Hee's growne a very land-fish languagelesse, a monster. Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. iii. Locke. Hum. Underst. b. iii. c. 10. Others for language all their cares express, Pope. Essay on Criticism. Tooke Diversions of Purley, vol. i. c. 1. If this harmonical temperature of the whole body be dis- Methinks the highest expressions that language, assisted The menstruum also working as languidly upon the coral, Fr. Languir; It. Lan- Languere; perhaps (Vossius) from Gr. Aayy - ew quod est pigrari, otiari, tricari, ut languentes solent; to be slow, to idle or trifle; as the languid or faint usually do. To be faint or weak, ill at ease or diseased; to faint, to fade, to droop, to pine; to be or become delicate or tender; to en Tale Uttred his kosyn, a stiffe knyght in stoure, He gaf hys kyngdom, & died in langoure.-R. Brunne, p. 6. Alle that hadden sike men with dyverse langouris ledden bem to bim, and he sette his hondis on ech by hemsilf and leide hem-Wiclif. Luke, c. 4. But lagischith aboute questiouns and stryuyng of wordis-Id. 1 Tym. c. 6. He dorste not his sorwe telle. But languisheth, as doth a furie in helle. Many sick, and keep up; colds without coughing or run- The Lady-chapel (now Trinity church) at Ely, and the lantern-tower in the same cathedral, are noble works of the same time.-Walpole. Anec. of Painting, vol. i. p. 195. Note. Besides the lanterne that crowns the dome, or rather terminates the cella, is by much too large for the edifice, and seems to crush it by its weight. LAP, v. LA'PPET. Eustace. Italy, vol. ii. c. 3. p. 82 It is usual to consider lap. to fold, and lap, to lick, as two words; and for the first to refer LA'PPER. to the A. S. Læppe, which SomLA'PFUL. ner interprets, a small piece of LAPPING, n. any thing, the coast, or hem of a LA'PLING. garment; Dut. and Ger. Lappen, consuere, sarcire: and for the second to the A. S. Lappian; Dut. and Ger. Lappen; Fr. Lapper, lambere, to lick. But the word in all its appliFawkes. Bion. On the Death of Adonis. cations, seems to be one and the same, with one Now happy he whose toil Mason. Caraclacus. And every flower in drooping grief appears Has o'er his languid powerless limbs diffus'd Armstrong. The Art of Preserving Health, b. iii. LANK, n. The moath breedeth upon cloth, and other lanifices, espe- Chaucer. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 11,262. Sometime it cometh of languishing of the body. Now wol I speke of woful Damian, That langureth for loue, as ye shul here. Id. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9741. Pat well was seene in her colour, That she had lived in languour. Id. Rom. of the Rose. O medicine sanatife of sore langorous. Id. The Craft of Louers. They that were of Pithagoras' discipline, among all the Fts of Pithagoras, they kept these rules, and most sted the. That languishnes should be avoided and from the body. Vices. Instruction of a Christian Woman, c. 5. that the kindly joy of the health and life of the body be much depraved, or made faint and languid, by ridled humours and impetuous luxury and intempeace of the earthly-minded Adam. H. More. The Moral Cabbala, c. 3. s. 16. This and audibles] do languish and lessen by degrees, ang to the distance of the objects from the sensories. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 255. My thighes are thin, my body lanck and leane. Shakespeare. Antony & Cleopatra, Act i. sc. 4. One desparate greefe cures with anothers languish. That is there ells, but cease these fruitless paines, And leave me to my former languishing! To now was falne into new languishment lady! how shall I declare thy case 11. Id. lb. b. iv. c. 12. Wam late I left in languorous constraynt. Piers Plouhman, p. 137. Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 1. bushel.-Wiciif. Matthew, c. 5. Ne me teendith not a lanterne and puttith it undir a an overture of health acceptable to sick and languish Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 43. Person: behold the great Physician. * and Cymodocé were nigh, blue languish of soft Alia's eye. Pope. Homer. Ilia', L. xviii. And tho she hath do set vp light In a lanterne on high alofte Upon a toure, where she goth ofte.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv. Cambden! the nourice of antiquitie, and the same meaning, affording a sufficient cause for the various applications, viz. to fold or turn over; as a dog in licking with his tongue; as an edge, or border, or hem of cloth or other material : the clothes over the knees, thighs, or breast. To lap, then, may be explained, To fold or turn over, to enfold, to involve, to enwrap. To fold or turn (the tongue) over, and cons quentially, to lick up. Benes and baken apples, thei brouht in here lappes. Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 688. And carry it in coffre, or in a lappe. Id. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8461. That mantil lapped hir aboute.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. There hongen vpon slouthe's lappe.-Id. Ib. b. iv. Id. 4 Kings, c. 4. Drayton. The Man in the Moon. And ever against eating cares, Id. Paradise Lost, b. iv. Indulgent Fortune does her care employ, Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 23. You must not stream out your youth in wine, and live a lapling to the silk and dainties.-Hewytt. Ser. (1658,) p. 7. They read th' example of a pious wife, As those casual lappings and flowing streamers were imitated from nothing, they seldom have any folds or chiaro scuro.-Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iv. c. 1. Half a dozen squeezed plaits of linnen, to which dangled behind two unmeaning pendants, called lappets, not half covering their strait-drawn hair.-Id. Ib. And sails with lappet-head and mincing airs LAPIDARY. LAPIDE'SCENT. LAPIDE'SCENCE. LAPIDE'SCENCY. LAPIDIFICATION. LA'PIDIST. Cowper. Truth. Fr. Lapider, lapidaire, lapidifier; It. Lapidare, lapidario, lapideo, lapidazione; Sp. Lapizar, lapidares, lapideo; Lat. Lapidarius, lapis; Gr. Aaas, a stone. One who works in, deals in, stone; one who works or deals in precious stones. Induration, or lapidification, of substances more soft, is likewise another degree of condensation; and is a great alteration in nature.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 82. There might fall down into the lapideous matter before it was concrete into a stone some small toad (or some toadspawn) which being not able to extricate itself and get out again, might remain there imprisoned till the matter about it were condensed and compacted into a stone. Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii. Beneath the surface of the Earth there may be sulphureous, and other steams, that may be plentifully mixed with water, and there, in likelihood, with lapidescent liquors. Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 557. They [chymists, &c.] do with much confidence entirely ascribe the induration and especially the lapidescence of bodies to a certain secret internal principle, lurking for the most part in some liquid vehicle.-Id. Ib. vol. i. p. 434. Hereof in subterraneous cavities, and under the earth there are many to be found in several parts of Germany; which are but the lapidescencies and petrifactive mutations of hard bodies.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 23. Arguing, that the atoms of the lapidifick, as well as of the saline principle, being regular, do therefore concur in producing regular stones.-Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. i. c. 3. p. 14. Boetius is of the same opinion, not ascribing its [coral] concretion unto the air but the coagulating spirits of salt, and lapidifical juyce of the sea, which entring the parts of that plant, overcomes its vegetability, and converts it into a lapideous substance.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 5. Some stones exceed all other bodies [in hardness,] among them the adamant all other stones, being exalted to that degree thereof, that art in vain endeavours to counterfeit it, the factious stones of chymists in imitation being easily detected by an ordinary lapidist.-Ray. On the Creation, pt.i. They hired another house of Richard Lions, a famous Ham. Do you not come your tardy sonne to chide, Once more I will renew Millon. Paradise Lost, b. iii. Who can imagine a God of wisdom and sincerity, not to say goodness, should so deal with the generallity of lapsed men, as no good, wise, honest, or true-hearted man could have the face to deal with one like himself? Whitby. Five Points, Disc. 1. c. 3. s. 1. Either our Saviour's performances do respect all men, or some men (the far greater part of men) do stand upon no other terms, than those of the first creation or rather of the subsequent lapse and condemnation.