Local is an adjective, which we have borrowed from the Latin, without borrowing the noun. Of or pertaining to place. The most sure word of the Lord to shew his humanitie to be locall (that is to say, contained in one place onely) dyd say vnto his disciples, I asced vnto my father. Fryth. Workes, fol. 140. If in prose and religion it were as justifiable, as in poetry and fiction, to invoke a local power (for anciently both Jews and Gentiles, and Christians have supposed to every country a singular genius) I would therein join with the author. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 1. Selden. Illustrations. It destroyes the truth of Christ's humane bodie, in that it ascribes quantitie to it, without extension, without localitie. Bp. Hall. The Old Religion, s. 3. O Saviour, whiles thou now sittest gloriously in heaven, thou dost no lesse impart thyselfe unto us, then if thou stoodst visibly by us, then if we stood locally by thee; no place can make difference of thy vertue and ayde. Id. Cont. Lazarus Raised. Come then, thou sister Muse, from whom the mind Mason. The English Garden, b. i. A lot of earth so singularly located, as marks it out by Providence to be the emporium of plenty and the asylum of peace.-Observer, No. 21. We found ourselves involved in columns of thick smoke, which were not of the most grateful odour in the world: I confess I was not a little surprised at the location of this flaming nuisance.-Id. No. 58. a LOCHE, or Fr. Loch, lohoc. Loch, Lо'HOс. liquid confection or soft medicine, that's not to be swallowed, but held in the mouth untill it have melted, and so past by degrees down the throat. Lohoc,- -an electuary, or medicine more liquid than an electuary, appropriated to the lungs and windpipe, and to be licked, and let down the throat by leisure, (Cotgrave.) See LINGENCE, and the quotation from Fuller: also ELECTUARY, and the quotation from Holland's Pliny. LOCK, v. In A. S. Loc, the regular past Lock, n. part. of lyc-an, obserare, claudere, to shut, to close. Goth. Luk-an; Dut. Luyken, lok-en. See BLOCK. To close, to shut in, to fasten, a lock; that which closes or fastens, holds fast, encloses or confines. & the doren after hom wepinde loke vaste. R. Gloucester, p. 495. I trow thou woldest locke me in thy chest. Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 5899. Thus whan he [Auarice] hath his cofer loken, It shall not after ben vnstoken, But whan he list to haue a sight Of golde, howe that it shineth bright.-Gower. Con. A. b.v. Though I departe, he woll not so, There is no locke maie shet hym out.-Id. Ib. And went unto the dore To enter in, but found it locked fast. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 12. Etymologists are almost unanimous for a Greek No gate so strong, no locke so firme and fast, Her golden lockes she roundly did uptye In braded tramels, that no looser heares Did out of order stray about her daintie eares. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 2. His amber-colour'd locks in ringlets run, With graceful negligence, and shone against the sun. Dryden. Palamon & Arcite. But let him weep, him wretched must we call, Whom lovely locks and sparkling eyes enthrall, Where beauty serves but as a treacherous blind To hide each vice that taints the female mind. Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xv. LOCOMOTION. LO'COMOTIVE. to move. They [the Jews] were lock'd under the discipline of childish rudiments, suiting their raw capacities, and under the bondage of slavish yokes, befitting their stubborn dispositions.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 43. First he expounded both his pockets Hudibras, pt. ii. c. 3. Lat. Locus, a place, and Smotio, from movere, motum, Motion from place to place. Now all progression or animal locomotion being (as Aristotle teacheth) performed tractu and pulsu; that is, by drawing on, or impelling forward some part which was before in station, or at quiet.-Brown. Vulg. Err. b. iii. c. 1. I shall consider their motion, or locomotive faculty, whereby they convey themselves from place to place, according to their occasions, and way of life. Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iv. c. 8. The lower limb, forming a part of the column of the body: having to support the body, as well as to be the means of its locomotion; firmness was to be consulted, as well as action. Paley. Natural Theology, c. 8. The loco-motive mania of an Englishman circulates his person, and of course his cash, into every quarter of the kingdom. Observer, No. 85. LO'CUST. Fr. Langouste; Sp. Langosta; It. Locusta; Lat. Locusta. Vossius prefers the etymology of Perottus;-ex locus and ustus, quod tactu multa urat, morsu vero omnia erodat. Locustical, in Byrom, is coined for the occasion. Warner. Albion's England, b. x. c. 45. As the scorch'd locusts from their fields retire, Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xxi. Diodorus