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 nations. 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 Cowper. Task, b. vi. In streaming gold. 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, 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. Læcc-an, lec-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, Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2506. Hire shoon were laced on hire legges hie. ་ And on her legs she painted buskins wore, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 5. For striving more, the more in laces strong B. Jonson. Neptune's Triumph. A Masque. 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, By mercers, lacemen, mantua-makers press'd, LACERATE, v. LACERA'TION. LACERATIVE. Fr. Lacérer; It. Lacerare; Sp. Lacerar; Lat. Lacerare, from the Gr. Aakew, which not only denotes sonare, crepare, but also cum crepitu rumpi, ut fit in iis, quæ lacerantur. LA'CERABLE. 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. Since the lungs are obliged to a perpetual commerce with the air, they must necessarily lie open to great damages, because of their thin and lacerable composure.-Id. Ib. Hither the feble pair, by mutual aid, The warrior's lacerated corpse convey'd. Lewis. Statius. Thebais, b. xii. LACHE. Minshew derives from the Fr. LA'CHESSE. Lascher, or 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 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. 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. But tho' each Court a jester lacks, LA'CKER, v. LA'CKER, or LACK, n. Dodsley. The Kings of Europe. To lay on, to cover with lacquer, or lacque, i. e. with a 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. 1638. What shook the stage, and made the people stare! Cato's long wig, flowr'd gown, and lacquer'd chair. Pope. Imitation of Horace, Ep. 1. Alum and lacque, and clouded tortoiseshell. Dyer. The Fleece, b. iv In vases, flow'r pots, lamps, and sconces, Cawthorn. The Antiquarians Or oblong buckle, on the lacker'd shoe, With polish'd lustre, bending elegant In shapely rim Jag. Edge Hill, b. W LACKEY, v. Į Fr. Lacquay; It. Lacayo. 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. Læk-en, the same; and also currere, and lakei, curror. Ihre, 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; generally, a follower or attendant. Tueye luther lackes he aldo wyth y al ont. R. Gloucester, p. 389. Drayton. The Battle of Agincourt. Massinger. The Virgin Martyr, Act i. sc. 1. So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, ་ After it hath been strained through those curious co- I might next trace it through the several meanders of the little stars constipated in that part of heaven, flying so Among pot-herbs are some lactescent plants, as lettice, useful in all diseases of the liver. And this lactescence, if I may so call it, does also commonly He makes the breasts to be nothing but glandules of that LADKIN.} ducere, to lead or guide; because Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 2. | 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 A thousand liveried angels lackey her.-Milton. Comus. Lord of the Seasons! They in courtly pomp Grainger. The Sugar Cane, b. iii. LACONICK. Fr. "Laconizer, to live Denham. A Dialogue between Sir J. Pooley & Mr. Killegrew. At Gaunt we fell upon a Cappucine novice, which wept bitterly, because he was not allowed to be miserable. His head had now felt the razor, his back the rod: all that laconical discipline pleased him well. Bp. Hall, Dec. 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 hint 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 Lis laconic way, And yet we can reach our enemies' hearts with them.-Langhorne. Plutarch, vol. i. Lycurgus. LACTAGE. Lat. Lac, απο του γάλακτος, the first syllable being cut off;-yara, (lac,) says Lennep, appears to have its name from its bright whiteness, and to have sprung from (the obsolete primitive) ya-w, ab explicandi notione translatum ad LACTIFEROUS. eam nitendi,splendendi; transferred from the notion of explaining or making plain and clear, to that of brightening, of shining. Lacteal,-milky, bearing or producing milk, or a liquid resembling milk. It is thought that the offering of Abel, who sacrificed of his flocks, was only wool, the fruits of his shearing; and milk, or rather cream, a part of his lactage. Shuckford. On the Creation, vol. i. p. 79. (Yet were it no easie probleme to resolve) why also from lactary or milky plants which have a white and lacteous Juice dispersed through every part, there arise flowers blew and yellow.