ltckc. 

To drop through a breach, or diicon- 
tinuity. 

The 



LEA 

The water, which will perhaps by dejrset leak 
tj leveral parts, may be emptied out again 



Gulden ftars hung o'er their heads, 
And feem'd fo crowded, tha< thtj butit upn 'em, 
And dart at once their baleful influence 

'.atixg lite. DryJtn arri Lte. 

Lfc'AKAOK. n. f. [from leri.k.] Allow- 
ance made for accident*, loft in liquid 
meafures. 

L\' S AKY. adj. [from hak.~\ 
1. Battered or pierced, ib as to let water 
in or out. 

Thou'rt fj '<aky f 

That we muft leave thee t .> thy finking ; for 
Thy deareft quit thee. Sbafefctare. 

If you have not enjoy'd whit youth coulj give, 
But life funk through you like , 
Accufe yourfelf, you liv'd not while you might. 



t. Loquacious ; not clcfe. 

Women are fo leaky, that I have hardly met with 
one that could not hold her breath longer than inc 
could keep a fecret. L'Ejlrarge. 

SToLEAN. v. n. prefer, leaned cr leant. 

[))lin.in, Saxon ; linen, Dutch.] 
I. To incline againit ; to relt againft. 

Lean thine aged back againft mine arm, 
And in that cafe I'll tell thcc my difcsfc. Sl.-akefp. 
Security is cxprelTed among the medals of Gor- 
dianus, by a lady leaning againft a pillar, a fcepter in 
her hand, bc/ore an altar. Pt^r/v;r 'n Drawing. 
The columns may be allowed fomcwhat above 
their ordinary length, becaufe they lean unto fo good 
fupporters. 

Upon his iv'ry fctptrc firft he leant, 
Then fliook his head, that (nook the firmament. 

Dryden. 

Opprefs'd with angui/h, panting and o'erfpent, 
Hit tainting limbs againft an oak he leant. Dryden. 
If God be angry, all onr other dependencies will 
.profit us nothing ; every other fupport will fail un- 
der us when we come to lean upon it, and dsctive 
us in th: day when we want it moft. Rigers. 

Then leaning o'er the rail; he mufin<r ftood. Gay. 
'Mid the central depth of black'ning woods, 
High ra'-s'd in foletnn theatre a.ound 
Learn the huge elephant. Tb^mftjn. 

t. To propend ; to tend towards. 

They delight rather to lean to their old cuftoms, 
though they be more unjuft, and mor inconve- 
.nient. Spfnfer. 

Tr(l in the Lord with a'l thin l.ea't ; and left 
not unto thine own understanding. PK*T . 

A de/ire leaning to eithex fide, biaflei the ju.lg- 
ment ftrangdy. Watu. 

3. To be in a bending pofture. 

She leans me out at her miftrefs's chamber win- 
dow, bids me a thiufand times good night. .' 

Wearied with length of wayi, ard worn witlrtoil, 
She hid her down ; and leaning on her knee-;, 
Inok'd. the caufc of alt her mikries. Drydet 

The gf ds came downward to behold the wars,. 
Sharp'ning thur frghu, aud 'itiutingftQTA their flars. 

Djjflen, 

l.*\".aifj. [))lzne, Saxon.] 
I. Not fat; roeagre; wanting flefh ; bare- 
boned. 

You tempt the fury of my three attendants, 
Lean fimino, quartering ftcei, and climbing file. 

Lean raw.bon'd rafcili! who would e er ft-ppof', 
They had fuch couraao and auuacky ! Sha : 

/.M-look d prophets whilj cr fearful ch.:i 

'.buki'ij'ijrt. 

.1 w m! 1 invent as bitter fearching tr 
With full as many flgns of deadly hate, 
As /.MB-fac'd'envy in herloathfomc cave. Sbnkfff. 

Sevm other kine came up oul of the rivfr, ili- 
fiv ur d and /r.i/r-fleflied. Gin. xli. 3. 

Let a ph)ii how he purgp aft:r hard 

vc.ir.iu, 4.-id in a '.can bjdj, witi.uu 1 ; 
tiba. ;.-..... 



L E A^ 

And- fetch their precepts from the cynia tno, 
Prsiirmg th lean and fsHow afcftinenee. Miltm. 

Swear that Adraftus, and the /wn-look'd prophet, 
Are joiftt CArrfprrators. Lr/Jcn md Lee. 

Lean people often faffer for want of fat, as fat 
people may by obftruftion of thevell'els. Arbusbna. 

No laughing graces wan'on in my eyes ; 
But haggarJ yfief, /frfff-look-ing la bw care, 
DweU on my brow. Rtiv i*s 'jar.c S/j're. 

z. Not untaious ; tHIn ; hungry. 

There are two chief kinds of terreltrial liquors, 
tbofe that are fat and light, and thofe that are lean 
and more earthy, like common water. Burnet. 

3. Low; poor: in oppoiition to great or 
rich. 

That which cc-mbin'd us was mod great, and let 

not 
A leaner sc~tion rend us. Statrfpeare. 

4. Jejune; not comprehenfire ; not em- 
belliihed : as, a lean diflertatfon. 

LEAN. n.f. That part of flefh which corl- 
fifts of ;he mufele without the fat. 
With razors keen we cut our palfage clean 
Through rills of fat, and deluges of lean'. Farjatar. 

LE'ANLY. adv. [from lean.] Meagrely ; 

without plumpnefs. 
LE'ANNESS. n.f. [from lean.~\ 

1. Extenuation of body ; want of flefll ; 
meagrenefs. 

If thy Icar.ve'i: loves fuch food, 
There are thofe, that, for thy fjke, 
Do enough. Sen Jcr.fin. 

The fymptoms of too great fluidity are cx'cefs of 
univcrfal fecretions, as of perfpiration, fwcat, urine, 
liquid dejec^ures,/jnn(yj,and wcakncfs. Arbxtkn-t. 

2. Want of matter ; thinnefs ; poverty. 

The poor king Reignier, wiv-fe Urge Irylc 
Agrees not with the leannefs of his purfe. Sbakefp. 

To LEAP. 11. a. [Jjleapan, Saxon ; lbup y 
Scottifh.] 

1 . To jum'p ; to move upward or progref- 
fively without change of the feet. 

If I could win a ]ady at leap-frog, or by vault- 
ing into my faddle with my armour on, 1 fliouid 
1 quickly leaf into a wife. .V/uA jf.ejr, ': llenry V. 
A man Icapab betfer with weights in his hands 
than without; for that the weight, if it be pro- 
portionable, (rrengtheneth the finews by contracting 
i them. In Itaf-ing with weights, the arms arc lirit 
' caft backwards and then forwards with fo irmh the 
grentcr fore;; for the hands go backward before 
they take their rife. Batta. 

In a narrow pit 

He faw a lion, and leap'd down to it. C'-wly. 

Thrice from the ground flic leap'd) was (cen to 

wield 
Her brand'nh'd lance. DryJafi sEmid. 

2. To rulh.wiih vehemence. 

Cod changed the fpirit of the king into mild- 
nets, who in a (wltaprJ from his throne, and 
| took her in his arms, till me came to hcrfelf again. 

r.jiber, xv. 8. 

After he went into the tent, and found hcr-not, 
he leafed out to the people. Jitditb, xiv. 7. 

He ruin upon ruin heaps, 

And on me, like a furious giant, haps. .V./n.-A'j. 
Strait leafing from his horfe, he uis'd me up. 

Rmue. 

3. To bound ; to fpring. 

Rejoice yt in that day, and leaf for joy. 

L.ike, vi. 2V 

I am vvnrm'd, my heart 
Leaps at the trumpet's voice, and burns f<>: 

jL 

4. To fly ; to dart. 

He parted frowning from me, as if ruin 
i Leaji'd from his eyes : fo looks the chifed linn 
, Upon the daring huntfmaa th.it has ^ a " '<! ' ! ' rn i 
Then makes him norhin^. .*'/, /i '/-. Henry V'lfl. 

OufoP h'n mouth go burning hmpv a.i<: ; 
of firu Itcj. j. ~J<.i t xii. !_/. 



LEA 

iTe LEAP, f . a. 

: i. To pafs over, of into, by leaping. 

Every man is" not of a conftitution to lesp a gulf 
for the favihg of his country. . L'EJlrange. 

As one condemn'd to leap :> prcc'p'. \ 
Who fees before his eyes the depth below, 
Stops fliort. D'-y:if,fs Spanifi Fryar. 

She dares purfue, if they c!a;c lead : 
As their example ftlll prevail;, 
She tempts the ftream, or haps the rales. Prior. 
2. To comprefs, as ber.fts. 

Too faon they muft not feel the fting of love : 
Let him not leap the cjw. Diyjcn's Gnrg. 

LEAP. n.f. [from the Verb.] 

1. Bound; jump; at of leaping. 

2. Spate parTed by leaping. 

After they h.ive carried their riders fife over all 
leaps, and through all dangers, what comes of them 
in the end but to be broken-winded ? L'Ejlran^e. 

3. Sudden traniition 

Wickednefs comes on by degrees, as well as vir- 
tue ; and fudden leaps from one extreme to arjother 
are unnatural. L'E.firar.gc. 

The commons wrefted even the power of chufing a 
king intirely out of the hands of the nobles ; which 
was lb great z!e~p, and cautcdfuch a convulfion in the 
ftate, that the conftitution could not bear. Swift. 

4. An aflault of an animal of prey. 

The cat made a leap at the muufe. L'Eftiange. 

5. Embrace of atiim:ih. 

How (he cheats her bellowing lover's eye ; 
The rufhing leaf, the doubtful progeny. Diydeit, 

6. Hazard, or effeft of leaping. 

Methinks, it were an e.ify leap 
To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd mor.n. 

You take a precipice for no leap of danger, 
And woo your own deftruction. ifeare* 

Behold that dreadful downf.il of a rock, 
Where yon old fifher views the waves from high ! 
'Tis the convenient leap I mean to try. Dtyden, 
LEAP-FROG, n.f. [leaf and frog.] A play 
of children, in which they imitate the 
jump of frogs. 

If I could win a lady at leaf-freg, T mould quick- 
ly leap into a wife. Skat.lpeare's Hcmy V. 

LEAP-YEAR, n.f. 

Leaf -year or bifTextile is every fourth year, and 
fo called from its leafing x day more that year than 
in'.i i-'nnmon year: fo that the common yew has 
365 chy?, bat the leap-year 366 ; ahd then Febru- 
ary fcatil 2(i days, which in common years hath but 
Ti find the leap-year you have this rule : 

div!d" by l ; what's' Ir.'t fllkH be 
For kjf-ycar o; for paft r, 2, -j. IJ.-.rr'is. 

. nf the name of leap-fccr is, that * 
day of the week is milled ; as, if on one year tha 
firft of March be on Monday, it will en the next 
year be on Tuelday, but on 'le,-.p-year\l will leap to 
Wednefday. 

That the fun confifteth of 365 days and almoft 
fix hoar.-, w.iii":hig clever. minuKi; which fix hour* 
mulcted will, in proccfi vi time, largely deprave the 
ccrrrpute; and this is the occafion of the bilftxtile 
or Icap-y.ar. Bnivn. 

To LEARN. <v. a. [leojiman, Saxon.] 
. To g;<in the knowledge or {kill of. 

i a parable of the fig-tree. Matt. xxiv. 32. 

He, in a ihorter time than was thought pofiible, 

leained both to fpcak and write the Arabian tongue. 

Knotty. 

l.fa-n, wrttches ! learn the rr.nliin; nf the mind, 
And the great moral end-of humankind* EryJcn* 

Yo'i r:i. .y u-iv n] on my tender 
To kvep him far from perils of ambition: 
All he cm lejrii of rr.c, will be to weep ! A. PHIips* 
2. To teach. [It is obfervable, that in 
many or' the Kuropean languages the 
fame word fignifics to learn and to teach ; 
to giin or impsrt knowledge.] This 
fenfe is now obfoleie. 

He 



LEA 



LEA 



LEA 



He would liar* ( 

The lion Hoop to him in lowly wile, 
A \fffon hard. Spenfir't Fairy S^uem. 

You taught me language, and my profit on't 
I>,1 know bow to curie: the red plague rid you, 
For ltrmtr me your language. Sbaktff. Temfefl. 

A thouland more mil'chances than this one, 
Havc/wnV me how to brook this patiently. Sink. 

Haft thou not Icarn'd me how 
To make perfumes? Stalrfp. Cymbeline. 

fo LEARN, v. . To take pattern: 
with rf. 

Take my yoke upon you, and ittrn cf me ; for 
t am merk and lowly. Matth. xi. 29. 

In imitation of founds, that Man fhculd be the 
teacher is no part of the matter ; for birds will liarn 
one tf another. Baeon't Natural Hi/lory. 

L E' A *. N E D . adj . [ from learn. ] 

1. Vcrfcd in fcience and literature. 

It is indifferent to the matter in hand, which wjy 
the learned wall determine of it. Lode. 

Some by old words to fame have made pretence : 
Such labour d nothings, in fo ftrange a ftyle, 
Amaze th' unlevn'd, and make the learned fmile. 

Pope. 

The learned met with free approach, 
Although they came not in a coach. Swift. 

The bed account is given of them by their own 
authors : but I truft more to the table of the learned 
bilnop of Bath. Arlutbnot on Coins. 

2. Skilled ; fkilful ; knowing : with in. 

Though train'd in arms, and learn d iff martial 

arts, 
Tbou chufeft not to conquer men but hearts. 

Cranville. 

3. Skilled in fcholailkk, as difliucl from 
other knowledge. 

Till a man can juJge whether they be truths or 
no, his understanding is but tittle improved : and 
thus men of much reading are greatly learned, but 
may be little knowing. L lc. 

I.E'ARNEDLY. adv. [from learned."} With 
knowledge ; with (kill. 
The apoftle icemed in his eyes but learnedly mad. 

OaJur. 
Much 

He fpoke, and learnedly, for life ; but all 
Was cither pitied in him, or forgotten. Siaktff. 
Ev'ry coxcomb f wears as learnedly as they. Swift. 

LE'ARNINC. n.f. [from learn.'} 

1. Literature; Ikill in languages or fci- 
ence ; generally fcholaftick knowledge. 

Learningkub its infancy, when it is almoft child- 
ifli ; then its youth, when luxuriant and juvenile ; 
then its ftrcngth of years, when folid ; and, l.tltly, 
its old age, when dry and exhauft. Bacon. 

To tongue or pudding tbou haft no pretence, 
Learning thy talent is, but mine i fenfe. Prior. 

As Mofes was learned in all the wifdom of the 
Egyptians, fo it is manifeft from this chapter, that 
St. Haul was a great matter in all the learning of the 
Creeks. Bentlry. 

2. Skill in any thing good or bad. 

An art of contradiction by way of fcorn, z learn- 
ing wherewith we were long fithence forewarned, 
that the miferable times whereunto we are fallen 
fliould abound. linker. 

LE'ARNER. n.f. [from liar*.] One who 
is yet in his rudiments ; one who is ac- 
quiring feme new art or knowledge. 

The late learners cannot fo well take the ply, 
except it be in fome minds that have not fullered 
themfelvcs to fix. Bactn. 

Nor cm a /ivr/nr work fo cheap as a fkilful prac- 
tifed artiit can. Graunfs Bills of Mortality. 

LEASE, n.f. [laiffer, French. Sfelmau.] 
1. A contract by which, in confideration of 
fome payment, a temporary pofl'cfiion is 
granted of houfes or lands. 

Why, coufin, wer't thou regent of the world, 
It were a fliarae to let this land by Uajc, Sbaktfp- 



Lords of the world have but for life their li.'fe, 
And that too, if the IclTbr pleafe, muft cealc. 

Denbam. 

I have heard a man talk with contempt of bilhops 
Itafei, as on a worfe foot than the reft of bis eftate. 

Swift. 
z. Any tenure. 

Our high-plac'd Macbeth 
Shall live the leaj't of nature. StaUcfpeare. 

Thou to give the world increafe, 
Short'ned haft thy own life's Icaft. Mtlicn. 

To LEASE, v. a, [from the noun.] To 

let by leafe. 
Where the vicar lea ft i his glebe, the tenant muft 

pay the great tithes to the rector or impropriator, 

and the (mall tithes to the vicar. Aytiffc. 

To LEASE, v.n. [lefen, Dutch.] To glean ; 

to gather what the harvefl men leave. 

She in harveft us'd to leafe ; 
But harveft done, to chare-work did afpire, 
Meat, drink, and two -pence, was her daily hire. 

Dryden. 

LE'ASER. . f. [from leafe.] Gleaner ; 
gatherer after the reaper. 

There was no office which a man from England 
might not have ; and I looked upon all who were 
born here as only in the condition of leafcrs and 
gleaners. Swift. 

LEASH. n.f. [left, French ; Ittft, Dutch ; 
laccio, Italian.] 

1. A leather thong, by which a falconer 
holds his hawk, or a courfer leads his 
greyhound. Hanmer 

Holding Corioli in the name of Rome, 
Even like a fawning greyhound in the leajh, 
To let him Hip at will. Sbakefpccrc. 

What I was, I am ; 

More (training on, for plucking back; not following 
My leajh unwillingly. Sbakefpearc't Winter's T^lc. 

2. A tierce ; three. 

I am fworn brother to a leajb of drawers, and can 
call them all by their Chriftian names. Si^ke'f. 

Some thought when he did gabble 
Th' ad heard three labourers of Babel, 
Or Cerberus himfclf pronounce 
A leajh of languages at once. Hvdibra:. 

Thou art a living comedy ; they are a leajh of dull 
devils. Dennis's Letters. 

3. A band wherewith to tie any thing in 
general. 

The ravifhed foul being mewn fuch game, would 
break thofe Icajhu that tie her to the body. Boyle . 
To LEASH, i/. a. [from the noun.] To 
bind ; to hold in a firing. 

Then mould the warlike Harry, like hirhfelf, 
Affumc the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, 
Leajht in like hounds, fhould famine, (word, and fire, 
Crouch for employment. Sbakejpearis Merry V. 

LE'ASING. n.f. [leape, Saxon. ] Lies; 
falfehood. 

O ye fons of men, how long will ye have fuch 
pleafure in vanity, and feck atter Ifnjing ? 

ffalms, iv. I. 

He 'mongft ladies would their fortunes read 
Out of their bands, and merry lea/ings tell. 

Hutberd'sTale. 

He hates foul leafings and vile flattery, 
Two filthy blots in noble gentery. Hubbcrd's Tale. 

That falfe pilgrim which that leafing told, 
Was indeed old Archimago. l\:-y listen. 

I have ever verified my friends 
With all the fize that verity 
Would without lapfing fuffer : nay, fometimes, 
Like to a bowl upon a fubtle ground 
I've tumbled part the throw ; and in his praife 
Have almoft ftampt the leafing' Sbj/fcjfcarc, 

As folks, quoth Richard, prone to le-ifing, 
Say things at firft, becaufe they're plcaling ; 
Then prove what they have once afi'crtcd, 
Nor care to have their lie defertcd,: 
Till their own dreams at length deceive them, 
And oft repeating they believe them. Pr'ur. 



Trading free wall thrive again, 
Nor leafing! lewd affright the fwain.' GJJ. 

LEAST, adj. the fuperlativeof Unit. [lxj-r, 
Saxon. This word Wallis would per- 
fuade us to write left, that it m?.y be 
analogous to lefi ; but furely the profit 
is not worth the change.] Little be- 
yond others ; imallelt. 

I am not worthy of the leaf of all the merciet 
{hewed to thy fervant. Gen. xxxii. 10. 

A man can no more have a pofitive idea of the 
greateft than he has of the leafl fpace. Loctf. 

LEAST, adv. In the loweft degree; in a 
degree below others ; lei's than any other 
way. 

He rcfolv'd to wave his fuit, 
Or for a while play leaf in fight. JItJitrait 

Ev'n that avert ; 1 chufe it not; 
But tafte it as the Iraft unhappy lot. Dryden. 

No man more truly knows to place a right value 
on your friendship, than^he who leafl defcrves it on 
all other accounts than his due fenie of it. Pope. 

At LEAST. ~) To fay no more; not 

At the LEAST. > to demand or affirm 
At LEASTWISE. J more than is barely 
fufficient ; at the loweft degree. 

He who tempts, though in vain, at leaf afperfet 
The tempted with diihonour. Miltcs. 

He from my fide fubdu&ing, took perhaps 
More than enough ; at feaft on her beftowed 
Too much of ornament, in outward ihow 
Elaborate, of inw.rd lefs exact. Milton. 

Upon the maft they faw a young man, at lenj} if 
he were a man, who fat as on horfeback. Sidney. 

Every eft'edt doth after a fort contain, <ir Uaftvife 
reilmble, the caufc from which it proceeded). 

HteJten 

Honour and fame at leaf the thund'rer ow'd, 
And ill he pays the promife of a God. Pcfe. 

The remedies, if any, are to be propofcd from a 
conftant couife of the milkcn diet, continued at A.y? 
a year. Temple. 

A fiend may deceive a creature of more excel, 
lency than himfelf, at Icajl by the tacit permiilion 
of the omnifcient Being. DiyJin. 

2. It has a fenfe implying doubt; to fay 
no more ; to fay the leaft ; not to fay 
all that might be faid. 

Whether fuch virtue fpent now fail'd 
New angels to create, if they at leaji 
Are his created. Milttx. 

Let ufeful obfcrvations be at liaft fjme part of 
trie fubject of your converfation. Watn. 

LE'ASY. adj. [This word feems formed 
from the fame root with loijir, French, 
or loafe.~\ Flimfy ; of weak texture. 
Not in ufe. 

He never leaveth, while the fenfe itfelf be left 
loofe and leafy. jifcttm'i Scbcolaajler. 

LE'ATHER. ._/". [le?ep, Saxon; icadr, 
Erfe.] 

1. Drefled hides of animals. 

He was a ha'uy man, and girt with a girdle of 
leatbtr about his loins* 2 Kings, i. 8. 

And if two boots keep out the weather, 
What need you have two hides of leather f Prior. 

2. Skin : ironically. 

Returning found in limb and wind, 
Except fome leatler loft behind. Sii-ift. 

3. It is often u fed in composition for leathern. 

The fliepherd's homely rurds, 
His cold thin drink out of his leciber bottle; 
Is far beyond a prince's delicacies. Sbatcff-fare. 

LE'ATHERCOAT. n.f. [leather and teat.] 
An apple with a tough rind. 

There is a difli of lejtbirccats for you. Sbaltff. 
LE'ATHERDRESSER. n.f. [leather and 
drefiir.} He who drefles leather ; he 
who manufactures hides for ufe. 

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LEA 

He removed to Cumse ; and by the way was en- 
tertained at the houfe of one Tychius, a lealber- 
dre/er. Pefe. 

LEATHER-MOUTHED, adj. [leather and 
mouth. ] 

By a leatber-mcutted fift, I mean fuch as have 
their teeth in their throat ; as, the chub or cheven. 

fFa/nn's Angler. 

LE'ATHERY. adj. [from leather.'} Re- 
fembling leather. 

Wormius calls this cruft a leathery (Icin. Grttv. 
LE'ATHERN. adj. [from leather.] Made 
cf leather. 

I faw her hand ; (he has a teatlrrn hand 
A free-ftone colour'd hand : I verily did think, 
T hat her old gloves were on. Sbaky'pear?. 

The wretched animal hcav'd forth fuch groans, 
That their dilcharge did ftrctch his Uatbcrn coat 
Almoft to burfting. Sbakcfpeare j /Is yat like it. 

In filken or in leaner* purfc retain 
A fpleniid (hilling. Philips. 

LE'ATHERSELLER.._/ [leather and feller.] 
He who deals in leather, and vends it. 

LEAVE, a. /. [Iepe> Saxon ; from lypan, 
to grant.] 

1. Grant of liberty; permiflion ; allow- 
ance. 

By your leave, Ircncus, notwithstanding all this 
your careful forefight, methinks I lee an evil lurk 
unefpied. Spenfcr. 

When him his deareft Una did behold, 
Difdaining life, defiring leave to dye. Spcnfer. 

I make bold to prcfs upon you. 
You're welcome; give us leave, drawer. 

Sbtt-ffeare. 
Th days 

Of Sylla's fway, when the free fword took leave 
To adl all that it would. Ben Janf-as Catiline. 

Thrice happy make ! that in her llceve 
May boldly creep ; we dare not give 
Our thoughts fo unconfin'd a leave. Waller. 

No friend has leave to bear away the dead. Dryd. 

Offended that we fought without his leave, 
He takes this time his fecret hate to (hew. Dry Jen. 

One thing more 1 crave leave to offer about fyl- 
logifm, before I leave it. Lceke. 

I muft have leave to be grateful to any who ferves 
me, let him be never fo obnoxious to any party : 
nor did the tory party put me to the hardlhip of 
a/king this leave. Pope. 

2, Farewel ; adieu. In this fenfe Uave 
is permljjion to depart. 

Take leave and part, for you muft part forthwith. 

Sbakefpeart. 
Evils that take leave, 

On their departure, mod of all fljcw evil. Sbakefp. 
There is further compliment of /Mi/f-taking be- 
tween France and him. Sbeakeffeare'i Khif Liar. 

Here my father comes ; 
A double blcfling is a double grace; 
Occafion fmiles upon a fecond leave. Sbolefpeare, 

But, my dear nothings, take your leave, 

Ho longer muft you me deceive. Suckling. 

Many (tars maybe vifibleinour hemifphere, that 

are not fo at prcfent ; and many (hall take leave of 

ur horizon, and appear unto fouthern habitations. 

To LEAVE, -v. a. pret. 1 Irft; I have left. 
[Of the derivation of this word the ety- 
mclogifts give no fatisfaftory account.] 

1. To quit ; to forfake. 

A man (hall leave his father and his mother, and 
t'.eave to his wife. Gen. ii. ^4 r . 

If they love lees, and leave the lufty wine, 
Envy them not their palates with tho fwine. 

Ben Jtnfon. 

2. Todefert; to abandon. 

He that is of an unthankful mind, will leave him 
in danger that delivered him. Ecclus, xxix. 1 7 

3. To depart from, without action : as, 
I Irft things as 1 found them. 



LEA 

When the y were departed from Mm, they left him 
in great difeales. 1 iChron. xiciv. 25. 

4. To have remaining at death. 

There be of them that have left a name behind 
them. Ecclus, xliv. 8. 

5. Not to deprive of. 

They ftill have left me the providence of God, 
and all the promifes of the gofpd, and my charity 
to them too. Ttyl-.r. 

6. To fufter to remain. 

If it be done without order, the mind comyre- 
hendeth lefs that which is let down ; and belides, 
it leavetb a fufpicion, as if more might be faid than 
is expreffed. Bacen. 

Thefe things mud be left uncertain to farther dif- 
coveries in future ages. jibbc/t. 

Who thofe are, to whom this right by defcent 
belongs, he iuvts out of the reach of any one to 
difcover from his writings. Lock:* 

7. Not to carry away. 

They encamped againft them, and deftroyed the 
increjfe of the earth, aad left no fuftcnance for 
Ifaei. Judci,\\. 4. 

He dial! eat the fruit of thy cattle ; which alfo 
ihall not Ujve thte either corn, wine or oil. 

D.ut. xxviii. 48. 

Vaftius gave (rriff. commandment, that they fliould 
leave behind them unnecellary baggage. Knulles. 

8. To rejeft ; not to choofe. 

In all the common incidents of life, 
I am fuperiour, I can take or leave. Stttle. 

9. To fix as a token or remembrance. 

This ] Lave with my reader, as an occafion for 
him to confider, how much he may bi beholden to 
experience. Lccke. 

10. To bequeath ; to give as inheritance. 
That peace thou leav'Jl to thy imperial line, 

That peace, Oh happy made ! beever thine. DiyJ. 

11. To give up ; to refign. 

Thou malt not glean thy vineyard ; thou malt 
leave them for the poor and ftranger. Lev. xix. 10. 

If a wife man were left to himfelf, and his own 
choice, to wi(h the greateft good to himfelf he 
could devifc ; the fum of all his wilhes would be 
thii, That there were jult fuch a being as God is. 

Tt//r/en. 

12. To permit without interpofnion. 
Whether Efau were a valTal, I leavi the reader 

to judge. Laclt. 

13. To ceafe to do ; to defift from. 

Let us return, left my father have caring for the 
affcs, and take thought tor us. i Sam. ix. 5. 

14. To LEAVE of. To defift from; to 
forbear. 

If, upon any occafien, you bid him have of 
the doing of any thing, you mult be fure to carry 
the point. Locke. 

In proportion as old age came on, he lift off fox- 
hunting. , Alilijin'i Sfcflattr. 

15. To LEAVE off. To forfake. 

He began to leave cfffome of his old acquaint- 
ance, his roaring and bulging about the ftrects : 
he put on a ferious air. .Arbutbn^t. 

16. T LEAVE out. To omit; to ne- 
glea. 

I am fo fraught with curious bufinefs, that 
I leave tut ceremony. Sbakefp. Winter's Talc. 

You may partake : I have told 'em who you are. 
I fliould be loth to be left out, and here too. 

Ben Jmfn. 

What is fet down by order and division dnth 
Jemonftrate, that nothing is left mil or omitted, 
but all is there. Bacon. 

Befriend till utmoft end 
Of all thy dues be done, and none left tut, 
Ere nice morn on the Indian fteep 
From her cabin'd loop-hole peep. Miltw. 

We aflc, if thofc fubvert 
Reafon's eftabliih'd maxims, who affert 
That we the world's exiftenct may conceive, 
Though we one atom out of matter leave ? 

Bhclmore. 
J always thought this pafTagc left tut with a 



LEA 

great deal of judgment, by Tucca and Varius, aj 
it leems to contradict a part in the lixth Alneid. 

Addifon an Italy. 

To LEAVE. <i>. . 

1. To ceafe; to defift. 

She is my elTence, and I leave to be, 
If I be not by her fair influence 
Fofter'd, illumin'd, cherifh'd, kept alive. Sbakefp, 

And lince this bufinefs fo .far fVir is doric, 
Let us Hot leave till all our own be \von. Siakeff. 

He began at the eldeft, and left at the youngeft. 

Gene/is* 

2. To LEAVE of. To defift. 

Grittus, hoping that they in the caftle would 
not hold out, left '.jf to batter or undermine it, 
wherewith he perceived he little prevailed. Knolies. 

But when yon rind that vigorous heat abate, 
Leave cf, and for another fummons wait. 

Rcjcmmn. 

3. To LEAVE off. To flop. 

Wrongs do not leave tiff there where they begin, 
But (tili beget new mifchiefs in their courfe. Darnel. 
To LEAVE. i>. a. [from levy ; liver, 
French.] To levy; to raile : a cor- 
rupt word, made, I believe, by Sfenfer, 
for a rhime. 

An army ltron$ fhe leaved, 
To war on thole which him had of his realm be- 
reav'd, Spenf;r*s Fairy Queen. 

LE'AVED. adj. [from leaves, ofleaf.] 

1. Furniftied with foliage. 

2. Made with leaves or folds. 

I will loofe the loins of kings, to open before him 
the two leaved gates. Jfa. xlv. i. 

LE'AVEN. n.f. [Irvaiu, French ; Icvare, 
Latin.] 

1. Ferment mixed with any body to make 
it light; particularly ufed of four dough 
mixed in a mafs of bread. 

It Ihall not be bakcn with leaven. Lev. vi. 17. 

All fermented meats and drinks are eaficft di- 
gcftcd ; and thofe unfermentcd, by barm or leave*, 
arc hardly digcfted. flyer, 

2. Any mixture which makes a general 
change in the mafs: it generally means 
fomething that depraves or corrupts that 
with which it is mixed. 

Many of their propofitions favour very ftronglf 
of the old leaven of innovations. King Charles, 
To LE'AVEN. v, a. [from the noun.] 

1. To ferment by fomething mixed. 

You muft tarry the leav'ning. Stcitejpeari. 

Whofoever eateth leavened bread, that foul fliail 
be cut o(f. Exod. xii. 17. 

Breads we have of fevcra! grains, with divers kinds 
of leavenings, and feafonings ; fo that forae do ex- 
tremely move appetites. Bacn. 

2. To taint; to imbue. 

That cruel fomething unpofloft, 
Corrodes and leavens all the red. Prior, 

LE'AVER. . f. [from leave.] One who 
deferts or forfakes. 

Let the world rank me in regifter 
A maflcr-A'awr, and a fugitive. Stateffeart, 

LEAVES. ./ The plural of leaf. 

Parts fit for the nourishment of man in plants 
are, feeds, roots, and fruits; for leaves they give 
no nourishment at all. Bacon's Natural 



LE'AVINGS. a. /. [from leave.] Rem- 
nant; rtlicks; offal ; refufe: it has no 
fmgular. 

My father has this morning cill'd together, 
To this poor hall, his little Roman fenate, 
The leaving! of Pharfalia. Mdifint Cat* 

Then who can think we'll quit the place, 
Or (top and light at Cloe's head, 
With fcraps and Uavings to be fed ? Sivift. 

Liivv.adj. [from leaf.] Full of leaves; 
covered with leaves : Itafy is more ufed. 

Sucph'jn, 



LEG 

Strrpl.on, with /OHIJ twigj of Uurel CMC, 
A giriand made on temples I'm tu wear, 

J or he then chofen wa; the dignity 
Of village lord that Whilfontidc tj btjr, Sidmv* 

Now, near enough : y..ui :,.-.-.y uretns throw 

down, 
And (how like thofe you are. St.itfffejre. 

?' LECH. -v. a [Itchir, Fr.] To' lick 
over. Haunter. 

Hail thou yet It. bed the Athenian's e>es 
With the love juice ? Shji 

LE'CHER. n. /. [Derived by Skinner 
from luxure, old French : luxuria is ufed 
in the middle ages in the fame fenfe.] 
A whore-mailer. 

J will row take the lta;l er ; he'i at my houfe ; 
be cannot 'fcape me. Sbatrffttuc. 

You, like a tatter, out of whorifh loins 
Are picas d to breed out your inheritors. Skat iff. 

The Iteber foon transforms his miftrefs ; now 
In 1'ci't place appears a lovely tow. Dryden. 

The ileepy leather inuts bis little eyes, 
About his churning chaps tic frothy bubbles rife. 



She yields her charms 
To that fjur/etfter, the (bong god of arms. Pefe. 

To L/CHER. v. . ffrom the noun.} To 
whore. 

Die for adultery ? N'o. The wren goes to't, and 
the fmall gilded fly does let.bir in my fi^ht. Stai. 
Gut eats all day, and Ittcbcrs all the night. 

B. Jonf.n. 

LE'CHEROUS. adj. [from lecher.} Lewd ; 
luftful. 

The fapphire fliould grow foul, and lofe its 

keauty, when worn by one that is icebtrcus ; the 

emerald fliould fly to pieces, if it touch the (kin 

of any unchafte pcrtm. DtrbeK. 

LE'CHEROUSLY. ad<-j. [from Iccberoui.} 

Lewdly; luftfully. 
LE'CHEROUSNESS. a./, [from lecherous.] 

Lewdnefs. 

LE'CHERY. H. J. [from lecher.] Lewd 
nefs ; luft. 

The reft welter with as little fliame in open lt.-tay 
as fwine do in the common mire. Af-bam- 

Againft fuch lewditers, and their lechery, 
Thole that betray them do no treachery. Sbatcif. 
LE'CTION. n. J [lefiio, Latin.] A read- 
ing ; a variety in copies. 

Every critick has his own hypothefis : if the 
common text be not favourable to his opinion, a 
various liff'ua (hall be made authentick. 



LE'CTURE. n.f. [lefiure, French.] 

1. A difcourfe pronounced upon any fub 

Mark him, \vhile Damctas reads his ruftick 
Itllare unt.; f>im,howto feed his beafts before n.x>n, 
and where to (haJe them m the extreme heat. 

Sidney. 

Wrangling pedant, 

When in tnufick we ha-.c I'pcnt an hour, 
Your leBan (hall have leil'u.s for a. much. Sl'aji. 

When letters frorn Csefar wcie given 'o Ruflicur, 
he refuicd rtf open them till the philofopher h^J 
done hii Iif/fra. Tayhr's H-!l Lhin^. 

Virtue is the folid g-xid, which tutors (hpuU 
not rnly read Idluie; aad tjlk of, but th. 
znd art of education fliould fumiin the mind with, 
r.d faft.'n there. 

2. The act or practice of reading ; pc'rulal 

In the /effureof holy fcri;iture, th:ir apprehen- 

fions arc commanlj confined unto the literal leule 

of the t:xt. Owr.. 

J. A magillcrial reprimand; a pedaniitk 

difcontfe. 

Nurr/di] w:!l be bkit hy Citn's/rflarei. AMifr:. 

To LE'CTURE. *> a i from the noun.] 

1. To inftruft foimally. 

2. To inftruaiofolently and dogmatically. 



LEE 

Tt LE'CTURE, v. n. To rd in publick ; 
to imlruiil ao audience by a formal ex- 
planation or (iifcourfe : as, Wallh lec- 
tured on geometry. 

LE'CTURER../". [from letlure. ] 

1. An inlirutitur ; a teacher by way of 
left u re. 

2. A preacher in a church hired by the 
panfh to a Hi 11 ihe reitor or vicar. 

If any minifter rtfuftd to admit into his church 
a l.Hurcr recommended by them, and there was not 
one orthodox or learned man recommended, he was 
presently required to attend upon the committee. 

Clarendon. 

LECTURESHIP, n./. [from Ie8ure.~\ The 
office of a lefturer. 

He got a lefiurrjkip in town of fixty pounds a 
year, where he preached conftantly in perfon. Swift. 
LED. part. pret. of lead. 

Then ihall they know that I am the Lord your 
God, which caufed them to be led into captivity 
among the heathen. Exit, xxxix. 28. 

The leaders of this people caufc them to err, and 
they that are ltd of them arc deftroyed. Ifa. ix. 16. 

As in vegetables and animals, fo In moft other 
bodies, not propagated by feed, it is the colour we 
moft fix on, and are mod led by. Locke. 

LEDGE, n.f. \leggea, Dutch, to lie.] 

1. A row ; layer; ftratum. 

The lowed ledge or row fliould be merely of 
ftonc, clofely laid, without mortar : a general cau- 
tion for all parts in building contiguous to board. 
Wnitcn's Arcbitiflure. 

2. A ridge rifing above the reft, or pro- 
jefting beyond the reft. 

The four parallel (licks rifing above five inches 
higher than the handkerchief, fcrved as ledges on 
each fide. Gulli-ccr. 

3. Any prominence, or rifing part. 

Beneath a ledge of racks his fleet he hides, 
The bending brow above a fafe retreat provides. 

Drydtn. 
LEDHORSE. n, /. [led and borfe.] A 

i'umpter horle. 
LEE. n.f. [lie, French.] 

1. Dregs; (edinaer.t; refufe : commonly 
lees. 

My cloaths, my fex, exchang'd for thee, 
I'll mingle with the people's wretched lee. Prior. 

2. [Sea terra ; luppoled Hy Skinner from 
I'eau, French.] It is generally that fide 
which is oppofite to the wind, as the lee 
fhore is that the wind blows on. To 
be under the he of the (hore, is to be 
clofe under the weather Ihore. A lee\ 
uvWihip is one that is not fart by a 
wind, to make her way fo good as (he 
might. To lay a fhip by the lie, is io 
bring her fo that all her fails may Ik- 
againll the inafts and (hrouds flat, and 
the wind to come right on her broad- 
fide, fo that (he will make little or no 
way- Di3. 

If we, in the bay of Bifcay, had had a port under 
our lee, that we ni ^'-.t have kept our tranlportinj 
ilups with our nun of war, we had taken the In- 
dian fleet. 

The Hollanders were before Dunkirk wiji the 
w'.nd at niirlhwdt, maliirj^ a lee (hore in all weathers. 

KfJeift. 

Unprovided of tackling and victualling, they 
aie foricd to ff a by a ftorm ; yet better do fo than 
venture I'plitting and finking on a lei (hore. 

ATi'r^ Cbarle*. 

Him, l.aply flumb'rir.g on the Norway foam, 
The pilot ot' lo;r,c Ima.i night-foundcr'd Ikift", 
Deeming i me ill md, oft, as feamen teli, 
With fixed anchor in his kalj rind, 



LEE 

Moori by liis fide under the /,.. while night 
Invcfts the fea. M'Jtui. 

Batter'd by his lee they lay, 
The palling winds through their tycn canvafs play. 



LEECH, n. /. [lajc, Saxon.] 

i. A phyfician ; a profeflbr of the art 

of healing: whence we 1H11 ufe cwv- 

lecch. 

A leech, the which had great infight 
In that iiifcalc of grieved confcience, 
And well could cure the fame ; his name was Pa. 
tience. Sftmftr'i ftiry SijuH^ 

Her words prevail'd, and then the learned Ue.lt 
His cunning hand 'gan to his wounds to lay, 
And all things elfc the which his art di i tc.ich. 

Fahj QfrfK* 
Phyfick is their bane. 
The learned !t,fbu in defpair depart, 
And (hake their heads, defponding of thc'r art. 



Wife leefbes will not vain receipts obtrude : 
Deaf to complaints they wait upon the ill, 
Till fome fafe crifis. Drj&t* 

The hoary wrinkled leech has watch'd ind toit'd, 
Tried every heakh-reftoring herb and gum, 
And wearied out his painful fill in vain. Rru>e, 

A ftilful Itacb, 

They fay, had wrought this blefiid deed ; 
This lack Arbuthnot was yclept. Gay't Pajhrals. 
z. A kind of fmall water ferpent, which 
faftens on animals, and fucks the blood: 
it is ufed to draw blood where the lancet 
is lefs fafe, whence perhaps the narie. 
I drew blood by Icccbci behind his ear. Wijemaf* 
Sticking iike l.-,\i>t>, till they burft with blood, 
Without remorfe infatiably. Kcfcjmin:*. 

To LEECH. <v. a. [from the noun.] To 

treat with medicaments. 
LE'ECHCRAFT. n. J". [leech and craft.] 
The art of healing. 

We (i . i nt others we perfu.tdc : 

We lactcraft learn, but ethers cu:e wi Ji :t. 

D.- 

LEEF. aJj. [I/eve, leve, Dutch.] K.iua ; 
fond. 

Whilnme all tht-fe were low an 
And l.->v'd their flocks to feed ; 

Thcry never ftiove to be th chief, 
And fimple was their wee>l. &}><-;fci's P.iflwali, ' 
LEEK, n f. [lisac, baxon ; loack, Dutcii ; 
leechk, Erfe ;-porruja, Latin.] A phut. 

Know'il thou Fluel! 

Tell him I'll knock hii lick about his pte, 
Upon St. Davij's day. ,-iwr. 

Leek to the Vv'ullh, to DutcJimai butler's dejv. 

We ufe ac'id plants inwardly and N 

gangrenes ; in the icmvy, watur-treii"", 
radilh, gankx, .ir i;k pot.a^c. 
LEER. n.f. [)3le-ar\if, bax 

1. An obliija- view. 

I fpy ent.Tt.iinmrii in her ; (Tie gives thr /.. of 
invitation. 

AfiJe the devil turn'd 
For envy, yet with jealous i<r ni.ui t n 
ty'd them alJc.ince. Milt .n. 

2. A laboured call of countenance. 

Damn v.iih faint prjifj, concede with civil /, f. 

I place a Itatefman full before mr (ijjht ; 
A bloati 
With i 
To LEER, v, n. [trom. the noun.] 

1. To look obliquely ; to look arehlv. 

I w:U / cr u;- n him as he c :n.-s by ; a.-d . 
mark the countenance that ho . 

1 wonder whether you i 
per.dency, or wliethiu yt-u d.) ;;o; fmittiv 
upon t)m court. 

2. i'o look v>iih a forced ccunteni: 

Btrtran 



L E F 



LEG 



LEG 



Eertran has been taught the arts of courts, 
To gild a face with imiles, and leer a man to ruin. 

Dryden. 

ItEES. n.f. [lie, French.] Dregs; iedi- 
rnent : it has feidom a iingular. 

The memory of king Rickard was fo ftrong, 
that it lay like hcs at the bottom of men's hearts^ 
and if the vefiel was but fiirred, it would come 
up. ' Bacon's Henry VII. 

If they love lies, and leave the lufty wine, 
Envy them not their palates with the fvfir.c. 

B. Jcnfor. 

Thofe lea that trouble it, refine 
The agitated foul of generous wine. Dryden. 

fo LEESE. -v. a. \lefen, Dutch.] To 
lofe : an old word. 

Then fell to thy profit both butter and cheefe, 
Who boieth it fooner the more he (hall Itefe. TuJJer. 

No caufe, nor client fat, will Chev'ril leifc, 
But as they come on both fides he takes fees ; 
And pleafeth both : for while he melts his gieafe 
For this, that wins for whom he holdj his peace. 

B, JvnjQn. 

How in the pert our fleet dear time did Ictft, 
Withering like prifoners, which lie but for fees. 

