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
Is fitly lik'ned to a barren tree.

Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. i. s. 2.
There is a fabulous narration, that in the Northern
Countries, there should be an herb that groweth in the
likeness of a lamb, and feedeth upon the grass.

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,
For many scars and many hoary haires.

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;
His custom grew, the price was rais'd.
Had he that real likeness shown,

LIM

That Henry had ille likyng, were on him gan he kithe.
R. Brunne, p. 132.
I wol you tell a litel thing in prose.
That oughte liken you.-Chaucer. Prologue to Melibeus.
He medleth sorowe with likynge.-Gower. Con. A. b. i.

He [Vitellius] accounted all sharpe that was wholesome,
and liked of nothing but that which was presently pleasant,
and afterwards hurtfull.-Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 124.
Fal.
I doe; for feare

Ought that is there should like her.

B. Jonson. Every Man out of his Humour, Act ii. sc. 4.
The men though grave, ey'd them, and let their eyes
Rove without rein, till in the amorous net
Fast caught, they lik'd, and each his liking chose.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. xi.

This law [of Solon's] neither liked the one nor the other
sort for it greatly offended the rich for cancelling their
bonds; and it much more misliked the poor, because all
lands and possessions they gaped for, were not made again
common.-Norin. Plutarch, p. 73.

And all things did devise and all things dooe,
That might her love prepare, and liking win theretoo.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 2.
Fal. Trust me a likely fellow. Come, pricke me
Bulcalfe till he roare again.
Shakespeare. 2 Pt. Hen. IV. Act iii. sc. 2.

'Tis unjust to bereave a man of that leisure and opportu-
nity which he possesseth, of doing that which he best liketh,
and perhaps is greatly concerned in.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 21.
Forc'd with regret to leave her native sphere,
Came but a while on liking here.

Dryden. Threnodia Augustalis.
LILACH. Fr. Lilas, lilach. Supposed to be

so called, because the scent of its flowers resembles
that of the lily, liliaceum.

The lilac, various in array, now white,

Now sanguine, and her beauteous head now set
With purple spikes, pyramidal, as if
Studious of ornament, yet unresolv'd
Which hue she most approv'd, she chose them all.
Cowper. Task, b. vi.
LILLIPUTIAN. Applied to any thing very
must be something which may come to pass, and, without small, pigmæan; from Swift's Voyage to Lilliput.

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,
She, to some smooth sequester'd stream,
Likens the swain's inglorious day.

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,
When Gulliver fell fast asleep,
Stretch'd on the Lilliputian strand,
A giant in a pigmy land;
Watchful against impending harms,
All Lilliput cried out, "To arms."

Lloyd. Charity. A Fragment.

LILY. Lat. Lilium; Gr. Aeipiov; Fr. Lis;
It. Giglio; Sp. Lirio. Lilied, or lillied,-

Covered with lilies.
Lilylivered,-whitelivered, (Shakespeare.)
Biholde ye the lilies of the feeld hou thei waxen, thei tra-
veilen not neither spynnen.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 6.
Consider the lylyes of the felde, how they grow. They
labour not neither spin.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

For right as she can peint a lili whit
And red a rose, right with swiche peinture
She peinted hath this noble creature.

Chaucer. The Doctoures Tale, v. 11,966.

Nymphs and shepherds, dance no more
By sandy Ladon's lillied banks;
On old Lycaeus, or Cyllene hoar
Trip no more in twilight ranks.
Sabrina fair,

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.
R. Gloucester, p. 8.

He wole the lyme mele to drawe.-Id. p. 206.
& lyue & lymme suld saue tho, that in pes wild lyue.
R. Brunne, p. 264.

Win maketh man to lesen wretchedly
His mind, and eke his limmes everich on.
Chaucer. The Sompnoures Tale, v. 7637.
For than I wolde I were vnioynted
Gower. Con. A. b. iv.
Of euery lymme that I haue.
The Earth obey'd, and strait
Op'ning her fertil womb, teem'd at a birth
Innumerous living creatures, perfect forms,
Limb'd and full grown. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vii.
And on the grasse her dainty limbs did lay
In secrete shadow far from all men's sight.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i.
These senses are alike strong, both on the right side, and
on the left, but the limbes on the right side are stronger.
Bacon. Naturall Historic, § 875.

