Shew him that T is close; but this lets breadth; and with fen trial he will hit on it, though at first it may be lispasgig or imperfectly.-Holder. Elements of Speech, p. 144. Walle lisping children, touch'd with infant fear, With wonder gaze, and drop th' unconscious tear. Falconer. The Shipwreck, c. 3. He had a lisping in his speech, which became him, and gave a grace and persuasive turn to his discourse. Langhorne. Plutarch, vol. ii. Alcibiades. Ah! what avails it, that, from slav'ry far, I draw the breath of life in English air; beer, Was early taught a Briton's right to prize, LISS, v. Liss, n. Gent. Well: there went but a paire of sheeres betweene vs. World-wand'ring sorry wights, See To LESS OF LESSEN. Shal lere hem what love is. and lisse with outen ende. In hope for to ben lissed of his care. Chaucer. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 11,482. What for his labour, and his hope of blisse, His woful herte of penance had a lisse.-Id. Ib. v. 11,550. Yet for a tyme it shuld change My peyne, and lisse me somdele.-Gower. Con. A. b. vi. LISSOME, i. e. Lithesome. See LIthe. 27. LIST, . See To ENLIST. Fr. Liste; It. LIST, and Sp. Lista; from Goth. and A. S. Luan; Ger. and Dut. Lesen; in its consequential sare, colligere, to collect; and thus, list, that which is collected; a collection, (sc.) of names. And to list,- To enroll, to write in a roll or catalogue; to register, (sc.) the names of those engaged for a particular purpose, as for military service; and, Laas, to engage the services. Yes 'tis the list Of those that claime their offices this day, Shakespeare. Hen. VIII. Act iv. sc. 1. In this hasty muster of poets, and listing their confederates, stall, by omitting many, deprive them of that which is ade due from fame.-Davenant. Gondibert, Pref. -Round the throne, Erected in the bosom of the just, Young. The Complaint, Night 8. The Jesuits, whose order was founded A. D. 1540, have, erally speaking, been Semipelagians, and no friends to Austin, though they permitted their brethren to list themes on either side.-Jortin, Dis. 2. Some Neapolitan authors carry their pretensions so far as place the number and merit of their writers upon a level with those of Paris, and from the list of publications which produce, an impartial man would find it difficult to tecide against them.-Eustace. Italy, vol. ii. c. 10. The asse having a peculiar mark of a cross made by a Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c. 11. The very list, the very vtmost bound Id. 1 Pt. Hen. IV. Act iv. sc. 1. Here I must breath awhile, to satisfy some that perhaps Dress'd to advantage, this illustrious pair LIST, or LISTEN, v. LISTENER. LI'STFUL. Listful seems the opposite of listless, the one heedful or anxious, the other heedless or indifferent: and the A. S. Hlyst-an; Dut. Luysteren; Ger. Laustern, audire, auscultare, attendere, observare, to hear, hearken, attend to, observe, regard, seems to vary from lystan, to care for, be desirous for, merely in the greater latitude to which the word (without the aspirate) is extended in its application. To hearken, to attend, to pay or give attention. to heed or take heed. Liste how Dauid les his spente [expences] & his trauaile. Listen now, how Ihesu Criste, for his mykelle mercy, Of mirthe and of solas. Chaucer. The Rime of Sire Thopas, v. 13,642. Which she long listning, softly ask'd againe What mister wight it was that so did plaine. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 7. El. B. List, list, I hear Some far off hallow break the silent air.-Milton. Comus. At which I ceas'd, and listen'd them awhile.-Id. Io. The people all mute, with countenances amazed, and listning eares.-Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 23. "Perhaps I may all further quarrell end, So ye will sweare my judgment to abide." Thereto they both did franckly condiscend; And to his doom with listful eares attend. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 1. Neither will men willingly listen to the reasonings of those, whom they apprehend disaffected to their persons, and more desirous to wound their reputations, than to cure their distempers.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 30. Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves. Ray. Joculatory Proverbs. "The external ear," we are told, "had acquired a distinct motion upward and backward, which was observable whenever the patient listened to any thing which he did not distinctly hear."-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 3. To wish, to covet, to desire (to lust.) Listless,—having no wish or tions." desire; heedless, indifferent. As whoso list to looke may find in hir legion. R. Brunne, p. 87. For he to vertue isteth not to entend, Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 850. LIST. Fr. Lice; It. Lizza; Low Lat. To whatsoeuer land Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. iv. remain in their former estate among the legionarie or auxiliarie soldiers.-Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 96. The enclosure of assembled or collected persons, septum intra quod hastiludium celebratur,) to ything enclosing or surrounding; and, thus, to hedge or border; bounds, limits, or confines. Ang pugilists the lists are now called the ring. Be bar a bordon ybounde. with a brod lyste Piers Plouhman, p. 119. Amortal battailes hadde he ben fiftene, A faghten for our faith at Tramisene Des. Alas: she has no speech. I finde it still when I haue leaue [list] to sleepe. Those Irish lords made their list the law to such whom Whence, deeply rankling grows The partial thought, a listless unconcern, Cold, and averting from our neighbour's good. Thomson. Spring. See there [at play] whether he be stirring and active; whether he designs any thing, and with labour and eagerness pursues it, till he has accomplished what he aimed at; or whether he lazily and listlessly dreams away his time. Locke. Of Education, s. 123. Thus, by his employing of such times of liberty, you will easily discern whether it be listlesssness in his temper, or aversion to his book, that makes him saunter away his time Iata thrice, and ay slain his fo.-Chaucer. Prol. v. 63. of study.-Id. Ib. s. 125. Then with uplifted hands, and eyes devout, fateful to Heav'n, over his head beholds A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow Conspicuous with three listed colours gay, Moreover since the French invasion it seems to have suffered from the negligence or from the poverty of the proprietors, owing partly to the heavy contributions laid on the town, and partly to that listlessness and depression of spirits which generally accompany national disasters. Eustace. Italy, vol. i. c. 3. LITANY. Fr. Letanie; It. and Sp. Letania; Lat. Litania; Gr. Atravela, from λITT-Eσ0αi, precari, to pray, because, says Minshew,-"Letanie is nothing but praiers and supplicaAnd see the quotation from Hooker. & songe the letanye And other gode orysons. R. Gloucester, p. 406. As things inuented to one purpose are by use easily conuerted to more, it grew that supplications with this solemnitie for the appeasing of God's wrath, and the auerting of publique euils, were of the Greeke Church termed litanies; rogations, of the Latine.-Hooker. Eccl. Politie, b. v. § 41. In the litany they did still invocate the blessed Virgin, the angels and archangels, and all holy orders of blessed spirits, all holy patriarchs and prophets, apostles and martyrs, confessors and virgins, and all the blessed company of heaven to pray for them. Burnet. History of the Reformation, an. 1545. LITCH-OWL. "Lic, or lich, a dead corps, whereof the unluckie night-ravens are lichfouls," (Verstegan.) See LICH. Probably from lic-yan, to lie; as the Lat. Ca. daver, from cadere, to fall. The shrieking litch-owl that doth never cry, i. e. to learning; pursuing or devoted to learning, Literary,-pertaining to letters, (collectively,) | (see infra); applied to the limbs from their flexibility at the joints. Verelius (see Ihre, and Wachter,)-from led-a, to bend. to learned studies. Literator,-used by Burke contumeliously, as in Latin ;-pretenders to Literature. In youthe a maister had this emperour Chaucer. The Monkes Tale, v. 14,415. When God sayd, out of Egipt cauled I my sonne, which although it were literally fulfilled in the childre of Israel whe he brought them out [of] Egipt with great power and wonders, yet was it also ment & verified in Christ hymselfe, his very spirituall sonne, which was cauled out of Egipt after ye death of Herod.-Fryth. Workes, p. 120. It hath but one simple litterall sense whose light the owles can not abide.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 1. Howe happye are we Englishmē of such a king, in whose childehood appeareth as perfeict grace, vertue, godly zele, desire of literature, grauitie, prudece, iustice, & magnani mitie, as has heretofore been found in kings of most mature age, of ful discreció, of auncient reigne, and of passing high estimacion.-Udal. Paraphrase, Pref. p. 2. And if none of these considerations, with all their weight and gravity, can avail to the dispossessing him of his precious literalism, let some one or other entreat him but to read on in the same 19th of Matthew, till he come to that place that says, some make themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. And if then he please to make use of Origen's knife, he may do well to be his own carver. Milton. Doct. and Disc. of Divorce, b. ii. c. 17. Let the extreme literalist sit down now, and revolve whether this in all necessity be not the due result of our Saviour's word.-Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 20. Let those who are still bent to hold this obstinate literality, so prepare themselves, as to share in the account for all these transgressions, when it shall be demanded at the last day, by one who will scan and shift things with more than a literal wisdom of equity.-Id. Ib. b. i. c. 14. How wild a paradox it is to tie those frequent and large promises of the prophets made to Judah and Israel, Zion and Jerusalem, to a carnal literality of sense; and to make account of their accomplishment accordingly. Bp. Hall. The Revelation Unrevealed, § 15. It can admit neither distinction, nor other construction than the words bear literally. Ralegh. History of the World, b. i. c. 7. s. 15. Surely this is the proper function of literate elegancy, to figure vertue in so lively and fresh colours, that our imagination may be so taken with the beauty of vertue, as it may invite our mindes to make love to her in solitude. Mountague. Devoute Essayes, pt. i. Treat. 19, s. 3. In the daies of this Gregorie also, there liued that famous clearke, John Scot, a Scotishman indeed borne, but brought vp in studie of good Literature at Athens. Holinshed. History of Scotland. Gregorie, an. 893. The common way which we have taken, is not a literal translation, but a kind of paraphrase, or somewhat which is yet more loose, betwixt a paraphrase and imitation. Dryden. Juvenal, Ded. How dangerous it is in sensible things to use metaphorical expressions unto the people, and what absurd conceits they will swallow in their literals!! Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 10. My daily bread is literally implor'd; Dryden. The Hind and the Panther. With these, and some akin to these, The living few who grace our days, My chief delight their taste to please Cooper. The Retreat of Aristippus, Epist. 1. Lord Bacon was the first person who took this comprehensive view of the different departments of study; and who pointed out to all the classes of literary men, the great end to which their labours should conspire; the multiplication of the sources of human enjoyment, and the extension of man's dominion over nature. Stewart. Of the Human Mind, pt. ii. s. 2. Introd. They teach the people, that the debauchers of virgins, almost in the arms of their parents, may be safe inmates in their houses, and even fit guardians of the honour of those husbands who succeed legally to the office which the young literators had pre-occupied, without asking leave of law or conscience.-Burke. Let. to a Member of the Nat. Assembly. They systematically corrupt a very corruptible race, (for some time a growing nuisance amongst you) a set of pert, petulant, literators, to whom, instead of their proper, but severe, unostentatious duties, they assign the brilliant part of men of wit and pleasure, of gay, young, military sparks, and danglers at toilets.-Id. Ib. Sithen the day that she was sevennight old, Chaucer. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 14,881. LITHE, adj. LITHE, V. LITHER. LITHERNESS. Gower. Con. A. b. i. A. S. Lith, from the verb lith-ian; ge-lithian, mollire, mitigare, temperare, mollem et tractabilem se præbere, to soften, to mitigate, to temper or moderate; to be or cause to be soft and manageable. And,- LITHERLY. soothe, to soften, (and in Gower,) to bend, to bend ing. Mr. Steevens produces from Lily's Endimion, litherness, which he interprets limberness, or yielding weakness. And Our descendants may possibly contemplate with equal ridicule and surprise, the preposterous partiality which the present age has shown to the frippery and the tinsel of French literature.-Eustace. Italy, vol. ii. c. 10. LITH. Goth. Litha; Dut. Lide; Sw. Leed. Lithy and lither are so used ;-consequentially,Weak, lazy, dissolute, depraved, wicked. & if ge wille lithe, I salle telle it gou.-R. Brunne, p. 93. And under lynde in a launde. lenede ich a stounde To lithen here laies. and here loveliche notes. Piers Plouhman, p. 169. After the death she cried a thousand sithe, Id. Dreame. Id. The Milleres Tale, v. 3300. And euery stede Whiche shulde stonde vpon the feithe, And to this cause an eare leithe Astonyed is of the quarele.-Gower, Con. A. Prol. And lewde lither losill that liste not to ryse maye lye styll in his bedde.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 509. And that some man after the maner of Christ had leyther feede of fishe, then fine brothe.-Barnes. Workes, p. 374. But my learning is of an other degree, To taunt theim like liddrous, lewde as thei bee. Skelton. Sclaunder & False Detractions, &c. She instilleth in the inhabitants a drowsie lithernesse to withdraw them from the insearching of hir hourded and hidden jewels.