Id. p. 83. We mygte be lordis aloft. and lyve as us lusten.-Id. p. 9. 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, Of mirthe and of solas. LORE, v. Mot thei Lowys hent, he suld haf lorn his heued. Id. Ib. v. 8947. LO'REL, or los-ian, also to lose. Id. Shepheard's Calender. September. 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, It was not the prevention of schism, but it was schism Bp. Hall, b. ii. Sat. 2. Estscones he perced through his chaufed chest, 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, Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. May. Arms are the trade of each plebeian soul; Dryden. Homer. Iliad, b. i. Bat where is lordly Babylon? where now Perhaps been poorly rich, and meanly great, 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 self-dependent lordlings stand alone, LORD. It. Lord; Sp. Laud; Fr. Lourd; 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. Id. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 5855. Why should you plain that lozel swains refuse you? LORICATE, v. Į Lat. Loricare; propriè 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, Thou may haf thi wille, if thou to loue chese, R. Brunne, p. 116. 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 Chaucer. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 1675. Id. The Monkes Tale, v. 14,478. Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 2259. A man for loue his wit to lese.-Gower. Con. A. b. vii. And thus full ofte chalk for chese 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 LO'RIMER. Fr. Lormier, a worker in small blies.-Bp. Hall. Cont. The Resurrection. iron; a loris conficiendis. A maker of bits for Certes, (saith he), Bremichen is a towne maintained LOSE, v. These idle words we answer with silence and scorne. Anciently also written to leese: (with the losse of almost all his horses) wounded out of the 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, 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, 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.) I painted all with amorettes With birdes; liberdes, and lions.-Chaucer. R. of the R. 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. LO'SENGERE. Į Fr. Losengier; Sp. Lison- Alas! ye lordes, many a false flatour 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. 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 When they had crucified hym, they parted hys garmentes And every third yeare withouten dout, Witches, in foretime named lot-tellers; now commonly You goodly sister floods, how happy is your state! Gabriel, to thee thy course by lot hath giv'n The virgins also shall on feastful days Id. Samson Agonistes. Each markt his lol, and cast it in to Agamemnon's caske. LOTION. 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 It is observable, that this provision is not found in fish,- LOUD, or LOWD. See the verb to low or bellow. LOVE, v. Lo'VELY, adj. Euereft he louede hym the more, & al Englysse vor hys Kynewolf, of the kynred of Adelardes blode, 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 Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. 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, Id. Prologue, v. 197. Id. The Rime of Sire Thopas, v. 13,702. Id. Troil. & Cres. b. v. And netheless there is no man So goth the wretche loueless Lo there a nice husbonde, Gower. Con. A. b. i. Id. Ib. b. v. Which thus his wife hath loste for euer, The kynge her weddeth and honoureth.-Id. Ib. I wyll singe of the Lorde, that dealeth so louingelye wit Milton. Paradise Lost, b.i 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 Id. Guilford Dudley to Lady Jane G y to the by old 2. Love e vor by Solyman...from his heart had banish'd Lord Brooke. Mustapha. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. v. The deawy leaves among.-Spenser. Epithalamion. That would she ought, or would she naught, She in love-longing fell. Drayton, Ecl. 4. te in of And in the violet-embroider'd vale From loveless youth to unrespected age, Pope. Mora! Essays, Epist. 2. Bele. Pierre thou art welcome. Come to my breast! for by its hopes, thou look'st Otway. Venice Preserved, Act ii. sc. 3. A generous bottle and a lovesome she, 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. 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. Forlorn of hope the lovely maid I left, Pensive and pale, of every joy bereft : She to her silent couch retir'd to weep, Falconer. The Shipwreck, c. 1. 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 But I will roar aloud and spare not, to the terror of, at ment, a very flourishing society of people, called loungers; temen whose observations are mostly itinerant, and think they have already too much good sense of their a to be in need of staying at home to read other people's. Guardian, No. 124. To my good sir, who have lounged about to such good as to be able to improve others, will. I hope, take weaker brothers and sisters under your direction; and wil make Dunn's rooms a Lounging hall instead of hapel, I think I may venture to assure you it will be der attended in the one character than in the other. LOUSE, . LUISE. 0eip, from p0eip-ev, perdere, corrumpere, sive Chaucer. The Freres Tale, v. 7048. Which herbe [plantaine] hath this good propertie over A taylor despicably poor, Olway. To Mr. Creech. If a rascal can show a louse through a microscope, he LOUVRE. A lover (says Minshew) or tunnel But darknesse dred and daily night did hover Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 11. An envious man, having caught his neighbour's pigeons Bp. Hall, b. v. Sat. 1. Low, the adjective, is,-laid, recumbent; fallen, 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. 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, And of high low, and like for to dy, Chaucer. The Cuckow and the Nightingale, This worthy limitour this noble frere 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, Id. The Complaint of the Black Knight. For what so falle or wele or wo, Fabyan. Philip de Valoys, an. 15. 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 The crowching client, with low-bended knee, Bp. Hall, b. ii. Sat. 3. Darkness now rose, As daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring night Skie low'rd, and, muttering thunder, som sad drops And the Mone the lowest is of the planets. 1233 He is not so diuine, So full repleate with choice of all delights, 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, Percy. Reliques, vol. i. Take thy old Cloak, &c. My Gilderoy baith far and near, And bauldly bare away the gear, Renowned Talbot doth expect my ayde, Id. Ib. Gilderoy. Shakespeare. 1 Pt. Hen. VI. Act iv. sc. 3. And you will rather show our generall lowis, Id. Coriolanus, Act iii. sc. 2. They tender'd their respect, and prince-like she Chalkhill. Thealma & Clearchus. To sage Philosophy next lend thine ear, He took a lowering leave; but who can tell, As lofty pines o'ertop the lowly reed, 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; 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. 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 Ben. Bull Jove, sir, had an amiable low. Trampling the unshowr'd grass with lowings loud. If prayer Could alter high degrees, I to that place "O! helpe, Orgoglio; helpe or else we perish all." Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 8. His prayers took their price and strength Crashaw. Epitaph upon Mr. Ashton. Thus Phalaris Perillus taught to low, 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 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, R. Brunne, p 33. 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. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 6. 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: What shall thy lubricall and glibberie muse 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. 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. 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. H 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 Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iii. 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, 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.- 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 And if to light on you my luck so good shall be, All thy puft sailes shall fill, looke well about. Id. Praise of Meane and Constant Estate. For whiles I thee beheld, in carefull thoughtes I spent, 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 Sith Heven thee deignes to hold in living state, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 1. This lucky hour the wise Batavian takes, 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 LUCRE. Joie ghe in Crist and eschewe ghe man defoulid with lucre. Whiche bringeth in pourtee and dette The losse is had, the lucre is lore.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv. It is to be noted, that the trade of merchandize, being the 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 Me (humbler lot !) let blameless bliss engage, 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. Lat. Lucubratio, from 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 1235 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. 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 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 Turbervile. A Myrrour of the Fall of Pride. When with the luggage such as lagg'd behind, Drayton. Moses his Birth and Miracles. |