Demi. 

LEET. n.f. 

Lent, or lita, is otherwife called a law-day. 
The word feemeth to have grown from the Saxon 
JeSe, which was a court of jurisdiction above 
the wapentake or hundred, corhprerTending three or 
four of them, otherwife called thirfliing, and con- 
tained the third part of a province or (hire : thefe 
jurifdic'ticns, one and other, be now abolished, and 
Swallowed up in the county court. Cnael. 

Who has a breaft fo pure, 
But fome uncleanly apprehenfions 
Keep fe.ts and law-days, and in feflions fit 
With meditations lawful ? Sbaitff care's Otbelli. 

You would prefent her at the leer, 
Becaufe the bought ftone jugs, and no feal'd quarts. 

Sbakefpeare, 

LE'EWARD. adj. [lee and peapb, Saxon.] 
Towards the wind. See LEE. 

The claflicae were called long /hips, the oneraria 
TOund, becaufe of their figure approaching towards 
circular : this figure, though proper for the ftow- 
age of goods, was not the fitted for failing, be- 
eaufe of the great quantity of lenoard way, except 
when they failed full before the wind. Artutbnot. 

Let no ftatefman dare 
A kingdom to a fiiip compare ; 
Left lie fhould cail our commonweal 
A veflcl with a double keel ; 
Which juft like ours, new rigg'd and man'd, 
And got about a league from land, 
By change of wind to leeward fide, 
The pilot knew not how to .guide. Siaifi. 

LEFT, participle preter. of leave. 

Alas, poor lady ! defolate and left ; 
I weep myfelf to think upon thy words. -Skatefp. 

Had fiich a river as this been left to itfelf, to 
have found its way out from among the Alps, 
whatever windings it had made, it muft have form- 
ed feveral little feas. Addijor.. 

Were 1 left to myfclf, I wouU rather aim at in- 
flru&ing than diverting ; but if we will be ufeful 
to the world, we muft take it as we find it. 

Addijan's SfeiJator. 

LEFT. adj. [lufte, Dutch ; lee-vui, Latin.] 
Siniftrous ; not right. 

That there is alfo in men a natural prepotency 
in the right, we cannot with conftancy affirm, if 
we make obfervation in childrao, who, permitted 
the freedom of both hand;, do ofttimes confine it 
unto the lift, and are not without great difficulty 
retrained from it. lire-urn' i Vulgar I'.nuun. 

The right to Plutt's golden palace guides, 
The l-:ft to that unhappy region tends, 
Which to the depth of Tartarus defcends. Dryden. 

;,d, of greater r., lions dwell around, 
And, on the rji,ht ami /./>, the palace bound ; 
The commons where they can. DnJin. 

Vol. II. 



A raven from a wither'd oak, 
Left of their lodging was oblig'd to croak : 
That omen lik'd him not. Dryden* 

The left foot naked when they march to fight, 
But in a bull's raw hide they iheathe the right. 

Dryden. 

The man who ftrugglcs in the fight, 
Fatigues Lft arm as well as right. Prior. 

LEFT-HA KDED. qdj. \left and hand.} 
Uiing the left-hand rather than right. 

The limbs are uled moft on the right-fide,' 
whereby cuftom helpeth ; for we fee, that fome are 
I- ft -bunded, which are fm-h as have ufed the left 
hand moft. Baccn. 

For the feat of the heart and liver on one fide, 
whereby men become left -ba::Jed, it happeneth too 
rarely to countenance an efteft fo common : for 
the feat of the liver on the left-fide is very mon- 
ftrous. Bremen's Vulgar Errours. 

LEFT-HA'NDEDNESS. n.f. [irom left- 
handed.} Habitual ufe of the left-hand. 

Although a fquint lcft-ba*dediicfi 
B' ungracious ; yet we cannot want that hand. 

Donne. 
LEG. n.f. [leg, Danifh ; leggur, Iflandick.] 

1. The limb by which we walk ; particu- 
larly that part between the knee and the 
foot. 

They hade ; and what their tardy feet deny'd, 
The trufly ftaff, their better leg, I'upply'd. DryJen. 

Purging comfits, and ants eggs, 
Had alinoft brought, him oft' his legs. Hudtbras. 

Such intrigues people cannot meet with, who 
have nothing but /Vjj to carry them. Add'tfa. 

2. An ad of obeifance ; a bow with the 
leg drawn back. 

At court, he that cannot make a leg, put oft" 
his cap, kifs his hand, and fay nothing, ha; nei- 
ther leg, hands, lip, nor cap. isbakeffeare. 

Their horfes never give a blow, 
But when they make a leg, and bow. Hudlbras. 

If the boy mould not put oft' his hat, nor make 
legs very gracefully, a dancing-mailer will cure that 
deleft. . Lxk t . 

He made his lig, and went away. Swift. 

3. To ftand on his oiUn LEGS. To fupport 
himfelf. 

Pcrfons of their fortune and quality could well 
have flood upon their mvn legs, and needed not to 
lay in for countenance and fupport. CM'icr. 

4. '1 hat by which any thingis fupported on 
the ground : as, the leg of a table. 

LE'OACY. n.f. [legatum, Latin.] 

Legacy is a particular thing given by laft will and 
tedament. Cvuiel. 

If there be no fuch thing apparent upon record, 
they do as if one mould demand a legacy by force 
and virtue of fome written teftament, wherein 
there being no fuch thing fpecified, he pleadeth 
that there it muft needs be, and bringeth argu- 
ments from the love or good-will which always 
the teftator bore him ; imagining, that thefe, or 
the like proofs, will convift a teftament to have 
that in it, which other men can nowhere by .read- 
ing find. Hooker. 

Fetch the will hither, and we mall determine 
How to cut off fome charge in legacies. Shakeff. 

Good counfel is the bed legacy a father can leave 
CD'M- L'EJlrange. 

When he thought you gone 
T* augment the number of the blcfs'd above, 
He deem'd 'em legacies of royal love ; 
Nor arm'd, his brothers portions to invade, 
But to defend the prefent you had m.ide. Dryden. 

When the heir of this vaft trerfure knew 
How large a Itgaty was left to you, 
He wifely ty'd it to the crown again. Diydin. 

Leave to thy children, tumult, ftrife, and war, 
Portions of toil, and legacies of caie. Prior. 

LE'GAL. adj. [legal, French ; leges, Lat.] 
I. Done or conceived according to law. 
Whatsoever was before Richard I. was before 



time of memory ; and what is fince, is, ui a legal 
fenfe, within the time of memory. ' Hale. 

2. Lawful ; not contrary :o law. 

3. According to the law of the old dif- 
penfation. 

His merits 

To Cave them, not their own, though legal, works. 

Milton. 
LEGA'LITY. n.f. [legalite, French.] Law- 

fulnefs. 

To LE'GALIZE. -v. a. [legalifer, French; 
from legal.] To authorize ; to make 
lawful. 

If any thing can legalize revenge, it mould be 
injury frjm an extremely obliged perfon : but re- 
venge is fo abfolutely the peculiar of Heaven, 
that no confideration can Impower, even the beft 
men, to alTumc the execution of it. South. 

LE'GALLY. adv. [from legal.} Law- 
fully ; according to law. 

A prince may not, muchlefs may inferior judge?, 
deny juftice, when it is legally and competently de- 
manded.. 'Taylor. 

LE'GATARY. n. f. [legataire, French : 
from legatum, Latin.] One who has a 
legacy left. 

An executor (hall exhibit a true inventory of 
goods, taken in the prefence of fit perfons, as cre- 
ditors and legafaries are, unto the ordinary, jfylijfc. 
LE'GATK. n. f. [legatus, Latin ; legat, 
French ; legato, Italian.] 

1. A deputy ; an ambaflador. 

The legates from th' ./Etolian prince return 5 
Sad news they bring, that after all the coil 
And care employ'd, their embalTy is loft. Dryden. 

2. A kind of fpiritual ambaflador from 
the pope ; a commiflioner deputed by 
the pope fdr ecclefiaftical affairs. 

Look where the holy legate comes apace, 
To give us warrant from the hand of Heav'n. 

Sba/teffeare. 

Upon the legate's fummons, he fubmitted him- 
felf to an examination, and appeared before him. 

Attcrbury. 

LEGATE'E. n.f. [from legatum^ Latin. \ 
One who has a legacy left him. 

If-he chance to 'fcape this difmal bout, 
The former legatees are blotted out. Drydctt. 

My will is, that if any of the above-named le- 
gatees mould die before me, that then the refpective 
legacies mail revert to myfelf. Swift. 

LE'GATINE. adj. [from legate.} 

1. Made by a legate. 

When any one is abfolved from excommunica- 
tion, it is provided by a Itgatir.c conftitution, that 
fome one rtiall publifli fuch abfolution. Ayl'iffe. 

2. Belonging to a legate of the Roman 
fee. 

All thofe you have done of late, 
By your power legating within this kingdom, 
Fall in the compal's of a praemunire. Slakefpcare. 

LEGA'TION. n.f. [legatio, Latin.] Depu- 
tation ; commiflion ; emba/Ty. 

After a legation ad res rcpetendas, and a refufal, 
and a denunciation or indiftion of a war, the war 
is no more confined to the place of the quarrel, 
but is left at large. Bacon. 

In attiring, the duke had a fine and unaffec~l- 
ed politenefs, and upon occafion coftly, as in his) 
legations. Wotton. 

LEGA'TOR. n.f. [from lego, Latin.] One 
who makes a will, and leaves legacies. 

Suppofe debate 

Betwixt pretenders to a fair eftate, 
Bequeath'd by fome legator's laft intent. Dryden. 
LE'CEND. n.f. [legencla, Latin.] 
i. A chronicle or regifter of the lives of 
faints. 

Legends being grewn in a manner to be nothing 
clfr 



LEG 



LEG 



L E I 



tile but neifj of frivolous >rd feandalous wniti 
they have been even w.th dildiin thrown out, tlie 
ry nefts which bred them abhorring them. Hr.ktr 
There are in Rome two fcts of antiquities, the 
chiiftiin and the heathen ; the former, though ol 
fiefticr datr, are to embroiled with fable and 
Itgtr.d, that one receive bat little fotisfitfton. 



2. Any memorial or relation. 

And in this leftnd all that glorious deed 
Read, whilft you arm you ; arm you whilit you read. 

Fairfax. 

3. An incredible unauthentick narrative. 

Who can (how the l.'gnuli, that record 
More idle tales, or fables fo abfurd > Blaekmore. 

It is the way of att lining to Heaven, that makes 
profane fcorners fo willingly let go the expectation 
f it. It is net the articlei of the creed, but the 
duty tr> God and their neighbour, that is fuch an 
incontinent incredible ItgttJ. Bentlcy. 

4. Any inlcription ; particularly on me- 
dals or coins. 

Compare the beauty and comprehcnfivencfs of 
teginds on ancient coins. AJdifvi an Midals. 

LB'GEK. a./, [from legger, Dutch. To 
Jie or remain in a place.] Any thing 
that lies in a place ; as, a legtr am- 
baflador; a refident; one that conti- 
nues at the court to which he is Tent; 
a leger-book, a bock that lies in the 
compting-houfe. 

Lord Angelo, having affairs to Heav'n, 
Intends you tor his fwii't ambatfador, 
Where you dial! be an evcrlaiting Itigtr. Sbakeffeare. 

I've giv'n him that, 

Which, if he take, lhall quite unpeople her 
Of leidgers for her fweet. Sbakefftare'i Cymkeline. 
If Itigfr ambafladors or agents were fcnt to re- 
main near the courts of princes, to obferve their 
motions, fuch were made choice of as were vigi- 
lant. Bacon. 

Who can endear 

Thy praife too much ? thou art Heav'n's Itigtr here, 
Working againft the dates of death and hell. H-.rlert. 
He withdrew not his confidence from any of 
thofe who attended his perfon, who, in truth, lay 
Itigtr for the covenant, and kept up the fpirits of 
their countrymen by their intelligence. Clarendon. 
I call that a ledger bait, which is fixed, or made 
to reft, in one certain place, when you (hall be 
abfent ; and I call that a walking bait which you 
have ever in motion. Walton. 

LECERDEMA'IN. n.f. [contracted perhaps 
from legerete tie main, French.] Slight 
of hand ; juggle ; power of deceiving 
the eye by nimble motion ; trick ; de- 
ception ; knack. 

He fo light was at legerdemain, 
That what he touch'd came not to light apain. 

HMerd. 

Of all the tricks and lererdmain by which men 
impofe upon their own fouli, there is none fo com- 
mon as tie plea of a good intention. South. 

LECE'RITV. n. f. [Itgerete, French.] 
Lightnefs; nimblenefs; quicknefs. A 
word not in ufe. 

\Vh n the mind is quicken'd, 
The organs, though defunft and oVad before, 
Break up their drowfy grave, and newly move 
With carted Sough and frefh legerity, Sbakfffeare. 
LI'QGTLB. adj. [from leg.] Having legs ; 

furnifhed with legs. 
LE'CIBLE. adj. [legitilit, Latin.] 

1. Such as may be read. 

You obferve fome clergymen with their heads 
held down within an inch of the cufljion, to read 
wht Is hardly Irgitlt. Sviift. 

2. Apparent; difcoverable. 

People's opinions of themfelves are legible in 
ihtir countenance!. Thus a kind imagination 



mike; a bold man have vigour and enrerprize in 
his air and motion; it (lamps value and fignifi- 
cancy upon his face. Ctilli.r. 

LE'CIBLT. adv. [from ligible. ] In fuch 
a manner as may be read. 

LE'CION. n.f. \Jtgio, Latin.] 

1. A body of Roman foldiers, con filling 
of about five thoufand. 

The mod remarkable piece in Antoninus's pillar 
is, the figure of Jupiter Pluvius fending rain on 
the fainting army of Marcus Aurelius, and thun- 
derbolts on his enemies, which is the greatelt 
cunfirmation poffible of the (lory of the Chrift- 
ian leg in. Addifor. 

2. A military force. 

She to foieign realms 
Sends forth her dreadful ligicns. Philips. 

3. Any great number. 

Not in the legions 
Of honid hell, can come a devil more damn'd. 

Sbakefrejre. 

The partition between good and evil is broken 
down ; and where one fin has entered, legions will 
force their way through the fame breach. Rogrrs. 
LE'CIONARY. adj. [from legion.] 

1. Relating to a legion. 

2. Containing a legion. 

3. Containing a great indefinite number. 

Too many applying themfelves betwixt jefl and 
earned, make up the legionary body of error. 

Brown's Vulgar Errcttrs. 

LEGISLATION, a. f. [from legijlator, 
Latin.] The adl of giving laws. 

Pythagoras joined legislation to his philofophy, 
and, like others, pretended to miracles and revela- 
tions from God, to give a more venerable fanction 
to the laws he prcfcribed. Littletin. 

LEGISLA'TIVE. adj. [from legijlator.] 
Giving laws; lawgiving. 

Their hgiftal'rvi frenzy they repent, 
Enacting it mould make no precedent. Denbam. 
The poet is a kind of lawgiver, and thofe qualities 
are proper to the legijlati-ue ftyle. Dryden. 

LEGISLA'TOR. n.f. {legijlator, Latin; 
hgijlateur, French.] A lawgiver ; one 
who makes laws for any community. 

It fpoke like a legijlator : the thing fpoke was a 
law. Smtin 

Heroes in animated marble frown, 
And legijlators feem to think in ftone. Pcpe. 

LEGISLATURE, n. /. [from legijlator, 
Latin.] The power that makes laws. 

Without the concurrent confent of all three 

parts of the legijlaiurt, no law is, or can be made. 

Hate's Com. Laia. 

In the notion of a legijlaiure is implied a power 
to change, repeal, and fufpend laws in being, as well 
as to make new laws. Addifin. 

By the fupreme magiftrate is properly under- 
ftood the legi (lative power; but the word magiftrate 
feeming to denote a fingle perfon, and to exprefs 
the executive power, it came to pafs that the obe- 
djgf ce due to the itgijlaiurt was, for want of con- 
fidering this eafy dirtincTioii, mifapplied to the ad- 
mimftration. Swift. 

LEGI'TIMACY. n.f. {from legitimate.] 

1. Lavvfulnefs of birth. 

In refpect of his legitimacy, it will be good. 

Ayliffe. 

2. Genuinenefs; not fpurioufnefs. 

The legitimacy or reality of thefe marine bodies 
vindicated, I now inquire by what means they were 
hurried out of the ocean. Woodward. 

LEGl'TIMATE. adj. [from legitimus, 
Lat. legitime, French.] Born in mar- 
riage ; lawfully begotten. 

Leritrmatt Edgar, I mud have your land ; 
Our lather's l.,ve is to the baftard Edmund. $/-.*."/>. 
An adulterous perfon is tied to make pmvilion 
for the children begotten in unlawful embraces, 



that they may do no injury to the legitimate, by 

receiving a portion. Toy/or* 

To LEO I'TI MATE. <v. a. \Jegititner, Fr. 

from the adjeftive ] 

r. To procure to any the rights of legiti- 
mate birth. 

Legitimate him that waj a baftard. Jjl'fft. 

2. To mate lawful. 

It would be impoflible for any enterprise to be 
lawful, if that which mould legitimate it is fubfe- 
quent to it, and can have no influence to make 
it good or bad. Dicay of Pietj, 

LEGITIMATELY, adv. [from legiti- 
mate.] 

1. Lawfully. 

2. Genuinely. 

By degrees he rofe to Jove'i imperial fcat ; 
Thus difficulties prove a fuul legitimately great. 

DrjJen. 
LEGITIMA'TION. n.f. {legitimation, Fr. 

from legitimate.] 
l. Lawful birth. 

I have difclaimed my land ; 
Legitimation, name, and all is gone : 
Then, good myjnpther, let me know my father. 

Sbakeffe,tre. 

From whence will arife many queftions of legiti- 
mation, and what in nature is the difference be- 
twixt a wife and a concubine. Locke. 

2. The aft of inverting with the privileges 
of lawful birth. 

LE'GUME. ) n.f. [legume, Fr. ligumen, 

LEGU'MEN.\ Lat.] Seeds not reaped, 
but gathered by the hand ; as, beans: 
in general, all larger feeds ; pulfe. 

Some tegument, as peas or beans, if newly ga- 
thered and diftilled in a retort, will aft'ord an acid 
f.'irit. Soyle. 

In the fpring fell great rains, upon which enfued 
a moft deftruclive mildew upon the corn and le- 
gumes. Arbutbnit. 

LECi/MiNOus.a<#. [legumineux, Fr. from 
legumen.] Belonging to pulfe ; confift- 
ing of pulfe. 

The propereft food of the vegetable kingdom is 
taken from the farinaceous feeds ; as oats, barley, 
and wheat : or of fome of the liliquoie or legu- 
minous ; as, peas or beans. Ariutbnot. 

LE'ISURABLE. adj. [from leifure.] Done 
at leifure ; not hurried ; enjoying lei- 
fure. 

A relation inexcufable in his works of leifuratle 
hours, the examination being 3s ready as the rela- 
tion. Brown. . 

LE'ISURABLV. adv. [ftomleifuralile.] At 
leifure ; without tumult or hurry. 

Let us beg of God, that when the hour of our 
reft is come, the patterns of our didblution may 
be Jacob, Mofes, Jolhua, and David, who leifur- 
atly ending their lives in peace, prayed foi the 
mercies of God upon their pofterity. Ilaker. 

LETSURE. n.f. \loijir, French.] 

1. Freedom from bufinefs or hurry; va- 
cancy of mind ; power to fpend time 
according to choice. 

A gentleman fell very lick ; and a friend faid to 
him, Send for a phyfician ; but the lick man an- 
fwercd, It is no matter ; for if I die, I will die 
at leijure. Bacorfs Apfybtbegms. 

Where ambition and avarice have made no en- 
trance, the defire of leifure is much more natural 
than of bufinefs and care. Tcmfle* 

You enjoy your quiet in a garden, where you 
have not only the leifure of thinking, but the plea- 
fure to think of nothing which can difcompofe 
your mind. Drjdcr.* 

2. Convenience of time. 

We'll make our Itifarn to attend on yours. 

Skakeffeare, 
They 



L E M 

They fummon'd up their meiny, (trait took hoVe 
Commanded me to follow, and sttend 
The leifure of their anfwer. Sbakefp. King Lear 

O happy youth ! 

For whom thy fates refervt fo fair a bride : 
He figh'd, and had no leifare more to fay, 
His honour cali'd his eyes another way. 

I fhall leave with him that rebuke, to be confi 
dered at his leifare. Lo 

3. Want of leifure. Not ufed. 

More than I hve faid, Loving countrymen ; 
The leifure and enforcement of the time 
Forbidi to dwell on. Statcfpcare'i Richard III 
LE'ISURELY. adj. [from leifure.} No 
haity ; deliberate ; done withou 
hurry. 

He was tht wretchedeft thing when he was young 
So long a growing, and fo Itifurely, 
That, if the rule were true, he would be gracious 

Shakefpeare 

The earl of Warwick, with a handful of men 

fired Leith and Edinl.-gh, and returned by a lei 

fxrely march. Hay-ward 

The bridge is human life : upon a leisurely fur 

Tey of it, I found that it conliiled of threcfcor 

and ten intire arches. Addifon 

LE'ISURELY. adv. [from leifure. J No 

in a hurry ; flowly ; deliberately. 

The Belgians hop'd, that with diforder'd hade, 
Our deep-cut keels upon the lands might run ; 

Or if with caution leifurely we paft, 
Their numerous grofs might charge us one b 
one. Dryden 

We defcendcd very Itifuretjf, my friend being 
careful to count the fteps. Add:] 

LE'MAN. n./. [Generally fuppofed to be 
laimant, the lover, French ; but ima 
gined by Juniut, with almoft equal pro- 
bability, to be derived from leef, Dutch, 
orleop, Saxon, beloved, and man. -This 
etymology is ftrongly fupported by the 
antient orthography, according to which 
it was written leveman.} A fweetheart ; 
a gallant ; or a miftrefs. Hanmer. 

Hold for my fake, and do him not to dye j 
But vanquifli'd, thine eternal bondllave make, 
And me thy worthy meed unto thy lemon take. 

Spenfer. 
A cup of wine, 
That's brifk and fine, 

And drink unto the lent* mine. Sbakefptere. 

LE'MMA. a. /. [*7ppa ; lemme, French.] 

A propofition previously aflumed. 
LE'MON. . /. \_limtm, French ; limo- 
nium, low Lat.] 

1. The fruit of the lemon-tree. 

The juice of lemons is more cooling and aftrin- 
ge.nt than that of oranges. Art:. 

The dyers ufe it for dying of bright yellows and 
lemon colours. Mirtimer. 

Bear me, Pomona ! 

To where the lemon and the piercing lime, 
With the deep orange, glowing through (he green, 
Their lighter glories blend. Ttimfia. 

2. The tree that bears lemons. 

The lemon tree hath large ftifF leaves ; the 
flower confifts of many leaves, which expand in 
form of a rofe : the fruit is almoft of an ov il 
figure, and divided into feveral cells, in which are 
lodged hard feeds, furrounded by a thick flefliy 
fubftancc, which, for the mo/t part, is full of an 
acid juice. There are many varieties of this tree, 
and the fruit is yearly imported from Lilb&n in 
great plenty. Miller. 

LEMONA'DE. n. f. [from lemon} Liquor 
made of water, fugar, and the juice of 
lemons. 

Thou, and thy wife, and children, fliould walk 
i my garden, buy toys, and drink UannaJc. 

Arluth. J. Ball. 



L E tf 

To LEND. v. a. preterite, and part, paf 
lent. [Isnan, Saxon; Icenen, Dutch.] 

1. To afford or fupply, on condition o 
repayment. 

In common worldly things 'tis cali'd ungratefu 
With dull unwillingnefs to pay a debt, 
Which, with a bounteous hand, wjs kindly lent . 
Much more to be thus oppofite with Hcav'n. 

Sbaiffpectre 

Thou (halt not give him thy money upon ufury 
nor lend him thy victuals for incrtafe. 

Lev. xxv. 37 

They dare not give, and e'en refufe to lend, 
To their poor kindred, or a wanting friend. Dry Jen 

2. Jl'o fuffer to be uied on condition tha 
it be reftored. 

I'll lend it thee, my dear, but have no power t 
give it from me. Sbakrfpeare 

The fair bleffing we vouch fafe to fend j 
Nor can we fpare you long, though often we ma 
lend. Dryden 

3. To afford ; to grant in general. 

Covetoufnefs, like the fea, receives the tiibut 
of all rivers, though far unlike it in lending an 
back again. De.ay of Piety 

Painting and poefy are two fitters fo like, tha 
they lend to each other their name and office : on 
is called a dumb pocfy, and the other a fpeaking 
picture. Dryden's DuMwy 

From thy new hope, and from thy growing Ilore 
Now lend afliftance, and relieve the poor. Dryden 

Cato, laid me for a while thy patience, 
And condefcend to hear a young man /peak. Adjif 

Cephifa, thou 
Wilt hnd a hand to clofe thy miftrelV eyes. 

A. Philips 

LE NDER. *./ [from lend.} 
I. One who lends any thing, 
z. One who makes a trade of putting 
money to intereft. 

Lt the ftate be anfwered fome fmall matter, and 
the reft left to the fader ; if the abatement be 
fmall, it will not difcourage the Under: he that 
took ten in the hundred, will fooner defcend to 
eight than give over this trade. Bacon. 

Whole droves of lenders crowd the bankers doors 
To call in money. Dryden's Spanijh Fryar. 

Intereil would certainly encourage the lender to 
venture in fuch a time of danger. Addifon 

LENGTH. ./. [from lenj, Saxon.] 

1. The extent of any thing material from 
end to end ; the longeft line that can be 
drawn through a body. 

There is in 1 icinum a church that is in length 
one hundred feet, in breadth twenty, and in heighth 
near fifty : it reporteth the voice twelve or thirteen 
tim - . Baym. 

2. Horizontal extenfion. 

Mczfntius ruflies on his foes, 
And firft unhappy Acron overthrows ; 
Strctch'd at his length he fpurns the fwarthy ground. 
. Uryden. 

3. Comparative extent; a certain portion 
of fpace or time : i.i this fenfe it has a 

plural. 

Large lengths of feas and ihores 
Between my father and my mother lay. Sbakefpeare. 

To get from th' enemy, and Ralph, free j 
Left danger, fears, and foes, behind, 
And beat, at leaft, three lengths the wind, Hudlb. 

Time glides along with undifcover'd hafte, 
The future but a length beyond the paft. Dryden. 
,. Extent of duration or fpace. 

What length of lands, what oceant have you 

pafj d, 

What ftornis fuftain'd, and on what fhores been 
"ft ? Dryden. 

_Haying thus got the idea of duration, the next 
thing is to get fome mcafure of this common dura- 
tion, whereby to judge of its different lengths. 



L E N 

5. Long duration or protraction. 

May Heav'n, great monarch, ftill augment your 

blifs, 
With length of days, and every day like this. Dryd. 

Such toil requir'd the Roman name, 

Such length of labour for fo vaft a frame. Dryden. 

In length of time it will cover the whole plain, 

and make one mountain with that on which it 

. now ftands. MSfm. 

6. Reach or expanfion of any thing. 

1 do not recommend to all a purfuit of fciences, 
to thofe extenfive lengths te which the moderns 
have advanced. Watts, 

-]. Full extent ; uncontrafted ftate. 

If Lietitia, who fent me this account, will ac- 
quaint me with the worthy gentleman's name, I 
will infert it at length in one of my papers. 

Addifon's Spctfalor, 

8. Diftance. 

He had marched to the length of Exeter, which 
he had fome thought of befieging. Clarendon. 

9. End ; latter part of any aflignable 
time. 

Churches purged of things burdenfome, all was 
brought at the length unto that wherein now we 
ftand - Hooker. 

A crooked ftick is not ftraitened, unlefs it be 
bent as far on the clear contrary fide, that fo it 
may fettle itfelf at the length in a middle ftate of 
evennefs between them both. Hooker. 

10. At LENGTH. [An adverbial mode 
of fpeech. It was formerly written at 
the length.} At laft ; in conclufion. 

At length, at length, I have thee in my arms, 
Though our malevolent ftars have ftruggled hard, 
And held us long afunder. Dryden 's Kirg Arthur. 
To LE'NGTHEN. v. a. [from length.} 

1. To draw out; to make longer; to 
elongate. 

Relaxing the fibres, is making them flexible, of 
eafy to be lengthened without rupture. Arbuthnot* 

Falling dews with fpangles deck'd the glade, 
And the low fun had lengthen d every fliade. Pope. 

2. Toprotraft; to continue. 

Fiame your mind to mirth and merriment, 
Which bars a thoufand harms, and lengthens life. 

Shakefpeare^ 

Break off thy fins by righteoufnefs, and thine ini- 
quities by (hewing mercy to the poor : if it may be 
a lengthening of thy tranquillity. Dan. 

It is in our power to fecure to ourfelves an inte- 
reft in the divine mercies that are yet to come, and 
to lengthen the courfe of our prefent profpcrity. 

Aturbury's Sermons* 

3. To protraft pronunciation. 

The learned languages were Icfs conftrained in 
the quantity of every fyllable, befide helps of gram- 
matical figures for the lengthtning or abbreviation 
of them. Dryden. 

L. To LENGTHEN cut. [The particle out 
is only emphacical.] To protraft ; to 
extend. 

What if I pleafe to lengthen out his date 
A day, and take a pride to cozen fate .' Dryden, 

I'd hoard up every moment of my life, 
To lengthen tut the payment of my tears. Dry' ., 

It lengthens cut every aft of worfhip, and pro- 
duces more lafting and permanent impreflions in 
the mind, than thofe which accompany any tran- 
fient form of words. Addifon. 

o LE'NCTHEN. <v. n. To grow longer ; 
to increafe in length. 

One may as well make a yard, whofe parts 
lengthen and flirink, as a rrfcKure of trade in ma- 
terials, that have not always a fettled value. Locke. 

Still 'tis farther from its end j 
Still finds its error lengthen with its way. Prior, 
IE'NGTHWJSE. adv. [length and iuift.~\ 
According to the length ; in a longitu- 
dinal direction. 
E'NIENT. adj. [lenient, Latin.] 

E a i. Afluafive; 



L E N 



LEO 



L E S 



I. Affiiafivf ; foftening; mitigating. 

In thi one paflion man cm (Urngth enjoy j 
Time, that on all things lays hit lenient hand, 
Yet tames not this j it Kicks to our Uft fand. 

Pcft. 
3. With /. 

Confolator'u s writ 

With ftudy'd argument, and much perfuafion fought, 
Lenient of grief and anxious thought. Mittin. 

3. Laxative ; emollient. 

Oils relax the fibres, are lenient, balfamick, and 
abate acrimony in the blood. Arcutbnct en Aim. 
LE'NIENT. a./. An emollient, or affua- 
five application. 

I drefled it with lenlents. ff^feaan's Surgery. 

TfLn'mtr. v. n. [Itnlfer, old French; 

ienio, Latin.] To afluage ; to mitigate. 

UfeJ for fcj'.iinancies and inflammations in the 

thro.it, it feemcth to have a mollifying and Unify- 

ing virtue. Baa.n. 

All foft'ning fimples, known of fov'reign ufe, 
He preiTcs out, and pours their noble juice; 
Thefe firft infus'd, to lenify the pain, 
He tugs with pincers, but he tugs in vain. Dry Jin. 
LE'NITIVE. adj. [lenitif, French ; Itnio, 
Latin.] Ailuafive ; emollient. 

Some plants have a milk in them ; the caufe 

may be an inception of putrefaction : for thofe 

milks have all an acrimony, though one would 

think theij mould be lenitive. Eacon. 

There is aliment lenitive expelling the foxes 

without Itimulating the bowels ; fuch are animal 

- oils. Arbutbnot. 

LB'NITIVE. n. /. 

1. Any thing medicinally applied to cafe 
pain. 

2. A palliative. 

There are lenitives that friendship will apply, be- 
fore it would be brought to decretory rigours. 

Soutb's Sermons. 

LE'NITY. . / [lenitas, Latin.] Mild- 
nefs ; mercy ; tendernefs ; foftnefs of 
temper. 

Henry gives confent, 
Of meer companion, and of Unity, 
To eafe your country. Sbaki/p tare's Hen. VI. 

Lenity muft gain 

The mighty men, and pjeafe the difcontent. Dan. 

Albeit fo ample a pardon was proclaimed touch- 

Ing treafon, yet cou^l not the boldnefs be beaten 

down either with Severity, or with lenity be abated. 



Thefe jealoufies 
Have but one root, the old.imprifon'd king, 
Whofe lenity firft pleas'd the gaping crowd : 
But when long try'd, and found fupinely good, 
Like JSLSof'i log, they leapt upon his back. Dryd. 

X.ENS. n.f. From refemblance to the feed 
of a lentil. 

A glafc fpherically convex on both.(ides, is ufual- 
ly called a lens ; fuch as is a burning -glafs, or (pec- 
tade-glafs, or an objeft-gtofs of a telefcope. 

Newton's Opiirts. 

According to the difference of the knfcs, I ufed 
Carious dirlanccs. N^wtan't Opt'uks. 

\>IVT. part pafl". from lend. 

By Jove the ftranger and the poor are fcnt, 
And what to thofe we give, to Jove is lent. P ft. 

LENT. a./, [lenten, the fpring, Saxon.] 
The quadragefimal fail ; a time of ab- 
ftinence ; the time from Alhwednefday 
to Eafler. 

Lent it from fprftging, becaufe it fa'.leth in the 
Spring J for which our piogenitors, the Germans, 
ufe glent. Camdcn. 

LB'NTEK. adj. [from lent.] Such as is 
ufed in lent ; fparing. 

My lord, if you delight not in man, what leattn 
CnUruinmcnt ihc players diall receive from yru ! 
Stakfjf. Uamht. 



She qiiench'd her fury at the flood, 

And with a linten fallad cool'd her blood. 

Their commons, though but coarfe, were nothing 

fcant. DryJen't Hind ard Panther. 

Lf NTI'CULAR. adj. [lenticulain, French.] 

Doubly convex ; of the form of a lens. 

The cry lUlline humour is of a lenticular figure, 
convex on both fides. Ray OK Creathn. 

LB'NTIFORM. adj. [lens znd/orma, Lat.] 
Having the form of a lens. 

LBNTI'GINOUS. adj. [from lentigo, Lat.] 
Scurfy ; furfuraceous. 

LENTl'GO. n.f. [Latin.] A freckly or 
fcurfy eruption upon the (kin ; fuch 
efpecially as is common to women in 
child-bearing. >uincj. 

LE'NTIL. a./, [leas, Lat. lentillt, Fr.] 
A plant. 

It hath a papilionaceous flower, the pointal of 
which becomes a wort pod, containing oibicular 
feeds, for the moft part convex j the leaves are 
conjugated, growing to one mid-rib, and are ter- 
minated by tendrils. Miller. 

The Philiftines were gathered together, where 
was a piece of ground full of /entiles. 

iSam. xxiii. n. 

LE'NTISCK. n. /. [lentifcus, Latin ; len- 
ti/ytie, French.] Lentifck wood is of a 
pale brown, almoit whitifh, refinous, 
fragrant, and acrid : it is the tree which 
produces maftich, efteemed aftringent 
and balfamick. Hill. 

Lentifck is a beautiful evergreen, the maftich or 
gum of which is of ufe for the teeth or gums. 

Mortimer's Hujbandry. 

LE'NTITUDE. a. f. [from Itntus, Lat.] 
Sluggilhnefs ; flownefs. Dili. 

LE'NTNER. n.f. A kind of hawk. 

I mould enlarge my difcourfe to the obfervation 
of the haggard, aid the two forts of lentners. 

Wahon's Angler. 
LE'NTOR: n.f. [/enter, Lat. lenteur, Fr.] 

1. Tenacity; vifcofity. 

Some bodies have a kind of /enter, and more 
depectiblc nature than others. Bacon. 

2. Slownefs; delay; fluggilh coldnefs. 

The lentor of eruptions, not inflammatory, points 
to an acid caufe. Arbutbnot en Diet. 

3. [In phyfick.] That fizy, vifcid, co- 
agulated part of the blood, which, in 
malignant fevers, obliruits the capillary 
veflels. 3>*i*ty, 

LE'NTOUS. adj. [lentus, Latin.] Vilcous; 
tenacious ; capable to be drawn out. 

In this fpawn of a lentous and tranfparent body, 
are to be difcerned many fpecks which become 
black, a fubftance more compacted and tcrreftrious 
than the other; for it rifcth not In diftillation. 

Srown. 

LE'OD. n.f. Lend fignifies the people; 
or, rather, a nation, country, &c 
Thus, leodgar is one of great interelt 
with the people or nation. Gib/on. 

LE'OF. n.f. Leaf denotes love; fo leof- 
uiin is a winner of love ; leaf/tan, bell 
beloved : like thefe Agapetus, Erafmus, 
Philo, Amandus, \3c. Gibfon 1 ! Camden. 

LE'ONINE. adj. [leoninui, Latin.] 

1. Belonging to a lion; having the na- 
ture of a lion. 

2. Leonine verfes are thofe of which the 
end rhimes to the middle, fo named 
from Lea the inventor : as, 

Gloria factorum temere conceditur horum. 
LE'OPARD. n. f. [leo and farJus, Lat.J 
A fpotted beait of prey. 



Sheep run not half fo tim'rous from the wolf, 
Or ho: ie or i * :i from the leopard, 
As you fly from your oft-l'ub tucd flaves. Sbakrfp, 

A Icufard is every way, in lhape and actions, 
like J cat : his head, teeth, tongue, feet, claws, 
tail, all like a cat ' : h: boxes with his fore-feet, 
at a cat doth her kittens ; leaps at the prey, as a 
cat at a moufe ; and wiil alio fpit much after the 
fame manner : fj that they feem to dili'er, juil as a 
kicc doth from an cag'c. Crtia, 

Before the kin,; tame leopards led the way, 
And troops of lions innocently play. Drydcn. 

LE'PER. . f. [lefra, leprofus, Latin.] 
One infected with a leproly. 

1 am no loathfotne l-;fer ; look on me. Sbakefp, 

The I'pcr in wh^m th'_- plague is, hi: cloaths 

(hail be rent. if-., xiii. 45. 

LE'PEROUS. adj. [Formed from leprous, 

to make out a verfe.] Caufing lepro- 

fy ; infedted with leprofy ; leprous. 

Upon my fecure hour thy uncle dole, 
With juice of curfed he * ion in a vial, 
And in the porches of mine ears did pour 
The leperws diftiiment. Sbaktjpeare't Hamlet* 
LE'PORINE. adj. [leporinus, Lat.] Be- 
longing to a hare ; having the nature 
of a hare. 

LEPRO'SITY. . f. [from Itprous.] Squa- 
mous difeafe. 

If the crudities, impurities, and L-profitia of 
metals were cured, they would become gold. 

Bacon's Nat. Hifl, 

L*'PROSY. n. f. [lepra, Lat. lepre, Fr.] 
A loathfome dillemper, which covers 
the body with a kind of white fcales. 

Itches, blains, 

Sow all the Athenian bofjm;, and their crop 
Be general leprojy. Sbakcfp. Timon of Athens* 

It is a plague of leprofy. Lev. xiii. 3. 

Between the malice of my enemies and other 
men's miftakes, I put as great a difference as be- 
tween the itch of novelty, and the leprcfy of dif. 
loyalty. Ki"g Cbarlct. 

Authors, upon the firft entrance of the pox, 
looked upon it fo highly infectious, that they ran 
away from it as much as the Jews did from the 
leprcfy. Wtjcmjn's Surgery . 

LE'PROUS. adj. [lepra, Latin ; lepreux, 
French.] Infected with a leprofy. 

The filly amorous fucks his death, 
By drawing in a leprous harlot's breath. Daunt. 

LERE. n.f. [Izpe, Saxon ; here, Dutch.] 
A leflbn ; lore ; docVine. Obfolete. 
This fenfe it 11:11 retained in Scotland. 

The kid pitying his heavinefs, 
Afked the caule of his great diltrefs ; 
And alfo who, and whence, that he were, 
Thouglr he that had well ycond his Itrt, 
Thus melled his talk with many a teare. Spfn/er. 

LE'RRY. n.f. [from /ere.] A rating ^ a 
leisure. Rultick word. 

LESS. A negative or privative termina- 
tion, [leap, Saxon ; loos, Dutch.] Join- 
ed to a fubllantive, it implies the ab- 
fence or privation of the thing exprefled 
by that fubllantive: as, a ivit/efs man, 
a man without wit ; childlefs, without 
children ; fatherlefs, deprived of a fa- 
ther ; fennylejs, wanting money. 

LESS. adj. [leap, Saxon.] The compa- 
rative cf little : oppofed to greater, or 
lo fa great; not fo much ; not equal. 
Mary, the mother of James the lefs. 

Mark, xv. 40. 

Ho that thinks he has a pofitive idea of in/inire 
fpace will find, that he can no more hnve a pnfitive 
idea of the greatcil than he has of the leaft fpace ; 
for in this latter we are capable only of a com- 

firAl.ve 



L E S 

parative idea of fmallnefs, which will always be 
left than any one whereof we have the pofitive idea. 

Locke. 

All the ideas that are confidered as having parts, 
and are capable or" increaie by the addition of any 
equal or Ujs parts, afford us, by their repetition, 
the idea of infinity. Locke. 

'Tis left to conquer, than to make wars ceaf*, 
And, without fighting, awe tjje world to peace. 

aailifax. 

LESS. a. /. Not fo much; oppofed to 
more, or to as much. 
They gathered fome more; fome left. 

Exod. xvi. 17. 

Thy fenrant knew nothirg of this, left or more. 

i Sam. 

Yet could he not his doling eyes withdraw, 
Though Ujs and lefs of Emily he faw. Drydtn. 
LESS. adv. In a fmaller degree; in a 
lower degree. 

This opinion prefents a l:fs merry, but not left 
dangerous, temptation to thole in adverfity. 

Decay if Piety. 

The Itf; fpace there is betwixt us and the ob- 
ject, and the more pure the air is, by fo much 
the more the fpecies are preferred and diftinguim- 
ed ; and, on the contrary, the more fpace of air 
there is, and the left it is pure, fo much the more 
the object is confufed and embroiled. Dryden, 
Their learning lay chiefly in flouriih ; they were 
not much wifer th n the lift pretending multitude. 
C'.H'uron Pride. 

The left they themfelves want from others, they 
will be 1ft careful to fupply the neceflities of the 
indigent. Smalridge. 

Happy, and happy ftill, flic might have prov'd, 
Were flje left beautiful, or I. ft belov'd. Poft. 

LE'SSEE. n.f. The perfon to whom a 

leafe is given. 

To LE'SSEN. i/. a. [from le/t.] 
l. To make lefs ; to diminilh in bulk. 
z. To diminifh the degree of any ftate or 
quality; to make lei's intenfe. 

Kings may give 
To beggars, and not le/tn their own greatnefi. 

Denbam, 

Though charity alone will not make one happy 

in the other world, yet it fliall lejj'er. his puniihment. 

CjL.my't Semttns. 

Colled into one fum as great a number as you 
plealc, this multitude, how great foever, Itffcns not 
one jot the power of adding to it, or brings him 
any nearer the end of the inexhzuftible ftock of 
number. Locke. 

This third after fame betrays him into fuch in- 
decencies as are a Itjfiting to his reputation, and is 
looked upon as a weaknefs in the greatest cha- 
racters. Addifon's Spell at or, 
Nor are the pleafures which the brutal part of 
the creation enjoy, fubject to be lifftmd by the un- 
eafmefs which arifes from fancy. Antrtary. 
3. To degrade; co deprive of power or 
dignity. 

Who fk 

To Irjjin thee, againft his purpofe fcrves 
To manifeft the more thy might. Milton. 

St. Paul chofe to magnify his office, when ill 
men confpired to l,jfcn it. Atterbury's Strata;. 
To LE'SSEK. <v. n. To grow lefs ; to 
fh rink ; to be diminifhed. 

Ail government may be efteemcd to grow ftrong 
or weak, as the general opinion in thofe that go- 
vern is fern to liffen or increafe. TemfU. 
The objection Irjfeni much, and comes to no 
mor -. than this, there was one witnefs of no good 
reputation. Atlerbury. 
m. aJj. A barbarous corruption of 
left, formed by the vulgar from the 
habit of terminating comparatives in 
tr ; afterwards adopted by poets, and 
then by writers of profe, till it has all the 



L E S 

authority which a mode originally erro- 
neous can derive from cuftom. 

What great defpite doth fortune to thee bear, 
Thus lowly to abafe thy beauty bright, 
That it fliould not deface all other lejj'er light? 

Fairy %ueen. 

It is. the leffer blot, modefty finds, 
Women to change their fliapes than men their 
minds. Sbaltefpeare. 

