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Ne though I say it, I n' am not lefe to gabbe.

Chaucer. The Milleres Tale, v. 8505.

I have a wif, though that she poure be;
But of hire tongue a labbing shrewe is she.

LA'BEL, U.

Id. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,301.

LABEL, n. Fr. "Lambeau, a shread, rag, for small piece of stuff. Labels hanging downe on garlands or crownes, a labando of falling downe," (Minshew.) Skinner prefers the Ger. Lapp. See LAP.

Any thing falling or depending, suspended or appended; a name, title or description, appended, or, (as now used,) otherwise affixed.

Then haste thou a labell, that is shapen like a rule, saue that it is strait and hath no plates on either ende. Chaucer. The Astrolabie.

It [my beautie] shalbe inuentoried and euery particle and vtensile label'd to my will.

Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Act i. sc. 5.

The said Sir William said on his oth in the tenth yeare of Henrie the fourth, that before the times of Edward the third. the labell of three points was the different appropriat and appurtenant for the cognizance of the next heire. Holinshed. Rich. II. an. 1390.

Until the subtlest of their conjurors
Seal'd up the labeis to his soul-his ears.
Butler. On the Licentious Age of Charles II.

VOL. II.

LA'BIAL, adj. Lat. Labium; Fr. Lèvre; LA'BIAL, n. It. Labbra, labio; the lip. That may be, that are, (formed by, spoken by) the lips.

The Hebrews have been diligent in it, and have assigned, which letters are labiall, which dentall, which gutturall. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 198. The labials are represented by two curve figures for the lips.-Wilkins. Real Character, pt. iii. c. 14.

I sente you to repe that whereon ye bestowed no labour other me laboured, & ye are entred into their labours. Bible, 1551. John, c. 4. Dead be thei, that liue not to God, and in the space of this temporall death laboriously purchase themself eternall death.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 16.

With wery trauel, and with laborous paines
Alwaies in trouble and in tediousness.

But sensibility and intelligence, being by their nature and essence free must be labile, and by their lability may actually lapse, degenerat, and by habit acquire a second nature.

LA'BOUR, v.
LA'BOUR, n.
LA'BOURER.

LABO'RIOUS.
LABORIOUSLY.
LABORIOUSNESS.
LABO'RANT.
LABORATORY.
LA'BOURLESS.
LA'BOUROUS.
LA'BOUROUSLY.
LABOURSOME.

Cheyne. On Regimen, Dis. 5. Fr. Labourer; It. Lavorare; Sp. Laborear; Lat. Laborare; (of uncertain etymology.) Scheidius thinks from Λαβειν, whence ελαBoy, used as the 2d Aor. of Aaußav-ev, to take, to seize. Dixerunt (he adds) λaμßavELV epyov, arripere opus: unde notio operis, s. laboris. To work hard; to work with difficulty or diligence; to bear up against or support, or sustain with diligence, with difficulty, with pain; to exert, to persist, pursue, or prosecute with care or diligence, pain or difficulty; to do any thing with exertion or effort.

To Frankis & Normanz, for thar grete laboure.

R. Brunne, p. 72.
Cometh now quath Conscience, ge cristyne, and dyneth
That han labered leely. at this Lente tyme.
Piers Plouhman, p. 386.

And right anon he changed his aray,
And clad him as a poure labourer.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1411.
My lord is hard to me and dangerous,
And min office is ful laborious.

Id. The Freres Tale, v. 7009.

Adam, well may we labour still to dress
This garden, still to tend plant, herb and flower,
Our pleasant task enjoyn'd; but till more hands
Aid us, the work under our labor grows,
Luxurious by restraint.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ix.
When down he came like an old o'ergrown oak,
His huge root hewn up by the labourer's stroke.
Drayton. David & Goliah.

Who but felt of late,
When the fierce foe hung on our brok'n rear
Insulting, and pursu'd us through the deep,
With what compulsion and laborious flight
We sank thus low.

Millon. Paradise Lost, b. 1.

Then we caused the laborant with an iron rod dexterous'y to stir the kindled part of the nitre.

Boyle. Works, vol. i. p 604. For thankless Greece such hardships have I brav'd, Her wives, her infants, by my labours sav'd; Long, sleepless nights in heavy arms I stood, And sweat laborious days in dust and blood.

Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. ix. Laboriousness shuts the doors and stops all the avenues of the mind, whereby a temptation would enter, and (which is yet more) leaves no void room for it to dwell there, if by any accident it should chance to creep in.-South, vol. vi. Ser. 10.

Whence labour or pain is commonly reckoned an ingredient of industry; and laboriousness is a name signifying it. Barrow, vol. iil Ber W. 7 M

They intend not your precise abstinence from any light and labourless work.

Brerewood. On the Sabbath, (1630.) p. 48.

The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life, which it annually consumes, and which consists always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other na. tions.-Smith. Wealth of Nations, vol. i. Introd.

The number of useful and productive labourers, is every where in proportion to the quantity of capital stock which is employed in setting them to work, and to the particular way in which it is so employed.-Id. Ib.

Why does the juice, which flows into the stomach, contain powers which make that bowel the great laboratory, as it is by its situation the recipient, of the materials of future nutrition?-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 7.

Those who have dragged their understanding laboriously along the tiresome circuit of ancient demonstration, may be unwilling to grant that they have taken all these pains to no purpose.-Beddoes. On the Elements of Geometry, Ded. 11. LABURNUM.

Plinie.

See the quotation from

The cypresse, walnut, chesnut-trees, and the laburnum, cannot in any wise abide waters. This last named, is a tree proper unto the Alpes, not commonly knowne: the wood thereof is hard and white: it beareth a blossome of a cubite long, but bees will not settle upon it.

Holland. Plinie, b. xvi. c. 18. And pale laburnum's pendent flowers display Their different beauties.-Dodsley. Agriculture, c. 2. Laburnum, rich In streaming gold.

Cowper. Task, b. vi. LABYRINTH. Fr. Labyrinthe; It. and LABYRINTHIAN. Sp. Labarinto; Lat. Labyrinthus; Gr. Aaßupiveos; Locus viarum ambagibus ad capiendum aptus, from λaß-ew, to take. A place formed to take or hold, confine, or keep within; difficult to pass through or escape from ; formed with many windings or turnings, or intricate, involved, or perplexed ways or paths: as applied generally,-intricacy, perplexity.

Since wee have finished our obeliskes and pyramides, let us enter also into the labyrynthes; which we may truly say, are the most monstrous works that ever were divised by the hand of man.-Holland. Plinie, b. xiii. c. 13.

And like a wanton girl, oft doubting in her gate,
In labrinth-like turns, and twinings intricate.

And on her legs sne painted buskins wore,
Basted with bends of gold on every side,
And mailes betweene, and laced close afore.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 5.

For striving more, the more in laces strong
Himselfe he tide, and wrapt his winges twaine,
In lymie snares the subtil loupes among.
Id. Muiopotmos.

Cooke. And whom for mutton and kid?
Child. A fine lac'd mutton.

B. Jonson. Neptune's Triumph. A Masque.
He scratch'd the maid, he stole the cream,
He tore her best lac'd pinner.
Prior. The Widow and her Cat.
Mr. Nisby [is] of opinion that lac'd coffee is bad for the
head.-Spectator, No. 317.

He is forced every morning to drink his dish of coffee by

itself, without the addition of the Spectator, that used to be

better than lace to it.-Id. No. 488.

Swift from her head she loos'd, with eager haste,
The yellow curls in artful fillets lac'd.

Hoole. Jerusalem Delivered, b. xv.
By mercers, lacemen, mantua-makers press'd,
But most for ready cash for play distress'd,
Where can she turn?-Jenyns. The Modern Fine Lady.

To rend or tear asunder; to sever-with the parts torn, (and not cut evenly.)

And if the heat breaks through the water with such fury, as to lacerate, and lift up great quantities or bubbles of water, too heavy for the air to carry or buoy up, it causeth what we call boyling. Derham. Physico-Theology, b. ii. c. 5. Note 2. They [nitrous and sulphurous exhalations] force out their way, not onely with the breaking of the cloud, but the laceration of the air about it. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 5.

If there be no fear of laceration, pull it out the same way it went in.-Wiseman. Surgery, b. v. c. 1.

