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Id. p. 83.
The Englis of this lond the lordschip thei toke.-Id. p. 8.
Ae the more he hath and wynneth the world at hus wille,
And lordeth in leedes [A. S. leod, people] the lasse good he
nedeth.
Piers Ploukman, p. 187.

We mygte be lordis aloft. and lyve as us lusten.-Id. p. 9.
Lerdliche for to lyven, and lykyng liche be clothede.

Id. p. 333.

Not ech man that seith to me, Lord, Lord, schal entre Into the kyngdom of hevenes, but he that doth the wille of my fadir that is in hevenes.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 7.

Not all they yt say unto me Lorde, Lorde, shal enter into the kyngdome of heauen: but he that doeth my father's wyll whiche is in heauen.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

Deeth schal no more haue lordschipe on him.

Wiclif. Romayns, c. 6.

And dispisen lordschiping.-Id. 2 Petir, c. 2.

Listeneth, lordinges, in good intente,
And I wol tell you varament

Of mirthe and of solas.

LORE, v.
A. S. Leor-an, past part. Lor-en,
LORN. to lose. We now use forlorn, (qv.)
i. e. utterly lost, deserted, forsaken, destitute,
solitary.

Mot thei Lowys hent, he suld haf lorn his heued.
R. Brunne, p. 104.
Thus gate was that werre pesed, withouten lore.
Id. p. 97.
Thy mind is lorne, thou janglest as a jay.
Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 5194.
Take hem agen, for now maist thou not say,
That thou hast lorn non of thy children tway.

Id. Ib. v. 8947.

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LO'REL, or
LO'SEL.
LO'SELRY.

los-ian, also to lose.

Id. Shepheard's Calender. September.
Lorel, from the A. S. Leor-an,
past part. Lor-en, to lose; and
Los-el, from the A. S. Leos-an,
Chaucer renders perditissi-
It is well explained by Verstegan-
A losel is one that hath lost, neglected, or cast
off his owne good, and welfare, and so is become
lewd, and carelesse of credit and honesty.
For me ys levere in this lif. as a lorel begger
Than in lysse to lyve. and lese lyf & soule.

Chaucer. The Rime of Sire Thopas, v. 13,642. mus, lorel.

And thi wil is thy principal,

And hath the lordship of thy wit.-Gower. Con. A. b. iii.

The whiles she lordeth in licentious blisse,

Of her freewill, scorning both thee and me?

Spenser, Son. 10.

-- He being thus lorded,
Not onely with what my reuenew yeelded,
But what my power might els exact.
Shakespeare. Tempest, Act i. sc. 2.

It was not the prevention of schism, but it was schism
ise, and the hateful thirst of lording in the church, that
Sat bestow'd a being upon prelaty; this was the true cause,
the pretence is still the same.
Milton. The Reason of Church Government, b. i. c. 6.
Here may you, Muses, our dear soveraignes,
Scorn each base lordling ever you disdains.

Bp. Hall, b. ii. Sat. 2.

Estscones he perced through his chaufed chest,
With thrilling point of deadly yron brand,
And launcht his lordly hart.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 4.

Not to ferret out concealed lands for the supporte of their owne priuat lord/ines.

Holinshed. Historie of England, b. vi. c. 16.

Some gan to gape for greedie governaunce,
And match them selfe with mightie potentates,
Lovers of lordship, and troublers of States.

Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. May.

Arms are the trade of each plebeian soul;
Tis death to fight; but kingly to control.
Lord-like at ease, with arbitrary power,
To peel the chiefs, the people to devour.

Dryden. Homer. Iliad, b. i.

Bat where is lordly Babylon? where now
Lifts she to heaven her giant brow?-Hughes. The Ecstacy.

Perhaps been poorly rich, and meanly great,
The slave of pomp, a cypher in the State;

Lardly neglectful of a worth unknown,

And slumbering in a seat, by chance my own.

Savage. The Bastard.

The lorda temporal consist of all the peers of the realm, bishops not being in strictness held to be such, but lords of parliament) by whatever title of nobility distaguished; dukes, marquisses, earles, viscounts, or barons. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c. 2.

My lord. 1 have been lately informed, by the proprietor
The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is
recomended to the public, were written by your lordship.
Johnson. Leller to Lord Chesterfield.

The self-dependent lordlings stand alone,
All claims that bind and sweeten life unknown.
Goldsmith. The Traveller.

LORD. It. Lord; Sp. Laud; Fr. Lourd;
Lew Lat. Lurdus, stolidus.
Lordicare, Dorso

vate incedere; to walk with the back bent; the Gr. Aopoos, incurvus. (See Du Cange.) Bart thinks it is the Eng. Lord; applied conptuously, and that the usage arose in the wars en the French and English. See Menage. And see LOORD.

A bump-backed person is so nick-named.

Piers Plouhman, p. 103.
And I se that euery lorell, shapeth hym to finde newe
fraudes, for to accuse good folk.-Chaucer. Boecius, b. i.
Thus sayest thou, lorel, whan thou gost to bed,
And that no wise man needeth for to wed.

Id. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 5855.
He would not haue you thinke yt all the gestes that you
shall receaue shall be angels, but some shall be leud losels.
Fryth. Workes, p. 64.
I dought least by sorsery
Or such other loselry.-Skelton. Why come ye not to Court?
But he that resisteth the proud, and giveth his grace to
the humble, would not permit the vngracious deuises of the
naughtie and lewd lozzell to take place, but suddenlie dis-
appointed his mischeefous drift.
Holinshed. Rich. II. an. 1381.
Thom. Syker, thou speakes like a lewd lorrell
Of Heaven to demen so.
Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. July.
The whyles a lozell wand'ring by the way,
One that to bountie never cast his mynd,
Ne thought of honour ever did assay, &c.
Id. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 3.

Why should you plain that lozel swains refuse you?
P. Pletcher, Ecl. 2.
The father's trade once highly priz'd,
And justly honour'd in those better times,
By every lozel-groom I see despis'd.-Id. Ecl. 4.

LORICATE, v. Į Lat. Loricare; propriè
LORICA'TION. Slorica est tegimen de corio,
tanquam de loro factum; a covering of leather,
(for the breast, and thus-a breastplate.)

To cover or protect, (as with a breastplate.) Therefore hath nature loricated or plastered over the sides of the forementioned hole with ear-wax, to stop and entangle any insects that should attempt to creep in there. Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii. These cones [of the cedar] have the entire lorication smoother couched than those of the fir kind.—Evelyn.

abandon, the hold, property, or possession of; to dispossess, deprive, to diminish, to waste, to ruin, to destroy.

Opposed to-to gain or obtain :

To miss the possession or acquisition.

