LIK And in lyke wise for all and singler covenauntes afore rehearsed of the party of the seid Mr. Provost, scolers and surveyor wele and truly to be performed and kept. Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. App. Pro. When I was sick you gave me bitter pils, And I must minister the like to you. Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act ii. sc. 4. S. August. writeth in like sort, of such an other found upon the coast of Vtica, and thereby gathereth that all men in time past were far greater than they be now. Holinshed. Description of Britaine, c. 10. She'll tell you what you call virginitie Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. i. s. 2. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 609. It is not long since this [Portland] was vnited to the maine, and likelie yer long to be cut off againe. Holinshed. Description of Britaine, c. 10. That the Germans should borrow it [printing] from the Chineses, as is pretended by the Spaniards, is more I thinke than is true, I am sure, then is yet proved, or in likelyhood doth appeare.-Hakewill. Apologie, b. iii. c. 10. s. 2. That she knew not his favours likelynesse, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 7. So likewise a main point of the evangelical covenant on God's part is made justifying of a man by his faith, or upon it; and remission of sins upon the same condition, is also made the like principal point, which sometime is put alone as implying all the benefits of that covenant. Barrow, vol. ii. Ser. 5. Is it likely that he should altogether neglect their spiritual welfare; and leave their souls utterly destitute of all sustenance or comfort; that he should suffer them to lie fatally exposed to eternal death and ruine; without offering any means of redress or recovery?-Id. vol. iii. Ser. 40. Through all the town his art they prais'd; LIM That Henry had ille likyng, were on him gan he kithe. He [Vitellius] accounted all sharpe that was wholesome, Ought that is there should like her. B. Jonson. Every Man out of his Humour, Act ii. sc. 4. This law [of Solon's] neither liked the one nor the other And all things did devise and all things dooe, 'Tis unjust to bereave a man of that leisure and opportu- Dryden. Threnodia Augustalis. so called, because the scent of its flowers resembles The lilac, various in array, now white, Now sanguine, and her beauteous head now set Would any man the picture own? Gay, pt. i. Fab. 18. What we have just reason to caution any man against, his care and diligence to prevent it, will in likelihood come to pass, and when it comes to pass will be very dangerous and hurtful to us. Whitby. On the Five Points, Dis. 5. c. 11. s. 11. Can any distinction be assigned between the two cases; between the producing watch, and the producing plant; both passive, unconscious substances; both, by the organization which was given to them, producing their like, without understanding or design; both, that is instruments. Paley. Natural Theology, c. 4. p. 48. While studious of the moral theme, Shenstone. Rural Elegance. The supposition that the souls in Aïdes had liberty thus to return, and to pass and repass, or to send dreams in their own image and likeness, is poetical and Virgilian. Jortin. On the Christian Religion, Dis. 6. He [Waller] had received nothing but his pardon from Cromwell, and was not likely to ask any thing from those who should succeed him.-Johnson. Life of Waller. LIKE, v. Goth. Leik-an, galeikan; A. S. LIKING, n. Lic-ian, gelician; Sw. Lika, plaLIKELY. cere; the usage of the Dut. Liicken, ghe-licken, assimilare, adæquare, congruere, convenire, seems to confirm a suggestion of Skinner, that to like, approbare, may be from like, similis. And our usage of the adj. likely, gives additional force to it. Likely, a likely thing, a thing having the likeness or resemblance to truth, to reality,-having verisimilitude, that probably has been, is, or may be. A likely person,-one that probably may suit or serve such and such a purpose; suitable, welladapted, convenient; and, thus, agreeable, pleasing, well-looking. To be or become similar, to assimilate, to adapt to, to be or become convenient or agreeable: and, consequentially, to please, to feel or cause pleasure; to approve, or regard with approbation. Cornewaile hym likede best, therfore he ches there. R. Gloucester, p. 21. And yf she ne myght nat come to here purpose by counsaille to ouercome thoo that here liked by werre, sheo dude hem be slayne by poyson.