With this hand cut off,

This instrument of wrong, till nought were left me
But this poor bleeding limbless trunk, which gladly
I would divide among them.

Massinger. The Renegado, Act iv. sc. 1.
Post. O that I had her heere, to teare her limb-neale:
I will go there and d'ot, i' the Court, before
Her father.

Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act ii. sc. 4.
One on his youth and pliant limbs relies;
One on his sinews and his giant size.

Dryden. Virgil. Eneis, b. v.
Whose strength of limb with mightiest giants vied,
Of feature crude, and insolent of soul,
Whose heart nor knew or mercy or control-
He was.
Brooke. Constantia.

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,
As from a limbeck, did adown distill.

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;
And thence like limbecs, rich ideas draw,
To fit the levell'd use of human kind.

LUMBER, adj.
LIMBERNESS.
LIMP, 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
Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave,
In twisted braids of lilies knitting

The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.-Id. Comus.
In one smooth current, o'er the lilied vale
Clearer than glass it flow'd.

Akenside. Pleasures of Imagination, b. ii.

By these fatigues he got at length
Robustness, and athletic strength,
Spirits, as light as flies the gale
Along the lily-silver'd vale.
Cawthorne. The Birth and Education of Genius.
LIMB, n.
LIMB, V.
LIMBLESS.

Junius thinks may be formed
(by inversion of the three first
letters) from Gr. Meλos, mem-
LI'MBMEALE. brum. "In A. S. (Limb is)
written Lim or Limp; b being written for p. It
is the past part. of the A. S. verb Limp-ian, perti-
nere; and it means quod pertinet, or quod pertinuit;
what belongeth or hath belonged to something.

nent, seasonable,

Easily bent, flexible, pliant.

Not him that beares his sailes alowe
nor him that keepes the shoare;

Ne yet the bargeman that doth rowe
with long and limber oare.

Turbervile. A Myrrour of the Fall of Pride.
With nimble turns their limber bodies bending.

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.

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.

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
In some straunge habit, after uncouth wize,
Or like a pilgrim, or a lymiter,
Or like a gipsen or a iuggler."

Spenser. Mother Hubberd's Tale.
They so believing, as we hear they do, and yet abolishing
a law so good and moral, the limiter of sin, what are they
else but contrary to themselves?-Milton. Tetrachordon.
To your [the Muse] divining tongue is given a power
Of uttering secrets large and limitless.

We wish remov'd what standeth in our light,
And Nature blame for limiting our sight.

Waller. In Answer of Sir John Suckling's Verses.
Reason triumphs so
Over all passions, that they ne'er could grow
Beyond their limits in your noble breast.

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
Could in a length of years to ripeness bring,
Sudden his word performs.

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.

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,
Where youth must give him place.

Vncertaine Auctors. The Aged Louer, &c.
And strength by limping sway disabled.-Shakes. Son. 66.
Loud fits of laughter seiz'd the guests, to see
The limping god so deft at his new ministry.

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,
When the gay morn unveils her smiling ray:
Haste to the stream! Companion of thy care,
Lo, I thy steps attend.-Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. vi.
Filter this solution through cap-paper, to have it clear
and limpid.-Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 708.

A streamlet pure, limpid and wholesome, flows from the
fountain and waters the little valley.
Eustace. Italy, vol. ii. c. 6.
LIN, v. Linnan, the A. S. root of this word,
seems to have merged into the A. S. Blinnan, or
be-linnan, cessare, desinere, to cease or stop, to
desist. See BLIND, and BLUNT.

To stop, to cease, to desist, to give over or leave off.

Thrise shall he fight with them, and twise shall win:
But the third time shall fayre accordaunce make:
And, if he then with victorie can lin,

He shall his dayes with peace bring to his earthly in.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 3.

The spawner, when the time serveth for generation, fol-
loweth after the male, and never linneih picking and jobbing
at his bellie with her muzzle.-Holland. Plinie, b. ix. c. 1.
If one plucke off the wings from a drone, and put him
againe within the hive, he will never lin untill he have
done the like by all the rest of the same kind.
Id. Ib. b. xi. c. 11.
The coach-driver did what he could possible at the first to
stay them, by holding in the reins, by clapping them on the
backs, and speaking gently to them: but in the end, per-
ceiving he could do no good, and that they would have their
swing, he gave place to their fury, and they never lin run-
ning, till they brought him near to the capitol, where they
overthrew him and his coach, not far from the gate called
at this present Ratumena.-North. Plutarch, p. 87.