For he was somdel schort, he clupede him Courthose,
And he ne mygte neuer afterward thulke name lese.
R. Gloucester, p. 412.

Thou may haf thi wille, if thou to loue chese,
& if thou turne tille ille, non wote who salle lese.

R. Brunne, p. 116.
Ion gete thi coroun, thou losis thi dignite.
Id. p. 272.
His reame, as ge herd, he lost thorgh conseilers.
Id. p. 280.

He that fyndeth his lyf, schal leese it: and he that leesith his lyf for me schal fynde it.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 10.

He yt findeth his lyfe, shal lose it: and he that loseth his lyfe for my sake, shall fynde it.-Bible, 1551. Id.

And if he hath lost oon of hem: wher he leueth not ninety and nine in desert: and goth to it that perischide: til he fynde it?-Wiclif. Luke, c. 15.

Yf he loose one of the, doth [he] not leaue nynetye and nyne in the wildernes, and go after that which is lost, vntyll he fynde hym.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

And disciplis seynge hadden dedeyn and seiden, wherto is this loss?-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 26.

And he was techynge euery day in the temple, and the princis of prestis and scribis and the princis of the puple soughten to lese him.-Id. Luke, c. 19.

A nyght theef cometh not, but that he stele, sle, and leese. Id. Jon, c. 10.

But natheles, yet had I lever lese
My lif, than of my body have a shame,
Or know myselven false, or lese my name.

Chaucer. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 1675.
This world had him in awe
For lesing of richesse and libertee.

Id. The Monkes Tale, v. 14,478.
Then rekke I not, whan I haue lost my lif
Though that Arcita win hire to his wif

Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 2259.

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A man for loue his wit to lese.-Gower. Con. A. b. vii.
That fals Nessus the geant
Made vnto him, and to his wife,
Wherof that he had lost his life.

And thus full ofte chalk for chese
He changeth with full litell coste,
Wherof another hath the loste,
And he the profite shall receiue.

Id. Ib. b. ii.

Id. Ib.

It is an olde sayenge, He that coueteth al leseth. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 259. And therefore I think rosemary will leese in sweetness, if it be set with lavender, or bayes or the like. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 489. Marci. Take heed you leese it not, signior, ere you come there: preserve it.

B. Jonson. Every Man out of his Humour, Act v. sc. 1.

Euen so by loue, the yong and tender wit
Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,
Loosing his verdure, euen in the prime,
And all the faire effects of future hopes.
Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act i. sc. 1.
For him [man] I spare
Thee from my bosom and right hand, to save,
By loosing thee a while, the whole race lost.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iii,
We cannot but be leesers by our absence from holy assem-

LO'RIMER. Fr. Lormier, a worker in small blies.-Bp. Hall. Cont. The Resurrection.

iron; a loris conficiendis. A maker of bits for
bridles of horses, and such like as spurres and
small iron work, (Minshew.)

Certes, (saith he), Bremichen is a towne maintained
chieflie by smiths, nailers, cutlers, edge-toole forgers, lori-
mers, or bit-makers.
Holinshed. Description of Britaine, c. 25.

LOSE, v.
Lo'SEABLE.
LO'SER.
LO'SING, n.
Loss.
Lo'sSFUL.
Lo'sSLESS.

These idle words we answer with silence and scorne.
Let losers [in some ed. leesers] haue leave to talk.
Id. The Honour of the Maried Clergie, b. iii. §. 17.
But fed with ling'ring hopes of future gain,
Dream not what 'tis to doubt a loser's pain.
Drummond. On the Earl of Pembroke.
He [Hanniball] beate Scipio the consull, and sent him

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Rebellion rages in our Irish province but, with miraculous and lossless victories of few against many, is daily discomfited and broken.-Milton. An Apology for Smectymnuus.

The losing gamester shakes the box in vain,
And bleeds, and loses on, in hopes to gain.

Dryden. Ovid. Art of Love. Man was by his fault a great loser, and became deprived of high advantages; yet the mercy of God did leave him in no very deplorable estate.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser, 37.

Had the sad city fate's decree foreknown,
What floods, fast falling, should her loss bemoan.

Rowe. Lucan, b. vii.

All the sons of Adam are by disobedience in a lost condition (lost in errour and sin, lost in gilt and condemnation, lost in trouble and misery), and, the son of man (saith he himself) came to save, To aroλwAos, that which was lost (or whatever was lost.)-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 39.

I heard him make enquiry, whether the frigorifick faculty of these corpuscles be loosable, or not. Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 753.

A man who loses his sight, improves the sensibility of his touch but who would consent, for such a recompence, to part with the pleasures which he receives from the eye.

Stewart. Of the Human Mind, pt. ii. s. 1. Introd. Many do not think themselves sufficiently compensated for their losing of their dinners, by all the eloquence of our most celebrated speakers.-Hume, pt. i. Ess. 13.

LO'SENGE, or Fr. Lozenge. Menage Lo'ZENGE. Swrites largely upon this word; mentioning among others the etymology proposed by Scaliger, and selected by Skinner,-a voce laurenge, on account of its resemblance to the leaf of the laurus, which has the figure of a rhombus. Mr. Tyrwhitt says,-“ A quadrilateral figure of equal sides but unequal angles, in which the arms of women are usually painted," (Rom. of the Rose.) 'Losynges seems to signify small figures of the same form in the fretwork of a crown," (House of Fame.)

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I painted all with amorettes
And with losenges and scochons,

With birdes; liberdes, and lions.-Chaucer. R. of the R.
With crownes wrought full of losinges.

Id. The House of Fame, b. iii. They of Megari also do shew a tombe of the Amazones in their city which is as you go from the market place to the place they call Rhus; where they find an ancient tombe, cut in form and fashion of a losenge.

North. Plutarch, p. 12.
The rhombus or lozenge figure so visible in this order, was
also a remarkable form of battle in the Grecian cavalry.
Brown. Cyrus' Garden, c. I.
Twoe other large diamonds cut lozen wise, garnished
with small diamonds.
Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii. App.

LO'SENGERE. Į Fr. Losengier; Sp. Lison-
LO'SENGERY. jero, a flatterer, beguiler,
deceiver, (Cotgrave.) See LEASING.
Sir Jon mad him prest, he trost that losengere.
R. Brunne, p. 288.

Alas! ye lordes, many a false flatour
Is in your court, and many a losengeour.

Chaucer. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 15,332.

Flaterers ben the devil's nourices, that nourish his Children with milk of losengerie.-Id. The Persones Tale. There to end their liues with shame, as a number of such other loosengers had often doone before them.

LOT, n.
LOT, v.
LOTTERY.

Holinshed. Historie of Scotland. Conarus.