-Holinshed. Description of Ireland, c. 4. The Earle of March sent for the forenamed Thomas, and told him that he had mistaken his marks, in prophesieng of anie such notable tempest as he had spoken of the night before, considering it prooved as lithe a daie, without appearance of anie tempest to insue. Id. History of Scotland. Alexander. His dewelap as lythe as lasse of Kent. Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. Februarie. Two Talbots winged through the lither skie, In thy despight shall scape mortalitie. Shakespeare. 1 Pt. Hen. VI. Activ. sc. 7. He [the dwarf] was waspish, arch, and lither lie, But well Lord Cranstoun served he. Scott. Lay of the Last Minstrel, c. 2. LITHOMANCY. Fr. Lithomantie; Gr. Aloos, a stone, and μavтeveσdai, to prophecy, or predict. As strange must be the lithomancy, or divination, from this stone, whereby Helenus the prophet foretold the destruction of Troy.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 3. LITHOTOMY. Į Gr. Λιθοτομια, from, λιθος, LITHO TOMIST. Ja stone, and Teμvev, to cut. This party being troubled with a very great stone in his bladder, and having had it searched by divers lithotomists, before he came to the Spaw, did, by very copiously drinking these waters, find, by a second search made by those artists, that this stone was much diminished the past year. LITIGATE, v. LITIGANT. LITIGATION. LITIGIOUS. LITIGIOUSNEss. To strive or contend; to carry on a strife or contest, (sc. by suit at law ;) to dispute at law, or in courts of law. Of which letigious famelies Heer mapped be the lines, Warner. Albion's England, b. vi. c. 32. And in the field th' ambitious make us fight. Davenant. Gondibert, b. i. c. 1. The cast litigant sits not down with one cross verdict but recommences his suit.--Decay of Christian Piety. Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 198. Fr. Litiger; It. Litigare; Sp. Litigar; Lat. Litigare, from lis, litis, strife; which Vossius thinks formed from elis, and that from the Gr. A.S. Lith; Ger. Lid; 1222 They view'd the ground of Rome's litigious hall: Dryden. Virgil. Æneis, b. viii, Young. Complaint, Night 9. Nothing quells a spirit of litigation like despair of success: therefore nothing so completely puts an end to law-suits, as a rigid adherence to known rules of adjudication. Paley. Moral Philosophy, b. vi. c. 8. But if two presentations be offered to the bishop upon the same avoidance, the church is then said to become litigious; and, if nothing farther be done, the bishop may suspend the admission of either, and suffer a lapse to incur. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iii. c. 16. Here it would be dangerous to have the passion of litigiousness; this supposes a violent desire of obtaining justice, a strong aversion, a hurry of mind, and an obstinacy in pursuing revenge.-Montesquieu. Spirit of Laws, b. vi. c. 2. LITTER, v. Fr. Lictière; It. Lettiera, letLITTER, n. tiga; Sp. Litera; from the Lat. Lectus, a bed or couch. A litter on which persons are carried. Litter for horses, a bed, (sc.) of straw, and hence applied to the straw. To litter,-to strew a bed; to scatter straw; to be brought to bed, (sc.) to be in the straw. A litter of pigs, the number thus brought forth and so, of kittens, &c. : A litter, a scattering, (sc.) of straw, and then, generally, a scattering; a sluttish or slovenly scattering. To litter,-to make such strewing or scattering. They shall brynge all your brethren for an offerynge vnto the Lorde, oute of all people, vpon horses, charettes, and horse lytters.--Bible, 1551. Isaiah, c. 46. And he [Laban] brought lytter and prouander for the camels.-Id. Genesis, c. 24. In littour laid, they led him unkouth wayes. Vncertaine Auctors. Marcus Tullius Ciceroes Death. Mene. I wold they were barbarians, as they are, Though in Rome litter'd: not Romans, as they are not, Though calued i' th' porch o' th' Capitole. Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Act iii. sc. 1. From hence Habington. Castara, pt. ii. To Mr. E. C. Shakespeare, Lear, Act iii. sc. 6. I doe heere walke before thee, like a sow, that hath o'rewhelm'd all her liller, but one. Id. 2 Pt. Hen. IV. Act i. sc. 2. Where they found The room with volumes litter'd round. Swift. Cadenus & Vanessa. When a wood Of litters thick besiege the donor's gate. Dryden. Juvenal, Sat. 2. Profusion, unrestrain'd, with all that's base In character, has litter'd all the land, And bred, within the mem'ry of no few, A priesthood, such as Baal's was of old, A people, such as never was till now.-Cowper. Task. b. i. The light soil gently move, and strew around On beds and litters o'er the margin laid Tooke to be (dle) the A. S. Dal, a deal or part. A little-a small part, or portion, or degree; a small matter. Little, adj.