Some depend upon the intemperament of the part ulcerated, others upon the continual afflux of lacerative humours.

Harvey. On Consumption.

Mark, how the labyrinthian turns they take,
The circles intricate, and mystic maze.

Young. Complaint, Night 9.

LACE, v. Also, in old authors, written

LACE, n. }Las. Fr. Lacer, lacet, from the

Lat. Laqueus, (Skinner.) The Lat. Laqueus, and It. Laccio, as well as the Eng. Latch, and lace, are the past tense and past part. of the A. S. Lacc-an, lac-gan, lacc-ean, prehendere, apprehendere, to catch, to hold, (Tooke.)

A lace, any thing which catcheth or holdeth, tieth, bindeth, or fasteneth; applied to cords, or strings, or threads, plain or interwoven of various materials; also to the substance formed by such interweaving.

Laced, as laced coffee, i. e. coffee inter-laced, intermingled, or intermixed with some other ingredient.

Nailing the speres, and helmes bokeling,
Guiding of sheldes, with lainers lacing.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2506.

Hire shoon were laced on hire legges hie.

Id. The Milleres Tale, v. 3268.

Hither the feble pair, by mutual aid,
The warrior's lacerated corpse convey'd.
Lewis. Statius. Thebais, b. xii.
Minshew derives from the Fr.

LACHESSE.} Lascher, w Lasche, slacke, loose, slow, remisse. (See LASH.) Skinner, from Lat. Larus. Lache, in Chaucer, says Junius, is explained-sluggish, dull, heavie, lazie; and he suspects that lache was the original way of writing lazie. (See LAZY.) The Dut. Laecken, Eng. Lacke, is deficere, deesse; the noun Laecke, defectus; and lache may be the same word, ke softened into che; meaning

A defect or failure, a want, (sc.) of strength, of activity, care, diligence and thus, consequentially, slackness or sluggishness; remissness, negligence.

The lord of hus lacchese, and hus luther sleuthe,

By nom hym al that he hadde.-Piers Plouhman, p. 141. And if he be slowe, and astonyed, and lache, men shall holde him lyke to an asse.-Chaucer. Boecius, b. iv. Then cometh lachesse, that is, he that whan he beginneth any good werk, anon he wol forlete and stint it. Id. The Persones Tale.

The first point of slouth I call
Lachesse, and is the chief of all,
And hath this properly of kinde,
To leuen all thyng behinde.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv.

The law also determines that in the king can be no negligence, or laches, and therefore no delay will bar his right. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c. 7.

LA'CHRYMAL. LA'CHRYMARY.

And plant my plaint within her brest, Who doutlesse may restore againe My harmes to helth, my ruth to rest, That lased is within her chaine.

LACHRYMATORY.

μα,

Vucertaine Auctors. The Louer thinkes no paine, &c.

Fr. Lachrymal; It. Lagrimal; Sp. Lacrymoso; Lat. Lacrima; Gr. Aaxpu

& changed into 1, a tear. That can or may shed tears, that can or may weep.

No lamps, included liquors, lachrymatories, or tear-bottles, attended these rural urnes, either as sacred unto the Manes or passionate expressions of their surviving friends. Browne. Urne-Burial, c. 3.

It is of an exquisite sense, that, upon any touch the tears might be squeezed from the lachrymal glands, to wash and clean it.-Cheyne. Philosophical Principles.

What a variety of shapes in the ancient urns, lamps, lachrymary vessels.-Addison. Italy. Rome.

The learned Mr. Wise, late Radclivian librarian, had a glass lachrymatory, or rather a sepulchral aromatic phial, dug up between Noke and Wood-Eaton. Warton. History of Kiddington, p 57.

Where is & shall be eternall

Joy, incomparable myrth without heaviness,
Loue with charity and grace celestiall

Lasting interminable, lacking no goodness.
R. Gloucester, p. 548. App.

Fair scho was. thei seiden, & gode withouten lak.

R. Brunne, p. 95.

Ac ich wolle lacke no lyf. quath that lady sotthly.

See LAKE, and the quotation from Dampier.

The lack of Tonquin is a sort of gummy juice, which drains out of the bodies or limbs of trees. The cabinets,

desks, or any sort of frames to be lackered, are made of fir, or pine tree. The workhouses where the lacker is laid on, are accounted very unwholesome.