A. S. Hleot-an, sortiri, to cast lots; Dut. Lot-en, loot-en; Sw. Lotta; Goth. Hlauts; A. S. Hlot; Ger. Los; Dut. Lot; Sw. Lott; Fr. Lot; It. Lotto. Tooke considers the A. S. Hlot to be the regular past tense and past part. of Hlidan, tegere, operire, to cover; and that it means something covered or hidden. Upon this past part. then the A. S. Hleot-an, sortiri, must have been formed.

Lot, that which,-circumstance or event, part or portion, chance or fortune,-which is covered, concealed, unknown.

To lot or allot, (qv.)—to give by lot, to grant or distribute by lot; and then generally to give, grant, distribute, or apportion. And the noun,Portion or share.

Lot is also applied to any thing which is used (see CLERGY) to decide or determine, or bring to light or disclose, the lot or thing (yet) unknown. Lot-teller,-a teller of covered or hidden things.

The strengest me schal bi choys and bi lot al so
Chese out, and sende in to other lond, here beste for to do.
R. Gloucester, p. 111.
Lotes did thei kast, for whom thei had that wo.
R. Brunne, p. 124.
And aftir that thei hadden crusified him, thei departiden
his clothis and kesten lot.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 27.

When they had crucified hym, they parted hys garmentes
& dyd caste lot.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

And every third yeare withouten dout,
They casten lotte.-Chaucer. The Legend of Ariadne.
Upon fortune her lotte thei cast.-Gower. Con. A. b. v.

Witches, in foretime named lot-tellers; now commonly
called sorcerers. - Catalogue of English Printed Books,
1595. By Andrew Maunsell.

You goodly sister floods, how happy is your state!
Or should I more commend your features, or your fate,
That Milford, which this isle her greatest port doth call,
Before your equal floods is lotted to your fall?
Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 5.
This they call the Feast of Lots, because Haman had cast
their life and their death, as it were vpon the hazard of a lot.
Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. v. § 70.

Gabriel, to thee thy course by lot hath giv'n
Charge and strict watch, that to this happie place
No evil thing approach or enter in.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi.

The virgins also shall on feastful days
Visit his tomb with flowers, only bewailing
His lot unfortunate in nuptial choice,
From whence captivity and loss of eyes.

Id. Samson Agonistes.

Each markt his lol, and cast it in to Agamemnon's caske.
Chapman, Homer. Iliad, b. vii.
Some sense, and more estate, kind heaven
To this well lotted peer has given.
Prior. The Ladle. Moral.
The lots produced, each hero signs his own;
Then in the General's helm the fates are thrown.
Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. vii.
And with his signature impress'd
Each plac'd his lot in Agamemnon's helm.-Cowper. Ib.
That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may
learn from the universal success of lotteries
Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i. c. 10.
Lat. Lotio, from lotum, past part.

LOTION.
of lavare, to wash.
A wash,
wash.

generally applied to a medicated

In Animadversions, saith he, I find the mention of old

Love, the noun, is applied emphatically to the " passion between the sexes. Lover is, by old writers, applied as friend-by male to male. Love is much used-prefixed.

cloaks, false beards, night-walkers, and salt lotions; therefore
the animadverter haunts playhouses and bordelloes; for if
he did not, how could he speak of such gear?
Milton. An Apology for Smectymnuus.

It is observable, that this provision is not found in fish,-
the element in which they live supplying a constant lotion
to the eye.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 3.

LOUD, or LOWD. See the verb to low or bellow.

LOVE, v.
Love, n.
LO'VEABLE.
LOVELESS.

Lo'VELY, adj.
Lo'VELY, ad.
LO'VELILY.
LO'VELINESS.
Lo'VER.
Lo'VERED.
LO'VESOME
Lo'VING, n.
LOVINGLY.

Euereft he louede hym the more, & al Englysse vor hys
loue.-R. Gloucester, p. 320.

Kynewolf, of the kynred of Adelardes blode,
A while lufed the Inglis, & wele with tham stode.
R. Brunne, p. 9.
Non on so faire of face, of spech so lufly.-Id. p. 30.
Thouh he be loveliche to loken on and lofsom a bedde.
Piers Ploukman, p. 179.
Moost dere britheren, loue we togidre, for charite is of
God, ech that loueth his brothir is borun of God and knowith
God: he that loueth not knowith not God, for God is
charite.-Wiclif. 1 Jon, c. 4.

Beloued, let vs loue one another: for loue commeth of God and euerye one that loueth, is borne of God, and knoweth God, for God is loue.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

But I haue knowen you, that ye haue not the love of God in you. Wiclif. Jon, c. 5.

But I know you, that ye haue not the loue of God in you. Bible, 1551. Ib. And whiche been hool and sooth and chast & rightwys, and lovable do ghe.-Wiclif. Laodisensis, p. 100.

And who is it that schal anoye you if he ben sueris and loueris of goodness.-Id. 1 Petir, c. 3.

Harde is the heart that loueth nought
In Mey, whan all this mirth is wrought.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose.

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What (quod she) moste of all, maked I not a louedais bitwene God and mankind, and chese a maide to be nompere, to put the quarell at ende.-Id. Testament of Loue, b. i. Lucia likerous loved hir hosbond so, That for he shuld alway upon hire thinke, She yave him swiche a maner love-drinke, That he was ded er it was by the morow.

Id. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 6336. A love-knotte in the greter end ther was.

Sire Thopas fell in love-longing,
Al whan he herd the throstel sing,
And pricked as he were wood.

Id. Prologue, v. 197.

Id. The Rime of Sire Thopas, v. 13,702.
What woll ye more, O lovesome lady dere,
Let Troy and Troians fro your herte passe,
Drive out that bitter hope, and make good chere.

Id. Troil. & Cres. b. v.
For she taught all the craft of trewe loving.
Id. The Legend of Good Women, Prol.

And netheless there is no man
In all this world so wise, that can
Of loue temper the measure.

So goth the wretche loueless
Beiaped for his scarsitee.

Lo there a nice husbonde,

Gower. Con. A. b. i.

Id. Ib. b. v.

Which thus his wife hath loste for euer,
But netheless she had a leuer,

The kynge her weddeth and honoureth.-Id. Ib.
Thou art pleasaunte (O my loue) euen as louelinesse itsel
Bible, 1551. Balleties, c.

I wyll singe of the Lorde, that dealeth so louingelye wit
me. Id. Ps. 13.
Haile wedded loue, mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring, sole proprietie,
In Paradise, of all things common else.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b.i
No tyger-reft her yong, nor savage brood,
No, not the foaming boare, that durst approve
Lovelesse to leave the mighty queene of love.
Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b.