and Strabo, Solinus and Ælian, Id. Ib. the stone that leads, guides, or directs. Loadstar. -Dut. Leyd-sterre, the star that leads, guides, or directs. G. Douglas calls it Lade-sterne. Lodemanage is used as equivalent to pilotage; but, as Mr. Tyrwhitt observes, it would have been more English to have said lodemanship, as seamanship, by adding an English rather than a French termination to an English word. -Tho' all to a man, Speech; mode or manner of speech. Under the shadowe of figurate locution is his glorye of the Scarce could I dignify their woes in verse, LODE. LO'DESMAN. LO'DEMANAGE. LODESTAR. LODESTONE. Shupmen now. and other witty puple Asking hem anon Chaucer. The Legend of Hipsiphile & Medea. At euery hauen they can ariue, Where as they wote is good passage, Of innocence they can not striue, Chaucer. A Ballad. Women. Their Doubleness. Who seeth you now, my right lodesterre? When they light vpon a smal veine, or chance to leese the load which they wrought, by means of certaine strings that may hap to crosse it, they begin at another place neere-hand, and so drawe by gesse to the main load againe. Carew. Suruey of Cornwall, fol. 10. Black stormes and fogs are blowen up from farre, That now the pylote can no loadstarre see. Spenser. Virgil. Gnat. Now that I am to passe from marbles, to the singular and admirable natures of other stones; who doubteth but the magnet or loadstone will present it self in the first place! for is there any thing more wonderfull, and wherein nature hath more travelled to show her power, than in it. Holland. Plinie, b. xiii. c. 10. Two magnets, heaven and earth, allure to bliss; The larger loadstone that, the nearer this: The weak-attraction of the greater fails, We nod a while, but neighbourhood prevails. Dryden. The Ilind and the Panther. LODGE, v. Anciently written to logge. LODGE, n. A. S. Loggian, ge-loggian, to LO'DGEMENT. place, to lay up, to put up, LO'DGER. to dispose. Somner, proLO'DGING, n. bably formed upon the A.S. Lecg-an, to lie, or lay. To place or station, to lay up or deposit, to put up, to dispose, to repose; to give or yield a place or station, dwelling, resting, or abiding place; to harbour, to shelter; to dwell, abide, or reside. And furst the toke hure logging in the castelle of Arundelle. Whenne King Stephne hurde hereof, sone he thedur came.-R. Gloucester, p. 451. Note, & comen ere the Inglis with panel and tent, & loged tham right well. R. Brunne, p. 182. Thar loges & thare tentis vp thei gan bigge.-Id. p. 67. Wel sikerer was his crowing in his loge, Than is a clok, or any abbey orloge. Chaucer. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 14,895. And eche of hem goth to his hostelrie, Fer in a yerd with oxen of the plough.-Id. Ib. v. 1501. Within the mount of God, fast by his throne, Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi. So to the Silvan lodge Lewis. Statius. Thebaid, b. xi. Now more commonly written load. Lode (in Cornwall) is the name given to the vein, that leads in the mine; or the leading vein. Lodesman, LOCK. Ger. Lock; A. S. Loca, locca, loccas, A. S. Lad-man, ductor, dux, a leader or guide, a flocci, tomenta, locks of wool or flocks, of some pilot, a ringleader; Dut. Leydsman. Load-stone, of the king's officers) lodgable. Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xviii. called lucks; also locks of hair, foretops, (Somner.) q.d. lapis-ductorius, a leading-stone, (Somner;) 1226 At the furthest end of the town eastward, the ambassa dour's house was appointed, but not yet (by default of some Sir J. Finett. Philox, (1656,) p. 164. But therewithall a prattling parrot skips Logger-head, Drayton. The Owl. (Skinner.) About the private lodging of his peers. Tra. Where we were lodgers, at the Pegasus. Shakespeare. Taming of the Shrew, Act iv. sc. 4. All glands) are lodged in the most convenient places about the month and throat, to afford that noble, digestive, salival to be mixed with the food in mastication, and to maren and lubricate the passages, to give an easy descent to the food.-Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iv. c. 11. The fatal lodge, as 'twere by chance, she seeks, Crozall. Ovid. Metam. b. vi. By this you do both quit the part of its troublesome lodger balet) and withall make way commodiously for discharge of matter.-Wiseman. Surgery, b. vi. c. 3. With his broad spear, the dread of dogs and men, Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xiv. The peculiar conformation of the bill, and tongue, and cay of the woodpecker, determines that bird to scratch for his food amongst the insects lodged behind the bark, or in the wood of decayed trees.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 5. Having got acquainted with the Duke of Athol, at a lodge of free masons, he [Davison] painted his grace's picture and presented it to the society. Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iv. c. 3. Lodging is not only much cheaper in London than in Paris; it is much cheaper than in Edinburgh, of the same degree of goodness; and what may seem extraordinary, the derness of house-rent is the cause of the cheapness of lodg -Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i. c. 10. Thirdly, it was necessary that these tubes, which we denate lacteals, or their mouths at least, should be made is narrow as possible, in order to deny admission into the bond to any particle, which is of size enough to make a dgment afterwards in the small arteries, and thereby to struct the circulation.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 10. LOFT. See ALOFT. From the verb to lift, (qv.) Lofty, (met.)— mente sublatus, says Skinner. A LOFTINESS. loft, noun,— Any thing (room, floor, &c.) lifted, raised, or elerated. Lafty,-raised, elevated, exalted; (met.) aughty, proud, sublime. And ye, my moder, my souveraine plesance Over all thing, (out taken Crist on loft.) LOG -a head hard, and thick as a log, Ille bear your logges the while: pray giue me that, Did these bones cost no more the breeding, but to play at B. Jonson. Tale of a Tub, Act iv. sc. 4. But you in the mean time, you silly loggerhead, deserve You logger-headed and vnpolisht groomes: Am I this patient logge-man.-Id. Tempest, Act iii. sc. 1. Beaum. & Fletch. The Prophetess, Act i. sc. 3. Dryden. Ovid. Met. b. viii. I did here for my own satisfaction, try the swiftness of With active leap at last upon his back they stride. LO'GIC. LO'GICAL. LOGICALLY. LOGICIAN. Somervile, Fab. 10. Fr. Logique; It. and Sp. Logica; Lat. Logica; Gr. AoʻyikN, from Aoy-os, and that from Aey f from Aoy-os, and tha It is the province of grammar to teach the etymology, and manner of signification of words; And thou shalte make it with iii toffes one above another reasoning:-It will thus embrace science and and of logic, to teach the use of words in general Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tale, v.4697. Bible, 1551. Genesis, c. 6. In neyther fortune loft, nor yet represt, Surrey. Of the Death of Sir T. W. My lowly verse may loftily arise, Spenser. Faerie Queene. And the hautines of men shal be broght lowe, and the en of men shal be abased: and the Lord shal onely be exited in that day.-Geneva Bible, 1561. Isaiah, ii. 17. The stage had three lofts one aboue another wherein were cutanes of marble.-Hakewill. Apologie, b. iv. c. 8. s.2. Ambrosius (who alone of the Romans remained yet aliue, was king after Vortigerne) kept vnder and staied the tartarous people, that is to say the Saxons, by the aae aid and assistance of the valiant Arthur. Holished. History of England, vol. i. c. 14. p. 579. art: science, or knowledge; and art, or power or Logyk ich lerede hure.-Piers Plouhman, p. 189. Betwene the trouth and the falshede The pleyne wordes for to shede.-Gower. Con. A. b. vii. LOI I argue thus: the world agrees Writes best, who never thinks at all. Prior. Epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Bare lies with bold assertions they can face; Dryden. The Hind and the Panther. The honest man employs his wit as correctly as his logic. Warburton. Dedication to the Free-Thinkers, (1738) A process of logical reasoning has been often likened to a chain supporting a weight. Stewart. Of the Human Mind, vol. ii. c. 1. s. 1. Even when one proposition in natural philosophy is logically deducible from another, it may frequently be expedient, in communicating the elements of the science, to illustrate and confirm the consequence, as well as the prin ciple, by experiment.-Id. Ib. c. 2. s. 3. LOGOGRIPH. Gr. Aoyos, speech, and ypios, rete, a net; and, consequentially, quæstio ænigmatica, An enigmatical question, a puzzle, a riddle. Bp. Hall, b. iv. Sat. 1 LOGOMACHY. Fr. Logomachie; It. and Sp. Logomachia; Lat. Logomachia; Gr. Aoyouaxia, from Aoy-os, speech, and μuxn, fight or contention. contention. A dispute about words; a verbal dispute, or liturgies in "other reformed churches," which you say do As for the difference, which is pretended in the use of "use liturgies, but do not binde their ministers to the use of them," it will prove no better than a meer logomachy. Bp. Hall. Answer to Smectymnuus's Vindication. LO'GOTHETE. Gr. Λογοθετης, λόγος, and Berns, from T1000α, to put or place, to dispose. For the application, see the example. thete, or accountant, was applied to the receivers of the In the ancient system of Constantine, the name of logofinances: the principal officers were distinguished as the and public treasure; and the great logothete, the supreme Logothetes of the domain, of the posts, the army, the private chancellor of the Latin Monarchies. guardian of the laws and revenues, is compared with the Gibbon. Roman Empire, c. 53. Ger. Lende, lenden; Fr. Longe; It. Longia, lonza; LOIN. Anciently written Lende. Dut. and Lendena, perhaps from the A. S. verb Hlion-an; all from the Lat. Lumbi, says Skinner. In A. S. Ger. Len-en, to lean, niti, reclinare, recumbere, quia in lumborum extrema reclinamus sedentes. Martinius, (in Wachter.) girdle of skyn about his leendis.