-R. Brunne, p. 12. Escap'd the dangers of the deep, Lloyd. Charity. A Fragment. LILY. Lat. Lilium; Gr. Aeipiov; Fr. Lis; Covered with lilies. For right as she can peint a lili whit Chaucer. The Doctoures Tale, v. 11,966. Nymphs and shepherds, dance no more Limb of the body, limb of the law, limb of an argument, &c." Limb, as the Lat. Limbus or Lembus, (which also Tooke derives from the A. S.) is applied to the hem, edge, or border; including still the notion of holding to, or belonging to. The arms, legs, and thighs, are limbs or mem bers, or parts pertaining or belonging to the trunk or body; the head, for the same reason, (quod pertinet,) might likewise be so called. Holy fur, That for freteth monnes lymes, rygt as heo were brende. He wole the lyme mele to drawe.-Id. p. 206. Win maketh man to lesen wretchedly Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. With this hand cut off, This instrument of wrong, till nought were left me Massinger. The Renegado, Act iv. sc. 1. Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act ii. sc. 4. Dryden. Virgil. Eneis, b. v. LIMBECK. bicus; Fr. Alembic; It. Lambico; Sp. Alambique; from the Arab. The vessel through which distilled liquors pass into the receiver. And the dull drops, that from his purpled bill, Spenser. Faerie Queene, c. 7. Of Mutabilitie. The remaining part [of the books of the Fathers] have passed through the limbecks and strainers of hereticks, and monks, and ignorants, and interested persons, and have passed through the corrections and deturpations and mistakes of transcribers.-Bp. Taylor. Rule of Consc. b. ii. c. 3. O truly royal! who behold the law And rule of beings in your Maker's mind; LUMBER, adj. Dryden. Annus Mirabilis. A. S. Limp-an; Sw. Lemp-a, to pertain or belong; A. S. Limp-lic, pertaining, pertimeet; and, consequentially, Milton. Arcades. yielding easily; and, thus, limber or limp,— Listen where thou art sitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.-Id. Comus. Akenside. Pleasures of Imagination, b. ii. By these fatigues he got at length Junius thinks may be formed nent, seasonable, Easily bent, flexible, pliant. Not him that beares his sailes alowe Ne yet the bargeman that doth rowe Turbervile. A Myrrour of the Fall of Pride. Drayton. The Barons' Wars, b. vi. The flesh of him [the chub] is not firm, but short [limp in some editions] and tasteless.-Walton. Angler, pt. i. c. 3. The limberness of them [the sides of a bladder] would permit the air to accommodate itself and the bladder to the figure of a cylindrical vessel.-Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p.268. LIMBO. The Limbus patrum, as it is called, is a place that the Schoolmen supposed to be in the neighbourhood (i. e. on the edge or border; see LIMB,) of hell, where the souls of the patriarchs were detained, and those good men who died before our Saviour's resurrection, (Newton.) It is applied to Any place of confinement, of restraint. LIME, v. LINE, R. A. S. Lim-an, ge-liman, conglutinare, to glue or fasten together; Ger. Leim; Sw. Lim. LIMER. LINT. To glue or fasten together, to ement; to conglutinate; to cover or rub over with fine, with a viscous matter, with cement; onsequentially, to catch, (sc.) birds; and, thus, to ensnare, to entangle, (Dut. Luymen.) See the quotations from Holland's Plinie, in v. Bird. And bigan a strong castel of lym and off ston. Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6516. Samtime a castel al of lime and ston. Id. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 11,463. The feld of snow, with th' egle of blak therin, Id. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 14,694. Great store of coyne, but fewe enjoy the same, Turbervile. To his Friend Francis Th. The seest the bird, whose feathers are limed, unable to leber former flight: so are we, when our thoughts are together by the world, to soare up to our heaven in Detation.-Bp. Hall. Of Divine Meditation, c. 6. Rey caused their bitches and mares to be limed and red with the fairest dogs and goodliest stalions that be gotten.-North. Plutarch, p. 41. Their banner roles being displayed, and richly limed with beds arms-Stew. Queen Elizabeth, an. 1586. Te vertuous courses now thy thoughts dispose While fancies are not glu'd with pleasure's lyme. That is over longe quath this lymatour. Piers Ploukman, p. 410. For ther as wont to walken as an elf, such degrees of goodnes as hys hye pleasure liked to lymet. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 129. To lette in the Englysshmen and naueroyse, prouyded. redy to ouerronne the cytie, and to dystroy and robbe it clene, except suche houses as hadde certayne signes lymyted among theym, and in all other houses, without suche tokens to slee menne, womenne, and chyldren. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 187. Such is the limeteriers saying of in principio erat verbum from house to house.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 271. Had not th' Eternal King omnipotent From his strong hold of heav'n high over-rul'd Stirling. A Paraenesis to Prince Henry.minate Pr striving more, the more in laces strong Himselfe he tide and wrapt his winges twaine mie snares the subtill loups among. Spenser. Muiopotmos. Pl. The mightst as well say I love to walke by the terate, which is as hateful to me as the reeke of a -Shakes. Merry Wives of Windsor, Act iii. sc. 3. The best sort of lime made into mortar will not have edits atmost compactness till twenty-five or thirty perhaps not till three or fourscore) after it has been yed in building-Bogle. Works, vol. i. p. 440. He and others had observed, that a large tract of limewas so warm (as they speak) as to dissolve the snow, cit, very much sooner than another great scope of - Ib. vol. v. p. 41. the bath of Caracalla] high massive walls form sepaand its limy ruins spread over the surface, burn the and check its natural fertility. Eustace. Italy, vol. i. c. 11. LIME. A Limmer, or leamer, is a dog of LEVER the chase, so called from the leam or in which he was held till he was let slip. De Canibus Britannicis, cited by Steevens Lear.) Caius writes-Levinarius seu Loraa leviner or lyemmer. See LEAM. There overtooke I a great rout (fters and eke forresters, And many relaies and limers. Iaked one lad, a lymere, "Say fellow, who shall hunt here." Chaucer. Dreame. Id. Ib. Mace, grey-hound, mongrill, grim, I have seen him Be out her footing like a lime-hound, and nose it Fra all the rest of the train. Massinger. The Bashful Lover, Act i. sc. 1. Leviner or Lyemmer: the first name is derived from ess of the kind; the other from the old word thong: this species being used to be led in a g, and slipped at the game. Pennant. Zoology. The Dog. VOL. II. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 1. Selden. Illustrations. Then when I am thy captive talk of chaines, Proud limitarie cherube, but ere then Farr heavier load thyself expect to feel. Millon. Paradise Lost, b. iv. Titus Quintius understood that he was appointed to have command of the army, without any other limitation than during the pleasure of the senate. Ralegh. History of the World, b. v. c. 4. s. 14. "Certis," said he, "I meane me to disguize Spenser. Mother Hubberd's Tale. The constitution of such an unity doth involve the vesting some person or some number of persons with a sovereign authority (subordinate to our Lord) to be managed in a certain manner, either absolutely according to pleasure, or limitedly according to certain rules prescribed to it. Barrow, vol. i. On the Unity of the Church Nothing can be more evident, than the necessity of limiting the field of our exertion if we wish to benefit society by our labours. Stewart. Of the Human Mind, Introd. pt. ii. s. 1. Ye friends to truth, ye Statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Goldsmith. Deserted Village. Mercy to him, that shows it, is the rule By which Heav'n moves in pard'ning guilty men. Cowper. Task, b. vi. LIMMER. Mr. Gifford says,-vile, worthless; (lit.) a night-robber. Bocket, a female of loose manners, or easy virtue. It may be from liman, conglutinare, or luymen, insidiari. Jamieson, Thy vermin, and thy selfe. LIMN, v. LIMNER. LIMNING, n. See Hence with 'hem, limmer lowne, To paint or depicture, to draw, to delineate. Spenser. In Honour of Beauty. Stirling. Aurora, Son. 3. Except it were so, their rules of proportion in architecture, in lymning, in carving, and statuary art left us by them could avail vs little.-Hakewill. Apology, b. iii. c. 4. s. 1. [Ascham] had a great faculty in writing, Greek, Lat. and Engl. Epistles, which were not only excellent for matter, but for the neatness of the handwriting, adorned with illamination, which we now call limning in the margin. Wood. Fasti, vol. i, He [William Collet] became the best illuminer or limner of our age, employed generally to make the initial letters in the patents of peers, and commissions of embassadours. Fuller, Worthies. Cambridgeshire. The skilful and expert limner will observe many elegancies and curiosities of art and be highly pleased with several strokes and shadows in a picture, where a common eye can discern nothing at all.