-Burrow, vol.iii.Ser.39. The solidity and simplicity of this monument [the mausoleum of Cecilia Metella] are worthy of the republican era in which it was erected, and have enabled it to resist the incidents and survive the lapse of two thousand years. Eustace. Italy, vol. ii. c. 6. LA'PWING. A. S. Lepewine, hleapwince; formed (Skinner) of hleap-an, to leap, and wince, a wing, because it so quickly moves, expands, and claps its wings together. By Minshew, because it laps or claps the wings so often. In Fr. Van neau. The false lapwing, full of trecherie. For anone after he was chaunged, Gower. Con. A. b. v. Terribly gay In his buff doublet, larded o'er with fat Of slaughter'd brutes, the well-oil'd champion shone. The lard is of great use in medicine, being an ingredient in various sorts of plasters, either pure, or in the form of unguent.-Pennant. British Zoology. The Hog. LARGE. Fr. Large, largesse; It. Largo, Big or bulky, great, ample, wide, extensive, or The lapwing hath a piteous, mournful cry, Beattie. Virgil, Past. 6. The Portuguese beginning their voyage not far from the LARCENY. Fr. Larcin, larrecin; Lat. Latro- LARD, v. Fr. Lard; It. and Sp. Lardo; Hog's flesh, bacon; to the fat of it. And after on the daunce he went When that she yafe, and saied, haue this.-Id. R. of the R. This horse with great solemnitee Was brought within the citee.-Gower. Con. A. b. i. But holde largesses in his measure.-Id. Ib. b. v. On Newe Yeres day, the king. [Henry VII.] being in a riche gowne dynede in his chamber, and gave to his officers of armes vi. 1. of his largesse, wher he was cryed in his style accustumed.-Leland. Collectanea, vol. iv. p. 234. (From a MS. in the Harleian Library.) A passage down the Earth, a passage wide, Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ili. Nor ever thence To lard, to fatten, to cover with fat, to grease; to mix or stuff, or lay bacon or the fat of bacon into other meats; generally, to intermix, to inter-mised, and slacklie perfourmed, and other sudden and lay. See INTERLARD. Larder, a store-room for lard; generally, for The larderer, (larderarius,) or superintendent Gower. Con. A. b. v. The lagging ox is now unbound, Cotton. Noon Quatrains. The blood of oxen, goats, and ruddy wine, Holinshed. Desc. of Britaine, c. 11. While the porter stood wondring at the largeness of the beast, Philomenes ran him through with his boar-spear. Ralegh. History of the World, b. v. c. 3. s. 14. c.144 L 1.949 Such as made Sheba's curious queen resort Waller. To the Countess of Carlisle. Wilkie. The Epigoniad, b. iv. LARK, n. A. S. Lafere; Dut. Lerke, lowerke; Ger. Lerch; Sw. Lærkia. Wachter thinks the word compounded of the Celtic Laf, the voice, and orka, to be strong, and thus to signify cantu pollens, powerful in song. Vossius (de Vit. b. i. e. 2. and Etymol. in v. Galerita) forms it from the Ancient Gallic Alauda; in Modern French, Alouette; Dut. Leurik, from Alaurik. The word Alauda was unknown to the Romans until Cæsar gave that name to a legion "enrolled from the countries beyond the Alpes," (Suet. in Vita, e. 24.) The Lark was called Cassita, or Galerita, (sc. avis,) from the crest or tuft on its head. See also Menage in v. Alouette. LAS And to the meadows telling wanton tales, Spenser. Explanations of his Faerie Queene. But now his [Edgar's] mixture of vice marred all; espe- lasciviency of the bodily life, quite lose the relish and To lowe lyvynge men the larke is resembled. Yet sang the larke, and Palamon right tho With holy herte, and with an high corage Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2214. Then like the larke that past the night Gascoigne. A straunge Passion in a Louer. Thas wore out night, and now the herald lark Milton. Paradise Regained, b. ii. Pride, like an eagle, builds among the stars, Young. The Complaint, Night 5. And shrill lark carols clear from her aerial tour. LA'RUM. See ALARM. A noisy sound; as if summoning to arms; also The wailefull warre in time doth yeelde to peace, Turbervile. After Misadventures come good Haps. His laram bell might lowd and wyde be herd, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 9. Of this nature likewise was the larum mentioned by Walthis, which though it were but two or three inches big, yet wald both wake a man, and of itself light a candle for him at any set hour of the night.