The mountains, and higher parts of the earth, 
grow lejj'er and Isjfer from age to age : fometimes 
the roots of them are weakened by fubterraneous 
fires, and fometimes tumbled by earthquakes into 
caverns that are under them. Burnet. 

Cain, after the murder of his brother, cries out, 
Every man that findeth me ihall flay me. By the 
fame reafon may a man, in the ftate of nature, 
punifh the Itjfer breaches of that law. Luke. 

Any heat promotes the afcent of mineral matter, 
but more efpecially of that which is fubtiie, and is 
confequently moveabie more ealiiy, and with a 
leffer power. Woodward. 

The larger here, and there the Ijjer lambs, 
The new-fall'n young herji bleating for their Jams. 

Pope. 

LE'SSER. ad<u. [formed by corruption 
from //}.] 

Some fay he's mad ; others, that lejfir hate him, 
Do call it valiant fury. Sbaktfpearc's Macbeth. 

LE'SSES. n. f. [lai/eet, French.] The 
dung of beafts left on the ground. 

LE'SSON. a. /. [Itfon, French ; leaia, 
Latin.] 

1. Any thing read or repeated to a 
teacher, in order to improvement. 

I but repeat that Icjpn 
Which I have learn'd from thee. Deniair.'s Softy. 

2. Precept ; notion inculcated. 

This day's enfample hath this lejjln dear 
Deep written in my heart with iron pen, 
That bill's may not abide in ftate of mortal men. 

Fairy }uetn. 

Be not jealous over the wife of thy bofom, and 
teach her not an evil lijjln againft thyfelf. 

Ecclvs, ix. I. 

3. Portions of fcripture read in divine fer- 
vice. 

Notwithftanding fo eminent properties, whereof 
I jj ' ::s are happily deftitute ; yet Itjfcns being free 
from fome inconTeniencics whereunto fermons are 
mart fubject, they may, in this refpect, no lefs 
take, than in other they muft give the hand which 
bctokeneth pre-eminenca. Hooker. 

4. Tune pricked for an inftrument. 

Thofe good laws were like good Itjjons fet for a 

flute out of tune; of which Irffmt little ufe can 

be made, till the flute be made fit to be played on. 

Davits on Ireland. 

5. A rating ledlure. 

She would give her a IrJ/in for walking fo late, 
that fliould make her keep within doors for one 

fortnight. Sidney. 

To LE'SSON. 11. a. [from the noun.] To 
teach ; to inftrudt. 

Even in kind love, I do conjure thee 
To lejfjn me. Sbaktfp. Two Gentlemen of Fercr/a. 
Well haft thou le/on'Jui, this /hall we do. Sia*. 
Children fliould be feafoned betimes, and lfffla:J 
into a contempt and dcteftation of this vice. 

L'EJtrangis Fables. 

LE'SSOR. . /. One who lets any thing 
to farm, or otherwife, by leafe. 

Lords of the world have but for life their leafe, 
And that too, if the lejfir pleafe, muft ceafe. 

Denkam. 

If he demifes the glebe to a layman, the tenant 

muft pay the fmall tithes to the vicar, and the 

great tithes to the Itjlr, jiylijfe's Parergon. 

LEST. COHJ. [from the adjeftive Iea/l.] 

i. This particle may be fometimes re- 

folved into that not, meaning preven- 



LET 

tion or care left a thing fhould happen. 

Forty flripes he may give him, and not exceed, 
Irft if he ihould exceed, then thy brother fliould 
feem vile. Deut. xxv. 

Left they faint 

At the fad fentence rigoroufly urg'd, 
All terror hide. Milton. ' 

My labour will fuftain me, and left cold 
Or heat mould injure us, his timely care 
Hath unbefought provided. Milton, 

King Luitprand brought hither the corps, left it 
might be abufed by the barbarous nations. Add-on. 

z. It fometimes means only that, with a 
kind of emphafis. 

One doubt 

Perfues me ftill, left all I cannot die, 
Left that pure breath of life, the fpirit of man, 
Which God infpir'd, cannot together periih 
With this corporeal clod. Milton. 

LE'STERCOCK. n.f. Th^y have a device 
of two flicks filled with corks, and 
crofled flatlong, out of whofe midir. 
there rifeth a thread, and at the fame 
hangeth a fail ; to this engine, termed 
a hjlercock, they tie one end of their 
boulter, fo as the wind coming from the 
Ihore filleth the fail, and the fail car- 
rieth the boulter into the fea, which, 
after the refpite of fome hours, is drawn 
in again by a cord fattened at the nearer 

, ' J r- 

end. Liareiv. 

To LET. <v. a. [Istan, Saxon.] 

1. To allow; to fuffer ; to permit. 

Nay, nay, quoth he, let be your ftrife and doubt. 

Fairfax. 

Where there is a certainty and an uncertainty, 
let the uncertainty go, and hold to that which is 
certain. Bijbop Sanderfbn. 

On the crowd he caft a furious look, 
And wither'd all their ftrength before he fpoke; 
Back on your lives, let be, faid he, my prey, 
And let my vengeance take thi deftin'd way. 

Diyjiti. 

Remember me ; fpeak, Raymond, will you let 

him ? 
Shall he remember Leonora ? Drydens Sfamjh Fr. 

We muft not let go maniteft truths, becaufe we 
cannot anfwer all queftions about them. Mlicr. 

One who files his thoughts intently on one 
thing, fo as to take but little notice of the fuc- 
ceflion of ideas in his mind, lets flip out of his 
account a good part of that duration. Locke. 

A folution of mercury in aqua forris being poured 
upon iron, copper, tin, or lead, diffolves the metal, 
and lets go the mercury. Newton's Of ticks, 

2. A fign of the optative mood ufed before 
the firft, and imperative before the third 
perfon. Before the firft perfon fir lar 
it fignifies refolution, fixed purpok, or 
ardent wifh. 

Lit me die with the Phtliltines. T/"''" ' 

Here let me fit, 
And hold high convcrfe with the mighty dead. 

Tbomfori. 

3. Before the firft perfon plural, let implies 
exhortation. 

Rife 5 let us go. Ma>k. 

Let us feck out fome defolate made. Slahfftare. 

4. Before the third perfon, fingular or 
plural, let implies permiflion. 

Let Euclid reft, and Archimedes paufe. Mitten. 

5. Or precept. 

Let the foldiers fcize him from one of the afl'afH- 
nates. Dryden, 

6. Sometimes it implies conceflion. 

O'er golilen fands /<f rich Pactolus flow, 
Or trees weep amber on the banks of Po, 
While by our oaks the precious loads are born, 
And realms commanded which thole trees adorn. 

frft. 



LET 

j. Before a thing in the paflive voice, let 
implies command. 

Let not the objects which ought to be conti- 
guous be Irparated, and let thofe which ought to 
uated be apparently fo to us ; but let this be 
done bv a imjll and pleafing difference. Dryden. 

8. Let has an infinitive mood after it 
without the particle to, as in the for- 
mer examples. 

But one fubmiflive word which you lit fill, 
Will make him in good humour with us all. Dryd. 

The feventh year thou (halt let it reft, and lie 
ftill. Ex-d. 

9. To leave : in this fenfe it is commonly 
followed by alone 

They did me too much injury, 
That ever faid 1 hearken' d for your death. 
If it were fo, I might have let alone 
Th' infulting hand of Douglas over you. Sbakef. 

The public outrages of a deftroying tyranny arc 
but childiih appetites, lei alone till they are grown 
ungovernable. L'EJtrange's Fables. 

Ltt me aknc to accufe him afterwardt. Dryden. 

This is of no ufe, and had keen better let alone : 
he is fain to refolve all into prefent po/Tefiion. Loflte. 

Neftor, do not let us alone till you have fliorten- 
ed our necks, and reduced them to their antient 
itandard. Addifon. 

This notion might be let atone and defpifed, as a 
piece of harmlefs unintelligible enthufiafm. Rogers. 

10. To more than permit ; to give. 
There's a letter for you, Sir, if your name be 

Horatio, as I am la to know it is. Sbakeffeare. 

11. To put to hire; to grant to a tenant. 
Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon ; he let 

the vineyard unto keepers. Cant. viii. 1 1 . 

Nothing deadens fo much the compofition of a 
picture, as figures which appertain not to the fub- 
ject : we may call them figures to be let. Dryden. 

She let her fecond floor to a very genteel man. 

Taller. 

A law was enacted, prohibiting all bifhops, and 
other ccclefiafticf 1 corporations, from letting their 
lands for above the term of twenty years. Sivift. 

12. To fuffer any thing to take a courfe 
which requires no impulfive violence. 
In this fenfe it is commonly joined with 
a particle. 

She let them down by a cord through the win- 
dow. Jcjbua. 
Launch out into the deep, and let down your 
nets for a draught. Luke, v. 4. 
Let dnvn thy pitcher, that I may drink. 

Gen. xxiv. 14. 

The beginning of (Irife is as when ne lettetb 

car water. Prow. xvii. 14. 

As terebration deth meliorate fruit, fo doth 

pricking vines or trees after they be of fome growth, 

and thereby letting forth gum or tears. Bacon. 

And if I knew which way to do't, 

Your honour fafe, I'd let you out. Hudibras. 

The luting out our love to mutable objects dnth 

but enlarge our hearts, and make them the wider 

marks for fortune to be wounded. Boyle. 

My heart finks in me while I hear him fpcak, 
And every flacken'd fibre drops its hold ; 
Like nature letting donvn the fprings of life. Dryd. 
From this point of the ftory, the poet is lit 
.dttvn to his traditional poverty. Pspc. 

You muft let it rlnen, that is, make it fofter by 
tempering it. Moxen's Mechanical Exercises. 

13. To permit to take anv Mate or courfe. 
Finding aneafe in not understanding, he lit loofe 

his thoughts wholly to plcafure. Kidney. 

Let rcafon teach impoflibility in any thing, and 
the will of man doth let it go. Hooker, 

He was let loofe among the woods as foon as he 
was able to ride on horfcback, or carry a gun. 

Addifa's Sfeflator. 

14. Tt LET blood, is elliptical for to let 
out blood. To free it from confinement ; 
to fuffer it to ilreain out of the vein. 



LET 

Be rul'd by me ; 
tet't purge this choler without letting klooJ. Stak. 

His ancient knot of dangerous adverfariei 
To-morrow are let Head at Pomfret caftle. Sbak. 

Hippocrates let great quantities of blood, and 
open'd fcveral veins at a time. Arbutbnot on Coins. 

15. To LET blood, is ufed with a dative 
of the perfon whofe blood is let. 

As tcrebration doth meliorate fruits, fo doth 
letting plants blood, as pricking vines, thereby let- 
ting forth tears. Bactn. 

16. To LET in. To admit. 

Let in your king, whofe labour'd fpirits 
Crave harbourage within your city walls. Sbakef. 

Rofcetes prefcnted his army before the gate of 
the city, in hopes that the citizens would ruife 
fome tumult, and let him in. Knolles. 

What boots it at one gate to make defence, 
And at another to let in the foe, 
Effeminately vanquilh'd .' Mitten's Agzr.ijlcs. 

The more tender our fpirits are made by religion, 
the more eafy we are to let In grief, if the caufe be 
innocent. Taylor. 

They but preferve the alhes, thou the flame, 
True to his fenfe, but truer to his fame, 
Fording his current, where thou find'ft it low, 
Let'Jl in thine own to make it rife and flow. 

Denbam. 

To give a period to my life, and to his fears, 
you're welcome ; here's a throat, a heart, or any 
other part, ready to la in death, and receive his 
commands. Denbam. 

17. If a noun follows, for let in, let into 
is required. 

It is the key that lets them into their very heart, 
and enables them to command all that is there. 

Sotttb's Sermons. 

There are pictures of fuch as have been diilin- 
guiihed by their birth or miracles, with infcrip- 
tions, that let you into the name and hiftory of the 
perfon reprefented. Addifrn. 

Moft hiftorians have fpoken t( ill fuccefs, and 
terrible events, as if they had been let into the fecrets 
of Providence, and made acquainted with that pri- 
vate conduit by which the world is governed. 

Addijon. 

Thefe are not myfteries for ordinary readers to be 

let into. Adtlifrn. 

As we rode through the town, I was let into the 

characters of all the inhabitants ; one was a dug, 

another a whelp, and another a cur. Addifcn. 

18. To LET in, or into. To procure ad- 
miffion. 

They Ihould fpcak properly and correctly, 
whereby they may let their thoughts into other 
men's minds the more eafily. Licit. 

As foon as they have hewn down any quantity 
of the rocks, they let in their fprings and rcfervoirs 
among their works. Add-on. 

19. To LET of. To difcharge. Origi- 
nally ufed of an arrow difmifled from 
the gripe, and therefore fuffered to fly 
off the firing : now applied to guns. 

Charging my piftol with powder, I cautioned the 
emperor not to be afraid, and then let it ef in the 
air. Swift. 

20. To LET out. Toleafeout; to give to 
hire or farm. 

To LET. <v. a. [lertan, Saxon.] 

I. To hinder ; to obftruft ; to oppofe. 

Their fenfes are not Ittted from enjoying their 
objects : we have the impediments of honour, and 
the torments of confcience. Sidney. 

To glorify him in all things, is to do nothing 
whereby the name of God may be blafphemed ; 
nothing whereby the falvation of Jew or Grecian, 
or any in the church of Chrilt, may be let or hin- 
deied. Hooker. 

Leave, ah, leave off, whatever wight thou be, 
To let a weary wretch from her due relt, 

And trouble dying foul's tranquillity ! Fairy *>. 

Wherefore Jo ye let the people from their works ? 
go you unto your burdens. i'.v.i/. v. 4. 



LET 

The my ftery of iniquity doth already work ; only 
he who now latetb will lit, until he be taken out 
of the way. i Tbtfm 

I will work, and who will let it? ffj. xliii. 1 1. 
And now no longer letted of his prey, 
He leaps up at it with enrag'd defire, 

O'erlooks the neighbours with a wide furtey, 
And nods at every houfe his threatening fire. Dryd, 
2. T LET, when it fignifiei to permit or 
have, has let in the preterite and part, 
paffive ; but when it fignifics to binder, 
it has letted ; as, multa me imfedierunt, 
many things ba-ve letted me. 

Ititroduflion to Grammar. 
To LET. v. n. To forbear; to withhold 
himfelf. 

After king Ferdinando had taken upon him the 
perfon of a fraternal ally to the king, he would not 
let to counfel the king. Bacon. 

LET. n.f. [from the verb.] Hindrance; 
obftacle ; obftruftion ; impediment. 

The fccret l,u and difficulties in public proceed, 
ings are innumerable and inevitable. fitafar* 

Solyman without let prefcnted his army before 
the city of Belgrade. Kntllcs's. Ilijieiry of ttt Turlti, 

It had been done ere this, had I been conful ; 
We had had no flop, no !-t . Ben Jmfin't Catiline. 

Juft judge, two lets remove ; that free from dread, 
I may before thy high tribunal plead. Sandys. 

To thefe internal difpofitions to fin, add the ex- ' 
ternal opportunities and occafions concurring with 
them, and removing alV las and rubs out of the 
way, and making the path of deftruction plain 
before die Tinner's face; fo that he may run hit 
courfe freely. Sn:b. 

LET, the termination of diminutive words, 
from lyre, Saxon, little, fmall; as, rivu- 
let, a /mall ftream ; hamlet, a little vil- 
lage.^ 

LETHA'RGICK. adj. \letbargique, Fren. 
from lethargy.} Sleepy by difeafe, be- 
yond the natural power of fleep. 

Vengeance is as if minutely proclaimed in 
thunder from heaven, to give men no reft in their 
fins, till they awake from the Ittbargick fleep, and 
arife from fo dead, fo mortiferous a (late. 

Hammond's Fundamentals* 

Let me but try if I can wake his pity 
From his Ltbargtfk fleep. Dinbam's Softy. 

A lethargy demands the fame cure and diet as an 
apoplexy from a phlegmatick cafe, fuch being the 
constitution of the letbargick. Arbutbr.it on Di<t 
LETHA'RGICKNESS. n. f. [from lelhar- 
gi'k.] Morbid fleepinefs ; drowfinefs 
to a difeafe. 

A grain of glory mixt with humblenefs, 
Cures both a fever, and It tkarficknrft. H rtfi t. 

LE'THARGY. n. f. [xrSpi ; letbar- 
gie, French.] A morbid drowlinefs ; a 
fleep from which one cannot be kept 
awake. 

The l.tbjrgy muft have his quiet courfe ; 
If not, he foams at mouth, and by and by 
Breaks out to favage madncfs. Sbjt 

Though his eye is open, as the morning's, 
Towards lufts and pleasures ; yet fo faft a Ittbirfy 
Has feized his powers towards public cares and 

dangers, 
He fleps like death. Denbam's Softy 

Europe lay then under a deep litbargy ; and was 
no otheiwife to be rcfcued from it, but by one that 
would cry mightily. Atttrbury. 

A lethargy is a lighter fort ef apoplexy, and de- 
mands the fame cure and diet. A hut hit a en Ditt, 

LE'THARGIED. atij. [from the noun.] 
Laid afleep ; entranced. 

His motion weakens, or his difcernings 
Are letbargiett. Sttlerffetrf* King Lfitr. 

LE'THE. n. /. [xu'S.] Oblivion j a 
draught of oblivion. 



The 



LET 

The conquering wine hath fteept our fenfe 
In foft and delicate letbe. Sbakefpeare. 

Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls 
His wat'ry labyrinth, which whofo drinks 
Forgets both joy and grief. Milton. 

LE'TTER. n.f. [from let.] 

1. One who lets or permits. 

2. One who hinders. 

3. One who gives vent to any thing ; as, 
a blood- letter. 

LE'TTER. n.f. [lettre, French; /.(era, 
Latin.] 

1. One of the elements of fyllables. 

A fuperfcrif tion wa.s written over him in letters 
of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. Luke, xxiii. 38. 
Thou whorefon Zed \ thou unnecefl'ary letter .' 

Sbakefpeare. 

2. A written mefTage ; an epiftle. 

They ufe to write it on the top of letters. Stik. 

I have a letter from her 
Of fuch contents as you will wonder at. Kbakefp. 

When a Spaniard would write a letter by him, the 
Indian would marvel how it Ihould be poflible, that 
he, to whom he came, ihould be able to know all 
things. Abbot. 

The afles will do very well for trumpeters, and the 
hares will make excellent letter carriers. L'EJlrange. 

The ftile of letters ought to be free, eal'y, and 
natural; as near approaching to familiar converfa- 
tion as porlible ; the two beft qualities in converfa- 
tion are, good humour and good breeding ; thofe 
letters are therefore certainly the beft that ihew the 
liift of thefe two qualities. Waljh. 

Mrs. P. B. has writ to me, and is one of the 
beft Ittter writers I know ; very good fenfe, civility, 
and friendihip, without any ftiffnefs or conftraint. 

S-wft. 

3. The verbal expreffion ; the literal 
meaning. 

Torching tranflations of holy fcripture, we may 
not difallow of their painful travels herein, who 
ftrictly have tied themfeives to the very original 
letter. Hooker. 

In obedience to human laws, we muft obferve the 

letter of the law, without doing violence to the rea- 

fon of the law, and the intention of the lawgiver. 

Taylor's Holy Living. 

Thofe words of" his muft be underftood not ac- 
cording to the bare rigour of the letter, but accord- 
ing to the allowances of exprcflion. South. 

What '. fince the pretor did my fetters loofe, 
And left me freely at my own diipofe, 
May I not live with/jut controul and awe, 
Excepting ftill the letter of the law ? Dryjen. 

4. Letters without the (ingular : learning. 

The Jews marvelled, faying, How knoweth this 
man letters, having never learned ? John, vii. J 5. 
^5. Any thing to be read. 

Good laws are at beft but a dead letter. Addifon. 
6. '"'Type with which books are printed. 

The iron ladles that letter founder's ufe to the 

calling of printing letters, are kept conftantly in 

melting metal. Moxtm. 

To LE'TTER. v. a. [from letter.] To 

ftamp with letters. 

I obferved one weight littered on both (ides ; and 
I found on one fide, written in the dialect of men, 
ind underneath it, calamities ; on the other fide was 
written, in the language of the gods, and under- 
neath, bleflings. Addifon. 

LE'TTEHED. adj. [from letter.] Lite- 
rate; educated to learning. 

A martial man, not fweetened by a lettered edu- 
cation, is apt to have a tincture of fournefi. 

Collier on Pride' 

LE'TTUCE. n.f. [lauea, Latin.] 

The fpecies are, common or garden lettuce ; cab- 
bage littuce; Silcfia lettuce; white and black cos ; 
white cos ; red capuchin lettuce. Miller. 

Fat colworts, and comforting purfeline, 
Cold lettuce, and icfrefiunjj rofcmariuc. Sfenfc 



LEV 

Lettuce is thought to be poifonous, when it is fo 
old as to have milk. Baton's Natural Hi/lory 

The medicaments proper to diminifh milk, are 
lettuce, purflane, endive. Wifeman's Surgery. 

LE'VANT. #. [levant, French.] Eaft- 
ern. 

Thwart of thofe, as fierce 
Forth rulh the levant, and the ponent winds, 
Eurus and Zephyr. Milton's Paradife Loft. 

LE'VANT. n. f. The eaft, particularly 
thofe coafts of the Mediterranean eaft 
of Italy. 

LE7A'TOR.n.f. [Latin.] Achirurgical 
inftrument, whereby deprefled parts of 
the fkull are lifted up. 

Some furgeons bring out the bone in the bore ; 
but it will be fafer to raifc it up with your levator, 
when it is but lightly retained in fome part. 

Wifeman'i Surgery. 

LEUCOPHLE'GMACY. n.f. [from leuco- 
phlegmatick.] Palenefs, with vifcid juices 
and cold fweatings. 

Spirits produce debility, flatulency, fevers, leuco- 
pb'iegmacy, and dropfies. Arlutbnot on Aliments. 

LEUCOPHLEGM A'TICK. adj. [\,VKO^ and 
0*fyf.] Having fuch a conltitution of 
body where the blood is of a pale co- 
lour, vifcid, and cold, whereby it fluffs 
and bloats the habit, or raifes white tu- 
mours in the feet, legs, or any other 
parts ; and fuch are commonly afthma- 
tick and droplical. >uincy. 

Afthmatick perfons have voracious appetites, and 
for want of a right fanguinxation are leueopb/egma- 
tict. Arbutbnot. 

LE'YEE. n.f. [French.] 

1. The time of rifing. 

2. The concourfe of thofe who crowd 
round a man of power in a morning. 

Would'ft thou be firft minifter of ftate ; 
To have thy levtts crouded with refort 
Of a depending, gaping, fervile court? Dryden. 

None of her fylvan fubjects made their court, 
Levees and couchees pals'd without refort. 

Dryden. 

LE'VEL. adj. [Ixpel, Saxon.] 
. Even ; not having one part higher than 
another. 

The doors 

Difcover ample fpaces o'er the fmooth 
And level pavement. Milton. 

The garden, feated on the level floor, 
She left behind. Dryden's Boccace. 

2. Even with any thing elfe ; in the fame 
line with any thing. 

Our navy, is addrefs'd, our pow'r collected, 
And ev'ry thing \\es/evcl to our with. Sbakefpeare. 

Now fhaves with level wing the deep. Milton. 

There is a knowledge which is very proper to 
man, and lies level to human underftanding, the 
knowledge of our Creator, and of the duty we owe 
to him. filbtfon. 

3. Having no gradations of fuperiority. 

Be level iivpreferments, and you will foon be as 
level in your learning. Benthy. 

To LE'VEL. v. a. [from the adjeclive.] 

1. To make even ; to free from inequali- 
ties : as, he levels the walks. 

2. To reduce to the fame height with 
fomething etfe. 

Lefs bright the moon, 
But oppofite in level'd weft, was fet. Milton. 

He will thy foes with filent (hame confound, 
And their proud ftructures level with the ground. 

Sandys. 

3. To lay flat. 

We know by experience, that all downright rains 
do evermore djffcver the violence of outrageous 



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winds, and beat down and level the fwelling and 
mountainous billows of the fea. Raleigh* 

With unrefifted might the monarch reigns, 
He Itvels mountains, and he raifes plains ; 
And not regarding diff'rence of degree, 
Abas'd your daughter, and exalted me. Dryden. 

4. To bring to equality of condition. 

Reafon can never aflent to the admiflion of thofe 
brutilh appetites which would over-run the foul, 
and level its fuperior with its inferior faculties. 
^ Decay of Piety* 

5. To point in taking aim ; to aim. 

Each at the head 
Level' J his deadly aim. Milton* 

One to the gunners on St. Jago's tow'r, 
Bid 'em for (name level their cannon lower. Dryd* 

Iron globes which on the victor hoft 
Lever J with fuch impetuous fury fmote. Milton* 

The conftruilion I believe is not, 
globes level' el en the hoft, but globes 
level'd fmote on the hoft. 

6. To direft to any end. 

The whole body of puritans was drawn to be abet- 
tors of all villainy by a few men, whofe defigns from 
the firft were levelled to deftroy both religion and 
government. Swift. 

1* Tofuit; to proportion. 

Behold the law 
And rule of beings in your Maker's mind : 

And thence, like limbecks, rich ideas draw, 
To fit the levelfd ufe of humankind. Dryden. 
To LE'VEL. v. n. 

1. To aim at ; to bring the gun or arrow 
to the fame direction with the mark. 

The glory of God, and the good of his church, 
was the thing which the apoftles aimed at, and 
therefore ought to be the mark whereat we alfo 
level. HsoUr. 

2. To conjedlure ; to attempt to guefs. 

I pray thee overname them ; and, as thou named 
them I will defcribe them ; and, according to my 
defcription, level at my affection. Sbakifpeare. 

3. To be in the fame dircdion with a 
mark. 

He to his engine flew, 
Plac'd near at hand in open view, 
And rais'd it till it levell'd right 
Againft the glow-worm tail of kite. Hudilras, 

4. To make attempts ; to aim. 

Ambitious York did level at thy crown. 

^ Sbakefpeare. 

5. To efface diftinclion or fuperiority : as, 
infamy is always trying to level. 

LE'VEL. n.f. [from the adjeclive.] 

1. A plane ; a furface without protube- 
rances or inequalities. 

After draining of the level in Northamptonshire, 
innumerable mice did upon a fudden arife. 

Male's Original of Mankind* 

Thofe bred in a mountainous country overfize 
thofe that dwell on low levels. Sandys's Travels* 

2. Rate ; ftandard ; cuftomary height. 

Love of her made us raife up our thoughts above 
the ordinary level of the world, fo as great clerks do 
not difdain our conference. Sidney* 

The praifes of military men infpircd me with 
thoughts above my ordinury level* Dryden* 

3. Suitable or proportionate height. 

It might perhaps advance their minds fo far 
Above the level of fubjection, as 
T" affume to them the glory of that war. Daniel* 

4. A ftate of equality. 

The time is not far off when we mall be upon the 
lev .-/ ; I am refolved to anticipate the cimc, and be 
upon the level with them now : for he is fo that 
neither feeks nor wants them. Atttrbury to Pope. 

Providence, for the moft part, fets us upon a 
level, and obferves proportion in its difpcnfations 
towards us. Addifon's SpeiJatoi: 

I fuppofe, by the ftile of old friends, and the 
like, it muft be fcmcbody thcie of his own k"-el; 

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monj whom hi. party hve, indeed, more friends 
than 1 could wilt. Stolj't 

5. An inllrumcnt whereby malbns adjufl 
their work. 

The livel h from two to ten feet long, that it may 
reach over a tonfiderable length of the work : if the 
f lumb-line hang jult upon the peipendicular, when 
the /. re/ is let flat down upon the work, the work 
is level ; but if it hangs on either fide the perpendi- 
cular, the floor or work mud be raifed on that fide, 
till the plumb-line hang exactly on the perpendicu- 
lar. Moxen's Mttbinical Exercijn. 

6. Rule ; plan ; fcherae : borrowed from 
the mechanick level. 

Be the fair Uvel of thy actions bid, 
As temp'rance wills, and prudence may perfuade, 
And try if" life be worth the liver's care. Prior 

}. The line of direction in which any mif- 
five weapon is aimed. 
I flood i' th' 1,-vel 

Of a full charg'd confederacy, nd gave thanks 
To you that chok'd it. Sbakefpeare'i Hairy VIII 

As if that name, 

Shot from the deadly Icvd of a gun, 
Did murthcr her. Sbaktfpeare' i Rontio and Juliet. 

Thrice happy is that humble pair, 
Beneath the level of all care, 
Over whofc heads thofe arrows fly, 
Of fad diftruft and jealoufy. Waller 

8. The line in which the fight pa/Tes. 

Fir'd at firfl fight with what the mufe imparts, 
In fearlefs youth we tempt the heights of arts ; 
While from the bounded level of our mind 
Short views we take, nor fee the lengths behind. 

Prfe 

LE'VELLER. a.f. [from level.] 

1. One who makes any thing even. 

2. One who deflroys fuperiority; one who 
endeavours to bring all to the fame ftate 
of equality. 

You are an everlafting leveller ; you won't allow 
encouragement to extraordinary merit. CMer. 

LE'VELNESS. n.f. [from level.] 

1. Evennefs; equality of furface. 

2. Equality with fomething elfe. 

The river Tiber is expreffed lying along, for fo 

you mud remember to draw rivers, to exprcfs their 

levelnrfs with the earth. Peacbam. 

LE'VEN. n. /. [Jevaiit, French. Com- 

monly, though lefs properly, written 

lta-ven\ fee LEAVEN.] 

J. Ferment; that which, being mixed in 

bread, makes it rife and ferment. 
2. Any'thing capable of changing the na- 
ture of a'greater mafs. 

The matter fermcnteth upon the old ln-eti, and 
bccometh more acrid. Wiftman'i Surgiry. 

The pestilential levains conveyed in goods. 

Artutbnot. 

LE'VER. ti.f. [levier, French.] 

The fecond mechanical power, is a balance fi'p- 
ported by a hypomochlion ; only the center is not 
in the middle, as in the common balance, but near 
one end ; for which reafon it is ufed to elevate or 
Jiifc a great weight ; whence comes the name lever. 

fyflrrh. 

Have you any leavers to lift me up again-, being 
down ? Sbakefpeare. 

Some draw with cords, and feme the monfter 
'With rolls and teveri. Dcnbam. 

In a lever, the motion .can be continued only for 
fo fliort a fpace, as may be anfwcrable fo that little 
dilt.mce betwixt the t'ulcimcnt and the weight: 
.which it always by fo much lefler, as the difpropor- 
tion betwixt the weight and the power is greater, and 
ihe motion itfelf more eafy. Wilk. Math. Magick. 

Some hoil'ting l;aven, fome the wheels prepare. 

Drydcn. 

LE'VERET. a. /. [licvrtt, French.] A 
young hare. 



Their travel) o'er that filver field does (how 
Like track of livcreti in morning fnow. Waller. 
LE'VET. n.f. [froni lever, French.] A 
blalt on the trumpet ; probably that by 
which the foldicrs are called in the 
morning. 

He that led the cavalcade 
Wore a fowgeldcr's flagellet, 
On which he blew as (hong a level, 
As well-fee'd lawyer on his breviate. Hudibr- 

LE'VEROOK. u.f. [laperuf, Saxon.] Thii 
word is retained in Scotland, and de- 
notes the lark. 

The fmaller birds have their particular feafons ; 
as, the leverook. Wattvn'i Angler, 

\{ the lufft fa' 'twill fmoore aw the Imeroolts. 

Scotch Prov. 

LEVIABLE, adj. [fiotnlei/y.] That may 
be levied. 

The fums which any agreed to pay, and were not 
brought in, were to be leviable by courfe of law. 
Barn's H:nry VII 

LEVl'ArHAN. n.f. [f/VlV] A water 
animal mentioned in the book of Job. 
By fome imagined the crocodile, but in 
poetry generally taken for the whale. 

We may, as bootlefs, fpend our vain command 
Upon th' enraged foldiers in their fpoil, 
As fend our precepts to the Itviatban, 
To come afhoro. Sbakejfiare'i Henry V. 

Canft thou draw out leviathan with an hook ? 

yd. 

More to embroil the deep ; leviathan, 
And his unwieldy train, in dreadful fport 
Temped the loofcn'd brine. Tbomfon's Winter. 

To LE'VIGATE. -v. a. {lavigo, Latin."! 

1. To rub or grind to an impalpable 
powder. 

2. To mix till the liquor becomes fmooth 
and uniform. 

The chyle is white, as confiding of fait, oil, and 
water, much levigated or fmooth. Arbutbnot. 

LEVIGA'TION. n.f. [from levigate.] 

Levigation is the reducing of hard bodies, as coral, 
tutty, and precious ftones, into a fubtile powder, 
by grinding upon marble with a muller j but un- 
lefs the inftruments are extremely hard, they will 
fo wear as to double the weight of the medicine. 

Qu'my. 
LE'VITE. n.f. [levita, Latin, from Leiii.] 

1. One of the iribe of Levi ; one born 
to rhe office of priefthood among the 
Jews. 

In the Chriftian church, the office of deacons 
fuccecded in the place of the lev'ues among the 
Jews, who were as minifters and fervants to the 
yriefts. Ajliffe'i Parergtn. 

2. A pried: ufed in contempt. 
LEVI'TICAI.. adj. ^from le<vite.] Belong- 

ing to the levite ; making part of the 
religion of the Jews. 

By the Ic vitifal law, both the man and the wo- 
man were (toned to death j fo heinous a crime was 
adultery. Ay life. 

LE'VITV. n.f. \lei>itas, Latin.] 

1. Lightnefs ; not heavraefs ; the quality 
by which any body has lefs weight than 
another. 

He gave the form of levity to that whkh afcend- 
edj to that which defcended, the form of gr.uitj. 

Ralcigb. 

This bubble, by reafon of its comparative Uvity 
to the fluidity that enclofcs it, would afcend to the 
top. Bcntlty. 

2. Inconftancy ; changeablenefs. 

They every day broached fome new thing ; which 
redlefs levity they did interpret to be their growing 
in fpiritual perfection. Jietter. 



Where wigs with \vigs, with fword-knots fword- 

knots (trivf, 

Beaus banilh bonus, and coaches coaches drive, 
This erring mortals levity may call. ftft. 

3. Unfteadinefs ; laxity of mind. 

I unbofom'd .01 rny fccrets to ; 
Not out of levity, but over- powcr'd 
By thy rcqucft. Mittin'i Agerifla, 

4. Idle pleafure ; vanity. 

He never employed his omnipotence out of / v\tj 
or oltentation, but as the neceflities of men required. 

Calory. 

5. Trifling gaiety ; want of ferioufnefs. 

Our graver bullneft frowns at this hvity. Sbat. 
Hopton abhorred the licence, and the Ifvitiei, 
with which he faw too many corrupted. Clartr.dnn. 
That fpirit of religion and ferioufnefs vaniftied, 
and a fpirit of levity and libertinifm, infidelity and 
profanenefs, Itarted up in the room of it. Attcrbury, 
To LE'VY. v. a. I/ever, French.] 
i. Toraife; to bring together: applied 
to men. 

He refolved to finifh theconqueft of Ireland, and 
to that end levied a mighty army. Duvittir.i 
z. To raife : applied to war. 1 his fenfe, 
though Milton's, feems improper. 
They live in hatred, enmity, and Itrife, 
Among themfelves, and Iny cruel wars. Mij'.'aa. 
3. To raife: applied to money. 

Levy a tribute unto the Lord of tic men of wr. ' 

Numberl. 

Jnftead of a (hip, he Ihould levy upon his county 
fuch a fum of money. Clarendon. 

LE'VY. n.f. [from the verb.] 

1. The aft of raifing money or men. 

They have already contributed all their fuper- 
fluous hands, and every new levy they make muft 
be at the expcnce of their farms and commerce. 

Addifcn's State of tbe War. 

2. War raifed. 

Treafon has done his worft : nor fteel, nor poifon, 
Malice dbmeftick, foreign levy, nothing 
Can touch him further ! Sbakcfpcarc't Mactctb. 

LEWD. adj. [Jaepede, Saxon.] 

1. Lay; not clerical; from kod, f tuple. 
It is fometimes grofs; ignorant. Ob- 
folete. 

For Invyd men this book I writ. B'Jb-.pGreJibead. 
So tbefe great clerks their little wifdom (hew 
To mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they. 

Davies. 

2. Wicked ; bad; diflblute. 

If fome be admitted into the miniftry, either void 
of learning, or Inud in life, are all the reft to be 
condemned ? Wbitgiftt. 

Before they did opprefs the people, only by colour 
of a lewd cullom, they did afterwards ufe the fame 
opprefiions by warrant. Davus. 

3. Luftfnl ; libidinous. 

He is not lolling on a /rrtW love-bed ; 
But on hii knees at meditation. Sbaktfptare. 

Then lewd Anchemolus he hid in dull, 
Who ftain'd his ftep,dame't bed with impious lull. 

Drydtn. 
LE'WDI.Y. adv. [from lewd.] 

1. Wickedly ; naughtily. 

A fort of naughty perfuns, lewdly bent, 
Have praflis'd dangcroufly againrt your ftate. Ste/k. 

2. Libidinoufly ; lullfully. 

He lov'd fair l.idy Eltred, Ifiudiy lov'd, 
Whofe wanton p)eafures him too much Jid pleafc, 
That^uite his heart from Guendelinc remov'il. 



So litvJh dull his idle works appear, 
The wretched texts defervt no comments here. 

Drydcn. 

LE'WDNESS. n.f. [from leiva.] Luftfiil 
licentioufnefs. 

Suffer no lewdnefs, nor indecent freech, 
Th' apartment of the tender youth to rtach. Dryd. 



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Damianui's letter to Nicholas Ij an inthent'ck 

record of the InudneJJes committed under the reign 

of celibacy. Atterbury. 

LE'WDSTER. n.f. [from/ra></.] A lecher; 

one given to criminal pleafures. 

Againft fuch Irjidfttrs, and their lechery, 
Thofe that betray them do no treachery. Sbakifp. 

LE'WIS D'OR.n.f. [Fsench.] Agolden 
French coin, in value twelve livres, now 
fettled at feventeen fhillings. Dicl. 

LtXI CO'c R A P H E R .n.f. [X|T:> and "/|a'pa'; 

Icxicographt, French.] A writer of dic- 
tionaries ; a harmlefs drudge, that bufies 
himfelf in tracing the original, and de- 
tailing the fignification of words. 

Commentators and lexicographers acquainted with 

the Syriack language, have given thefe hints in their 

writings on fcripture. fPatti. 

LEXICOGRAPHY.*./ [Xsfixci and yja'pi .] 

The art or practice of writing diction- 
aries. 

LE'XICON. n.f. [\=f.*.] A dictionary; 
a book teaching the fignification of 
words. 

Though a Unguift (hould pride himfelf to have 
all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet 
if he had not ftudied the foiid things in them as 
well as the words and lexicons, yet he were nothing 
fo much to be efteemed a learned man as any yeo- 
man competently wife in his mother dialect only. 

Milton. 

LFY. n.f. 

Lry, lee, lay, are all from the Saxon lea?, a 
field or pafture, by the ufual melting of the letter 5 
or g. Gibjcifs Camden. 

LJ'ABLE. adj. \liable, from lier, old 
French.] Obnoxious; not exempt; 
fubjecl : with to. 

But what is Itrength without a double fhare 
Of wifdom ? vaft, unwieldy, burthenfome, 
Proudly fecure, yet liable to fall 
Bv weakeft fubtleties. Milan's jlgtnifies. 

The Englifli boaft of Spenfer and Milton, who 
neither of them wanted genius or learning ; and yet 
both of them are liable to many cenfures. Dryden. 

This, rr any other fcheme, coming from a private 
hand, might be liakli to many defects. Sicift. 

LI'AR. n.f. [from lie. This word would 
analogically be lier ; but this ortho- 
graphy has prevailed, and the conve- 
nience of diftinclion from lier, he who 
lies down, is fufficient to confirm it.] 
One who tells falfehood ; one who wants 
veracity. 

She's like a liar, gone to burning hell ! 
'Twjs I that kill'd her. Sbakefpeare's Otbelh. 

He approves the common liar, fame, 

Who fpe.iks him thus at Rome. Shakespeare. 

I do not reject his oblervation as untrue, much 

lefs condemn the perfon himfelf as a liar, whenfo- 

cver it feems to be contradicted. Boyle. 

Thy better foul abhors a liar's part, 
Wife is thy voice, and noble is thy heart. Pope. 
LI'AR D. adj. 

1. Mingled roan. Markham. 

2. Liard in Scotland denotes grey-haired : 
as, he's a liard old man. 

LIE^'TJON. v.f. [lilatio, Latin.] 

1. The aft of pouring wine on the ground 
in honour of fome deity. 

In digging new earth pour in fome wine, that the 

vapour of the earth and wine may comfort the (pints, 

iie not taken for a heathen facrirke, or 

; r / to the earth. Bacon's Natural liiflwy. 

2. The wine fo poured. 

They had no other crime to object agiinft 
';rifti.in;, but that Uiey did not offer up 



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libntMta, Mid the fmoke of faerifltes, to dd 
men. Stilling fleet on Romijb Idolatry, 

The goblet then flie took, with nectar crown'd, 
Sprinkling the firft libations on the ground. 

Dryden's JEneid. 

LI'BBARD. n.f. \liebard, German; leo- 
pardut, Latin.] A leopard. 

Make the libbard ftern 

Leave roaring, when in rage he for revenge did yearn. 

Spenjer. 

The libbard and the tiger, as the mole 
Riling, the crumbled earth above them threw. 

Milton. 

The torrid p.irts of Africk are by Pifo refembled 
to a libbard's (kin, the diftance of whofe fpots re-, 
prcfent the difperfenefs of habitations, or towns of 
Afrit k. Brercit.'oid 

Ll'BEL. n. f. \libellus, Latin ; libelle, 
French.] 

1. A fatire; defamatory writing; a lam- 
poon. 

Are we reproached for the name of Chrift ? that 
ignominy ferves but to advance our future glory ; 
every fuch //Where becomes panegyrick there. 

Decay of Piety. 
Good heav'n ! that fots and knaves mould be fo 

vain, 

To wiih their vile refemblance may remain ! 
And ftand recorded, at their own requeft, 
To future days, a libel or a jeft. Dryden. 

2. [In the civil law.] A declaration or 
charge in writing againfl a perfon exhi- 
bited in court. 

To LI'BEL. ir. n. [from the noun.] To 
fpread defamation, written or printed : 
it is now commonly ufed as an adive 
verb, without the prepofition againji. 

Sweet fcrawls to fly about the ftreets of Rome : 
What's this but libelling againji the fenate ? 

Sbakifpeare. 

He, like a privilcg'd fpv, whom nothing can 
Difcredit, liiels now gain)} each great man. Donne. 

TLI'BE'L. <v. a. To fatirife; to lam- 
poon. 

Is the peerage of England dilhononred when a 
peer fuffers for his treafon ? if he be libelled, or any 
way defamed, he has his fcandalum magaatum to 
punifli the offrnder. Dryden. 

But what fo pure which envious tongues will 

fparc ? 

Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair. Pope . 
LI'BELLER. n.f. [from libel.] A de- 
famer by writing ; a lampooner. 

Our common libellers are as fr?e from the impu- 
tation of wit, as of morality. Dryden's Juvenal. 

The fquibs are thofe who, in the common phrafe, 
are called libellers and lampooners. Taller. 

The common libellers, in their invectives, tax 
the chui\h with an infatiable defire of power and 
wealth, equally common to all bodies of men. 

* Swift. 

LI'BELLOUS. adj. [from litil.] Defama- 
tory. 

It was the moft malicious furmife that had ever 
been brewed, howfoever countenanced by a libM',us 
pamphlet. WvUvn. 

LI'BERAL. adj. \liberalis, Latin ; liberal, 

French.] 
t. Not mean ; not low in birth; not low 

in mind. 

2. Becoming a gentleman. 

3. Munificent; generous; bountiful; not 
parfimonious. 

Her name was Mercy, well known over all, 
To be both gracious and eke liberal, fairy S^acen. 

Sparing would (hew a worfe fin than ill doctrine. 
Men of his way mould be moft liberal, 
They're fet here for examples. Hbakrjp. Hen. VIII. 

Needs muft the pow r 
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Be Infinitely good, nd of his good 
As liberal and free, as infinite. 
The liberal are fecure alune, 
For what we frankly give, for ever is our own. 

4. It has of before the thing, and to before 
the perlon. 

There is no art better than to be liberal e/praife 
and commendation to others, in that wherein a 
man's feif hath any perfection. Bacon's Fjfays. 

Several clergymen, otherwife little fond of obfcur* 
terms, are, in their fermons, very liberal a/" all thoft 
which they find in ecclefiaftical writers, as if it wer 
our duty to underftand them. Swift* 

LIBERA'LITY. n.f. \liberalitas, Latin j 
lil>eralite,i.] Munificence; bounty j 
generofity ; generous profufion. 