A. S. Luf-ian; Dut. Lieven; Ger. Lieben, amare, diligere. Wachter derives from lieb, bonum, because every one desires that which is good: lieb, it is more probable, is from lieb-en, grateful, and therefore good. It may at least admit a conjecture that the A. S. Lufian, to love, has a reason for its application similar to that of the Lat. Diligere; (legere, to gather, to take up or out (of LOVINGNESS. a number,) to choose, sc. one in preference to another; to prefer;) and that it is formed upon the A. S. Hlif-ian, to lift or take good of Rome, I haue the same dagger for myselfe, whe up, to pick up, to select, to prefer.

To prefer, to desire, as an object of possession or enjoyment; to delight in, to be pleased or gratified with, to take pleasure or gratification in, delight in.

For nothing lovelier can be found
In woman, then to study household good,
And good works in her husband to promote.
Milton. Paradise Lost. b.
With this I depart, that as I slewe my best louer for
shall please my country to need my death.
Shakespeare. Julius Cæsar, Act iii. so
Yet takes he much delight
Her loveliness to view. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s
Friends, their dear farewel lovingly to take.

Id. Guilford Dudley to Lady Jane G

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Solyman...from his heart had banish'd
Justice of kings and lovingness of fathers.

Lord Brooke. Mustapha.
Who young and simple, would not be so lover'd.
Shakespeare. A Lover's Complaint.
The night-warbling bird, that now awake
Tunes sweetest his love-labour'd song.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. v.
Tawayt his comming of your ioyous make,
And hearken to the birds love-learned song,

The deawy leaves among.-Spenser. Epithalamion.

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That would she ought, or would she naught,
This lad would never from her thought,

She in love-longing fell.

Drayton, Ecl. 4.

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Pope. Mora! Essays, Epist. 2.
Alive, the hand of crooked age had marr'd
Those lovely features, which cold death hath spar'd.
Waller. On the Picture of a fair Youth.

Bele. Pierre thou art welcome.

Come to my breast! for by its hopes, thou look'st
Lovelily dreadful; and the fate of Venice
Seems on thy sword already.

Otway. Venice Preserved, Act ii. sc. 3.

A generous bottle and a lovesome she,
Are th' only joys in nature next to thee.

Id. Epistle to Mr. Duke. The love of good, and solicitude to procure it, is not only the ruling principle of every sentient being, but it meets with the full approbation of every rational being.

Cogan. On the Passions, c. 1. s. 3.

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In hamlets, dances on the green.

Lore rules the court, the camp, the grove,

And men below, and saints above;

For love is heaven and heaven is love.

Scott. Lay of the Last Minstrel, c. 3.

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Forlorn of hope the lovely maid I left,

Pensive and pale, of every joy bereft :

She to her silent couch retir'd to weep,
Whilst I embark'd in sadness on the deep.

Falconer. The Shipwreck, c. 1.
A portrait, said to be of his queen, in the Ashmolean
Museum, at Oxford, conveys no idea of her loveliness, nor
of any skill in the painter.

Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. c. 3. The Revolution shewed them [the Tories] to have been, this respect, nothing but a genuine Court party, such as might be expected in a British Government; that is, lovers of liberty, but greater lovers of monarchy.-Hume, pt. i. Ess.9. The Court had gone a good way beyond the fashion of the preceding reign, when the gallantry in vogue was to wear a lock of some favourite object; and yet Prynne had thought that mode so damnable, that he published an absurd piece ast it, called The unloveliness of lovelocks.

Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iii. c. 1. LOUKE:-Skinner tells us, is said to be-a low receiver: Jamieson thinks Chaucer used the word as equivalent to a trull (in v. lucky.) Thitt seems to suspect it has an affinity to

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LOUSE, .
A. S. Lus; Ger. Laus; Dut.
Luys; Sw. Lus. Wachter sug-
gests the verb Lies-en, (to lose,)
perdere, corrumpere, as the Gr.

LUISE.
LOVESINESS.

0eip, from p0eip-ev, perdere, corrumpere, sive
quia est animal perniciosum, et luis instar serpens,
sive quia corrumpit et ex corruptione nascitur.
A lousy jougelour can deceiven thee,
And parde yet can I more craft than he.

Chaucer. The Freres Tale, v. 7048.
Like lice away from dead bodies they crawl.
Wyatt. Of such as had forsaken him.
If eternal life be due vnto the pilde traditions of lowsie
friers, where is the Testament become that God made vnto
us in Christ's bloud?-Tyndall. Workes, p. 132.

Which herbe [plantaine] hath this good propertie over
and besides, to cure the lowsie disease, whereof Scylla the
Dictatour died, who was eaten with lice.
Holland. Plinie, b. xxvi. c. 13.

A taylor despicably poor,
In every hole for shelter crept,
On the same bulk, botch'd, lous'd, and slept.
Somervile. Tales, &c. c. 3.
Trees (especially fruit-bearers) are infested with the mea-
sels-to this commonly succeeds lousiness.-Evelyn, ii. 7. 6.
Go on in pity to this wretched isle,
Which ignorant poetasters do defile
With lousy madrigals for lyric verse.

Olway. To Mr. Creech.

If a rascal can show a louse through a microscope, he
expects all the heads in England to itch till they behold it.
Observer, No. 21.

LOUVRE. A lover (says Minshew) or tunnel
on the toppe of the house, from the Fr. L'ouvert,
that is, apertus, a place open to let out the smoke.
An open place (to let in or out any thing.)
See the quotation from Holland's Plutarch in
v. Lantern.

But darknesse dred and daily night did hover
Through all the inner parts, wherein they dwelt;
Ne light'ned was with window, nor with lover,
But with continual candle light.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 11.

An envious man, having caught his neighbour's pigeons
in a net, feeding on his stack, plucked off their tails, and let
them go, which though they could fly forward home, yet
were they soon after found dead in the dove cote, famished
for want of food, and unable to fly up perpendicularly, and
so out at the lover.-Fuller. Worthies. Northamptonshire.
Whose shrill saint's-bell hangs on his lovery,
While the rest are damned to the plumbery.