-Cudworth. Morality, b. iv. c. 2. s. 15. There is a print of him, [Rubens] his wife Isabella Tosh and a young son, painted by himself in 1623, engraved by Alexander Jameson, his descendant, in 1728, and now in the possession of Mr. John Alexander, limner, at EdinDavies. On Dancing.burgh, his great grandson. We wish remov'd what standeth in our light, Waller. In Answer of Sir John Suckling's Verses. Id. To my Lord of Northumberland. The houses of the nobility and gentry are generally built castle-wise, and in the time of the Romans this county, because a limitary, did abound with fortifications. Fuller. Worthies. Cumberland. What no inferior limitary king Pitt. The First Hymn of Callimachus to Jupiter. Further yet, to exclude any limitation or diminution of these so general terms (at least to exclude any limitation in regard to all the members of the visible church, which are or have been incorporated thereinto) it is expressed, that our Saviour's undertakings did respect even those, who (by their own default) might lose the benefit of them, and who in effect should not be saved.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 39. That country whose fertility they so advance, was in ancient times no firm or open land, but some vast lake or part of the sea, and became a gained ground by the mud and limous matter brought down by the river Nilus. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c 1. See LIMBER. LIMP, adj. LIMP, v. The old A. S. word is lemp or LIMP, n. limp-healt, i. e. limb-halt or held; or halt, or held in the free use of the limbs; and thus each word became, used separately, to halt, and to limp, as of equivalent signification. Limp, n. is common in speech. To limp, LIN To move, to walk with the limbs-halt, held, withheld, stopt, in their action. The wrinkles in my brow, The furrowes in my face Say, limping age will lodge him now, Vncertaine Auctors. The Aged Louer, &c. Dryden. Homer. Iliad, b. i. The commentator will lend a crutch to the weak poet, to help him to limp a little further, than he could on his own feet.-Pope. To Warburton, Sept. 20, 1741. The ambition of the popes is a threadbare subject, and their pride, their cruelty, and their debauchery, have been the theme of many a declamation, and lengthened many a limping verse.-Eustace. Italy, vol. iv. App. LFMPID, adj. Fr. Limpide; It.Limpido; Sp. Limpio; Lat. Limpidus, which Vossius derives from the Gr. Aquπ-ew, to shine. As the Fr. Limpid," clear, bright, sheen, (shining,) glazie, (or glassy,) transparent," (Cotgrave.) Haste, to the limpid stream direct thy way, A streamlet pure, limpid and wholesome, flows from the To stop, to cease, to desist, to give over or leave off. Thrise shall he fight with them, and twise shall win: He shall his dayes with peace bring to his earthly in. The spawner, when the time serveth for generation, fol- In A. S. Hlynna, is a torrent, from LIN, n. hlynn-an, strepere, to roar; but lin seems applied not to the noisy fall, (see the Glossary to G. Douglas,) but to the still basin or pool above; where the water is held, reserved, linned or stopt in its flood. See LIN, ante. It is called by the annotator on Drayton, a pool or watery moor; meres from whence rivers spring: and see POND. Somner calls it a British word, signifying a lake, pool, or standing water, such as that of the fens (of Lin-colnshire.) The nearest to her of kin Medicinal preparations, that are to be licked Confections, treacle, mithridate, eclegmes, or linctures, &c. LIND. Was nevere upon lynde. leef lyghteer. Piers Plouhman, p. 20. She sawe comende vnder the lynde A woman vpon an hors behynde.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv. Sandy. Ovid. Metam. b. x. Or softer linden harden'd in the smoke. To cover, to clothe, the inside; to strengthen, secure, or protect by covering the inside; by putting or placing any thing within; generally, to secure, strengthen, or protect. Thy purse is lynde with paper. Gascoigne. Hearbes Councill to Master Barthol. Withipoll. Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. s. 3. Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act i. sc. 3. Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?