Why mould he defpair, that knows to court 
With words, fair looks, and liberality f Shatefpeart. 

Such moderation with thy bounty join, 
That thou may'ft nothing give that is not thine} 
Th;it liberality is but ca(t away, 
Which makes us borrow what we cannot pay. 

LI'BERALLY. adv. [from literal.] 

1. Bounteoufly ; bountifully; largely. 

If any of you lack wifdom, lee him a/k of God 1 , 
that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not. 

James, \. 5. 

2. Not meanly ; magnanimoufly. 
LI'BERTINE. n.f. \libertin, French.] 

1. One unconfined ; one at^liberty. 

When he fpeaks, 

The air, a charter'd libertine, is rKH ; 
And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, 
To fteal his fweet and honied fentences. 

Sbakejfearc' s Henry V. 

2. One who lives without reitraint or law. 

Man, the lawlefs libertine, may rove, 
Free and unqueftion'd. Rome's Jam S hon. 

Want of power is the only bound that * liter tiae 
puts to his views upon any of the lex. C/jriffa. 

3. One who pays no regard to the pre- 
cepts of religion. 

They f.iy this town is full of couzenage, 
Difguifcd cheaters, prating mountebanks, 
And many fuch like libertines of fin. Sbskcfpcarf* 

That word may be applied to fome few mertiaa 
in the audience. Collier's fi.w of the Stage. 

4. [In law; libertinus, Latin.] A freed - 
man ; or rather, the fon of a freedman. 

Some perfons arc forbidden to be accufers on the 
fcorc of their fex, as women ; others on the fcore 
of their age, as pupils and infants ; others on th 
fcorc of their condition, as libertines againft their 
patrons. siyliffes Parcrgon* 

LI'BERTINE.^'. \lilertin, French.] Li- 
centious ; irreligious. 

There arc men that marry not, but chufc rathjr 
a libertine and impure fingle life, than to be yoked 
in marriage. Sjccrr. 

Might not the queen make diligent inquiry, if 
any perfon about her mould happen to be of liberti.it 
principles or morals ? Swift's Project. 

LI'BER TIKISM. n.f. [from litertine.] Ir- 
religion ; licentioufnefs of opinions and 
pradice. 

That fpirit of religion and ferioufnefs vanilncd 

all at once, and a fpirit of liberty and liitrtimfm, ot" 

infidelity and profauenefs, ftaited up in the room of 

it. dttcrbury's Sermons. 

LI'BERTY. n.f. \liberte, French; liber-. 

tas, Latin.] 
i. Freedom, as oppofed to flavery. 

My rr.after knows of your being here, and ha^H 
threatened to put me into evcrlafting liberty, if I 
tell you of it ; for he fwears, he'll turn me away. 

Sbakcjpfai e. 

Q- liberty! thou goddeis, heav'nly bright ! 
Proful'e of bills, and pregnant with delight, 
Eternal plufwct Is thy prclioce reign. AcUifon. 

F 2. Exemption 



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t. Exemption from tyranny or inordinate' 

government. 

Juftly thou abhorr'ft 

The fon, who, on the quiet ftate of man 
Such trouble brought, affecting to fubdue 
Ra-.ional lilxrij ; yet kr.ow withal, 
Since thy original lapfe, true l\b:rty 
Is loft, which always with right reafon dwells. 

Milton. 

3. Freedom, as oppofed to neceflity. 

i-lj is the power in any agent to do, or for- 
beir, any particular action, according to the deter- 
mination, or thought of the mind, whereby either 
of them is pi$J'erred to the other. Lotkt. 

As it i in the motions of the body, fo it is in 
the thoughts of our minds : where any one is fuch, 
that we have power to take it up, or lay it by, ac- 
cording to the preference of the mind, there we are 
at liberty. Locke. 

4. Privilege; exemption; immunity. 

H'u majefty gave not an intire country to any, 
much lefs did he grant Jura regalia, or any extraor- 
dinary lik.nict, >UVM. 

5. Relaxation of reftraint : as, he fees him- 
felf at liberty to chufe his condition. 

Licenfe they mean when they try liberty. Milton. 

6. Leave ; permilfion. 

I (hall take the liberty to confider a third ground, 
which, with fome men, has the fame authority. 

Loctt. 

LIBI'DINOUS. ac/J, \libidinojui, Latin.] 
Lewd ; lullful. 

None revolt from the faith ; becaufe they muft 
not look upon a woman to luft after her, but bc- 
caufe they are much more reftrained from the per- 
petration of their lulls. If wanton glances and 
iitidinous thoughts haJ been permitted by the gof. 
fel, they would have apoftatized nevcrthclefs. 

Bcntiy. 

LIBI'DINOUSIY. adv. [from libidinoui ,~\ 

Lewdly ; lullfully. 
LI'BRAL.O^. \libralis, Lat.] Of apound 

weight. " Dili. 

LIBRA'RIAN. n. /. \lilrarius, Latin.] 

1. One who has the care of a library. 

2. One who transcribes or copies books. 

Charybdis thrice fwallows, and thrice refunds the 
waves : this muft be underftood of regular tides. 
There arc indeed but two tides in a day, but rhis is 
the error of the librarians. Brotmt. 

LI'BRARY. n.f. \librarie t French.] A 
large collection of books, publick or 
private. 

Then as they 'gan his library to view, 
And antique remitters for to avife, 
There chanced to the prince's hand to rife 
An antient book, higtit Briton's monuments. 

Fairy S^ue 

I have given you the library of a painter, and a 
catalogue of fuch books as he cught to read. 

Drydtni Dufrefncy 

STe LI'BRATE. v. a, [libra, Latin.] To 
poifc ; to balance ; to hold in equipoife. 

Lir.R A'TION. n.f. \_libratio, Latin; libra- 
tion, French.] 

1. The flate of being balanced. 

This is what may be faid of the balance, and the 
litrati.n of the body. Dryden's Dufrefncy, 

Their pinions ftill 

In loofe Miration ftreteh'd, to truft the void 
Trembling refufe. Tti-mfjn'i Spring. 

2. [Jn altronomy.] 

Libraiifjn is the balancing motion or trepida- 
tion in the firmament, whereby the declination of 
the fun, and the latitude of the ftars, change from 
time tj time- Aftraiomefs likewife al'cribe to the 
moon a libratcry motion, or motion of trepidation, 
which they pretend is from eall to weft, and from 
north to fauth, becaufe that a; full mjon they 
foncuwcs (iifcovcr pajts uf her diii, which are out 



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difcowreJ tt other times. Thcfe kinds trC oil- 
ed, the one a /i/iratio* in longitude, and trie other 
* libra':. n in latitude. Eeliies this, there is a 
third kind, which they call an apparent liiiraiin, 
anil which confifts in this, i! n; when the moon 
is it her greateft elongation from the fouth, her 
axis being then almoft perpendicular to the plane 
of the ctliptick, the fun mud cnli^iten towards 
the north pole of the moon feme parts which he 
did not before, and that, on the contrary, forr.e 
parts of thofe which he enlightened towards the 
opposite pole are cbfcured ; anJ this produces the 
fame effect which the litratitn in latitude dues. 

Dift. Trn: 

Thofe planets which move upon their axis, do 

not all make intire revolutions ; for the moon 

maketh only a kind of litratitn, or a reciprocated 

motion on her own axis. Grew. 

LI'BRATORY. adj. [from libra, Latin.] 

Balancing ; playing like a balance. 
LICE, the plural of louft. 

Red blifters riling on their paps appear, 
And fiaming carbuncles, and noifome fweat, 
And clammy dews, that loarhfome lite beget ; 
Till the flow^reeping evil eats his way. Dryd. Vir. 
LI'CEBANE. n. /. [lice and bane.] A 

plant. 

LI'CENSE. n.f. [licentia, Latin ; licence, 
French.] 

1. Exorbitant liberty ; contempt of legal 
and neceflary reftraint. 

Some of the wifer, feeing that a popular licence is 
indeed the many-headed tyranny, prevailed with the 
reft to make Mufidorus their chief. . Sidney. 

Taunt my faults 

With fuch full licence, as both truth and malice 
Hare power to utter. Sbaktjf. Ant. and Cleopatra 

They baul for freedom in their fenfelefs moods, 
And ftill revolt when truth would fet them free; 
Licence they mean, when they cry liberty. Mitten 

The privilege that ancient poets claim, 
Now turn'd to licenfe by too juft a name. Rofccm 

Though this be a ftatc of liberty, yet it is not a 
ilate of licence ; though man, in that ftate, have an 
uncontroulablc liberty to difpofe of his perfon or 
pofleflions, yet he has not liberty to dcftroy him- 
fcX Locke. 

2. A grant of permiflion. 

They fent fome to bring them a licence from the 
fenate. Judith, xi. 14. 

Thofe few abftract names that the fchools forged, 
and put into the mouths of their fcholars, could 
never yet get admittance into common ufe, or ob- 
tain the ficence of publick approbation. Luke. 

We procured a Titian of the duke of Parma to 
enter the theatre and gallery. sUJifcn fa Italy 

3. Liberty ; permiflion. 

It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver 

any man to die, before that he which is accufcd 

have the accufers face to face, and have licence to 

anfwer for himfelf. Acls, 

To LI'CENSE. <y. a. [licencier, French.] 

1. To permit by a legal grant. 

Wit's Titans brav'd the flcies, 
And the prefs groan'd with liceni'd blafphemies. 

Pope. 

2, To difmifs ; to fend away. Not in 
ufe. 

He would play well, and willingly, at fome games 
of greateft attention, which (hewed, that when he 
lilted he could licenfe his thoughts. Walton. 

LI'CENSER. *. f. [from licenfe.] A 
granter of permiflion ; commonly a tool 
of power. 

LICE'NTIATE. *. /. [lieentiatur, low 
Latin.] 

i. A man who ufes licenfe. Not in ufe. 

The licentiates fomewhat licentioufly, left they 
ihould prejudice poetical liberty, will pardon them- 
felves for doubling or rejetling a letter, if the fc-nfe 

Camdcn. 



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S. A degree in Spanifh univerfmes. 

A nun might, after that time, tue for the degree 
of licentiate or mafter in this faculty*- Ayl'.fie. 

Ta LICE'NTIATE. <v. a. [licentier, Fr.j 
To permit ; to encourage by licenfe. 

We may not hazard either the (lifting of generotii 
inclinations, or the Hceniial'mg of any thing that u 
ciaile. L'Ejirangf, 

LICE'NTIOUS. adj. \Jictncitux, French; 
litentiofuj, Latin,] 

1. Unreftrained by law or morality. 

Later ages pride, like corn-fed freed, 
Ab'is'd her plenty, and fat fwoln c.icicjfc, 
To all ticenthus luft, and 'gan exceed 
The meafurc of her mean, and natural firft nt:J. 

Fairy $u<en. 

How would it touch thce to the quick, 
Should'ft thou but hear 1 were licentious? 
And that this body, cohfecrate to thee, 
With ruffian luft ihould be contaminate ? Slakefp, 

2. Prefumptuous ; unconrined. 

The Tyber, whofc iiccntioui waves 
So often overflow'd the neighbouring fields, 
Now runs a fmooth and incffenfie courfe. Kafcont, 
LICE'NTIOUSLY. ad-~j. [from licentious,] 
With too much liberty; without juft re- 
flraint. 

The licentiates, fomewhat fyemioujly, will pardon 

themfelves. Cam Jen's RcKjini. 

LICE'NTIOUSNESS. n./. [from licentious.] 

Boundlefs liberty; contempt of juft re- 

ftraint. 

One error is fo fruitful, as it begetteth a thoufani 
children, if the liitntioufnefs thereof be not timely 
retrained. Raltigb. 

This cuftom has been always looked upon, by 
the wife/I men, as an efiefl of lictntieufncfs, and not 
of liberty. Swift. 

During the greateft RctntMarfi of the prcfs, the 
character of the queen was intuited. Swift, 

LICH. n.f. [lice, Saxon.] A dead car- 
cafe ; whence licbvjake, the time or acl 
of watching by the dead ; lichgatt, the 
gate through which the dead are car- 
ried to the grave ; LichfelJ, the field 
of the dead, a city in Stafford (hire, 
fo named from martyred chriftians. 
Salve magna f areas. Lichwake is ftill 
retained in Scotland in the fame fenfe. 

LI'CHOWL. n.f. [licb and owl.] A fort 
of owl, by the vulgar fuppofed to fore- 
tel death. 

To LICK. v. a. [licean, Saxon; hckin, 
Dutch.] 

i. To pafs over with the tongue. 

/Efcuhpius went about with a dog and a fte- 
goat, both which he ufed much in his cures ; the 
firft for rating all ulcerated wounds, and the goat's 
milk for the difcafes of the ftomach and lungs. 

Taafle* 

A bear's a favage beaft ; 
Whelp'd without form, until the dam 
Has l:ck*d it into fhape and frame. Jiudibras, 

He w'th his tepid rays the rofe renews, 
And licit the drooping leaves, and dries the Jews. 



I have feen an antiquary tick an old coin, among 
other trials, to diftinguifli the age of it by its tafte. 



2. To lap ; to take in by the tongue. 

At once pluck out 
The muItituiTnous tongue ; let them not tick 
The fwcet which is their poifon. Stake/peart, 

3. To LICK up. To devour. 

Now flull this company lick up all that are round 
about us, as the ox Htkttb uf the graft. Numbers, 

When luxury has lick'rl up all thy pel;", 
Curs'd by thy neighbours, thy trultecs, thyfclf : 
Think how poftcrity will treat thy name. Pope, 

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LICK. . / [from the verb.] A blow j 
rough ufage. A low word. 

He turned upon me as round as a chafed boar, 
and gave me a lick acrofs the face. Dryden. 

LI'CKERISH. J adj. [hcceria, a glutton, 

LI'CKEROUS.J Saxon. This feems to be 

the proper way of fpelling the word, 

which has no affinity with liquor, but 

with like.'} 

1. Nice in the choice of food. 
Voluptuous men facrifice all fubftantial fatlsfac- 

tions to a liyu'.rijb palate. UEjirange. 

2. Eager ; greedy to fwallow ; eager not 
wi'.h hunger but guft. 

It is never tongue-tied, where fit commenda- 
tion, whereof womankind is fo licktrijb, is offered 
Unto it. Sidxiy. 

Strephon, fond boy, delighted, did not know 
That it was love that Ihin'd in (nining maid ; 

But Ikk'roui, poifon'd, fain to her would go. 

Siiir.cy. 

Certain rare manufcripts, fought in the moil re- 
mote parts by Erpenius, the molt excellent linguid, 
bad been left to his widow, and were upon (ale to 
the jeluiti, liquorijh chapmen of all fuch ware. 

Walton. 

In Tain he proffer'd. all his goods to fave 
His body, dedin'd to that living grave; 
The i.juartjb hag nrjects the pelf with (corn, 
And nothing but the man would ferve her turn. 

Dryden. 

In fome provinces they were fo liqu r .rijh after 
man's fiufli, that they would fuck the, blood as it 
run from the dying man. Lode. 

3. Nice ; delicate ; tempting the appetiie. 
This fenfe I doubt. 

Would'd thou feek again to trap me here 
With lukcrijh baits, fit to enfnare a brute ? Milton. 
LI'CKERISHNESS. ._/". [Irom lickerijb.~\ 

Nicenefs of palate. 

LI'CORICE. n. f. [yXvx^>a ; lijuoricia, 
Italian.] A root of fweet tafte. 

Liquorice root is long and (lender, externally of 
a Bulky reddiih brown, buc within of a fine yel- 
low, full of juice, and of a tade fweeter than 
lugar ; it grows wild in many parto of France, 
Italy, Spain, and Germany. The inlpiflated juice 
f this root is brought to us from Spain and Hol- 
land ; from the rird of which places it obtained 
the Dame of Spanilh juice. 

Hill'i Muteria Medico. 

LI'CTOR. ii.f. [Latin.} A beadle that 
attended the confuls to apprehend or 
punifh criminals. 

Saucy IRort 
Will catch at u; like drumpets. Sbektjpeare. 

I'roconfuls to their provinces 
Hading, or on return, in robes of ftate, 
i,:tl'-n and rods the enfigns of their power. Milton. 

Democritus could feed his fpleen, and (hake 
His fides and ihouldsrs till he telr 'em ake ; 
Though in his count, y-tnwn no lifi.rs werf, 
Nor rods, nor ax, nor tribune. Drydin's Juvenal. 
LID. . /. i^lib, Saxen ; lied, German.] 
1. A cover ; any thing that (huts down 
over a veflel ; any ftopple that covers 
the mfJ'H. hut not enters it. 

Hope, in;:,.i i >.' flying off with the reft, ftuck 
fo clofe to the l.d of the cup, that it was (hut 
ccwn upon her. dJJifoti. 

z. The memorane that, when we fleep or 
wink, is drawn over the eye. 

r for ever, with thy veiled lids, 
Seek for thy nohle father in the dull. Stalttffearc. 
Our eyes have lidi, our eats ftill ope we keep. 

Davits. 

That eye dropp'd frnfe J itinct and clear, 
As any rr.ufe's tongue could (peak j 

When from its lid a peu.i, tear 
Ri* trickling down her beauteous cheek. Prior. 



The rod of Hermej 
To fleep could mortal eye-/.Wj fix,. 
And drive departed fouls to Styx : 
That rod was juft a type of Sid's, 
Which o'er a Britiih lenate's lids 
Could fcatter opium full as welt,. 
And drive as many fouls to hell. Stuift. 

LIE. ./ [//V.French.] Any thing im- 
pregnated with fome other body j as, 
foap or fait. 

Chamber-/;? breeds fleas like a loach. Sbakeff*. 
All liquid things concocted by heat become yel 
low ; as lye, wort, & c. P enchant en Draining. 
LIE. a.f. jhje, Saxon.] 

1. A criminal falfehood. 

Thou lied, abhorred tyrant ; with my fwwd 
I'll prove the lie thou fpeak'ft. Sbatejfeere's Mad. 

A lye is properly an outward fignification of 
fomething contrary to, or at lead befide, the in- 
ward fenfe of the mind; fo that when one thing 
is fignified or exprefled, and the fame thing not 
meant or intended, that is properly a lye. South. 

Truth is the object of our underdanding, as good 
is of our will; and the underftanding caii no more 
be delighted with a /yc, than the will can chul'e an 
apparent evil. Dryden. 

When. I hear my neighbour fpeak that which is 
not true, and I fay to him, This is not true, or 
this is falfe, I only convey to him the naked idea 
of his error; this is the primary idea: but if 1 
fay it is a lie, the word lie carries alfo a fecondary 
idea ; for it implies both the falsehood of the 
fpeech, and my reproach and cenfure of the fpeaker. 

W.ittCs Ligick. 

2. A charge of falfehood : to gi-vt the lie, 
is a formuiary phrafe. 

That lie (hall lye fo heavy on my fword, 
That it fliall render vengeance and revenge ; 
Till thou the lie giver, and that lie, reft 
In earth as quiet as thy father's fkull. Hhakiffeare. 

It is a contradiction to fuppofe, that whole na 
tions of men rhould unanimoufly give the lie to 
what, by the mod invincible evidence, every one 
of them knew to be true. Locke. 

Men will give their own experience the lie, ra- 
ther than admit of any thing difagreeing with thcfe 
tenets. Locke. 

3. A fiction. This fenfe is ludicrous. 

The cock and fox, the fool and knave imply; 
The truth is moral, though the tale a lie. Drydtn. 
To LIE. ii. n. [leojan, Saxon ; liegen, 
Dutch.} 

1. To utter criminal falfehood. 

I know not where he lodges ; and for me to d- 
vife a lodging, and fay, He lies here, or he lies 
there, were to lie in mine own throat. Sbakejpcare. 

If a foul lye unto his neighbour in that which 
was delivered him to keep, he (hall reftore that 
which was delivered. Lev . 

Should I Ijt againft my right ? Jot, xxxiv. 6. 

2. To exliibit f'aife reprefentation. 

Inform us, will the emp'ror treat ? 
Or do the prints and papers lie f Sivift. 

To LIE. v. n. pret. / lay ; I have lain or 
lien, [hejan, Saxon ; liggen, Dutch.] 

1. To reft horizontally, or with very great 
inclination againft fomething elfe. 

2. To reft ; to prefs upon. 

Death lies on her like an untimely (how'r 
Upon the fweeteft flow'r of all the field. Sbatefp. 

Lie heavy on him, earth, for he 
Laid many a heavy load on thee. 

Epitaph on Vanbrugb. 

3. To be repofited in the grave. 

All the kings of the nations lie in glory, every 
one in his own houfe. Ija.x'iv. r',<. 

I will /; with my fathers, and thou (halt carry 
me out of tgypt, and bury me in your burying - 
place. Gen. xivii. 30. 

4. To be in a (late of decumbiture. 

How many good young princes would do fo ; their 
fathers lying lu lick as yuurs at this time U? 



My little daughter lietb at the point cf death ! 
I pray thee come and lay thy hands on her, that 
(he may be healed. Mark* 

5. To pals the time of fleep. 

The watchful traveller, 
That by the moon's miftaken light did rife, 
Lay down again, and clos'd his weary eyes. Dryd. 

Forlorn he mud, and perfecuted flie ; 
Climb the deep mountain, in the cavern lie. Prio.r 

6. To be laid up or repofited. 

I have feen where copperas is made, great vaiiety 
of them, divers of which I have yt lying by me. 

oy/e* ~ 

7. To remain fixed. 

The Spaniards have but one temptation to quar- 
rel with us, the recovering of Jamaica, for that has 
ever lien at their hearts. lenlfle. 

8. To refide. 

IT thou doeft well, (halt thou not be accepted ? 
and if thou doed not well, fin litb at the door. 

Cjcrr. iv. 7* 

9. To be placed or fitiiated, with refpeci 
to fomething elfe. 

Deferts, where there lay no way f^ifjcm, 

I fly 

To thofe happy climes that lie, 
Where day never (huts hi eye. Milton* 

There /;' our way, and that our paflage home. 

Dryden, 

Envy lies between beings equal in nature, though* 
unequal in circumdances. Cdl'icr of Envy. 

The bulincfs of tutor, rightly employed, lies 
out of the road. Locke on Education, 

What lies beyond our pofitive idea towards infi- 
nity, lies in obfcurity, and has the undcterminate 
confufion of a negative idea. Locke. 

10. To prefs upon afflidively. 

Thy wrath lietb hard upon me, and thriu haft 
afflicted me with all thy waves. PjaliKS, 

He that commits a fin (hall find 
The prefiing guilt lit heavy on his mind, 
Though bribes or favour (hall aflirt his caufe. Crceeb. 

Shew the power of religion, in abating that 
particular anguiih which feems to lie lo heavy orr 
Leonora. jMdifon. 

1 1 . To be troublefome or tedious. 

Si-.ppofe kings, befides the entertainment of 
luxury, (houlj have fpent their time, at leall wh*t 
lay upon their hands, in chemiftry, it cannot be 
denied but princes may pal's their time advantagc- 
oufly that way. Timfle. 

} would recommend the dudies of knowledge to 
the female world, that they may not be at a loft 
how to employ thofe hours that lie. upon thelt 
hands. Add'yoris Guardian, 

12. To be judicially imputed. 

If he mould intend his voyage towards my wife, 
I would turn her loofe to him ; and what he gey 
more of her than (harp words, let it lit on my 
head. Sbakcjfeare, 

13. To be in any particular (late. 

If money go before, all ways do lie open. Sbakr 

The highways lie wade, the wayfaring man 

ceafeth. Ifaiab. 

The feventh year thou (halt let it reft and lie 



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Do not think that the knowledge of any particu- 
lar fubjecS cannot be improved, merely becaufe it 
has lain without improvement. Watts, 

14. To be in a ftate of concealment. 
Many things in them lie concealed t us, which 1 

they who were concerned undetftood at fird fight. 

Locke. 

15. To be in prifon. 

Your imprifonment (hall not be long ; 
I will deliver you, or elfe lie for you. &bakeffeart. 

16. To be in a bad ftate. 

Why will you lie pining and pinching yourfelf in 
fuch a loncfome, darving coutfe of life ? 

L'Eftrange's Fables, 

The generality of mankind lie pecking at one 

another, till one by one they arc all torn to pieces. 

Lj'EJlrange'i t'atlcs. 

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Art the gorti to do your dnirfgerjr, tnt you Hi 
bellow .ng with your linger in your mouth 

L' .ftra*gc'i Fsiles 

17. To be in a hclplcfs or expoled lUtr. 
To fee a hated perfon fuperior, and to lit under 

the anguifli of a difadvantagf , is far enough fiom 
divcrlKin. CV/iVr. 

It is but a very fmtll comfort, that a plain man, 
lying under a (harp At of the Hone for a week, re- 
ceives from this fine fentence. Tillctbn. 

At a man (hould always be upon hii guard againft 
the vices to which he it molt cxpofed, fo we fhould 
take a more than ordinary care not to lit at the 
mercy of the weather in our moral conduct. 

Aden's Freeholder. 

The maintenance of the clergy is precarious, and 
collected from a mod miferable race of farmers, at 
whole mercy every mini lit r lici to be defrauded. 

Swift 

18. To confift. 

The image of it gives me content already ; and 
1 truft it will grow to a moil profperous perfection. 
It He: much in your holding up* Sbakclp<a> 

He that thinks that diversion may not He in hard 
labour, forgets the early rifing, and hard riding or' 
hunt linen. Locke. 

19. To be in the power ; to belong to. 

Do'ft thou endeavour, as much as in thee lies, 
to preferve the lives of all men ? 

Duppa's Ru jet for Devcticn. 

He (hews himfelf very malicious if he knows I 
deferve credit, and yet goes about to blaft it, as 
much as in him lies. Stillmgfca in Idolatry. 

Mars is the warrior's god ; in him it lici 
On whom he favours to confer the prize. Dryjen. 

zo. To be valid in a court of judicature : 
as, an action lieth againft one. 

21. To coll : as, it lies me in more mo- 
ney. 

22. To LIE*/. Toimportune; to tce. 

23. To LIE by. To reft; to remain ftill. 

Ev'ry thing that heard him play, 
Ev'n the billows of the fea, 

Hung their heads, and then lay by j 
In fwctt mufick is fuch art, 
Killing care, and grief of heart, 

Fall aflcep, or hearing die. Skahff. Hat. VIII. 

24. To LIE do*wn. To reft j to go into a 
Hate of repofe. 

The leopard (hall 1'tc down with the kid. 

Ijniab, xi. 6. 
The needy (hall I'.c down in fafety. JJa. xiv. 30. 

25. To LIE down. To fink into the 
grave. 

His b^ncs are full of the fin of his yonth, which 
ftull lit dwfn with him in the dutt. J't>> xx. 11. 

6. To LIE in. To be in childbed. 

As for all other good women that love to do but 

little work, how handfome it is to lie in and deep, 

or to loufe themfelves in the fun- mine, they that 

have been but a while in Ireland can well witncfs. 

Spenfcr en Ire'and. 

You con6ne yourfelf molt unrcafonably. Come;* 

you muft jo vifit the lady that lies ii. Sbaltcfp. Car. 

She had lain in, and her right bread had been 

apoftematcd. IPifeman't Surgery. 

The doctor hs practifed both by fea and land, 

smd therefore curei the green ficknels anJ /yiirp in. 

Spe.'lj.m-. 

When Florimel dcficn'J to fit privately in ; 

She chofe with fuch prudence her pangs to conceal, 

That her nurfe, nay her midwife, fcarce heard 

her once fqucai. Prior. 

Hyfterical ai'icttion* are contracted by accident? 

in lying in. Arbutbnot t,r, D:,t. 

;. To LIE under. To be fubjeft to; to 
be opprefled by. 

A generous perfon will lit under a great dif- 
dvantage. Smatndgt's Sermons. 

This mtltake never ought to be imputed to Dry- 
ien, but to thr.fc who fuffcrcU fo noble a genius to 
*r muter ncidfity. fofe. 



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Europ* lay then under a deep lethargy, a/id WJ 
no otherwife to be rcfcued but by one that wouK 
cry mightily. Af.trlury. 

28. To LIE pan. To become the matter 
of obligation or duty. 

Thefe are not places merely of favour, the charge 
of fouls lits ufcn them; the greateft account where- 
of will be required at their hands. Bacon. 

It flumld lit upon him to make out how mat- 
ter, by undirected motion, could at firft necefla- 
rily fall, without ever erriftg or mifcarrying, into 
fuch a curious formation of human bodies. 

Berkley's Sermons. 

29. Te LIE luiib. To converfe in bed. 

Pardun me, Baflanio, 
For by this ring (he lay ivith me. Sbalitfpeare. 

30. It may be obferved of this word in 
general, that it commonly implies fome- 
thing of fluggifhnefs, inaftion, or fleadi- 
nefs, applied to perfuns ; and fome gra- 
vity or permanency of condition, ap 
plied to things. 

LIEF. adj. [leop, Saxon; lief, Dutch.] 
Dear ; beloved. Obfolece. 

My licfffl lord (he thus beguiled had, 
For he was flefh; all flefli doth frailty breed. 

Fairy Q 

You, with the reft, 

Caufclcfs have laid difgraces on my head ; 
And with your bed endeavour have ftirr'd up 
My licfcjl liege to be mine enemy. Sbak. Hen. VI. 
LIEF. ad<v. Willingly: now ufed only 
in familiar fpeech. 

If I could fpeak fo wifely under an arreft, I 
would fend for certain of my creditors ; and yet 
to fay the truth, I had as lief have the foppery ot 
freedom, as the'morality of imprifonment. Sbak. 
LIECE.<#. [lige, Fr. ligio, Italian; //'- 
gins, low Lat.J 

1. Bound by fome feudal tenure; fub- 
jedl : whence liegeman for fubjeft. 

2. Sovereign. [This fignification feems 
to have accidentally rtfen from the for- 
mer, the lord of liege men, being by 
miiiake called liege lord.} 

Did not the whole realm acknowledge Henry 
VIII. for their king and Iitge\orAJ Sfenfcr. 

My lady liege, faid he, 
What all your (ex defire is fovereignty. DryJen. 

So much of it as is founded on the law of na- 
ture, may he (tiled natural religion ; that is to fay, 
a devotednefs unto God our liege lord, fo as to act 
in all things according to his will. Greta's Cofm, 

LIEGE, n. /. Sovereign; fuperior lord : 
fcarcely in ufe. 

O pardon me, my liege ! but for my teara 
I had foreftall'd this dear and deep rebuke. Sbaltf. 

The other part rcferv'd I by confent, 
For that my fovereign liege was in my debt. Siatef. 

The natives, dubious whom 
They muft obey, in confternation wait 
Till rigid conqueft will pronounce their ftfge. 

Pbi/ifs. 

LI'ECEMAN. n. f. [from liege and man.] 
A fubjeft : not in ufe. 

This licgtrmin 'gan to wax more bold, 
And when he felt the folly of his lord, 
In his own kind, he 'gan himfelf unfold. Fairy >. 
Sith then the anceftors of thofe that now live, 
yielded themfelves then fubjects and licgfmeti, (hall 
it not tyc their children to the fame fubjection ? 

Spetifir on Irdand. 
Stand, ho ! who is there ? 

Friends to this ground, and l.eg&ntn to the Dane. 

Sbaktfpidrc. 

LI'ECER. n. f. [more proper legier, or 
ledger.} A refident arnbaffador. 

His paflions and his fears 
L!e lagers for you in his krcafl, and there 
Negotiate your afiiij-s, Du;batns 



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Li'erT, the participle of lie, 

One of the people might lightly hive Urn with 
thy wife. Crn.xxvi. 10. 

LIENTE'RICK. adj. [from Jientery.] Per- 
uining to a licntery. 

There are many medicinal preparations of iron, 
but none equal to the tincture made without acids ; 
especially in obftructions, and to ftrengthen the 
tone of the parts ; as in funrcriek and other like 
cafes. Grevi'i Mufatim. 

LI'ENTERY. . f. [from ?,!ic>, lave, 
fmooth, and ?/iifor, intejlinum, gut; lien- 
terie, Fr.] A particular loolenefs, or 
diarrhoea, wherein the fcod paffes fa 
fuddenly through the ftomach and guts, 
as to be thrown out by ftool with little 
or no alteration. Quincy. 

LI'ER. ./. [from to lie.] One that rells 
or lies down, or remains concealed. 

There were Hers in ambulh againft him behind 
the city. jfoj. viii. 14. 

LIEU. n,/. [French.] Place; room: it 
is only ufed with in : in lieu, inftead. 

God, of his great litsrality, had determined, in 
lieu of man's endeavours, to beftow the fame by 
the rule of that juttice which beft befeemeth him. 

Htiktr. 

In lieu of fuch an incrcafe cf dominion, it is our 
buiinefs to extend our trade. Addifa** Freeholder. 
LIEVE. adv. [See LIEF.] Willingly. 

Speak the fpeech, I pray you, as I pronounced 

it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you 

mouth it, as many of our players do, I had KReve 

the town-crier had fpoke my lines. Uttliefpeare, 

Action is death to fome forr of people, and they 

would as Unit hang as wark. L'EJIrange. 

LIEUTE'NANCY. n. f. \lieutenance, Fr. 

from lieutenant.} 

1. The office of a lieutenant. 

If fuch tricks as thefe ftrip you out of youf 
lieuttramy, it had been better you had not kilTeJ 
your three fingers fo oft. Sbakefpcarc. 

2. The body of lieutenants. 

The lift of undifputcd mailers, is hardly fo lonj 
as the lilt of the lieutenancy of our metropolis. 

Ftitj on the ClaJicHs. 

LIEUTE'NANT. a. / [lieutenant, 
French.] 

1. A deputy ; one who afts by vicarioui 
authority. 

Whither away fofaft? 
No farther than the tower. 
We 11 enter all together, 
And in good time here the /ianenatit cnmes. 

Sbakefptarf. 

I mud put you in mind of the lords lieurer.anti, 
and deputy lieutenants, of the counties : their pro- 
per ufe is for ordering the military a/Fairs, in order 
to oppofe an invauon from abroad, or a rebellion or 
fedition at home. Baccn. 

Killing, as it is confidered in itfrlf without all 
undue circumstances, was never prohibited to the 
lawful magillrate, who is the vicegerent or lieute- 
nant of God, from whom he derives his power of 
lite and death. Bramtall ageiitji Hokkes, 

ent by our new lieutenant, who in Rome, 
And fmcc from me, has heard of your renown, 
I come to offer peace. Pii.':fs's Srifoi* 

2. in war, one who holds the next rank 
to a fuperior of any denomination ; as, 
a general has his lieutenant generals, a 
colonel his litntenant colonel, and a cap- 
tain fimply his lieutenant. 

It "x-ic meet that fuch ciptnins only were em- 
ployed as have formerly fcrvcd in thur country, and 
been at Icaft /r-K.'in.jr.-j there. Sptrfcr <,-. 1* .. 

According to military cultom the place w.u 
good, and the /ii-utciuxi of the colonel's company 
might well pretend to the next vacant capt.vnlhip. 

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Tne Mfrt of Eflex was made nttttenint genera! of 
(tie trmy ; the moft popular man of the king- 
dom, and the darling of the fwordmen. Clarssd^n. 

His lieutenant, engaging againft his pofitive or- 
ders, being beaten, by Lyfander, AlcibiaJes was 
gain baniihed. S-ivifi. 

Canft thou fo many gallant foldiers fee, 
And capuins and iitmavnts (light for me ? Gay, 

LIEUTE'NANTSHIP. . ft [from lieute- 
nant.] The rank or office of lieutenant. 

LIFE. n.f. plural lives, [lipian, to live, 
Saxon, j 

1. Union and co-operation of foul with 
body; vitality; animation, oppofed to 
an inanimate ft att. 

On thy life no more. 
-My Ufe 1 never held but as a pawn 
To wage againft thy foes. Khak'Jp. King Lear. 

She (hews a body rather than a life, 
Ailatue than a breather. Siaktff. Ant. ami Clccfit. 

Let the waters bring forth abundantly the mov- 
ing creature that hath life. G:ti. i. o. 

The identity of the fame man conjifts in nothing 
but a participation of th tame continued life, by 
conftantly Heeling particles of matter, in fuccemon 
vitally united to the fame organized body. Lode. 

2. Prelent ftate; as dillincl from other 
parts of human exigence. 

O life, thou nothing's younger brother ! 
So like, that we may take the one for t'other ! 

Dream of a (hadow ! a reflection made 
From the falfe glories of thc gay reflected bow, 

Is more a Iblid thing t!iun thou ! 
Thou weak built ifthmus, that doft proudly rife 
Up betwixt two eternities ; 

Vet canlr not wave njr wind fud.iin, 
But, broken and c'erwhelm'd, the ocean meets 
again. Cnulej. 

When I confider lift, 'tis all a cheat, 
Yet fool'd by hope men favour the dccfit, 
Live on, and think to-morrow will repay ; 
To-morrow's f.i!fcr than thc former day j 
Lies more ; and when it fays we (hail be bled 
With fume new joy, takes oft' what we polTefc. 
Strange cozenage ! none would live pad years again, 
Yet all hope pleat'ure in wh.it yet remain ; 
And from thc dregs of life think to receive 
What the rirft fprightly running could not give : 
I'm tir'd of wailing for this chemick gold, 
Which fools us young, and beggars us when old. 

Dryden. 

Howe'er 'tis well that while mankind 
Through life't perrcrfe mcj.id=is ens, . 

He can inugin d pleafurc> finJ, 
To combat againft real cares. Prior. 

So peaceful (halt thou end thy bliftful days, 
And (teal thyllir from lift by How decays. Pope. 

3. Enjoyment, or pofleifion of exiftence, 
as oppofed to death. 

Then aiatice 'gan through his veins to infpire 
His greedy (iamc*, and kindle Fife devouring lire. 

Fairy i^uctn. 

Their complot is to have my life : 
And, it'niy d-3th might make this illand happy, 
And prove the period of their tyranny, 
1 would expend it with all wJIlingnefs. Skakcfpcare. 

Not love thy life, nor !me ; but what thou liv'ft 
fcive well, how long or (hort permit to Heav'n. 

He entreated me not to take his lift, but exaft a 
fu-n of money. Er?:me en ihr O^iJJ'j. 

4. Blood, the fuppofed vehicle of life. 

His gufhing entrails fmoak'd upon thc ground, 
And the waim lif: came ifluing through the wound. 

P,fc. 

5. Condufl ; manner of living with re- 
fpec\ to virtue or vice. 

His faith perhaps in fome nice tenet; might 
Bt wrong ; his life I'm furc was in the right. 

Cm-ley. 

Henry and Edward, brightefr. fons of fame, 
Aod virtuous Aif.cd, a more facie j name ; 



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After a lift of glorious toils endur'd, 
Clos' their long glories with a fig'a- 
I'll teach njy family to lead good lives, 

Mrs. Parker. 

6. Condition ; manner of living with re- 
fpeft to happinefs and mifery, 

Such was the life the frugal Sabines led ; 
So Remus and his brother god were bred. Drydcn. 

7. Continuance of our prefent ilate : as, 
half his life was fpent in ftudy. 

Some have not any clear ideas all their lives. Lstlc. 

Untam'J and fierce the tyger ftill remains, 
And tires his life with biting on his chains. Prior. 

The administration of this bank is for life, 
and partly in the hands of the chief ci 

ji!Jiftn cm Italy. 

8. The living form : oppofed to copies. 
That is the belt pirt of beatify which a picture 

cannot cxprefs, no, nor the firft fi;;ht or' th 

' Baccit's Effiys. 

Let him vifit eminent perfons of great name 

' abroad, that he may tell how the lift agrcctli with 

the fame. Saact:. 

He that would be a mafter, muft draw by the 

/;/' as wcil as copy from originate, and join theory 

and experience t^ethsr. Cottiej-. 

9. Kxacil refemblance : with to before it. 

1 believe no character of any perfon was ever 
better drawn to the life tluu this. Dwlutx. 

Rich carvings, portraiture, and imaij'ry, 
Where cv'ry figure to the ifc exprefs'd 
The godhead's pow'r. Dryden'i Kr.igbt's talc. 

He law in order painted on the will 
The wars that fame around the world had blown, 
All t/> the lift, and evtry teajer known. D^-tUr.. 

10. General ftate of man. 

Studious they appear 
Of arts that polifli life ; inventors rare ! 
Unmindful of their Maker. Milltn. 

All that cheers or fofccn's !ifi, 
The tender fifter, daughter, friend, and wife. Pipe. 
1 1 . Common occurrences ; human affairs j 
the couife of things. 

This I know, not only by reading of books in 
my ftudy, but alfo by experience of life abroad in 
the world. Ajibam, 

Not to know at Urge of things remote 
From ufe, obfcure and fubtile j but to know 
That which before, as lica in daily life, 
Is the prime wifdom. Milttm't Ptradife Irffl. 

12. Living perlon. 

Why fhould I play the Roman fool, and die 
On my own fword ? whilit 1 fee A-we'i the gaibe.s 
Do better upon them. Stat'ffcart'i Aiictelb. 

13. Narrative of a life pad. 

Plutarch, that writes his life, 
Tells us, that Catodcjriy lov'd his wife. Pvpt. 

14. Spirit; brifknefs '; vivacity; rcfolu 
tion. 

The Helots bent thitherward with a new Kf t 
of rcfcKition, a^ if their captain had been a root 
out of which their courage had fpning. Sidney. 

They have no notion of fife and Ike in fancy 
and in words j and any thing that is jult ill gram- 
mar and in meafure, is as gold oratory anc 
to them as the bed. 

Not with half the fire and tiff, 
With which he kifs'd Amphytrion's wife. /';... 

15. Animal; animated exiltence ; animal 
being. 

Full nature fwarms with life. Tbimftn. 

16. Syltein of animal nature. 

Lives through all lift. Pt.^f. 

17. Lift is alfo ufcd of vegetables, and 
whatever grows and decays. 

LI'FEBLOOD. n. f. [life and blood."} THe 
blood neceflary to life ; the vital blogd. 

This fickncfs doih infect 

Thr vry /.'/i- -Ltd of our rnterprize. Skattfpeert, 

How could'ft taou druiu the ///ViiW of th c 

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His forehead (truck the ground, 
LifeiioeJ and lire rufli'd mingled through thewound. 

Dryden. 

They loved with that calm and noble value whicii 
dwells in the heart, with a warmth like that of 
[ifciisstl. SfetiaMr. 

Money, the /ifdlcctl of the nation, 
Corrupts and fta^n'ates in the veins, 

Unlefs a proper circulation 
Its motion and its heat maintains. Swift* 

LIFEEVER.LA'!>TINC. An herb. 
LI'FEGIVING. adj. ['ife and 
Having the power to give life. 

His own heat, 
.fcind'ed at firrt from heav'n's lif giving fire. 

Sfenfer* 

He fat deviling death 

To them who liv'd ; nor on the virtue thought 
Of that hfegro'mg plant. Milton" i Parjdije L<f. 
LIFEGUA'RD. n. f. {life and guard. \ 

The guard of a King's perfon. 
LI'FELESS. adj. [from life.] 
t. Dead; deprived of life. 

I who make th triumph of to-day, 
May of t >-morrow's pomp one part appear, 
Ghaltiy with wounds, and liffltfs on the bier. Pritr, 

2. Uflanimated ; void of. life. 

Was I to have n:vcr parted from thy fide ; 
As good have grown there ftill a lifelefs rib ! Milttn* 

Thus began 
Outrage from ifeJefs things. Milton. 

The po'.verwhich produces their motions, fpringi 
from fometiiing without tbemfelves : if this power, 
were fufpeaded, they would become a lifelefs un- 
aftive heap of matter. Cb.yne. 

And empty words ihe gave, and founding (train, 
But fenfelels, lifdifi I idol void and vain. Ptyt* 

3. Wanting power, force, or fpirit. 

Hojjelefs nd helplefs doth yEgeon wend, 
But to procraftiaatc his li/'a'fi end. Sbakefpcare* 

Unknowing to command, proud to obey, 
A lifelejs king, a royal flude I lay. fr'ar* 

4. Wanting or deprived of phyfical en- 
ergy. 

The other v:c"lor-flame a moment (rood, 
Then fell, and lifelefs left th' extinguilVd wooi. 

Dryttett* 

LI'FELESLY. aJv. [from lifelefs.} With- 
out vigour ; frigidly; jejunely. 

LI'PBLIKB. adj. [life and liie.] Like a 
living perfon. 

Minerva, lifelike, on embodied air 
Imprefs'd thc form of Ipthcrr.a the fair. Pope, 
LI'FESTRING. n. J'. [life and Jfring.\ 
Nerve ; firings imagined to convey hie. 

Tlicf? lines are thc veins, the arteries, 
The undccaying lif'Jlriitgi of thole hearts 
That ftill (hall pant, and Kill (hall exercife 
The motion fpirit and nature both impart. Daniel. 
LI'FETIME. n.f. [life and time.] Con- 
tinuance or duration of life. 

Jmdain talked profe all his life-time, without 
knowing what it was. Addifon m Mciiali. 