—Wiclif. Matthew, c. 3. And this Jon hadde clothing of camel's heris, and a Thys John had hys garmēt of camel's heere, and a gyrdle of a skinne about his loynes.-Bible, 1551. Ib. A barme-cloth eke as white as morwe milk Upon hire lendes, full of many a gore. Chaucer. The Milleres Tale, v. 3238. Yea, and kynges shall come out of thy loynes. Bible, 1551. Gen. c. 35. He named a parcell of Armorica lieng on the south, and in manner vpon the verie loine after his own name. Holinshed. The History of England, b. ii. c. 5. He [George Bourchier] was the third sonne to John Earle of Bath, whose ancestors were descended from out of the loines of kings, and men of great honour and nobility. Id. The Chronicles of Ireland, an. 1571. See, see the injur'd prince, and bless his name, Olway. Epilogue, April 21, 1682. But they are put off by the names of vertues, and natures, Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 98. This clause of being a meet-help would show itself so Jest to life. The Goth. Lag-yon; As 10 idly, lazily; to pass or spend the time idly. necessary, and so essential in that demonstrative argument, dilatory, to retard, to delay; to move, to act To be or cause to be slow or lazily, inactively. LOGGERHEADED. IGMAN. se it ligs or lies unmoved. Tooke refers to might have added), to lig, Lan to lay. Lecgan is but another way of naturally and perpetually is no meet-help, can be no wife. liggan. Any thing that lies or is laid; inert, motionless, ary, lampish. Milton. Doctrine of Divorce, b. ii. c. 9. First. like a right cunning and sturdy logician, he denies my argument, not mattering whether in the major or minor. Id. Colasterion. Tell the Trojan prince, That now in Carthage loytereth, rechlesse Of the towns graunted him by destany. Liuing like idle loitreers & verai dranes.-Udal, Pref. [Such as] did set tribute on the quieter sort, and did compell the common people to minister sustenance to those idle loiterers.-Holinshed. The Historie of Scotland, an. 1428. The gouernor saw how hard it was to reduce them that had beene brought vp in slouthfull loitering, vnto honest exercise. Id. Ib. an. 1331. [We must] proceed on speedily, and persist constantly; no where staying or loitering.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 15. The loiterers quake, no corner hides them, Swift. The Country Life. All that such a loiterer can possibly want, are a convenient postchaise, a letter of credit, and a well furnished trunk. Eustace. Italy, vol. i. Prel. Dis. LOLL, v. To loll out one's tongue, (i. e.) LILL, v. Sexerere linguam, perhaps from the Dut. Lelle, lelleken van de tongde, pars linguæ anterior, to thrust forth the front part of the tongue, (Skinner.) To loll appears to mean, generally, To hang or depend upon, to lean upon or against; to hang from, as the tongue from the mouth. Swift (Cantata) uses the word lolloping, which may yet be heard in vulgar speech. And as a letherene pors. lolled his chekus. And lilled forth his bloody flaming tong. 97. Piers Plouhman, p. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 5. With his loll'd tongue he faintly licks his prey. Dryden. Annus Mirabilis. Lollardy, the doctrines of Reformers, called Lollards, who derived their name from one Walter Lolhard, a German, who flourished about the year 1315. (See Spelman and Junius.) Kilian suggests a different origin; but appears to stand alone in his opinion. Att his [Henry V.] begynnyng verament Chaucer. The Shipmannes Tale, v. 12,914. This new secte of lollardie.-Gower. Con. A. Prol. John Wickliffe had by his doctrine won many disciples unto him, (who after were called Lollards) professing poverty, going barefoot and poorly clad in russet. Baker. Chronicle. Edw. III. Affairs of the Church. When the eyes of the Christian world began to open, and the seeds of the Protestant religion (though under the opprobrious name of lollardy) took root in this kingdom. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. c. 4. LONDONER. A native or inhabitant of London. Londonism, (a word used, and probably invented, by Mr. Pegge,)—the idiomatic speech of Londoners. The town me cleputh Lude's town, that ys wyde cowth; mouth.-R. Gloucester, p. 44. The king hearing of this his demeanor, was so highly offended withall, that he sent to the Londoners, willing them to go thither and fetch him to his presence. Holinshed. Hen. III. an. 1232. To confine myself to the subject-which is, to shew that the humble and accepted dialect of London, the Londonisms as I may call them, are far from being reproachable in themselves, however they may appear to us not born within the sound of Bow-bells.