—small, diminutive; (met.) trifling, neonsiderable, mean. Litling, (Chaucer,)—very Alitelle harenesse hathe chaunged some what his colour. The kyngdom of Westsex, he sais, it was not litelle. R. Brunne, p. 8. But what seest thou a litil mote in the yghe of thi brothir, and seest not a beem in thin owne yghe? Wiclif. Matt. c. 7. With many a floite and litling horne. And whosoever shall offende one of these lytelons that elete in me, it were better for hym that a mylstone were langed about hys necke and that he were cast into the sea. Bible, 1551. Mark, c. 9. I upon my frontiers here Keep residence; if all I can will serve LI'VELONG. LIFE. LIFE-FULL. or hereafter.) Wachter) quid enim est vivere, To remain, to continue, to LIV She wolde bring Wortes and other herbes times oft, Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8105. Wel coude he peinten lify that it wrought, Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 2083. Id. Ib. b. vii. daies buiried in the heart of the yearth, & yet contrarie to To gain or procure, to use, employ, manage, or grief.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 77. Breaking thy veines and thy life-stringes w like pain & To be in a state of action or motion, of growth applied— future; to a continued state or condition, manner That hile which is left so to defend.-Milton. P. Lost, b. ii. vivacity, energy; the usual qualities of living To make abridgements, and to draw to lesse, Denne. Letter to the Countess of Salisbury, (1614.) I confess, I love littleness almost in all things, a little These [evils] fate ordains, and heav'ns high will hath sent A form of public devotion; a form of prayer and thanksgiving, to be ministered in public. So that if the liturgies of all ancient churches throughout the world be compared amongst themselves, it may easily perceived that they had one originall mold, and that the e prayers of the people of God in churches throughly ed, did neuer vse to be voluntarie dictates, proceeding ay man's extemporall wit. Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. v. § 25. pics tautologies and impertinences. Yes the time is taken up with a tedious number of beings. Life is much used_prefixed. The Scottes seide, that that lond nolde not y now be That ende heo founden al bare. heo bi leuede there The Brytones in tho South half, and heo in the North. "Myn heye Godes," quoth this mayde, [Gornorille,] "to That y loue more in myn herte thi leue bodi one, For he seide, "thou ne louest me nougt as thi sostren Ac despisest me in myn olde liue.-Id. p. 31. That to the Kyng Egbriht alle were thei gyuen Foure & tuenty gere was he kyng, & thorgh no folie sell called in London for the correccyon of the vicyous lyuynge of Preestes to be done by the Kinges officers. Home for to wend to childe & to wife, Piers Plouhman, p. 3. He answered & sayd; it is writte, man shal not lyue by Milton. Animad, upon Remonstrants' Defence. Surely he will own her in the use of the words he comated, and make her passage easy from her liturgies here, mouth of God.-Bible, 1551. Ib. e above, where they rest not day and night, saying, Hay Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, to come.-Comber. Hist. of Liturgies, c. 9. s. 4. The like may be said of Saint James, if he (as the Roman theth doth in its liturgicks suppose) were an apostle. Liturgies, or preconcerted forms of public devotion, being hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christe fro deathe. Barrow. Of the Pope's Supremacy. Blessid be God and the fadir of oure Lord Jesus Crist which bi his greet merci bigat us agen into lyuynge hope bi the agenrysing of Jesus Crist fro deeth.-Wiclif. 1 Pet. c. 1. The iuyce of it [Loue in Idlenesse] on sleeping eye-lids Will make or man or woman madly dote Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iii. Id. Ib. b. viii. Who stooping op'n'd my left side, and took Donne. The Progress of the Soul. The liuing hart where laie ingraven To countrie liueless is restor'd Holinshed. Chron. of Ireland. Epit. on the Earl of Ormond, I meane liuelie creatures shut vp in the hard stones, and living there without respiration or breathing, as frogs, todes, &c.-Id. Description of England, b. iii. c. 9. My lord, saith he, was never worthy man Drayton. The Owle. Although he were somewhat grosse bellied, yet by reason of a certaine liueliness which was in him, he couered that fault.