s distinguished

3; to jump, to n from Brow annus s

others by one rd.

oucester, p. 296. athe Toukman, p. K

you upright on (Dedis, c

e rest which

with us, and aa ye bat

It admits then of a conjecture that to learn may mean, to gather or take up; (take or teach, qv. and see BETECHE.)

To learn, is (by modern usage) only—

To take to ourselves, (sc.) the knowledge of any thing; formerly also, to take it to another, to deliver, impart, or communicate it; to teach.

To take, accept, or receive (knowledge); to
acquire or obtain, gain or procure it.

And so heo schulde lerne, with Christenemen to fygte.
R. Gloucester, p. 153.
Take ye my yok on you, and lerne ye of me, for I am
mylde and meke in herte.-Wiclif. Matt. c. 11,

Take my yocke on you, and learn of me, for I am meke
and lowly in herte.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

Lerneth to suffren, or so mote I gon,
Ye shul it lerne whether ye wol or non.

Chaucer. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 11,090.

Certis I know not other men's witts, what I should aske, er in answere, what I should saie, I am so leude my self, that mockell more lernyng, yet me behoueth.

Id. The Testament of Loue, b. iii.
These and a thousand points more dooeth Erasmus by oc-
casion not onely touche, but also in such sorte moste
learnedly handle.-Udal, Pref.

Besides, the king set in a course so right,
Which I for him laboriously had tract,
(Who, till I learn'd him, had not known his might.)
Drayton. The Legend of Thomas Cromwell.

When I was yet a child, no childish play
To me was pleasing, all my mind was set

Serious to learn, and know, and thence to do
What might be publick good.-Milton. Par. Reg. b. i.
And yet doth his majesty [King James] distinguish it
magick from necromancy, witchcraft, and the rest: of all
which he hath written largely and most learnedly.

Ralegh. History of the World, b. i. c. 11. 6. 2.

For it is true, the late learners cannot so well take the e; except it be in some mindes, that have not suffered themselves to fix, but have kept themselves open and prepared, to receive continual amendments,-which is exceedng rare-Bacon. Ess. Of Custome.

1

The parts of human learning have reference to the three

parts of man's understanding which is the seat of learning; story to his memory, poesy to his imagination, and philophy to his reason.-Id. Advancement of Learning, b. ii.

Thus then to man the voice of Nature spake,

Go, from the creatures thy instructions take:
Leara from the birds what food their thickets yield,
Learn from the beasts the physic of the field,
Thy arts of building from the bee receive:
Learn from the mole to plough, the worm to weave.
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. 3.

And seem more learnedish than those
That is a greater charge compose.

Whether, retiring from your weighty charge,
On some high theme you learnedly enlarge.
Swift. Epistle to Lord Carteret.

Butler. Miscellaneous Thoughts.

Stern, rugged nurse; thy rigid lore

With patience many a year she bore:

What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,

And from her own she learn'd to melt at others' woe.
Gray. Hymn to Adversity.

Men that, if now alive, would sit content
And humble learners of a Saviour's worth,
Preach it who might.
Cowper. The Task, b. ii.

LEASER.

granted.

LEASE, v. Skinner says, "To leas corn, (from the Dut. and Ger. Les-en,

gere, legere, carpere, to collect, to gather.'

Lessor, lessee, &c. are common legal terms.

And those not by chance

Made, or indenture, or leas'd out t'advance
The profits for a time.

B. Jonson. To the Memory of Sir Lucius Cary.

This land of such deere soules, this deere deere land,
Deere for her reputation through the world,
Is now leas'd out (I dye pronouncing it)
Like to a tenement or pelting farme.

Shakespeare. Rich. II. Act ii. sc. 1.
And as it seemes and is most probable the benchers of this
lease, soone after the deathe of the Earle of Lincolne.
Stow. Of the Vniuersities in England, c. 14.

colledge [Lincolne's Inne] tooke an estate of long time by

I could begin again to court and praise,
And in that pleasure lengthen the short days
Of my life's lease.-Donne. The Expostulation.
They were all very sudainly inhabited, and stored with
inmates, to the great admiration of the English nation, and
aduantage of landlords and leasemongers.
Stow. King James, an. 1604.

An infant Phenix from the former springs,
His father's heir, and from his tender wings
Shakes off his parent dust, his method he pursues,
And the same lease of life on the same term renews.
Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. xv.
The lands in America and the West Indies, indeed, are in
general not tenanted nor leased out to farmers.
given in lease to farmers are taxed at a tenth of the rent.
Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. v. c. 3.
In the Venetian territory, all the arable lands which are
Id. Ib. b. v. c. 2.

false rein to hold an horse by; any such long string,"
LEASH, v. Fr. Lesse; It. Lassa. "A leash
(Cotgrave.)
LEASH, n.
to hold a dog, &c. in ; a bridle, or

together with a leash, or lash.
To leash dogs together is to tie or fasten them
Leash, n. is applied
See LASH.
usually leashed together.

to the number (3)

Now it is behovely to tellen whiche ben dedly sinnes, that
it is to say, chieftaines, for as moche as all they run in a
lees, but in divers maners.-Chaucer. Persones Tale.

Then should the warlike Harry, like himself
Assume the port of Mars, and at his heels
(Leasht in, like hounds) should Famine, Sword, and Fire
Crouch for employment.-Shakespeare. Hen. V. Ch. 1.
Holding Corioles in the name of Rome,
Euen like a fawning greyhound in the leash.
Id. Coriolanus, Acti. sc. 6.

Or Cerberus himself pronounce
A leash of languages at once.-Hudibras, pt. i. c. 1.
The struggling greyhound gnaws his leash in vain ;
If, when 'tis broken, still he drags the chain.
Dryden. Persius, Sat. 5.

LE'ASIE. This word has been found only in
Ascham, and seems to be used by him as equiva-
lent to vague; and may be intended as a deriva-
tive (with leasing, qv.) from A. S. Lease, mendax,
fallax; fallacious.

The word is Goth. and A.S. Lis-an, les-an leaveth, whiles the sense itselfe be left both lowse and leasie.

For studying therebie to make everie thing straight and easie, in smoothing and playning all things to much, never Ascham. The Schole-master, b. ii.

and the application, probably, consequential :

To gather or pick up, to collect, to glean, (2) that which is loose or scattered.

Aren, that in harvest used to lease:

But harvest done to chair work did aspire; Meat, drink, and two pence was her daily hire. Dryden. Theocritus, Idyl. 3. game as no offce which a man from England might a the cand I looked upon all who were born here as hy

condition of leasers and gleaners.-Swifl.

LEASING.
LEASING-MONGERS. mendax, lying, false. Lea-
A. S. Leas, lease; falsus,
sunge, a lye, a falsehood.
to have the same origin as losenger, (qv.) and
Skinner Links leasing
(See Los.) The A. S. verb Hlys-an, which Somner
interprets celebrare, illustrare, gives the noun
losenger is derived by Junius from lose or loos, laus.
hien, fama, relatio, rumor, fame, report, rumour.
Whence A. S. Leas, leas-unge; and Eng. Leas-ing.
Lying rumour, false report; lying, falsehood.