Bp. Hall, b. v. Sat. 1.
[They] set hearths in the midst of the roome, for chimneyes,
which vented the smoake at a louver in the toppe.
Carew. Suruey of Cornwall, fol. 53.
LOW, v.
Skinner derives from the Dut.
Low, adj.
Leegh, humilis; leeghen, de-
Low, ad.
mittere; and this from the verb
Lo/WER, or
Liggen, to lay. And Tooke is
LOUR, v.
of opinion that low (in Dut.
Lo'WERING, n. Laag) is the past part. of the
LO'WERINGLY. A. S. Lic-gan, jacere, cubare,
Lo'WLY.
to lay or lie; that the verb to
LO'WLIHOOD. low, or to make low, is accord-
Lo'WLINESS. ing to common custom formed
Lo'WNESS. of this past part.; that the
Lown, or past part. of this verb to low,
LOON.
is indifferently either Low-en,
Lowr, or low'n, lown; or lowed, low'd,
Lour, v. & n. lowt; that again of this part.
Lo'UTING, n. lowt, we have made another
LO'UTISH. verb, viz. to lowt, to do, or to
bear one's self, as the lowed person, i. e. the lowt,
does. Somner, in v. Hleare, (see LEER,) ob-
serves that in Dut. Be-loeren is to look with the
brow or forehead drawn down, and that loeren is
to contract the forehead, to frown; with us to lowre.
And Doct. Th. H. (in Skinner) that to lower is—
frontem demittere; to depress the forehead.

Low, the adjective, is,-laid, recumbent; fallen,
prostrate, cast down, dejected; sunk, depressed;
(met.) humble, meek, submissive; dejected, de-
pressed, degraded, debased, demeaned.

To lower, to humble or humiliate; to stoop, to depress, to sink, to cast down or deject, to degrade, to debase, to demean to lower or lour, (as the sky,) consequentially, to overcloud, to darken; (as the countenance,) to draw down or contract the brow or forehead; to look sullen or gloomy, to frown.

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A meek brothir have glorie in his enhaunsing, and a riche man in his lownesse.-Id. James, c. 1.

How mighty and how great a lord is he,
For he can make of low hertis hy,

And of high low, and like for to dy,
And hard hertes he can maken free.

Chaucer. The Cuckow and the Nightingale,

This worthy limitour this noble frere
He made alway a manere louring chere
Upon the sompnour.

Id. The Freres Tale, v. 6,848. She retourned to hire lord Melibee, and told him how she fond his adversaries ful repentaunt, knowliching ful lowly hir sinnes and trespas.-Id. The Tale of Melibeus.

For who can faine vnder lowlyhede,
Ne fayleth not to finde grace and spede.

Id. The Complaint of the Black Knight.

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For what so falle or wele or wo,
That thought foryete I neuer mo,
Where so I laugh, or so I loure.-Id. Ib. b. iv.
But nethles she gan to lowte
And knele vnto hír hosbonde.
This was prouyded yt no subiet of the kynges nor other
w'in his lande shuld bye any salt, but of the kyng & at his
pryce, and ouer yt he areryd & lowyd ye coynes and moneys
of his lande, to the great auaŭtage of hymself & enpouer-
ysshyng of his sayd subiectes.

Fabyan. Philip de Valoys, an. 15.
And now on hir, and then on him,
Full lowringly did leare.

Gascoigne. The Complaint of Phylomene, But no man can truely glory in hym, but suche an one as is not offended with hys humilitie and lownesse.

Udal. Matthew, c. 16.

Aungels shall fynde them out, and gather them together from the fower quarters of the world: and againe from the hyghest pole of heauen to the lowmost.-Id. Marke, c. 13.

Such simple wedowes therfore dooe thei easily flocke
and loute, through countrefaicting of holinesse.
Id. Luke, c. 20.
This lowtish clown is such, that you never saw so ill-
favoured a vizor.-Sidney. Arcadia, b.i.

The crowching client, with low-bended knee,
And manie worships, and faire flatterie,
Tells on his tale as smoothly as him list,
But still the lawyer's eye squints on his fist.

Bp. Hall, b. ii. Sat. 3.
No threat'ning cloud, all charg'd with hailstones, lowres.
Stirling. Domes-day. The Twelfth Houre.

Darkness now rose,

As daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring night
Her shadowy offspring; unsubstantial both,
Privation meer of light and absent day.
Milton. Paradise Regained, b. iv

Skie low'rd, and, muttering thunder, som sad drops
Wept at compleating of the mortal sin
Original.
Id. Paradise Lost, b. ix.
Stand firm, for in his look defiance lours.-Id. Ib. b. iv.
We of our parts saluted him in a very lowly and submis
sive manner; as looking that from him we should receive
R. Gloucester, p. 112. sentence of life or death.-Bacon. New Atlantis.

And the Mone the lowest is of the planets.

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He is not so diuine,

So full repleate with choice of all delights,
But with as humble lowliness of minde
She is content to be at your command.

Shakespeare. 1 Pt. Hen. VI. Act v. sc. 5. Among the ignorant and simpler sort the lowness of the water was helde for a prodigious matter, as if the riuers also, and the ancient defences of the empire had now forsaken us. Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 152.

King Stephen was a worthy peere,
His breeches cost him but a crowne,
He held them sixpence all too deere;
Therefore he called the taylor lowne.

Percy. Reliques, vol. i. Take thy old Cloak, &c.

My Gilderoy baith far and near,
Was fear'd in every town,

And bauldly bare away the gear,
Of many a lawland loun.

Renowned Talbot doth expect my ayde,
And I am lowted by a traitor villain,
And cannot help the noble cheualier.

Id. Ib. Gilderoy.

Shakespeare. 1 Pt. Hen. VI. Act iv. sc. 3.

And you will rather show our generall lowis,
How you can frowne then spend a fawne vpon 'em,
For the inheritance of their loues, and safeguard
Of what that want might ruine.

Id. Coriolanus, Act iii. sc. 2.
Humbly on their knee

They tender'd their respect, and prince-like she
Thank'd them with nods, her thoughts still more aspire,
And their low lootings lift them a step higher.

Chalkhill. Thealma & Clearchus.

To sage Philosophy next lend thine ear,
From Heaven descended to the low-roof'd house
Of Socrates.
Milton. Paradise Regained, b. iv,

He took a lowering leave; but who can tell,
What outward hate might inward love conceal?
Dryden. Cymon & Iphigenia.

As lofty pines o'ertop the lowly reed,
So did her graceful height all nymphs exceed.

Congreve. The Mourning Muse of Alexis.

The more he was forced upon figures and metaphors to avoid that lowness, the more the image would be broken, and consequently obscure.-Pope. On the Odyssey, Postscript. But the false loon, who could not work his will By open force, employ'd his flattering skill.

Dryden. The Cock and the Fox.

The period in which the people of Christendom were the lowest sunk in ignorance, and consequently in disorders of every kind, may justly be fixed at the eleventh century, about the age of William the Conqueror; and from that æra, the sun of science, beginning to re-ascend, threw out many gleams of light, which preceded the full morning when letters were revived in the fifteenth century.

Hume. History of England, vol. iii. c. 23.

Genius of Carthage! paint thy ruin'd pride;
Towers, arches, fanes, in wild confusion strown;
Let banish'd Marius, lowering by thy side,
Compare thy fickle fortunes with his own.

Shenstone. To the Winds.