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
up by the tongue.

Confections, treacle, mithridate, eclegmes, or linctures, &c.
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 371.

LIND.
A. S. Lind; Dut. and Ger.
LINDEN, or Linde. The entire word (Wach-
LIMETREE. ter) is lindenbaum.— Kilian, "A
tree so called (Teutonice) from the softness of its
substance, and hence Ovid, tiliæ molles. Ger.
Lind, mollis; and lindern; Dut. Linderen, lenire."
Skinner inclines to the etymology of Kilian.

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.
Various okes that pierce the sky,
Soft linden, smooth-rinde beech.

Sandy. Ovid. Metam. b. x.
Dryden. Virgil. Georgics, b. i.
LINE, v.
Junius, Lined gown; dupli-
LI'NING, n. cata toga; perhaps because gar-
ments were formerly doubled and strengthened by
the insertion of linen. Generally,—

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.
Their smoothed tongues are lyned all with guyle.-Id. Ib.
The inside lynde with rich carnation silke
And in the midst of both, lawne white as milke.

Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. s. 3.
Whether he was combin'd with those of Norway,,
Or did lyne the rebell with hidden helpe,
And vantage.

Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act i. sc. 3.
The Indians take great pleasure to have their salt bitches
lined with tigres.-Holland. Plinie, b. viii. c. 11.

Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud

Turn forth her silver lining on the night?-Milton. Com.
Long may she live and help her friends
Whene'er it suits her private ends;
Domestic business never mind
Till coffee has her stomach lin'd.

Swift. Bee's Birth-day, Nov. 8, 1726.

If you think those of pasteboard not strong enough, you
may use laminæ, copper, or tin plates lined with soft
linings, to receive the fractured member.
Wiseman. Surgery, b. vi. c. 5.
Not feeble years, nor childhood stay'd, but all
Alike impatient throng'd to line the wall.
Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xxxv.
Some fragments of marble linings and piers remain to
attest the ancient magnificence of this port.
Eustace. Italy, vol. i. c. 7.

LINE, n.
LINEAGE.
LI'NEAL.

Fr. Ligner, ligne; It. and Sp.
Linea; Lat. Linea, from linum,
because made of line, whence
linen, qv. (Vossius.) Perhaps
from A. S. Lin-ian, lin-ig-an, lig-
an, to lie, to lie along.

LI'NEALLY.
LINEAMENT.
LINEAR.
LINEA'TION. Any thing extended, any ex-
LINEATURE. tension, in length, as of string or
thread; of writing; of men; of defence, before or
round entrenchments; any thing drawn out or
pursued lengthwise or longitudinally; a course
Id. Ib. s. 6. pursued or followed; as, (met.) a line of argument,
a line of conduct; a direct course, (sc.) of succes-
sion or geniture, from parent to child; geniture.

Is Toothy, tripping down from Verwin's rushy lin.
Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 5.
Then Tivy cometh down from her capacious lin.

And therefore to recount her rivers from her lins,
Abridging all delays, Mervinia thus begins.-Id. Ib. s. 9.

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.
Cowper. Truth.
LINCTURE. Lat. Lingere, lictum, to lick up.
Applied to

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
of natural history.

A Petegreu, fro William Conquerour, of the crowne of
Engelonde, iynnyally descendyng, vnto kyng Henry the VI.
R. Gloucester, App. p. 585.
This Brightric, and other kynges fram Ine to him, were
oute of the right lyne of Kynges, as of Certikes kyn.
R. Brunne, p. 13. Note.
As ho so laith lynes for to lattche foules.

Piers Plouhman, p. 108.

Lineally hir kinred by degrees,
Ybranched out vpon xxii trees.

Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt. iii.
For al thilke while

It fell so, that of his linage,
He had a clergon yonge of age.

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
greater lignage than we are.-Savile. Tacitus, Hist. p. 88.
And after them the royall issue came
Which of them sprung by lineall descent.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 11.
From whose race of old

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.
LINEN, n.
LINEN, adj.
LI'NENER.
LINT.
LINE-SEED, or
LINSEED.

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.