LEA

Lesingmongeris and forsworun.-Wiclif. 1 Tim. c. 1.

Than wol I shewe al openly by right,

That thou hast made a ful gret lesing here.

Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Prologue, v. 15 943
For whan he hath his tonge affiled

With softe speeche and with lesynge.-Gower. Con. A. b. i.
Whom she with leasings lewdly did miscall,
And wickedly backbite.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 8.

For trading free shall thrive again,
Nor leasings lewd affright the swain.

LEATHER.
LEATHERN.
LEATHERY.

the A. S. Hlid-an,
cutis tegitur.

Gay. The Shepherd's Week, Past. 1 Goth. Hlethr, hleithr; A. S. tegere, to cover; pellis, qua Lether; Dut. and Ger. Leder; Sw. Leader. Wachter suggests

The hide with which the skin, the flesh, or body of the animal is covered: it is most usually applied to the hide when stripped from the animal and manufactured by the tanner.

Piers Plouhman, p. 97.

And as a letherne pors. lolled his chekus.
And by hire girdle heng a purse of lether.

Chaucer. The Milleres Tale, v. 3300. Clad with a garmente wouen of camel's heeres, and girded with a lethere girdill.-Udal. Matthew, c. 3.

"Lat him enchantors," quoth Merlyn, "sone bi for me
brynge,
And ich wol preue bi fore the that heo telle that lesynge."
The sothe is to se,
R. Gloucester, p. 130.
Without any lesyng.
Whanne he spekith lesynge, he spekith of his owne: for
R. Brunne, p. 237.
he is a liare, and fadir of it.-Wiclif. Jon, c. 8.
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The prices of that commodity [leather] rose to great, high, and unsupportable rates, which caused a proclamation dated from Westminster, June 1, that no manner of person should carry or export out of the realm any manner of leather, or salt hides, into any strange nation without express licence. Strype. Memorials. Edw. VI. an. 1548.

Her lips were, like raw lether, pale and blew.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 12.
And in requital ope his leathern scrip,
And show me simples of a thousand names.

Milton. Comus.

Wormius calls this crust a leathery skin.-Grew. Museum.
Not seeing that my limber wings
Were leather-like vnplum'de,
But at the dawning also I

Of wing-worke still presum'de.

Warner. Albion's England, b. vii. c. 36
The adverse winds in leathern bags he brac'd,
Compress'd their force, and lock'd each struggling blast.
Pope. Homer, Odyssey, b. x

The first said the wine tasted of iron; the other affirmed it had a twang of goat's leather; the owner protested the pipe was clean. Time passed on, the wine was sold, and when the pipe came to be cleaned, they found in it a small key, tied to a leathern thong.

Smollett. Don Quixote, b. i. c. 13.
The A. S. Laf-an-leof-an,
linquere, relinquere ;-Leof-an,
lyf-an, linquere, vivere; also
permittere, concedere. Ger.
Leib-en, vivere, linquere; facere
explained; but without any attempt to account
ut maneat, manere, superesse, relinqui.
for usages so different:-Live, leve, leave, (see
Lef-wa, vivere, linquere.
Sw.
So these words are
LEVE, and BELIEVE), seem to be the same word:
-the radical meaning-to stay or remain: thus-

concede, or allow (any thing) to stay, abide or
To live, to stay, to dwell, to remain, to abide;
to cause to dwell, or abide; to let, suffer, permit,
remain; to omit, to desist, to recede, to relin-
depart from. (See LEFT.) And the n.—-
quish, to resign; to quit, to retire, to forsake, to
Permission, concession, sufferance. Also-
Departure and further;-certain formalities
on or previous to departure.

Corineus saide, that he nolde nomen asche leue,

To honto and to wynne hys mete, and habbe solas and
game.
R. Gloucester, p. 16.

Bot Segbert of Estsex at home left stille.-R. Brunne, p. 3.
Our fredom that day for euer toke the leue.-Id. p. 71.
He toke Sigiferde's wife, withouten his fader leue.
Pees I leeue to ghou, my pees I ghyue to ghou, not as the
Id. p. 46.
world ghyueth I ghyue to ghou.-Wiclif. Jon, c. 14.

Peace I leue with you, my peace I geue vnto you. Not as
the world geueth, geue I vnto you.-Bible, 1551. Ib.
Wheras he saith, Leveth the vengeaunce to me, and I
shal do it.
Chaucer. The Tale of Melibcus.

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LEA

Upon the wardein besily they crie,

To yeve hem leve but a litel stound,

To gon to mille, and seen her corn yground.
Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 4005.

Within an yle me thought I was,
Where wall, and yate was all of glasse,
And so was closed round about,
That leauelesse none come in ne out.

This old Pandion, this king gan wepe
For tendernesse of herte, for to leve
His doughter gon, and for to yeve her leve,
Of all this world he loved nothing so.
But at the last leave hath she to go.

Id. Dreame.

Id. Legend of Philomene.

For as much as this vertue is more estemed of the affeccion of the leauer, than of the greatness of the thyng that is leaft.-Udal. Matthew, c. 19.

Leave, ah! leave off, whatever wight thou bee,

To let a weary wretch from her due rest,
And trouble dying soules tranquilitee.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 1.
Val. Sweet Protheus, no: now let vs take our leave
At Millaine let me heare from thee by letters
Of thy successe in loue.

Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act i. sc. 1.

Then let us not think hard

One easie prohibition, who enjoy

Free leave so large to all things else, and choice
Unlimited of manifold delights.-Milton. Par. Lost, b. iv.

Oh Anthony,

Forgiue me in thine owne particular,
But let the world ranke me in register
A master leauer and a fugitiue.

Id. Anthony & Cleopatra, Act iv. sc. 9.

The Queen provides companions of her flight,
They meet; and all combine to leave the state,
Who hate the tyrant, or who fear his hate.
They seize a fleet, which ready rigg'd they find :
Nor is Pigmalion's treasure left behind.

Dryden. Virgil. Æneis, b. i.

Short was your answer in your usual strain;
I take my leave nor wait on you again.

LEC

Troy. Haue I not tarried?
Pan. I the boulting; but you must tarry the leau'ing.
[leauening.]-Shakespeare. Troyl. & Cres. Act i. sc. I.
For our religion, where was there a more ignorant, pro-
phane, and vicious clergy, learned in nothing but the anti-
quity of their pride, their covetousness and superstition?
whose unsincere and levenous doctrine corrupting the people,
first taught them looseness, and bondage.
Milton. Answer to Eikon Basilike.

The cruel something, unpossess'd,
Prior. The Ladle.
Corrodes, and leavens all the rest.
This powerful ferment, mingling with the parts,
The leaven'd mass to milky chyle converts.
Blackmore. The Creation, b. vi.

