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
Wins for her airy visions colour, form,
And fixt locality; sweet Painting, come
To teach the docile pupil of my song,
How much his practice on thy aid depends.

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.

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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
origin, but differ much as to the specific word.
A lock of hair; perhaps so much as was closed
together, tied or fastened into one part or portion.
And vanshie alle myne vertues. and myn faire lockes.
Piers Plouhman, p. 242.
With lockes crull as they were laide in presse.
Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 81.

No gate so strong, no locke so firme and fast,
But with that percing noise flew open quite, or brast.
Id. Ib. b. i. c. 8.

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
And found a watch, with rings and lockets.

Hudibras, pt. ii. c. 3.
Midst arms, and cars, and coursers stretch'd supine
In slumber lock'd and drench'd in fumes of wine.

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.
And locustis wenten out of the smoke of the pitt.
Wiclif. Apocalips, c. 9.
And there came oute of the smoke locustes vpon the earth.
Bible, 1551. Ib.
Our Marie was no sooner dead,
But that hir Guizard's arme,
And into Scotland locusts-like
In her pretext did swarm.

Warner. Albion's England, b. x. c. 45.

As the scorch'd locusts from their fields retire,
While fast behind them runs the blaze of fire;
Driv'n from the land before the smoky cloud,
The clustering legions rush into the flood.

Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xxi.

Diodorus and Strabo, Solinus and Ælian,
And authorities down from the Aristotelian,
Have mention'd whole clans that were wont to subsist,
In the East, upon locusts as big as your fist:
Ergo, so did the Baptist.-Byrom. Ep. to J. Bl-k-n, Esq.

Id. Ib.

LODE. LO'DESMAN. LO'DEMANAGE. LODESTAR. LODESTONE.

Shupmen now. and other witty puple
Han no by leyve to the lyht. ne to the food sterres.
Piers Plouhman, p 290

Asking hem anon
If that they were broken, or ought wo begon,
Or had need of lodesmen or vitaile.

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,
With waives nor no rockes rage,
So happy is their lodemanage.

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,
And toke logging as it wolde falle.
That on of them was logged in a stalle,

Fer in a yerd with oxen of the plough.-Id. Ib. v. 1501.
This emperour bad redily,
That thei be lodged fast by. Gower. Con, A. b. v.
They take lodgynge in the towne.-Id. Ib.
There is a cave

Within the mount of God, fast by his throne,
Where Light and Darkness in perpetual round
Lodge and dislodge by turns, which makes through heaven
Grateful vicissitude, like day and night.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi.
Who this high gift of strength committed to me,
In what part lodg'd, how easily bereft me,
Under the seal of silence could not keep.
Id. Samson Agonistes.

So to the Silvan lodge
They came, that like Pomona's arbour smil'd
With flourets deckt and fragrant smells.
Id. Paradise Lost, b. v.

Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xviii.

called lucks; also locks of hair, foretops, (Somner.)

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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,
And, through the bolted doors an entrance breaks.

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,
He seeks his lodging in the rocky den.

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

LO'GIC. LO'GICAL. LOGICALLY. LOGICIAN.

Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tale, v.4697.

Bible, 1551. Genesis, c. 6.

In neyther fortune loft, nor yet represt,
To swel in weith, or yield vnto mischance.

Surrey. Of the Death of Sir T. W.

My lowly verse may loftily arise,
And lift itself into the highest skies.

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.

LOI

I argue thus: the world agrees
That he writes well, who writes with ease:
Then he, by sequel logical,

Writes best, who never thinks at all.

Prior. Epistle to Fleetwood Shephard

Bare lies with bold assertions they can face;
But dint of argument is out of place.
The grim logician puts them in a fright.

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.
Or spun out riddles, and weav'd fiftie tomes
Of logogriphes, &c.
B. Jonson. An Execration upon Vulcan.
Worse than the logogryphes of later times,
Or hundreth riddles.

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,
Think on the martyr from whose loins he came.

Olway. Epilogue, April 21, 1682.
Her loins with patch-work cincture were begirt,
That more than spoke diversity of dirt.

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.

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
Respiring they indulge a short delay.
Lewis. Statius. Thebaid, b. ix.

LOO, v. Loo, n.

A

game at cards.

En mighty Pam, that kings and queens o'erthrew,
And mow'd down armies in the fights of Lu.
Pope. The Rape of the Lock, c. 3.

