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They intend not your precise abstinence from any light and labourless work.

Brerewood. On the Sabbath, (1630.) p. 48.

The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life, which it annually consumes, and which consists always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.-Smith. Wealth of Nations, vol. i. Introd.

The number of useful and productive labourers, is every where in proportion to the quantity of capital stock which is employed in setting them to work, and to the particular way in which it is so employed.-Id. Ib.

Why does the juice, which flows into the stomach, contain powers which make that bowel the great laboratory, as it is by its situation the recipient, of the materials of future nutrition?-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 7.

Those who have dragged their understanding laboriously along the tiresome circuit of ancient demonstration, may be unwilling to grant that they have taken all these pains to no purpose.-Beddoes. On the Elements of Geometry, Ded. 11. LABURNUM.

Plinie.

See the quotation from

The cypresse, walnut, chesnut-trees, and the laburnum, cannot in any wise abide waters. This last named, is a tree proper unto the Alpes, not commonly knowne: the wood thereof is hard and white: it beareth a blossome of a cubite long, but bees will not settle upon it.

Holland. Plinie, b. xvi. c. 18.

And pale laburnum's pendent flowers display
Their different beauties.-Dodsley. Agriculture, c. 2.
Laburnum, rich

In streaming gold.
Couper. Task, b. vi.
LABYRINTH. Fr. Labyrinthe; It. and
LABYRINTHIAN. Sp. Labarin, Lat. Laby
rinthus ;
Gr. Aaßupiveos; Locus viarum amba-
gibus ad capiendum aptus, from λaß-ew, to take.

A place formed to take or hold, confine, or keep within; difficult to pass through or escape from; formed with many windings or turnings, or intricate, involved, or perplexed ways or paths: as applied generally,-intricacy, perplexity.

Since wee have finished our obeliskes and pyramides, let us enter also into the labyrynthes; which we may truly say, are the most monstrous works that ever were divised by the hand of man.-Holland. Plinie, b. xiii. c. 13.

And like a wanton girl, oft doubting in her gate,
In labrinth-like turns, and twinings intricate.
Drayton. Poly Olbion, s. 22.

Mark, how the labyrinthian turns they take,
The circles intricate, and mystic maze.
Young. Complaint, Night 9.
LACE, v. Also, in old authors, written
LACE, n.
Las. Fr. Lacer, lacet, from the
Lat. Laqueus, (Skinner.) The Lat. Laqueus, and
It. Laccio, as well as the Eng. Latch, and lace,
are the past tense and past part. of the A. S.
Læcc-an, lec-gan, lacc-ean, prehendere, appre-
hendere, to catch, to hold, (Tooke.)

A lace, any thing which catcheth or holdeth, tieth, bindeth, or fasteneth; applied to cords, or strings, or threads, plain or interwoven of various materials; also to the substance formed by such interweaving.

Laced, as laced coffee, i. e. coffee inter-laced, intermingled, or intermixed with some other ingredient.

Nailing the speres, and helmes bokeling,
Guiding of sheldes, with lainers lacing.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2506.

Hire shoon were laced on hire legges hie.

Id. The Milleres Tale, v. 3268.

And therefore sith 1 know of love's peine,
And wot how sore it can a man destreine,
As he that oft has ben caught in his las,
If you foryeve all holly this trespas.

Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 1888.

And shode he was with maistrie,
With shoone decoped, and with lace.-Id. Rom. of the R.
But certes, loue, I say not in soch wise,
That for to scape out of your lace I ment.

Id. The Complaint of Uenus.

And plant my plaint within her brest,
Who doutlesse may restore againe
My harmes to helth, my ruth to rest,
That lased is within her chaine.

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And on her legs she painted buskins wore,
Basted with bends of gold on every side,
And mailes betweene, and laced close afore.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 5.

For striving more, the more in laces strong
Himselfe he tide, and wrapt his winges twaine,
In lymie snares the subtil loupes among.
Id. Muinpotmos.

Cooke. And whom for mutton and kid?
Child. A fine lac'd mutton.

B. Jonson. Neptune's Triumph. A Masque.
He scratch'd the maid, he stole the cream,
He tore her best lac'd pinner.
Prior. The Widow and her Cat.
Mr. Nisby [is] of opinion that lac'd coffee is bad for the
head.-Spectator, No. 317.

He is forced every morning to drink his dish of coffee by
itself, without the addition of the Spectator, that used to be

better than lace to it.-Id. No. 488.

Swift from her head she loos'd, with eager haste,
The yellow curls in artful fillets lac'd.

Hoole. Jerusalem Delirered, b. xv.
By mercers, lacemen, mantua-makers press'd,
But most for ready cash for play distress'd,
Where can she turn?-Jenyns. The Modern Fine Lady.
Fr. Lacérer; It. Lace-
rare; Sp. Lacerar ; Lat.
Lacerare, from the Gr. Aak-
Ev, which not only denotes
sonare, crepare, but also cum crepitu rumpi,
ut fit in iis, quæ lacerantur.

LACERATE, v.
LACERATION.

LA'CERATIVE.

LA'CERABLE.

To rend or tear asunder; to sever-with the
parts torn, (and not cut evenly.)

And if the heat breaks with such
as to lacerate, and lift up great quantities or bubbles of
water, too heavy for the air to carry or buoy up, it causeth
what we call boyling.
Derham. Physico-Theology, b. ii. c. 5. Note 2.
They [nitrous and sulphurous exhalations] force out ther
way, not onely with the breaking of the cloud, but the
laceration of the air about it.
Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 5.
If there be no fear of laceration, pull it out the same way
it went in.-Wiseman. Surgery, b. v. c. l.

Some depend upon the intemperament of the part ulce-
rated, others upon the continual afflux of lacerative humours.
Harvey. On Consumption.