-Pegge. Anec. of the English Language. LONE. LO'NESOMENESS. From alone, that is, all one; one being all. Solitary or single, unaccompanied, deserted; without society or company. A 100 marke is a long one, for a poore lone woman to Or let my lamp, at midnight hour, With thrice great Hermes.-Millon. Il Penseroso. It is not good for man to be alone. Hitherto all things He adds, "If of court-life you know the good, Donne, Sat. 4. So though thy love sleepe in eternall night, Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. s. 4. More. Pre-existence of the Soul, s. 49. Trees bounded their sight to the breadth of the river and All these evils now prey upon this once noble capital, The widow bird Wanders in lonesome shades, forgets her food, LONG, v. See BELONG. A. S. Leng-ian; To reach, to attain, to appertain. It longed to William, that tyme felle him that cas. Betwene the vertue and the vice But he me first through pride and puissance strong, LONG, v. LO'NGING, n. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 2. Boy. It's all long on you, I could not get my part a night Shakespeare. Antony & Cleopatra, Act v. sc. 2. Id. Taming of the Shrew, Act i. sc. 1. Dryden. Annus Mirabilis, s. 233. But when to give our minds a feast indeed, Otway. Epistle to Mr. Duke. Dryden. Virgil. Eneis, b. ix Fawkes. Theocritus, Idyl 14. LONG, adj. Churchill. The Apology. Goth. Lagg, (pronounced lang;) A. S. Lany, long; Dut. Langh, lanck; Ger. Lang; Fr. Long; Sw. Long; It. Lungo; Sp. Luengo; Lat. Longus. Wachter derives from langen, trahere; and Tooke asserts lang or long to be the preterperfect of the A. S. verb Leng-ian, to long, to make long, to lengthen, to stretch out, to produce; and that no other derivation can be found for Lat. Longus;-Long, i. e. extended, is opposed to short; i. e. shear'd or sher'd, cut off. See LENGTH. Long is much used-prefixed. Long-ævous,-long-aged; long-lived. And deme ye long abiding of oure Lord Iesu Crist your heelthe.-Wiclif. 2 Petir, c. 3. And suppose that the longe sufferynge of ye Lorde is saluacyon.-Bible, 1551. Ib. A. S. Langian; Ger. Langen; Sw. Langia. The same word as the preceding, differently applied. "When we consider (says Tooke) that we express a moderate desire And she gan wepen ever lenger the more. Chaucer. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 17,772. for any thing, by saying that we incline (i. e. bend ourselves) to it; will it surprise us that we should The thirde partye shal contayne diuers tables, of longitudes express an eager desire by saying that we long, and latitudes of sterres, fixe in the astrolabie. i. e. make long, lengthen, or stretch ourselves after Id. The Conclusions of the Astrolabie. it, for it? especially when we observe, that after But who hath seene a lampe begyn to fade, Whiche lacketh oyle to feede his lyngring lyght, the verb to incline we say to or towards; but after And then againe whoso hath seene it made, the verb to long, we must use either the word for With oyle and weecke to last the longsome night. or after, in order to convey our meaning." The Gascoigne. Dan Bartholomew of Bathe. It will soon put us either to shame, or at least to consider quotation from Dryden singularly combines the literal and metaphorical usage. whether there be no command in our religion, of suffering injuries, of patience, of longanimity, of forgiveness, of doing good for evil.-Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. iii. c. 2. To lengthen, to stretch or reach out for, (with earnestness, with eagerness;) and, consequentially, to desire eagerly, to wish for earnestly. A long on me, long on you, are equivalent to See ALONG. produced by me, produced by you. 1228 It had overcome the patience of Job as it did the meeknesse of Moses, and would surely have mastered any, but the longanimity and lasting sufferance of God. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. i. c. 3. We shall single out the deer: upon concession a long-lived animal, and in long-ævity by many conceived to attain unto hundreds-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 9. But Nineveh, which authours acknowledge to have exteeded Babylon, was of a longilateral figure, ninety-five farings broad, and an hundred and fifty long and so making about sixty miles in circuit.-Id. Cyrus' Garden, c. 2. The villany of this Christian exceeded the persecution of heathens, whose inalice was never so longimanous as to reach the soul of their enemies; or to extend unto the exile of their elysiums.-Id. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 19. [Cedar wood) is longerous, and an evergreen; and of evergreens best scented; and by its procerity, with the erect and regular position of its cones and branches, of all, the most beautiful; and the fairest instance of the perfection of vegetable life.-Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. iv. c. 8. Which [obstinate sinners] despised the goodnesse, patience, and long sufferance of God, when hee called them continually to repentance.