LE CHER, n.
LE CHER, V.
LECHERY.

There can be no doubt that Lecher is from the verb to lick. Fr. Lecher or lescher. Cotgrave says-Lecheresse, a licorous or saucy woman, LECHEROUSNESS. lescheur, a licker; a licorous companion; lescherie, licorousness, and in v. lie, to leacher it, or get a lick at it.

LECHEROUS.
LECHEROUSLY.

A lecherous man or woman is a licorous man or woman; though the word (lechery) is now confined

Other copies and various lections and words omitted, and corruptions of texts and the like, these you are full of; but no footstep of any solid learning appears in all you have writ. Milton. A Defence of the People of England.

This was a great and devout scholar, whose aid Alfred used in his disposition of lectures.

Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 11. Selden. Illustrations.
It was the market and the lecture-day,
For lecturers sell sermons, as the lay
Doe sheep and oxen.

Corbet. Iter Boreale.

These lectures must be read onely in the Tearme tymes: to euery lecturer, or reader, is prouided and allowed by this founder, fiftie pounds of annuall fee or stipend, and a fayre lodging within this his pallace like house.

Stow. Of the Vniuersities in England, c. 30. William Rufus was buryed at Winchester in the Cathedral Church, or Monastery of Saynt Swithen, vnder a playne flatte marble stone, before the lectorne in the queere. Id. William Rufus, an. 1099.

Some persons opened their mouthes against me, both obliquely in the pulpit, and directly at the court, complaining of my too much indulgence to persons disaffected, and my too much liberty of frequent lecturings within my charge. Bp. Hall. Some Specialities in his Life.

to a particular lust, or desire; (sc.) for sexual in-worthy of such an undertaking, it was to preach Mr.Boyle's

tercourse.

A lustful, lewd, or libidinous person.

So foul lechour was the kyng, that anon in the howse
He willede, for foul lecherie this mayde for to spouse.
R. Gloucester, p. 119.
But after sheo was founde gylty in lecherie,
Wherefore she was putte oute ther of.-R. Brunne, p. 13.
Edgare for to fle lickery of lyfe,

His barons gave him conseile for to take a wyfe.

He [John] was of licherous life.

Id. p. 35.
Id. p. 206.

Lo Loth in hus lyue. yorowe lecherouse drinke
Wickedlich wroghte.
Piers Plouhman, p. 14.
But if he that is named a brothir among ghou, and is a
lechour, or couetous, or seruyng to idolis, or a cursere, or
ful of drunkenesse, or a raueynour, take not mete with
suche.-Wiclif. 1 Corynth. c. 5.

Ye han herd that it was seid to olde men thou shalt not

do leecherie.-Id. Matthew, c. 5.

The youngere sone went forth in pilgrimage into a fer

countree and there he wastid his goodis: in lyuinge lecherFrancis. Horace, b. i. Sat. 6. ously.-Id. Luke, c. 15.

LE'AVEN, v.
Fr. Levain; It. Lievito ;
LE'AVEN, n.
Sp. Levadura; all from the
LE'AVENING, n. Lat. Levare, to raise, because
LE'AVENOUS. it raises and lifts up the mass
or lump, (of dough,) and also renders it lighter.
Wiclif renders fermentum, sour dow.

To raise, to lighten, (sc. by the intermixture of another ingredient that may cause fermentation;) (met.) to intermix with a substance of less purity; to savour or season, stain, tinge, or imbue.

He is the leuein of the breade.

Whiche soureth all the paste about.-Gower. Con. A. b. iii.
A lytell leuen doth leue the whole lompe of dow.

And he was also lecherous.
They were slouthful to roote out vyce and to plante vertue,
and dryuen into ye profounde and depe sleepe of ygnoraunce,
of ydylness, of lecherousnesse, and of pryde.

Bible, 1551. Isaiah, c. 56. Notes.
The smai gilded fly

Do's letcher in my sight.-Shakespeare. Lear, Act iv. sc.6.
And next to him rode lustfull Lechery

Upon a bearded gote whose rugged heare,
And whally eies, (the signe of gelosy,)

Was like the person selfe, whom he did beare:
Who rough and blacke, and filthy, did appeare.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 4.
The sleepy leacher shuts his little eyes;
About his churning chaps the frothy bubbles rise.
Dryden. Virgil, Geor. 3.
LE/CTUARY, i. e. Electuary, (qv.)

But all too late commeth the lectuarie
When men the corse unto the grave carie.

LECTURE, v.
LECTURE, n.
LECTURER.
LECTURER-SHIP.
LECTURING, n.
LECTURN.
LE'CTION.

LECTIONARY.
Bible, 1551. Galathians, c. 5.

Chaucer. Troil. & Cres.

In the year 1704, he [Clarke] was called forth to an office, Lecture, founded by that honourable gentleman, to assert and vindicate the great fundamentals of natural and revealed religion.-Clarke. Life, by Hoadley.

He [Tillotson] soon became lecturer at St. Laurence Jury, which he continued till his advancement to the see of Canterbury.-Tillotson. Life, by Birch.

The Lectionary contained all the lessons, which were directed to be read in the course of the year. Warton. Life of Sir T. Pope, p. 337.

If the teacher happens to be a man of sense, it must be an unpleasant thing to him to be conscious, while he is leoturing his students, that he is either speaking or reading nonsense, or what is very little better than nousense. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. v. c. 1.

I was informed by an acquaintance, that a certain clergyman in the city was about to resign his lectureship, and that he would probably resign in my favour, if I were early enough in my application.-Knox. Essays, No. 117.

Tyrwhitt
LEDEN. A. S. Lad-en, leden.
adopts the opinion of Skinner, that leden is a cor-
ruption of Latin; and produces from Dante an
instance of a similar usage of latino. Lye sup-
plies many instances of the A. S. used as an
adjective. "Of bec ledene on Englisc wende, he
rendered it from a Latin book into an English
one;" and others in which ledene is opposed to
English. There appears no reason to travel
further for the origin of the word. See (however)
Jamieson in v. Leed. Leden, it may be added, is
applied to the Latin or Roman people, as well as
to the language. See Lye, and the Gloss. to G.
Douglas. It is used, generally, to denote-
The language, or the peculiar language.
The queinte ring,

Thurgh which she understood wel every thing
That any foule may in his leden sain,
And coude answere him in his leden again,
Hath understonden what this faucon seyd.

Chaucer. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,749.
Thereto he was expert in prophesies,
And could the ledden of the Gods unfold.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 11.
The ledden of the birds most perfectly she knew.
Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 12.
LEDGE. From the A. S. Lec-gan, ponere, to

lay.

A narrow board upon which we are wont to lay small things, (Skinner.)