Dampier. Voyages, an. 1633 What shook the stage, and made the people stare f Cato's long wig, flowr'd gown, and lacquer'd chair. Pope. Imitation of Horace, Ep. 1. Alum and lacque, and clouded tortoiseshell.

LACKEY, v. Fr. Lacquay It. Lacapo. LA'CKEY, R. Junius (who proposes the verb to lacke; q. d. one who lacks, is poor or indigent, and therefore servile) interprets the Goth. Laikan, saltare, exultare. Wachter,-the Ger. Lek-en, the same; and also currere, and lakei, curror. Inre, the Sw. Lacka, currere, and Lack-ere, cursor, a runner. Hence also the Eng. Leg; and thence a lacquey, one who uses his legs, (a legger.) A runner, a running follower or attendant, a runner of errands, a footboy; gerdly, a follower or attendant.

Tueye luther lackes heyth yn alot. R. Gloucester, p. 389. Than they of Heynnaulte bought lyttle nagges to ryde at Qeyr ease, (and they sent back) theyr lackettes and pages. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, c. 18. To a prince of ours, a page of theirs they set, And a French lacquey to an English lord.

Drayton. The Battle of Agincourt. Harp. To clear your doubts, he doth return in triumph, Kings lackeynge by his triumphal chariot.

Massinger. The Virgin Martyr, Act i. sc. 1.

What cause could make him so dishonourable
To drive you so on foot, unfit to tread
And lackey by him, 'gainst all womanhead.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 2.

You that were once so economic, Quitting the thrifty style laconic,

Turn prodigal in makeronic.

Denham. 4 Dialogue between Sir J. Pooley & Mr. Killegrew.

At Gaunt we fell upon a Cappucine novice, which wept His bitterly, because he was not allowed to be miserable. head had now felt the razor, his back the rod: all that laconical discipline pleased him well.

Bp. Hall, Dee. 1. Ep. 5. Alexander Nequam, a man of great learning born at Saint Albanes, and desirous to enter into religion there, after hee had signified his desire, wrote to the abbot laconically. Camden. Remaines. Allusions.

The hand of providence writes often by abbreviatures, hieroglyphicks, or short characters, which, like the Laconism on the wall (Dan. iii. 25) are not to be made out but by a bint or key from that Spirit which indited them. Brown. Christ. Mor. i. 25.

And I grow laconic even beyond laconicisme, for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long.-Pope. To Swift, Aug. 17, 1736.

King Agis, therefore, when a certain Athenian laughed at the Lacedæmonian short swords, and said the jugglers would swallow them with ease upon the stage, answered in zis laconic way, And yet we can reach our enemies' hearts with them.-Langhorne. Plutarch, vol. i. Lycurgus.

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1

After it hath been strained through those enrious co

Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iv. c. 9. I might next trace it through the several meanders of the guts, the lacteals, and to the blood.-Id. Ib.

This laclean whiteness ariseth from a great number of little stars constipated in that part of heaven, flying so swiftly from the sight of our eyes, that we can perceive nothing but a confused light.-Moxon. Astron. Cards, p. 13.

Among pot-herbs are some lactescent plants, as lettice, endive, and dandelion, which contain a most wholesome juice, resolvent of the bile, anodyne and cooling, extremely useful in all diseases of the liver. Arbuthnot. On Aliments, Prop. 4.

And this laclescence, if I may so call it, does also commonly ensue, when spirit of wine being impregnated with those parts of gums or other vegetable concretions, that are supposed to abound with sulphureous corpuscles, fair water is suddenly poured upon the tincture or solution. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 219. He makes the breasts to be nothing but glandules of that sort they call conglomeratæ, made up of an infinite number of little knots or kernels, each whereof hath its excretory vessel, or lactiferous duct.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. i. LAD.