Since the lungs are obliged to a perpetual commerce with
the air, they must necessarily lie open to great damages,
because of their thin and lacerable composure.-Id. Ib.
Hither the feble pair, by mutual aid,
The warrior's lacerated corpse convey'd.
Lewis. Statius. Thebais, b. xii.
LACHE. Minshew derives from the Fr.
LA'CHESSE. Lascher, or Lasche, slacke, loose,
Skinner, from
(See LASH.)
slow, remisse.
Lat. Laxus. Lache, in Chaucer, says Junius, is
explained-sluggish, dull, heavie, lazie; and he
suspects that lache was the original way of writing
lazie. (See LAZY.) The Dut. Laecken. Eng.
Lacke, is deficere, deesse; the noun Laecke, de-
fectus; and lache may be the same word, ke
softened into che; meaning-

A defect or failure, a want, (sc.) of strength, of
activity, care, diligence: and thus, consequen-
tially, slackness or sluggishness; remissness, neg-
ligence.

The lord of hus lacchese. and hus luther sleuthe,

By nom hym al that he hadde.-Piers Plouhman, p. 141.
And if he be slowe, and astonyed, and lache, men shall
holde him lyke to an asse.-Chaucer. Boecius, b. iv.

Then cometh lachesse, that is, he that whan he beginneth
any good werk, anon he wol forlete and stint it.
Id. The Persones Tale.

The first point of slouth I call
Lachesse, and is the chief of all,
And hath this properly of kinde,
To leuen all thyng behinde.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv.

The law also determines that in the king can be no negli-
gence, or laches, and therefore no delay will bar his right.
Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c. 7.

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Vncertaine Auctors. The Louer thinkes no paine, &c. | weep.

No lamps, included liquors, lachrymatories, or tear-bottles, attended these rural urnes, either as sacred unto the Manes or passionate expressions of their surviving friends. Browne. Urne-Burial, c. 3.

It is of an exquisite sense, that, upon any touch the tears might be squeezed from the lachrymal glands, to wash and clean it.-Cheyne. Philosophical Principles.

What a variety of shapes in the ancient urns, lamps, lachrymary vessels.-Addison. Italy. Rome.

The learned Mr. Wise, late Radclivian librarian, had a glass lachrymatory, or rather a sepulchral aromatic phial, dug up between Noke and Wood-Eaton. Warton. History of Kiddington, p. 57.

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Shakespeare uses the compounds lack-beard, -brain, -linen, -lustre.

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Thereat the feend his gnashing teeth did grate,
And griev'd, so long to lacke his greedie pray.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 7.

The lack of one may cause the wrack of all;
Although the lackers were terrestrial gods,
Yet will they ruling reel, or reeling fall.

Davies. Wit's Pilgrimage.
Frugal, where lack, supplies with what redounds,
And here bestows what noxious there abounds.
Brooke. Universal Beauty, b. i.

But tho' each Court a jester lacks,

To laugh at monarchs to their face, (Yet) all mankind behind their backs Supply the honest jester's place.

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Dodsley. The Kings of Europe. To lay on, to cover with lacquer, or lacque, i. e. with a preparation of lac. It. Lacca. See LAKE, and the quotation from Dampier.

LACKER, v.
LA'CKER, Or
LACK, n.

The lack of Tonquin is a sort of gummy juice, which drains out of the bodies or limbs of trees. The cabinets, desks, or any sort of frames to be lackered, are made of fir, or pine tree. The workhouses where the lacker is laid on, are accounted very unwholesome.

Dampier. Voyages, an. 1638.
What shook the stage, and made the people stare?
Cato's long wig, flowr'd gown, and lacquer'd chair.
Pope. Imitation of Horace. Ep. 1.
Alum and lacque, and clouded tortoiseshell.

Dyer. The Fleece, b. iv.
In vases, flow'r pots, lamps, and sconces,
Intaglios, cameos, gems and bronzes,
These eyes have read through many a crust
Of lacker, varnish, grease and dust.

Cawthorn. The Antiquarians.

Or oblong buckle, on the lacker'd shoe,
With polish'd lustre, bending elegant
In shapely rim

Jago. Edge Hill, b. ili.

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LACKEY, v.
LA'CKEY, R.

Fr. Lacquay; It. Lacayo.

After it hath been strained through those curious cotions from the glands and lymphæducts.

Junius (who proposes the verb landers, the lacteal veins, I might also observe its impregna

to lacke; q. d. one who lacks, is poor or indigent, and therefore servile) interprets the Goth. Laikan, saltare, exultare. Wachter,-the Ger. Læk-en, the same; and also currere, and lakei, curror. Thre, the Sw. Lacka, currere, and Lack-ere, cursor, a runner. Hence also the Eng. Leg; and thence a lacquey, one who uses his legs, (a legger.) A runner, a running follower or attendant, a runner of errands, a footboy; generally, a follower or attendant.

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To a prince of ours, a page of theirs they set,
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Tueye luther lackes he adde wyth hym al out.
R. Gloucester, p. 389.
Than they of Heynnaulte bought lyttle nagges to ryde at
theyr ease, (and they sent back) theyr lackettes and pages.
Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, c. 18.

Drayton. The Battle of Agincourt.

Harp. To clear your doubts, he doth return in triumph,
Kings lackeyage by his triumphal chariot.

Massinger. The Virgin Martyr, Act i. sc. 1.
What canse could make him so dishonourable

To drive you so on foot, unfit to tread

Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iv, c. 9.
I might next trace it through the several meanders of the
guts, the lacteals, and into the blood.-Id. Ib.

little stars constipated in that part of heaven, flying so
This lactean whiteness ariseth from a great number of
swiftly from the sight of our eyes, that we can perceive
nothing but a confused light.-Moxon. Astron. Cards, p. 13.

Among pot-herbs are some lactescent plants, as lettice,
endive, and dandelion, which contain a most wholesome
juice, resolvent of the bile, anodyne and cooling, extremely
useful in all diseases of the liver.
Arbuthnot. On Aliments, Prop. 4.

And this lactescence, if I may so call it, does also commonly
ensue, when spirit of wine being impregnated with those
parts of gums or other vegetable concretions, that are sup-
posed to abound with sulphureous corpuscles, fair water is
suddenly poured upon the tincture or solution.
Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 219.

He makes the breasts to be nothing but glandules of that
sort they call conglomeratæ, made up of an infinite number
of little knots or kernels, each whereof hath its excretory
vessel, or lactiferous duct.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. i.

LAD.
Junius derives from A. S. Læd-an,
LA'DKIN. ducere, to lead or guide; because
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 2. children are led or educated to manly virtues.