Li F EWE' A RY. adj. [life and iveary.] 
Wtetched; tired of Jiving. 
Let me have 

A dram of poifoti, fnch foon fpeeding geer, 
As will difjcrfr it(i:!f through all the veins, 
That the lifnuiary taker may fall dead. Sbaktffearf, 
T'oLivr. i>. a. \lyffta, Swedifh ; loffter, 
Danilh. J lifted, or lift ; I have lifted, 
or lift.'] 

i. To raifs from the ground ; to heave 5 
to elevate; to hold on high. 

Filial ingratitude 1 

Is it not as this mouch ihould tear tiiis hand 
For lifting fond to't ? Sbakeff-eare'i King Ltsff, 

Your guelts are coming ; 
I. if: up ycmr countenance, as 'twere the day 
Of cekbiution of (tot nuptial. Si k, Wintir's Ta!,. 

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Propp'd by the fpring, it lifti aloft the head, 
But of a fickly beau.y loon to (Tied, 
In fummer living, and in winter dead. DrjJen. 
2. To bear ; to fupport. Not in ufe. 

So down hr fell, that th' earth him underneath 
Did groan, as feeble lo great load to i.ft. Fairy { 
]. To rob ; to plunder. Whence tUc 
term Jhoplifier. 

So weary beea in little cells repofe, 
But if night robbers lift the weli-ftor'd hive, 
An humming through their waxen city gr.iws. 

Drydtn. 

4. To exalt ; to elevate mentally. 

My heart was lift up in the ways of the LorJ, 

1 Cbren. 

Of Orpheus now no more let poets fell, 
To bright Cecilia greater pow'r is given, 

His numbers rtis'd a flude from hell, 
Hers ,'ift the foul to hcav'n. Pcpc. 

5. To raife in fortune. 

The eye of the Lord lifted up his head from 
mifery. Eccluf. 

6. To raife in eftimation. 

Neither can it be thought, becaufe feme leffons 
are chofen out of the Apocrypha, that we do offer 
difgrace to the ward of God, or lift up the writings 
of men above it. Haulier. 

7. To exalt in dignity. 

See to what a godlike height 
The Roman virtues lift up mortal man ! Addifon. 

8. To elevate ; to 1'well, as with pride. 

Lifted up with pride. Tim. in. 6. 

Our fuccefies have been great, and our hearts 
hare been too much lifted up by them, fo that 
we have reafon to humble ourfelves. Atterbury. 

9. l.h is fometimes emphatically added to 
lift. 

He lift up his fpear againd eight hundred, whom 
he flew at one time. 2 Sam. xxiii. S. 

Arife, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine 
hand. Gene/is. 

o LIFT. v. a. To ftrive to raife by 
ftrengtb. 

Pinch catt'e of pafture while fummer doth lad, 
And lift at their tailes ere a winter be pad. Ttifltr. 
The m'.nd, by being engaged in a talk beyond 
its llrength, like the body drained by lifting at a 
\vfight too heavy, has often its force broken. 

Vicke. 
LIFT. n.f. [from the verb.] 

1. The manner of lifting. 

In the lift of the feet, when a man goeth up the 
hill, the weight of the body beareth molt upon the 
knees. Bacon. 

In races, it is not the large dride, or high lift, 
that makes the fpecd. Baton's E 

2. The adl of lifting;. 

The goat gives the fux a lift, and out he fprings. 

L'Eftrangt, 

3. Effort; ftruggle. Dead lift is an effort 
to raife what with the whole force can- 
not be mcved ; and figuratively any 
flate of impotence and inability. 

Myfelf and Trulla m.icie a fliift 
To help him out at a dc.id lift. Hudilras. 

Mr. Doctor had puzzled his brains 
In making a ballad, but was at a '.Un 1. 

And you freely mufl own, you were at a deaJ lift. 

4. Lift, in Scotland, denotes a load or 
furcharge cf any thing; as alfo, if one 
be difguifed much with liquor, they fay, 
He has git a great lift. 

5. [In Scottilh.] The (ley : for in a ftarry 
night they fay, Hc-w clear the lift is ! 

6. Liftt of a fail are. ropes to raife or 
lower them at pleafure. 

LI'PTER. . /. [from lift,] Ote that 
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Thou, Lord, art my glory, and the lifttr up 
of mine head. Pfal. iii. 3. 

To Lie. <v. n. [Irggcn, Dutch.] To lie. 

Thou kcnft the great care' 
I have of thy health and thy welfare, 
Which many wild beads ligfc* in wait, 
Fr to tntrap in thy tender ftjte. Sfcijcr'ifafturah. 

LI'GAMENT. n. /. \Jigamintum, from 
ligo, Litin ; ligament, French.] 

1. Ligament is a white and folid body, 
fofter than a cartilage, but harder than 
a membrane; they have no confpicu- 
ous cavities, neither have they any 
fenfe, left they /hould fuffer upon the 
motion of the joint : their chief ufe is 
to fillcn the bones, which are articu- 
lated together for motion, left they 
fliould be diflocated with exercile. 

Quincy. 

Be all their ligaments at once unbound, 
And their disjointed bones to powder ground. 

Sandys. 

The incus is one way joined to the malleus, the 
other end being a procefs is fixed with a ligament to 
the (tapes. Haider. 

2. [In popular or poetical language.] 
Any thing which connccls the parts of 
the body. 

Though our ligaments betimes grow weak, 
We muft not force them till themfelves they break. 

Dcnbaat. 

3. Bond ; chain ; entanglement. 

Men fometimes, upon the hour of departure, do 
fpeak and reafon above themfelves ; for then the 
foul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments ot 
the body, reafons like herfelf, and difcourfes in a 
{train above mortality. Addi/on's Sfeflator. 

LIGAMZ'NTAL. > adj. [from ligament.] 
LIGAME'NTOUS. J Compofing a liga- 
ment. 

The urachos, or ligamenla! pafHige, is derived 

from the bottom of the bladder, whereby it dif- 

chargeth the watery and urinary part of its aliment. 

Brown's Vulgar Errcurs. 

The clavicle is infcrte.1 into the firit bone of 
the demon, and bound in by a ftrong ligamsntous 
membrane. Wifeman. 

LIGA'TION. n.f. [ligatio, Latin.] 

1. The aci of binding. 

2. The (late of being bound. 

The dumber of the body feems to be but the 
waking of the foul : it'is the ligathn of fenfc, but 
the liberty of realun. Add-on. 

LI'GATURE. n.f. [ligature, French; //'- 
gatura, Latin.] 

1. Any thing tied round another; ban- 
dage. 

He deludeth us alfo by philters, ligatures, charms, 
and many fuperftitious ways ia the cure of dif- 
cafes. Brown. 

II" you flit the artery, and thruft into it a pipe, 
and cad a drait ligature upon that part of the ar- 
tery ; notwithltanding the blood hatli h-. 
through the pipe, yet will not the artery beat be 
low the ligature j but do but take off the 1 g.sture, 
it will beat immediately. Ray on tie ( 

The many ligatures of our Englilh drefs check 
the circulation or' the blood. Spifletor. 

I found my arms and legs very drongly fadened 
on t.ich fide to the ground ; 1 likewife felt feverai 
(lender ligat:.r:s acroli my body, from my arm-pits 
to my thighs. Gulli-to 's : lratjJ:. 

2. The act of binding. 

The fatal noofe 'performed its office, and with 

mod drift lii;et:m IqueczeJ the blood into his fare, 

Arbutb. J. B-J1, 

Any doppage of the eirculation will produce 
a urcpfy, as by ftrong ligature or cornpreflioij. 

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3. The (lte of being bound. Not very 
proper. 

Sand and gravel grounds eafily admit of heat 
and moifturc, for which they arc not much the 
better, becaufe they let it pan, too foun, and con- 
tract no lig-'un. td'.irimtr'i llujbu. ..'<]. 

LIGHT.'*./. [leo), Saxon.] 

1. That material medium of light; that 
body by which we fee ; luminous mat- 
ter. 

Light is propagated from luminoin bodies in time, 
aod Ipends about feven or eight minutes of ao 
hour in parting from the fun to the earth. 

Newton's Ofticti. 

2. State of the elements, in which things 
become vifible : oppofed to darknefs. 

God called the light day, and the darknefs he 
called night- ' Ccr.,Jit 

So alike thou driv'ft away 
L''glt and darknefs, night and day. C.irrw. 

3. Power of perceiving external objed* 
by the eye : oppofed to blindnefs. 

MY ftrenjjrUi faileth me ; as for the ligbt of mint 
eyes, it alfa is gone from me. Pfaltu* 

If it be true that light is in the foul, 
She all in every part, why was the fight 
To fuch a (lender ball as th' eye confin'd, 
So obvious and fo eafy to be quench'd, 
And not as feeling through all parts diffus'd, 
That (he might look at will through ev'ry pore * 

Milttx* 

4. Day. 

The murderer rifing with the fight killcth the 
poor. Jot, 

Ere the third dawning ligbt 
Return, the dars of morn mall fee him rife 
Out of his grave, freih as the dawning ligbt. 

Milun. 

5. Life. 

Infants that never faw Kgbt. Jab. 

Swift roll the years, and rife the expcQed morn, 

O fpring to light, aufpiciuus babe be born ! Pcfe, 

6. Artificial illumination. 

Seven lamps ihall give light* Kutr.li* 

7. Illumination of mind ; inflruftion ; 
knowledge. 

Of thofe things which are for direction of all 
the parts of our life needful, and not impoflib!e 
to be difcerned by the light of nature itfelf, are 
there not many wh'.ch few men's natural capacity 
hath b;en able to find out ? Hmk,r. 

Light may be taken from the experiment of the 
horfe-tooth ring, how that thofe things which 
afiuagc the ftrife of the fpirits, do help dife.tles- 
contrary to the intention defired. Bacon^s Nat* Hift* 

\ will place within them as a guide 
My umpire confcience, whom if they will hear, 
Light alter light well us'd they mall attain, 
And to the end perfifting fafe arrive. Miltcn. 

J opened Ariodo in Italian, and the very fell 
two lines gave me light to all I could dcfire. DiyJ. 

If internal light, or any proportion which we 
take for infpircd, be conformable to the principles 
of reafon, or to the word of God, which is atteiled 
revelation, reafun warrants it. 

The ordinary words of language, and our com- 
mon ufe of them, would have given us light intr. 
the nature of our ideas, if conlidered witli atten- 
tion. /.;.-'.. 

The books of Varro concerning navigation me 
loft, which no doubt would have given us gre.it 
light in thofe matters. Arbutbntt t ; 

8. The part of a picture which is drawn 
with bright colours, or in which the 
light is fuppofed to fall. 

Never admit two equal lights in the fame pic- 
ture ; but the greater l:?kt mult (hike forcibly on 
thofe places of the picture where the p 
figures are ; diminishing as it comes nearer the 
borders. i):y<An'5 Dufrrfnoy, 

9. Reach of knowledge ; mental view. 



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1,'igtr, and underfiandirg, and w'fJom, like tt 
v.'fdom of the gods, was faund in him. 

Dattiel, v. 1 1 

We faw as i: were thick clouds, which did pu 
us in fome hope of land, knowing how that par 
of the South Sea was utterly unknown, and migh 
hare iflands or continents that hitherto were no 
come to ligl'. B. icon's Natural Uijiory 

They have brought to l.gtt not a few profit- 
able experiments. Bacon's Natural liijlory 

10. Point of view ; fituation ; direction 
in which the light falls. 

Frequent confideration of a thing wears off the 
ftran enefs of it ; and (hews it in its feveral lights 
and various ways of ay-pearance, to the view of the 
mind. South' 

It is impofllble for a man of the greateft parts 
to confider any thing in its whole extent, and in al 
its variety nf lights. Sfeflatcr. 

An author who has net learned the art of 
ranging his thoughts, and fetting them in prope 
lights, wHl lofe himfelf in confufion. jiddifon. 

11. Publick view ; publick notice. 

Why am I afk'd what next ihall fee the light ? 
Heav'ns ! was I born for nothing but to write ? 

Pope. 

12. The publick. 

Grave epiftles bring vice to light, 
Such as a king might read, a bilhop write. Pope. 

13. Explanation. 

I have endeavoured, throughout this difcourfe, 
that every former part might give ftrength unto all 
that follow,, and every latter bring fome light unto 
11 before. Hooker. 

We fliould compare places of fcripture treating of 
the fame point ; thus one part of the facred txt 
could not fail to give light unto another. 

Luke's EJjay on St. Paul's Epijlles. 

14. Any thing that gives light; a pharos; 
a taper ; any luminous body. 

That light you fee is burning in my hall ; 
How far that little candle throws his beams ! 
So /nines a good deed in a naughty world. Shaktfp. 

Then he called for a light, and fprang in and 
fell down before Paul. Acts, xvi. 29. 

I have fet thee to be a light of the Gentiles, for 
(alvation unto the ends of the earth. AR\, xiii. 47. 

Let them be for figns, 

For feafons, and for days, and circling yean j 
And let them be for lights, as I ordain 
Their office in the firmament of heav'n, 
To give light on the earth. Mitten. 

I put as great difference between our new lights 
and ancient truths, as between the fun and a me. 
* Glanvilte. 

Several lights will not be feen, 
If there be nulling elfe between ; 
M-r. doubt, becaufe they ftand fo thick i' th' Iky, 
If thofe be Oars that paint the galaxy. Ctnulcy. 

I will make fome offers at their fafety, by 
fixing fome marks like lights upon a coalt, by 
which the fliips may avoid at leaft known rocks. 

Tiffle. 

He mulr (till mourn 

The fun, and moon, and ev'ry ftarry light, 
Eclips'd to" him, and loft in evcrlafting night. 

Prior. 

LIGHT, adj. [leojjr, Saxon.] 

1. Not tending to the center with great 
force ; not heavy. 

Hot and cold were in one body fixt, 
And foft with hard, and light with heavy mlxt. 

Dryden. 

_ Thefe weights did not exert their natural gra- 
vity till they were laid in the golden balance, in- 
fomuch tUt I could not guefs which was light er 
heavy wbilft I held them in my hand. Mdijon. 

2. Not burdenfome; eafy to be worn, or 
carried, or lifted ; not onerous. 

Jlorfc, oxen, plough, tumbrel, cart, wasran, 

and wain, 
The lighter and ftronger the greater thy gaine. 



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It will be t:ght, that you may bear it 
Under a sloke that is of any length. Sbakefpeare 

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy 
mull wear it every day ; but if he think it tO( 
light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made. 

Bacon's Ej/.'ys 

3. Not afRilHve ; eafy to be endured. 

Every light and common thing incident into any 
part of man's life. Hojker 

Light luft 'rings give us leifure to complain, 
We groan, but cannot fpeak, in greater pain. 

Dry den 

4. Eafjr to be performed ; not difficult. 

Well pleas'd were all his friends, the talk wa; 

light, 

The father) mother, daughter, they invite. Diyjcn, 
J. Eafy to be acted on by any power. 

Apples of a ripe flavour, frefh and fair, 
Mellow'd by winter from their cruder juice, 
Light of digcftion now, and fit for ufe. Drydtn 

6. Not heavily armed. 

Paulus Bachitius, with a company of light 
horfemen, lay clofe in ambuih, in a convenient 
place for that purpofe. Knollt 

7. Active ; nimble. 

He fo light was at legerdemain, 
That what he touch'd came not to light again. 

Speitj'cr. 
Afahel was as light of foot as a wild roe. 

2 Sam. ii. l 

There Stamford came, for his honour was lame 
Of the gout three months together; 

But it prov'd, when they fought, but a running 

gout, 
For his heels were lifbitr than ever. Dcnhai 

Youths, a blooming band ; 
Light bounding from the earth at oVice they rife, 
Their feet half viewlefs quiver in the Ikies. Pope. 

8. Unencumbered ; unembarrafled ; clear 
of impediments. 

Unmarrie^ men are beft mafters, but not beft 
fobjefts ; for they are light to run away. Bacon. 

9. Slight ; not great. 

A light error in the manner of making the fol- 
lowing trials was enough to render fome of them 
unfuccefsful. Boyle. 

10. Not denfe ; not grofs. 

In the wildernefs there is no bread, nor water, 
and our foal loatheth this light bread. 

Numbers, xxi. 5. 

Light fumes are merry, grofTer fumes arc fad, 
Both are the reafonable foul run mad. Dryden. 

11. Eafy to admit any influence; un- 
fteady ; unfettled ; loofe. 

Falfe of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand. 

Shakefpeare, 

Thefc light vain pcrfons ftill are drunk and mad 
With furfeitings, and pleafures of their youth. 

Dailies, 

They are light of belief, great lifteners after 
news. Unveil. 

There is no greater argument of a light and in- 
confiderate perfon, than profanely to fcof}' at reli- 
gion- Tilhtfon. 

12. Gay; airy; wanting dignity or foli- 
dity ; trifling. 

Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too 
light. Shakejpcare. 

Forgive 

If fictions light I mix with truth divine, 
And fill thefc lines with other praifc than thine. 

Fairfax. 

13. Notchafte; not regular in conduct. 

Let me not be light, 
For a light wife doth make a heavy hufband. 

Shakcfpeare. 

4. [From ligJjt, a./.] Bright; clear. 

As foon as the morning wa$ light, the men were 
fent away. Gen. xliv. 3. 

The horfes ran up and down with their tails 
and manes on a light fire. Kn:!les. 

5. Not dark ; tending to whitcnefs. 



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In painting, the light and a white colour are 
but one and the fame thing: no colour more re- 
fembles the air than white, and by confcquence 
no colour which is lighter. Dryden. 

Two cyKndrick bodies with annular fulci, found 
with (harks teeth, and other ihells, in a tight co- 
loured clay. ' 



LIGHT, tadv, [for lightly, by colloquial 
corruption.] Lightly ; cheaply. 

Shall we fet light by that cuftom of reading, from 
whence fo precious a benefit hath grown ? Hyjker. 

To LI'GHT. v. a. [from light, n. /.] 

1. To kindle; to inflame; to fet on 
fire; to make flame. 

Swinging coals about in the wire, thoroughly 
ligbiid them. Boyle. 

This truth (nines fo clear, that to go about to 
prove it, were to light a candle to feck the fun. 

Glativillt. 

The maids, who waited her commands, 
Ran in with lighted tapers in their hands. Dryden, 

Be witnefs, Rods, and ftrike Jocalta dead, 
If an immodeft thought, *or low deiire, 
Inflam'd my breaft fmce firft our loves were lighted 1 . 

Drydcn* 

Abfence might cure it, or a fecond miftrefs 
Light up another flame, and put out this. 

Adjijon's Catit 

2. To give light to ; to guide by light. 

A beam that falls 

Frem from the pure glance of thine eye, 
Lighting to eternity. Crajhato. 

Ah hoplefs, bftiiig flames ! like thofe that burn 
To light the dead, and warm th' unfruitful urn. 

Pope. 

3. To illuminate ; to fill with light. 

The fun was fet, and vefper, to fupply 
His abfent beams, had lighted up the Iky. Drydett, 

4. Up is emphatically joined to light. 

No fun was lighted up the world to view. 

Dryden's Ovid'. 

5. [From the adjeftive.] To lighten ; 
to eafe of a burthen. 

Land fome of our palTengers, 
And light this weary vefTel of her load. 

Fairy <$uren. 

To LIGHT, -v.n. [licit, chance, Dutch; 

preter. lighted or light, or lit.'] 
i. To happen to find; to fall upon by 
chance : it has on before the thing 
found. 

No more fettled in valour than difpofed to 
juftice, if either they had lighted on a better friend, 
or could have learned to make friendfhip a child, 
and not the father of virtue. Sidney, 

The prince, by chance, did on a lady light, 
That was right fair, and frefli as morning rofe. 

Spenfcr, 

Haply your eye mail light upon fome toy 
You have defire to purchafe. Shakefpcare. 

As in the tides of people once up, there want 
not ftirring winds to make them more rough ; ft, 
this people did light upon two ringleaders. Bacon. 

Of late years, the royal oak did light upon count 
Rhodophil. Howel!. 

The way of producing fuch a change on colours 
may be eafily enougli lighted on, by thofe converlant 
in the folutions of mercury. Boyle. 

He fought by arguments to footh h;r pain ; 
Nor thole avail'd : at length he lights on one, 
Before two moons their orb with light adorn, 
If Heav'n allow me life, I will return. Dryden. 

Truth, light upon this way, is of no more avail 
to us than error ; for what is fo taken up by us, 
may be falfe as well as true ; and he has not done 
his duty, who has thus (tumbled upon truth in 
his way to preferment. Lukr. 

Whofoever firft lit tin a parcel of that fubftance 
we call gold, could not rationally take the bulk 
and figure to depend on its real eflence. Locks. 

As wily Reynard walk'd the ftrccts at night, 
On trijejiau's mafe he chanc'd to light ; 

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it o'er, he mutter' d with difdatn, 
How va.r a head is here without brain ! 

A \wikcr man may fometiuws /iV< on notions 
which h.ivc etaped a wifer. Wi m tbt Mini. 

x. To fall in any particular direction : 
with en. 

The wounJed Heed curvets ; and rais'd upright, 
Light! er h'u feet before : his hoofi beliind 
Spring up in air aloft, and l.uh the wind. Drydtr,. 
j. To full ; to llrike on : with en. 

He at his fee with furious rigour fmites, 
Thit (Irongeft oak might fecm to overthrow ; 

The frr>kc nff. his fliield fo heavy light!, 
"J hat CO the ground it doubleth him full low. 

Sftafer. 

At an uncertain lot none can find themlclve; 
IIK-YCJ ;r whomluever it iigb'<:b. Hooker. 

They ihall hunger no mure; neither (hall the 
fun light in them, njr any heat. R.f. vii. 16. 

On me, me only, as the fourcc and fpring 
Of all corruption, all the blame lights due. 

Milton't Paradife Loft* 

A curfe Kgbtt upvn him prefcntly after : his 
great army is utterly ruined, he himfclf (lain in 
it, and his head and right hand cut oft, and hung 
up before Jerufalem. Swtb. 

4. [Alijjjtan, Sax.] To defcend from a 
horfe or carriage. 

When Naaman law him running after him, 
Jie lighted down from the chariot to meet him. 

2 Kings, V. 21. 
I favr 'em falute on horfebaclc, 
Seheld them when they lighted, how they clung 
In their embracement. Sbakejpeare. 

Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when (he faw 
Ifaac, (he lighted oft the camel. Gen. xxiv. 64. 

The god laid down his feeble rays, 
Then lighted from his glittering coach. Swift. 

5. To lettle ; to reft ; to Itocp from 
flight. 

I plac'd a quire of fuch enticing birds, 
That (hs will light to liftcn to their lays. Sbakefp. 

Then as a bee which among weeds doth fall, 
"Which feem fwcfet flow'rs, with luitre freih and gay, 
She lights on that, and this, and tafleth all, 
But pleas'd with none, doth rife, and foar away. 

Djvlei. 

Plant trees and (hrubs near home, for bees to 

pitch on at their fwarming, that they may not be 

in danger of being loll for want of a lighting place. 

M'jrtiaer'i Husbandry, 

fo LI'GHTBN. i*. n. [Jprc hgt, Saxon.] 

1. To flafh, with thunder. 

This dreadful night, 

That thunders, lighten!, opens graves, and roars 
As dath the lion. Shake/pearl, 

Although I joy in thee, 
I have no joy of this contract to-night ; 
Jt is tooralh, too imadvis'd, too fuddcn, 
Too like the light'ning, which doth ceafe to be 
Ire one can fay it lightens. Stak. Rt,ma and Juliet. 
The lightning that ligbtenctb out of the one 
fart under heaven, flicweth unto the other part. 

Luke, xvii. 14. 

2. To fhine like lightning. 

Ye; looks he like a kbg : behold his eye, 
A bright as is the eagle's, lighten! fojrth 

.rolling majefty. Sbaicfprare. 

j. To fall; to light. 

O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us, as we 
d put our truft in thee. German Prayer. 

Ve LI'GHTEN. v. a. [from light.] 
l. To illuminate ; to enlighten. 
Upon Ms bloody finger he doth wear 
A precious ring, that l.gkttm .11 the hole. 

Sbal 
O light, which mak'ft the light which makes 

the 

Which fctt'ft ihe eye without, and mind within : 

Lighten my fpirit with one clear heav'nly uy, 

Which now to view itfelf doth firft begin. Daviet. 

A key of fire r.m ail along the (hore, 
And ligtten'it ill the river with a b!aj<. ]~)rjdin. 
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Nature from the (form 

Shinei out afrclh ; and through the Itgbln'i air 
A higher luftre, and a clearer calm, 
Dif.ufivc tremble* '1 bemfcn's Summer. 

z. To exonerate ; to unload, [from light, 
] 

The mariners were afraid, and caft forth the 
wares that were in the ihip into the fca, to lighten 
it of them. Jtnjb, \. 7. 

3. To make left heavy. 

Long fmce with woe 
Nearer acquainted, now 1 feel by pfoof, 
That fellow/hip in pain divides not fmart, 
Nor lighten! aught each man's peculiar load. Miltc*. 

Strive 

In offices of love htw we may l.gktn 
Each other's burden. A',!:-.n. 

4. To exhilarate ; to cheer. 

A trufty villain, very oft, 
When I am dull with care and melancholy, 
Lighten! my humour with his merry jelt. Shalfyn 
The aujier.cc aie grown weary of continued 
melancholy fcenes ; and tew tragedies (hall fuccced 
in this age, if they are not lightened with a c mrfe 
ofrr.irth. Drydcn. 

L i'c H T E R . n./. [from light, to make lig bt."\ 
A heavy boat into which ihips are light- 
ened or unloaded. 

They have cock boats for patTengers, and l:giittrs 
for burthen. Carcw, 

He climb'd a (tranded lighter's height, 
Shot to the black abyfs, and plung'd downright. 

Pope. 

LI'CHTERMAN. n. f. \1ighter and man.] 
One who manages a lighter. 

Where much (hipping is employed, whatever 

becomes of the merchant, multitudes of people 

will be gainers ; as luipwrights, butchers, carmen, 

and lightermen. Child. 

LICHTFI'NGERED. adj. [light zndjfager. ] 

Nimble at conveyance ; thievifh. 
LI'GHTFOOT. adj. [ligit and foot.] Nim- 
ble in running or dancipg ; active. 

Him fo far had born his lightfout fteed, 
Pricked with wraih and fiery fierce difdain, 
That him to follow was but fruiticfs pain, fairy <^. 

And all the troop of ligb'fat Naiades 
Flock all about to fee her lovely face. Sftnftr, 

LIGHTFO'OT. n. f. Venifon. A cant 

word. > 

LIGHTHE'ADED. aJj. [light and head.] 

1. U n Heady ; loofe ; thoughtlefs ; weak. 

The Englifh Liturgy, how pioudy and wifely fo- 
ever tramed, had found great oppolition ; the cere- 
monies had wrought only upon lightheaded, weak 
men, yet learned men excepted againft fame parti- 
culars. CL-. 

2. Delirious ; difordered in the mind by 
difeafe. 

LIGHTHE'ADEDNESS. n,f. Delirioufnefs ; 

diforder of the mind. 
LIGHTHE'ARTED. adj. [light and heart.] 

Gay ; merry ; airy ; cheerful. 
LI'GHTHOUSE. n. f. [light and houfe.~\ 

An high building, at the top of which 

lights are hung to guide fhips at fea. 
He charged himfclf with the rifquc of fuch vefTels 

as carried com in winter j and built a pharos or 

tightl. . Arbutbmt. 

Built two poles to the meridian, with immenfe 

tigf,tbc:'f:s on the top of them. Ariutbxct a: 
LIGHTLE'CGED. aJj. [light and !tg. ] 

Nimble ; fwift. 
Ligbtkggetl I'as has got the middle fpace. 

Sidney. 
LI'CHTLESS. adj. [from light.] Warning 

l!;;ht; dark. 

LI'CHTLY. adi). [from I'ght.] 
i. Without weight. 



Thtl jrtve partakes the fleflily birth, 
Which covci itlt carUi. BtH ymjn, 

Z. Without deep impreiTion. 

The foft ideal of the cheerful note, 
Lightly recciv'd, were eifily forgot. Prior* 

3. Kafily ; readily; without difficulty ; of 
courfe. 

If they write or ffe.ik pub ickly but five words, 
one of them is l:gt-ly joiut the dangerous cftate 
of the churcli of England in refpect of abufeii 
ceremonies. Halter* 

Believe 't n^t l.-gtlly that your fon 
Will not exceed the common, or be caught 
With cautclaus baits and practice. Sbaktfpeare, 

Shortfummcr iigkily hoaforward fpring. Sliak* 
^, Without reafon, 

Flatter not the rich ; neither do thou willingly 
or ligbtfy appear before great perf 'nigfs. Tayhr, 

Let every man that hath a calling be diligent in 
purfuance of its employment, fo as not l.ghtly, or 
without realbnable oo.afioa, to neglcft it. Taylir, 

5. Without dejeclion ; cheerfully. 

Bid that welcome 

Which comes to punilh us, and we punitii it, 
Seeming to bear it ligb:ly. Sbakefpeart, 

6. Not chaitety. 

If I were ligb'.ly difpofed, I could (till perhaps 
have offers, that fome, who hold their heads higher, 
would be glad to accept. Swift, 

j. Nimbly ; with agility ; not heavily or 
tardily. 

Methought I ftood on a wide river's bank ; 
When on a fudden, Torifmond appear'd, 
Gave me his hand, and led me lightly o'er ; 
Leaping and bounding on the billows heads, 
Till fafely we had reach d the farther /hore. DryJ. 

8. Gaily; airily; with levity; without 

heed or care. 

LIGHT MI'NDED. adj. [light and mind.] 
Unfettled; unftear.y. 
He that is hafty to give credit is Hgb:minJ{J. 

Eccl. xix. 4. 

LI'GHTNESS. n.f. [from light.] 

1. Want of weight ; abfcnce of weight ; 
the contrary to bt&vimt/i, 

Some aie for marts of (hips, as fir and pine, 
becaule of their length, itraightnefs, and Iigbtnefi* 
Bacon * Natural L 

Suppofe many degrees of littlenefs and /^ 
in particles, fo as many might float in the air a 
good while before they fell. Evrm:. 

2. Jnconftancy ; unlleadinefs. 

For, unto knight there is no greater (name, 
Than ligbriffi and inconftancy in love. ; 

Of two things they mull chufe one; namely, 
whether they would, to their er.dlefs difgrace, * 
ridiculous tigbtnej:, difmifs him, whofe restitution 
they had in fo importunate manner delired, or ell's 
condcfcend unto that demand. H.tktr, 

As 1 blow this feather from my face, 
Obeying with my wind when 1 do blow, 
And yielding to another when it blows, 
Commanded alwaj s by the greatelt guft ; 
Such is the ligbtticji of you common men. Sbakffp* 
;. Unchaftity; want of conduit in women. 

Is it the difdain of my eftate, or the opir>i':n 
of my ligbtncji, thit emboldened fuch bafe fancies 
towards me ? Sidney, 

Can it be, 

That modefty may more betray our fenfe, 
Than woman's l.^btnefs 7 'ttart. 

4. Agility; nimblenefs. 
LI'CHTNINC. n.f. [from lighttn, lighttn- 

ing, ligbtn'ing.\ 
i. The Halh that attends thunder. 

Lightning is a great (lame, very bright, extend- 
ing cveiy way to a great diftance, luduenly darting 
upwards, and, there ending, fo that it is ooly mo. 
menuneous. Miifchtntrick, 

Scnfc thinks the /.yirn.'irf born lefure lllc thunder ; 
What tells us then Chcy b^ih tu^cilier are ? Davits. 



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Salmoneus, fuff'ring cruel ptins I found" 
For emulating Jove ; the rattling found 
Of mimick thunder, and the glitt'ring blaze 
Of pointed ligbtr.ings, and their forky rays. Diyd. 

No warning of the approach ol flame, 
Swiftly, like fudden death, it came j 
Lik;; travellers by lightning kill'd, 
I burnt the moment I beheld. Gran-vi'lt. 

z. Mitigation; abatemet*. [from to light- 
en, to make lefs heavy.] 

How oft when men are at the point of death, 
Have tiie/ been merry ? which their keepers call 
A lightning before death. Sbak. Rcmco and.juliet. 

We were once in hopes of his recovery, upon a 
kind meuage from the wiJow ; but this only proved 
a lightning before death. Aldif-n's SfeH.iKr. 

LIGHTS, n.f. [fuppofed to be called fo 
from their lightnefs in proportion to 
their bulk.] The lungs; the organs of 
breathing ; we fay, lights of other ani- 
mals, and lungs of men. 

The complaint was chiefly from the lights, a part 
as of no quick fenfe, fo no feat for any fiiarp difeafe. 

tljyiu:ird. 
LI'GHTSOME. adj. [from ligfit ] 

1. Luminous; not dark; not obfcure; 
Dot opnke. 

Neither the fun, nor any thing fenfible is that 
light itliif, which is the caufe that things are ligbt- 
J:me, though it make itfclf, and all things elfe, 
Vifible ; but a body mod enlightened, by whom the 
neighbouring region, which the Greeks call aether, 
the place of the fuppofed element of fire, is a/fec>- 
ed and qualified. Raleigh. 

White walls make rooms more ligbtf^me than 
black. Baton. 

Equal pofture, and quick fpirits, are required to 
make colours /igbtfome. Bann'i Natural H':Jh:y. 

The fun 

His courfc exalted through the Ram had run," 
Through Taurus, and the ligbifimc realms of love. 

Drydfn. 

2. Gay; airy ; having the power to ex- 
hilarate. 

It fuiteth fo fitly with that liglrfome affection of 
joy, wherein God delightcth when his faints prr.ife 
him. Hwker, 

The Hgblfrme paflion of joy was not that which 

now often ulurps the name; that trivial, vanirhing, 

fuperficial thing, that only gilds the apprchenfion, 

and play> upon the furface of the foul. Swtb. 

LI'CHTSOMENESS. n.f. [from lig btfotr.e. ] 

1. Luminoufnefs ; not opacity ; not ob- 
fcurity ; not darkfomenefs. 

It is to our atmofphere that the variety of co- 
lours, which are painted on the fkies, the ligbt- 
f'jmcvefs of onr air, and the twilight, are owing. 
Chiynii Pbil-.Jifbical Priniiflei. 

2. Cheerfulnefs; merriment; levity. 
LICNA'LOES. n.f. [lignum ahet, Latin.] 

Aloes wood. 

The vj'.lies fpre.id forth as gardens by the river's 
fide, as the trees of ligiahcs which the Lord hath 
planted, and as cedar trees bcfide the water. 
, Numb. XX'IT. 6. 

LI'CNEOUS. odj.. [ligneut, Latin ; ligneux, 
French.] Made ot wood; wooden; re- 
fembiing wood. 

It fli ! with (hoots of vines, and roots 

of red rofes ; for it may be they, being of a more 

ligneivt nature,'wiil incorporate with the tree itfelf. 

Bacon i Natural Hijlory, 

Ten thoufand feeds of the pfant harts-tongue 
hardly make the bulk of a pepper-corn : now the 
s, and the true body of each feed, the paren- 
chymous zn^llgr-:.u> part of both, and the fibres o: 
thofe parts, multiplied one by another, afford a hun- 
dred thoufand million': ;f t'nrmed atoms, but how 
many more we cannot define. Grew 

LlGNUMl'l'T^. n.f. [Latin.] Guia 
cum ; a very hard wood. 
Tot. II. 



L IK 

. n.f. A precious (tone. 
The third row a figure, an agate, and an ame- 
thyil. Exdus. 

.IKE. adj. [lie, Saxon ; Hit, Dutch.] 
. Refembling; having refemblance. 
Whom art thou like in thy greacnefs? 

Exckiel, xxxi. z. 

His fon, or one of his illuftrious name, 
How like the former, and almoft the fame ! 

Drydetfs JQneid. 

As the earth was dcfigneJ for the being of men, 
why might not all other planets be created for 
the like ufes, each for their own inhabitants ? 

Bet-.thy. 

This plan, as laid down by him, looks Kkcr an 
univerfal art than a dillincr. logick. B.-.kcr. 

. Equal ; of the fame quantity. 

More clergymen were impoverifhed by the late 
war, than ever in the IHt fpace before. Sfratt. 
. [for likely.} Probable; credible. 

The trials were made, and it is like that the ex- 
periment would have been ifteitual. Bacon. 
. Likely; in a ftate that gives probable 
expeditions. This is, I think, an im- 
proper, though frequent ufe. 

If the duke continues thefe favours towards 
you, you aie like to be much advanced. 

Sbakfyeare's T-weiftb Night. 

He is like to die for hunger, for'thera is no mare 

bread. Jeremiah, xxxviii. 9. 

The yearly value thereof is already increafed 

.double of that it was within thefc few years, and is 

like daily to rife higher till it amount to the price 

of our land in England. Da-vies. 

Hoptbn refolved t<> vifit Waller's quarters, that 

he might judge whether he were like to purfue his 

purpole. Clarendon. 

Many were not eafy to be governed, nor like to 

conform themfelves to ftrict rules. Clarcndor. 

If his rutes of reafon be not better fuited to 

the mind than his rules for health arc fitted to our 

bodies, he is not like to be much followed. 

Baker on Learning. 

..IKE. n.f. [This fubftantive is feldom 
more than the adjedHve ufed ellipti- 
cally ; the like for the like thing, or like 
pcrfonJ\ 

i. Some perfon or thing refembling an- 
other. 

He was a man, take him for all and all, 
rftull not look upon his like again. Kbakeffeare. 
Every lite is not the fame, O Caefar! Sbakeff. 
Though there have been greater fleets' for num- 
ber, yet for the bulk of the (hips ncverthc like. 

Baton's t^r tvi i 

Albeit an eagle did bear away a lamb in her ta- 
lons, yet a raven endeavouring to do the like was 
held entangled. Hayivord, 

One offers, and in offering makes a ftay ; 
Another 'forward fets, and doth no more ; 
A third the like. Daniel I C'mitWar. 

His dcfire 

By converfation with his like to help, 
Or folace his defects. A/J/;OH'J Paradife Loft. 

Two likes may be jnjftaken. L'EJirange. 

She'd itudy tu leform the men, 
Or add fome grains of folly more 
To women than they had before ; 
This might their mutual fancy ftrikc, 
Since ev'ry being loves its like. Swift. 

z. Ufed with bad ; near approach ; a ftate 
like to another (late. A fcnfe common, 
but not juft: perhaps bad is a corrup- 
tion for ivat. 

Report being carried fecrctly from one to another 
in my (hip, bad like to have been my utter over- 
throw. Raleigh 

LIKE. ad<v. 

i . In the fame manner ; in the fame man 
ner as : it is not always eafy to deter- 
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The joyous nymphs, and lightfoot fairies, 
Which thither, came to hear their mufick fweet, 
Now hearing them fo heavily lament, 
Like heavily lamenting from them went. Spenfer. 

Lite as a father pitietli his children, fo the Lord 
pitieth them that fear him. Pfjl. ciii. 13. 

Are we proud and paffionate, malicious and re- 
vengeful ? Is this to be /Mi-minded with Clirift, 
who was meek and lowly ? Tilhifon. 

What will be my confufion, when he fees me. 
Neglected, and forfaken like himfelf. Philips. 

They roar'd Vijte lions caught in toils, and rig'd: 
The man knew what they were, who heretofore 
Had feen the like lie murther'd on the more. 

Waller.. 

. In fuch a manner as befits. 

Be ftrong, and quit yourfelves life men. 

I Sam. iv. 9. 

. Likely; probably. A popular ufe not 
analogical. 

I like the work well ; ere it be demanded, 
Asiike enough it will, I'd have it copied. Sbahfp. 

"o LIKE. i/. a. [lican, Saxon ; tilkt*i 
Dutch.] 

. To chufe with fome degree of. prefer- 
ence. 

As nothing can be fo rcafonably fpokcn as to 
content all men, fo this fpeech was not of them all 
ititJ. 'Km/fa. 

He gave fuch an account as made it appear that 
he liked the defign. Clarcrdiin. 

Vfe/ikf our prelent circumftances well,,and dream, 
of no change. jAiterbvry. 

2. To approve ;.to view with approbation, 
not fondnefs. 

Though they did not like the evil he did, yet 
they liked him that did the evil. Sidney. 

He grew content to mark their fpeeches, then to 
marvel at fuch wit in fliepherds, after to like their 
company. Sidney. 

He proceeded from looking to lik'.ng, and from 
liking to loving. Sidney. - 

For feveral virtues 

I have lii'J feveral women ; never any > 
With fo full foul. Sbakeffeare's Tfraf.-ft. 

I look'd upon her with a foldiet's eye j 
That lik'Jy but had a rougher talk in hand 
Than to drive liking to the name of love. Sbakffp. 

Scarce any man pafies to a liking of fin in others, 
but by firfl practilini; it himfelf. Smth. 

Beads can like, but not diitinguirti too, 
Nor their own liking by reflection know. Drydcit. . 

3. To pleafe ; to be agreeable to. Now 
difufed. 

Well hoped he, ere long that hardy guelr, 
If ever covetous hand, or luftful eye, 
Or lips he laid on thing that lik'd him bell, 
Should be his prey. Sferf.-r'sFairj S^eep. 

Say, my fair brother now, if this device 
Do like you, or may you to like entice. Hubberd. 

This defire being recommended to her majeity, it 
liked her to include the fame within one entire leafe. 

Bacon* 

He (hall dwell where it liketb him belt. D--m. 

There let them learn, as lika them, to ilcfpile 
God and Meffiah. Milton's Paradifc L'Jl. 

To L: KE. I/. . 

1 . To be pleafed with : wifh of before the 
thing approved. Obfolete. 

Of any thing more than of God they could not 
by any means like, as long as whatfoever they knew 
befides God, they apprehended it not in itfelf with- 
out dependency upon God. Hmker, 

The young foldicrs did with fuch cheerfulnefs 
like of this refutation, that they thought two days 
a long delay. KnMa, 

2. To chufe ; to lift ; to be pleafed. 

The man likes not IP take his brother's wife. 

Deutcromny, 

He that has the prifon doors fet open is pcrfftt- 
ly at liberty, becauie he may either go or ftay, as he 
bcft lika. Lake. 

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LI'KEMHOOD. 
Li'tn.B. 

1. Appearance ; ihew. Obfolr.r. 

What of hU heart perc/ive yoa in hL face, 
By any ,ii .i ,./*' lie fhow'd to day ? 
Hut with no man here he is offended. 

2. kelembiaiKe ; likentfs. O:>!olete. 

The mayor And all hi. brethren in bell lore, 
Like tj the lenators uf antique Rome, 
Go fjith a.'d lttc.li the r t n._i>\'.'j; ..a.- far in. 
Ai by a low, bat lovin 
Were now the general if our gracious cm: 
Ai in good time he may, from he and coining, 
Mow many would the peaceful city quit 
To welcome him 1 Sixik-jt,cjrt'i HcrryV. 

Theie is Doliktlibted between puie light and Mac!: 
darknefs, or between rigriteoufnefs and reprobation. 

Raleigt. 

3. Probability; veriilmiiitude ; appearance 
of truth. 

Ai it noteth one fuch to hive been in that age, 
fo had there been more, it would by likelihood as wcli 
hate noted many. Hater. 

Many of likrlikhoJ informed me of this before, 
which hung fo tottering in the balance, that I 
could neither believe nor mifdoubt. 

Sbak.Jftfare'i slil i ivtl! ibat er.Ji Will. 

It never yet did hurt, 
To lay down IHdieooJ, and forms of hope. St-tclf- 

As there is no Hkclikud that tlie flice coukl 
be fo altered, fo there is no probability that tliele 
rivers were turned out of their comics. 

R.:l-\gk . lliftury tf tie War Id. 

Where things arc lealt to be [>ut to the venture, 
as the eternal interefts of the other world i 
be; there every, even the leaf}, probability, or /Tie 1 - 
Rbood of danger, fhould be provided a-ainft. .V u'h. 

There are predictions of our Saviour recorded 
by the evangelifts, which were not completed till 
after their deaths, and had no Lkelibead of being 
fo when they were pronounced by our blefTcd Sa- 
viour. Mllifm on tkc Cbrift:.;r. .' 

Thus, in all likiliiooii, would it be with a liber- 
tine, who mould have a vifit from the other world : 
the fiift horror it railed would go off, as new diver- 
fions came on. Alttrbnry. 

LI'K LY. adj. [from lite.] 

1. Such as may be liked ; fuch as may 
pleafc. Obfolete. 

Thefe young companions make themfelvcs be- 
lieve they love at the firft looking of a iiktlj beauty. 

SiJr:t\-. 

Sir John, they are your tiktiicft men; . would 
have you ferved with the bcft. Kbaktjf. }!<nry IV. 

2. Probable; fuch as may in r'eafon be 
thought or believed ; fuch as may be 
thought more reafonably than the con- 
trary : at, a likely ftory, that is, a cre- 
dible ftory. 