Junius derives from A. S. Læd-an, LADKIN. ducere, to lead or guide; because children are led or educated to manly virtues. Skinner and Lye prefer A. S. Leode, people, (see the quotation from Piers Plouhman); also, as the latter asserts, signifying juvenis; but leode means a companion, follower, or attendant, and may itself be from lad-an, to lead. Lad will thus mean

One who, on account of his tender years, is under a leader, guide, or director: a male child, a boy; generally, a youth; or one acting in the See LASS. services usually performed by youth.

wille

And the more he hath and wynneth the world at hus And lordeth in leedes the lasse good he needeth. Piers Plouhman, p. 187. Be large ther of while hit laste to leedes that ben needy. Id. Ib. There is a lad here, which hath fiue barly loues and two fishes; but what is that amōg so many. Bible, 1551. John, c. 6. Then the babes be plukt from their mothers' bosoms) and laddes but of their fathers handes to be slayne. Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, Epist. Ded. The russling northern lads, and stout Welshmen try'd it. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 22. Tharrhon that young ladkin hight He prayed his aged sire.-More. On the Soul, pt. iii. s. 31. Young Colin Clout, a lad of peerless meed, Full well could dance, and deftly tune the reed; In every wood his carols sweet were known, At every wake his nimble feats were shown.

Gay. The Shepherd's Week. Tuesday.

LA'DDER. A. S. Hladre; Dut. Ladder; Ger. Leiter; from A. S. Læd-an; Dut. Leed-en; Ger. Leiten; to lead; q. d. Ductor, scala etiam ad altiora loca ducimur, (Skinner :) quod scandentem ducant et dirigant, (Kilian.) Wachter resorts to the Celtic Klettern, to mount or climb. name is given to

The

A machine formed of steps, supported at each end by upright side-pieces.

The kyng by an laddere to the ssyp clam an hey.

R. Gloucester, p. 333. Foure of his old foos han it espied, and setten ladders to the walles of his hous, and by the windowes ben entred, and beten his wif-Chaucer. The Tale of Melibeus.

They sodainly with great force and outery assayed to scale the trenches. the most part by setting vp ladders, others climing ouer the heads of their fellowes vpon a target fence. Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 150.

But after they were come to Syria, men named them Climacides, as one would say ladderesses, for that they used to lie along, and to make their backs stepping stools or ladders, as it were for queens and great men's wives to get upon, when they would mount into their coaches. Holland. Plutarch, p. 71.

If the barren sound
Of pride delights thee, to the topmost round
Of fortune's ladder got, despise not one,
For want of smooth hypocrisy undone.

Churchill. Sermons, Ded.
LADE, v.
A. S. Lad-an; Dut. Laden;
LA'DING, n. Ger. Laden; Sw. Ladda. See
TO LOAD.

Warton, Ecl..

If large the vessel, and her lading large,
And if the seas prove faithful to their charge,
Great are your gains.-Cooke. ilesiod. Works & Days, b ii.

LA'DLE,

SA. S. Hladle.

LADE, v. A. S. Hlad-an, to draw out. Camden says that lade is a passage of water, and that aquæductus in the old Glossarie is translated water-lada. Hence it appears that hladan, to draw out, is merely a consequential usage of led-an, to lead, guide, or conduct; and that water-lada is a conduit for water; that by which water may be conducted or drawn off. The application is,—

To dip (sc. some vessel or implement) into water or other liquid, and throw out the contents or quantity received.

And lerede men a ladel bygge. with a long stele.
Piers Piouhman, p. 380.
Alas that he ne had hold him by his ladel!
Chaucer. The Manciples Prologue, v. 17,000
Some stirr'd the molten owre with ladles great.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 7.
Like one that stands vpon a promontorie,
And spyes a farre-off shore, where he would tread,
Wishing his foot were equall with his eye,
And chides the sea, that sunders him from thence
Saying hee'le lade it dry to haue his way.

Shakespeare. 3 Pt. Hen. VI. Act ii

"Oh! may your altars ever blaze! A ladle for our silver-dish

Is what I want, is what I wish." "A ladle!" cries the man, "a ladle! Odzooks, Corisca, you have pray'd ill."-Prior. The Ladle.

LA'DY. LA'DJED.