-Wilkins. Dedalus, c. 3. LARYNX. Fr. Larynx, laregau; Gr. Aupuy§, gula, guttur. A cartilage forming the protuberance in the anterior part of the neck, vulgarly named the Pam Adami, Adam's apple. The exquisite mechanism of the larynx, its variety of muscles, its cartilages, all so exquisitely made for the purpose of respiration, and forming the voice, are very admir-Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iv. c. 7. For these seven couple of simple consonants, viz. B P— GK-DT-ZS-Th. Th-V F-J. SH-differ each from its partner, by no variation whatever of articulation; but singly a certain unnoticed and almost imperceptible motion or pression of or near the larynx; which causes what Wins calls "some kind of murmure." Tooke. Diversions of Purley, vol. i. c. 6. LASCIVIOUS. LASCIVIOUSLY. LASCIVIOUSNESS. LASCI VIENT. Fr. Lascif; It. and Sp. Lascivo; Lat. Lascivus. Vossius (Etymol. in v.) suggests various etymoloference. Isaac Vossius, an additional one, the Lat. gies without giving a preLacere, to draw, to attract, to allure, or entice. And hence the word might be interpreted,Drawing, attracting, alluring, or enticing, (to luxury, wantonness, or lust;) luxurious, wanton, Latful. Or perhaps from the same source as the Fr. Lasche, loose, (See LASH;) and hence— Lewd, lustful, wanton. I finde that some of them haue not only bin offensiue for trie wanton speeches, and lacivious phrases, but further Weare that the same haue beene doubtfully construed, and therefore) scandalous.-Gascoigne. To the Reuerend Deuines. TOL. II. So in the season when lascivious heat Burns in their veins, two branching-headed stags, Of all the herd competitors for sway, Long with entangled horns persist in strife, Nor yield, nor vanquish. Glover. The Athenaid, b. ii. LASH, v. Fr. Lascher; It. Lasciare; LASH, n. Ger. Lassen; A. S. Les-an, to LA'SHING, n. loose. lasche) of a whip, i. e. that part of it which is let Tooke says, "Lash (Fr. loose, let go, cast out, thrown out: the past part. of French lascher." To lash, with a lash, or any thing thrown out; with any To let loose, to throw out, to cast out; to strike thing long and flexible; also to tie, bend, or fasten together with a lash; met. to strike, (sc. with censure or satire,) to aim a stroke or blow at. To lash the Greks to ground was her hertes joy. The Nine Ladies Worthy. Imputed to Chaucer. Many a stripe and many a greuous lashe She gauen to them that wolden louers be. Chaucer. The Court of Loue. For he lasheth out scripture in bedelem as fast as they bothe in Almayn.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 287. And gan her fresh assayle, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 6, Which to haue concealed had tended more to the opinion of virtue, than to lash out whatsoeuer his vnstaied mind affoorded.-Holinshed. Rich. II. an. 1397. How smart a lash that speech doth giue my conscience? The charioteer then whirl'd the lash around, Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xix. The lash resounds, the coursers spring, Whitehead. The Youth and the Philosopher. Falconer. The Shipwreck, c. 2. LA'SSITUDE. LAS Fr. Lassitude, lasseté; Sp. Lassitud; Lat. Lassitudo, from lassus, contraction lassæ dicuntur cum diu nimis laciuntur," (Vossius.) of lacitus, from lacere, to draw: "Itaque vaccæ Exhaustion of strength or spirits; weariness or fatigue proceeding from exhaustion; generally-weariness or fatigue. The one is called cruditie, ye other lassitude, whiche although they be wordes made of Latyne, hauynge none apte Englyshe worde therefore, yet by the defynytions and more ample declaration of them, they shall be vnderstande suffycyentely, and from henseforthe vsed for Englyshe. Sir T. Elyot. Castel of Helth, b. iv. c. 1. Lassitude is remedied by bathing, or anointing with oile and warm water. The cause is, for that all lassitude is a kind of contusion, and compression of the parts; and bathing, and anointing give a relaxation, or emollition. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 730. The corporeal instruments of action being strained to a high pitch, or detained in a tone, will soon feel a lassitude, somewhat offensive to nature.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 18. Cold tremours come, with mighty love of rest, Convulsive yawnings, lassitude and pains That sting the burden'd brows, fatigue the loins, And rack the joints, and every torpid limb. Armstrong. The Art of Preserving Health, b. i. shape on which shoes are made. Let firm, well-hammer'd soles protect thy feet, Bifore alle thingis haue ye charitie ech to othire in yoursynnes.-Wiclif. 