LI'KBI.Y. adv. Probably; as may rea- 
fonahlv be thought. 

While man was innocent, he was likely ignorant 
of nothing that imported him to know. 'G/aiifiJ.'t. 
fo LI'KSN. i/. a [from like.'] To repre- 
fent as having refcmblance ; to corn- 
parr. 

The prince broke your head for Kkfti'mg him to a 
finging man of WinJfor. Statrffeare' i ti, 
For who, though with the t >i]<;ue 
Of angels, caa relate ? or to what things 
Liken on earth cunl'picuuui, thai may lift 
. Human imagination to fuch height 
Of God-like power ? Mbttm' 

LI'KENESS. n.f. [from like.] 
1. Relirmbl itice ; limilitude. 
They ll du live , nvl mired are 
To multiply the iitnuft of their kind. Sfnf-r. 
A tranflatur it to make hitt author appear as 
cbumtng is he can, provided he maintains his 
bander, and make* him not unlike himfelf. 
Tianllauon it a kind of drawing after the life, 



where thet* it a double fort of litntft, good ene 

a:.d .1 . -M one. DryiUn, 

'i'lic-ie will be found a better lik. nji, andaworfe . 

and the better is constantly to be chulcn. Dryd,n. 

2. Form ; appearance. 

Never came trouble to my houfe in the Hi 
y ur ^rocc ; for trouble being gone, comfort fliouid 
reni ii. ;, 

It i; fafcr (.> ftind upon our guard a^ainil an 
enemy in the lUeitf/s of a friend, than to embrace 
any man for a friend in the /;..;./: of an 

ZSfBfBHffe. 

3. One who refembles another; a copy ; 
a counterpart. 

Poor Cupid, fobbing, fcarce could fpeak, 
Indeed, mamma, 1 did not know ye : 

Alas ! how eal'y my miftake ! 
I took you for your tiken<Jj Cloe. Prisr. 

LI'KEWISE. ad--j. \Jikt and wife ] In like 
manner; alfo ; moreover; 100. 

Jefu> faid unto them, I alfo will alk you one thing, 
which if ye tell me, 1 likewift will teil you by what 
authority I do thefe things. M..n. xxi. ;/,. 

So was it in the decay of the Roman empire, and 
ffiewife in the en\ . ,'ne, after Charles the 

Great, every bird taking a featner. Baccn. 

Spirit of vitriol poured to pure unmixed ferum, 
coagulates as if it had been buited. 
fair makes a perfeft coagulation of the le.um likc- 
-.:-ijl, but with fome different pha:r.omena. 

jffltuibn^ on Almcn\i. 

LI'KING. aJj^ [Perhaps becaufe plump- 
nefs is agreeable to the fight.] Plump ; 
in a ftate of plumpnefs 

I rear my lord the king, whi hath appointed your 
m-.-at and your drink ; for why Ihouid he fee your 
facea worfe lik.ng, than the children which are of 
your fort ? Dan. i. 10, 

LI'KING. n.f. [from like.'] 
i. Good ftate of body; plumpnefs. 

I'll repent, and that fuddenly, while I'm in fome 

likifig ; I (hall te oat of heart fliortly, and then J 

mail have no ftrength to repent. Sbakifpeare. 

Their young ones are in good liking; they grow 

up with corn. Job, xxxix. 4. 

Cappajocian flaveiwere famous for their lufti- 

nefs ; and, being in good liking, were fet on a ftall, 

when expokd to fale, to (hew the good habit of 

their body. Dryatn's A f ij to Perftus. 

z. State of (rial. 

The royal foul, that, like the lab'ring moon, 
By charms of art was hurried down ; 
f orc'd with regret to leave her native fphere, 
Came buc a while on liking here. Drydtn. 

3. Inclination. 

Why do you longer feed on loathed light, 
Or Kking find to gaze on earthly mold ? F..iry QJI. 
LI'KING. n.f. [from the verb.] Delight 
in ; plealure in : with to. 

There are limits to be fet betwixt the boldnefs 

and raihnefs of a poet; but he muit understand 

thofe limits who pretends to judge, as veil as he 

who undertakes to write : and he who has no liking 

whole, ought in reafjn to be excluded from 

cenluring of the parts. DryJen. 

LI'I.ACH. n.f. [lilac, lilas, French.] A 

tree. 

The white thorn is in leaf, and the lilacb tree. 

Bjc&r. . 

LI'LIED. adj. [from li!y.] Embellilhed 
with lii' 

Nymphs and fliepherds dance no more 
By f.indy Ladon's iH'uii bankt. Milt, r. 

LI'LY. 'n.f \lilium, Latin.] 

There are thirty-two fpeeies of this plant, in- 

white lilits, orange iilin, red lilui, and mar- 

tagons of various forts. ' Miller. 

Oh ! had the monlrcr feen thofe lily hands 
Tremble, like afpen leaves, uj">n a lute, 
And nuke the lillun ftrings delight to kifs them ; 
He would not tJicn have tuucb'd them for his life ! 

Shaft/peer!. 



SMpwreck'd upon a kingdom where no pity! 
No f. , ipe! no kindred w;.ep fo: me! 

Almolt nu gtave allow d me ! like the lily, 
'ihat c.ine . i the fieid, anu iijurifti'd, 

I'll hang my held, ana perilh' 

Arnu.s, a river ot Itaiy, is drawn like -n old 
man, by his right fide a I. on, h cm t : forth in hi 
right paw a red lily, or fiower-<ie-mce. 

Pcafl^n: tr )r.nc'in^ 

Take but the humbled lily of the Ik u ; 
And if our pjide will to our rcafon yield, 
It niufl by fare compaiif ,n be 
'J'lut on the re,;al fjit great David s fon, 
Array'd in all hi- robes, and t) r 'e: of pow'r, 
Shines with lefs glory than that limple fliw'r. Prior* 

For her tiie lilic. hang their iieads, and die. 

LILY-DAFFODIL, n. / \_lilio-nartij'ns.\ 

A foreign flower. 

L i _ v - H y A c i : T H . n.f. [lilio byacintbui.] 
Jt hath a lilt flower, compofed of fix leaves, 
ihaped like the fljwer of hyacinth : the roots are 
fcaly, and Ihaped like thofe of the /i/y. There are 
three fpccics of this plant ; one with a blu 
another white, and n thi:-d red. Af/V/rr. 

LILY of the yalhy, or May lily. n.f. 
[///// -anTjallium. ] 

1 he flower confifts or" one leaf, is m.ip?d liken 
beil, arid aivided at the top into lix fegments ; the 
ovary hccemes a loft globular fruit, containing fevc- 
ral round feeds. It U very common in ihad, 

Milhr. 

L'i/y of the valley has a ftrong rcot that runs into 
the ground. Mortimer'- 

LlLYLl'vERED. aJj. {Illy i&i JtVtT.] 

Whiielivereri ; cowardly. 
A bafe, liljliverfd, aclion-taliing knave. 

/c'dr/j Aj^" Li~r, 

LI'MATURE. n.f. \limatura, Latin.] Fil- 
ings of any metal ; the particles rubbed 
off by a file. 

LIMB. n.f. [lim, Saxon and Scortifh ; 
lent, Danilh.] 

1. A member; a jointed or articulated 
part of animals. 

A fecond Heftor, for hij grim afpeft, 
And large proportion of, his rtn n w -'cnit Kmbs. 

StaJtiffearr, 

O ! that I had her here, to tear her limb meal ! 

Sbaktjpeare* 

N \v am I come each limb to furvey, 
If thy appearance ani'wer loud report. Alifag'i sl~, 

2. \_Limbe, French ; /;/!j^j,Lat.] /in edge; 
a border. A philofophical word. 

By moving the prlfms about, the colours aga'n 

emerged out of the whitenefs, the violet and the 

blue at its inward !iai, and at its outward /?;'> the 

red and yell iw. tfnoteX, 

To LIMB. t>. a. [from the noun.] 

1. To fupply with limbs. 

As they pleafc, 

They limb thenafelves, and colour, ihape, and ilze 
Aliume, as likes them bcft, condenfe, Or rare. 

MlitM, 

2. To tear afunder ; to difmember. 
LI'MBECK. n.f. [corrupted by popular 

pronunciation from altmbic/t.] A ilill. 
Her cheeks, cm which this ftrearaing neclar fell, 
Stiil'd through the IMeck of her diamond eyes. 

Fairfax. 

Fires of Spain, and the line, 
Whofc con i : to our bodies be, 

Canft thou for gain bear ? Dcnne* 

Call up, unbound, 

In various fliapes, old Proteus from the fea, 
Drain d tlni.j.,!i a limtcck to his naked form. Milt. 
The earth, by fecrct conveyances, lets in the fca, 
and fends it back Ireih, her boweL> K'tvin,; for a 
liml'eck. ~!{ url. 

He firrt furvey'd the charge with careful eyes, 
Yetjudg'd, like vap. u:j tii.i fiom lirr.baki rife, 
It would in richer /howers defccnd agaia. DrjJrn. 
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The warm limbeck draws 
Salubrious waters from the nocent brood. 
LI'MBED. adj. [from limb.] Formco 
with regard to limbs. 

A (leer of five years, age, large limk'J, and fed, 
To Jove's high altars Agamemnon led. Pcpc's Iliad. 
LI'MBER. adj. Flexible; eafily bent; 
pliant ; lithe. 

You put me off with linlirr vows. Ska/teffeare. 

I wonder how, among thefe jealoufies of court 
and Mate, Edward Atheling could fubfiit, being the 
indubitate heir of the iaxon lii.e : but he had tried, 
and found him a prince of li:kir virtues ; fo as 
though he migh: hive fome place in his caution, 
jet he reckoned him beneath his fear. Wctun. 

At once came forth whatever creeps the ground, 
Infect, or worm : thofe wav'd their I'mbsr fans 
For wings ; and fmaiieil lineaments exact 
In all the livtrier deck'd of fummer's pride. MilKn. 

She durft never ftand at the bay, having no- 
thing but her long foft limber ears to defend her. 
Mire on jl 

The mufcles were ftrong on both fides of the 
afpera aitcria, but on the under fide, oppclite !> tiiai 
of the cefophagus, very limber, Ray on Cr^jii:n. 

LI'MBERNESS. n.f. [fnaKm&trS] Flexi- 
bility; pliancy. 
LI'M BO. n.f. \Eo quod Jit limbus iafe- 

rorum. Du Cange.] 

1. A region bordering upon hell, in which 
there is neither pleafure nor pain. Po- 
pularly hell. 

No, he i) in tartar limbo, worfe than hell, 
A devil in an ererlading garment hat 
Oae whofe hard hea:t is ojtnn'd up with (tee!. 

Uahjfetre, 

Oh what a fympathy of woe is this ! 
As far from help a? nmln ia fr j;i> biifs. Sijk.J^fart. 

All thefe up^whirl d a 
Fly o'er th: bi^kfi > '.f tlic -.nj.lJ jar off, 
In'.i a .'mm large and broaJ, fmce call'd 
The paradile of i Mi- t.nt tuoJifi Lrji. 

3. Anv place ot jviftry and nitraini. 

For he no foor.rr was at large, 
But I rulia ilrai.-.h- br..u ht on the charge; 
And in the felt fame /.T; 

Thekn:ghtand f ;j ui.e, w,--e.ehe was iliut. Hudil. 

Fr.ar, thou art come ofl _it poor i am 

left in linko. l>'\ r j'- 

LIME. n.f. [lim, jeiyman, 3uX;n, to 

glue.] 

1. A vifcous fubflance drawn over twigs, 
which catche^ and entangles the wings 
of i ird> thaf I'git upon it. 

Poor bird ! thou'dfl nevei fear the net or lime, 
The pittall, nor the'gin. Ktj^iftare's Matbetk. 

You muft Uy limt, to tangle her d. 
By wailful funnels, wh-fc compoieJ rhimes 
Should be full fraught with lerviceabic \ 

Skakjfeart. 
Jollier of this (tare 

Than are new bent fic'd minifters, he throws, 
I.ike net . whercfoc er he goes, 

His tirle of baniftcr on cv.-ry wench. Domr. 

A thru(h was taken with a burti of limr twigs. 

Irange. 
Then toils for beads, and lime for biid were 

found, 

And decp-mouth'd dogs did foreft walks funound 

Drjdcn 

Or court a wif-, fpread out his wily parts, 
Lik nets, or limt twigi, for rich widows hearts. 

2. Matter of which mortar is made: fo 
called becaufe ufed in cement. 

There are fo rrr.ny f;"cies of I me ftone, that we 
are to underftand by it in gcr.cj-al any ft, .no that, 

!, becomes 

eilx, which will make a great ebmiitb:i and noife 
CD being thrown ir.to water, falling into a loofe 
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London is ufnally made of chalk, which is weaker 
than that made of Hone. Hill's Materia Mediea. 

They were now, like fand without Hint, ill bound 
together, efpeciaily as many as were Engli h, who 
were at a gaze, looking ftrange one upon another, 
not knowing who was faithful to their tide. Baccn. 

As when a lofty pile is rais'd, 
We never hear the workmen prais'd, 
Who bring the Fine, or place the ftones, 
But all admire Inigo Jones. Sioift. 

Lime is commonly made of chalk, or of any fort 
of (lone that is not landy, or very cold. Mortimer. 
LIME tree, or LINDEN. a. f. [Lmb, 
Saxon ; tilia, Latin.] 

1. The linden tree. 

The flower confifts of feveral leaves, placed or- 
bicularly, in the form of a rofe, having a long 
narrow leaf growing to the footftalk of each clutter 
of flowers, from whofe cup riles the pnintal, which 
becomes tefticulated, of one capfuie, containing 
an oblong feed, 'i he timber is uted by carvers 
and turners. Thefe trees continue found m.iny 
years, and grow to a contidcrable bulk. Sir Tho- 
mas Brown mentions one, in Norfolk, rixtecn yards 
in circuit. Mi'.'^r. 

For her ths lines their pleafing Shades deny, 
For her the lilies hang their heaJs, and die. Pope. 

2. A fpecies of lemon, [lime, French.] 

Bear me, Pomona ! to thy citron groves j 
To where the lemon and the piercing lime, 
With the deep orange glowing through the green, 
Their lighter glories blend. Ticm/on's Summer. 
To LIME. v. a. [from lime.] 

1. To entangle ; to enfnare. 

Oh bofom, black as death ! 
Oh limed foul, that, Itruggling to be free, 
Art mure engaged. SUkifpetrfi Han:! I. 

Example, that fo terribly (hows in the wreck of 
maidenhood, cannot, for all that, difl'uade fuccef- 
lion, but that they are limed with the twigs that 
threaten them. . Shake/peart. 

'1 he bird that hath been imtd in 3 buih, 
With trembling wings mildoubteth ev ly buih, 
And I, the hapleJs male to nuc iwcet bird, 
Have now the latal object in my eye, 
Where ny poor y,>u;u was lim'j, was caught, and 
kilid. Sbakefpeare'tHer.ryVi. 

2. To fine, i r with lime. 

M) felf hive fim'J a bufh for her, 
And pl.rc.i a quire of i'uch enticing bii !>, 
That (he will light to liften to their lays. Sbakeff. 
.e twigs in time v. be lim.-d, and 

the.n you arc all loft if you do but tjuch them. 

LT., 

3. To cemmt. This fenfe i out of uie. 

I will not ruinate my father's houfe, 
Who gave his bbod to lima the Aones together, 
And fet up Lancafter. Shu/iff cart's H.nry VI. 
i r . To ,:;;iMrc praund wit!i 1 me. 

Encouragement that statement of intfrc.' 
to landlord^ an<l tenants, to improve by d. 
marling, and /r ing, 

All foits of pealc love limed or marled land. 

M'.rt'msr. 

KILN. n.f. \lime and kiln.} Kiln 
win- re It' nes are burnt to lime. 

The counter gate is as hateful to me, as the reck 
of a lime-ki'n. Stjkfff. M:rry Wives tfW'mJfar. 

They weie found in il'mie kiln, and havir.f 
the fire, each is a little vitrified. WouLin-trd. 

LI'M F.STON E. n.f. [time and Jfc/if.] The 
ftone of which lime is made. 

Fire (tone and imr fttrtc, if broke fmall, and laid 
on cold lands, mutt be of advantage. f... 
LJME-WATER. n.f. 

L'lm'.-ivatrr, made by pouring water npon q'lick 
lime, with lomc other ingredir.nis to nki- "fr n> ill 

"(' great fervice internally in a:l ci.: 
eruptions, and dife.ifes of the lungs. 

He tried an experiment on vheac infufed \nHmt- 
tvattr al'-ne, and fome in brandy and li*r<e-iu.> f cr 
mixed, and hud, from each grain greit incrcafc. 
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LI'MIT. . / [limits, French ; limiltr, 

Lat.] Bound; border; utmoll reach. 

The whole limit of the mountain round about 

(hall be moft holy. Exod. xliii. u. 

We went, great emperor, by thy command, 
To view the utmoft limit j of the land ; 
Ev'n to the place where no more world is found, 
But foaming billows beating on the ground. Dryd, 

To LI'MIT. i>. a. [limiter, French, from 
the noun.] 

1. To confine within certain bounds; to 
reftrain ; to circumfcribe ; not to leave 
'at large. 

They tempted God, and limited the Holy One of 
Ifrael. Pfalms. 

Thanks I muft you con, that you 
Are thieves profeft ; for there is biimdlefs theft 
In limited profeflions. Sbtkefp. Timon tf Alois. 

If a king come in by conqucft, he is no longer a 
limited monarch. Stvift, - 

2. To rettrain from a lax or general fig- 
nification : as, the univerfe is here limit- 
ed to this earth. 

LIMITA'NEOUS. adj. [from limit.'} Be- 
long ng to the bounds. Dictionary. 
LI'MITARY. adj. [from limit.] Placed 
at the boundaries as a guard or fuperin- 
tendant. 

Then, when I am thy captive, talk of chains, 
Proud limit.iry cherub 1 Miltcri 's Paradijc Left. 

LIMITA'TION. n.f. [limitation, French ; 
limit atio, Latin.] 

1. Rellricvlion ; citcumfcription. 

Limitation of each creature, is both the perfection 
and the prefervation thereof. Hotter* 

Am 1 yourfelf, 
But, as it were, in fort of limitat io ? Sba/tffpeare, 

I defyair, how this limitation of Adam's empire 
to his line and poflerity, will help us to one heir. 
'Ihis Imiit.nr.n, indeed, of our author, will fave 
thofe the labour, who would look for him amongft 
the race of brutes ; but will very little contribute 
to the difcovery amongft men. Locke, 

If a king come in by conqueft, he is no longer 
a limited monarch ; if he afterwards confent te 
l;mitii.i;its, he becomes immediately king de jure. 

Swift, 

2. Confinement from a lax or undeter- 
minate import. t 

The caufe of error is ignorance, what reftraints 
and Hir.itathns.aVt principles have in regard of the 
matter whereunto they :ue applicable. Hockcr. 

LI'MMER. n.f. A mongrel. 
TffLl.MN. v. a. \_enluminer, French, to 
adorn books with pictures.] To draw ; 
to p^int any thing. 

Mine eye doth his effigies witncfs, 

Moft truly limn'd. and living in your face. Sbakcfp. 

Emblems limned in lively colours. Peacl am. 

How are the glories of the field fuun, anJ by 

what pencil arc they limned in their unaffected 

bravery ? G*n"J\lle, 

LI'MNKR. n.f. [corrupted from enlumi- 

neur, a decorator of books with initial 

pidtures.] A painter; a pi&ure-maker. 

That divers j'.mmrs at a diftonce, without eitl.er 

copy or defi^n, fh^uid draw the fame picture to an 

undiftingui/nablci'xa':ir,ef;, is more conceivable than 

that ma : .ter, which is fo diverfiiied, mould frame 

fj unerringly, according to the idra of its 

kinJ. Glan-uil/e's Sc.fjif. 

Poets are limners of another kind, 
To coj'y out ideas in the mind j 
Words are the paint by which their thoughts are 

ihown. 

And nature is their object to be drawn. Giani:l!e, 
LI'MOUS. adj. \limojus, Latin.] Muddy; 
(limy. 

t country became a pained ground by the . 
muddy and iimaus mstlcr brought down by the 
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Kilui, which fcttled by degrees unto firm 

1-uui. ''.rriurs. 

They cfteemcd thit natural melancholick acidity 

to be the I'tacut or (limy feculent part of the blood. 

I.i fir. adj. [lirafio, Italian.] 

1. Vapid ; weak. Not in ufe. 

The chub eats *.iteriih, and the flefti of him is 
not firm, litrrf, and nilcleft. /IW/io'j Angler. 

2. It is ufed in forne provinces, and in 
Scotland, for limber, flexile. 

7'oLiup. v. n. [limpen, Saxon.] To 
halt ; to walk lamely. 

An old puor mm, 

Who after me hath many a weary ftep 
Ltmp'd in pure love. Sbakejpeares As yai like it. 

Son of fixtccn, 
Pluck the lin'd crutch frjm diy old limbing fire. 

Sbakefptarc. 
How for 

The fubftance of my pjaifedothwrong this fliadow 
In underwriting it ; fo far thi> (hadow 
. 'Doth limf- behind the fubftancc. St.iltffeart. 

When 1'lutus, with his riches, is fent from 
Jupiter, he limf i snd goes (lowly ; but when he 
"is fent by Pluto, he runs, and is 1'wift of foot. 

Bacon. 

Limping death, lafli'd on by fate, 
Comes up to (hoi ten half our date. Dryden. 

The limf'tnt fmith obferv'd the ladden'd feall, 
And hopping here and there put in his word. 

Dryden. 

Can fyllogifm fct things tight ? 
TJo : majors Coon with minors fight : 
Or both in friendly confort join'd, 
The confequence limfi falfe behind. frier. 

LI'MPET. n.j\ A kind of ftiell-fi(h. 



LI'M p i D . adj. \llmpide, French ; limf i Jus 
Latin.] Clear; pure; Iran/parent. 

The fprings which were clear, frelh, and limpid, 
become thick and turbid, and impregnated with 
fulphur as long as the earthquake lafts. Wood-ward. 

The brook that pulls along 
The vocal grove, now fretting o'er a rock, 
Gently dirTus'd into a limf id plain. Thornton's Sum, 
LI'MPIDNESS. n.f. [from limpid.] Clear- 

nefs ; purity. 
LI'MPINGLY. -adv. [from limf.] In a 

lame halting manner. 
LI'MY. adj. [from lime.] 
1. Vifcous ; glutinous. 

Striving Tnore, the more in laces ftrong 
Himfeif he tied, and wrapt his winges twain 

In limy fnarcs the fubtil loops among. Sfe~fi 
Z. Containing lime. 

A human (kull covered with the (kin, having- 

been buried in fome limy foil, was tanned, or 

turned into a kind of leather. G/TW'J Mufaum. 

,STe LIK. V. n. [abhnnan, Saxon.] To 

yield ; to give over. 

Unto his foe he came, 

Refolv'd in mind all fuddenly to win, 

Or foon to lofe before he once would I'm. fairy'- 

LI'KCHPIN. n. f. An iron pin that keeps 

the wheel on the axle-tree. Di3. 

LI'NCTUS. a. f.' [from lingo, Latin.] 

Medicine licked up by the tongue. 
LI'NDEN. n.f. [hnb, Saxon.] The lime 
tree. See LIME. 

Hard box, and linden of a foftcr grain. Dryden 
Two neighb'ring trees, with walls cncompafs't 

round, 

One a hard oak, a fofter Hn<!tr. one* Dryden 

LINE. n.f. [linea, Latin.] 
I. Longitudinal extenfion. 

Even the planets, upon this principle, mud gra- 
vitate no more towards the fun ; fo that they wouU 
not revolve in curve linti, but fly away in direct tan 
cuU,tiU UK-)- (b utk Jgaiuft other pUactt. BentUy 



2. A flender firing. 

Well fung the Roman bard ) all human tilings, 
Of deareft value, hang on llender Itrings . 
O fee the then fote hops, and in dcfign 
Of hcav'n our joy, fupportcd by a tine. jy^Uer. 

A line- feldom holds to (train, or draws ftrcight 
in length, above fifty or fixty feet. Af.xor. 

3. A thread extended to direft any ope- 
rations. 

We as by line upon die (jcean go, 
Whofe paths (hall be familiar as the land. Dryden. 

4. The tiring that iultains the angler's 
hook. 

Victorious with their Una and eyes, 
They make the fiihes and the men their prize. 

fralltr. 

5. Lineaments, or marks in the hand or 
face. . 

Long is it fince I faw him, 

But time hath nothing blurr d thofc line! of favour 

Which then he wore. Sbakefpearc. 

I (hall have good fortune ; go to, here's a fimple 

line of' life ; here's a fmall trifle of wives. Sbakejp, 

. while his canting drone-pipe fcan'd 
The myftic figures of her hand, 
He tipples palmeftry, and dines 
On all her fortune-telling ^i. Cleavcland. 

6. Delineation ; fketch. 

You have generous thoughts turned to fuch fpe- 
culations : but this is not enough towards the raif- 
ing fuch buildings as I have drawn you here the lines 
of, unlefs the' direction of all affairs here were 
wholly in your hands. Temple. 

The inventors meant to turn fuch qualifications 
into perfons as were agreeable to bis character, for 
whom the line was drawn. P?fe. 

7. Contourj outline. 

Oh lading as thofe colours may they (Vine, 
Free as thy (troke, yet faultlefs as thy line ! Pope. 

8. As much as is written from one margin 
to the other ; a verfe. 

In the preceding lint, Ulyfies fpeaks of Nauficaa, 
yet immediately changes the words into the mafcu- 
line gender. Broom 

In moving lines thefe few epiftles tell 
What fate attends the nymph who loves too well 

Garth. 

9. Rank of foldiers. 

They pierce die broken foe's remoteft lines. 

Addijt 

10. Work thrown up ; trench. 

Now (natch an hour that favours thy defigns, 
Unite thy forces, and attack their lines. Dryden. 

11. Method ; difpofmon. 

The heavens themfclvcs, the planets, and this 

center, 

Obfervc degree, priority, and place, 
Infifture, courfe, proportion, feafon, form, 
Office and cuftom, in all line of order. Sbaktjpeare. 

12. Extenfion ; limit. 

Eden (tretch'd her lint 
From Auran caftward to the royal tow'rs 
Of great Seleucia. Milton's Paradije Loft 

13. Equator; cquinoflial circle. 
When the fun below the line defcends, 

Then one long night continued darknefs joins. 

Creech. 

14. Progeny; family, afcending or de- 
fcending. 

He chid the filters 

When firft they put the name of king upon me, 
And bade them ("peak to him ; then prophet-like, 
They hail'd him f.ither to a line of kings. . 

He fends you this moft memorable line, 
In eV'ry branch truly demonftrativc, 
Willing jou overlook this pedigree. 

Sbakefptare's Henry V 

Some/m were noted for a (tern, rigid virtue, fa 
vage, haughty, parfimonious and unpopular ; others 
were fwect and affable. Dryden. 

His empire, courage, and his boafied line, 
Wei all prov'd mortal, JJe/ivwm.-n 



A golden bowl 

The quesn commanded to be crownM witli v 
The bowl that Bclus us'd, and all the T.'ii 

DrjJt*. 
The yean 

Ran fmoothly on, produdlivc of a line 
Of wif- heroick kings. P4 : //i. 

i 5. A line is one tenth of an inch. Lcckt. 
j6. [In the plural.] A letter: as, Irc^J 

your lints. 
17. Lint or flax. 

To LINE. , a. [fuppofed by Junivs from 
linum, linings being often made of 
linen.] 

1. To cover on the infide. 

A box lined with paper to receive the mercury 
that might be fpilt. Boyle. 

2. To put any thing in the infide : a 
fenfe rather ludicrous. 

The charge amounted! very high for any t.n: 
man's purfe, except lined beyond ordinary, to leach 
unto. Cjrr-:.--. 

Her women are about her : what if I do I'm, *ne 
of their hands ? S&dfe^teivv'j Cyr- 

He, by a gentle bow, diviu'd 
How Well a cully's purfe was lin'd, Sivifr* 

3. To guard within. 

Notwithstanding they had lined fome hedges with 
mufijueteers, they were totally difperfed. Cia- 

4. To ftrengthen by inner works. 
Line and new^rcpair our towns of war 

With men of courage, and with means defendant. 

Sbaktffeare* 

5. To cover with fomething foft. 

Son of fixteen, 

Pluck die I'ti'J crutch from thy old limping (ire. 

Sb<xkelpc.irc 

6. To double ; to ftrengthen with help. 

Who lin'd himfelf with hope, 
Bating the air, on promile of fupply. Sbakeffecre, 

My brother Mortimer doth Ilir 
About his tide, and hath fcnt for you 
To line his enterprifc. Sbntelpeare's Henry IV. 

The two armies were afligned to the leading of 
two generals, both of them rather courtiers, anJ 
afl'ured to the ftate, than martial men ; yet lined. 
and alfifted with fubordinzte commanders of great 
experience and valour. Bacon, 

7. To impregnate : applied to animals 
generating. 

Thus from the Tyrian pr.flures /;;'</ with Jove 
He bore Europa, and ftill keeps bis love. Creech, 
LI'NEACE. n.f. \lineagt, French.] Race ; 
progeny ; family, attending or defcend- 
ing. 

Both the lineage and the certain fire 
From which I fprung, from me are hidden yet. 



Jofeph was of the houfe and lineage of DaviJ. 

Luke, ii. 4. 

The Tirfan Cometh forth with all his gencratian 
or lineage th^ males before him, and the females 
following him ; and if there be a mother from 
whofe body th; whole lineage\s del'cended, there is a 
traverfe where llie fitteth. Bjcon. 

Men of mighty fame, 
And from the immortal gods tieir linage came. 

Dryda* 

No longer (hall the widow'd land bemoan 
A broken I:neage, and a doubtful throne, 
But boaft her royal progeny's increafe, 
And count the pledges of her future peace. Add: fan. 
This care was infufed by God himfelf, in order 
to afcertain the defcent of die Mefiiah, and to 
prove that he was, as the prophets had foretold, of 
the tribe of Judah, and of the lineage of David. 

Atterbury. 

Ll'NEAL. adj. [linealis, from liaea, Lat.J 
i. Compofed of lines ; delineated 

When any thing is mathematically ilcmonfrratcd 
weak, it ii much more mechanically weak j eirors 

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ever occurring more eafily In the management of 
grofs materials than lineal dcligns. Wxton. 

2. Defcending in a direct genealogy. 

To re-cftablifli, de facto, the right of lineal fuc- 
teffion to paternal government, is to put a man in 
pofleffion of that government which his fathers did 
enjoy, and he by lineal fucceffion had a right to. 

Lvcke. 

3. Hereditary; derived frem anceftors. 

Peace be to France, if France in peace permit 
Our juft and lineal entrance to our own* Sbakefp. 

4. Allied by direct defcent. 

Qjieen Ifabel, his grandmother, 
Was lineal of the lady F-rmengere. Sbjtlfpusre. 

that your brows my laurel had fuftain'd ! 
^Yell had I been depos'd if you had reign'd : 
The father had defcended for the fon ; 

For only you are lineal to the throne. Dryden. 
Li NEALIY. adv. [from lineal.} in a 
direct line. 

If he had been the perfon upon whom the crown 
had lineally and rightfully defcended, it was .good 
law. Clarendin. 

LI'NEAMENT. n. f. [lineament, French; 
lineamentum, Latin.] Feature; difcri- 
minating mark in the form. 
Noble York 

Found that the iflue was not his begot : 
Which well appeared in his lineaments, 
Being nothing like the noble duke, my father. 

Sbaiefftarc. 

Six wings he wore, to (hade 
His lineaments divine. Milan's Paradife Lujf. 

Man he feems 

In all his lineaments, though in his face 
The glimpfes of his father's glory (hine. Milrcn. 
There are not more differences in men's faces, 
and the outward lineaments of their bodies, than 
there are in the makes and tempers of their minds ; 
only there is this difference, that the diftinguifli- 
ing characters of the face, and the lineaments of 
the body, grow more plain with time, but the pe- 
culiar phyfiognomy of the mind is moft difcerniblc 
in children. Luke. 

1 may advance religion and morals, by tracing 
Come few lintanunts in the character of a lady, who 
hath fpent all her life in the practice of both. S-wift. 

The utmoft force of boiling water is not able to 
deltroy the ftructure of the tendered plant : the 
lineaments of a white lily will remain after the 
(trongeft decoction. Ariutbna. 

Li NEAR. adj. [linearis, Latin.] Com- 
pofed of lines ; having the form of 
lines. 

' Where-erer it is freed from the fand (lone, it 
is covered with linear ftriat, tending towards feve- 
rai centers, fo as to compofe flat ftcilar figures. 

IPwdtvarti tm f'-jjils. 

LINEA'TION. n./. \_lineatio, from -tinea, 
Lat.] Draught of a line or lines. 

There are in the horr.cy ground*two white liite- 
aticns, with two of a pale red. Wwdivard. 

LI'NEN. n. f. [linum, Latin.] Cloth 
made of hemp or flax. 

Here is a baflcet, he may creep in ; throw foul 
linen upon him, as if going to bucking. Sbake/p, 

Unfeen, unfelt, the fiery ferpent (kirns 
Between her linen and her naked limb:. Dryden. 
LI'NEN. adj. [lineus, Latin.] 

1. Made of linen. 

A Hum (lock on one leg, and a kerfey boot hofe 
on the other, gartered with a red and blue lid. 

Sbakeffeare. 

2. Rrfernbling linen. 

Death of thy foul ! thofe linen cheeks of thine 
Are counfellors to fear. What foldiers, whey- 
face ? Sbakefptart. 

LINENDRA'FER. *./. [linen and draftr.] 

He who deals in linen. 
"Lir.c.n.f. [ling, Iflandick.] 
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northern counties ; yet Eaten feems to 
diftinguifh them. 

Heath, and lag, and fedges. Baccn's Nat, Hi/I. 

2. [Linght, Dutch.] A kind of fea-fifli. 

When harvcft is ended, take (nipping, or ride, 
Ling, fait riih, and herring, for Lent to provide. 

Tufr. 

Our Englifh bring from thence good (tore of 
fi(h, but effeciaily our derpeit and thickeft ling, 
which a;e therefore called ifland lags* Albot. 

LING. The termination notes commonly 
diminution; as, killing, and is derived 
from klein, German, little: fometimes 
a quality ; as, failing, in which fenfe 
Skinner deduces it fiom lattgen, old 
Teutonick, to belong. 

To LI'NGER, <u. a. [fiom lenj, Saxon, 
lo g .] 

I. To remain long In languor and pain. 

Like wretches, that have ling-r'd long, 
We'll fnatch the ftrongell cordial of our love. 

DryJen. 

Better to rufh at once to (hades below, 
Than linger life away, and nourish woe. Pefe's OJy. 
l. To hefitate ; to be in fufpenfe. 

Perhaps thou ling'i-tfl, in deep thoughts detain'd 
Of th' enterprize fo hazardous and high. Miltt/n. 

3. To remain long. In an ill fenfe. 

Let order die, 

And let this world no longer be a ftage 
To feed contention in a lingering act. Sbakcfpeare. 

Ye brethren of the lyre, and tuneful voice, 
Lament his lot ; but at your own rejoice. 
Now live fecure, and linger out your days ; 
The gods are pleas' J alone with Purcel's lays. 

Dry den. 

Your very fear of death (hall make ye try 
To catch the (hade of immortality ; 
Wifliing on earth to linger, and to fave 
Part of its prey from the devouring grave. Prior. 

4. To remain long -without any action 
or determination. 

We have lingered about a match between Anne 
Page and my coufin Slender, and this day we (hall 
have our anfwer. Sbakcfpeare, 

5. To wait long in expectation or uncer- 
tainty. 

I muft folicit 

All his concerns as mine : 
And if my eyes have pnw'r, he fhoiild not foe 
In vain, nor linger with a long delay. DryJen. 

6. To be long in producing effect. 

She doth think, (he has ftrange ling'ring poifons. 

Shaksjptare. 

To LI'NGER. i>. a. To protract; to draw 
out to length. Out of ufe. 

1 can get no remedy again ft this confumption 

Of the pu>fe. Borrowing only lingers and lingers 

it out, but the difeafe is incurable. Sbakefpcare. 

She lingers my defires. Sbakejpeare. 

Let your brief plagues be mercy, 

And linger not our fure dcftructions on. Sbakcfp. 

LI'NGERER. n. /. [from linger.'} One 

who lingers. 

LI'NOERINGLV. adv. [from lingering.'] 
With delay ; tedioufly. 

Of poifons, fome kill more gently and lin^er- 

ixgly, others more violently and fpcedily, yet Both 

kill. Hale. 

LI'NCET. n. f. [from long uet ; lirrgot, 

French.] A fmall mafs or" metal. 

Other matter hath been ufcd for money, as 
among the Lacedemonian-;, iron lingctt quei^hed 
'with vinegar, that they may fcrve to no other ufe. 

Camden. 

LJ'NGO. a./. [Portuguefe.] Language; 
tongue ; fpeech. A low cant word. 
. I have thoughts to learn fomcwhat of your lingo, 
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LINOTJA'CIOUS. adj. [linguax, Lat.] Full 
of tongue; loquacious; talkative. 

LINCUADE'NTAL. adj. [lingua and dens, 
Lat.] Uttered by the joint action of 
the tongue and teeth. 

The linguailcnta h, f, v, as alfo ihzlir.guadtntalt, 
th, db, he will foon learn. Haider* s Ei'em. of Spetcht 
LI'NGUIST. n.f. [from lingua, Lat.] A 
man flcilful in languages. 

Though 3 lingui/1 fhould pride himfelf to have 
all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, 
yet, if he had not ftudied the folid things in them, 
as well as the words and lexicons, he \vete no- 
thing fo much to be efteemed a learned man, as 
any yeoman or tradefman competently wife in hi 
mother dialect only. ATiftoii* 

Our linguift received extraordinary rudiments 
towards a good education. Aiidifcn'i Sfi'flator, 
LI'NGWORT. n.f. An herb. 
LI'NIMENT. n.f. [liniment, French ; lini- 
tnentum, Lat.] Ointment ; balfam ; 
unguent. 

The noftrils, and the jugular arteries, ought ta 
be anointed every morning with this liniment or bal- 
fam. . Harvey* 

The wife author of nature hath provided on the 
rump two glandules, which the bird catches hold 
upon with her bill, and fqueezes out an oily pap or 
liniment, fit for the inunction of the feathers. Ray, 
L I'M ING. n.f. [from line,}. 
1. The inner covering of any thing ; the 
inner double of a garment. 

Was I deceived, or did a fable cloud 
Turn forth her filver lining on the night ? Milton, 

The fold in the griftie of the nofe is covered with 
a lining, which differs from the facing of the 
tongue. . Grfw'i Cvjatohgia, 

The gown with fliffembroid'ry mining, 
Looks charming with a fiighter lining. Prior* 

z. That which is within. 

The lining of his coffer (hall make coats 
To deck our foldiers for thefe Irifli wars. Sbatffft 
LINK. n.f. [gelencke, German.] 

1. A fingle ring of a chain. 

The Roman ftate, whofe courfe will yet go on 
The way it takes, cracking ten thoufin'd curbs 
Of more Itrong links afunder, than can ever 
Appear in your impediment. Sbakefpt-are's Coriclan* 

The moral of that poetical fiction, that the up- 
permoft link of all the feries of fubordinate cau'les, 
is fattened to Jupiter's chair, figniries an ufefui 
truth. Hale. 

Truths hang together in a chain of mutual do- 
. pendance ; you cannot draw one link without at- 
tracting others. Glan-jillf, 

While (he does her upward flight fuftain, 
Touching each link of the continued chain, 
At length (he is oblig'd and fovc'd to fee 
A firft, a fource, a life, a deity. Prior, 

2. Any thing doubled and clofed together. 

Make a link of horfc hair very ftrong, and fallen 
it to the end of the (lick that fprings. Mortimer, 

3. A chain ; any thing connecting. 

Nor airlefs dungeon, nor ftrong lints of iron, 
Can be retentive to the ftiength of fpirit. Sbakcfp. 

1 feel 

The link of nature draw me ; fleih of rlefh, 
Bone of my bone thou art. Milton's Ptrjdifi Lrjl, 
Fire, flood and earth, and air, by this were 

bound, 

And love, the common lint, the new creation 
crown'd. Dryden't Knight's Tale, 

4. Any fingle part of a feries or chain of 
confequences ; a gradation in ratiocina- 
tion ; a propofuion joined to a forego- 
ing and following propofi;inn. 

Tlic thread and train of conferences in intellec- 
tive ratiocination is often long, and chained toge- 
ther by divers link s, which cannot bar done in ima- 
ginative ratiocination, by fame attributed to brutes. 

Judge Hale. 

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5. A tries : this fenfe is improper 
Jifcn ha< ufcU link for chain. 

Though I have here only chofen this fingle /; 

of n-.aiiys, 1 mi ;bt find out oihers among thol 

names which arc ftill extant, that delivered dow 

this account of our Saviour in a lucccrlivc tradition 

Add-on on til Ctnjiijn Religion 

6. [From >.:>;<.{.] A torch maae of pucl 
and hards. 

O, thou a,t n everlafting bonefire light ; tho 

haft faved me a thoufand marks in links and torches 

walking with thee in the night betwixt Uvern an 

, tavern. Sbuke;p arc's Hmry IV 

Wi-reas hiftory fliould be the torch of truth 
ho makes her in divers places a fuliginous link o 
lies. Hn 

Round as a globe, and liquor'd every chink, 
Goodly and great he fails behind his /;>{. Drydcn 

One that bore a link 

On a fuddcn clapp'd his flaming cudgel, 
Like linftock, to the horfe's touch-hole. HuJihrai 

7. Perhaps in the following paflage it ma) 
mean lampblack. 

There was no link to colour Peter's hat. Sbakeff 

fa LINK. 11. a. [from the noun.] 

1. To complicate ; as, the links of a chain 

Defcending tread us down, 
Thus drooping ; or with linked thunderbolts 
Transfix us to the bottom of this gulph. Milton 

Againrt eating cores, 
Lap me in foft Lydian airs ; 
Married to immortal verfe, 
Such as the meeting foul may pierce 
In notes, with many a winding bout 
Of linked Iweetnefs long drawn out. Mi!ton< 

2. To unite ; to conjoin in concord. 

They're fo link'd in friendlhip, 
Th young prince Edward marries Warwick's 
daughter. Sbakefpeare. 

3. To join; to conneft. 

Link towns to towns with avenues of oak, 
Inclofe whole downs in walls, tis a'l a joke. Pope. 

So from the firft eternal order ran, 
And creature iink'd to creature, man toman. Pypc. 
if. To join by confederacy or contrail. 

They make an offer of themfelves into the fer- 
ke of that enemy, with whofe fervent* they link 
themfelves in fo near a bond. Ihokcr. 

Be advifed for the belt, 
Ire thou thy daughter link in holy band 
Of wedlock, to that new unknown gueft. Fa'uy Q. 

Blood in princes Iink'd not in fuch I'ort, 
At that it is of any pow'r to tye. Daniel's Ci-j. War. 

5. To conned, as concomitant. 

New hope to fpring 

Out of defpair ; joy, but with fear yet /iniV. Milt. 
God has linkl our hopes and our duty together. 

Dtcay of Pity. 

So gracious hath Cod been to 115, as to link toge- 
ther our duty and our intereft, and to make thofe 
Tery things the inftancee of our obedience, which 
re the natural means and caufcs of our happinel's. 

TtH ifen. 

6. To unite or concatenate in a regular 
feries of confequences, 

Thefe things are linked, and, as it were, chained 
one to another : we labour to eat, and we eat to live, 
and we live tj do good j and the good which we do 
is as feed fown, with reference unto a future har- 
ft. Hooker. 

Tell me, which part it does neceflitate ? 
Til chufe the other; there I'll link th' effcft; 
A chain, which fools to catch themfelves project ! 

Drydtn. 

By which chain of ideas thus vifibly linked toge- 
ther in train, i. t. eccfi intermediate idea agreeing 
n each fide with thofe two it is immediately placed 
n, the ideas of men and fell" determination 
appear to be connected, 

LI'MCBOY. 1 a./, [link and Icy.} A 

LI'NKMAN. J boy that carries a torch 

to accommodate paflengers with light. 



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What a ridiculous thing it w) that the conti 
nued fhadow of the, earth ihouid be broken by lud 
den miraculous difjufiuns of light, to prevent il 
officioufncfs of the linkvey ! MM 

Though thou art tempted by the link/nan's cal 
Yet trurt him not along the lonely wall. G.-j 

In the black form of cinder-wench Iht came. 
O may no linkbi.y interrupt their love ! dy'i Tree 
LI'NNET. n. J. [linot, French, linaria 
Latin.] A fmali Tinging bird. 