Tooke has written more elaborately than usual upon the LA'DYFY, U. origin of this word, and he traces LA'DILY. it to the A. S. Hlaf, the past He supposes hlaf, part. of hlif-ian, to raise. first, by receiving the common participial termination, ed, to become hlaf-ed, then by contraction hlafd, and further by the addition of the common adjective termination ig, hlafd-ig, or by omitting the initial h, laf, lafed, lafd, lafd-ig, the ig being as usual softened to y. By the mere suppression of the f, lafd-y becomes lady; meaning one lifted, raised or elevated, (sc.) to the rank of her husband or lord, (see LORD.) Serenius finds the word written lafd-a in Goth. and Dr. Jamieson lafd-e in Icelandic; and as in R. Gloucester, it is written leuedy. See Jamieson, in v. Laird.

That heo comen alle to London the hey men of this londe
And the leuedys al so god, to ys noble fest wyde.
R. Gloucester, p. 156
For mony was the faire ledy, that y come was therto.
Id. Ib.
The eldre man to the chosun ladi and to hir children.
Wiclif. 2 Jon, c. 1.
The elder to the electe ladye and hir children.

Bible, 1551. Ib

A lovely ladie rode him faire beside,

Id. Ib.

Upon a lowly ass more white than snow; Yet she much whiter; but the same did hide Under a vele, that wimpled was full low.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 1.
To be plain argues honesty; but to be pleasing argues
Hiscretion. Sores are not to be anguisht with a rustick
pressure, but gently stroak'd with a ladied hand.
Fellham, pt. i. Res. 8.

More did I feare, than euer in
Your ladiship I found,
Disdainefull lookes from those faire eyes
That me with loue did wound.

Warner. Albion's England, b. xi. c. 64.

And now and then among, of eglantine a spray,
By which again a course of lady-smocks they lay.
Drayton. Poly-Oibion, s. 15.
He made a knight,
And your sweet mistress-ship ladyfied, you wore
Satin on solemn days, a chain of gold,
A velvet hood, rich borders, &c.

Massinger. The City Madam, Act iv. sc. 4.

The soldier here his wasted store supplies,
And takes new valour from his ladie's eyes.

Waller. Instructions to a Painter.

This lady-fly I take from off the grass,
Whose spotted back might scarlet red surpass,
Fly, lady-bird, North, South, or East, or West,
Fly where the man is found that I love best.

Gay. The Shepherd's Week. Thursday.

Such as your titled folks would choose
And lords and ladyships might use,
Which style whoever would succeed in,
Must have small wit and much good breeding.

LAG, v. LAG, n. LAG, adj. LA'GGARD.

Lloyd. To G. Colman, Esq. 1761. Skinner thinks lag is quasi lang, (then omitted,) from the A. Š. Lang, long; as we say, he stayes long, hee's long a comming. Minshew derives from log, truncus, and it is not improbable that it may have the same origin, viz. the Goth. Lag-yan, A. S. Lecgan, to lay or lie; and, consequentially, to remain at rest, inactive, sluggish.

LA'GGER.

To move slowly or sluggishly, to tarry or remain behind, to come or follow slowly after; to come in late or latterly, at the latter end, after others. For a gunstone I say had all to lagged his cap. Skelton. The Crowne of Laurell.

When with the luggage such as lagg'd behind,
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, b. iii.

O gods, the senators of Athens, together with the common legge of people, what is amisse in them, you gods, make sutcable for destruction.

Shakespeare. Timon of Athens, Act iii. sc. 6.

There, I take it,

They may cum priuilegio, wee [wear] away
The lag end of their lewdnesse, and be laughed at.
Id. Hen. VIII. Act i. sc. 3.
Some tardie cripple bare and countermand,
That came too lagge to see him buried.

Johnson. Vanity of Human Wishes.

LAINER, Fr. straps or thongs, (Tyrwhitt.) Skinner writes it lamers, thongs; and suggests the Lat. Lamina.

Nailing the speres, and helmes bokeling,
Guiding of sheldes, with lainers lacing.

Chaucer. The Knighles Tale, v. 2507. LAIR, or Skinner writes it leer, clearly LARE. enough, he says, from Ger. Læger, cubile, and this from liegen, to lay. It is immediately from lay, or lai, layer or lair.

The place where any one (deer or other animal) lays or is laid. Applied to the land or pasture in which they lie. In Hardyng's Chronicle (quoted by Dr. Jamieson) the place where Arthur was laid in burial.