-Milton. Com. Swift. Bee's Birth-day, Nov. 8, 1726. If you think those of pasteboard not strong enough, you LINE, n. Fr. Ligner, ligne; It. and Sp. LI'NEALLY. Is Toothy, tripping down from Verwin's rushy lin. And therefore to recount her rivers from her lins, LINCHPIN. Skinner says, the pin which fastens the axle of a wheel, q. d. links or link-pin, the linking pin. Dr. Jamieson refers to the Sw. Lunta. And Ihre explains Lunta, luntsticka, paxillus axis, obex rota prefixus, i.e. the bar or bolt set before a wheel. But if the rogue have gone a cup too far, Left out his linchpin, or forgot his tar, It suffers interruption and delay, And meets with hindrance in the smoothest way. Line is sometimes used as equivalent to delineation, (qv.) and to lineament; i.e. the lines which mark the features of the face, or countenance; the features; lit. and met. Linear, lineation, are used principally in books A Petegreu, fro William Conquerour, of the crowne of Piers Plouhman, p. 108. Lineally hir kinred by degrees, Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt. iii. It fell so, that of his linage, Gower. Con. 4. b. ii. As well in all princely behaueor as in ye liniamentes & fauor of his visage, [he] represēted the verie face of ye noble duke his father.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 61. Have you forgotten how Corbulo was murdered, a man of She heard that she was lineally extract.-Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 9. Which was euen inough (if not too much) for the maintenance of a frier toward the drawing out of circles, characters, and lineaments of imagerie, wherein he was passing skilfull.-Holinshed. Description of England, c. 2. Looking therefore every way about him, he [Thespesius] might perceive that there accompanied with him a certair shadowy and dark lineature.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 458. Is there a bard whom genius fires, Whose every thought the God inspires? When Envy reads the nervous lines, She frets, she rails, she raves, she pines. Gay, Fab. 28. pt. i Sages and chiefs of other lineage born, The city shall extend, extended shall adorn. Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. xv 161. Next, there can be no reestablishment of the prime and ancient right of lineal succession to any thing, unless he that is put in possession of it has the right to succeed and be the true and next heir to him he succeeds to. Locke. Of Government, b. i. c. 9 If she do not fashion and model circumstances, they wil sit ugly on the things that wear them; if she do not tempe the colours, and describe the lineaments, the drauglits o practice will be but rude and imperfect, and little resemble the true patterns of duty.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 1. Now all perform'd as solemn rites requir'd, Each champion backward to his lines retir'd, To wait the sign.-Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xxxviii. But the idea soon vanished, lineal walks immediately en veloped the slight scene, and names and inscriptions in bo again succeeded to compensate for the daring introduction of nature.-Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, &c. vol. iv. c. 7 LINE. Fr. Linge; It. Lino; Sp Lienço; Lat. Linteum, linum Gr. Awov; Goth. Lein; A. S Lin, linen; Dut. Lijn, lijnen Though Ger. Lein, leenen. this word exists in the ancien and modern Northern and Southern languages, its original meaning is lost Scheidius proposes for the Gr. Avov, an obsolet verb A-e, to bind, to fasten: the Etymologu Magnus aro Tns Xeloτntos, from its smoothness perhaps, adds the same Scheidius, truly. Se LINE, ante. Linen is so called because made of line (linum or (as it is now named) flax. Alle thei fled on rowe, in lynen white as milke. R. Brunne, p. 334 As lynne-seed and lik seed.-Piers Plouhman, p. 211. But a yong man clothid with a lynnen cloth on the bar suede him and thei helden him. And he left the lynne. clothing and fleygh nakid awey from hem. Wiclif. Mark, c. 14 And there folowed him a certaine yong man, clothed wit lynnen vp on the bare and the yong men caught him an (he) lefte hys lenne, & fleed from the naked.-Bible, 1551. I Yea, and throughout all parts of Fraunce they weaue lin and make sailes thereof. And now adaies also the Flem mings and Hollanders dwelling beyond the Rhine (I mea those auncient enemies of the state of our empire) do th like; insomuch, as the women there cannot devise to go more rich and costly in their apparell, than to weare fin linnen.-Holland. Plinie, b. xix. c. 1. 1218 Lise-seed loveth gravelly, or sandie grounds passing well, ommonly is sowed with one tilth and no more. Holland. Plinie, vol. ii. c. 1. If the love good clothes or dressing, have your learned munsell about you every morning, your French taylor, barber, innemer, &c.