Sal found her deep-laid schemes were vain-
The cards are cut" Come deal again-
No good comes on it when one lingers-
play the card comes next my fingers-”
Fortune could never let Ned loo her,
When she had left it wholly to her.

Methinks, old friend, 'tis wondrous true,
Shenstone. To a Friend.
That verse is but a game at loo.
LOOBY. See LOB.

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
any of ours, and the best saylor in all their fleete,
fed by and gaue the Concord the two first great shot,
ich the repayed presently againe.

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

LOOK, v. Look, n. Lo'OKER.

LOOKING, n.

R. Brunne, p. 36. Id. p. 86.

& askid if thei wild stand to ther lokyng.
And his lokynge was as leyt.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 28.
And then at erst he loked upon me,
And seid thus; "What man art thou?" quod he,
"Thou lokest, as thou woldest finde an hare,
For ever upon the ground I see thee stare."

Chaucer. Prologue to Sire Thopas, v. 13,624.
For at the first look he on hire sette
He knew wel veraily, that it was she.

Id. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 5473.
Gower. Con. A. b. i.

With that hir loke on me she cast.
For whan he hath his tonge afiled
With softe speche, and with lesynge,
Forthwith his false pitous lokynge
He wolde make a woman weene
To gone vpon the feire greene
Whan that she fauleth in the myre.
Why smilest thou? say lokers on,
What pleasure hast thou found?
Vncertaine Auctors. Louer in despaire lamenteth his case.

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
Whatever thing was in the world contaynd,
Betwixt the lowest earth and heven's hight,
So that it to the looker appertaynd.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 2.
So that faire spectacle from him was reft,
Yet that which reft it no lesse faire was found:
So hidd in lockes and waves from lookers theft,
Nought but her lovely face she for his looking left.
Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 12.

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:
And ev'ry nymph and shepherd said,
That in her hair they look'd more gay
Than glowing in their native bed.-Prior. The Garland.
Then with a kind compassionating look,
And sighs, bespeaking pity ere he spoke,
Few words he said.

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
Ys pater noster and my prymer.-Piers Plouhman, p. 77.
But the presumptuous damzell rashly dar'd
The goddess selfe to chalenge to the field,
And to compare with her in curious skill
Of workes with loome, with needle and with quill.
Spenser. Muiopotmos
Or with loom'd wool the native robe supplies.

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
At a safe distance, where the dying sound
Falls a soft murmur on th' uninjur'd ear.

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
And reeks much of thy swink,
That with fond termes, and witlesse wordes,
To blere mine eyes doest think.

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.
Chaucer. Tale of Melibeus.

In heuen to ben losed with God hath none ende.
Id. Testament of Loue, b. i.

With this tale a duke arose,
Whiche was a worthy knight of lose.-Gower. Con. A. b. iii.

That much he feared least reprochfull blame
With foule dishonour him mote blot therefore;
Besides the losse of so much loos and fame,
As through the world thereby should glorifie his name.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 12.

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
Toward the fen. Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 4062.
This miller to the town his doughter send
For ale and bread, and rosted hem a goos,
And bond hir horse, he should no more go loos.
Id. Ib. v. 4136.

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;
And shot they with the round, the square or forked pile,
The loose gave such a twang, as might be heard a mile.
Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 26.
Kin. The extreme parts of time, extremelie forms
All causes to the purpose of his speed:
And often at his verie loose decides
That, which long processe could not arbitrate.

Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost, Act v. sc. 2.
Warr wearied hath perform'd what war can do,
And to disorder'd rage let loose the reins.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi.
Whom their light errour lecsely doth misguide.
Drayton. The Barons' Wars, b. i.
The cause of this, was nothing but the loosening of the
earth, which comforteth any tree.
Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 435.
It was indeede
Her old Malbecco, which did her upbrayd
With loosenesse of her love and loathly deed.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 10.

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,
My thoughts the nobler warmth of friendship prove.
Prior. Love & Friendship.
Dost thou not blush to live so like a beast,
So trim, so dissolute, so loosly drest?

Dryden. Persius, Sat. 4.
While you, with loosen'd sails and vows, prepare
To seek a land, that flies the searcher's care.

Id. Ovid, Ep. 8.

To loose the links that gall'd mankind before, Or bind them faster on, and add still mare.

Paley, Ser. 7.

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.

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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.