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You that were once so economic,

Quitting the thrifty style laconic,
Tum prodigal in makeronic.

Deniam. A Dialogue between Sir J. Pooley & Mr. Killegrew.

At Gaunt we fell upon a Cappucine novice, which wept bitterly, because he was not allowed to be miserable. His bead had now felt the razor, his back the rod: all that csical discipline pleased him well. Bp. Hall, Dec. 1. Ep. 5.

Alexander Nequam, a man of great learning born at Saint Alanes, and desirous to enter into religion there, after hee had signified his desire, wrote to the abbot laconically.

Camden. Remaines. Allusions.

Skinner and Lye prefer A. S. Leode, people, (see the quotation from Piers Plouhman); also, as the latter asserts, signifying juvenis; but leode means a companion, follower, or attendant, and may itself be from led-an, to lead. Lad will thus mean

One who, on account of his tender years, is
under a leader, guide, or director: a male child,
a boy; generally, a youth; or one acting in the
services usually performed by youth. See LASS.

And the more he hath and wynneth the world at hus
wille
And loraeth in leedes the lasse good he needeth.
Piers Plouhman, p. 187.
Be large ther of while hit laste to leedes that ben needy.
Id. Ib.
There is a lad here, which hath fiue barly loues and two
fishes; but what is that amog so many.
Bible, 1551. John, c. 6.
Then the babes be plukt from their mothers' bosoms) and
laddes but of their fathers handes to be slayne.
Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, Epist. Ded.
The russling northern lads, and stout Welshmen try'd it.
Drayton. Poiy-Olbion, s. 22.
Tharrhon that young ladkin hight
He prayed his aged sire-More. On the Soul, pt. iii. s. 31.
Young Colin Clout, a lad of peerless meed,
Full well could dance, and deftly tune the reed;
In every wood his carols sweet were known,
At every wake his nimble feats were shown.

Gay. The Shepherd's Week. Tuesday.

The hand of providence writes often by abbreviatures,
epicks, or short characters, which, like the Laconism
De wall (Dan. iii 25) are not to be made out but by a
At or key from that Spirit which indited them.
LA'DDER. A. S. Hladre; Dut. Ladder; Ger.
Brown, Christ. Mor. i. 25. Leiter; from A. S. Læd-an; Dut. Led-en; Ger.
And I grow laconic even beyond laconicisme, for some- Leiten; to lead; q. d. Ductor, scala etiam ad
1 return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary altiora loca ducimur, (Skinner:) quod scanden-
ps of haif a yard long.-Pope. To Swift, Aug. 17, 1736.
tem ducant et dirigant, (Kilian.) Wachter resorts
of Agis, therefore, when a certain Athenian laughed to the Celtic) Klettern, to mount or climb.
The
Lacaronian short swords, and said the jugglers
allow them with ease upon the stage, answered in
e way, And yet we can reach our enemies' hearts
e-Langhorne. Plutarch, vol. i. Lycurgus,

LACTAGE.

LACTARY. LASTEAL, R.

LACTEAN.

Lat. Lac, από του γάλακτος, the first syllable being cut off;-yuxa, (luc,) says Len

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To lay or put on, to impose, a weight or burden; to put in, to take in, that which is to be borne or carried;-the cargo.

And they laded their asses with the corne and departed thence.-Bible, 1551. Gen. c. 42.

Pomegranets, lemons, citrons, so
Their taded branches bow,
Their leaves in number that outgo
Nor roomth will them allow

Drayton. The Duription of Elysium.
But before they deuided themselues they agreed after the
lading of their goods at their seuerall ports, to meet at Zante
Slow. Queene Elizabeth, an. 1585.
H'is growne too much the story of men's mouths
To scape his lading.
B. Jonson. The Divell is an Asse, Act i. sc. 6.
No toiling teams from harvest-labour come
So late at night, so heavy laden home.

Dryden. Virgil, Geor. 3.
Some were made prize: while others burnt, and rent,
With their rich lading to the bottom went.
Waller. War with Spain, (1651.)

I'll show thee where the softest cowslips spring
And clust'ring nuts their laden branches bend.

Warton, Ecl.

If large the vessel, and her lading large,
And if the seas prove faithful to their charge,
Great are your gains.-Cooke. Hesiod. Works & Days, b. ii.

LADE, v. A. S. Hlad-an, to draw out. LA'DLE. SA. S. Hladle. Camden says-that lade is a passage of water, and that aquæductus in the old Glossarie is translated water-lada. Hence

appears that hladan, to draw out, is merely a consequential usage of lad-an, to lead, guide, or conduct; and that water-lada is a conduit for water; that by which water may be conducted or drawn off. The application is,

To dip (sc. some vessel or implement) into water or other liquid, and throw out the contents or quantity received.

And lerede men a ladel bygge, with a long stele.
Piers Plouhman, p. 380.
Alas that he ne had hold him by his ladel!
Chaucer. The Manciples Prologue, v. 17,000.
Some stirr'd the molten cwre with ladles great.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 7.
Like one that stands vpon a promontorie,
And spyes a farre-off shore, where he would tread,
Wishing his foot were equall with his eye.
And chides the sea, that sunders him from thence
Saying hee'le lade it dry to haue his way.

Shakespeare. 3 Pt. Hen. VI. Act ii.

"Oh! may your altars ever blaze!
A ladle for our silver-dish

Is what I want, is what I wish."
"A ladle!" cries the man, "a ladle!
Odzooks, Corisca, you have pray'd ill."-Prior. The Ladle.

LA'DY. Tooke has written more elaLA'DIED. borately than usual upon the LA'DYFY, U. origin of this word, and he traces LA'DILY. it to the A. S. Hlaf, the past part. of hlifian, to raise. He supposes hlaf, first, by receiving the common participial termination, ed, to become hlaf-ed, then by contraction hlafd, and further by the addition of the common adjective termination ig, hlafd-ig, or by omitting the initial h, laf, lafed, lafd, lafd-ig, the ig being as usual softened to y. By the mere suppression of the f, lafd-y becomes

LACTRAL, adj. nep, appears to have its name
from its bright whiteness, and
to have sprung from (the ob- the trenches. the most part by setting VP ladders, others lady; meaning one lifted, raised or elevated, (sc.)