Mr. Locke, Mr. Law, and Mr. Montesquieu, as well as many other writers, seem to have imagined that the increase of the quantity of gold and silver, in consequence of the discovery of the Spanish West Indies, was the real cause of the lowering of the rate of interest through the greater part of Europe.-Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. ii. c. 4.

It may also serve as an instance, that the lowland Scotch Janguage and the English, at that time, were nearly the same.-Fawkes. Descrip. of May, from G. Douglas, Pref.

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Doeth the wilde asse braye when he hathe grasse? or loweth the oxe when he hathe foddre?-Geneva Bible. Job, vi. 5.

Then after the loudest maner he setteth out the cruelness of the emperor's souldiours, which they vsed at Rome. Tyndall. Workes, p. 327.

And myd strengthe hym drow a doun, & lowde bi gan to
grede.
R. Gloucester, p. 140.
Tho hii seye hem acorded, vor joye loude hii cryde.
Id. p. 309.
Bothe loude & stille.-R. Brunne, p. 300.
Ah blasphemous beast to whose roryng and lowyng no good
christien manne că without heauinesse of heart geue eare.
Sir T. More. Workes, p. 375.
Like to the sound the roring bull forth loowes.
Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. ii.

Ben. Bull Jove, sir, had an amiable low.
Shakespeare. Much Adoe about Nothing, Act v. sc. 4.
Nor is Osiris seen,
In Memphian grove or green,

Trampling the unshowr'd grass with lowings loud.
Milton. Christ's Nativity.

If prayer

Could alter high degrees, I to that place
Would speed before thee, and be louder heard
That on my head all might be visited.- Id. P. Lost, b. x.
Whiles yet his feeble feet for faintnesse reel'd,
Unto the gyaunt loudly she gan call;

"O! helpe, Orgoglio; helpe or else we perish all." Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 8.

His prayers took their price and strength
Not from the loudness nor the length.

Crashaw. Epitaph upon Mr. Ashton.

Thus Phalaris Perillus taught to low,
And made him season first the brazen cow.

Dryden. Ovid. Art of Love.

As from fresh pastures and the dewy field (When loaded cribs their evening banquet yield) The lowing heards return; around them throng, With leaps and bounds, their late imprison'd young. Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. x. So shall we in time grow senseless, not regarding the loudest peals and ratlings of our conscience. Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 16. Neither shal we content ourselves in lonesome tunes, and private soliloquies to whisper out the divine praises; but shall loudly excite and provoke others to a melodious consonance with us.-Id. vol. i. Ser. 8.

So when th' alarum-bell is rung

Of Xanti's everlasting tongue,

The husband dreads its loudness more
Than lightning's flash, or thunder's roar.

Swift. A new Simile for the Ladies by Dr. Sheridan, (1733.)

While we are enjoying, in some favourite scene, the beauties of nature, how powerfully do the murmur of fountains, the lowing of cattle, and the melody of birds, enhance the delight. Stewart. Philosophical Essays, Ess. 1. c. 6. Proclaim their monarch with united voice, And loudly consecrate the public choice.

LOYAL. LOYALIST. LO'YALLY. LOYALTY.

Brooke. Jerusalem Delivered, b. i. Fr. Leal, loyal; ; leauté, loyaulté; It. Leale, Sp. Leal; from the Fr. Loy, the law; q. d. says Skinner, Legalis, (i. e.) bound or attached by law, or according to law,-one who religiously observes that fidelity, which according to the laws he owes to his prince. Faithful to the laws, to allegiance;—generally,— faithful.

LO'YALNESS.

& gaf to Malcolme, kyng of Scotlande,
yat he suld be him leale, bi se & bi lande.

R. Brunne, p 33.
Bot the Northeren men held him no leaule.-Id. Ib.
Jewes, Gentiles, and Sarasines, jugen hem selve,
That leeliche thei by leyven.-Piers Ploutman, p. 292.
What is holy churche frend quoth ich. charite he seyde,
Lyf and love and leaule.
Id. Ib.

This noble did suche labour

Whoever of these rebels willingly should come in, acknowledge his fault, and promise future loyalty, or obedience to his laws declared to them, should be received into favour, have impunity, enjoy protection, and obtain rewards from him.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 41.

Vertue, says he, was much hated and persecuted by the antimonarchic party, being always loyal and faithful to the king and his son.

Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii. c. 2. Note. We too are friends to loyalty. We love The king who loves the law, respects his bounds,

And reigns content within them.-Couper. Task, b. ▼. If, after all, the loyalists should not be received into the bosom of their native country, Britain, penetrated with gratitude for their services, and warm with the feelings of humanity, would afford them an asylum.

To sustene ever the loyalte.-Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. bound) my true and loyall hart. I humbly give my gratious sovereign queene (by service

A Remembrance of the Life of George Gascoigne, Esq. The citizens on their part shewed themselves stout and loyall subiects.-Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 180.

That notwithstanding all the subtill bait.
With which those Amazons his love still crav'd,
To his oune loue his loialtie he saved.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 6.

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So honorably and ioyfully receiued, as eyther their loyalnesse towards the Queen's Majesty or the expectation of their friends did require.-Stow. Queen Elizabeth, an. 1563.

There Laodamia with Evadne moves:
Unhappy both, but loyal in their loves.

What shall thy lubricall and glibberie muse
Live, as shee were defunct.

B. Jonson. Poetaster, Act v. sc. 3. The politician thinks they [crowns and diadems] deserve his pains; and is not discourag'd at the inconstancy of human affairs, and the lubricity of his subject.

Glanvill. The Vanity of Dogmatizing, c. 24. Much lesse shall I positively determine any thing in matters so lubricous and uncertain.

. Id. Pre-existence of Souls, c. 12. The sixth cause is lubrifaction and relaxation; as we see in medicines emollient, such as are milk, honey, mallowes, &c.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 41.

Dryden. Virgil. Æneis, b. vi.
It was the hap and fortune of one Dr. Tho. Bayly, a great
Loyalist, to meet with this nobleman [Worcester] on the
Welsh mountains.
Wood. Athene Oxon. vol. ii. Henry Somerset.

For not only both the ingredients are of a lubricating nature, but there is this advantage gained from their composition, that they do mutually improve one another: for the mucilage adds to the lubricity of the oyl, and the oyl preserves the mucilage from inspissation, and contracting the consistency of a jelly.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii.

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Care is taken, and provision is made for the easie and expedite motion of them; there being to that purpose a twotheir heads or ends.--Id. Ib. fold liquor prepared for the inunction and lubrification of

The shapely limb and lubricated joint.

Cowper. Retirement. Provision is made for the preventing of wear and tear, first, by the polish of the cartilaginous surfaces; secondly, by the healing lubrication of the mucilage.