-Common Prayer. Commination. Or that his long-yearn'd life Were quite spun out.-B. Jonson, Ep. 42. On Giles & Jone. They have had so little mercy on him as to put him to the peanance of their long-some volume. Bp. Hall. Defence of the Humble Remonstrance, s. 1. In the beginning of the world, and so after Noah's flood, the longevity of men, as it was of absolute necessity to the mere speedy peopling of the new world, so is a special instance of the divine providence in this matter. Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iv. c. 10. Pope Leo himself saw that longinquity of region [longuinpa regiones] doth cause the examination of truth to become Oper dilatory-Barrow. Of the Pope's Supremacy. In algebra, we may proceed with perfect safety through the longest investigations, without carrying our attention beyond the signs, till we arrive at the last result. Stewart. Of the Human Mind, c. 4. s. 2. Oh! longerity, coveted by all who are advancing towards thee, cursed by all who have attained thee; railed at by the The betrayed by them who consult thee, and well spoken by no one.-Observer, No. 144. Mine, legs] spindling into longitude immense, la spite of gravity, and sage remark That I myself am but a fleeting shade, Provoke me to a smile. Cowper. Task, b. v. None of them, however, has taken any notice of the insible transitions by which it [the word interval] came successively to be employed in a more enlarged sense; first, express a limited portion of longitudinal extension in eneral; and afterwards limited portions of time as well as space-Stewart. Philosophical Essays, pt. i. Ess. 1. c. 1. To withstand the bones being pulled asunder longitudaily, or in the direction of that line, a strong membrane Tans from one end of the chain to the other. Paley. Natural Theology, c. 8. Here from the labours of the longsome way LOO, v. Loo, n. A game at cards. En mighty Pam, that kings and queens o'erthrew, Sal found her deep-laid schemes were vain- Methinks, old friend, 'tis wondrous true, Id. Ib. LOOF, or Dut. Loeven, to ply to windward, wind, (see LEE,) from the A. S. Hlif-ian, to rise or de loef hebben, to sail before the ise. The loof of a ship, Skinner says, is, q.d. pars navis suprema, the loftiest part of the ship. The viceadmirall of the Spaniards being a greater ship Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 589. Por having mountaines of fleeting yce on enery side, we Vent roomer for one, and loofed for another, some scraped vs and some happily escaped vs.-Id. Ib. vol. iii. p. 65. Now Publicola seeing Agrippa put forth his left wing of Car's armey to compass in Antonius ships that fought, te was driven also to loof off to have moor room, and to go Title at one side, to put those farther off that were afraid, and in the middest of the battle.-North. Plutarch, p. 778. LOO The Spaniards seeing, & hauing not forgotten the fight which she made the night before, they loofed vp into the middest of their fleet againe.-North. Plutarch, p. 778. Stand to your tackle, mates, and stretch your oars : Now it freshens, set the braces, LOOK, v. Look, n. Lo'OKER. LOOKING, n. To appear or seem, or cause to appear or seem; to have or take the appearance, the aspect. to words derived from the compounds of the Lat. To look (with prepositions) is used as equivalent Specere; e. g. A looking about,-circumspection, vigilance. examine, to search into, to investigate. ward,-retrospect. Hour Louerd myd ys eyen of milce on the loketh theruore. R. Brunne, p. 36. Id. p. 86. & askid if thei wild stand to ther lokyng. Chaucer. Prologue to Sire Thopas, v. 13,624. Id. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 5473. With that hir loke on me she cast. Id. Ib. Whilest Antonius thus negligentlie looked to his charge, the Britons began a new rebellion. Holinshed. The Historie of England, b. iv. c. 22. His o'er-grown haire he from that sacred face Shaues not, nor will in his sad lookes embrace One ioy since first that wicked warre begunne. May. Lucan, b. ii. It vertue had to shew in perfect sight Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 2. But to goe through in this place with all things concerntin and brasse tempered together. ing such looking-glasses, the best knowne in old time unto our auncesters, came from Brindis, and those consisted of Holland. Plinie, b. xxxiii. c. 9. At length I wak'd, and looking round the bower, Search'd every tree, and pry'd on every flower, If any-where by chance I might espy, The rural poet of the melody. Dryden. The Flower & the Leaf. The flowers she wore along the day: Dryden. Absalom & Achitophel. If it prosper not, the main weight of blame is surely laid upon him that advised the course; if you (saith the party, and say the lookers on) had not thus directed, it had not thus fallen out.