Hee's growne a very land-fish languagelesse, a monster. Howe'er, my friend, indulge one labour more, Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. iii. The ends of language in our discourse with others being chiefly these three; First, to make known one man's thoughts or ideas to another. Secondly, to do it with as much ease and quickness, as is possible; and thirdly, thereby to convey the knowledge of things. Language is either abused or deficient, when it fails in any of these three. Locke. Hum. Underst. b. iii. c. 10. Others for language all their cares express, Pope. Essay on Criticism. If this harmonical temperature of the whole body be distributed and put out of tune, weakness and languishing will immediately seize upon it.-Cudworth. Morality, c. 2. s. 7. There repetitions one another meet, Expressly strong, or languishingly sweet. Parnell. On the different Styles of Poetry. Whilst sinking eyes with languishment profess Follies his tongue refuses to confess. King. Art of Love, pt. iv. Methinks the highest expressions that language, assisted with all its helps of metaphor and resemblance, can afford, are very languid and faint in comparison of what they strain to represent, when the goodness of God toward them, who love him, comes to be expressed.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 36. The menstruum also working as languidly upon the coral, as it did before they were put into the receiver. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 114. This languidness of operation may perhaps proceed in great part from the smallness of the pieces of ice that were imployed.-Id. Ib. vol. ii. p. 564. Many sick, and keep up; colds without coughing or run- The Lady-chapel (now Trinity church) at Ely, and the lantern-tower in the same cathedral, are noble works of the same time.-Walpole. Anec. of Painting, vol. i. p. 195. Note. Besides the lanterne that crowns the dome, or rather terminates the cella, is by much too large for the edifice, and seems to crush it by its weight. LAP, v. LAP, n. LA'PPER. Eustace. Italy, vol. ii. c. 3. p. 82 It is usual to consider lap. to fold, and lap, to lick, as two words; and for the first to refer to the A. S. Læppe, which Somner interprets, a small piece of any thing, the coast, or hem of a garment; Dut. and Ger. Lappen, consuere, sarcire: and for the second to the A. S. Lappian; Dut. and Ger. Lappen; Fr. Lapper, lambere, to lick. But the word in all its appliFawkes. Bion. On the Death of Adonis. | cations, seems to be one and the same, with one Now happy he whose toil guire; Sp. Languir; Lat.ning at the nose; only a languidness and faintness. To be faint or weak, ill at ease or diseased; to faint, to fade, to droop, to pine; to be or become delicate or tender; to en Tille Uttred his kosyn, a stiffe knyght in stoure, He gaf hys kyngdom, & died in langoure.-R. Brunne, p. 6. Alle that hadden sike men with dyverse langouris ledden hem to him, and he sette his hondis on ech by hemsilf and heelide hem.-Wiclif. Luke, c. 4. But langwischith aboute questiouns and stryuyng of wordis. Id. 1 Tym. c. 6. He dorste not his sorwe telle, But languisheth, as doth a furie in helle. Mason. Caractacus. And every flower in drooping grief appears Depress'd and languishingly drown'd in tears. Has o'er his languid powerless limbs diffus'd LA'PFUL. LA'PPING, n. LA'PLING. and the same meaning, affording a sufficient cause Armstrong. The Art of Preserving Health, b. iii. edge, or border, or hem of cloth or other material: A sullen languour still the skies opprest, The moath breedeth upon cloth, and other lanifices, especially if they be laid up dampish or wet. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 696. Skinner proposes the Ger. Gelenck, agilis, from lencken, flectere, to bend or turn (nimbly.) It is probably no other than the A. S. Lenc, i. e. Id. The Persones Tale. long; and, therefore, lean or spare. See FLANK. Long, or lengthened, (sc.) to excess; and thus, slender, spare, meagre. Chaucer. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 11,262. Sometime it cometh of languishing of the body. Now wol I speke of woful Damian, But well was seene in her colour, That she had lived in languour. Id. Rom. of the Rose. O medicine sanatife of sore langorous. Id. The Craft of Louers. Thence come the teares, and thence the bitter torment, The sighes, the wordes, and eke the languishment. Wyatt. Complaint upon Loue. They that were of Pithagoras' discipline, among all the precepts of Pithagoras, they kept these rules, and most & oftest vsed the. That languishnes should be auoided and put from the body. Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, c. 5. So that the kindly joy of the health and life of the body should be much depraved, or made faint and languid, by the unbridled humours and impetuous luxury and intemperance of the earthly-minded Adam. H. More. The Moral Cabbala, c. 3. s. 16. One desparate greefe cures with anothers languish. Shakespeare. Romeo & Juliet, Act i. sc. 2. Faire nymph, surcease this death-alluring languish, So rare a beautie was not borne for anguish. Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. i. s. 1. [Visibles and audibles] do languish and lessen by degrees, according to the distance of the objects from the sensories. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 255. What is there ells, but cease these fruitless paines, Who now was falne into new languishment My thighes are thin, my body lanck and leane. Gascoigne. Dan Bartholomew of Bathe. That flow'd from her lanck syde Downe to her foot with carelesse modestee. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 9. And all this (It wounds thyne honor that I speake it now) Was borne so like a souldiour, that thy cheeke So much as lanked not. Shakespeare. Antony & Cleopatra, Act i. sc. 4. Who would not choose rather to be deformed or impotent in his body, than to have a misshapen mind: to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 16. Here the lank-sided miser, worst of felons, Who meanly stole, (discreditable shift) From back and belly too, their proper cheer. Blair. The Grave. LANTERN. Fr. Lanterne; It. and Sp. Lanterna; Lat. Laterna, from latere, quia in eâ latet ignis, (Vossius.) Junius adds,—a vento tutus. That in which a light is placed, (sc.) to hold and preserve it: applied generally and met. toA light; any thing that lights or illuminates. The louvre or lantern (see the quotations from Holland and Walpole) "is (says Steevens) in ancient records called lanternium, and is a spacious round or octagonal turret full of windows, by means of which cathedrals, and sometimes halls, are illuminated." Note on Romeo and Juliet, Act v. sc. 3. He loked lyk a lantñe, al hus lyf after. Piers Plouhman, p. 137. Ne me teendith not a lanterne and puttith it undir a bushel.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 5. And tho she hath do set vp light Upon a toure, where she goth ofte.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv. the clothes over the knees, thighs, or breast. To lap, then, may be explained,— To fold or turn over, to enfold, to involve, to enwrap. To fold or turn (the tongue) over, and conse quentially, to lick up. Benes and baken apples, thei brouht in here lappes. Piers Ploukman, p. 144 Joseph lappide it in a clene sendel.—Wiclif. Matt. c. 27. His wallet lay beforn him in his lappe. Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 688. These woordes saied she, and with the lappe of her garnemente iplited in a frounce she dried myn iyen, that weren full of the wawes of my wepynges.-Chaucer. Boecius, b. i And bad this sergeant that he prively Shulde this child ful softe wind and wrappe, With alle circumstances tendrely, And carry it in coffre, or in a lappe. Id. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8461. That mantil lapped hir aboute.-Gower. Con. 4. b. v. For many a vice, as saith the clerke There hongen vpon slouthe's lappe.-Id. Ib. b. iv. And saye moreouer vnto him, thus sayeth the Lord: in the place where dogges lapped the bloude of Naboth, shal dogges lappe eue thy bloud also. Bible, 1551. 