Paley. Natural Theology, c. 8. It [water] is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.

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Burke. On the Sublime and Beautiful, pt. iv. 8. 21. Further provision [is made] for its defence, for its constant lubricity and moisture, which we see in its socket and its lids, in its gland for the secretion of the matter of tears. its outlet or communication with the nose for carrying off the liquid after the eye is washed with it.

LUCENT. LUCID. LUCIDITY.

LUCIDNESS.

Paley. Natural Theology, c. 6.

Fr. Lucide; It. Lucido, lucente; Sp. Lucido, luciente; Lat. Lucidus. Lucens, pres. part. of lucere, to shine, to enlighten. The Lat. Lux is derived, — Gr. Año τηs λvкNS, the (See light of dawn. Vossius.) The sun had anciently the name of Aukos, which Lennep derives from Ave, solvere, aperire. See LIGHT.

LUCIFEROUS. LUCIFEROUSLY. LUCIFICK.

LUCIFORM.

Light, enlightening, shining, bright, brilliant splendid.

Lucid, (met.)clear, unclouded; having th mind or understanding clear and unclouded. I meant to make her faire, and free, and wise, Of greatest blood, and yet more good than great, I meant the day-starre should not brighter rise, Nor lend like influence from his lucent seat.

B. Jonson, Epig. 7

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Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iii.
The sonne of Maia, soone as he receiv'd
That sword, streight with his azure wings he cleav'd
The liquid clowdes and lucid firmament.

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Spenser. Mother Hubberd's Tale. The long dissentions of the two Houses had had, in the imes of Henry the fourth, Henry the fifth, and a part of Henry the sixth, on the one side, and the times of Edward the fourth on the other, lucide interuals and happy pauses. Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 7. Lucid and shining obtain their so being of the light; and therefore if we derive this being of light from a former, then would the progress go on infinitely and against nature.

Ralegh. History of the World, b. i. c. 1. s. 7.

The spaciousness of their souls that are extended in perfect contemplation, is aptly figured by that property of the sea: their equanimity and clearness, by the smoothness and lacidaess of glass, &c.

Mountague. Devoute Essayes, pt. i. Treat. 20. s. 1.

Sadden, the lucent orb drops swiftly down,
Through western skies, to shine in worlds unknown.
To the Mem. of Mr. Hughes by W. Cowper, March 28, 1720.

For, whereas it may by some be thought improper for me to call our luciferous matter a self-shining substance, in regard that it is not lucid, without the concurrence or help of the air; I answer, that I do (and justly may) employ the word self-shining, to signify, that the light our matter adfords, is not a light borrowed from any external lucid, as a done by the Bolonian stone, and the phosphorus Balduini, but proceeds, as it were, from an inward principle of light. Boyle. Works, vol. iv. p. 394.

The incidness was constant, though the vial that contained it was kept stopt.-Id. Ib. p. 388.

Embrace not the opacous and blind side of opinions, but that which looks most luciferously or influentially into goodness-Brown. Christian Morality, vol. iii. p. 8.

When the rays are made to converge, and so are mixed gether, though their lucifick motion be continued, yet by terfering one with another, that equal motion, which is the colorifick, is interrupted.

Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. ii. c. 2. s. 14.

Plato speaketh of the mind, or soul, as a driver that guides and governs a chariot, which is, not unfitly, stiled avyoeides, auciform æthereal vehicle.-Berkeley, Siris, s. 171.

In the dale they found

A spring perennial in a rocky cave.-
Full to the margin flow'd the lucid wave.

LUCK.

LUCKY.

Fawkes. Theocritus, Idyl. 22. Dut. Luck, Geluck; Ger. Gluck; Sw. Lycka. From the LUCKILY. Gr. Aayxavew, sortiri, or the LECKINESS. Gr. TAUKU, dulce, (Casaubon, LUCKLESS. Junius.) From the Ger. Gleichto please, (Wachter.) The Goth. Liudan, crescere, appears to satisfy Ihre; (liudith, increit he finds in Mark iv. 27.) Tooke is more decisive and satisfactory. "Luck (good or bad) is the past tense and past part. of the A. S. Laccalec-gan, laccean, prehendere, apprehendere, to catch; and means (something, any thing) Caught Instead of saying that a person has had good luck, it is not uncommon to say, he has had A good catch." Luck, then, is simply

A catch, a seisure; thus, the haul or drag of the fisherman would be his luck, as many fish as he would catch or take :-hap; fortune, chance, or

accident.

Lacky, adj.is usually applied, when the fortune
good; favourable, propitious.

And if to light on you my luck so good shall be,
hall be glad to fede on that, which would have fed on me.
Surrey. Of a Lady who refused to daunce with him.
When lucky gale of winde

All thy puft sailes shall fill, looke well about.

Id. Praise of Meane and Constant Estate.
Further, other some fell vpon a good & a fruytful grounde,
gyng vp luckely brought forthe fruyte, yet not all
Ayse but according to the goodnesse of the grounde.
Udal. Matt. c. 13.

For whiles I thee beheld, in carefull thoughtes I spent,
Mying lust, my luckelesse loue which euer truely ment.
Gascoigne. The Refusal of a Louer.
The contrarily construed it as good luck on his side, and

accesse in his affaires.-Savile. Tacitus. Hist. p. 18. may some gentle muse

icky words favour my destin'd urn; And as he passes turn,

Abid fair peace be to my sable shroud.

Milton. Lycidas.

This enterprise being thus luckilie atchiued, the residue
of the people in those parties were put in such feare, that
of their owne accord they turned to their woonted obedience.
Holinshed. England. King John, an. 1199.

Sith Heven thee deignes to hold in living state,
Long maist thou live, and better thrive withall,
Then to thy lucklesse parents did befall.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 1.

This lucky hour the wise Batavian takes,
And warns his tatter'd fleet to follow home:
Proud to have so got off with equal stakes,
Where 'twas a triumph not to be o'er-come.

Dryden. Annus Mirabilis, s. 134.

He who sometimes lights on truth, is in the right but by chance; and I know not whether the luckiness of the accident will excuse the irregularity of his proceeding.-Locke.

There is not in the habitable globe so dire a torment: [as marriage] I feel it to my sorrow; the better luck is his, who has never tried it.-Observer, No. 136.

Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus. Johnson. Life of Waller.

Those luckless beings, being born with duller faculties. or
stamped by the hand of Nature with oddities either of
humour or of person, seem to be set up in Society as butts
for the arrows of raillery and ridicule.-Observer, No. 84.