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 22. The looming of a ship, the LOOMING, n. external form or appearance of a ship; as we say, She looms a great sail, or she looms but small,-she appears a large or a small ship, from the A. S. Leoman, (ge-leoman, whence gleam,) lucere, to shine; a word (Skinner adds) truly elegant. Awful she looms the terror of the main. Pye. Carmen Seculare. alem, utensilia, supellex, utensils, things of freLOOM. In A. S. Loma, ge-loma; Dut. Alaem, quent and necessary use. Hence Somner adds,the heir-lome of lawyers, pro supellectile hereditariâ. Ray tells us that in Cheshire,-A loom is an instrument or tool in general. Also, any utensil, as a tub, &c. armis, is rendered by Douglas,-"With lume in Paribusque accingitur hand fast wirkand like the laif;" (working like the rest.) May it not be from the A. S. Hleom, (for so lim was also written,) that which pertains that which appertains, or belongs to? (See LIMB.) Thus heir-loom,— an appurtenance to, the inheritance; brew-lumes, milk-lumes, warkloom, utensils or instruments appertaining or appropriate to brewing, milking, working; and then specifically applied to a particular frame or machine. The lomes that ich laboure with and by flode deserve A loop, or loophole, is applied to the hole left by the involution of the loop; to holes of a similar form or construction; to holes in battlements or towers; to holes for escape or evasion. Then shalt thou make loupes of jacynete coloure, alonge by the edge of ye one curtayne.-Bible, 1551. Exodus, c. 26. And at another lope of the wall on a ladder, ther was the lorde of Sereell, and fought hande to hande with his enemyes.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 321. How shall your house-lesse heads, and vnfed sides, Shakespeare. Lear, Act iii. sc. 4. And from the towers of Troy there would appear Shakespeare. Rape of Lucrece. The descending tendon, when it is got low enough, is passed through a loop, or ring or pully, in the os hyoides, and then made to ascend; and, having thus changed its line of direction, is inserted into the inner part of the chin: by which device, viz. the turn at the loop, the action of the muscle (which in all muscles is contraction) that before would have pulled the jaw up, now as necessarily draws it down.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 9. 'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates Cowper. Task, b. iv. LOORD. Dr. Jamieson, who notices the LOURDEN. antiquity of the etymology specified in the quotation from Verstegan, refers the word immediately to the Fr. Lourdin, and that to the Dut. Luyaerd, piger, desidiosus, ignavus homo, or loer, loerd, which have the same meaning, and to the latter of which Kilian traces the Fr. Lourd. Loord, lourd-en, are perhaps low-er-ed, lowerd, lowr'd, lourd, lourd-en; and thus from the same source and of equivalent meaning with lown and Lowt, (qv.) It probably owes its lengthened termination, en into ane, from Verstegan's traditionary etymology. See LORD; It. Lord; Sp. Laud. The Scotch writers use lurdanery, which is also preserved by Holinshed, (Scotland, Malcolme.) See Jamieson. A low, debased, degraded, worthless person. Sibriht that schrew as a lordan gan lusk.-R. Brunne, p. 9. I wene that none wil say so but lurdanes, yt longed to make gay daies of Goddes passion, or make hym honored selder the he should.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 492. Where euery lourden will become a leech. Gascoigne. The Fruites of Warre. Mor. Siker thous but a leasie loord Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. July. Lourdaine. Because the Danes when they sometime domineered over the Englishmen, would be honoured with the name of laford, which is now lord, the people in scorne did call them lour danes, instead of lord, or rather laford dane, lour being as much to say in our ancient language, as ignavus in Latin, to wit, lither, cowardly, or sluggish. Verstegan. Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, c. 10. LOOS, v. Loos or los (says Tooke) is eviLO'SED. dently the past part. of the verb hlis-an, celebrare, to celebrate; as laus also is :he has produced eight instances of the noun, and one of the past part. losed, from Chaucer. To praise, to celebrate, to confer fame or renown upon. Vor the kynges los so wyde sprong ynou Of godenesse & of cortesye, that her herte to hym drou. R. Gloucester, p. 189. Tho that first were foos & com of paien lay Of Cristen men haf los, & so thei wend away. R. Brunne, p. 25. To crye a largesse by for oure Lorde, goure good loose to Piers Plouhman, p. 116. shewe. He despiseth and setteth at nought his good name or los. In heuen to ben losed with God hath none ende. With this tale a duke arose, That much he feared least reprochfull blame LOOSE, v. Loose, n. Loose, adj. LOOSE, ad. Lo'OSELY. Lo'OSEN, v. Lo'OSENESS. LOOSENING, n. To free from its hold or fastening; to untie, to unbind, to remit, to dismiss; to relax, to separate or sever, to take away; to separate or sever, (from a close or connected state or condition,) to unclose; to disconnect, to disengage. And thus, loose, the adj. is opposed to-fixed or fastened, tied or tight; bound or obliged; (met.) close, connected, or adhering; confined, or defined, or definite; restricted or restrained. The expression in Shakespeare,-" at his very loose," Mr. Steevens explains,-" at his moment of parting, i. e. of his getting loose or away from See To LOSE, or LEESE; the same word, somewhat differently applied. See also LESS. Go. Laus-jan; A.S. Lysan; Dut. and Ger. Lösen; Sw. Leosa; amittere, dimittere, to dismiss, or let go. us. Anoon alle the doris weren opened, and the boondis of all weren loosed.