-Brown. Fulgar Errours, b. vi. c 10. under a leader, guide, or director: a male child, Gay. The Shepherd's Week. Tuesday. 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. They sodainly with great force and outcry assayed to scale If the barren sound Churchill. Sermons, Ded. To lay or put on, to impose, a weight or burden; to put in, to take in, that which is to be bome or carried;-the cargo. And they laded their asses with the corne and departed thence.-Bible, 1551. Gen. c. 42. Pomegranets, lemons, citrons, so Drayton. The Description of Elysium But before they deuided themselues they agreed, after the Dryden. Virgil, Geor. 3. I'll show thee where the softest cowslips spring Warton, Ecl. J. If large the vessel, and her lading large, LADE, v. A. S. Hlad-an, to draw out. LA'DLE. A. S. Hadle Camden says-that lade is a passage of water, and that aquæductus in it appears that hladan, to draw out, is merely a the old Glossarie is translated water-lada. Hence consequential usage of lad-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. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 7 Shakespeare. 3 Pt. Hen. VI. Act ii, "Oh! may your altars ever blaze! Is what I want, is what I wish." LA'DY. Tooke has written more elaLA'DIED. borately than usual upon the LA'DYFY, U. origin of this word, and he traces LA'DILY. it to the A. S. Hlaf, the past part. of hlif-ian, to raise. He supposes hlaf, 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, lofd, 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 Bible, 1551. ♫♪ Fellham, pt. i. Res. 8. More did I feare, than euer in Warner. Albion's England, b. xi. c. 64. Massinger. The City Madam, Act iv. sc. 4. The soldier here his wasted store supplies, Waller. Instructions to a Painter. This lady fly I take from off the grass, Gay. The Shepherd's Week. Thursday. Such as your titled folks would choose LAG, v. LAG, n. LAG, adj. LA'GGARD. LA'GGER. Lloyd. To G. Colman, Esq. 1761. Skinner thinks lag is quasi lang, (then omitted,) from the A. S. Lang, long; as we say, he stayes Minlong, hee's long a comming. shew 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. 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, 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, Whether you prove a lagger in the race, Or with a vigorous ardour urge your pace, I shall maintain my usual rate: no more. recipients of liquid substances. Lake, in Wiclif, is in the common version wine-press. The usual A large expanse of water within land, or having no immediate connexion with the sea. Francis. Horace, Ep. 2. To Lollius. application is to-Superfluous lags the vet'ran on the stage, Till pitying nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace. Johnson. Vanity of Human Wishes. And the lake [lacus) was trodun withoute the citee, and the blood went out of the lake til to the bridelis of horsis bi Wielif. Apocalips, c. 14. LAINER, Fr. straps or thongs, (Tyrwhitt.) furlongis a thousynde and sixe hundride. Skinner writes it laners, thongs; and suggests the Lat. Lamina. Nailing the speres, and helmes bokeling, Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2507. LAIR, or Skinner writes it leer, clearly LARE. enough, he says, from Ger. Læger, cubile, and this from liegen, to lay. diately from lay, or lai, layer or lair. It is imme 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 This gyant's sonne that lies there on the laire A headlesse heap, him unawares there caught.-Id. Ib. To raine and snowe, they have wet By which means his sheep have got And sprincles eke the water counterfet, Surrey. Virgile. Æneis, b. iv. Dryden. Virgil, Geor. 2. I started up, and looking out, observed by the light of the moon the lake [Desensano] 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, sír, That none living are.