LARTEOUS. LACTR'SCENT.

LACTIFEROUS.

solete primitive) ya-w, ab ex

They sodainly with great force and outery assayed to scale
climing ouer the heads of their fellowes vpon a target fence.
Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 150.
But after they were come to Syria, men named them
Climacides, as one would say ladderesses, for that they used

LACTESCENCE. plicandi notione translatum ad!
eam nitendi,splendendi; trans-
from the notion of explaining or making to me song, and to make their backs stepping stools or lad-

and clear, to that of brightening, of shining. Lasteel-miky, bearing or producing milk, or Ad resembling milk.

thought that the offering of Abel, who sacrificed of was only wool, the fruits of his shearing; and Tulier cream, a part of his lactage.

Shuckford. On the Creation, vol. i. p. 79.

Yet were it no easie probleme to resolve) why also from

y plants which have a white and lacteous red through every part, there arise flowers blew jew-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c. 10.

ders, as it were for queens and great men's wives to get
upon, when they would mount into their coaches.
Holland. Plutarch, p. 71.

If the barren sound
Of pride delights thee, to the topmost round
Of fortune's ladder got, despise not one,
For want of smooth hypocrisy undone.

Churchill. Sermons, Ded.
LADE, v. A. S. Lad-an; Dut. Laden;
LA'DING, n. Ger. Laden; Sw. Ladda. See
TO LOAD.

to the rank of her husband or lord, (see LORD.)
Serenius finds the word written lafd-a in Goth.
and Dr. Jamieson lafd-e in Icelandic; and as in
R. Gloucester, it is written leuedy. See Jamie-
son, in v. Laird.

That heo comen alle to London the hey men of this londe,
And the leuedys al so god, to ys noble fest wyde.
R. Gloucester, p. 156.
For mony was the faire ledy, that y come was therto.
Id. Ib
The eldre man to the chosun ladi and to hir children.
Wiclif. 2 Jon, c. 1
The elder to the electe ladye and Lir children.
Bible, 1551. 18.

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More did I feare, than euer in
Your ladiship I found,
Disdainefull lookes from those faire eyes
That me with loue did wound.

Warner. Albion's England, b. xi. c. 64.

And now and then among, of eglantine a spray,
By which again a course of lady-smocks they lay.
Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 15.
He made a knight,
And your sweet mistress ship ladyfied, you wore
Satin on solemn days, a chain of gold,
A velvet hood, rich borders, &c.

Massinger. The City Madam, Act iv. sc. 4.

The soldier here his wasted store supplies,
And takes new valour from his ladie's eyes.

Waller. Instructions to a Painter.

This lady-fly I take from off the grass,
Whose spotted back might scarlet red surpass,
Fly, lady-bird, North, South, or East, or West,
Fly where the man is found that I love best.

Gay. The Shepherd's Week. Thursday.

Such as your titled folks would choose
And lords and ladyships might use,
Which style whoever would succeed in,
Must have small wit and much good breeding.

LAG, v.
LAG, n.
LAG, adj.
LA'GGARD.

Lloyd. To G. Colman, Esq. 1761. Skinner thinks lag is quasi lang, (then omitted,) from the A. S. Lang, long; as we say, he stayes long, hee's long a comming. Minshew derives from log, truncus, and it is not improbable that it may have the same origin, viz. the Goth. Lag-yan, A. S. Lecgan, to lay or lie; and, consequentially, to remain at rest, inactive, sluggish.

LA'GGER.

To move slowly or sluggishly, to tarry or remain
behind, to come or follow slowly after; to come in
late or latterly, at the latter end, after others.
For a gunstone I say had all to lagged his cap.
Skelton. The Crowne of Laurell.

When with the luggage such as lagg'd behind,
And that were set the carriages to keep,
'Gainst God and Moses grievously repin'd,
Wanting a little sustenance and sleep.

Drayton. Moses his Birth and Miracles, b. iii.

O gods, the senators of Athens, together with the common legge of people, what is amisse in them, you gods, make suteable for destruction.

Shakespeare. Timon of Athens, Act iii. sc. 6.

There, I take it,

They may cum priuilegio, wee [wear] away
The lag end of their lewdnesse, and be laughed at.
Id. Hen. VIII. Acti. sc. 3.

Some tardie cripple bare and countermand,
That came too lagge to see him buried.

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Francis. Horace, Ep. 2. To Lollius. application is to-
Superfluous lags the vet'ran on the stage,
Till pitying nature signs the last release,
And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.

Johnson. Vanity of Human Wishes.

LAINER, Fr. straps or thongs, (Tyrwhitt.)
Skinner writes it lamers, thongs; and suggests the
Lat. Lamina.

Nailing the speres, and helmes bokeling,
Guiding of sheldes, with lainers lacing.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2507.
LAIR, or Skinner writes it leer, clearly
LARE.
enough, he says, from Ger. Læger,
cubile, and this from liegen, to lay. It is imme-
diately from lay, or lai, layer or lair.

The place where any one (deer or other animal)
lays or is laid. Applied to the land or pasture in
which they lie. In Hardyng's Chronicle (quoted
by Dr. Jamieson) the place where Arthur was
laid in burial.

The mynster church, this day of great repayre
Of Glastenbury, where now he has his leyre.

Harding. Chronicle, p. 77.
More hard for hungrey steed t'abstaine from pleasant lare.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 8.
Instead of his Emylia faire

This gyant's sonne that lies there on the laire

A headlesse heap, him unawares there caught.-Id. Ib.
Haue the winters been so set,

To raine and snowe, they have wet
All his driest laire.

By which means his sheep have got
Such a deadly curelesse rot

A large expanse of water within land, or having no immediate connexion with the sea.

And the lake (lacus] was trodun withoute the citec, and the blood went out of the lake til to the bridelis of horsis bi

furlongis a thousynde and sixe hundride.

Wiclif. Apocalips, c. 14.

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I started up, and looking out, observed by the light of the moon the lake [Desensano] in the most dreadful agitation, and the waves dashing against the walls of the inn, and resembling the swellings of the ocean, more than the petty agitation of inland waters.-Eustace. Italy, vol. i. c. 5.

LAKENS. The diminutive of our lady, i. e. ladykin, (Steevens.)