LUCRE.
Fr. Lucrative, lucratif;
LU'CRATIVE.
It. Lucro, lucrativo; Sp.
LUCRIFEROUS. Lucro, lucrativo; Lat. Lu-
LUCRIFEROUSNESS.
crum, eâ formâ a lutum,
LU'CROUS.
quâ a lavatum est lava-
crum (says Vossius.) It is applied to
Gain, acquisition, profit, emolument, or advan-
tage.

Joie ghe in Crist and eschewe ghe man defoulid with lucre.
Wiclif. Laodisensis.

Whiche bringeth in pourtee and dette
To hem, that riche were to fore,

The losse is had, the lucre is lore.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv.
Albeit for profit and lucre all things are set to sale, and
doo bring great gaines as well to the clergie as to the laitie.
Holinshed. Conquest of Ireland, b. i. c. 46.

It is to be noted, that the trade of merchandize, being the
most lucrative, may bear usury at a good rate; other con-
tracts not so.-Bacon. Ess. Of Vsury.

The grand thing that is like to keep this experiment from being as generally useful, as perhaps it will prove lucriferous, is the dearness of sal armoniack.

Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 148.

may speak in my Lord of St. Alban's style) of the properties
And if we impartially consider the lucriferousness (if I
of things, and their medical virtues, we shall find, that we
trample upon many things, for which we should have cause
aud uses.-Id. Ib. vol. ii. p. 30.
to kneel, and offer God praises, if we knew all their qualities

Me (humbler lot !) let blameless bliss engage,
Free from the noble mob's ambitious strife,
Free from the muck-worm miser's lucrous rage,
In calm contentment's cottag'd-vale of life.

Cooper. The Tomb of Shakespeare.

I believe every man has found in physicians great liberality and dignity of sentiment, very prompt effusion of beneficence, and willingness to exert a lucrative art where there is no hope of lucre.-Johnson. Life of Garth.

LUCUBRATION.
LUCUBRA'TORY.

Lat. Lucubratio, from
lucubrare, atum; to do
any thing, to study by the light (luce) of a lamp.
to the time, to
The word is applied, generally, without reference

Meditation, reflections, study.

The meerest trifles I ever wrote are serious philosophical lucubrations, in comparison to what I now busy myself about. Swift. To Pope, Aug. 28, 1731.

You must have a sober dish of coffee, and a solitary candle at your side, to write an epistle lucubratory to your friend. Pope. To Mr. Cromwell, Dec. 21, 1711.

By continual lucubration he [Stephens] diligently ran through all the forms of logic and philosophy, and took the degree in arts.-Wood. Athena Oxon. vol. ii.

LUCULENT. Lat. Luculentus; propriè dicitur luculentus focus, aut caminus; quasi luce plenus; sed merapupikws ad orationem et alia transfertur, (Vossius.)

Enlightened, bright, clear.

They [Magnificat, Benedictus, and Nunc dimittis] are
against the obstinate incredulitie of the Jewes, the most
luculent testimonies that Christian religion hath.
Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. v. s. 40.

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Search the ancient records of time, looke what hath happened by the space of these sixteene hundred yeers, see if all things to this effect be not luculent and cleere.

Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. v. s. 76.

Speaking of his [Ovid's] Metamorphoses (Scaliger says;) Books deserving a more fortunate author; that from his last hand they might have had their perfection: which he himself bewaileth in luculent verses.

LUDICROUS.
Lu'DICROUSLY,
LUDICROUSNESS.
LUDIFICATION.

LUDIFICATORY.

Sandys. Ovid Defended, c. 1.

Fr. Ludicre, ludificatoire; It. Ludificare, -cazione; Lat. Ludicer, vel ludicrus, from lud-ere, to sport or play. Playful, sportive, and,

consequentially, laughable or ridiculous. Ludification,-playfulness, (in mockery or beguiling;) and consequentially, trifling, mockery deception.

But most of all those exhortations ludicrous which are grounded on the law, if the matter be utterly impossible; for exhortations carry the appearance of a serious and charitable intention, and some hope of prevailing.

Whitby. Five Points, Disc. 3. c. 11. s. 4. Some ludicrous schoolmen have put the case, that if an asse were placed between two bundles of hay, which affected his senses equally on each side, and tempted him in the very either.-Spectator, No. 191. same degree, whether it would be possible for him to eat

To see the buffoonery or action correspond so ludicrously with the musick.-Drummond. Travels, p. 52.

The ludicrousness and fugitiveness of our wanton reason might otherwise find out many starting-holes. H. More. Ant. against Idolatry, c. 1. [The lords] swear by the holy altar to be revenged for this ludification and injurious dealing. Baker. King John, an. 1214.

In the sacraments of the church there is nothing empty (or vain), nothing ludificatory.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 39. He has, therefore, in his whole volume, nothing burlesque, and seldom anything ludicrous or familiar. Johnson. Life of Waller. Cicero ludicrously describes Cato as endeavouring to act in the commonwealth upon the School paradoxes which exercised the wits of the Junior students in the Stoick Phi losophy.-Burke. On the French Revolution.

LUFF. See LOOF.

LUG, v. A. S. Ge-luggian, vellere, to LUG, n. pull, pluck, or lugge. Some of LU'GGAGE, n. our countrymen at this day call pull one by the luggs, (Somner.) Sw. Lugga, the ears luggs; hence with us, aurem vellere, to crines vellere, (Ihre.) Lugs in the North of England and in Scotland, is the common name for the ears; and in the former it is a common punishment to pull them. To lug is

To pull or drag; luggage, that which is pulled or dragged (heavily) along; and, consequentially, heavy, cumbrous baggage, or package.

bow. And lugger is a vessel sailing heavily, dragAscham applies the name to a strong, heavy gingly along.

Tyll with luggyng
And with tugging

They fell downe bothe at last.

Sir T. More. Workes. These Foure Things.

And with mighty lugging

Wrestling and tuggyng

He plucked the bul

By the horned skul.-Skelton. The Boke of Philip Sparow.

Then may you heare the pine to crack

that bears his head so hie,

And loftie lugs go then to wrack
which seeme to touch the skie.

Turbervile. A Myrrour of the Fall of Pride.
The one [bowe that I have] is quicke of caste, tricke and
trimme both for pleasure and profite; the other is a lugge,
slow of caste, following the stringe, more sure for to last,
then pleasant for to use.-Ascham. Toxophilus, b. i.
And we here have got us dogs,
Best of all the western breed,
Which though whelps shall lug their hogs,
Till they make their ears to bleed.
Drayton. The Shepherd's Sirena.
His ears hang laving like anew lugg'd swine.

When with the luggage such as lagg'd behind,
Bp. Hall, b. iv. Sat. 1
And that were set the carriages to keep
'Gainst God and Moses grievously repin'd,
Wanting a little sustenance and sleep.

Drayton. Moses his Birth and Miracles.

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