1 Petir, c. 4. silff algatis lastinge, for charitie keuerith the multitude of Trewly I was greatly reioysed in myne herte, of her faire behestes, and profered me to be slawe in all that she me wold ordein whyl my life lasted. Chaucer. The Testament of Loue, b. ii. Hakewill. Apologie, c. 3. s. 6. Drayton. The Barons' Wars, b. iii. LASS. From ladde is derived, and formerly strength of a young man, bare-headed. rudely clothed, to Hickes, (in Lye.) was in use, laddesse, now contracted into lass. The mony for theyr masses Spenser. Astrophel. Thy broomegroues The rural lass signifie its activity, and lastingness, readiness of action, and aptnesses to do service.-Bp. Taylor. On Friendship. Quoth Cibber to Pope, "Tho' in verse you foreclose, I'll have the last word; for, by G-, I'll write prose." Poor Colly, thy reasoning is none of the strongest, For know, the last word is the word that lasts longest. Pope. Dunciad, b. i. Note. The particular circumstances, for which the automata of this kind are most eminent, may be reduced to these four 1. The lastingness of their motion, without needing of a nev supply.-Wilkins. Dædalus, c. 3. Your sufferings are of a short duration, your joy will last for ever.-Hart. Medit. on Christ's Death & Passion, N. 2. LAST. Last is with us (says Skinner) a LA'STAGE. kind of weight, from the A. S. Hlastan, be-hlæstan, onerare; to load, or impose a burthen; Ger. Last, a load or weight; whence (he adds) our lastage, a toll or tribute upon ships of burthen. Lastage is also applied to the ballast, 1193 (qv.) and to the load itself. By 21 Rich. II. c. 18, "All maner of ships accustomed to come to the said port (s. of Caleis) out of the countrey of England shall bring with them all their lastage of good stones convenient for stuffing the said beakens," (Rastal, p. 47.) By 31 Edw. I. a weight is declared to be fourteen stone, two weights of wool to make a sacke, and twelve sacks a last. A last of herrings to contain ten thousand, &c. (Id. p. 524.) And see Spelman, in v. Last. So that they shall be free from all toll, and from all custome; that is to say from all lastage, tallage, passage, cariage, &c.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 117. A last of white herrings is twelve barrels, of red herrings 20 cades or thousand; and of pilchards 10,000; of corn 10 quarters, and in some parts of England 21 quarters; of wool 12 sacks; of leather 20 dickers, or ten score; of hides or skins 12 dozen; of pitch, tar, or ashes 14 barrels; of gunpowder 24 firkins, weighing a hundred pound each. Tomline. Law Dictionary. A. S. Lacc-an. See LACE. To lay hold of, to seize, to catch. The noun is applied toThat which catches, and holds fast, (sc.) a door. And if ge latche Lycre, let hym nat askapie. LATCH, v. } Piers Plouhman, p. 35. Id. p. 143. The pumie stones I hastly hent Bible, 1551. Mark, c. 1. And threw; but nought avayled : Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. March. Himself to ground; and therewithal did show Upon their glittering wings to latch him straight These rurall latches, to his entrance open, I will deuise a death, as cruell for thee As thou art tender to't.-Shakes. Wint. Tale, Act iv. sc. 3. -But I haue words That would be howl'd out in the desert ayre, Id. Macbeth, Act iv. sc. 3. But hast thou yet latcht the Athenian's eyes, LA'TENESS. LA'TTER. Late, the adj. Goth. Lata, tardus, slow; A. S. Late, late; Dut. Laet; Sw. Lat; Goth. Latyan; A.S. Lat-ian, læt-an;-tardare, morari, to be or cause to be slow; to retard, to delay, to let. [The Goth. Lagy-an, to lay,-lagyed, lay-ed, layd, layt, late? and hence also the Lat. Lat, are?] Let or letted,-hindered, kept back or behind, retarded, delayed: it is referred to time back or past, not long before, as the late reign, not that preceding it; the late king, not any preceding him; and is thus extended to any person or thing, lately in being. Last, latest, latst, last. That this gode folk of Troie ouer come were at the last. Martha seith to him, I woot that he schal rise agen in the Is it mete that the carnal be first, & that thing to be later- To meet the rudeness, and swill'd insolence, Id. Paradise Lost, b. x. Holinshed. The Description of Britaine, c. 12. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iii. I am so lated in the world, that I Id. Antony & Cleopatra, Act iii. sc. 9. Waller. To the Mutable Fair. Thomson. Autumn. To crown Achilles' valiant friend with praise Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xvi. Swift, to Gay, Nov. 23, 1727. Jenyns. Horace, Ep. 1. b. i. LATEEN sails, in French, Voiles latines, LA/TENT. Fr. Latent; It. Latente; Lat. My latent sense thy happier thought explores, Roscommon. Mr. Needler, to the Earl. cerity.