By our lakens brother husband (qh. she,) but as properlye as yt was preached, yet woulde I rather abyde the perill of breding wormes in my bely by eating of fleshe without breadde, then to eate with my meate the breadde that I wist well wer poysoned.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 849.

Gon. By'r laken, I can go no further, sir,
My old bones akes.-Shakespeare. Tempest, Act iii. sc. 3.
LAMB, v.
Goth. A. S. Dut. Ger. and
LAMB, N.
Swed. Lamb, agnus. The origin
LA'MBKIN. of the word, says Junius, im-
probably enough, is to be sought, prefixo l, from

That none living are.-Browne. Shepheard's Pipe, Ec.. 3. the initial letters of the Gr. Auvos. This etymo

Out of the ground uprose

As from his laire the wilde beast where he wonns
In forrest wilde, in thicket, brake or den.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vii.
Where nature shall provide
Green grass and fat'ning clover for their fare!
And mossy caverns for their noontide lare:
With rocks above to shield the sharp nocturnal air.

logy, says Wachter, Stiernhiem despises, but suggests no other. Ihre remarks,-Apud Armoricos lamma notat saltare, which does not ill suit this kind of animal. Minshew,-from lamb-ere, to lick.

It is applied to

The young offspring of the sheep; (met.) to any one having the meekness, innocence of a

Dryden. Virgil, Geor. 3. lamb.

But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest,
The beast is laid down in his lair;
Even here is a season of rest
And I to my cabin repair.

Cowper. Verses, supposed to be written by A Selkirk.
LAIT, n. Perhaps from the A. S. Lat-an,
æstimare, reputare, judicare. Skinner prefers the
Fr. Laicter, lactare.

Incessantly busie her prey for to gete,
To bring to the lure whom she doth lait.
Chaucer. The Remedie of Loue.
LAITY. See LAY.
LAKE. Tyrwhitt remarks,-it is difficult to
Laecken, Belg.
say what sort of cloth is meant.
signifies both linen and woollen cloth, (Kilian.)
Fine cloth and lawn (says Skinner.) Somner has
lach, chlamys, a kind of garment.

He didde next his white lere
Of cloth of lake fin and clere.

Chaucer. The Rime of Sire Thopas, v. 13,787. LAKE. Fr. Lacque; It. and Low Lat. Lacca. (See Menage and Martinius.) A word, says the former, of Arabic origin. (And see the quotation from Boyle.) Fr. " Lacque, sanguine; rosie or rubie colour. The true lacca is an Armenian gum, used in the dyeing of crimsons, and afterwards (grown artificial) employed by painters," (Cot

Id. Rich. III. Act ii. sc. I. grave.) And see LACKER.

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A goddess is, than painted cloth, deal board,
Vermilion, lake, or crimson can afford
Expression for.-B. Jonson. Expostulat. with Inigo Jones.

I met the other day, Pyrophilus in an Italian book, that
treats of other matters, with a way of preparing what the
author calls a lacca of vegetables, by which the Italians
mean a kind of extract fit for painting, like that rich lacca
in English, commonly called take, which is employed by
Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xiii. painters as a glorious red.-Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 782.

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Non lyckore ys brother hym nas, than an wolf ys a lombe.
R. Gloucester, p. 280.
And gaf the kyngdome to hus knave, that kept sheep &
lambren.
Piers Plouhman, p. 59.
Go ye lo Y sende you: as lambren among wolnys.

Wiclif. Luke, c. 10. Go your wayes: beholde, I sende you forthe as lambes among wolues.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

So 'twixt them both they not a lambkin left;
And, when the lambs fail'd, the old sheepes lives they reft.
Spenser. Mother Hubberd's Tale.

I finde those that commend use of apples, in splenaticke and this kinde of melancholy (lambs-wool some call it) which howsoever approved must certainely be corrected of cold rawnesse and winde.

Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 395.
In the warm folds their tender lambkins lie
Apart from kids, that call with human cry.

Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. xiii.
Ev'n while I sing,

Yon wanton lamb has crop't the woodbine's pride,
That bent beneath a full-blown load of sweets,
And fill'd the air with perfume.

Mason. The English Garden, b. ii.
Nor dread we more the rigour of the year,
Than the fell wolf the fearful lambkins dreads
When he the helpless fold by night invades.

LAMBENT.

Beattie. Virgil, Past. 7.
Lat. Lambens, present
LAMBATIVE, adj. part. of lambere, to lick.
LA'MBATIVE, N.
Lambere, from the Gr. Aаπ-
Ew, which means (Vossius) to lick or lap, or to
drink by licking or lapping, and itself seems to be
formed from the sound.

Licking, touching lightly-as with the tongue; moving about or around, as if licking, or touching lightly.

The star that did my being frame
Was but a lambent flame.

Cowley. Destiny
Sudden a circling flame was seen to spread
With beams refulgent round lulus' head;
Then on his locks the lambent glory preys,
And harmless fires around his temples blaze.

Pitt. Virgil. Eneid, b. ii.

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Cowper. The Task, b. vi.
A. S. Lam; Dut. Lam, laem;
Ger. Lam; Sw. Lam; Dut.
Lamen; Ger. Lamen, debilitare,

LA'MENESS. to weaken.
LA'MISH.

To weaken or debilitate, to want, to injure, or deprive of, the natural power or strength; to maim, to cripple.

And a man that was lame fro the wombe of his modir was barun, and was leid ech dai at the ghate of the temple. Wiclif. Dedis, c. 3.

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Gower, Con, A. b. v.

I set aside to tell the restlesse toyle,
The mangled corps, the lamed limbes at last.
Gascoigne. The Fruites of Warre.

Asf. I cannot help it now,
Vaesse by vsing means I lame the foote
Of our design.

Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Act iv. sc. 7.

And thence,

What before pleas'd them all takes but one sense,
And that so lamely, as it leaves behind

A kind of sorrowing dulnes to the mind.

Donne. Farewell to Love.

Banck feels no lameness of his knotty gout,
His
moneyes travaile for him in and out.

. Ben. Jonson. On Bank the Usurer.