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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
Rated to preserve and keep it white.-South, vol.vi. Ser.12.
I usually kept by me for burns, (an ointment) made only
by beating up strong lime-water with as much good linseed
das could be made thoroughly to incorporate with it into
very white unguent.-Boyle. Works, vol. v. p. 114.

And I nine times, in linen garbs array'd,
In silent night, nine times to Trivir pray'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
For his returne that seemes to linger late.

Spenser, Son. 88.

Back to thy punishment,
False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings,
Least with a whip of scorpions I pursue
Thy lingring.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii.
Coughs, asthmas, apoplexies, fevers, rheum,
All that kill dead, or lingeringly consume.

Cotton. On Tobacco.
Such a pain it was; and that no stupefying, no transient
pain, but one both very acute and lingring: for we see, that
he together with his two fellow-sufferers had both presence
of mind, and time to discourse.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 32.

citous, cannot be extinguished, unless either chronical dis-
So life for whose preservation nature is so faithfully solli-
eases do lingeringly destroy, or some acute do hastily snatch
it away.-Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 368.

Slow let the prayers by thy meek lips be sung,
Nor let thy thoughts be distanc'd by thy tongue;
If ere the lingerers are within a call,
Or if on prayers thou deign'st to think at all.

Thomson. The Incomparable Soporific Doctor.

On yonder cliffs a griesly band,
I see them sit, they linger yet,
Avengers of their native land.
LINGET.

Gray. The Bard.
Fr. Lingot. An ingot, (qv.) lump,
or masse of metal, (Cotgrave.)

vinegar that they may serue for no other vse, (hath been
Among the Lacedemonians iron lingots quenched with
vsed for moneie.)-Camden. Remaines. Monie.

LINGLE. Fr. Ligneul, a shoemaker's thread,
or a tatching end, (Cotgrave.) The langot of the
shoe, is in the North, the latchet of the shoe, from

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,
Lang, salt-fish, and herring, for Lent to provide.
Tusser. August's Husbandry.

t

LING, ter. In some parts of Saxony, Ling,
e dicitur; and it was customary in A. S. to
join it to the name of the father, as Eadmund,
Eadmon-ling, (and thus resembling the Gr. as
Areas, Atrides:)-it was further subjoined to de-
te offspring, or progeny, generally, as duck, duck-
In the former cases, Wachter derives from
Leng-en, tangere; a son being called ling, velut
ges, quia patrem proxime tangit origine. In
second, he derives from lang-en, pertinere, to
pertain (to be-long), and he has several other un-
Decessary distinctions, with respect te the use and
rigin of this same termination ling. In A. S. Ing
has a force (almost) equivalent to ling, as pend-a,
g; and it may be our common participial and
Detinal termination ing; used to denote, the added
rcumstance of pertaining or belonging, of being
nected with or dependent upon, derived or
deduced from; and ling may be the same syllable
I prefixed; being itself a further dimi-
Dave, (corrupted from dle,) signifying a deal or
Sion, a part or portion. See Lye; Wachter,
Praga. sec. 6; and Spelman, Gloss. Archæol. in
1. Adelingres. Also Ing, ter. ante.
UNGENCE. Lat. Lingens, pres. part. of
Ligere, to lick. See LоCH.

The quotation explains the usage.
Arick hereof liquoris) is commonly the spoon pre-
ened to patients, to use in any lingences or loaches.
Fuller. Worthies. Nottinghamshire.

LINGER, .
LANGERER.
LINGERING, 7.
LINGERINGLY.), tract or draw out.

From the A. S. Lang-ian,
prolongare, producere, to pro-
long or lengthen out, to pro-

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.
LINGUIST.
the Lat. Lingua, a tongue.
It. and Sp. Linguista.
See LANGUAGE.
One skilled in tongues or languages.
He saith, "Sir,

I love your judgment; whom do you prefer,
For the best linguists?" and I sillily

Said, that I thought Calepine's Dictionary.-Donne, Sat.4.

And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the
tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not
studied the solid things in them as well as the words and
lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteem'd a learned
man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his
mother dialect only.-Milton. Of Education.

For had they found a linguist half so good,
I make no question but the tower had stood.
Pope. Satires of Donne, Sat. 4.

LINIMENT. Fr. Liniment; It. Linimento;
Lat. Linimentum, from linire, to anoint; Gr. Aclaw-
ew, to render smooth and slippery, as is done by
ointment when smeared over any thing. It is in
Fr. (Cotgrave) applied to--

ment itself.
The rubbing or smearing; and also to the oint-
In English only to the latter.

