LAC 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 In streaming gold. 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, Mark, how the labyrinthian turns they take, 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, 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, Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 1888. And shode he was with maistrie, Id. The Complaint of Uenus. And plant my plaint within her brest, LAC And on her legs she painted buskins wore, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 5. For striving more, the more in laces strong Cooke. And whom for mutton and kid? B. Jonson. Neptune's Triumph. A Masque. He is forced every morning to drink his dish of coffee by better than lace to it.-Id. No. 488. Swift from her head she loos'd, with eager haste, Hoole. Jerusalem Delirered, b. xv. LACERATE, v. LA'CERATIVE. LA'CERABLE. To rend or tear asunder; to sever-with the And if the heat breaks with such Some depend upon the intemperament of the part ulce- Since the lungs are obliged to a perpetual commerce with A defect or failure, a want, (sc.) of strength, of The lord of hus lacchese. and hus luther sleuthe, By nom hym al that he hadde.-Piers Plouhman, p. 141. Then cometh lachesse, that is, he that whan he beginneth The first point of slouth I call The law also determines that in the king can be no negli- 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. Shakespeare uses the compounds lack-beard, -brain, -linen, -lustre. Thereat the feend his gnashing teeth did grate, The lack of one may cause the wrack of all; Davies. Wit's Pilgrimage. 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. 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. 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. Dyer. The Fleece, b. iv. Cawthorn. The Antiquarians. Or oblong buckle, on the lacker'd shoe, Jago. Edge Hill, b. ili. LACKEY, v. 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. Lial, 57. mi de be nd To a prince of ours, a page of theirs they set, Tueye luther lackes he adde wyth hym al out. Drayton. The Battle of Agincourt. Harp. To clear your doubts, he doth return in triumph, Massinger. The Virgin Martyr, Act i. sc. 1. To drive you so on foot, unfit to tread Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iv, c. 9. little stars constipated in that part of heaven, flying so Among pot-herbs are some lactescent plants, as lettice, And this lactescence, if I may so call it, does also commonly He makes the breasts to be nothing but glandules of that LAD. You that were once so economic, Quitting the thrifty style laconic, 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 And the more he hath and wynneth the world at hus Gay. The Shepherd's Week. Tuesday. The hand of providence writes often by abbreviatures, LACTAGE. LACTARY. LASTEAL, R. LACTEAN. Lat. Lac, από του γάλακτος, the first syllable being cut off;-yuxa, (luc,) says Len 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 Drayton. The Duription of Elysium. Dryden. Virgil, Geor. 3. I'll show thee where the softest cowslips spring Warton, Ecl. If large the vessel, and her lading large, 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. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 7. Shakespeare. 3 Pt. Hen. VI. Act ii. "Oh! may your altars ever blaze! Is what I want, is what I wish." 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 LARTEOUS. LACTR'SCENT. LACTIFEROUS. solete primitive) ya-w, ab ex They sodainly with great force and outery assayed to scale LACTESCENCE. plicandi notione translatum ad! 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 If the barren sound Churchill. Sermons, Ded. to the rank of her husband or lord, (see LORD.) That heo comen alle to London the hey men of this londe, More did I feare, than euer in Warner. Albion's England, b. xi. c. 64. And now and then among, of eglantine a spray, Massinger. The City Madam, Act iv. sc. 4. The soldier here his wasted store supplies, Waller. Instructions to a Painter. This lady-fly I take from off the grass, Gay. The Shepherd's Week. Thursday. Such as your titled folks would choose LAG, v. 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 When with the luggage such as lagg'd behind, 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 Some tardie cripple bare and countermand, Francis. Horace, Ep. 2. To Lollius. application is to- Johnson. Vanity of Human Wishes. LAINER, Fr. straps or thongs, (Tyrwhitt.) Nailing the speres, and helmes bokeling, Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2507. The place where any one (deer or other animal) The mynster church, this day of great repayre Harding. Chronicle, p. 77. This gyant's sonne that lies there on the laire A headlesse heap, him unawares there caught.-Id. Ib. To raine and snowe, they have wet By which means his sheep have got 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. 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, 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 Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vii. 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, Cowper. Verses, supposed to be written by A Selkirk. Incessantly busie her prey for to gete, He didde next his white lere 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. A goddess is, than painted cloth, deal board, I met the other day, Pyrophilus in an Italian book, that Non lyckore ys brother hym nas, than an wolf ys a lombe. 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; 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. Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. xiii. Yon wanton lamb has crop't the woodbine's pride, Mason. The English Garden, b. ii. LAMBENT. Beattie. Virgil, Past. 7. Licking, touching lightly-as with the tongue; moving about or around, as if licking, or touching lightly. The star that did my being frame Cowley. Destiny Pitt. Virgil. Eneid, b. ii. Cowper. The Task, b. vi. LA'MENESS. to weaken. 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. Gower, Con, A. b. v. I set aside to tell the restlesse toyle, Asf. I cannot help it now, Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Act iv. sc. 7. And thence, What before pleas'd them all takes but one sense, A kind of sorrowing dulnes to the mind. Donne. Farewell to Love. Banck feels no lameness of his knotty gout, . Ben. Jonson. On Bank the Usurer. A tender foot will be galled and lamed, if you set it going He [Peter] could but very lamely have executed such an 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. Thou knowest the teares of my lamentacyon Wyatt, Psalm 38. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. i. Eve, who unseen Brome. On the Death of his Schoolmaster. Her teme at her commaundment quiet stands, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 4. A hundred and twentie temporall men with diuers préests But among the Britains there was nothing else heard but Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xiii. Congreve. Death of the late Marquis of Blandford. One clad in purple, not to lose his time, Dryden. Persius, Sat. 1. LAMM. Skinner says, perhaps from the 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. A light; any thing possessing or communicating Hit is as lewede as a lampe, that no lyght ys ynne. And wel ycovered with a lampe of glas? Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,167. A cheerliness did with her hopes arise In liuing brests, ykindled first above Beaum. & Fletch. The Mad Lover, Act ii. sc. 1. The splendour of your lamps; they but eclipse 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, Dryden. Essay upon Satire. It cannot be supposed that the same man, who lampooned 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. LA'NCELY. 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 In ys rygt hond ys lance he nom, that yeluped was Ron. And with that word, with all his force a dart 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, Towards them did pace An armed knight, of bold and bounteous grace, Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 7. 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. } 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, Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 7658. 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, Wiclif. Mark, c. 4. 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 Daniel. Civil Wars, b. vii. 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 Corbet. Iter Boreale. Thus royal sir, to see you landed here, 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, 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, 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. sit linctus instrumentum. 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. |