-Stewart. Outlines of Moral Philosophy. See COLLATERAL, and LATE. Of or pertaining to the side; belonging to, proceeding from, the side. Thwart of these as fierce Forth rush the Levant and the Ponent windes Millon. Paradise Lost, b. x. In a field of ripe corn blown upon by the wind, there will appear as it were waves of a colour (at least gradually) differing from that of the rest of the field; the wind, by depressing some of the ears, and not at the same time others, making the one reflect more from the lateral and strawy parts than do the rest.-Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 678. LATH. LA'THING, n. LA'THY. } A. S. Latta; Ger. Latte; Fr. Latte; Low Lat. Lata. Francis (says Wachter) lid-on est secare, separare, to cut, to separate. It may be from the A. S. Lithe, in a consequential application; thin, slender. In plastering likewise of our fairest houses ouer our heads, we vse to laie first a laine or two of white morter tempered with haire vpon laths. Holinshed. The Description of England, c. 12. A small kiln consists of an oaken frame, lathed on every side.-Mortimer. Husbandry. "A home should be built, or with brick, or with stone." Why 'tis plaster and lath; and I think that's all one. Prior. Down Hall, a Ballad, (1715.) Laths are made of fir for inside plaistering and pantile lathing.-Moxon. Mechanical Exercises. The which he tossed to and fro amain West. On the Abuse of Travelling LATHE, (a Turner's,) perhaps from Lith-ian. See LITHE. Could turn his word, and oath, and faith, As many ways as in a lath. Hudibras, pt. iii. c. 2. LATHE. In Law Lat. Læstum; A. S. LATHE-REEVE. Lathe, lath, which Spelman derives from the A. S. Lath-ian, ge-lath-ian, congregare; to assemble together, q.d. an assembly or convention. Lathe is also applied to a barn or granary, (sc.) laid up, or stored. a place where corn or grain is brought together, Skinner thinks from lade, because laden with the produce of harvest. Why ne had thou put the capel in the lathe? Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 4085. As Alured divided the shires first, so to him is owing the constitution of hundreds, tithings, lathes, and wapentakes. Drayton. Poly-Olbion. Selden. Illustrations. These shires also he [Alfred] brake into lesser parts, whereof some were called lathes of the word galathian, which is to assemble togither. Holinshed. The Description of England, b. ii. c. 4. In some counties there is an intermediate division, between the shire and the hundreds, as lathes in Kent, and rapes in Sussex, each of them containing about three or four hundreds a piece. These had formerly their lathe-reeves and rape-reeves, acting in subordination to the shire-reeve. Blackstone. Commentaries, Introd. s. 4. Junius says, to smear with the foam of soapy water. GeThe undesignedness of the agreements (which undesigned-molliLiTHB) emollire, to soften. Lye thinks it lethred is rendered by Somner, mollitus, made soft, lither or tender, from ge-lith-ian, (ge-lethred) may be interpreted lathered or in a ness is gathered from their latency, their minuteness, their The words are common in speech, but not in writing; the horse was in a lather, i. e. a foaming sweat; the barber lathered his chin. there will Francis secare The damsel with the soap-ball lathered him with great expedition, raising flakes of snow. Smollett. Don Quixote, vol. iii. p. 281. I shall be satisfied with the lathering of my beard, replied the squire, at least at present.-Id. Ib. p. 282. LATIN, v. LA'TINIST. As used by Wilson,-to interlard the discourse with Latin words or phrases. Latinism, an idiom or phrase- This interpretacion also, do both the moste number and the best lerned of the latinistes best alowe. Such fellowes will so Latine their tongues, that the simple cannot but wonder at their talke, and thinke surely they speak by some revelacion. Wilson. Arte of Rhetorike, (1553.) b. iii. Bretheren, this matter of Latinity is but a straw, but let me say this willing defence of a plain falshood, is a block, which your very friends cannot but stumble at. Bp. Hall. Ans. to the Vind. of Smectymnuus. I owe also to Fenton the participle meandered, and to Sir Belleau and the French critics affected to despise those authors, [the modern Latin poets] and, for what reason it is difficult to discover, undervalued their Latinity. Eustace. Italy, vol. i. Prelim. Dis. The macaronian is a kind of burlesque poetry, consisting of a jumble of words of different languages, with words of the vulgar tongue latinized, and Latin words modernized. Cambridge. The Scribleriad, b. ii. Note 16. LATIRO'STROUS, i. e. broad-beaked, flatbilled, from latus, broad, and rostrum, the beak. It (the pelican] is palmipedous, or fin-footed, like swans and geese; according to the method of nature in latirostrous or fat-bild birds.