-Browne. Shepheard's Pipe, Ec.. 3. the initial letters of the Gr. Auvos. Out of the ground uprose As from his laire the wilde beast where he wonns Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vii. logy, says Wachter, Stiernhiem despises, but suggests no other. Ihre remarks,-Apud Armoricos lamma notat saltare, which does not ill suit this kind of animal. Minshew,—from lamb-ere, to lick. It is applied to The young offspring of the sheep; (met.) to any one having the meekness, innocence of a Dryden. Virgil, Geor. 3. lamb. But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, Cowper. Verses, supposed to be written by A Selkirk. Incessantly busie her prey for to gete, To bring to the lure whom she doth lait. Chaucer. The Remedie of Loue. LAITY. See LAY. LAKE. Tyrwhitt remarks, it is difficult to say what sort of cloth is meant. Laecken, Belg. 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. Chaucer. The Rime of Sire Thopas, v. 13,787. LAKE. Fr. Lacque; It. and Low Lat. Lacca. A word, says the (See Menage and Martinius.) former, of Arabie origin. (And see the quotation from Boyle.) Fr. "Lacque, sanguine; rosie or rubie colour. The true lacca is an Armenian gum, Íd. Hen. VIII. Act 1. sc. 3. used in the dyeing of crimsons, and afterwards (grown artificial) employed by painters," (CotSome tardie cripple bare and countermand, That came too lagge to see him buried. They may cum priuilegio, wee [wear] away Id. Rich. III. Act ii. sc. 1. grave.) And see LACKER. Yet not content, more to encrease his shame, Architecture, who no less A goddess is, that painted cloth, deal board, Vermilion, lake, or crimson can afford Expression for.-B. Jonson. Expostulat. with Inigo Jones. I met the other day, Pyrophilus in an Italian book, that treats of other matters, with a way of preparing what the author calls a lacca of vegetables, by which the Italians mean a kind of extract fit for painting, like that rich lacca in English, commonly called lake, which is employed by Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xiii. painters as a glorious red.-Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 782. To this, Idomeneus: "The fields of fight Decrepit winter, laggard in the dance, (Like feeble age oppress'd with pain) A heavy season does maintain, LAKE. Fr. Lac; It. and Sp. Lago; Lat. Lacus, which Vossius thinks may be from the Gr. Aakis, hiatus terra; and that it means, terra fissa Hughes. Ode to the Creator of the World, recipiens aquam; and hence applied to other With driving snows, and winds, and rain. 1188 Non lyckore ys brother hym nas, than an wolf ys a lombe. Go ye lo Y sende you: as lambren among woluys. So 'twixt them both they not a lambkin left; 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 Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. xiii. Mason. The English Garden, b. ii. Beattie. Virgil, Past. 7. LAMBENT. Lat. Lambens, present LA'MBATIVE, adj. part. of lambere, to lick. LA'MBATIVE, n. Lambere, from the Gr. AaTTew, which means (Vossius) to lick or lap, or to drink by licking or lapping, and itself seems to be formed from the sound. Licking, touching lightly-as with the tongue; moving about or around, as if licking, or touching lightly. Wiseman. Surgery, b. v. c. 5. To stroke his azure neck, or to receive LAME, v. LA'MELY. LA'MENESS. LA'MISH. Cowper. The Task, b. vi. To weaken or debilitate, to And a man that was lame fro the wombe of his modir was borun, and was leid ech dai at the ghate of the temple. Wiclif. Dedis, c. 3. Gower. Con. A. b. v. and etty The golde hath made his wittes lame. d 1 Auf. I cannot help it now, Of our design. Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Act iv. sc. 7. Banck feels no lameness of his knotty gout, A tender foot will be galled and lamed, if you set it going Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 3. Though some part of them [its imperfections] are covered The lamellated antennæ of some, the clavellated of others, are surprizingly beautiful, when viewed through a microscope.-Derham. Physico-Theology, b. viii. c. 4. Note 3. We took an ounce of that [refined silver] and having laminated it, we cast it upon twice its weight of beaten sublimate.-Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 81. I took two parcels of gold, the one common gold thinly laminated, and the other very well refined.-Id. Ib. p. 82. Calcareous marl is-sometimes of a compact, sometimes of a lamellar texture.-Kirwan. On Manures. Thou knowest the teares of my lamentacyon Milton. Paradise Lost, b. i. Ere, who unseen Her teme at her commaundment quiet stands, A hundred and twentie temporall men with diuers préests But among the Britains there was nothing else heard but Congreve. Death of the late Marquis of Blandford. One clad in purple, not to lose his time, Dryden. Persius, Sat. 1. LAMM. Skinner says, perhaps from the Beaum. & Fletch. The Beggar's Bush, Act iii. sc. 3. or first day of August; (q.d.) loaf-mass, perhaps And to the lammasse afterward he spousede the quene. The fift day it was after Lammasse-tide. Oh sacred fyre, that burnest mightily Beaum. & Fletch. The Mgd Lover, Act ii. sc. 1. The splendour of your lamps; they but eclipse Cotgrave has lamponnier, a fond or idle companion, probably from the old Fr. Lamper, potare, to drink, (Lacombe;) and from the ribaldry, slander, and satire in which drinking companions indulge themselves, the word may have derived its application to Satire or abuse of persons, their peculiarities or failings. "Mr. Bettesworth," answered he, "I was in my youth acquainted with great lawyers, who, knowing my disposi tion to satire, advised me, that if any scoundrel or block head whom I had lampooned should ask, 'Are you the author of this paper?' I should tell him that I was not the author: and therefore I tell you, Mr. Bettesworth, that I am not the author of those lines."-Johnson. Life of Swift. Like her, who miss'd her name in a lampoon, Dryden. Essay upon Satire. Libanius must have possessed a consummate impudence, who could address to a Christian emperor a mere panegyric on Paganism, and a lampoon on Christianity; for such is his oration.-Jortin. On the Christian Religion, Dis. 6. LAMPREY. Fr. Lamproye; It. Lampreda; Sp. Lamprea; Lat. Lampetra; a petrá dicta, nempe a lambendis petris. And tho he com hom, he wyllede of an lampreye to ete. R. Gloucester, p. 422 By all the saintes that we prey, But they defend them with lamprey, &c. Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. After the tale of the boy that would fayne haue eaten of the pastie of lamprese, but durst not vnto the belles sang vnto him,-Sit down Jacke and eate of the lampreye. Tyndall. Workes, p. 388. There were found in Cæsar's fish-ponds, lampreyes to have liued threescore years.-Bacon. Hist. of Life & Death, § 11. LANCE, or LA'NCER. LA'NCET. Fr. Lancer, lance; It. Lanciare, lancia; Sp. Lanzar, lanza; Dut. Lancie, lansse; Ger. Lanze; Sw. Lants; Lat. Lancea. The etymologists have written much about this word, and agree in ascribing it to a Celtic origin. (See Vossius, de Vitiis, b. i. c. 3, his Etymologicon in v.-Menage, Wachter, and Ihre.) Wachter and Lye think the root preserved in the Armoric Lança, jaculari, A lance will thus vibrare, to throw, to brandish. signify, generally, any thing thrown; and lance, the verb, or lanch, (qv.) To throw; and (from the form and purpose of a lance) consequentially, to pierce or penetrate; to cut with a lancer or lancet, or small lance, or sharp-pointed instrument. Lance, in ba-lunce, and used uncompounded by Spenser, may be the same word, applied conse Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16, 167. quentially; poise, equipoise. A cheerliness did with her hopes arise 1180 In ys rygt hond ys lance he nom, that yeluped was Ron. And with that word, with all his force a dart Surrey. Virgile. Æneis, b. ii. The surgen launceth and cutteth out the dead flesh, Tyndall. Workes, p. 119. The cut wherof like a lytle launsing knife may let out the foule corrupcion of the soule.-Sir T. More. Workes, p.1391. He carried his lances, which were strong, to give a lancely blow-Sidney. Arcadia. And they cried lowd, and cut themselucs, as their maner was, we knyues and launcers.—Bible, 1551. 