That upon which we lay any thing; a narrow
Fr. Lecture, leçon; It. shelf; any thing prominent or projecting, in
Lettura, lezione; Sp. Lec- manner of such shelf, from the main surface; a
tura, lecion, from Lat. Lec-ridge, a row.
tum, past part. of leg-ere, to
gather; consequentially, to
read, quia qui id facit lite-
ras vocesque colligit, ut
oratio fiat.

A lecture, a reading; a sermon or discourse
read; (sc.) to teach, to instruct; to improve.
To lecture, to read or speak a sermon or dis-
to teach, to instruct orally; to teach, to
course;
censure, to reprove.
Lectorne, a place for reading, a reading-desk.
And vpon thys arose thys newe counsayle take vpon the
Wedinsday after, whereof oure present lecture speaketh.
Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1301.

1202

Ye sydes were as it were flat borders between the ledges.
Bible, 1551. 3 Kings, c. 8
Then that the lowest ledge or row be meerly of stone, and
the broader the better.-Reliquia Wottonian, p. 18.
Beneath a ledge of rocks his feet he hides;
Tall trees surround the mountain's shady sides:
The bending brow above, a safe retreat provides.
Dryden. Virgil. Æneis, b.
That buoyant lumber may sustain you o'er
The rocky shelves and ledges to the shore.

Falconer. Shipwreck, c.2
LEE, n.
See BELEE. Lee is a plac
LEEWARD. Secure from wind or weather; th
lee side of a ship is the side under or not expose

سلام

to the wind; to be under the lee is to be under
the wind or shelter from it; the lee-shore, on the
contrary, appears to be the shore on, or opposed
to, the lee-side of the ship, as she sails along; and
consequently exposed to the wind.
De leef hebben, to sail before the wind; Loeven, to
In Dutch,
ply to windward, (to luff:) Loef, the weather-
gage. The Dut. and the Eng. Luff, lee, leeward,
Tooke considers to be from the same root; the
A.S. Luft; the air or the clouds; the wind.
Loop, and LUFF.
See

As sea-men tell,
With fixed anchor in his skaly rind

Moores by his side under the lee.-Milton. Par. Lost, b. i.

Thus they generally reason: Barbadoes is the Easter-most of the Carribbe Islands, therefore the rest are said to be leeward of it, and so of any other island; as indeed it usually holds true, because the winds there are commonly at East. Dampier. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. iii. c. 2.

Which just like ours, how rigg'd and mann'd,

And got about a league from land

By change of wind to leeward side,

The pilot knew not how to guide.-Swift. On the Union.

Though sorely buffeted by ev'ry sea,
Our hull unbroken long may try a lee.

Then might I with unrivall'd straines, deplore
Falconer. Shipwreck, c. 2.
Th' impervious horrours of a leeward shore.-Id. Ib. c. 3.

Seeing now that I am entred thus far into a discourse of
LEE
onions I shall not do amisse to treate of leekes also, in re-
garde of the neare affinitie between them.
Holland. Plinie, b. xix. c. 5.

LEER, v. A. S. Hleare, hleor, maxilla,
LEER, n.
the countenance, (Somner.) Hence, says Lye,
mandibula, the cheek, the jaw;
LE'ERING, n. it. facies, frons, vultus, the face,
our Leer, lour; lour, or lowre, from the Dut. Loeren,
Ger. Lauren, retortis et limis oculis intueri, to look
upon with eyes thrown back or askance, (Skinner;)
but see LOUR.

Lere, in Chaucer, is explained by Mr. Tyrwhitt
the general colour, complexion, or appearance.
to intend-the skin.
To leer may be-
In Holland, it is applied to

down-cast, or lowering; as if to attract or invite
To look with the eye or eye-lid, somewhat
attention or favour; and, thus, to assume or put
on an alluring look; to allure, to attract, by the
looks.

A loveliche lady of lere in linnen y clothid
Cam down fro that Castel and calde me by name.
Piers Plouhman, p. 13.

His face frounsed, his lere was like the lede.

Chaucer. The Testament of Creseide, p. 295.
You leere vpon me, do you? There's an eie
Wounds like a leaden sword.

Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost, Act v. sc. 2.
Each eye through divers optics slily leers.

P. Fletcher. The Purple Island, c. 7.

LEECH, v. A. S. Lace, from Lacn-ian, læcn-
LEECH, n. ian, curare, mederi, sanari, to
eure, to heal. The Dut. Laecke, hirudo, a horse
beech, is derived by Kilian from Laecken, to lack or
want; because it occasions a lack of blood, or
from Lacus, because found in lakes or standing trilling down his lecres,) saie not so.
waters. It is probably the same word, (A. S.
Lace,) and so applied, because the animal heals
by withdrawing unwholesome blood.

No ladie (quoth the earle with a loud voice, and the tears
Holinshed. Ireland, an. 1546.

To cure, to heal; to practise the art of healing, places there are no other thing bred or growing but brown

the medicinal art.

Hys leches loked hys stat, as her rygt was to done.
Ne non so faithfol fysician. for alle that by souhte
R. Gloucester, p. 380.

He lechede hem of here langour.-Piers Plouhman, p.311.
Thesus seide to hem hoole man han no neode to a leche.
Wielif. Mark, c. 2.
Chaucer. Dreame.

And purpose you to heare his speech
Fully auised him to leech.

Well wist that lord that I was seke
And would be leched wonder faine.

The clotered blood, for any leche-craft,
Corrumpeth.

Id. Ib.

Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 2747.

All other leches he forsoke, And put him out of auenture Alonly to God's cure.

Home is he brought; and laid in sumptuous bed
Where many skillful leaches him abide

Gower. Con. 4. b. ii.

To salve his hurts, that yet still freshly bled.

The hors-leeches which we call in Latine sanguisugus, blood-suckers) are used for to draw blood. Holland. Plinie, b. xxiii. c. 10.

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

because being inwardly taken they fasten upon the veins, Kached-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 5.

Yet he [M. Cato] omitted not the leech-craft belonging
so to kine and oxen.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxv. c. 2.

Mare neede of leach-craft hath yon damozell
Beldame, by that ye tell

Then of my skill.-Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 3.

But like a leech well fix't, he'll suck what's good,
And never part till satisfied with blood.

King. Art

Cookery.

Leches are good barometers when preserved in glasses, and predict bad weather by their great restlessness and change of place.-Pennant. Zoology, vol. iv. The Leech. LEEK, n. A. S. Lec, leac; Dut. Look; Ger. Leach; Sw. Loek. A.S." Leac. Allium porrum, leak, a general name of a certain kind of hearbs," Somner.) The etymology is unknown.

Ter yt wolde fynde hem lek worten y now by the gere.
R. Gloucester, p. 341.

The fishes not worth a leke, rise & go thi ways.
R. Brunne, p. 204.

As lynne seed and lik seed.—Piers Plouhman, p. 211.

I hold a mouse's wit not worth a leke.

Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 6154.