-Holinshed. The Conquest of Ireland, c. 9. Hadst thou not told me, I should surely say, Bp. Hall, b. iii. Sat. 7. Drummond, pt. i. Son. 26. [Cethegus] at that time bare all the sway and rule at Rome, because he spake and did all that pleased the common people, being a vicious liver, and dissolutely given. North. Plutarch, p. 424. For us, let him enjoy all that God sends, Corbet. rer Boreale. It is the air the whole animal world breathes and liveth by; not only the animals inhabiting the earth and air, but those of the waters too. Without it most animals live scarce half a minute, and others, that are the most accustomed to the want of it, live not without it many days. Derham. Physico-Theology, b. i. c. 1. nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought Our lives, says he, [Seneca,] are spent either in doing to do. Spectator, No. 93. Thus the balance of the animal world is throughout all ages Blackmore. The Creation, b. vii. Its motion and its heat maintains. Swift. The Run upon the Bankers, (1720.) He [Crassus] was able, by means of his riches alone, to counterbalance during his life-time the power of Pompey as well as that of Cæsar, who afterwards became master of the world.-Hume, pt. i. Ess. 7. Statues finished the lifeless spot with mimic representatious of the excluded sons of men. Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iv. c. 7. Mickle. Luciad, b. vii, Mr. Locke has already observed, that intuitive is clearer and more certain than demonstrative knowledge; and this in as far as they differ is unquestionably true; that which is immediately before the senses, impresses us always with the most lively conviction. Beddoes. Observations on Mathematical Evidence. Every person knows how faint the conception is which we form of any thing, with our eyes open, in comparison of what we can form with our eyes shut: and that in proportion as we can suspend the exercise of all our other senses, the liveliness of our conception increases. Stewart. Of the Human Mind, pt. i. c. 5. s. 5. LIVER, n. A. S. Lufer; Dut. Lever; Ger. Leb-er; Sw. Lef-wer; from the A. S. Luf-ian; Dut. Lev-en; Ger. Leb-en; Sw. Lef-wa, to live: because of so great importance to life or animal vitality, (Skinner and Kilian.) And see Ihre and Wachter. Have I nat of a capon but the liver. Chaucer. The Sompnoures Tale, v. 7421. Next followeth the liver, which lyeth on the right side. In that which is called the head of the liver, much variety and difference there is.-Holland. Plinie, b. xi. c. 25. Demon, my friend, once liver-sicke of love, Thus learn'd I by the signes his grief remove. Bp. Hall, b. ii. Sat, 7. The ruthless falchion op'd his tender side, The panting liver pours a flood of gore, That drowns his bosom till he pants no more. Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xx. The liver is fastened in the body by two ligaments; the first, which is large and strong, comes from the covering of the diaphragm, and penetrates the substance of the liver; the second is the umbilical vein which, after birth, degenerates into a ligament.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 11. LIVERY, n.Į Fr. Livrée; It. Livrea; Sp. LIVERY, V. Librea; Low Lat. Liberatio; (see in Spelman ;) from the Fr. Livrer, to deliver: to the origin of this word (says Junius) these words of Chaucer allude: "that is the conisance LIVERY, i.e. Delivery, (qv.) See the quo- Therefore inclyning to his goodly reason, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 4. A. S. Hlad-an; Dut. and Ger. Lad-en; Sw. Ladda, onerare; from the Goth. Lag-yan, A. S. Lecg-an, ponere, to lay; "the participle lag-ed, or that had offended him, that he might punish him accord-lag'd, (dismissing the sound of the g,) becomes lad ingly.-North. Plutarch, p. 120. What livery is, wee by common use in England knew I am denyde to sue my liuerie here, Shakespeare. Rich. II. Act i. sc. 2. Our little Cupid hath sued livery Donne. Eclogue, Dec. 26, 1613. When the male heir arrived at the age of twenty-one, or the heir female to that of sixteen, they might sue out their livery, or ousterlemain, that is, the delivery of their lands out of their guardian's hands.--Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 5. LIVID. } Fr. Livide, lividité; It. Livido, lividezza; Lat. Lividus, (of unknown etymology,) the same, says Vossius, as plumbeus, leaden. Fr. Lividité,Lividity, the colour appearing upon a stroake, black and blue; a dead, earthy, leaden hew, (Cotgrave.) It was a pestilent feuer but as it seemeth not seated in the May the clouds frown, and livid poisons breathe, of my livery, to all my servants delivered." And in the middle of it.-Wiseman. Surgery, b. vi. c. 1. The clothes, and food also, delivered and distributed by masters to their servants; now, to the clothes or marks upon the clothes, by which the servants of one master may be distinguished from those of another. More generally, the clothing, garb, or dress. To livery, To clothe or deck in livery; to clothe or deck. The liverymen of London are those freemen who are entitled to wear the livery of their respective companies. To London for to com, whan parlement suld be, An Haberdasher, and a Carpenter, A Webbe, a Deyer, and a Tapiser, Chaucer. Prologue, v. 365. Shakespeare. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act ii. sc. 2. So dear to Heaven is saintly Chastity, A thousand liveried angels lackey her.-Milton. Comus. Pope. Epilogue to the Satires. Mallet. The Excursion, c. 1. The signs of a tendency to such a state [the atrabilarian] He [Benedetto] imitated his uncle's extravagantly dark See ELIXATE. Statuo, (says LIXI'VIATED. The lixivial, of which the two former are produced, some- (a broad) or load; and though weight is subaud. and therefore implied in the word lond, yet weight is not load, until cuivis impositum," (Tooke.) See And these are also vncleane to you amonge the thingis Look-see, behold, observe, mark. LADE. To lay or put on, to impose (a weight or burden); to put in, to take in, that which is to be borne or carried, (sc.) the cargo, the freight, the charge; to burthen; to oppress. Of stre first ther was laied many a lode. Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2919. I haue lien streaking me like a lubber, when the sunne did shine, and now I striue all in vaine to lode the cart when it raineth.--Gascoigne. To Lord Gray of Wilton. The army which besieged it (consisting of Catti, Vsipij and Matiaci) was alreadie departed away loaden with spoiles. Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 158. Thus my lorde continued at Asher vntill Candlemas, against which feast the king caused to be sent to my L. three or foure cart lodes of stuff, as bedding, &c. Slow. Hen. VIII. an. 1527. The Frenchman did it out of covetousness, that so two loaders might bring double grist to his mill. Fuller. Worthies. Cornwall. Deiphobus to seize his helmet flies, Pope, Homer. Iliad, b. xii. A pair so wretched is not to be found Dryden. Palamon & Arcite. Id. Juvenal, Sat. 6. Arg LOAF. Goldsmith. The Traveller. Ger. Laib, leib; Sw. Lef; A. S. Hlaf, (a broad,) the past part. of hlif-ian, to raise; in Mæso-Goth. Hlaibs, the past part. of hleib-yan, to raise, to lift up; after the bread or brayed grain has been wetted, (by which it becomes dough,) then follows the leaven, by which it becomes loaf, (i. e. raised.) (See Tooke, ii. 157.) The Ger. Laib, leib, shows its immediate descent from the Mæso-Goth., and the Sw. Lef from the A. S. Loaf is, A raised mass of bread, of sugar, &c. R. Gloucester, p. 589. App. Piers Plouhman, p. 155. Some expert Pope. Moral Essays, Epist. 3. To raise from leaven'd wheat the kneaded loaf. And so into the lomes of meth and tubs of brine and other ar he bestowed the parts of the dead carcasses of his brother's seruants.-Holinshed. Hist. of England, b.viii. c. 7. Cover the bare place, somewhat above and below, with lame well tempered with horse dung, binding it fast down. Bacon. Naturell Historie, § 427. And if it want binding [mix] a little loamy earth. Evelyn. Kalendarium Hortense. May. The joist ends and girders which be in the walls must be loomed all over to preserve them from the corroding of the Data-Mezon. Mechanical Exercises. If thy strong loam superfluous wet retain, Lead through thy fields the subterraneous drain, And o'er the surface mellowing stores expand Offery lime, or incoherent sand. Scot. Amabæan Eclogues, Ecl. 2. "Midst thy paternal acres, farmer, say Has gracious heav'n bestow'd one field that basks Its leamy bosom in the mid-day sun, Emerging gently from the abject vale L Ner yet obnoxious to the wind, secure There shalt thou plant thy hop. Smart. The Hop Garden, b. i. LOAN. Goth. Luun; A. S. Lan; Dut. Loon; Ger. Lon; Sw. Loan. The past part. of the A. 8. verb, Hlan-an, lan-an, to lene or lend. See LEND. That which, any thing which, is lent. They may now, God be thanked for his lone, Maken hir jubilee, and walke alone. Chaucer. The Sompnoures Tale, v. 7443. LOB The life is long, that lothsomely doth last, Skelton. Duke of Albany and the Scotts. Vncertaine Auctors. M. T. Ciceroes Death. So that it being unpossible to amend one fault with a And lothefull idlenes he doth detest, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 7. That round about her iawes one might descry Also in ye same Parliament, he obtained againe of the tiergy and religious persons a loane of money. Stow. Edw. I. an. 1294. a. the sum of an 1001. of each of the persons, whose ames be contained in a schedule here enclosed. Strype. Memorials. Queen Mary, an. 1557. When Pope has fill'd the margins round, Why then recall your loan; Sell thera to Curll for fifty pound, And swear they are your own Swift. Advice to the Grub Street Verse-Writers. The general statement of account was brought forward December 7th [1795] when Mr. Pitt proposed a loan of 18 ns, exclusive of a vote of credit for two millions and a tall-Beisham, Geo. III. an. 1795. LOATHE, v. LOATH, adj. LOATHFUL. LOATHING, n. LOATHLY, adj. LOATHLY, ad. LOATHLINESS. LOATHNESS. LOATHSOME. LOATHSOMELY. LOATHSOMENESS. To