3 Kings, c. 18. Whole hosts of sorrows her sick heart assail, Towards them did pace An armed knight, of bold and bounteous grace, İd. Ib. b. iii. c. 7. Raleigh. Hist. of the World, b. v. c. 3. Although at one time there came an army of eighteen thousand foot, at another time an army wherein were reckoned twelve thousand launce-knights. Baker. Hen. VIII. an. 1546. To the rescue whereof, the French king sent an army, under the leading of the Constable of France, which consisted of nine hundred men at arms, with as many light horse, eight hundred reysters, two and twenty ensigns of lancequenets, and sixteen ensigns of French footmen. Id. Queen Mary, an. 1557. Receipts abound; but searching all thy store, The best is still at hand, to launch the sore. Dryden. Virgil, Geor. 3. While making fruitless moan, the shepherd stands, And when the launching knife requires his hands, Vain help, with idle pray'rs from heav'n demands.-Id. Ib. They lightly set their lances in the rest, And, at the sign, against each other press'd. Id. The Flower and the Leaf. With that he drew a lancet in his rage, To puncture the still supplicating sage. Garth. The Dispensary, c. 5. In his pockets he had a paper of dried figs, a small bundle of segars, a case of lancets, squirt, and forceps and two old razors in a leathern envelope.-Observer, No. 88. LANCH, or LAUNCH. } See LANCE. To throw, to send forth, to emit, to dart, to push forth, to push on, to rush forth; also, (as in Spenser,) to pierce as with a lance, or lancet. And see in v. LANCE the quotations from Dryden. And doun his hond he launceth to the clifte, Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 7658. He said vnto them: Let us goe ouer vnto the other syde of the lake. And they lanched forth. Bible, 1551. Luke, c. 8. For. since my brest was launcht with lovely dart Of deare Sansfoy, I never ioyed howre. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 4. That simple fisher-swain Whose little boat in some small river strays; Yet fondly lanches in the swelling main, Soon, yet too late, repents his foolish plays. P.Fletcher. The Purple Island, e. 6. ། They cried to have the sailes hoisted vp, and signe giuen to lanch foorth, that they might passe forward on their iournie.-Holinshed. History of England, vol. i. b. iv. c. 24. In divers enquiries about providence, to which our cu rlosity will stretch itself, it is impossible for us to be resolved, and launching into them we shall soon get out of our depth, so as to swim in dissatisfaction, or to sink into distrust. - Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 23. He chose Menætes from among the rest; At him he launch'd his spear, and pierc'd his breast. Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. xii. We cut our cable, launch into the world, And fondly dream each wind and star our friend. Young. The Complaint, Night 8. LAND, v. Goth. A. S. Ger. Dut. and LAND, n. Sw. Land: of unknown etyLANDING, n. mology. (See Wachter and Ihre.) LA'NDLESS. May it not be formed of (Goth. Lagy,) Lay-en-ed, Lan-ed, Land? As a substance, it is opposed to water. It is also applied to the inhabitants of the land, of the country, or region. It is not unfrequent in composition; and some instances from our elder writers are given. Landlady and landlord are applied to the mistress and master of the house, more especially of a public one. Landskip,-Dut. Landschap; A. S. "Landscipe, a country, a region, a quarter, a coast; whence our land-skip, q.d. land-shape," (Somner.) See the quotation from Dryden. Engelond ys a wel god lond, ich wene of eche lond best, Gower. Con. A. b. vii. And God sayde: let ye waters that are vnder heauen gather themselues vnto one place that the drye land may appere.-Bible, 1551. Genesis, c. 1. And let thy wife visit thy landladye three or four tymes in a yeare, wyth spised cakes, and apples, pears, cherries, and such like.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 210. Yea, poll thyselfe and preuent other, and geue the baylife or like officer now a capon, now a vigge, now a goose, and so to thy landlord likewise.-Id. Ib. For some men there be, that remoue other men's landemarkes.-Bible, 1551. Job, c. 24. There this fayre virgin wearie of her way Daniel. Civil Wars, b. vii. Spenser. Colin Clout's come home again. It is nothing strange that these his landloping legats and nuncios haue their manifold collusions to cousen christian kingdoms of their reuenues.