She giues the leere of inuitation.
Shakespeare. Merry Wives of Windsor, Act i. sc. 3.
The same Theophrastus hath left in writing. That in some
and duskish, insomuch as not only the cattel is all of that
leere, but also the corne upon the ground, and other fruits
of the earth.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxxi. c. 2.
Footra for leers, and learings; O the noise,
The noise we made.

Beaum.

Fletch. Monsieur Thomas, Act iv. sc. 2.
But Bertran has been taught the arts of court,
To gild a face with smiles; and leer a man to ruin.
Dryden. The Spanish Fryar, Act i.
Here Fannia, leering on her own good man.
Pope. Moral Essays, Epist. 2.
The proud Parnassian sneer
The conscious simper, and the jealous leer
Mix in his look.
Id. The Dunciad, b. ii.
The clerk's head is admirably well painted and with great
force; but he is dozing not leering at the young woman
near him as in the print.

Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iv. c. 4.
While brooding storms the gath'ring ruin rein,
Her son with dire dissembling leer she seeks,
And in the depth of smiling malice speaks.

Brooke. Constantia.

LEER. A. S. Ge-lær; Ger. Lær, vacans, iners,
Wachter derives from lieren, perdere, omit-
tere, and this by a common change of's into r, from
lies-en, to lose. And, thus,-

A leer drunkard, will be a loose drunkard, a disso-
lute, profligate drunkard; "The horse runs lere,”
i. e. loose, away.
A leer stomach may be, conse-
quentially, an empty stomach; because loose,
slack, not well filled out.
passage quoted from Jonson, and Nares, in v.
See Gifford on the

Love. Laugh on, sir, I'll to bed and sleep.
And dream away the vapour of love, if the house
And your leer drunkards let me.

B. Jonson. The New Inn, Act iv. sc. 3.
The horse runnes leere away without the man,
But noble Bradamant, the horse doth stay,
And backe restore.

Harrington. Orlando Furioso, b. xvi. s. 64.

LEES. Fr. Lie, from the A. S. Lic-gan, to lay
the quotation from Holinshed in v. Liquid.
or ly, that which lies, (sc.) at the bottom. See
That which lies or settles at the bottom; the
sediment.

Verely the lees of wine are so strong, that oftentimes it
overcommeth and killeth those, who go down into the vats
and vessels wherein the wine is made.
Holland. Plinie, b. xxiii. c. 11.
1203

See LOSE.

Lath-ian, ge-lathian, congregare, q.d. the assembly or assize, because equally applicable to any other LEET, n. Spelman rejects the A. S. Lath, from priority of appropriation might decide the distinclæt, censura, arbitrium. court, which seems scarcely a sufficient reason; tion. He further suggests let, pars, parvus, or See his Gloss. in v. Leta. For whether in letes they may or not. yt he saith he douteth. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1012.

M. Lambert seemeth to be of the opinion, that the leets of our time doo yeeld some shadow of the politike institution of Alfred.-Holinshed. Description of England, b. ii. c. 4.

The jurisdiction of these leets is either remaining in the king, and in that case exercised by the sheriff in his turn, which is the grand leet, or granted over to subjects, but yet it is still the king's court.-Bacon. The Office of Constable.

The other general business of the leet and tourn was to present by jury all crimes whatsoever that happened within their jurisdiction; and not only to present, but also to punish, all trivial misdemesnors. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. c. 19.

LEFE. See LIEF. LEFT, adj. Dut. Lufte hand, luchte hand, sinistra. The left hand is that which is leaved, leav'd, left; or which we are taught to leave out of use when one hand only is employed, (Tooke, vol. ii. p. 10.)

In the rigt syd two, and in the lift syde on.
But to sitte at my right half or left-half is not myn to gyve
R. Gloucester, p. 22.
to you but to which it is maad redy.-Wiclif. Mark, c. 10.
Ant. Octauius, leade your battaile softly on
Vpon the left hand of the euen field.

Octa. Vpon the right hand I, keepe thou the left.
Ant. Why do you crosse me in this exigent?
Shakespeare. Julius Cæsar, Act v. sc. 1.
But as although a squint left-handedness
B' ungracious, yet we cannot want that hand.
Donne. To the Countess of Bedford.
I remember to have read in a voyage of De Gama's to
Kalekut (the first made by the Portuguese round Africa)
that the people of Melinda, a polished and flourishing
people, are all left-handed.
Tooke. Diversions of Purley, vol. ii. c. 1.
LEG, n. Skinner, from the Dut. Leegh,
suffulcire, to support or sustain; and it is pro-
LEGGED. humilis, infra positus, low, placed be-
low. Junius, from A. S Under-lec-gan, supponere,
bably from the A. S. Lec-gan, ponere, meaning,-
Any thing placed, (sc.) as a support, to stand

upon.

ing-to bow with the leg drawn or thrown back-
wards.
To make a leg,-a common expression, intend-

The legges bare bynethe the kne, that me mygte eche
stape yse.
R. Gloucester, p. 388.
Hire shoon were laced on hire legges hie.
Chaucer. The Milleres Tale, v. 3268.

alreadye they breake not his legges.-Bible, 1551. John, c.19.
But when they came to Jesus, and sawe that he was deade

But the sea keeping hir course, rose still higher and
higher, and ouerflowed not onlie the king's feet, but also
flashed vp vnto his legs and knees.

Holinshed. History of England, b. vii. c. 13.

He knew how many leggs a knight letts fall
Betwixt the king, the offering and his stall.

Corbet. To the Lord Mordant.
They be clothed with a mantell and shirte saffroned after
the Irish manner going bare legged to the knee.
Stow. Briefe Description of England.

How the pale primrose and blue violet spring,
And birds essay their throats, disus'd to sing:
All these are ours; and I with pleasure see
Men strutting on two legs, and aping me.

Dryden. The Cock and the Fox.
The shapeless pair,

As they design'd to mock me, at my side
Take step for step, and, as I near approach
The cottage, walk along the plaster'd wall,
Prepost'rous sight! the legs without the man.

LEG

LEGACY. Fr. Legz; It. Legato; Sp. LeLEGATE E. gacia; Lat. Legatum, from Legare, i.e. quasi lege quadam in testamento statuendo ac decernendo, (Vossius.)

LEG

Tweye men, Legates of Rome,
Pandulf & Duraund, & to Engelonde come.

For legacy by Will or Testament, see the quo- and comyng, & in his necessities I shall helpe him. tation from Blackstone. Stow uses it as a derivative from Legate, (qv.)

Whan he had heard her great infirmite
Her legacie and lamentacioun.

Chaucer. The Complaint of Creseide.

Now haue ye yt summe of this my doctrine eue my very gospel yt whole tale of all my legacy and message wherfore I am sent into the world.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 459.

Yea, begge a haire of him for memory
And dying, mention it within their willes,
Bequeathing it as a rich legacie

Vnto their issue.-Shakespeare. Julius Cæsar, Act iii. sc.2.

A legacy is a bequest, or gift of goods and chattels by testament; and the person to whom it was given is stiled the legatee.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 32.