The fwallows make ufc of celandine, the linn, 
of euphragia, for the repairing of their fight. 

Mire's Antidote 

Is it for thce the linnet pours his throat ? Pipe 
LINSE'ED. a./ [femen lini, Latin.] The 
feed of flax, which is much ufed in me 
dicine. 

The joints may he doted with a cement of lime 

linfctd oil, and cotton, Mortimer's B-uJbandry 

Li'NSEYwooLSEy. adj. [linen and 'wool. 

Made of linen and wool mixed. Vile 

mean ; of different and unfuitable parts 

A lawlefs linfeywcdfu brother, 

Half of one order, half another. -flaJitras 

Peel'd, patch'd and pybald, liitfyrvo'.lfey brothers 

Grave mummers ! fleevclefs fome, and Ihirtlcf 

others. Pope 

LI'NSTOCK. n./. [lunte or lente, Teuto- 

nick ; lint and flock.} Aftaffofwooc 

with a match at the end of it, ufed by 

gunners in firing cannon. Hanmer 

The nimble gunaer 

With lynftock now the dcviliih cannon touches, 
And down goes all before him. Sbakcjpare. 

The diftance judg'd for (hot of ev'ry fize, 
The linjiocki touch, the pond'rous ball expires. 

Dry'dcn, 

LINT. n.f. [linteum, Latin; Ilia, Welfh 
and Erie.] 

1. The foft fubftance commonly called 
flax. 

2. Linen fcraped into foft woolly fub- 
ftance to lay on fores. 

I drelTej them up with ungncntum bafilici cum 

vitello ovi, upon pleJjjits of lint, Wiseman's Surg. 

LI'NTEL. n.f. [iinteal, French.] That 

part of the door frame that lies crofs 

the door ports over head. 

Take a bunch of hyfop, and dip it in tho blood 
that is in the bafon, and ftrike the lintel and the 
two fide-ports. Ex?d. 

When you lay any timber or brick work, as 1'in- 
tils over windows, lay them in loam, which is a 
great preferver of timber. Maxm. 

Silver the lia/als deep projecting o'er, 
And geld the ringlets that command the donr. 

Pcff's Ody/y. 

I'oK.u.f. [lien, French; lea, Latin.] 
i. '1 he fierci it and moll magnanimous 
of fourfooted bfalls. 

King Richard's firname was Cor-de-Lion, for 
his /I'd-like courage. Camd^ns Remains. 

Be /ian-metcled ; proud, and take no care 
Who chafes, who frets, or where confpirers are ; 
Macbeth (hall never vanquiih'd be. Shaiefp. Mack. 
The fphinx, a famous monrter in Egypt, had 
the face of a virgin, and the body of a Ibn. 

Pcacbam on Drawing. 
They rejoice 

Each with their kind, ii.n with Kom-fs ; 
So filly them in JM onmbin'd. Miltm. 

Sec /WH hearted Richard, 
Pioufly v^ilant, III. ' vell'd 

With. . :. Kit difdains all mounds, 

Breaking away impetuous, and involves 
Within its fweep trees, hnufcs, men, he prefs'd, 
Amidrt the ti.ickeft battle. Pkilita. 

. A lign in the zodiack. s 

Tht ii n for the honours of his Ik'.n, 
The I'juoczinj trab, and flinging Uoiyion ihir.e 



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For aiding heaven, when giants dar'd to brare 
The thrc.lt' ned ftors. Creech's Afj; ;/il/J. 

LI'ON ss. H. f. [feminine of lion.} A 
ihe lion. 

Under which bufiS's (hade, a fi n-fs 
J.ay couching head on ground, with catlike warch, 
When thai the fleeping man mould ftir. Sbj/t.jp. 

The furi..u 

Forgetting young ones, through t!>e fields doth roar. 

May. 

The greedy li-ntfs the wolf purfues, 
The woif tlie kid, the wanton kid the browie. 

Drydcit, 

If we may believe Pliny, lions do, in a very Icvere 

manner, punilh the adulteries of thc/ijn,/j. Ayliffe. 

Li'oNttAF. a.J'. [bi>xtofeta/oit,L.min.] A 

plant. Miller. 

LI'ON'S-MOUTH.'J 

LI'ON'S PAW. (./ [from lion.} The 
LI'ON'S-TAIL. r name of an herb. 
LI'ON'S-TOOTH. J 
LIP. n.f. [lippe, Saxon.] 

1. The outer part of the mouth, the 
mufcles that Ihjot beyond the teeth, 
which are of fo much ufe in (peeking, 
that they are ufed for all the organs of 
fpeech. 

Thofe happieft fmiles 

That play'd on her ripe lip, feem'd not to know 
What guefts were in he- eyes. Siakrfprart. 

No falfehood (hall defile my lift with iies, 
Or with a vail of truth dii^'iife. S.i$rlyt en Jth. 

Her lips blu/h deeper fwccts. Tbjmjjri's Spring. 

2. The edge of any thing. 

In many places is a ridge of mountains fome 
diitance from the fea, apd a plain from th-ir ro>ti 
t> the Jhore ; which plain was fo.mcrly covered by 
the fea, which bounded againlr. thofe h'lls as its tii It 
ramparts, orastheledgesor/i^iofitsvefTel. Burner. 

In wounds, the lips fink an-J arc flaccid ; 3 gleet 
followeth, and the flein within withers. H r ijtm.in. 

3. To make a LIP. To hang the 
fullennefs and contempt. 

A letter for me ! It gives me an eftate of feven 
years health ; in which time I will make a lip at 
the phylician. Hi'aiefpcare. 

Te LIP. -v a. [from the noun.] lo kiis. 
Obfolete. 

A hand, that kings 
Have lift, and trembled kiffing. Sb.iktfffart? 

Oh ! 'tis the fiend i arch mock, 
To lip a wanton and fuppofe her chaltc. Sbat.fp. 
'iMA'ncuR. . f. \Jip and labour.} 
Ailion of the lips without concurrence 
of the mind ; words without fentimcnts. 
Fairing, when prayer is not directed to its n-.vn 
purpoks, ij but iiflaiiour. Tayhr's Rule <f L'n-ir.g. . 

IPO'THYMOUS. adj. [>.,'mu and Su^ii;.] 
Swooning ; fainting. 

If the patient be furprifud with a /;/- '!fv:ui 
Imguor, and great oppreflion about the ft 
and hypochondeis, expeft no relief from or 

Harvt-J en tbe Pl.ig:,t* 

JIPO'THVMY. n.f, [* :i ;;..0t/;iia.] Swoon ; . 
fainting fit. 

The fenators falling into a Hfmttynty, or deep 
fwooning, made up this pageantry o death with a 
reprefcnting of it unto life. T, v . 

In tipotbymys or fwoonings, he ufed the frication 
of thi 3 finder with faflvon and gold. Bro. 

I'PPED. adj. [from///.] Having lips, 
i PPirupE. . f. \lippitudti French ; 
liffitudo, Lat.] Bleerednefs of eyes. 

Uilcafes tb,at are infcflious are, fuch as are ir 
the fpirits and not fo much in the humour. . 
therefore p.ifs eafily from body to body ; fuch are 
pc.lilenccs and llfpiiudts. B.ic^n. 

I'PWISDOM. n.f. [//>and luifJom.] Wif- 
dom in ulk without practice. 

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I find that all is hot Hfid/dun, which want! ex 
perience ; I now, woe is me, do try what love ca 
do. Sidney 

LI'QJJABLE. adj. [from liquo, Latin. 

Such as may be melted. 
LIITTA'TICN. n. f. [from liquo, Latin.] 

1. l iie al of melting. 

2. Capacity to be meltett 

The common opinion hath been, that chryft:; 
is nothing but ice and fnow concreted, and, by du 
ration of time, congealed be) and liquation, 

Brtlun't Kuigar Erreurt, 

To Li'qvATE. -v. a. [iiqxo, Latin.] lo 
melt ; to liquefy. 

If the falti be not drawn forth before the clay is 

baked, they are apt to 'icjujt.. We diuard on Fojjit:. 

Liqj EF,\ c i ION. n f. \liqueja3ia, Latin ; 

liquefaBivn, French.] The act of melt- 

ing; (he Irate of being melted. 

Heat diiiblveth and mclteth bodies that keep in 

their lpiri:s, as in divers /ijife/Mdfovj ; and fo doth 

time in honey, which by age waxeth more liquid. 

Bacons Ntilurai Hillary 

The burning of the earth will U a true hjxe- 
:n or diliolution of it, as to the txtcrior region 

Buna 

L i'o_u E F I A B L E . aJj. [from liquefy ] Such 

as may be melted. 

'i here are three caufes of fixation, the even 

r the fpirits and tangible parti, the cloie- 

nel; .;ic jejuneneis dr ex- 

; it may 
be jomoi wiili a natm: .c la!t not. 

Hilary, 

TV Li'QUEFY. v . a. [liqiajier, French ; 
liqucjacio, Latin.] 'i o mcit; to dif- 
folve. 

That degree of heat which is in lime and afhes, 
being a fmothering hca:, is the mod proper, for it 
doth neither liquify nor rarefy; and that is true 
maruration. jbVwi'j Katural Hiftory. 

To LI'CJJJEFY. -v. n. 'I o grow liquid. 

The blood of St. Januaiius licjurjitd at the ap- 

proach ol ti-.e faint's head. Add fin en Italy. 

Li<^yt'scENcr../. [/ijuefctntia, Latin.] 

.nefs to mtlt. 
LIQJ/E'SCENT. adj. \liqutfceni, Latin.] 

:ing. 

Li'q_uiD. aaj. \liquide, French ; liquidus, 
in.] 

1. Notloiid; not forming one continuous 
fubfUnce; flux!. 

Gently rolls the liquid t Dr. Daniel. 

2. Soft; clear 

Her breaft, the fug' red neil 
Of her delicious foul, that theie d-^es lie, 
Bathing in i-.iid melody. Crafrmti. 

3. Pronounced without any jar or harfh- 
nefs. 

The many /f^''(.-/conf^r.antj give a pleating found 
to the word,, though they are all of' one lyllable. 

Drydtn's Aneid. 

Let Carolina fmooth the tuneful lay, 
Lull with Amelia : liquid name tuc nine, 
And iwcttly flow through J. the royal line. 

Pdpc't ll:racc. 

4. DnTolved, fo as not to be obtainable by 
law. 

If a creditor fliould appeal to hinder the burial 
of his debtor's corple, hii .1 -;;eji t.ugrit not to be 
received, fine* the buftnels of bui.al rcqu:res a 
quick difpauh, though the debt be entirely liquid. 

LTQlJiD. ./ Liquid fubfUnce ; l, H uor'. 

Ee it thy choice, when fummer heats annoy, 
To fit beneath her leafy canopy, 

ing rich liquid,. Philips. 

F LIQUIDATE, -v. a. [from liquid.] To 
clear away ; to leffen debts. 



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LIQUIDITY-. ./ [from//y/V.J Subtilty; 
tinnnefs. 

The fpirits, for theh liquidity, an more incapab 
tlian the fluid medium, which is the conveyer ot 
founds, to perfevere in die continued repetition of 
Yocai airs. Glanville. 

LI'QJJIDNESS. a./, [from liquid.'} Quality 
ol being liquid ; fluency. 

Oil of annifeeds, in a cool place, thickened into 
the confluence of white butter, which with the 
lead heat refumed its former lijuidti.ji. Bayk. 

Ll'QIJOR. n. f. [liyuor, Latin j liqueur, 
French.] 

1. Any thing liquid : it is commonly ufed 
of fluids inebriating, or impregnated 
with fomething, or made by deception. 

Nor envy'd them the grape 

Whofe heads that turbulent liquw fills with fumes. 

Milton. 

Sin tken into the foul, is like a liquor pour'd 
into a veflel ; fo much of it as it rills, it alfo fea- 
fons. Scurfs Srrmevs. 

2. Strong drink : in familiar language. 
To LI'CUJOR. v. a. [from the noun.] To 

drencti or moilfen. 

Cart wheels fqueak not when they are liquored. 

Sff'con. 

LIRICONFA'NCY. n./. A flower. 
LISNE. n. f. A cavity ; a hollow. 

In the lijac of a rock at Kingfcote in Gloucefter- 
i>.:re, 1 f.mni a bufhel of petrified cockles, each 
near as big as my nil. Halt. 

To LISP. it. a. [tolifp, Saxon.] Tofpeak 
with too frequent appulfes of the tongue 
to the teeth or palate, like children 

Come, I cannot cog, and. fay, thou art this and 
that, like a many of thefe Jiff tag hawthorn buJs, 
that come like women in men's apparel, and fmell 
like Uucklerlbury in fimpling time. Sbakfjpeare. 

Sci.-cc had /he learnt to liff a name 
Of martyr, yet (he thinks i"t (name 
Lire ihould fo long play with that breath, 
Which fpent can buy lo brave a de,ith. Crajkaiu. 

They ramble not to learn the mode, 
How to b: dreft, or how to liff abroad . Clia-veland. 
Appulfe partial, giving lome pafiage to breath, 
is made to the upper teeth, and caufes a tiff ing 
found, the breath being Itrained through the teeth. 
Holder*! Ehnnnts of Speech. 
As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, 
I tifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. Fife. 

.ISP. n./. [from the verb.] The aft of 
lilping. 

I overheard her anfwer, with a very pretty liff, 

O ! Strephon, you are a dangerous creature. Taller. 

Li's PER. n. J. [from 'li/p.~\ One who 

lifps. 

LIST. n.f. [lifti, French. ] 
A roll ; a catalogue. 
He was the abieft emperor of all the 1'ijt. Bacon. 
Some fay-the loadftone is poifon, and therefore 
in the HJh of poilons we find it in many authors. 

Bt'titjn. 

Bring next the royal lift of Stuarts forth, 
Undaunted minds, that rul'd the rugged north. 

Prior. 

z. [Lice, French.] Indofed ground in 
which tilts are run, ana combats 
fought. 

Till now alone the mighty nation? ftrove, 
The relr, at gaze, wit'.iout the lijh di<) Itand ; 

And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted 

Jove, 
Kept idic thunder in his lifted hand. Drydcn. 

I'aris thy fun, and Sparta's king advance, 
In rnealur'd LJIs to tofb the weighty lance j 
And who his rival (hall in arms fufadue, 
His be. the uame, and his the trcafure too. faf t. 
. Bound ; limit. 



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The ocn, overpeering of his njr, 
Eat* not the flats with more impetuous hade, 
1 han young Laertes in a riotous head 
O'er-bears your officers. SL-akejlcare't H ami ft. 

She within lifts my ranging mine! hath brought, 
That now beyond myfelf I will not go. Da-vies. 

4. [Lyr-can, Saxon.] Deiire ; willing- 
nefs ; choice. 

Alas, ihc has no fpeech ! 
Too much ; 

I find it (till when I have lift to fleep. Sbahfytare. 
Nothing of paffion or peevimnefs, or lift t 
contradict, mail have any bias on my judgment. 

King Charles. 

He faw falfe Reynard where he lay full low ; 
I need not fwear he had no lift to crow. DryJen. 

5. [Licium, Lacin ; /^French.] A Itrip 
of cloth. 

A linen ftock on one leg ; and a kerfey boot 
hofe on the other, gartered with a red and blue lift. 

Staltsjjf-eare. 

Inftead of a 1:J} of cotton, or the like filtre, 
we made ufe of a uphon of glafs. Boyle. 

A IJi the coblcr's temples ties, 
To keep the hair out of his eyes. S-wift, 

6. A border. 

They thought it better to let them frand as a 
lijl, or marginal border, unto the Old Teftament. 

Hooker. 

To LIST. 11. a. [lypcan, Saxon.] To 
chufei to defirej to be difpofed ; to 
incline. 

To fight in field, or to defend this will, 
Point what you LJi, I nought refufe at all. 

Fairy Queen. 

Unto them that add to the word of God what 
them liftett, and mike God's will fubmit unto 

' will, and break God's commandments for 
their own tradition's fake, unto them it feemeth not 
8 ood - Mocker. 

They imagine, that laws which permit them 
not to do as they would, wili endure them to fpeak 
as they lift. Hooker. 

Let other men think of your devices as they lift, 
in my judgment they be mere fancies. Wbitgifte, 

Now by my mother's fon, and that's myfelf, 
It (hall be moon, or ftar, or what 1 lift. Shakeff. 

Kings, lords of times, and of occafions, may 
Take their advantage when, and how, they lift. 

Daniel. 

When they lift, into the womb 
That bred them they return ; and howl, and gnaw 
My bowels, their repair. Mitt in' i Paradife Loft* 
To LIST. v. a. [from lift, a roll.] 

1. Toenlift; to enrol or regifter. 

For a man to give his name to Chriftianity fn 
thofe days, was to lift himfelf a martyr, and to bid 
farewel not only to the pleafures, but alfo to the 
hopes of this life. South* 

They lift with women each degen'rate name 
Who dares not hazard life for future fame. Dtyden, 

2. To retain and enrol loldiers; to enlift. 

The lords would, by lifting their own fervants, 
perfuade the gentlemen in the town to do the like. 

Clarendon* 

The king who raifcd this wall appointed a mil- 
lion of ibldiers, who were fifed and paid for tflfc 
defence of it againit the Tartars. Ttmflt. 

Two hundred horfe he (hail command ; 
Though few, a warlike and weil-cholen band ; 
Thrfe in my name are lifiid. Drydai. 

3. [From lift; encloled ground.] To 
enclofe for combats 

How dares your pride prefume againit my laws, 
As in a lijlcd field to fight yoiii cau.e 'i 
Unalk'd the royal grant. DrjJ,,;'s Knight's Tale* 

4. [From lift, a fh/ed or border.] To 
few together, in fuch a fort as to 'make 
a particoloured fhevv. 

. Some may wonder at fuch an accumulation of 
benefits, like a kind of cmbro'doi.i;; o. Hjliipof 
one favour upon another. Walton' i Lift of Bucking. 

5. [Con- 



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5. [Contracted from lijleit.} To hearken 
to ; to liften ; to attend. 

Then weigh, what lofs your honour mayfulUin, 
If with too credent ear you lift his longs ; 
Or lofe your heart, or your elude tre.tfure open 
To his unmifter'd importunity. Si-skiff, Ham/a. 

I, this fuunj 1 better know : 
Lift! I would I coulj hear mo. Binjanfon. 

LI'STED. adj. Stiipcd ; particoloured in 
long itreaks. 

Over his head beholds 
A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow 
Confpicuous, with three li/letl colours gjy, 
EcV'k'niug peace from God, and cov'nant new. 

Milton. 

As the Ihow'ry arch 

With ,*/?.</ colours gay, or, azure, gules, 
Delights and puzzles the beholder's eyes. Philips. 

fa LI'STEN. -v. a. To hear ; to attend. 
Obfolete. 

. Lady, vouchfafc to Itften what I fay. Shat-fpeare. 

One cried, Cod b'.efs us ! and, amen ! the other: 
As they had feen me with thefc hangman's hands : 
Lijltnhg their rear I coulj not fay, amen ! Shak. 

He, that no more muft fay, is Hfttned more 
Than they whom youth and eale have taught to 
glote. Sbakfffearc. 

The wonted roar was up amidft the woods, 
And fiil'd the air with barbarous dhionance, 
At which 1 ccas'd and lijlen'd them a while. Milton. 

To LI'STEN. -v. n. To hearken ; to give 
attention. 

Lijlen to me, and if you fpcak rue fair, 
I'll tell you news. Sbalefparrt. 

Antigonus ufed often to go difguifed, and lijten 
at the tents of his Jo'.diers ; and at a time heard 
fome that fpoke very ill of him : whereupon he 
did, If you (peak ill of me, you fliould go a little 
farther oft'. Baton's Apopbtbegmt. 

Liften, O ifles, unto me, and hearken, ye people. 

Ifaiah, xlix. 

When we have occafion to lifriti, and give a more 
particular attention to feme found, the tympanum 
is drawn to a more than ordinary tenfion. Holder. 

On the green bank I fat, and lijlin'it long ; 
Nor till her lay was ended could 1 move, i 
But wifli'd to dwell for ever in the gro^. DryJtr.. 

He (hall be receiv'd with more regard, 
And lifter:' J to, than moJeft truth is heard. Dryd. 

To this humour moft of our late comedies owe 
their fuccefs : the audience lijlens after nothing elfe. 

Add-on. 

LI'STNER. n.f [from lljien,} One that 
hearkens ; a hearkener. 

They are light of belief, great 1'jintrt after news. 

Siiaef. 

Lift airs never hearwell of themfelves. UF.JI range. 

If the conftantly attends the tea, and be a good 
lifener, (he may make a tolerable figure, which 
will fnve to draw in the young chaplain. Swift. 

The hufh word, when fpoke by any brother in 
a lodge, was a warning to the reft to have a care of 
lijienets. Swift. 

LI'STLESS. adj. [from ///?.] 

1. Without inclination ; without any de- 
termination to one thing' more than 
another. 

Intemperance and finfuality clog men'; fpirits, 
make them grofs, RJUefi, and una&ive. Ttliotfcfi. 

If y-iur care to'whcat alone extend, 
Let Maja with her fitters firft defcend, 
JJefore you truft in earth your future hope, 
Or elfe expect a fyVtft, lazy crop. DijJn's firg'J. 

Lazy lolling fort 

Of ever HJttfi liit'rers, that attend 
No caufe, no truft. Pope. 

I was lijll.ft and de'fponding. Gulliver's Travels. 

2. Carelefs ; heeJlefs : with of. 

The fick for air before the portal gafp, 
Or idle in their empty hives remain, 
Bcnurab'd with cold, and HJIltfi of their gain. 

I Drydtn. 



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LI'STLESLY. adv. [from lijfltfi.] With- 
out thooght ; without attention. 

To know this perfectly, watch him at play, and 

fee whether h: be ftirring and active, or whether 

he lazily anj Ijtlefy dreams away his time. Leeke. 

LI'STLESNESS. ./. [from liftlefs.} In- 

attention ; want of defire. 

It may be the palate of the foul is indifpofed by 
lijiltfntfs or forrow. Taylor. 

LIT. the preterite of light ; whether to 
light fignifies to happen, or to Jtt on fire, 
or guide ivitb light. 

Believe thylclf, thy eyes, 
That firft inflam'd, and lit me to thy love, 
Thofe ftars, that ftill muit guide me to my joy. 

Scvlbtrrrt. 

I /;/ my pipe with the paper. Addifon's Spcf}ii!!,r. 
LI'TANY. n yi^Atlmia ; litanie, French.] 
A form of (upplicatory prayer. 

Supplications, with folemnity for the appeafing 
of God's 7ath, were, of the Greek church, termed 
fitfaift, and rogations of the Latin. Hukcr. 

Kecollefl your fins that you have done that week, 
and all your lifetime ; and recite humbly and de- 
voutly fome penitential litanies, Taylor. 

LI'TERAL. adj. {literal, French; liters, 
Latin.] 

1. According to the primitive meaning ; 
not figurative. 

Through all the writings of the ancient fathers, 
we fee that the words which were, do continue ; 
the only difference is, that whereas before they had 
a Ultra/, they now have a metaphorical ufc, and 
are as fo many notes of remembrjncc-unto us, that 
what they, did fignify in the letter, is accomplilhed 
in the truth. tinker. 

A foundation being primarily of ufe in archi- 
tecture, hath no other literal notation but what be- 
longs to it in relation to an houfe, or other build- 
ing; nor figurative, but what is founded in that, 
and deduced from thence. Hammond. 

2. Following the letter, or exaft words. 

The fitted for publick audience are fuch as, fol- 
lowing a middle courfc between the rigour of Kteral 
tranflutions and the liberty of paraphrafts, do with 
greater Ihortnefs and plainnefs deliver the mean- 
ing. Hxker. 

3. Confiding of letters : as, the literal 
notation of numbers was known to Eu- 
ropeans before the cyphers. 

LI'TERAL. u,.f. Primitive or literal 
meaning. 

How dangerous it Is in fenfible things to' ufe 
metaphorical cxprefiions unto the people, and what 
abfurd conceits they will fwallow in their literal", 
an example we have in our profeflion. Bntvn. 

LITER A'LITY. n.f. [from lileral.~\ Ori- 
ginal meaning. 

Not attaining the true deuterofccpy and fecond 
intention of the words, they are fain to omit their 
fuptrconfequences, coherences, figures, or tropo- 
logies, and are not fometimes perfuaJed beyond 
their littralities. Brown's V^.gnr Errouri. 

LATERALLY, adv. [from literal.~\ 
\. According to tiie primitive import of 
words; not figuratively. 

That a man and his wife are one fleih, 1 can 
comprehend; yet litertlly taken, it is 'a tliing.im- 
poflible. i'-awyi. 

z. With clofe adherence to words; word 
^>y word. 

Endeavouiing to turn his Nifu> and Euryalus 
as clofe as I was able, 1 have performed thatepifode 
too literally ; that gi\ing more fcope to Meztfitius 
and Laufus, that verlion, which has more of the 
majefty uf Virgil, has kfs of his conciftnefs 



So wrld and ungovernable a poet cannot be 
tranflitcd fccrally j his .. il:ong to bear 

a chain. 



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LI'TERARY. adj. [lUerariur, Latin.] 
Respecting letters ; regarding learning. 
Literary hiftory, is an account of the 
ftate of learning, and of the lives of 
learned men. Literary converfation, it 
talk about queftions of learning. Lite- 
rary is not properly ufed of miflive let- 
ters. It may be faid, this epifttlary cor- 
refpondence was political oftener than 
literary. 

LITER A'n.n.f. [Italian.] The learned. 

I (hall confult fome Hitrati on the projefl fent 
me tor the difcovery of the longitude. Spfflamr. 
LI'TERATURE. n.f. [literatura, Latin.] 
Learning; {kill in letters. 

This kingdom h.ith been famous for good litera- 
ture; and if preferment attend defervers, there will 
not wint fupplies. Baton 

When men of learning are aftcd by a know. 
ledge of the \v rid, ih:y yive a reputation tu . 
tui c.-, and convince, the world of its ufcfulnefs. 



LI'THARCE. n.f. [litharge, Fr. lithargy- 
rum, Lat.] 

Litharge is properly lead vitrified, cither alone oc 
with a mixture of copper. This recrement is of* 
two kinds, litharge of gold, and litharge of filver. 
It is collected from the furnaces where filver is 
feparatcd from lead, or from thofe wheie gold and 
filver are purified by means of that metal. The 
litharge fold in the {hops is produced in the copper 
works, where lead has been ufed to purify that 
metal, or to feparate filver from it. Hill. 

I have fcen (brae parcels of glafs adhering to tho 
teft or cupel as well as the gold or litharge. Byle. 

If the load be blown off from the filver by the 
bellows, it will, in great part, be collected in the 
form of a darkilh powder ; which, becaufe it is 
blown off from filver, they call litharge of filver. 

Byle. 

LITHE, adj. [IrSe, Saxon.] Limber 

flexible; pliant; eafily bent. 
Th' unwieldy elephant, 

To make them mirth, us'd all his might, and 
wreath 'd 

His H:he probofcis. Milton's Paradife Loft*. 

LI'THENESS. . fi [from lithe.] Lim- 

bernefs ; flexibility. 

LI'THER. adj* [from litie.~\ Soft; pliant* 
'1 hou antick death, 

Two Talbnts winged through the litter fky, 

In thy dcfpight ihall 'fcapc mortality. Slal 
2. [Ly^aji, Saxon.] Bad ; forry ; corrupt. 

It is in the work of Robert cf Glou- 

cefter written lutber. 
LITHO'GRAPHY. n.f. [*i9o ? and y^xQu.] 

The art or practice of engraving upon 

ftones. 
LI'THOMANCY. n.f. [AiSo { and pM; a .] 

Prediflion by ftones. 
As ftrange muft be the Iitir.nar.ry, or divination, 

from this ftone, whereby Hclenus the prophet fore- 

told the deftrucYion of Troy. Brnun. 

LiTHONTRi'pTicK.a<^'. [xISo,- and T^ij 

litbontriftlqtie, Fr.] Any medicine pro- 

per to diflblve the ftone in the kidneys 

or bladder. 
LITHO'TOMIST. . / [ti$o; and r//a.] 

A chirurgeon who extrafts the ftone by 

opening the bladder. 
LIFHO'TOMY. n. f. [vS-jj and r/fttw.] 

The art or practice of cutting for the 

ftone. 
LI'TIGANT. n.f. [litigant, Latin; lit!' 

gant, French.] One engaged in a fuit 

of law. 

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The caft litigant fits not down with one crofs ver- 
dict, but recommences his fuit. Delay of Piety. 

The litigants tear one another to pieces for the 
benefit of fome third intereft. L'F.Jtrangit FaHcs. 

LI'TIGANT. adj. Engaged in a juridical 
conteft. 

Judicial afts are thofe writings and matten which 
relate to judicial proceedings, and are fped in open 
court at the inftonce of one or both of the parties 
litigant. Ayliffe's Parergon. 

To LI'TIGATE. a>. a. [litigo, Latin.] To 

conteir. in law; to debate by judicial 

procefs. 
To LI'TICATE. <v. n. To manage a fuit; 

to carry on a caufe. 
The appellant, after the interpofition of an appeal, 

(till litigates in the fame caufe. Ayliffe'iPtu ergon. 
LITIGA'TION. n. f. \litigatio, Latin ; 

from litigate.] Judicial conteft ; fuit of 

law. 

Never one clergyman had experience of both liti- 

gations, that hath not conferred, he had rather have 

three fuits in Weftminfter-halJ, than one in the 

arches. Clarendon. 

LITI'GIOUS. adj. [litigitux, Frepch.] 

1. Inclinable to law-iuics; quarrelfome; 
wrangling. 

Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out ftill 
Litigious men, who quarrels move. Donne. 

His great application to the law had not infected 
his temper with any thing pofitive or litigious. 

Addifon. 

2. Disputable ; controvertible. 

In litigious and controverted caufes, the will of 
Cod is to have them to do whatfoever the fentence 
of judicial and final decifion (hall determine. 

Bmbr. 

No fences parted fields, nor marks, nor bounds, 
Diftinguifh'd acres of litigious grounds. 

Dryden' i Georg. 

LJTI'GIOUSI Y. adv. [from litigious.] 

Wranglingly. 
LITI'CIOUSNESS. n. f. [from litigious."] 

A wrangling difpofuion ; inclination to 

vexatious fuits. 
LITTER, n.f. [litiere, French.] 

1. A kind of vehiculary bed ; a carriage 
capable of containing a bed hung be- 
tween two horfes. 

To my litter ftrait; 

Weaknefs pofiefTeth me. Stakeffeare's King John. 

He was carried in a rich chariot /i/.vr-wife, with 

two horfes at each end. Bacon's Nc-w Atlantis. 

The drowfy frighted fteeds, 
That draw the fitter of clofe curtain'd Deep. 

Milton. 

Hrre modeft matrons in foft litters driv'n, 
In f jlemn pomp appear. Dryden's Atneid. 

Lit:crs thick befiege the donor's gate, 
And begging lords and teeming ladies wait 
The promis'd dole. Dryden's Ju'vtnal. 

2. The ftraw laid under animals, or on 
plants. 

To crouch in litter of your (table planks. 



Takeoff the/icr from your kernel beds. Evelyn. 
Their littir it not tofs'd by fows unclean. 

Dryden's Virgil. 

3. A brood of young. 

I do here walk before thee like a fow that hath 
overwhelmed all her litter but one. Sbattjfeare. 
'& upon that numerous titter of ftmnge, 
fcnfelrft opinions, that crawl about the world. 

South. 

A wolf came to a few, and very kindly offered to 
take caie of her litter. L'EJlrangt. 

Full many a year his hateful head had been 
For tr bute paid, nor fmce in Cambria feen : 

ill the litter 'fcap'd by chance, 
And from Geneva firft infcftcd Fiance. Dryden. 
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4. A birth of animals. 

Fruitful as the fow that carry'! 
The thirty pigs at one large litter farrow'd. 

Dryden'l jfuvensl. 

5. Any number of things thrown fluttiflily 
about. 

Strcphon, who found the room was void, 
Stole in, and took a ftrict furvey 
Of all the litter as it lay. Swift. 

To LI'TTER. <v. a. [from the noun.] 
i. To bring forth: ufed of hearts, or of 
human beings in abhorrence or con- 
tempt. 

Then was this illand, 
Save for the fen that (he did litter here, 
A freckled whelp, hag-born, not honour'd with 
A human ihape. Sbatfff care's Temfejl. 

My father named me Autolycus, being litter'd 
under Mercury, who, as I am, was likewife a fnap- 
pcr up of unconfidered trifles. Sbabefftare. 

The whelps of bears are, at firft littering, with- 
out all form or fafhion. Hiiciuill on Providence. 

We might conceive that dogs were created blind, 
becaufe we obferve they were littered fo with us. 

Broiu n. 

z. To cover with things negligently, or 
fluttifhly fcattered about. 

They found 
The room with volumes liiter'd round. Stvift. 

3. To cover with ftraw. 

He found a (tall where oxen flood, 
But for his eafe well litter'd was the floor. Dryden. 

4. To fupply cattle with bedding. 
LI'TTLE. adj. comp.lefs, fuperlat. leaft. 

[leiteh, Gothick ; lyrel, Saxon.] 

1. Small in extent. 

The coaft of Dan went out too little for them. 

Jojbua, xix. 

2. Not great ; fmall ; diminutive ; of 
fmall bulk. 

He fought to fee Jefus, but could not for the 
prefs, becaufe hewas/i'rr/i: of ftature. Luke,x\*. 3. 

His fon, being then very little, I confidercd only 
as wax, to be moulded as one pleafes. Locke. 

One wou'd have all things little ; hence has try'd 
Turkey poults, frefh from the egg, in batter fry'd. 

King. 

3. Of fmall dignity, power, or import- 
ance. 

When thou waft litt'e in thine own fight, waft 
thou not made the head of the tribes ? 

I Sam. xv.' 17. 

He was a very little gentleman. Clarendon. 

All that is palt ought to feem little to thee, be- 
caufe it is fo in itfelf. Taylor's Guide to Devotion* 

4. Not much ; not many. 

He muft be loofed a little feafon. Rcvelatiins. 
A little flecp, a little (lumber, a little folding of 
the hands to deep ; fo (h:'.ll poverty come upon thee. 

Proverbs. 

And now in little fpace 
The confines met. Milton. 

By fad experiment I know 
How little weight my words with thee can find. 

Miltox. 

A little learning is a dang'rous thing; 
Drink deep, or tafte not the Pierian fpring. Pofc. 

5. Some; not none : in this fenfe it. al- 
ways ftands between the article and the 
noun. 

I leave him to reconcile thefe contradictions, 
which may plentifully be found in him, by any one 
who will but'read with a LnU attention* ttvcke. 
LI'TTI-E. n.f. 
\. A fmall (pace. 

Much in little was writ ; and all convcy'd 
With cautious care, for fear to be betray'd. Dryden. 
z. A fmall part; a fmall proportion." 

He that defpifeth little things, Ihall pcrifli by little 
and tilth. iVc/. 



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The poor remnant of human feed which remain- 
ed in their mountains, peopled their country a^ain 
flowly, by little and little. Bacon's New Atlantic. 

By freeing the precipitated matter from the reft 
by filtration, and diligently grinding the white pre- 
cipitate with water, the mercury will little by latle be 
gathered into dtopg. B-yU. 

1 gave thee thy mafter's houfe, and the houfe of 
Ifrael and Judah ; and if that had b-en too little, I 
would have given fuch and fuch things. 

a Sam. xii. 8. 

They have much of the poetry of Maecenas;' but 
little of his liberality. Dryden. 

Nor grudge I thee the much that Grecians give, 
Nor murm'ring take the little I receive. Dryden, 

There are many exprefiions, which, carrying with 
them no clear ideas, are like to remove but lit/If of 
my ignorance. Locke, 

3. A flight affair. 

As if "'twere little from their town to chafe, 
I through the feas puifued their exil'd race. Dryd. 

I view with anger and difdain, 
How littje gives thee joy or pain : 
A print, a lironze, a flow'r, a root. Prior. 

4. Not much. 

Thefe they are fitted for, and little elfe. Cbeyne. 
LI'TTLE. ad<o. 

1. In a fmall degree. 

The received definition of names flinuld be 
changed as little as poffible. Watti's Logifk. 

2. In a fmall quantity. 

The paor deep little. Otivay. 

3. In feme degree, but not great. 

Where there is too great a thinnefs in the fluids, 
fubacid fubftances arc proper, though they are a 
little aftringent. Arbuttna. 

4. Not much. 

The tongue of the juft is as choice filver ; the 
heart of the wicked is little worth. Prim. x. 20. 

Finding him little ftudious, (he chofe rather to 
endue him with converfative qualities of youth ; as, 
dancing and fencing. Witton. 

That poem was infamoufly bad ; this parallel is 
little better. Dryden's Dstfrefroj. 

Several clergymen, othcrwife little fond of oblcure 
terms, yet in their fermons are very liberal of all 
thofe which they find in ecclefiaftical writers. 



LI'TTLENESS. n.f. [from little.~\ 

1. Smalnefs of bulk. 

All trying, by a love of littleness, 
To make abridgments, and to draw to lefs 
Even that nothing which at firft we were.- Daunt. 

We may fuppofe a great many degrees of littlcncfs 
and lightnefs in thefe earthy particles, fo as many 
of them might float in the air. En met. 

2. Meannefs ; want of grandeur. 

The Englifli and French, in verfe, are forced to 
raife their language with metaphors, by the pomp- 
oufnefs of the whole phrafe, to wear off any little- 
nrfs that appears in the particular parts. AJdiJon. 

3. Want of dignity. 

The angelick grandeur, by being concealed, djc* 

not awaken our po\erty, nor mortify our littlcnejs fo 

much, as if it was always difplayed. Collier. 

LI'TTORAL. adj. \littoralis, Latin.] Be- 

longing to the more. 

LI'TURCY. n.f. [\tiapyia. ; lilurgie, Fr.l 
Form of prayers; formulary of publick 
devotions. 

We dare not admit any fuch form of liturgy, as 

either appointeth no fcripture at all, or very little to 

be read in the church. Hooker, 

The MefTedeft of mortal wights began to be im- 

portuned, fo that a great part of divine liturgy was 

addrcrtcd folely to her. Hoyvel. 

It is the greateft folemnity of prayer, the mnft 

powerful liturgy and means of impetration in this 

world. Taylor. 

To LIVE. ij. n. [lypan, lypijan, Saxon.] 

i. To be in a ftate of animation ; to be 

not dead. 

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belly, and one at his tail, dappled with many 
black or brown fpots : his mouth, barbel-like, un- 
der his nofe. This filh is ufually full of eggs or 
fpawn, anj is by Gefner, and other phyficians, com- 
mended for great nourifliment, and to be very 
grateful both to the palate and ftomach of fick per- 
fons, and is to be filhed for with a fmall worm, at 
the bottom, for he feldom rifes above the grjtcl. 
Waltmfi Angler. 

LOAD, n / [)jlabe, Saxon.] 

1. A burthen ; a freight ; lading. 

Fair plant with fruit furcharg'd, 
Deigns none to tafe thy had, and tafte thy fweet ? 

Milton. 

Then on his back he laid the precious load, 
And fought his wonted flicker. Dryd. Nun's Tale. 

Let India boaft her groves, nor envy we 
The weeping amber, and the balmy ttee ; 
While by our oaks the precious loads are born, 
And realms commanded which thefe trees adorn. 

Pofc. 

2. Weight; preflure ; encumbrance. 

Jove lighten'd of its had 
Th' enormous mafs, the labour of a God. Pope. 

3. Weight, or violence of blows. 

Like lion mov'd they laid on load, 
And made a cruel fight. Cbny Cbace. 

Far heavier had thyfclf expect to feel 
From my prevailing arm. Milton. 

And Mnefthcus laid hard load upon his helm. 

Dryden. 

4. Any thing that deprefles. 

How a man can have a quiet and cheerful mind 
under a great burden and load of guilt, I know not, 
unlefs he be very ignorant. Ray. 

5. As much drink as one can bear. 

There are thofe that can never deep without 
their lead, nor enjoy one eafy thought, till they 
have laid all their cares to reft with a bottle. L'Eft. 

The thund'ring god, 
Ev'n he withdrew to relt, and had his load. Dryden. 

To LOAD. f. a. [preterite, loaded; par. 
leaden or laden, jjlaban, Saxon. ] 

1. To burden ; to freight. 

At lalt, ladtn with honour's fpoils, 
Returns the good Andronicus to Rome. Sfrakefp. 

Your carriages were heavy haden ; they are a bur- 
den to the bealt. Jj'a. xlvi. i. 

2. To encumber ; to embarrafs. 

He that makes no reflections on what he reads, 
only loads his mind with a rhapfody of tales, fit in 
winter nights for the entertainment of otheri. 

Lecie. 

3. To charge a gun. 

A mariner having difcharged his gun, and load- 
ing it fudJenly again, the powder took fire. Wifan. 

4. To make heavy by fomething append- 
ed or Annexed. 

Thy dreadful vow, Icajeit with death, Hill founds 
In my ftuno'd ears. Mdif,n> Cola. 

LOAD. n. f. [more properly lode, as it 
was anciently written ; from laban, 
Sixon, to lead.] The leading vein in a 
mine. 

The tin lay couched at firft in certain ftrakes 
amongft the rocks, like the veins in a man's body, 
from the depth whereof the main had fpreadeth out 
his branches, until they approach the open air. 

Carfw't Survey of Cornwall. 

Their manner of working in the lead mines, is 
to follow the load as h lieth. Cjrcw'i Sura, of Cor. 

LO'ADEK. *. /. [from load.] He who 

load?. 
LO'ADSMAN. a./. \lodt and man.] He 

who leads the way ; a pilot. 
LO'ADSTAR. n. f. [more properly as it 

is in MaundevilU , lodeftar, from Izban, 

to lead.] The polcihr ; the cynofure ; 

ihe leading or guiding ftar. 
She was the hadf.ar of my life , (he the blefiuig 



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of mine ey ; (he the overthrow of my defireJ, 

and yet the recompcnce of my overthrow. Sidney. 

My Helice, the hadflar of my life. Sf infer. 

O happy fair I 

Your eyes are hadfars, and your tongue fweet air ! 
More tuneable than lark to (hepherd's ear 
When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear. 



That clear majefty 
Which ftandeth fiVd, ytt fpreads her heavenly 

worth, 

Lodeftone to hearts, and loadjlar to all eyes. Da-vies. 
LO'ADSTONE. n. f. [properly lodejlone or 
Itrdingftone. See LOADSTAR'.] The 
magnet ; ihe Hone on which the mari- 
ners compafs needle is touched to give 
it a direction north and fouth. 

The loadjione is a peculiar and rich ore of iron, 

found in large mafles, of a deep iron-grey where 

frefh broken, and often tinged with a browni(h or 

rcddilh colour ; it is very heavy, and confiJerably 

hard, and its great character is that of affecSing 

iron. This oie of iron is found in England, and 

in moft other places where there are mines of 

that metal. Hill's Materia Midica. 

The ufe of the hadltmc was kept as fecret as 

any of the other myftenes of the art. Swift. 

LOAF. n./. [from Jjlap or lap, Saxon.] 

i. A mafs of bread as it is formed by the 

baker: a loaf is thicker than a cake. 

Eafy it is 
Of a cut AM/ to fteal a (hive we know. Shaltefpeare, 

The bread corn in the town fufficed not lor fix 
days : hereupon the foldiers entered into propor- 
tion; and, to give example, the lord Clinton limit- 
ed himfelf to a loaf a-day. Haytoard. 

With equal force you may break a loaf of bread 
into more and lefs parts than a lump of lead of the 
fame bignefs. Digby. 

3. Any thick mafs into which a body is 
wrought. 

Your wine becomes fo limpid, that you may 
bottle it with a piece of /ca/fugar in each bottle. 

Mortimer. 

LOAM. ./ [hm, laam, Saxon ; limui, 
Latin ; from Xi^r:-, a fen. Junius.] Fat, 
unctuous, tenacious earth ; marl. 
The pureft treafure 
Is fpotlefs reputation; that away, 
Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. Sbaktfp. 
Alexander returneth to duft : the duft is earth ; 
of earth we make loam ; and why of that ham 
might they not ftop a beer barrel ? Shakeffeare. 
To LOAM. v. a. [from the noun.] To 
fmear with loam, marl, or clay ; to 
clay. 

The joift ends, and girders which be in the walls, 
muft be I'.jmed all over, to preferve them from the 
corroding of the mortar. Moxcn's Mtcbar.uil Extr. 
LO'AMY. adj. [from loam.] Marly. 

The mellow earth is the beft, between the two 

extremes of clay and fand, if it be not loamy and 

binding. ^ Bacon. 

Auricula fecdlings beft like a loamy fand, or 

light moid earth ; yet rich and (haded. E-utlyn. 

LOAN. n.f. [Jjlzn, Saxon.] Any thing 

lent ; any thing given to another, on 

condition of return or repayment. 