A tender foot will be galled and lamed, if you set it going
in rugged paths: a weak head will turn, if you place it
high, or upon the brink of a precipice.
Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 3.
Nothing of worth or weight can be atchieved with half a
mind, with a faint heart, with a lame endeavour.
Id. Ib. Ser. 18.

He [Peter] could but very lamely have executed such an
-Id. Of the Pope's Supremacy.

Though some part of them [its imperfections] are covered the verse (as Ericthonius rode always in a chariot to de his lameness,) such of them as cannot be concealed please to connive at, though, in the strictness of Jer judgment, you cannot pardon.

Dryden. Virgil. Eneis, Ded.

He did by a false step, sprain a vein in the inside of his

eg which ever after occasioned him to go lamish.

Wood. Alhen Ozon, vol. ii. James Shirley.

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Thou knowest the teares of my lamentacyon
Cannot expresse my hartes inward restrayntes.

Wyatt, Psalm 38.
-Thammus came next behind,
Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd
The Syrian damsels to lament his fate
In amorous dittyes all a summer's day.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. i.

Eve, who unseen
Yet all had heard, with audible lament
Discover'd soon the place of her retire.-Id. Ib. b. xi.
Small griefs are soon wept out; but great ones come
With bulk, and strike the straight lamenters dumb.

Brome. On the Death of his Schoolmaster.

Her teme at her commaundment quiet stands,
Whiles they the corse into her wagon reare,
And strowe with flowres the lamentable beare.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 4.

A hundred and twentie temporall men with diuers préests
and many women were drowned and lamentablie perished.
Holinshed. Edw. III. an. 1339.

But among the Britains there was nothing else heard but
mourning and lamentation, both of men and women that
were mingled togither.-Id. Hist. of England, b iv. c. 18.
Admit they were, it would not be uncharitable to part
them; yet sometimes they are not both actors, but the one
of them most lamentedly passive.-Milton. Colasterion.
Disconsolate he wanders on the coast,
Sighs for his Country, and laments again
To the deaf rocks and hoarse resounding main.

Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xiii.
But now, ah dismal change! the tuneful throng
To loud lamentings turn the cheerful song.

Congreve. Death of the late Marquis of Blandford.
[It was] but an universal (infinitely rich and abundant)
creation, sunk into distress and lamentable wretchedness,
goodness, mercy and pity toward this eminent part of his
which induced God to send his son for the redemption of
mankind. Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 39.

One clad in purple, not to lose his time,
Eats and recites some lamentable rhyme.

Dryden. Persius, Sat. 1.
When the long-sounding curfew from afar
Loaded with loud lament the lonely gale,
Young Edwin, lighted by the evening star,
Lingering and list'ning, wander'd down the vale.
Beatlie. The Minstrel, b. i.
Starting, he forsakes
A thorny pillow; rushes on the deck
With lamentations to the midnight moon.
Glover. The Athenaid, b. i.

LAMM. Skinner says, perhaps from the
Ger. Lahmen, Dut. Lamen, to lame; and interprets
it, cædere, ictibus permolere. See SLAM.
To beat, to bruise with blows.

And lamb'd ye shall be e're we leave ye..

Beaum. & Fletch. The Beggar's Bush, Act iii. sc. 3. LAMMAS. A. S. Hlaf-masse. The calends or first day of August; (q.d.) loaf-mass, perhaps The lamellated antennæ of some, the clavellated of others, because on that day an offering was made of bread surprizingly beautiful, when viewed through a micro-made of new corn; the first fruits of harvest. See Somner and Skinner, and Hammond's Works, vol. i. p. 660.

Derham. Physico-Theology, b. viii. c. 4. Note 3.

We took an ounce of that [refined silver] and having la

d it, we cast it upon twice its weight of beaten subli-Bogle. Works, vol. iii. p. 81.

I took two parcels of gold, the one common gold thinly ed, and the other very well refined.-Id. Ib. p. 82. areous marl is-sometimes of a compact, sometimes lamellar texture.-Kirwan. On Manures.

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A light; any thing possessing or communicating
light,(lit. or met.)

Hit is as lewede as a lampe, that no lyght ys ynne.
Piers Plouhman, p. 22.
But the five foolis token her lampis, and token not oile
with hem.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 25.

And wel ycovered with a lampe of glas?

Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,167.

A cheerliness did with her hopes arise
That lamped clearer than it did before,
And made her spirit and his affections more.
Daniel. Civil Wars, b. viii.

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In liuing brests, ykindled first above
Emongst th' eternal spheres and lamping sky.
Spenser, Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 3.
That love, sir,
Which is the price of virtue, dwells not here,
Your ladies eyes are lampless to that virtue.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Mad Lover, Act ii. sc. 1.
For his sake then renew your drooping spirits,
Feed with new oil the wasting tamp of life,
That winks and trembles, now, just now expiring.
Smith. Phædra & Hippolitus, Act i. sc. 1.
We can spare

The splendour of your lamps; they but eclipse
Our softer satellite.
Cowper. Task, b. i.
Various and violent have been the controversies, whether
our author here intended to celebrate a lamp-lighter, or a
link-boy.-P. Whitehead. The Gymnasiad, b. ii. Note.

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Cotgrave has lamponnier, a fond or idle companion, probably from the old Fr. Lamper, potare, to drink, (Lacombe;) and from the ribaldry, slander, and satire in which drinking companions indulge themselves, the word may have derived its application to

Satire or abuse of persons, their peculiarities or failings.

"Mr. Bettesworth," answered he, "I was in my youth acquainted with great lawyers, who, knowing my disposition to satire, advised me, that if any scoundrel or blockhead whom I had lampooned should ask, 'Are you the author of this paper?' I should tell him that I was not the author; and therefore I tell you, Mr. Bettesworth, that I am not the author of those lines."-Johnson. Life of Swift.

Like her, who miss'd her name in a lampoon,
And griev'd to find herself decay'd so soon.

Dryden. Essay upon Satire.
Lampooners and criticks rush'd in like a tide,
Stern Dennis and Gildon came first side by side.
Buckinghamshire. Election of a Poet Laureat.

It cannot be supposed that the same man, who lampooned
Plato, would spare Pythagoras.-Observer, No. 142.

Libanius must have possessed a consummate impudence, who could address to a Christian emperor a mere panegyric on Paganism, and a lampoon on Christianity; for such is his oration.-Jorlin. On the Christian Religion, Dis. 6.