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
her bill, and a little compressing the glandules, squeezes

out and brings away therewith an oily pap or liniment, most
fit and proper for the inunction of the feathers and causing
their little filaments more strongly to cohere.
Ray. On the Creation, pt. i.
For the continual secretion of this important liniment,
are fixed near each joint; the excretory ducts of which
and for the feeding of the cavities of the joint with it, glands
like fringes within the cavity of the joints.
glands, dripping with their balsamic contents, hang loose

LINK, v.
LINK, n.
LINKING, n.

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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.
ay that linger are al partakers of perill.
Udal. Matthew, c. 3.
There must be no lingering, the daungier is so neare at

-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
concatenate.

For Salomon write al that things tweine
Trouth and mercy linked in a cheine.

Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt. ii.

A jewel, yea a gemme of womanhed,
Whose perfect vertues, linked as in chaine,
So did adorne that humble wiuely hed,

As is not rife to finde the like againe.
Vncertaine Auctors. Death of the late Countesse of Pembroke.
And so by double lynkes enchaynde themselues in louers'
life.-Gascoigne. A Deuise of a Maske.

A playne settynge foorthe of the sence of the texte wyth
as many woordes as the circumstaunce thereof, for the better
lynkynge of one sentence to an other, doothe require.
Udal. Luke, Pref.
And thou shalte make hokes of golde and two cheines of
fyne golde: lynkeworke and wrethed.-Bible. Exodus, c. 28.
Be advized for the best,

Ere thou thy daughter linck, in holy band
Of wedlocke, to that new unknowen guest.

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
all the rest.
So it is with the evidences of a divine agency.
The proof is not a conclusion which lies at the end of a

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
hasting to confirme the waueringe, and preuent the tumult,
went thither himselfe without torches and linckes.
Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 10.

O may no link-boy interrupt their love.-Gay. Trivia, b.iL
Though thou art tempted by the link-man's call
Yet trust him not along the lonely wall;
In the mid-way he'll quench the flaming brand,
And share the booty with the pilfering band.-Id. Ib. b. iii.

LINNET. Fr. Linotte, linaria avis; so called, perhaps, because it feeds on line, or flax, or on the

seeds of flax.

"What meaneth this?"
Said then the linet; "welcome lord of blisse."
Chaucer. The Court of Loue.
The linnets be in manner the least birds of all others:
how beit they be very docible.-Holland. Plinie, b. x. c. 42.
Perch'd on the cedar's topmost bough,

And gay with gilded wings,
Perchance the patron of his vow,
Some artless linnet sings.

Shenstone. Valentine's Day, (1743.)

LINSEL.
Vestis ex lanâ et lino simul
LINSEY-WOOLSEY. (mixtis confecta, (Skinner)
A vest made of wool and linen mixed together.
Applied to,-

Any flimsy texture; any thing flimsy.
Casting a thyn course lynsel ore his shoulders,
That torne in pieces trayld upon the ground.

Cornelia, (1594.)
Lo. E. But what linsie-wolsy hast thou to speake to vs
againe.-Shakes. All's Well that Ends Well, Act iv. sc. 1.
A lawless linsy-wolsey brother,
Half of one order, half another.-Hudibras, pt. i. c. 3.
No flimsy linsey-wolsey scenes I wrote
With patches here and there like Joseph's coat.
Churchill. The Apology.

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.)

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.

Round as a globe, and liquor'd every chink,
Goodly and great he sails behind his link.

Dryden. Absalom & Achitophel.
A fermented liquour, for example, which is called beer,
but which, as it is made of molasses, bears very little resem-
blance to our beer, makes a considerable part of the com-
mon drink of the people in America.
Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. v. c. 3.
Their stony ribs
And min'ral bowels, liquified by fire,
O'erwhelm the fields, by Nature left unbless'd.
Glover. The Athenaid, b. i.

The insect youth are on the wing,
Eager to taste the honied spring,
And float amid the liquid noon.

Gray. Ode on the Spring.
But ere his lips essay'd

The moistening liquid, from the neighbouring shade
A rustic starting swift, his courser took,
Leapt on his back, and turned him from the brook.
Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xxii.

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