-B. Jonson. Silent Woman, Act iv. sc. 1. The list or nappie doune which linnen cloth beareth in maser of a soft cotton, especially such as commeth of ship sales that have lien at sea, is of great use in physicke. Holland. Plinie, b. xix. c. 1. We may here compare the soul to a linnen cloth, it must be first wash'd to take off its native hue and colour, and to make it white, and afterwards it must be ever and anon And I nine times, in linen garbs array'd, Grainger. Tibullus, b. i. Elegy 5. In the different operations, however, which are necessary for the preparation of linen yarn, a good deal more industry a employed than in the subsequent operation of preparing ecloth from linen yarn. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. iv. c. 8. LING. A word (says Skinner) of common se in Lincolnshire: it is the Northern name for beath, hether, (Grose.) Bacon distinguishes heath from lag and in Ayrshire, (v. Jamieson,) a thin ing grass is so called. It is also the name of a pecies of codfish, perhaps (Skinner) a longitudine. Plant bushes, heath, ling, and brakes, upon a wet or marthy ground.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 526. And, in her songs, sends many a wishful vow Spenser, Son. 88. Back to thy punishment, Cotton. On Tobacco. citous, cannot be extinguished, unless either chronical dis- Slow let the prayers by thy meek lips be sung, Thomson. The Incomparable Soporific Doctor. On yonder cliffs a griesly band, Gray. The Bard. vinegar that they may serue for no other vse, (hath been LINGLE. Fr. Ligneul, a shoemaker's thread, There was growing in that place, where they were thus (Fr.) Languet, lingula, a little tongue or slip, (Ray.) caped, verie much of that kind of heath or ling, which de Scotishmen call hadder. Holinshed. Historie of Scotland. Dongall. When harvest is ended, take shipping or ride, t LING, ter. In some parts of Saxony, Ling, The quotation explains the usage. LINGER, . From the A. S. Lang-ian, To lengthen, to protract; to remain or continue to move tardily or slowly; to stay, stop, or main inactive. His awl and lingel in a thong, His tar box on his broad belt hung, From His breech of Cointree blue.-Drayton. Pastorals, Ecl. 4. I love your judgment; whom do you prefer, Said, that I thought Calepine's Dictionary.-Donne, Sat.4. And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the For had they found a linguist half so good, LINIMENT. Fr. Liniment; It. Linimento; ment itself. spots, yea and the infection of the leprosie. The root brought into a liniment cureth the lentils or red Holland. Plinie, b. xxii. c. 21. The bird turning her head, catches hold upon them with out and brings away therewith an oily pap or liniment, most LINK, v. } Paley. Natural Theology, c. 8. Skinner derives from Ger. Gelenck, which he tells us means and also the ring of a chain; from Lenk-en, fleca junction, knot, or fastening, tere, to bend; he has no authority for gelenck so And link is probably from the A. S. Lencgan, to lengthen; meaning, a length: Add another link, i. e. a length, to the chain. It is applied toThe parts by which a chain is extended to its length; to the parts of which a chain is formed. Bas they that make haste are partakers of helth, so used. -1d. 16. angring doubtes such hope is sprong pardie, Thought I finde displeasant in my sight. Surrey. Bonum est mihi, &c. To link is To connect or fasten together; to combine, (as a series of rings, and generally,) to conjoin, to For Salomon write al that things tweine Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt. ii. A jewel, yea a gemme of womanhed, As is not rife to finde the like againe. A playne settynge foorthe of the sence of the texte wyth Ere thou thy daughter linck, in holy band Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 12. I know I had divulg'd a truth link'd inseparably with the most fundamental rules of Christianity, to stand or fall together.-Milton. Judgment of M. Bucer concerning Divorce. As nature has framed the several species of beings as it were in a chain, so man seems to be placed as the middle link between angels and brutes.-Spectator, No. 408. All the tribes and nations that composed it [the Roman Empire] were linked together, not only by the same laws and by the same government, but by all the facilities of commodious intercourse, and of frequent communication. Eustace. Italy, vol. i. c. 10. Of this point, each machine is a proof, independently of chain of reasoning, of which chain each instance of con trivance is only a link, and of which, if one link fail the whole falls, but it is an argument separately supplied by every separate example.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 6. LINK. Not from the Gr. Avxvos, but from Ger. Lencken, flectere, to bend, quia Resina tædæ complicatur, (Skinner.) Nymphidius supposing the souldiers had called him, as O may no link-boy interrupt their love.