"Yes, marry "Sir;" quoth I, "I know not the law." do you," quoth he, and laughed. "Nay in good faith," quoth I, "I am no legist." Wyatt to Cromwell, 12 April, (1540.) He was a good clerke and connynge in bothe lawes, he was a great iuryst and legyst.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 210.

Who made our laws to bind us, not himself
And hath full right to exempt

Whom so it pleases him by choice

From national obstruction, without taint
Of sin, or legal debt.

Milton. Samson Agonistes.

The presbytery of Glascow, and many other places protested against the legality thereof, because of the admission of lay-elders, a thing scarce before heard of in that Church. Baker. Charles I. an. 1638.

I know, Mr. Speaker, there is in Parliament a double power of life and deatif by bill, a judicial power, and a legislative; the measure of the one is what's legally just, and the other what is prudentially and politickly fit for the good and

preservation of the whole.

Id. Ib. an. 1641. Speech of Lord Digby. Though there should be emulation between them, yet as Iegists, they will agree in magnifying that wherein they are best.-Bacon. Works, vol. iii. Let. 127. To the King.

R. Gloucester, p. 499.
The Pape sent his bulle with a Legate.-R. Brunne, p.131.
The Pope's Legate I shall honorablye entreate, both goyng
Barnes. Workes, p. 195.
And thys busynesse was farre dyuerse from worldlye
affaires; euen so was this kind of ambassade or Legatyon
new, and such a one as had not bene vsed before.
Udal. Marke, c. 6.
It was first ruled by a seuerall King, and afterwards wonne
from the Britons by Vespasian the Legat, at such time as he
made a voiage into the West countrie.
Holinshed. The Description of Britaine, c. 10.
Thus by the chance and change of Popes, the Legatship
of Anselme could take no place.-Id. Heurie I. an. 1116.
Then hee [Cardinall Poole] declared the cause of his Lega-
cie, first exhorting them to returne to the comunion of the
Church and restore to the Pope his due authoritie.
Stow. Q. Mary, an. 1554.
[The Bishop of Norwich] shewed those Buls in open Par-
liament, and caused copies to be written forth, and sent into
euerie quarter, that his authoritie and power Legantine
might be notified to all men.—Holinshed. Rich. II. an.1383.
Because all those things you haue done of late
By your power Legatiue [tine] within this kingdome,
Fall into th' compasse of a premunire.

Shakespeare. Hen. VIII. Act iii. sc. 2.

Upon pretence of his Legantine power, he [Wolsey] assumed the managery of all ecclesiastical matters whatsoever.-Strype. Memorials. Hen. VIII. an. 1530.

The Legates a latere, as they were called, were a kind of
delegates who possessed the full power of the Pope in all the
Provinces committed to their charge, and were very busy in
extending as well as exercising it.

Hume. History of England, vol. i. Note N.
LEGE, i. e. to allege, (qv.) Also, to allay.
See LEGGEN.

And so he hath begon
To reason fast, and ledge auctoritie.

LEGEND, n.
LEGEND, v.
LEGENDARY, adj.
LEGENDARY, n.
LE GIBLE.

Chaucer. The Court of Loue. Fr. Légend; It. and Sp. Legenda, from legendum, to be read; from legere, to read. For the literal meaning, and frequent application of the word, see the quotation from Tooke. Applied to

A narrative or relation, a record or register, any thing told; from the abuse in the lives of saints, any fictitious or incredible story. Also specially used in Numismatics for the inscription placed on the edge of a coin or medal; it differs from an In which you do but that over again, that you have from the inscription, which occupies the place of a head or very beginning of your discourse, and which some silly legu-device on the face of the coin. leians now and then do, to argue unawares, against their own clients.-Milton. A Defence of the People of England.

But if you lessen the rate of use, the lender, whose interest it is to keep up the rate of money, will rather lend it to the banker, at the legal interest, than to the tradesman or gentleman, who when the law is broken, shall be sure to pay the full natural interest, or more.

Locke. Of Lowering of Interest.

Nor would the banker venture to borrow, where his gains would be but one per cent. nor the money'd man lend him, what he could make better profit of legally at home.-Id. Ib.

That is by signifying their approbation, or satisfaction concerning the orthodoxy of their faith, the attestation of their manners, the legality of their ordination, &c.

Barrow. Of the Pope's Supremacy. An officer, though he had passed his life in the field, was able to determine all legal controversies which could occur within the district committed to his charge.

Hume. Hist. of England, vol. ii. App. 2. What do you think were the feelings of every man, who looks upon Parliament in an higher light, than that of a market-overt for legalizing a base traffick of votes and pensions, when he saw you employ such means of coercion to the Crown, in order to coerce our Parliament through that medium?-Burke. Letter to Thomas Burgh, Esq.

LEGATE.
LEGACY.
LE GATESHIP.
LEGA'TION.

Fr. Légat; It. Legato; Sp. Legado; Lat. Legatus, from leg-are, i. e. lege mittere, to send by law. See DELEGATE.

Legible,-Fr. and Sp. Legible; It. Leggibile,
that can or may be read.

My name yenterede
In the legende of lif. longe er ich were.

Piers Plovhman, p. 194.
Thou shalt while that thou livest yere by yere,
The most partie of thy time spende
In making of a glorious legende

Of good women, and maidens, and wiues,
That weren trewe in loving all her liues.

Chaucer. The Legend of Good Women, Prol.
Nor ladie's wonton love, nor wand'ring knight,
Legend I out in rhimes all richly dight.

Bp. Hall, b. i. Sat. 1.
Wee are not to maruaile, that afterwards legends being
growne in a manner to bee nothing else but heapes of friuo-
lous and scandalous vanities, they haue beene euen with
disdaine throwne out, the very nests which bred them ab-
horring them.-Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. v. s. 20.
Expert proficients, that have far out-done
Your tutors' presidents, and have out-run
The practice of all times, whose acts will be
Thought legendary by posterity.

Brome. Upon the King's Imprisonment.
The deep mysteries of godlinesse, which to the great
clerks of the world are as a book clasped and sealed up, lye
open before him [the christian] fair and legible; and whiles

those book-men know whom they have heard of, he knows
whom he hath beleeved.-Bp. Hall. The Christian, s. 1.

It was pleasant to see, how divers of the letters of several

Legend, which means-That which ought to be read-is from the early misapplication of the term by impostors, now used by us as if it meant-That which ought to be laughed at: and so it is explained in our dictionaries.

Tooke. Diversions of Purley, vol. ii. c. 8.
Ye tragic tales of legendary lore,
That draw devotion's ready tear no more.

Warton. On Sir J. Reynolds's Painted Window at Oxford.

LEGER. Dut. Legger; A. S. Lec-gan, jacere, to lie, to stay, or remain.

A leger ambassador,-one sent to remain, or continue.

A leger-book, a book that lies; for immediate entries. Chaucer renders the Lat. Sedes,-liege.