The mynster church, this day of great repayre
Of Glastenbury, where now he has his leyre.
Harding. Chronicle, p. 77.
More hard for hungrey steed t'abstaine from pleasant lare.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 8.
Instead of his Emylia faire
This gyant's sonne that lies there on the laire

A headlesse heap, him unawares there caught.-Id. Ib.
Haue the winters been so set,

To raine and snowe, they have wet
All his driest laire.

By which means his sheep have got
Such a deadly curelesse rot

A large expanse of water within land, or having no immediate connexion with the sea.

And the lake [lacus] was trodun withoute the citee, and the blood went out of the lake til to the bridelis of horsis bi Wiclif. Apocalips, c. 14. And sprincles eke the water counterfet, Like unto blacke Auernus lake in hell.

furlongis a thousynde and sixe hundride

Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. iv. So stretcht out huge in length the arch-fiend lay Chain'd on the burning lake.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. i. Our spacious lakes; thee, Larius, first; and next Bonacus, with tempest'ous billows vext.

Dryden, Virgil, Geor. 2.

I started up, and looking out, observed by the light of the moon the lake [Desensanoj in the most dreadful agitation,

and the waves dashing against the walls of the inn, and resembling the swellings of the ocean, more than the petty agitation of inland waters.-Eustace. Italy, vol i. c. 5.

LA'KENS. The diminutive of our lady, i. e. ladykin, (Steevens.)

By our lakens brother husband (qh. she,) but as properlye as yt was preached, yet woulde I rather abyde the perill of breding wormes in my bely by eating of fleshe without breadde, then to eate with my meate the breadde that I wist well wer poysoned.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 849.

Gon. By'r laken, I can go no further, sir, My old bones akes.-Shakespeare. Tempest, Act iii. sc. 3. LAMB, v. LAMB, N. LA'MBKIN.

But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest,
The beast is laid down in his lair;
Even here is a season of rest
And I to my cabin repair.

Cowper. Verses, supposed to be written by A Selkirk. LAIT, n. Perhaps from the A. S. Lat-an, æstimare, reputare, judicare. Skinner prefers the Fr. Laicter, lactare.

Incessantly busie her prey for to gete, To bring to the lure whom she doth lait. Chaucer. The Remedie of Loue. LAITY. Sec LAY. LAKE. Tyrwhitt remarks, -it is difficult to Laecken, Belg. say what sort of cloth is meant. signifies both linen and woollen cloth, (Kilian.) Fine cloth and lawn (says Skinner.) Somner has lach, chlamys, a kind of garment.

He didde next his white lere Of cloth of lake fin and clere.

Yet not content, more to encrease his shame,
Whenso she lagged, as she needs mote so.
He with his speare (that was to him great blame)
Would thumpe her forward and inforce to goe.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 2.

To this, Idomeneus: "The fields of fight
Have prov'd thy valour, and unconquer'd might;
And were some ambush for the foes design'd,
Ev'n there, thy courage would not lag behind.

Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xiii.

Decrepit winter, laggard in the dance, (Like feeble age oppress'd with pain) A heavy season does maintain,

Architecture, who no less

With driving snows, and winds, and rain.

Non lyckore ys brother hym nas, than an wolf ys a lombe.
R. Gloucester, p. 280.
And gaf the kyngdome to hus knave. that kept sheep &
lambren.
Piers Plouhman, p. 59.

Go ye lo Y sende you: as lambren among woluys.
Wiolif. Luke, c. 10.
Go your wayes: beholde, I sende you forthe as lambes
among wolues.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

So 'twixt them both they not a lambkin left;
And, when the lambs fail'd, the old sheepes lives they reft.
Spenser. Mother Hubberd's Tale.

I finde those that commend use of apples, in splenaticke and this kinde of melancholy (lambs-wool some call it) which howsoever approved must certainely be corrected of cold rawnesse and winde Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 395.

In the warm folds their tender lambkins lie
Apart from kids, that call with human cry.

Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. xiii.
Ev'n while I sing,

Yon wanton lamb has crop't the woodbine's pride,
That bent beneath a full-blown load of sweets,
And fill'd the air with perfume.

Mason. The English Garden, b. ii.
Nor dread we more the rigour of the year,
Than the fell wolf the fearful lambkins dreads
When he the helpless fold by night invades.