-Gay. Trivia, b.iL LINNET. Fr. Linotte, linaria avis; so called, perhaps, because it feeds on line, or flax, or on the seeds of flax. "What meaneth this?" And gay with gilded wings, Shenstone. Valentine's Day, (1743.) LINSEL. Any flimsy texture; any thing flimsy. Cornelia, (1594.) LINSTOCK. Į A torch or match to let off LI'NTEL. guns, &c., from the Ger. Let off Dut. Lonte; i. e. lint, or linen; Lat. Linteum; q. d. linteum sulphuratum, linen prepared with brimstone, (Skinner,) (or other combustible material.) And stock or stick. The Ger. Lunte was first applied to a kind of tinder so prepared to receive the fire struck from flint, (Wachter.) A linestoke fell into a barrell of powder, and set it on fire together with the vessell.-Stow. Q. Eliz. an. 1563. The distance judg'd for shot of every size, LINT. See LINE, LINEN. LINTEL. } the ancient limentum, fer limen, Fr. Linteau; Sp. Lintel; from LINTERN. q.d. limentellum, whence the god Limentinus, who presides over the thresholds or posts of a door, (Skinner.) Lintel is applied to, The head-piece of the door or casement. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it: their voyce shall sing in the windows, desolation shall be in the thresholds, for he shall uncover the cedar work.-Bible. Zephaniah, ii. 14. And with the blood thereof [a lamb] coloured the post and lintern of the doors. LION. LIONESS. LIONLY. Ralegh. History of the World, b. ii. c. 3. s. 4. Fr. Lion; Sp. Leon; It. Lione; Lat. Leo; Gr. Aewv; Dut. Leeuw; Ger. Lew. Wachter rejects the LIONSHIP. etymology of Porphyry from the Gr. Aaw, video, and affirms the A. S. Hlew-an, to roar. Lionly, (met.)—magnanimous and majestic (as a lion.) Hys mouth ys as a leon, hys herte arn as an hare. I am delyuered fro the mouth of the lyoun. Alas, than commeth a wild lionesse. Chaucer. The Legend of Thisbe. Gower. Con. A. b. iv. Wythin a large wyldernesse, Where was lyon and leonesse, The leparde, and the tygre also. They rejoyce Each with thir kind lion with lioness. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. viii. His sonne king Richard had for surname Corde- Lion, for his lion-like courage.-Camden. Remaines. Surnames. The church coveting to ride upon the lionly form of jurisdiction, makes a transformation of herself into an ass, and becomes despicable, that is, to those whom God hath enlighten'd with true knowledge. Milton. Reason of Church Government, b. ii. When the gaunt lioness, with hunger bold, Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. x. Strip but this vizor off, and sure I am Goldsmith. Epilogue to the Comedy of the Sisters. LIP, v. A. S. Lippa; Dut. Lip; Ger. Lippe; LIP, n. Sw. Lapp, (from the Lat. Labium, Skinner.) Wachter-from Ger. Leiben, to divide, to separate. Not improbably from lap, to fold over, as the lips fold over the mouth. To lip,-to touch with the lips, to kiss. Lip is applied generally, to the edge of any thing that folds or may fold or lap over. Cotgrave has lippe, a lip; and lippu, thick lipped, great-lipt; also, a powting or hanging the lip, as a child that's ready to cry. Lip-good,-(met.) good in words only. My blewest vaines to kisse; a hand that kings Shakespeare. Antony & Cleopatra, Act ii. sc. 5. Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. s. 4. Nee're lovelyer looks, than under such a crowne. B. Jonson. Sejanus, Act i. In oil of aniseeds, which I drew both with and without fermentation, I observed the whole body of the oil in a cool place to thicken into the consistence and appearance of white butter, which, with the least heat, resumed its former. Their office is to pray for others, and not to be the lip-liquidness.-Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 536. working deacons of other men's appointed words. Milton. Apology for Smectymnuus. There is not so good compression made upon the lips of the wound thro' those holes, as to hinder them from thrusting out.-Wiseman. Surgery, b. vi. c. 5. Lip-devotion will not serve the turn; it undervalues the very things it prays for. It is indeed the begging of a denial, and shall certainly be answered with what it begs. South, vol. vi. Ser. 10. It [the Italian language] glides from the lips with facility, and it delights the ear with its fulness, and its harmony. Eustace. Italy, vol. iv. Diss. 4. LIPO THYMY. Fr. Lipothamie; Gr. AeroOvμia, XEIT-ew, to leave or quit, and ouuos, the mind. A swooning, wherein the patient seems dead. Cotgrave,-i. e. wherein his soul seems to have left him. In lipothymies or swoundings he used the frication of this finger [the ring-finger] with saffron and gold. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 4. LIPPITUDE. Fr. Lippitude; It. Lippitudine; Lat. Lippitudo; lippus, from Aeß-ev, fundere, stillare, to pour, to drop; because the eyes drop tears. A running of the eyes, blear-eyedness. Those [diseases] that are infectious, are; First, such as are chiefly in the spirits, and not so much in the humours; and therefore pass easily from body to body: such are pestilences, lippitudes, and such like. LIQUATE, v. LIQUATION. LIQUEFY, V. LIQUEFI'ABLE. LIQUEFA'CTION. LIQUID, adj. LIQUID, n. LIQUIDATE, V. LIQUIDITY. LIQUIDNESS. LIQUOR, v. LIQUOR, n. dissolved, melted; easily; diluted, thin. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 297. Fr. Liquide, liqueur; It. Liquido, liquore; Sp. Liquido, lecor; Lat. Liquidus, liquor, from liquare, to melt; and this Vossius derives from the old Lat. word Lir, which he contends signified water, and hence liquare, to reduce to water, or to a fluid state. To liquate or liquefy,-to dissolve, to melt. Liquid,-watery or fluid, fluent, flowing clearly and To liquidate,-to clear off, and, thus, to diminish, to lessen. Whanne that April with his shoures sote Chaucer. Prologue, v. 3. Yea though he go vpo the playne and liquide water which will receaue no stepe.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 265. The disposition not to liquefie proceedeth from the easie emission of the spirits, whereby the grosser parts contract. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 840. Liquefiable, and not liquefiable, proceed from these causes: liquefaction is ever caused by the detention of the spirits, which play within the body, and open it.—Id. Ib. Ordinary liquation in wax and oily bodies is made by a gentler heat, where the oil and salt, the fixed and fluid principles, will not easily separate. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 1. And cart-wheeles squeak not when they are liquored. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 117. The longer malt or herbs, or the like, are infused in liquour, the more thick and troubled the liqueur is; but the longer they be decocted in the liquour, the clearer it is. Id. Ib. § 308. Contrarie to the nature of other liquid substances, whose groonds and leeze doo generallie settle downewards. Holinshed. Description of England, b. ii. c. 6. Ye now with liquid arms embrace the wand'ring shore. Drayton. Poly-Glbion, s. 6. The spirits, for their liquidity, are more uncapable then the fluid medium, which is the conveyer of sounds, to persevere in the continued repetition of vocal airs. Glanvill. Vanity of Dogmatizing, c. 4. If the salts be not drawn forth before the clay is baked, they are apt to liquale.-Woodward. On Fossils. 1220 Round as a globe, and liquor'd every chink, Dryden. Absalom & Achitophel. The insect youth are on the wing, Gray. Ode on the Spring. The moistening liquid, from the neighbouring shade A senseless jumble, soon liquidated by a more egregious act of folly, the King with his own hand crowning the young Duke of Warwick King of the Isle of Wight. Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. c. 2. LIRE. See LEER. It is in our old romances variously written,-leyre, lyre, lire. See Jamie son. There appeared a creature resembling death, all naked of flesh and lire, with bare bones, right dreadful to behold, Holinshed. Historie of Scotland, an. 1290. So he began to waxe blyth, And whypyd away his teris swyth That ran dovn be his lyre.-Sir Clerges. Webber, vol. i. LIRIPOOP. Fr. Liripipion. A graduate's hood. Liripipie,-hooded, as a graduate. Sir Greg. So, so, I have my lerrepoop already. Beaum. & Fletch. Wit at several Weapons, Act i. And whereas thou takest the matter so farre in snuffe, I will teach thee thy lyrripups after an other fashion than to be thus malpertlie cocking and billing with me that am thy gouernour.-Holinshed. Description of Ireland, c. 6. LISP, v. LISP, n. LI'SPING, n. A. S. Wlisp. Dentiloquus, per dentes loquens. A lisper. Dut. LI'SPINGI, Lispen, lispelen; Ger. Lispeln; Sw. Læspa. All of which Skinner declares must be formed from the sound. Aristophanes, however, uses the expression X45 nyλwoσa, which is interpreted a slippery, stutter-. ing tongue, and some etymologists decide for a Greek original. Stuttering or stammering is distinguished by Wilkins from lisping; he considers both to be defects of speaking, the first as to the continuity of speech, the second as to the prolation of particular letters. (Real Character, pt. ii. c. 9.) Lisping, or The defect in the prolation (as Wilkins terms it) or utterance of particular letters arises from striking the tongue against the inside of the teeth. |