-Wiclif. Dedis, c. 16. And by and by all the dores opened, & euery manes bādes were lowsed.-Bible, 1551. Ib. And whan the hors was laus, he gan to gon Ye be not geuen to ryot and excesse so openly and loocely as they were.-Udal. Matthew, c. 11. So the principall men of degree in the army raised Vitellius' name, and defaced his images, and loosing Cæcina. who then was in bands, desired him to become intercessour in their behalfe.-Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 113. Their [Robin-Hood's men] arrows finely pair'd, for timber and for feather, With birch and Brazil piec'd, to fly in any weather; Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost, Act v. sc. 2. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi. All the bonds and restraints under which men lay, he so far loosed, that any man might be free, who would concur to his own liberty and enlargement.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 40. A stranger to the loose delights of love, Dryden. Persius, Sat. 4. Id. Ovid, Ep. 8. To loose the links that gall'd mankind before, Or bind them faster on, and add still mare. Then limbs like boughs were lopp'd; from shoulders arms Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. February. A trembling contribution; why we take Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xvi. Thus by laying the axe to the root; not by lopping off the branches, but by laying the axe to the root, our Saviour fixed the only rule which can ever produce good morals. Paley, Ser. 7. If they are divided yet further, so as to be laid close, and bound up in a more uniform manner into several faggots, perhaps those loppings may be all carried to one single load or burden.-Watts. On the Mind, c. 18. Cowper. Truth. Nor would a true patriot have given an entire loose to his zeal, for fear of running matters into a contrary extreme, by diminishing too far the influence of the crown. Hume, pt. i. Ess. 6. I have already loosely observed that their system supposes a regular derivation of the language from a few short primitives.-Beddoes. Observ. on the Dutch Etymologists. His easy presence check'd no decent joy. Him even the dissolute admir'd; for he A graceful looseness, when he pleas'd, put on, And laughing could instruct. Armstrong. The Art of Preserving Health, b. iv. LOP, v. Lop, n. LO'PPING, n. LOPE. See LOBSTER. LOPE, i. e. leapt. See LEAP. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. x. This word does hot appear to be of very ancient use in the language. To lop the bough in Isa. x. 33, is in preceding translations,-to cut. Drayton and Spenser are the most remote authorities that have occurred. Minshew derives it from the Dut. Loof; Ger. Laub, frons, q.d. ramos amputare; in Fr. Esbrancher," to lop or cut off boughs; to bare or deprive of branches," (Cotgrave.) Thus, frondator is in Lat. -a lopper 1230 Their soft, loquacious harmony. Mason. To a Water Nymph. Most men desire likewise their turn in the conversation; and regard with a very evil eye that loquacity which deprives them of a right they are naturally so jealous of. LORD, v. LORD, n. LO'RDING, n. LO'RDLING, n. LORDLY, adj. LO'RDLY, ad. LORDLINESS. LO'RDSHIP. Hume. Principles of Morals, s. 8. A. S. Hlaf-ord, afterwards loverd, (says Skinner,) from hlaf, bread, and ford for afford, to supply, because a lord supplies many with bread. Junius dislikes this afford, knowing no such word in the A. S., and pronounces hlaf-ord to be composed of hlaf, panis, bread, (see LOAF,) and ord, initium, origo; source, origin. Tooke composes the word of the same parts, but gives to hlaf its literal meaning, raised or exalted, as the past part. of hlif-ian, to raise :-Lord, therefore, means highborn, or of an exalted origin; hlaf, raised or exalted; and ord, ortus, source, origin, birth. (See curiously upon this word, and upon Lady. (See OR, and ORD.) Verstegan writes copiously and his Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, c. 10.) Lord, then, is a general name for one high-born, or of high rank, and, consequentially, of high authority, a superior, a master. To lord, to be or become, to act as lord, i. e. abuse the authority or power of a superior; to as superior or master; as sovereign; to use or domineer. |