LAMPREY. Fr. Lamproye; it. Lampreda; Sp. Lamprea; Lat. Lampetra; a petra dicta, nempe a lambendis petris.

And tho he com hom, he wyllede of an lampreye to ete.
R. Gloucester, p. 422.
By all the saintes that we prey,
But they defend them with lamprey, &c.
Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose.
After the tale of the boy that would fayne haue eaten of
the pastie of lamprese, but durst not vnto the belles sang
vnto him,-Sit down Jacke and eate of the lampreye.
Tyndall. Workes, p. 388.

LA'NCELY.
LA'NCER.

There were found in Cæsar's fish-ponds, lampreyes to have liued threescore years.-Bacon. Hist. of Life & Death, § 11. LANCE, or Fr. Lancer, lance; It. Lanciare, LAUNCE, v. lancia; Sp. Lanzar, lanza; Dut. LANCE, n. Lancie, lansse; Ger. Lanze; Sw. Lants; Lat. Lancea. The etymologists have written much about this word, and agree in ascribing it to a Celtic origin. (See Vossius, de Vitis, b. i. c. 3, his Etymologicon in v.- -Menage, Wachter, and Ihre.) Wachter and Lye think the root preserved in the Armoric Lança, jaculari, vibrare, to throw, to brandish. A lance will thus signify, generally, any thing thrown; and lance, the verb, or lanch, (qv.)

LANCET.

To throw; and (from the form and purpose of a lance) consequentially, to pierce or penetrate; to cut with a lancer or lancet, or small lance, or sharp-pointed instrument.

Lance, in ba-lance, and used uncompounded by
Spenser, may be the same word, applied conse-
quentially; poise, equipoise.

In ys rygt hond ys lance he nom, that yeluped was Ron.
R. Gloucester, p. 174
With a herde thei mette, a herte therof gan lance.
R. Brunne, p. 94

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And with that word, with all his force a dart
He launced then into that croked wombe.

Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. ii. The surgen launceth and cutteth out the dead flesh. Tyndall. Workes, p. 119. The cut wherof like a lytle launsing knife may let out the foule corrupcion of the soule.-Sir T. More. Workes, p.1391. He carried his lances, which were strong, to give a lancely blow.-Sidney. Arcadia.

And they cried lowd, and cut themselues, as their maner was, we knyues and launcers.-Bible, 1551. 3 Kings, c. 18.

Whole hosts of sorrows her sick heart assail,
When ev'ry letter lanc'd her like a dart.
Drayton. The Barons' Wars, b. vi.

Towards them did pace

An armed knight, of bold and bounteous grace,
Whose squire bore after him an heben launce
And cover'd shield.-Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 3.
Need teacheth her this lesson hard and rare,
That fortune all in equall launce, doth sway,
And mortal miseries doth make her play.

Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 7.
Each launceer well his weightie launce did wield,
Each drew his sword and well addrest his shield.
Mirrour for Magistrates, p. 822.
These carried a kind of lance de gay, sharp at both ends,
which they held in the midst of the staff.

Raleigh. Hist. of the World, b. v. c. 3. Although at one time there came an army of eighteen thousand foot, at another time an army wherein were reckoned twelve thousand launce-knights.

Baker. Hen. VIII. an. 1546.

To the rescue whereof, the French king sent an army, under the leading of the Constable of France, which consisted of nine hundred men at arms, with as many light horse, eight hundred reysters, two and twenty ensigns of lancequenets, and sixteen ensigns of French footmen. Id. Queen Mary, an. 1557. Receipts abound; but searching all thy store, The best is still at hand, to launch the sore. Dryden. Virgil, Geor. 3. While making fruitless moan, the shepherd stands, And when the launching knife requires his hands, Vain help, with idle pray'rs from heav'n demands.-Id. Ib. They lightly set their lances in the rest, And, at the sign, against each other press'd. Id. The Flower and the Leaf. With that he drew a lancet in his rage, To puncture the still supplicating sage.

Garth. The Dispensary, c. 5. In his pockets he had a paper of dried figs, a small bundle of segars, a case of lancets, squirt, and forceps and two old razors in a leathern envelope.-Observer, No. 88.

LANCH, or LAUNCH.

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See LANCE.

To throw, to send forth, to emit, to dart, to push forth, to push on, to rush forth; also, (as in Spenser,) to pierce as with a ance, or lancet. And see in v. LANCE the quotations from Dryden.

And doun his hond he launceth to the clifte,
In hope for to finden ther a gift.

Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 7658.
He said vnto them: Let us goe ouer vnto the other syde
of the lake. And they lanched forth.
Bible, 1551. Luke, c. 8.
For, since my brest was launcht with lovely dart
Of deare Sansfoy, I never ioyed howre.-

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 4. That simple fisher-swain Whose little boat in some small river strays; Yet fondly lanches in the swelling main, Soon, yet too late, repents his foolish plays.

P. Fletcher. The Purple Island, c. 6.

They cried to haue the sailes hoisted vp, and signe giuen | to lanch foorth, that they might passe forward on their iournie.-Holinshed. History of England, vol. i. b. iv. c. 24.

In divers enquiries about providence, to which our curiosity will stretch itself, it is impossible for us to be resolved, and launching into them we shall soon get out of our depth, so as to swim in dissatisfaction, or to sink into distrust. Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 23.

He chose Menætes from among the rest; At him he launch'd his spear, and pierc'd his breast. Dryden. Ovid. Melam. b. xii. We cut our cable, launch into the world, And fondly dream each wind and star our friend. Young. The Complaint, Night 8, Goth. A. S. Ger. Dut. and Sw. Land of unknown etymology. (See Wachter and Ihre.) May it not be formed of (Goth. Lagy,) Lay-en-ed, Lan-ed, Land?

LAND, v. LAND, n. LANDING, n. LANDLESS.

As a substance, it is opposed to water. It is also applied to the inhabitants of the land, of the country, or region.

It is not unfrequent in composition; and some instances from our elder writers are given.

Landlady and landlord are applied to the mistress and master of the house, more especially of a public one.