hate, to hold or keep LATHE. detestation, or abhorrence; to detest, to abhor; in, to look at with, hatred, feel disgust, dislike, or reluctance, at or towards; to be backward or unwilling. See LooBy for an example from Piers Plouhman. The duke wrote to the kyng, in luf withouten loth. R. Brunne, p. 69. He othe wt hym, that. hulde nougt wt treuthe Piers Plouhman, p. 18. Thou that wlatist mawmetis doist sacrilegie. Wiclif. Romaynes, c. 2. "My rightful lady," quod this woful man, Whom I most drede, and love as I best can And that were of all this world displease." Like a stomach, surcharg'd with foul, or poisonous matter, But, that continued, would a loathing give, Congreve. Juvenal, Sat. 11. Thomson. Castle of Indolence, c. 1. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 4. Selden. Illustrations Tickell. The Lordling. The plot of the farce was a grammar school, the master setting his boys their lessons, and a loobily country fellow putting in for a part among the scholars.-L'Estrange. Cawthorn. Letter to a Clergyman. We've given you tragedies, all sense defying, Dryden, Prol. 29 Yet their wine and their victuals these curmudgeon Lock up from my sight in cellars and cupboards. Or if the garden with its many cares Cowper. Task, b. iii. Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xxxiv. Lob, n. looby, and lubber, appear to be merely words of consequential usage, from the verb to lob, To drop or let fall or depend (as a lap or lappet) inertly, whether from weariness laziness; and to be thus ap or Chaucer. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 11,625. lumpish, dull or stupid person. An inert or inactive, lazy or sluggish, heavy or Merdre is so clatsome, and ahhominable God, that is so just and resonable, That he ne wol not suffre it hylled be. Id. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 15,060. Ime forvete hir lefe ne loth. Fer ouer all where as she goth, Kya berte foloweth hir aboute. Gower. Con. 4. b. iv. Egeniall brands and bed me lothed not, ves as it were the myrrour of man's life, expressinge ally they that do write maters historicall, the lesson , and (as it were at the eyen) the beautie of vertue the deformytie and lothelynes of vice. Sir T. Elgot. The Governour, b. iii. c. 24. And hure wenches after If you finde him not this moneth, you shall nose him as Grete lobies and longe, and loth were to swynke. And though you thinke it lubber-like to leese Een doctours allege diuers causes of his heauines and it good, rich, and fertile, it should want for no praises; and Bion therefore was hut a very lob and foole in saying thus: a at yt time to depart & die. TOL. IL Sir T. More. Workes, p. 316. tilling and doing worke about it.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 80. 1225 Id. 2 Pt. Hen. VI. Act iv. sc. 1. No more, with plaint, or suit importunate, Jago. Edge Hill, b. ii. But if by habeas corpus or otherwise, he [a tyger] was to come into the lobby of the house of commons whilst your door was open, any of you would be more stout than wise. who would not gladly make your escape out of the back window.-Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 1. LOBE. Lobes du foye, the lobes of the liver;— from the Gr. Aoßos, (Menage,) the lower part (oi the ear,) the outer part (of the liver;) that by which we take hold (of the ear, &c.) from Aaß-ELV, to take. Cotgrave calls it the lap, or lowest part of the ear, the lappet of the liver. Also the lobes of a leaf, seed, &c. 'Tis plain, this lobe is so unsound.-Parnell. Book-worm. A pea or bean being committed to the ground. is first found to cleave into two parts, which are as it were two leaves or lobes of the Placenta. Miller. Gardener's Dictionary, in v. Seed. The heart lies on the left side; a lobe of the lungs on the right; balancing each other, neither in size nor shape. Paley. Natural Theology, c. 11. When these parts are touched by the legs of flies, the two lobes of the leaf instantly spring up, the rows of the prickles lock themselves fast together and squeeze the unwary animal to death.-Smellie. Phil. of Nat. Hist. vol. i. p. 5. LOBSTER. A. S. Loppestre, lopust it is called by Chaucer simply the loppe; and has its name from the verb, to leap :-the leap or spring of the lobster is noted by naturalists. From this signet (as it seemeth) there comen croked strikes, like to the clawes of a loppe.-Chaucer. Astrolabie. As for the lobsters, they love rockes and stonie places. Holland. Plinie, b. ix. c. 31. The fame of so great a man's coming [Apicius] had landed before him, and all the fishermen sailed out to meet him, and presented him with their fairest lobsters. King. Art of Cookery The teeth of lobsters work one against another, like the sides of a pair of shears.-Paley. Nat. Theology, c. 12. |