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. v. c. 1. LATITANT. Pres. part. of the Lat. LatiLATITANCY. tare, from lat-ere, to lie hidden or concealed. See LATENT. Lying or lurking hidden or concealed. Snakes, lizards, snails, and divers other insects latitant months in the year, being cold creatures, containing reak heat in a crass or copious humidity, do long subsist about nutrition.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 21. LATITUDINARIAN, adj.titudine; Sp. Latitud; LAU LA/TRANT. Lat. Latrans, pres. part. of La- Latitudina'rian, n. LATITUDINA RIANISM. (the initial cut off.) Breadth; applied generally to extent, or extensiveness; (met.) without restriction or confinement, or limitation; looseness, laxity. nd lastudes of starres, fixe in the astrolabie. hairde partye shal containe diuers tables of longitudes This island (which Tacitus mistaketh no doubt for Mona Chaucer. The Astrolabie. Barking; clamorous, noisy. Thy care be first the various gifts to trace, Tickell. On Hunting. Whose latrant stomachs oft molest ministrare, to serve, to minister. That in this sacred supper there is a sacrifice in that sense Archdeacon Nares contends that it is brass, LAV If thou laudest and ioyest any wight, for he is stuffed with soche maner richesse, thou art in that beleue begiled. Chaucer. The Test. of Loue, b. i. His stone is the grene emeraude Who is lyke thee? So gloryous in holynesse, fearfuli, Shakespeare. 2 Pt. Hen. IV. Act iii. sc. 3 I am in this earthly world: where to do harme as Samuel's, led in with exhortation and carried out with a laudatory of itself obtruded in the very first word. positions and deeds to be the gift of God, to be laudable, to libano.]-Wiclif. Apocalips, c. 2. Chaucer. The Rime of Sire Thopas, v. 13,806. out at; cross-barred (of wood or iron) through See JEALOUSY. Lettice-caps; Fr. Lassis,-in chequer or net work. For out of the wyndowe of my house I loked thorow the lettesse.-Bible, 1551. Prouerbes, c. 7. I know that Alexander was adorned with most excellent It seemeth he hath latticed up Cæsar, and many others of oke in checkerwise.-Holinshed. Desc. of Eng. b. ii. c. 12. Of old time our countrie houses in steed of glasse did vse Cesaris, and so doth Ptolomie as appeareth by his latitudes) tainment with the microscope, that every body knows it is Etat about two miles from the shore of North Wales. Holinshed. Description of Britaine, c. 10. ad they did, that the church was to be pulled down; yet Those who did not carry this so far as to think, as some ada latitudinarian party was like to prevail and to engross ferments.-Burnet, Own Time, an. 1689. He Wilkins] was look'd upon as the head of the latitudias, as they were then stiled: i. e. persons that had no rking for the liturgy or ceremonies, or indeed the ment of this church, but yet had attained to such a ess and freedom of judgment, as that they could conthe without any warmth or affection for these things. Birch. Life of Tillotson. The nation was less governed by laws than by customs, Cowper. The Moralizer Corrected. Fr. Laver; It. Lavare; Sp. Lavar; Lat. Lavare, to wash; Gr. Ao-ev, seu λo-eεiv, ex quo Xov-ew, contractum; to wet or wash. To wash or wet, to bathe, to cleanse or purify with water. And laveth hem in the lavendrie.-Piers Plouhman, p.281. Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 5869. lauatorye.-Bible, 1551. 3 Kings, c. 7. To the end that we shoulde not thynke to bee sufficient, His ears hang laving like a new lugg'd swine. Let us go find the body where it lies The Cardinal's carriage exceeded all bounds of modera- Such filthy stuffe was by loose lewd varlets sung before The left presents a place of graves, Parnell. A Night Piece. On Death tomay abyss of scepticism; and a friend to free enquiry, the great or good qualities, the merits of any and laued out of the noble welles of his mother Caliope the Samarianism.-Dr. Parr. Tracts by a Warburtonian. person or thing; to praise, to commend. 1195 [Orpheus] songe in wepinge, all that euer he had received goddesse.-Chaucer. Boecius, b. iii. |