-Holinshed. Hen. III. an. 1244. Were he as Furius, he would defy Such pilfering slips of petty landlordry. Bp. Hall, b. v. Sat. 1. Hence countrie loutes land-lurch their lords And courtiers prize the same. Warner. Albion's England, b. ix. c. 46. Lad. To find out that, good shepherd, I suppose In such a scant allowance of star-light, Would overtask the best land-pilot's art, Without the sure guess of well-practis'd feet. Milton. Comus. Some inventing colours, others shadowes and landskips, and others rules of proportion. Hakewill. Apologie, b. iii. c. 9. s. 3. A tax laid upon land seems hard to the land-holder, because it is so much money going visibly out of his pocket: and therefore as an ease to himself, the landholder is always forward to lay it upon commodities. Locke. On the Lowering of Interest. A good conscience is a port which is land-locked on every side, and where no winds can possibly invade, no tempests can arise.-Dryden. Virgil. Geor. Pref. Divines but peep on undiscover'd worlds, Id. Don Sebastian, Act . sc. 1. The prettiest landscape I ever saw, was one drawn on the walls of a dark room, which stood opposite on one side to a navigable river, and on the other side to a park. Spectator, No. 414. As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.-Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i. c. 6. Religion's harbour, like th' Etrurian bay Secure from storms, is land-lock'd ev'ry way. Harte. Thomas à Kempis. Nothing can be better fancied than to make this enormous son of Neptune use the sea for his looking-glass; but is Virgil so happy when his little landsman says, Non sum adeo informis !-Fawkes. Theocritus, Idyl 6. Note 45. LANE. Dut. Laen; and Lye says, the A. S. have Lana. It may be Hlane, lane, thin, and, therefore, narrow. A narrow way or passage-between houses or hedges, or any lateral confinement. "In the subarbes of a town," quod he, Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Prologue, v. 16,124. It is becomme a turnagaine laine vnto them, which they cannot goe through.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 388. The trees and bushes growing by the streets' sides, doo not a little keepe off the force of the sunne in summer for drieng vp the lanes.- Holinshed. Desc. of Brilaine, c. 19. Forth issuing from steep lanes, the colliers' steeds Drag the black load; another cart succeeds. Gay. Trivia, b. iii. He [the Earl of Chatham, 7 April, 1778] was led into the house by his son and son in law Mr. W Pitt and Lord Vt. Mahon, all the lords standing up out of respect, and making a lane for him to pass to the earl's bench. Belsham. History of England, vol. vi, LANGUAGE, v. LANGUAGE, n. LANGUAGELESS. Fr. Language; It. Linguaggio; Sp. Lengua, lenquada; Lat. Lingua, quasi linga, from Ling-ere, to lick, cum lingua unicum sit linctus instrumentum. That which the tongue utters, or speaks; speech, oral or written; applied to the general character or style of speaking or writing; to the people or nation speaking or writing. For in the langage of Rome, Rane a frogge ys. R. Gloucester, p. 69. And thei spaken the langagis and prophecieden. Wiclif. Dedis, c. 19. And al the worlde was of one toge & one language. Bible, 1551. Genesis, c. 11. To bere this apell was cōmaunded a clerke, well langaged to do such a besynesse.-Berners. Frois. Cron, vol. i. c. 243. In which matter I have used greatly the help of one Swerder, a servant of my lord of Canterbury, a young man well learned, and well languaged, of good soberness and discretion. Sir T Wyatt. To the King, 7 Jan. (1540.) The only languag'd-men, of all the world! B. Jonson. The Fox, Act ii. sc. 2. A new dispute there lately rose Betwixt the Greeks and Latins, whose Temples should be bound with glory In best languaging this story.-Lovelace. Lucasta, pt. i. Our ancient English Saxons language is to be accompted the Teutonicke tonge, and albeit we have in latter ages mixed it with many borrowed words, especially out of the Latin and French; yet remaineth the Teutonicke unto this day the ground of our speech, for no other off spring hach our language originally had then that. Verstegan. Restit. of Decayed Intelligence, c. 7. |