The better fuch ancient revenues (hall be paid, 
the lefs need her nwjcity alk lublidies, fifteens, 
and loans. Bacon, 

You're on the fret, 

Becaufe, in fo debauch d and vile an agr, 
Thy friend and old acquaintance dares Jifown 
The gold you lent him? and forfwear the lean. 

Dryden. 

LOATH, adj. [la^S, Saxon.] Unwilling; 
difliking ; not ready ; not inclined. 

Thefe frefli and delightful brooks, how (lowly 
thry dide away, as Ixb to leave the company of fo 
m*ny tilings united in pcikchon ! Sia'ntj. 



L O A 

With lofty eyes, half leth to look fo low, 
She thanked them in her difdainful wile, 

Ne other grace vouchsafed them to (how 
Of princefs worthy. Fairy Quttti, 

When he heard her anfwers htk, he knew 
Some fecret forrow did her heart diftrain. Fairy Sl^ 

To fpeak fo indirectly, I am loth ; 
I'd fay the truth ; but to accufc him fo, 
That is your part. Slakeff. Meajurefor Mtafure* 

Long doth Hie ft iy, as hth to leave the land, 
From wbofe foft fide flie firft did iffue make ; 

She taftcs all places, turns to ev'ry hand, 
fler flow'ry banks unwilling to forfake. Davirt* 

Then wilt thou not be bib 
To leave this paradil'e, but (halt portefs 
A paradife within thec, happier far ! 

To pardon willing, and to punifli hth ; 
You ftrike with one hand, but you heal with both : 
Lifting up all that proftrate lie, you grieve 
You cannot make the dead again to live, (falter. 

When /Eneas is forced to kill Laufus, the poet 
ihcws him compafiionate, and is faAtodeftroy fuch, 
a maftcr-piece of nature. Dryden*. 

As fome faint pilgrim (landing* on the fliore, 
Firft views the torrent he would venture o'er : 
And then his inn upon the farther ground, 
Lett to wade through, and lather to go round : 
Then dipping in his ftaff does trial make 
How deep it is ; and, fighing, pulls it back. Dry* 

I know you fliy to be oblig'd ; 
And (till more hath to be oblig'd by me. Scutterae. 
To LOATHE, <v. a, [from the noun.] 

1. To hate ; to look on with abhorrence. 

Parthenia had learned both liking and miflik- 
ing, loving and halting. SiJtij* 

They with their filthinefs 
Polluted this fame gentle foil long time, 
Thai their own mother loath'd their beaftlinefs. 

Sfeiifer* 

How am I caught with an unwary oath, 
Not to reveal the fecret which I katb ! Waller. 

For thee the lion Uatbi the tafte of blood, 
And roaring hunts his female through the wood. 

Drydcn* 

Now his exalted fpirit Icaths 
Incumbrancci of food and cloaths. Swift. 

2. To confider with the difguft of fatiety. 

Lcaiking the honcy'd cakes, 1 long'd for bread. 

Ccivfey* 

Our appetite it extinguiihcd with the fatisfac- 
tion, and is 1'ucceeded by loathing and fatiety. 

Rogtri. 

3. To fee food with diflike. 

Loathing is a- fymptom known to attend diforders 
of the ftomach ; the cure muft have regard to the 
caufe. Satiny. 

To LOATHE, "v. n. 

1. To create difguft ; to caufe abhorrence. 
Obfolete. 

Where 1 was wont to feek the honey bee,' 
The grifly toadftool grown there might I fee, 
And hotting paddocks lording on the fame. Sfxnf. 

2. To feel abhorrence or dilgult. 

The fi(h in the river (hall die, and the river 
(link ; and the Egyptians (hall hath to drink of the 
water. Exodus. 

Why do I (by within this hated place, 
Where every objcft (hocks my hatbin? eyes > Raiae. 
I.O'ATHER. n. /. [from loath.] One that 
loaihs. 

KO'ATHFUL. &Jj. [loath and full."} 
l. Abhorring; hating. 

Which lie did with laattful eyes behold, 
He would n.) more endure. UublKift TaU. 

t. Abhorred ; hated. 

Above the reach of loathful (infill luft, 
Wh'ife bafe eriecl, through cowardly diilruft 
Of his weak wings, dare not to heaven flie. Sfatfer* 
LO'ATHINC^Y. adv. [from loath.] In 

a faftidious manner. 

LO'ATHLT. adj. [from loath.] HaiefuJ ; 
abhorred ; exciting haired. 

An 



LOB 

An huge great dragon, horrible In fight} 
Bred in the loattly lakes of Tartary, 
With murd'rous ravin. Fairy Quten. 

The people fear me ; for they do obterve 
Unfathered heirs, and loathly b'.rths of nature. 

Khakeffearet 

Sour.ey'd difdain and difcord lha!l beftow 
The union of your bed with weed> fo Icatbly, 
That you iha'il lute it. ScaKffeare'i Ttmftft. 

LO'ATHJ-Y. adv, [from lotvh.~} Unwill- 
ingly; without likirtg or inclination. 

The upper ttieams make fuch hafte to have 
their part of embracing, that the nether, though 
lotbiy, muft needs give place unto them. Siftrf. 

Lotbly oppofite I flood 
To his unnatural purpofe. Stakeffeare'i King Lear. 

This (hews that you from nature I'.atbly ftray, 
That fufter not an artificial day. Donne. 

LO'ATHNESS. n. /. [from loath.} Un- 
willingnefs. 

The fair foul herfelf 
Weigh'd between lothr.efi and obedience, 
Which end the beam mould bow. Skakeffcare. 

Should we be taking leave, 
As long a term as yet we have to live, 
The htbnefs to depart would grow. Sbaktffearc. 
After they had fat about ' the fire, there g.ew 
a general filence and latmft to fpeak amcngrt 
them; and immediately one of the weakeft fell 
down in a fwoon. Bacon. 

LO'ATHSOME. adj. [from loath.} 

1. Abhorred-; deteftable. 

The fre/h young fly 
Did much difdain to fubje<ft his defire 
To loattfome floth, or hours in eafe to wafte. 

Spenfcr. 

While they pervert pure nature's healthful rules 
To hatkfrme ficknefs. Milton's Paradife Left. 

If we confider man in fuch a !>etbiomt and pro- 
voking condition, was it not love enough that he 
was permitted to enjoy a being ? Stutb. 

2. Caufing f.uiety or faftidioufnefs. 

The fweeteft honey 
Is I'atbfomc in its own deiicioufnefs, 
Ar.d in the tafte confounds the appetite. Sbakejp. 
LO'ATHSOMENESS. n.f. [from loathfome.] 
Quality of raifing hatred, difguft, or 
abhorrence. 

The catacombs muft have been full of ftench 
nd l'.a:ty,mer.t!s, if the dead bodies that lay in them 
were left to rot in open nitches. jtddijon. 

LOAVES, plural of leaf. 

Democritui, when he lay z dying, caufed leaves 
of new bread to be opened, poured a tittle wine 
into them ; and fo kept himfelf alive with the 
odour till a feaft was paft. Bacon. 

LOB. n. f. 
1. Any one heavy, clumfy, or fluggifh. 

Farev.cl, thou lob of fpirits, I'll begone, 
Our quceo and all her elvrt come here anon. 

Sbakcfpeare. 

z. Lob's pound; a prifon. Probably a 
prifon for idlers, or fturdy beggars. 

Crowdero, whom in irons bound, 
Thou lately threw'ft into/oi's pound. Hudiiras. 

3. A big worm. 

For the trout the dew worm, which fome alfo 

call the A4 worm, and the brandling, arc the chief. 

}'r~ul!on's Angler. 

To LOB v. a. To let fall in a flovenly or 
lazy minner. 

The horfemcn fit like fixed canJlciiicks, 
And their poor jade$ 

i-jb down their heads, dropping the hide and hips. 

Shakf/feare. 

LO'BBY. n. /. \laubt, German.] An 
opening before a room. 

'His litbia fill with 'tendince, 
Rain facrificial whifp'rings in his ear, 
Make facred even his ftirrup. Shatrjjj. Tim, tfdtb. 
Eefore the duke's rifing from the table, he ituod 



LOG 

e*pecVng till he (hould pafs through a kind of 
lobby between that room and the next, where were 
divers attending him. lYotton. 

Try your backftairs, and let the loblj wait, 
A ftratagem in war is no deceit. King. 

LOBH. a./, \labe, French ; *cc;.] A di- 
vifion ; a diftinft part : ufed common!)' 
for a part of the lungs. 

Nor could the lobes of his rank liver fwell 
To that prodigious mafs, for their eternal meal. 

Dryden. 

Air bladd-rs f?rm lobuli, which hang upon 
the bronchia like bunches of grapes ; thefe lobuli 
constitute the lobe:, and the Isi^s the lungs. 

Arbutlnat tin jSlimcnt-s. 

Frr r.i whence the quick reciprocating breath, 
The /t* idhefive, and the fweat of death. Snivel. 
LO'BSTER. n.f. [lobj-re^i, Saxon.] A 
cruftaceous fifli. 

Thofe that caft their /hell, are the lobjicr, the 
crab, and craw fi/h. Bacon's Natural Hijlcry. 

It happeneth often that a Ictftr hath the great 

claw of one fide longer than the other. Brown* 

LO'CAL. adj. [local, French ; locus, Lat.] 

1. Having the properties of place. 

By afccnding, after that the (harpnefs of death 
Was overcome, he took the very local pofTcfiion of 
glory, and that to the ufe of all that are his, even 
as himfelf before had witnelTed, I go to prepare a 
place for you. Hacker. 

A higher flight the v^nt'ious goddefs tries, 
Leaving material world, and local ikies. Prior. 

2. Relating to place. 

The circumftance of local nearnefs in them unto 
us, might haply enforce in us a duty of greater 
Reparation from them than from thofe other. 

Hcoker. 

Where there is only a local circumftance of wor- 
(hip, the fame thing" would be worihipped, fup- 
pofing that circumftance changed. Stiilingjlctt. 

3. Being jn a particular place. 

Dream not of their fight, 
As of a duel, or of the local wounds 
Of head, or heel. Milton t Parad'.k I.'J. 

How is the change of being fometimes here, 
fcmetimes there, mad by loral motion in va- 
cuum, without a change in the body moved ? 

Digby on Baaks. 

LOCA'MTY. n.f. [from local.] Exift- 
ence in place ; relation of place, or 
diflance. 

That the foul and aagels are devoid of quantity 

and dimcrifion, and that they have nothing to do 

with grorTer locality, is generally opinioned. Glarru. 

LO'CALLY. ad<u. [from local.'} With re- 

fpefl to place. 

Whether things, in their natures fo divers as 
body and fpirit, which almoft in nothing commu- 
nicate, are not elTcntially divided, though not locally 
diftant, I leave to the readers. Glan r v\lU. 

LOCA'TION. n.f. [locatio, Latin.] Situ- 
ation with refpect to place ; aft of pla- 
cing ; (late of being placed. 

To fay that the woild is fomewhere, means no 
more than that it does exift ; this, though a phrafe 
borrowed from plicc, fignifying only its exigence, 
not location. Locke. 

Lcc-y. n f. A lake. Scottifh. 

. p. lake or loch, that has no frefli water run- 
ning into it, will turn into a (linking puddle. 

Cheyne's ftouf. Principles. 

LOCK. f. [loc, Saxon, in both fenies.] 

i. An inftrument compofed of fprings and 

bolts, ufcil to fallen doors or chells. 

No gate fo firing, no lock fo firm and faft, 

But with that piercing noife flew open quit or braft. 

Fairy S^uctn. 

We hive /;,-*', to fafeguard necefTariet, 
And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves. 

Sbakcfficare. 
As there are locks for fcveral purposes, io are 



LOG 

there fevcral Inventions in locks, in contriving their 
wards or guards, Maxon. 

z. The part of the gun by which fire is 
ftruck. 

A gun carries powder and bullets for feven charges 
and discharges : under the breech of the barrel is 
one box for the powder ; a little before the lock, 
another for the bullets; behind the cock a charger, 
which carries the powder to the farther end if the 
/,ii. Creiu, 

3. A hug; a gripple. 

They muft be praftifed in a'! the loch and gripes 
of wreltling, as need may often be in fight to 
tugg or grapple, and to cble. Mihon on Education* 
4.. Any incioluie. 

Sergefthus, euger with his beak to piefs 
Betwixt the rival gaily and the rock, , 
Shuts up the unwieldy centaur in the lock. Dryin. 

5. A quantity of hair or wool hanging 
together. 

V/ell might he perceive the banging of her hair 
in hcli, fome curled, and fome forgotten. Sidney, 

A goodly cyprcls, who bowing her fair head 
over the water, it feemeth (he looked into it, and 
drelfcd her gieen locks by that running river. 

Sidney* 

His grizly bets, long growen and unbound, 
Dilordeied hung about his ihoulders round. Spcnfir* 

The bottom was fet againft a lock of wool, and 
the found was quite deaded. Bacon, 

They nourifli only a lock of hair on the crown of 
their heads. SjnJys's Travels. 

A lock of hair will draw more than a cable rope. 

Grew, 

Behold the locks that are grown white 
Beneath a helmet in your father's battles. Addifcn, 

Two loiks that graceful hung behind 
In equal curls, and well-confpir'd to deck 
With mining ringlets her fmooth iv'ry neck. Pope, 

6. A tuft. 

I (uppofe this letter will find thec picking of 
dailies, or fmcliing to a kik of hay. 
To LOCK. <v. a. [from the noun.] 
i. To (hut or fallen with locks. 

The garden, feated on the level floor, 
She left behind, and licking ev'ry door, 
Thought all lecuie. Drydeit. 

z. To Ihut up or confine, as with locks. 

I am lech in one of them ; 
If you do love me, you will find me out. Shakcfy. 

We do Ixk 
Our former fample in our Itrong-barr'rt gates. 

Shektfpcare. 
Then feek to know thofe things which make us 

Weft, 

And having found them, lock them in thy brcaft. 

Denbam. 

The frighted dame 

The log in fccret lotk'd. Drydtx's Ovid. 

If the door to a council be kept by armed men, 
and all fuch whofe opinions are not liked kept out, 
the freedom of thofc within is infringed, and all 
their aits are as void ae if they were hiked in. 

Dry/ten. 

One conduces to the poet's completing of his 
work; the other (lackens his pace, and locks him 
up like a knight-errant in an enchanted caftle. 

Dryticn s Dedication to the Mnc'id, 
The father of the gods 
Confin'd their fury to thofe dark abodes, 
And lo<k*d 'i-m fate within, opprefs'd with moun- 
tain ! '.ids. Drydeit's j&mid, 
If one third of the money in trade were loclid 
up, xnuft. not the landholders receive one third i 1' ? 

Locke, 

Always lock up a cat in a clofet where you keep 
your china plates, for fear the mice may fteal in 
and break them. Swift, 

Your wine locked up, 
Plain milk will do the feat. Pope's Horace. 

3. To clofe fait 

Death blurts his bloom, and locks his frozen eyes. 

Cay. 

To 



L O D 

*fa LOCK. v. it. 

1. To become faft by a lock. 

For not of wood, nor of enduring 
Poubly ilifpartrd it did h t and dole, 
1-rut when it lotted, none might through it pafs. 

fairy Z^uctr,* 

2. To unite by mutual infection. 

Either they Ink into each other, or flip one upon 
mnothrr's furfice ; as much of their furfjoes tnuthcs 
as make! them cohere. By!:. 

LO'CKER. a. /. [from Ice k.] Anything 
that is clofed with a lock ; a drawer. 

I made lockers or drawers at the -end of the boat. 
Rotinfcn Crufce. 

LO'CKET. a. /. [leguet, French.] A 
fmall lock ; any catch or fpring to fatten 
a necklace, or other ornament. 

Where knights are kept in narrow lifts, 
With wooden lotiets 'bout their wriih. Uudibrai. 

LO'CKRAM. n.f. A fort of coarfe linen. 

Hanmer. 

The kitchen malkin pins 
'Her riched l^kram about her reeky neck, 
Ciamb'ring the wall; to eye him. Sbakeffeare. 

LO'CKRON. n, /. A kind of ranun- 
culus. 

LocoMo'rioN.s.y. [locus zn& mo l us, 'Lit.} 
Power of changing place. 

All progrefiion, or animal locomotion, is perform- 
ed by drawing on, or impelling forward, lome part 
which was before at quiet. Brown's Vulgar Err. 
LOCOMO'TI vt.adj. [locus and moiieo, Lat.] 
Changing place ; having the power of 
removing or changing place. 

I (ball confider the motion, or hcomct'rve faculty 
of animals. Deriam's Ptyjlca-Tkeology. 

In the night too oft he kick?, 
Or (hows his locomuivt tricks. Prior. 

An animal cannot well be defined from any par- 
ticular organical part, nor from its Itevmctlve fa- 
culty, for fome adhere to rocks. Arbuihn't. 

LO'CUST. n.f. \locufta, Latin.] A de- 
vouring infeft. 

The Hebrews had (Vveral forts of locufls, which 
ate not known among us : the old hidorians and 
modern travellers remark, that locufls are very nu- 
merous in Africk, and many places of Ana j that 
Jbmetimes they fall like a cloud upon the country, 
and eat up every thing they meet with. Mofes de- 
icribts frur forts of locujis. Since there was a pro- 
hioition againfl ufing /w/?j,it is nottobe nuedion- 
ed but that thefe creatures were commonly eaten in 
yaleftine, and the neighbouring countries. Calmet. 

'J 'o-moriew will 1 bring the Ucujis into thycoaft. 

F.xcdus. 

Air replete with the fleams of animals rotting, 
ha-, produced peftilcntij! levers; fuch have like wile 
been railed by great ijuantitiej of dead !.ci-jt\. 

Arlutbntt on Air. 
LOCUST-TKEE. n. /. 

Tl-,-' araji-trtr hath a papilionaceous flower, from 
whofe calyx arifes the pointal, which afterwards be- 
comes an unicapfuUr hard pod, including 
hard feeds, which are furrounded with a fungous 
(hingy fubdance. M.l.rr. 

Lo'nEsTjAR. See LOADSTAR. 
LO'DESTONB. See LOAPSTONE. 
'/a LODGE, -v. a. [lojian, Saxon; loger, 
French.] 

1. To pl.ice in a temporary habitation. 

When he was cnme to the court of France, the 

king dilcu him by the name of the duke of York ; 

lulled him, and accommodated him, in gre.it date. 

Baton's Henry VII. 

2. To afford a temporary dwelling ; to 
fupply with harbour for a night. 

Ev'ry houfc was pr md to hJge a knight. Dryd. 

3. To place ; to plant. 

Whn on the brink the foam'ng boar I mrt, 
.And in his fide thought to have l:dg'd ply f; car, 



L O D 

Tl.r dtfp'nte favaje ruflVd witliin my force, 
And bore me headlong with him d.nvn the rock. 

0HMJN 

He ltdg'J on arrow in a tender bread, 
That had fo often to his own been preir. Mil' fin. 

In viewing a.;iin the ideas that are loi!ge,i in the 
memory, O-i- mind is more than pallive. La'.kc. 

4. To hx ; to fettle. 

By whofe fell working I was fir ft advanc'd, 
And by whofe pow'r 1 well might ledge a fear 
To be again dilplac'd. Sbakefpcart. 

I can give no reafon, 

More than a hdg'd hate, and a certain loathing' 
1 bear Antonio. Sbaktfptare's Mertbant of VcniLt. 

5. To place in the memory. 

This cunning the king would not underftand, 
though he lodged it, and noted it, in f-mS particu- 
lars. Etiion's Henry Vjl. 

6. To harbour or cover. 

The deer is lodg'd, I've track'd her to her covert ; 
Rufh in at once. jidd.jln's Ca(o. 

7. To afford place to. 

The memory can lodge a greater (lore of images, 
than all the fenfes can prefent at one time. 

dyne's Phil. Principles. 

8. To lay flat. 

Though bladed corn be hdg'd, and trees blown 

d >\vn, 
Though caftles topple on their warders heads. 

Sbakefeeare* 

We'll make foul weather with defpifed tears ; 
Our fighs, and they, (h:iA lodge the lummer corn, 
And make a dearth in this revolting land. Sbak-fy. 
To LODGE. <u. n. 

1. To refide ; to keep refidence. 

Care keeps his watch in ev'ry old man's eye, 
And where cmhiigeth, (leq> will never lie. Sbaktf. 

Something holy lodges in that bread, 
And with thefs raptures moves the vocal air 
To teftify his hidden refidence. " Milton. 

And dweils fuch rage in fofteft bofoms then ? 
And kdgc fuch daring fouls in little men? Pope. 

2. To take a temporary habitation. 

Why commands the king, 

That his chief followers Mgt in towns about him, 
While he himfelf keepeth in the cold field 

I know not where he lodges; and for me to de- 

vife a lodging, and fay, he lies here or he lies 

there, were to lie in mine own throat. Sbakefbecrt* 

Thy father is a man of wjr, and will not lodge 

with the people. Samuel. 

5. To take up refidence at night. 

My lords 
And foldierj, (lay and lodge by me this nijht. 

Sbakejfitrc. 

Oh, that I had in the wildernffs a lodging place 
of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people ! 

J'' r 

Here thou art but a ftranger travelling to thy 
country ) it is therefore a huge fully to be airlifted, 
becaufc thou haft a kfb convenient inn to Mge in 
by the way. Taylor. 

4. To lay flat. 

T^ong cone wheat they reckon in Oxfordlhiie 
bed for rank clays ; and its draw makes it not fub- 
jeil to tod^t^Qi to be mildewed. Mj'imtr** ll'ijb. 
LoncE. n. /. \ltgii, French.] 
I. A fmall houfe in a park or foreft. 

He brake up his court, and retired himfelf, his 
wife and children, into a certain forefl thereby, 
which he c.<lltth his defart, whtrcin he fa- 
two fine /cdret. Sidn y. 

I founJ him as melancholy as a lodge in a uar- 
ren. 

He and hU lady both are at the Mgt, 
Upon the north lide of this pleafant i 

Thus at tlirir lhady ludge arriv'd, both flood, 
Both timi'd, and under open Iky ador'd 
The God that made both (ky, air, e.uth. 

Whenever I am turned out, my hdgi defcends 
upon a low-fpiritcd family. Sti'ir't. 

^. Any fmall lioufe appendaut to a greater: 
as, the porter's hJge, 



I, O F 

LO'DCEMEVT. n.f. [from l</Jgt\ Iogetntnt, 
French.] 

1. Difpofuion or collocation in a certain, 
place. 

The curious hiftmat and inofculation of ih 
BiiJitory nerves. D.. 

2. Accumulation ; colleclion. 

An oppreflcd ditphragrn from a mere hJgnfnt 
of cstravafatcd matter. Hbjrf'i Surgery. 

3. Pofleffion of the enemy's work. 

The military pedant is making h-Jginrnis, and 
fighting battles, from one end of the year to the 
other. jtd 

-Lo'ncER. n /. [from lodge.} 

1. One who lives in rooms hired in the 
houfe of another. 

Safe tyke, cali'fl thou me hofl ' nr.v, 1 fci>rn 
the term ; nor (hall my Nell k< 

1 here wr.e in a family, the man ar.,1 hii itc, 
three children, and three fervants or hdgtrs. 

Grtn.r.t't Bills. 

Thcfc houfes are fooneft infefled that are 
crowded with multiplicity of ledgers, and nafty 
families. 

The gentlewoman begged me to (lop ; for that 
a lodger (he had talcen in was run mad. 

Sylla was reproached by his fellow lodger that 
whilft the fellow ledger paid eight pounds one (hil- 
ling and fivepence halfpenny for the uppeim>lt 
dory, he paid for the reft twenty-four pounds four 
(hillings and fourpence halfpenny. jirbutbrat, 

2. One that rendes in any place. 

Look in that bread, mod dirty dear; 
Say, can you find but one fuch lodger there? Pope, 
LO'DOING. n.f. [from loJge.~\ 
i. Temporary habitation ; rooms hired 
in the houfe of another. 

I will in Cartio's lodging lofe this napkin, 
And let him find it. Sla't-ffeaic'i Otbrlto. 

Let him change his lodging from one end of the 
town to another, which is a great adamant of ac- 
quaintance. Bacon* 

At night he came 
To his known lodgings, and his country dame. 

DryJtn, 

He defired his fifter to bring htr away to the 
lodgings of his friend. dddifcn's Guardian. 

Wits take lodgings in the found of Bow. Pope* 
z. Place of relidence. 

Fair bofom fraught with virtue's richefl treafure, 
The neft of love, tinltdgirg of del ght, 

The bower of blifs, the paradife of pleaf'ire, 
The facred harbour of that heavenly fpright. 

3. Harbour ; covert. 

The hounds were uncoupled ; and the dag 
thought it better to trufl to the nimblencfs of his 
feet, than to the (lender fortification of his /edging. 

Sidney* 

4. Convenience to fleep on. 

Their feathers fcrve to duff' our beds and pillows, 

yielding us ("oft and warm lodging. Ray on Creation. 

LOFT. n.f. \lloft, Wellh ; or from lift.] 

1. A floor. 

-hus fell down from the third foft. Afts. 
There is a traverfe placed in a/o/> above. B.i.cn, 

2. The highfft floor. 

To lull him in his (lumber foft, 
A trickling dream from high rock tumbling down, 

And ever drizzling rain upon the loft, 
Mint with a murmuring wind. Fairy Sateen* 

3. Rooms on high. 

Parting through the fphcres of watchful fire, 
And hills of fnow, and lofts of piled thunder. Afifr. 

A weafel once made Ihift to (l:nk 
In at a corn loft, tlipm^h j clunk. P''t>e 

LO'FTILY. ad--u. [from lofty.} 
l. On high ; in an elevated place, 
z. Proudly; haughtily. 

They fpe.ik wickedly concerning oppreflion: 
they f t .cak hfiilj. Pfal. Ixiiii. S. 

3. With 



LOG 

3. With elevation of language or fenti- 

roent ; fublimely. 
My lowly vcrfe may hftili arife, 

And lift itfelf unco the highelt /kies. Fairy Quetti. 
LO'PTINESS. n. f. [from lofty.] 

1. Height; local elevation. 

2. Sublimity ; elevation of fentiment. 

Three poets in three diftant ages born ; 
The firft in '.oftinefs of thought furpafs'd, 
The next in raajefty ; in bjth the laft. Drydctt. 

3. Pride; haughtinefs. 

Auguftus and Tiberius had loftincfs enough in 
their temper, and aftecled to make a fovereign 
figure. Cchier. 

LO'FTY. adj. [from loft, or lift.] 

1. High ; hovering ; elevated in place. 

Cities or" men with lofty gates and t jw'rs. MUton. 
See hfty Lebanon his head advance, 
See nodding forefts on the mountains dance. Pope. 

2. Elevated in condition or character. 

Thus faith the high and lofty One. Jj'aiab. 

3. Sublime; elevated in ientiment. ' 

He knew 
Himfelf to fing, and build the lofy rhime. Milton. 

4. Proud ; haughty. 

The eyes of the lefty (hall be humbled. Ij'aiab. 

jnd foor to them that lov'd him not ; 
But to thofe men tha foughthim, fweet as fummer. 

Sbakcfpeare. 

Man, the tyrant of our fex, I hate, 
A lowly fervant, but a lofty mate. Dryden. 

LOG. a. f. [Ihe original of this word 
is not known. Skinner derives it from 
lijjan, Saxon, to lie ; Junius from 
logge, Dutch, fluggifli ; perhaps the 
Latin, lignum, is the true original.] 

1. A IhapeJe/s bulky piece of wood. 

Would the lightening had 
Burnt up thofe logs that thou'rt injoin'd to pile. 

Sbakcfpeare. 

The worms with many feet are bred under logs 
of timber, and many times in gardens, where no 
%' " e - Bacon. 

Some hg, perhaps, upon the waters fwam, 
An ufelcfs drift, which rudely cut within, 

And hollow'd, firft a floating trough became, 
And cn.fs fome riv'iet paflaje did begin. Drydtn. 

2. An Hebrew meafure, which held a 
quarter of a cab, and confequently five- 
iixths of a pint. According to Dr. 
Arbnthnot it was a liquid meafure, the 
feventy.fecond part of the bath or 
ephah, and twelfth part of the hin. 

Cat met. 

A meat offering mingled with oil, and one to? of 
oil- L.v. 

LO'CARITHMS. n. /. [logarithme, Fr. 
[>^c! and a.^.9^o-.] 

Logarithms, which are the indexes of the ratios 
of numbers one to another, were firft invented by 
Napier lord Merc ifon, a Scottifh baron, and af- 
f-r.vards completed by Mr. Brijgs, Savilian pro- 
fefibr at Oxford. They are J feries of artificial 
i' infers c-.ntrived for the expedition of calcula- 
tion, and proceeding in an arithmetical propor- 
tion, as the numbers they anlwer to do in a geo- 
metrical one ; for inftar.ce, 
0123456 7 g 9 
i 2 4 8 16 31 64 128 156 51* 
Where the numbers above, beginning with (o), 
ami arithmetically proportional, aie called logarithm. 
'I l,e addition and fubtmftiun of l^ritbms anfwers 
to the multiplication ail diviiin of the numbers 
they correfpond with ; and this fives an infinite deal 
of trouble. In like manner will the extraction of 
roots be performed, by Hiflefting the logan'tmi of 
in> numbers for the fquarc root, and trifecling 
them for the cube, and fo on. Harris. 

S. n./. 

t is the aacient name of a play or game, 
5- 



LOG 

which is one of the unlawful gamee enumerate< 
in the thirty-third ftatute of Henry VIII. It is 
the fame which is now called klttie-pins, in which 
boys often make ufe of bones inftead of wooden 
pins, throwing at them with another bone infteac 
of bowling. Hanmer. 

Did thefe bones coft no more the breeding, but 
to play at loggats with them ? Siatiff. Ham/ft. 
LO'CCERHEAD. n.J. [logge, D utch,y?a/;V, 
and head; or rather from log, a heavy 
motionlefs mafs, as blockhead.] A dolt; 
a blockhead ; a thickfcul. 

Where haft been, Hal? 

With three or four loggerheads, amongft three 

or four fcore huglhcads. Sbakelf tare's Henry IV. 

Says this liggerl-ead, what have we to do to 

quench other people's fires ? L'Eftrangc. 

To fall to LOGGERHEADS. ) Tofcuffle; to 
To go to LOGGERHEADS, j fight with- 
out weapons. 

A couple of travellers that took up an afs, fell 
to hggcrbcadi which fliould be his mafter. L'EJtr. 
LO'GCERHEADED. adj. [from loggerhead.} 
Dull; itupid; doltim. 

You loggerbeaded and unpolifli'd groom, what \ 

no attendance ? Sbalefpcare's Taming of the Shrcia. 

LO'GICK. n.f. [logique, French ; logica, 

Latin, from Aoyi,<.J The art of reafon- 

ing. One of the feven fciences. 

Logic k is the art of ufing reafon well in our en- 
quiries after truth, and the communication of it 
to others. Wants Loguk. 

Talk l.gick with acquaintance, 
And praftife rhetorick in your common talk. 

Sbakefpeare. 

By a logick that left no man any thing which he 
might call his own, they no more looked upon it 
as the cafe of one man, but the cafe of the king- 
dom - Clarendon. 

Here foam'H rrb-llious logicl, gagg'd and bound, 
There ftript fair rhetorick languifli'd on the ground. 

Pope. 
Lo CICAL. adj. [from logick.] 

1. Pertaining to logick; taught in logick 

The heretick complained greatly of St. Auguf- 
tine, as being too full of logical lubtilties. hooker. 

Thofe who in a logical difpute keep in general 
tarms, would hide a fallacy. Dryden. 

We ought not to value ourfelves upon Durabi- 
lity, in giving fubtile rules, and finding out logical 
arguments, fince it wouJd be more perfection not 
to want them. Baktr. 

2. Skilled in logick; furnifhed with lo- 
gick. 

A man who fets up for a judge in criticifm, 
fliould have a clear and logical head. jUdlfa. 

LO'CICALLY, adv. [from logical.] Ac- 
cording to the laws of logick. 

How can her old good man 
With honour take her back again ? 
From hence I lugitally gather, 
The woman cannot live \vith either. Prior. 

LOCI'CIAN. n.f. [logicien, French; la 
gicui, Latin.] A teacher or profeflbr of 
iogick ; a man verfed in logick. 

If a man can play the true logician, and have as 
well judgment as invention, he may do great mat- 
tcrs - Bacon. 

If we may believe our logicians, man is diftin- 
guiflied from all other creatuies by '.lie faculty of 
'" u : >'> Adaifoa. 

Each ftaunch polemick fluhborn as a rock, 
Each fierce logician ftill expelling Locke, 
Came whip and fpur. p^,-, Dunciad. 

A 1 gldan might put a cafe that would ferve for 
an exception. Stvift. 

The Arabian phyficianj were fubtile men, and 
moft of them logl, ins ; accordingly they have given 
method, and ihed fubtilty upon tlieir author. Baker. 
LO'CMAN. . / [log and man.] Cne 
whofe buGnefs.is to carry logs. 



L QL 

For your fake 

jyn I this patient logman. Sbakrffure't Ttixfc/!. 
Lo COM ACHY. n.f. [^o^a^ia.] A COH- 

tention in words; a contention about 
words. 

Forced terms of art did much puzzle facred 

theology with diltinftions, cavils, quiddities; and 

fo transformed her to a meer kind of fophiftry and 

logomachy. Hmutl. 

LO'GWOOD. n.f. 

Logwood is of a very denfe and firm texture ; and 

is the heart only of the tree which produces it. It 

is very heavy, and remarkably hard, and of a deep,. 

ftrong, red colour. It grows both in the Eaft and 

Weft Indies, but no where fo plentifully as on the 

coaft of the bay of Campeachy. Hill's Mat. Med. 

To make a light purple, mingle cerufe with log- 

miod water. Peacbam. 

LO'HOCK. n.f. 

Lobock is an Arabian name for thofe forms of me- 
dicines which are now commonly called eclegmas, 
lambatives, or linftufes. Quincy.- 

Lobocks and pectorals were prefcribed, and vene- 
feftion repeated. IPifeman's Sui-gvy.. 

LotN. n.f. \ll<wyn, Welfh.] 
i. The back of an animal carved out by 

the butcher, 
z. Loins; the reins. 

My face I'll grime with filth, 
Blanket my loins. Stakefprare's King Lear,- 

Then flander of thy heavy mother's womb ! 
Thou loathed iflue of thy father's him ! Sbateff^ 

Virgin mother, hail ! 

High in the love of Heav'n ! yet from my loini~~ 
Thou (halt proceed, and from thy womb the Son 
Of God moft high. Milton' i Paradife Lift. 

A multitude! like which the populous north 
Pour'd never from her frozen loins, to pafs 
Rhene, or the Danaw, when her b-irbarous >fons 
Came like a deluge on the fouth. Milnr.. 

BLOTTER..!,, n. \loteren, Dutch.] To 
linger - r to fpend time carelefsly; to 
idle. 

Sir John, you loiter here too long, being you are- 
te take foldiers up in the countries. Sbakejfeare. 

Whence this long delay ? 
You Utter, while the fpoils are thrown away. Dryd. 

Mark how he fpends his time, whether he un- 
aftively loiten it away. * Locked 

If we have gone wrong, let us redeem the mif- 
take ; if we have loitered, let us quicken out 1 pte,. 
and make the moft of the prefent opportunity. 

Rogers. 

LO'JTERER. n.f. [from loiter.] A linger- 
er ; an idler ; a lazy wretch ; one who 
lives without bufmefs ; one who is flug- 
gifh and dilatory. 

Give gloves to thy reapers a largefs to cry, 
And daily to /M>rro-j.have a good eye.. buffer's Ilujb^ 

The poor, by idlem-fi orunthriftinefs, are riotous 
fpcnders, vagabonds, and loiterers. Hay-ward.. 

Where haft them been, thou loiterer f 
Though my eyes clos'd, my, arms have ftill been 

open'd, 
To fearch if thou wert come. Otway. 

Providence would only enter mankind into the 
ufeful knowledge of her treafures, leaving the reft 
to employ our induftry, that w; live not like idle 
loiterers and truants. Mote, 

Ever liftlefs hVrers, that attend 
No caufe, no truft, no duty, and no friend. P pe.. 
To LOLL. <v. n [Of thii v.ord the ety- 
mology is not known. Perhaps it might 
be contemptuously derived from UlarJ, 
a name of great reproach before the re- 
formation ; of whom one tenet was,, 
thnt all trades not neceft'diy to life are 
unlawful.] 

To lean idly ; to reft lazily againft any, 
thing.. 

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L O 



L O N 



L O N 



So binjs, and hilt, and wpl upon me ; (- 
fliakct and pulls me. Sbaimtrfi OtfeUe. 

He is not /.'/. : rg- on a lewd l<ne bed, 
But on his knees .it meditation. XbakJf. Rirb. III. 

Clufe by a fottly murm'ring rtreani, 
Where lovers us d to loll and dream. Hitdihrat. 

To /o// on crouches, rich with cytron fteds, 
And lay your guilty limbs in Tyrian beds. Drydtn. 

Void of care he / 7/j lupine in ilatc, 
And leaves his bufincfs to be done by fa'.-. Diydeti. 

But wanton now, and /o//in at our cafe, 
We fuffer all the invet'rate ills of peace. Dryden. 

A lazy, lolling fort 
Of ever liftlcfs loit'rers. Dunciad. 

2. To hang our. Ufed of the tongue 
hanging out in wearinefs or play. 

The triple porter of the Stygian feat, 
With lolling tongue lay fawning at thy feet. Dryd. 
With harrhlels play amidft the bowls he pat's d, 
And with his kiting t.mgue alVay'd the tatte. Dryd. 
To LOLL. i/. a. To put out: ufed of the 
tongue exerted. 

All ,'uthors to the'r own defects are blind ; 
Kadft thou but, Janus-like, a face behind, 
To fee the people, when fplay mouths they make, 
To maik their fingers pointed at thy back, 
Their tongues loll'd out a foot. Dryden'i Perjius. 

By Strymon's freezing ftreams he fat alone, 
Trees bent their heads to hear him fmg his wrongs, 
Fierce tygers couch'd around, and loU\t their fawn- 
ing tongues. Dry&n't Virgil. 
LOMT. n.f. A kind of roundiili fifh. 
LONE. a<z)'. [contijiled from alcnt.] 

1. Solitary; unfrequented; having no 
company. 

Here the Icne hour a blank of life difplays. 

Savage* 

Thus vanifh fceptres, coronets, and balls, 
And leave you in lone woods, or empty walls. Pope. 

2. Single; not conjoined or neighbouring 
to others. 

No lane houfe in Wales, with a mountain and a 
rookery, is more contemplative than this court. 

Pope. 
LO'NELINESS. n.f. [from lonely,] 

1. Solitude; want of company. 

The huge and fportful aflembly grew to him a 
tedious lonttinefs, efteeming nobody fince Daiphan- 
tui was loft. Sidney. 

2. Difpofuion to folitude. 

Ifee 

The myftery of your lonelinefs, and find 
Ycur fait tears head. Shaktfytart* 

LO'NELY. adj. [from lone.] 

1. Solitary. 

I go alone, 

Like to a lonely dragon ; that his fen 
Makes fcar'd and talk'd of more th in feen. Siat. 

Why thus clofe up the Mars 

That nature hung in heav'n, and fill d their lamps 
With everlafting oil, to give due light 
To the milled and lonely traveller? Milton. 

Time has made you dote, and vainly tell 
Of arms imagin'd, in your lonely cell. Dryden. 

2. Addicted to folitude. 

When, faireft princefs, 
You lonely thus from the full court retire, 
Love and the graces follow to your folitude. RMUC, 

LO'NENESS. n.f. [from lone.] Solitude; 
diilike of company. 

If of court life you knew the gooj, 
You would leave lonentfi. Donne. 

I can love her who loves Icnenrji beft. Donne. 

LO'NESOME. adj. [from lont.] Solitary; 
difmal. 

You either mutt the earth from reft diflurb, 
Or roll around the heavens the folar orb ; 
Elfe what a dreadful face will nature wear ? 
How horrid will thcfc lonejome feats appear ? Blackm. 

LONG. atij. [long, French; longui, Latin.] 

1. Not fliort : ufed of time. 



He talked a long while, even till break of day. 

Alii, xx. 
He was dcfirous to fee him of a long fcafon. 

Lute, xxiii. 
z. Not fhort: ufcd of fpace. 

Emp'refi, the way is ready, and not long. 

Miltcn. 

3. Having one of iti geometrical dimen- 
fions in a greater degree than either of 
the other. 

His branches became lore bccaufc of the waters. 

SftUtl. 

We made the trial in a lor.g neck'd phial left 
open at the top. Boyle. 

4. Of any certain meafure in length. 

Women eat their children of a fpan long. 

Lam. ii. 20. 

Thefe, as a line, their long dimensions drew, 
Streaking the ground with finuous trace. Milton. 

The fig-tree fpreads her arms, 
Branching fo broad and l:rtg. Milton. 

A pond'rous mace, 

Full twenty cubits long, he fwings around. Poft. 
;. Not foon tearing, or at an end. 

Man goeth to his long home. Ecclef. xii. c. 

Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy 

days may be Urtg upon the land. Exodus, xx. iz. 

They open to therhfelves at length a way 
Up hither, under long obedience try'd. Milton. 

Him after lor.g debate of thoughts revolv'd 
Irrcfolate, his final fentence chofc. Milton. 

Lor.g and ceafelefs hifs. Milton. 

6. Dilatory. 

Death will not be long in coming, and the cove- 
nant of the grave is not mewed unto thee. 

Ealui.vv. 12. 

7. Tedious in narration. 

Chief matVry to diiTeft, 
With long and tedious hivock, fabled knights. 

Milton. 

Reduce, my mufe, the wand'ring fong, 
A tale mould never be too long. Prior. 

3. Continued by fucceflion to a great 
Jerks. 

Put firft a long fucceflion muft enfue. Milton. 

9. [From the verb, To long.] Longing ; 

defirous : or perhaps long continued, 

from the difpofition to continue looking 

at any thing defired. 

Praying for him, ajid carting a long look that 
way, he (Aw the galley leave the purfuit. Sidney. 

By ev'ry circumftance I know he loves ; 
Yet he but doubts, and parlies, and carts out 
Many a long look for fuccour. Drjdtn. 

to. [In mufick and pronunciation.] Pro- 
tracted : as, a long note ; a long fyllable. 
LONG adv. 

1. To a great length in fpace. 

The marble brought, erects the fpacious dome, 
Or forms the pillars /oig-extended rows, 
On which the planted grove and pcnfile garden 
grows. Prior. 

2. Not for a (hort time. 

With mighty barres of /orj;-enduring brafs. 

Fairfax. 

When the trumpet fonndeth long, they mall 
come up to the mount. Exodus, xix. 1 3. 

The martial Ancus 
Furbilh'd the rudy fword again, 
Refum'd the /ir^-forgotten wield. Drydtn, 

One of thcl'e advantages, which Corncille has 
laid down, is the making choice of fome fignal and 
/5^-cx[iefted day, whereon the aftion of the play 
is to depend. D>yjcn. 

So flood the pious prince unmov'd, and hng 
Sultain'd the madricfs of the noify throng. / 

The mufe refumes her A>nf-forgotten lays, 
And love, reftor'd, his ancient realm furvcys. 

Dry den, 

No man has complained that you have difconi led 
too long on any fubjeft, for you leave us in an 
cajjernoi's of lc.uuing more. Drydcn* 



Perfia left for you 

The realm of Candahar for dow'r I brought, 
That Am-contended prize for which you fought. 

Drydrn. 

It may help to put an end to that /o-agiutcd 
and unreafonable queliion, whether man'* will b: 
free or no ? 

Heav'n reftores 
To thy fond wiih the /(Wf-cxpcfted (hores. Poft. 

3. In the comparative, it fignifiesfor more 
time ; and in the fuperlative, for moll 
time. 

When the could not /tnger hide him, (he took 
for him an ark of bullrumes. Excdus, ii. 3. 

F.ldeft parents llgnifies either the eldcft men and 
women that h.'ve had children, or thole who have 
Icngtjl had irtue. L;:kr. 

4. Not foon. 

Not long after there arofe agiinft it a tcm- 
pelruous wind. ASli, xxvii. 14. 

5. At a point of duration far diflant. 

If the world had been eternal, thofe would have 
been found in it, and generally fpread long ago, and 
beyond the memory of all ages. Tillttfon. 

Sav, that you once were virtuous long ago ? 
A frugal, hirdy people. Pbilifs'i Brittm. 

6. [For along ; ait long, Fr.] All along ; 
throughout : of time. 

Them among 

There fat a man of ripe and pcrfefl age, 
Who did them meditate all his life Icrg. Fairy <%u. 

Some fay, that ever 'gainft that feafon comas, 
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, 
The bird of dawning fmgeth all night kng,