Landskip,-Dut. Landschap; A. S. “Landscipe, a country, a region, a quarter, a coast; whence our land-skip, q.d. land-shape," (Somner.) See the quotation from Dryden.

Engelond ys a wel god lond, ich wene of eche lond best,
Y set in the ende of the world, as al in the West.
R. Gloucester, p. 1.
In the se sailand he lendes toward Lumbardie.
R. Brunne, p. 186.
& the kyng Cadwaladre this lond had alle torn.-Id. p. 1.
Al the puple was aboute the see on the lond.

Wiclif. Mark, c. 4.
With which landing tho I woke.-Chaucer. Dreame.
The monthe vnto this signe ordeigned
Is Februar, whiche is bereigned
And with landflodes in his rage
At fordes letteth the passage.

Gower. Con. A. b. vii.

And God sayde: let ye waters that are vnder heauen gather themselues vnto one place that the drye land may appere.-Bible, 1551. Genesis, c. 1.

And let thy wife visit thy landladye three or four tymes in a yeare, wyth spised cakes, and apples, pears, cherries, and such like.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 210.

Yea, poll thyselfe and preuent other, and geue the baylife or like officer now a capon, now a pigge, now a goose, and so to thy landlord likewise.-Id. Ib.

For some men there be, that remoue other men's landemarkes.-Bible, 1551. Job, c. 24.

There this fayre virgin wearie of her way
Must landed bee.-Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 12.
Defend all landings, bar all passages.

Daniel. Civil Wars, b. vii.
Now sir young Fortinbras,
Of vnimproued mettle, hot and full,
Hath in the skirts of Norway, heere and there,
Shark'd vp a list of landlesse resolutes.
Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act i. sc. 1.
Down from the neighbouring hills those plenteous springs
that fall,
Nor land-floods after rain, her never move at all.
Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 9.
Those same the shepheard told me, were the fields
In which dame Cynthia her landheards fed.

Spenser. Colin Clout's come home again.

It is nothing strange that these his landloping legats and nuncios haue their manifold collusions to cousen christian kingdoms of their reuenues.-Holinshed. Hen. III. an. 1244. Were he as Furius, he would defy Such pilfering slips of petty landlordry. Bp. Hall, b. v. Sat. 1. Hence countrie loutes land-lurch their lords And courtiers prize the same. Warner. Albion's England, b. ix. c. 46. Lad. To find out that, good shepherd, I suppose In such a scant allowance of star-light, Would overtask the best land-pilot's art, Without the sure guess of well-practis'd feet.

Millon. Comus. Some inventing colours, others shadowes and landskips, and others rules of proportion. Hakewill. Apologie, b. iii. c. 9. s. 3.

In like sort halfe a mile beyond this into the landward goeth another longer creeke. Holinshed. Desc. of Britaine, s. 12.

Heere we consum'd a day; and the third morne
To Daintry with a land-wind were wee borne,

Corbet. Iter Boreale.

Thus royal sir, to see you landed here,
Was cause enough of triumph for a year.

Dryden. To his Majesty. A tax laid upon land seems hard to the land-holder, because it is so much money going visibly out of his pocket: and therefore as an ease to himself, the landholder is always forward to lay it upon commodities. Locke. On the Lowering of Interest. A good conscience is a port which is land-locked on every side, and where no winds can possibly invade, no tempests can arise.-Dryden. Virgil. Geor. Pref.

Divines but peep on undiscover'd worlds,
And draw the distant landskape as they please.

Id. Don Sebastian, Act ii sc. 1.

The prettiest landscape I ever saw, was one drawn on the walls of a dark room, which stood opposite on one side to a navigable river, and on the other side to a park.

Spectator, No. 414.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.-Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i. c. 6. Religion's harbour, like th' Etrurian bay Secure from storms, is land-lock'd ev'ry way. . Harte Thomas à Kempis. Nothing can be better fancied than to make this enormous son of Neptune use the sea for his looking-glass; but is Virgil so happy when his little landsman says, Non sum advo informis ?-Fawkes. Theocritus, Idyl 6. Note 45.

LANE.

Dut. Laen; and Lye says, the A. S. have Lana. It may be lane, lane, thin, and, therefore, narrow.

A narrow way or passage-between houses or hedges, or any lateral confinement.

"In the subarbes of a town," quod he,
"Lurking in hernes and in lanes behind.'

Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Prologue, v. 16,124.

It is becomme a turnagaine laine vnto them, which they cannot goe through.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 388.

The trees and bushes growing by the streets' sides, doo not a little keepe off the force of the sunne in summer for drieng vp the lanes.- Holinshed. Desc. of Britaine, c. 19. Forth issuing from steep lanes, the colliers' steeds Drag the black load; another cart succeeds.

Gay. Trivia, b. iii. He [the Earl of Chatham, 7 April, 1778) was led into the house by his son and son in law Mr. W Pitt and Lord Vt. Mahon, all the lords standing up out of respect, and making a lane for him to pass to the earl's bench.

Beisham. History of England, vol. vi.

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That which the tongue utters, or speaks; speech, oral or written; applied to the general character or style of speaking or writing; to the people or nation speaking or writing.

For in the langage of Rome, Rane a frogge ys.

R. Gloucester, p. 69. And thei spaken the langagis and prophecieden.

Wiclif. Dedis, c. 19. And al the worlde was of one toge & one language. Bible, 1551. Genesis, c. 11. To bere this apell was cōmaunded a clerke, well langaged to do such a besynesse.-Berners. Frois. Cron. vol. i. c. 243.

In which matter I have used greatly the help of one Swerder, a servant of my lord of Canterbury, a young man well learned, and well languaged, of good soberness and discretion.-Sir T Wyatt. To the King, 7 Jan. (1540.) The only languag'd-men, of all the world!

B. Jonson. The Fox, Act ii. sc. 2. A new dispute there lately rose Betwixt the Greeks and Latins, whose Temples should be bound with glory In best languaging this story.-Lovelace. Lucasta, pt. i. Our ancient English Saxons language is to be accompted the Teutonicke tonge, and albeit we have in latter ages mixed it with many borrowed words, especially out of the Latin and French; yet remaineth the Teutonicke unto this day the ground of our speech, for no other off-spring hath our language originally had then that.

Verstegan. Restit. of Decayed Intelligence, c. 7.

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