Is this the librarie that thou haddest chosen for a right certain liege to thee in mine hous, [certissimam tibi sedem nostris in laribus.]-Chaucer. Boecius, b. i.

All which particulars dee most evidently appeare out of certaine auncient ligier books of the R. W. Sir William Locke, mercer of London, &c. and others.

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 96.

This ledger-book lies in the brain behind,
Like Janus eye, which in his poll was set.

Davies. The Immortality of the Soul, s. 21. For Gundamore, the Spanish leiger, did so aggravate this fact of his to the king against him, that it seemed nothing would give satisfaction but Raleigh's head.-Baker, an. 1617.

7. Lieger ambassadors or agents were sent to remain in or near the courts of those princes or states, to observe their motions, and to hold correspondence with them. Bacon. Advice to Sir George Villiers. It happened that a stage-player borrowed a rusty musket, which had lien long leger in his shop.

Fuller. Worthies. London. And you are to note, that I call that a ledger-bait which is fixed, or made to rest in one certain place when you shall be absent from it.-Walton. Angler, pt. i. c. 8.

Francis Little, in the year 1627, wrote a leiger-book con-
taining a short account of the Monastery of Abingten.
Wood. Fasti, vol. i. an. 1618.
Many leiger-books of the monasteries [are] still remain-
ing, wherein they registered all their leases and that for
their own private use.

H. Warton. On Burnet's Hist. of the Reformation, p. 42,
Here you a muckworm of the town might see,
At his dull desk, amid his legers stall'd,
Eat up with carking care and penurie.

Thomson. Castle of Indolence, c. 1. LEGER-DE-MA'IN, Fr.-Light of hand. Applied to the tricks of, or tricks resembling those of, jugglers; who perform them by lightness or quickness of hand.

Perceiue theyr leygier demaine, wyth which they would iugle forth thir falshood and shift the trouth asyde.

Sir T. More. Workes, p. 813.
For he in slights and iugling feates did flow,
And of legierdemayne the mysteries did know.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 9.
LEGE'RITY. "Fr. Légiereté. Lightness,
fleetnesse, swiftinesse, &c." (Cotgrave.)

And when the mind is quickened, out of doubt
The organs, though defunct and dead before,
Break vp their drowsie graue, and newly moue
With casted slough, and fresh legeritie.

LEGGE, or
LIG, v.

Shakespeare. Hen. V. Act iv. sc. 1. i. e. to lay. A. S. Lec-gan. Legginge the foundament of penaunce fro deede werkis. Wiclif. Hebruis, c. 6 Ther dorste no wight hond upon him legge.

Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 3935.

LEGGEN, i. e. to lay or allay, (qv.) To

ease.

That but aforne her she may se
In the future some socour

To leggen her of her dolour

To graunt her time of repentaunce.

LEGGIADROUS.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. It. Leggiadro, leggiardo;

LE GATINE, or Any one sent, (sc.) to act LEGANTINE. for or according to the direc- tance of the phial would be made plainly legible. tions of another; one deputed, appointed, authoBoyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 705. rized, or empowered, to act for another; a deputy, The first fault therefore which I shall find with a modern an ambassador, and, as in the quotation from legend is its diffusiveness: you have sometimes the whole Holinshed, a lieutenant. Addison. Dialogues on Ancient Medals, Dial. 3.

of these papers, being placed within some convenient dis- from It. Leggiero; Fr. Légier, light, graceful.

ght to be read-s

by imposters, new

ight to be

L

LEGIBLE. See LEGEND.

LEGION.

Fr. Légion; It. Legione; Sp. LEGIONARY.Legion; Lat. Legio, quod leguntur milites in delectu, (Var. lib. iv.) The Roman legion is fully described by Polybius, and from his description the passage translated by Hampton is quoted. And see also the quotation from Melmoth. That Saynt Morice in battaile, befor the legioun.

R. Brunne, p. 30. Wher gessist thou that I may not preie to my Fadir, and be schal give to me mo than twelve legiouns of aungels. Wiclif. Matthew, c. 26. Either thynkest thou that I cannot nowe praye to my Father, and he shall geue me moo than xii legions of angels. Bible, 1551. Ib. It happened that two souldiers, one of the fift legion, anther a French auxiliary, vpo a iolity challenged one mother to wrestle: and when as the legionary was throwen, the French man insulting ouer him, and they which lookt diuiding themselues into sides, the legionary souldiers aking themselves to their weapons made hauocke of the xharies, and slew two cohorts of them. Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 84. When the enrolments are in this manner finished, the bes, having assembled together in separate bodies the ders of their respective legions, choose out a man that seems most proper for the purpose, and making him swear in the following words: "that he will be obedient to his commanders, and execute all the orders that he shall receive them, to the utmost of his power." The rest of the fiers of the legion, advancing one by one, swear also, that they will perform what the first has sworn.

Hampton. Polybius, vol. iii. b. vi. Ex. 2.

9. The number of horse and foot in a Roman legion varied different periods of the republic. In its lowest computait appears to have amounted to 3000 foot and 200 horse; in its highest, to have risen to 6000 of the former, and

of the latter.-Melmoth. Cicero, b. x. Let. 15. Note 9.

LEGISLATE, v.

LEGISLATION. LEGISLATIVE, adj.

LEGISLATOR. LEGISLATURE, N.

Fr. Législateur;
Legislatore; Sp. Legis-
It.
lador;
Lat. Legis, or
legum lator; qui fert leges;
one who brings forward,
gives, makes laws.
legislate, (a word of modern
To
introduction,)—

LEGISLATORSHIP.
LEGISLA'TRESS.
LEGISLATURE.
To make, to enact, laws.

Fis awes (who so markes them well) are deepe, and not arrot made vpon the spurre of a particular occasion present, but out of prouidence of the future, to make estate of his people still more & more happie; after Sanner of the legislators in ancient and heroicall times. Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 72.

And therefore the bounds, limits, and extent of the peo

Fr. Légitime; It.
Legittimo;
Sp. Legi-
timo; Lat. Legitimus,
legal or lawful, from
lex, legis.

Lawful, according
usage; applied to children born in lawful matri-
to law, or established
mony; (consequentially, opposed to spurious; and
thus,) from a lawful or pure source; genuine.
Men that buth by getyn
Out of matrimonie mowe nat have the grace
That leele legitime by lawe may cleyme.
Piers Plouhman, p. 176.
They are not receiued nor taken as legitimate and leafull,
as well of the Hebrues as of the whole churche.
Bible, 1551. Esdras, Pref.
And whan they were come the Pope made Henry the
bastarde legitiue, and lawfull to obtayne the realme of
Castell.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, c. 229.

On the two and twentieth of Januarie a parlement begun
at Westminster, in which the Duke of Lancaster caused to
be legitimated the issue which he had begot of Katherine
Swinfort before she was his wife.
Holinshed. Rich. II. an. 1397.

This doubt was kept long open, in respect to the two
Queenes that succeeded, Marie and Elizabeth; whose legi-
timations were incompatible one with another, though the
succession was settled by act of parliament.
Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 206.

The act that legitimated the Queen, making her [Eliza-
beth] most certainly a bastard in law, the Queen might
think it now too much to use her as she had done formerly.
Burnet. History of the Reformation, an. 1553.

By degrees he rose to Jove's imperial seat,
Thus difficulties prove a soul legitimately great.

Dryden.

Before this opposition of Flavianus, the Fathers of Conhighly asserting the legitimateness of his ordination. stantinople had in their letter to Pope Damasus and the Occidental Bishops approved, and commended him to them;

Barrow. Of the Pope's Supremacy.

By the canon law they [who were born before wedlock] were legitimate; and when any dispute of inheritance arose, to the spiritual, directing them to enquire into the legitiit had formerly been usual for the civil courts to issue writs macy of the person.

Hume. History of England. Hen. III. an. 1272. separately and distinctly, in a light as clear and strong as Every such process of reasoning, it is well known, may be resolved into a series of legitimate syllogisms, exhibiting language can afford, each successive link of the demonstration.-Stewart. Human Mind, vol. ii. c. 3. s. 1.

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LEGUME.
thedepaties in parliament, contained in the legatur; because gathered by the hand, not cut.
LEGUMINOUS. Legumbre
Fr. and It. Legume; Sp.
Lat. Legumen, quia
See the quotation from Miller.

ent should be drawn up into a formal contract. My of the legislators themselves had taken an oath of Baker. Charles I. an. 1648. Aation of his Majesty's person and family. The first and fundamental positive law of all commonId. E. Philips, To the Reader. Pas is the establishing of the legislative power; as the dundamental natural law, which is to govern even fire itself, is the preservation of the society, and a as it will consist with the public good) of every person -Locke. Of Civil Government, c. 11.

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power of the legislative being derived from the people 4tive voluntary grant and institution, can be no than what that positive grant conveyed, which being make laws and not to make legislators, the legislaare no power to transfer their authority of making and place it in other hands.-Id. Ib.

See what that country of the mind will produce, when by

Desome laws of this legislatress it has obtained its

aftesbury. Moral. pt. iv. s. 2.

There is nevertheless a science of legislation, which

als of office, and the intrigues of popular assemblies,

ever communicate; a science, of which the principles bewerbt for in the constitution of human nature, and

An instance of this may be afforded us by some legumens, as peas, or beans; which if they be newly gathered and distilled in a retort, it will, I presume, be easily granted, that they will, like many other green vegetables, afford, besides a great deal of phlegm, an acid spirit.

Legumes or Legumens, are a species of plants which are Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 613. call'd pulse, such as pease, beans, &c., and are so call'd because they may be gather'd by the hand without cutting. Miller. Gardener's Dictionary. Leguminous plants, are such as bear pulse, with a papi

-Stewart. Of the Human Mind, Introd. pt. ii. s. 2.

Theme legislative power of England was lodged in

And Leisure is

and great council, or what was afterwards called ment; liberty or freedom from business; and, pament-Hame. History of England, vol. ii. App. 2. consequentially, to use or abuse time as we please.

Looseness, or relaxation from labour or employ

islature, the people are a check on the nobility, Leisurely, chaty a check upon the people; by mutual priviing what the other had resolved, while the King apon both, which preserves the executive power tachments.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c. 2.

LEM

Egistus drough his Quene nere,

And with the leisere which he had,

This ladie at his wille he ladde.-Gower. Con. A. b. iif.

But what shall bee their glory and reward thou shalt sec, if thou wilt leasurably lysten and beholde to the ende of the tragedye.-Barnes. Workes, p. 358.

Sometime he sheweth it leysourly, suffering hys flocke to
comen & dispute therupon.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 456.
And how his limbs, resolv'd through idle leisour
Unto sweet sleepe he may securely lend.

And as our bodies waxe and gather strength by leysure, Spenser. Virgil. Gnat. perish in a moment; so good wits and good learning are sooner cut downe then raised againe.

Savile. Tacitus. Agricola, p. 184. And because the nearer wee draw unto God, the more we are oftentimes inlightned with the shining beames of his glorious presence as being then euen almost in sight, a leisurable departure may in that case bring forth for the good of such as are present, that which shall cause them for euer after from the bottom of their hearts to pray, O let vs dye the death of the righteous, and let our last end be like theirs. Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. v. § 46.

Let vs beg of God that when the houre of our rest is come the patternes of our dissolution may be Jacob, Moses, Josua, Dauid, who leisureably ending their liues in peace, prayed for the mercies of God to come vpon their posteritie.-Id. Ib. With leisurely delight she by degrees Lifts ev'ry till, does ev'ry drawer draw.

his affrighted companions, promising to make Antigonus But Eumenes, meeting with the news, oegan to hearten march leisurely.-Ralegh. Hist. of the World, b. iv. c. 4. s. 4. Full leisurely he rose, but conscious shame Of honour lost his failing strength renew'd. Somervile. Hobbinol, c. 2. Cicero knew not which of the two he preferred, but complained that the crowd of visitors that interrupted his leisure in these retreats contributed not a little to counterbalance their attractions.-Eustace. Italy, vol. ii. c. 11.

Davenant. Gondibert, b. iii. c. 1.

Beneath whose shade the lusty steers repose
Their cumbrous limbs, mix'd with the woolly tribes,
And leisurely concoct their grassy meal.

Jago. Edge-Hill, b. iv.

A. S. Leom-an, liom-an; to shine. See GLEAM.

To shine, to lighten, to flame.

And clere leme of the sterre, that ouer France drou.
R. Gloucester, p. 186.
The lyght that lemed out of the.-Piers Plouhman, p. 117.
The while this light and this leom. shal Lucifer ableynde.
Which causeth folk to dreden in hir dreames
Id. p. 346.
Of arwes, and of fire with red lemes.

Chaucer. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 14,836.
declared to the blynd inhabitantes of this worlde.
Thereby [i. e. by order] the incomprehensible majestye of
God, as it were by a bryght leme of a torche or candell, is

LEMMAN, or
LE'MAN.

Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. i. c. 1.
Minshew,--from the Fr. Le
Smignon. Dr. T. H. (in Skin-
ner), from L'aimant, l'aimante.
it Saxon: and Junius forms it of Leof, i. e. loved,
Tyrwhitt calls
remarks-that Semisaxonice the word was written
and man, applied generally to male or female. Lye
Leuemon; and in the quotation from Robert of
Gloucester it will be found lef-mon.

Any one loved; it is frequently applied to one
loved illicitly, or with mere gallantry.

Thys mayde hymn payde suythe wel, myd God wille be hyr
R. Gloucester, p. 344.

LE'MON.
LEMONA'DE.

unknown.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 5.
Fr. Limon; It. Limone; Sp.
Limon, lima. The etymology