3 Kings, c. 21. But therewith all there springs a kinde of tares, Which are vile weedes and must be rooted out They choake vp grace, and lap it fast in snares. Gascoigne. Vpon the Fruite of Fetters. This is the light and perfectness, whiche Moses put in the breast lappe of judgemente. Bible, 1551. Deuteronomy, c. 33. Note. The Dauid arose & cut of a lap of Saul's cote priueli. Id. 1 Kings, c. 24. And gathered thereof coloquintidaes his lappefull. Id. 4 Kings, c. 4. Their limber branches were so lcpp'd together, As one enamour'd had of other teen. Drayton. The Man in the Moon. And ever against eating cares, Id. Paradise Lost, b. iv. Indulgent Fortune does her care employ, And, smiling, broods upon the naked boy: Her garment spreads, and laps him in the fold, And covers with her wings, from nightly cold. Dryden. Juvenal, Sat. 6. Are we pleased? then showers of blessings must descend on our heads, then flouds of wealth must run into the laps of our favourites; otherwise we are not satisfied Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 23. They may be lappers of linnen, and bailiffs of the manor. Swift You must not stream out your youth in wine, and live a lapling to the silk and dainties.-Hewytt. Ser. (1658,) p. 7. they read th' example of a pious wife, Redeeming, with her own, her husband's life; Yet, if the laws did that exchange afford, Would save their lapdog sooner than their lord. As those casual lappings and flowing streamers were imi- tated from nothing, they seldom have any folds or chiaro scuro.-Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iv. c. 1. Half a dozen squeezed plaits of linnen, to which dangled behind two unmeaning pendants, called lappets, not half And sails with lappel-head and mincing airs Fr. Lapider, lapidaire, One who works in, deals Induration, or lapidification, of substances more soft, is There might fall down into the lapideous matter before it was concrete into a stone some small toad (or some toad- spawn) which being not able to extricate itself and get out again, might remain there imprisoned till the matter about it were condensed and compacted into a stone. Beneath the surface of the Earth there may be sulphu- reous, and other steams, that may be plentifully mixed with water, and there, in likelihood, with lapidescent liquors. Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 557. They [chymists, &c.] do with much confidence entirely Hereof in subterraneous cavities, and under the earth Arguing, that the atoms of the lapidifick, as well as of the Lapidary, one of the sheriffs, who was beheaded by the Kentish rebels in the reign of Richard II. Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. c. 4. LAPSE, v. Lat. Labi, lapsus, to fall. slide or slip, or pass away; to cause to fall, to let Ham. Do you not come your tardy sonne to chide, That. laps't in time and passion, lets go by Once more I will renew About me round I saw Hill, dale, and shadie woods, and sunnie plaines, Yet know withal, The canon was made for presentation within six months, Who can imagine a God of wisdom and sincerity, not to Whitby. Five Points, Disc. 1. c. 3. s. 1. Either our Saviour's performances do respect all men, or The solidity and simplicity of this monument [the mau- soleum of Cecilia Metella] are worthy of the republican era in which it was erected, and have enabled it to resist the incidents and survive the lapse of two thousand years. Eustace. Italy, vol. ii. c. 6. formed (Skinner) of hleap-an, to leap, and wince, a wing, because it so quickly moves, expands, and For anone after he was chaunged, And from his owne kinde straunged, The Japwing hath a piteous, mournful cry, And sings a sorrowful and heavy song. But yet she's full of craft and subtilty, And weepest most being farthest from her young. Changed to a lapwing by the avenging God, He made the barren waste his lone abode, Big or bulky, great, ample, wide, extensive, or Chaucer. The Assembly of Fowles. bounty; from Lat. Largiri, to give largely. the quotation from the Rom. of the Rose. And tho he was so large & hende of hys giftes al so. To chyrche & to pouere men he gef vorst, as he ssolde, To abbeyes & to prioryes largylyche of hys golde. Large er tho londes, that his eldres wonnen. The kyng tille him therfore did grete curteysie, Wynnyng for his lore he gaf him largelie.-Id. p. 268. Hys los sprong so wyde sone of ys largesse. Loo Laurence for hus largenesse. as holy lore telleth. But Crist beinge a bisschop of goodis to comynge entride LA'RBOARD. Vox nautica, (says Skinner;) so the left side of a ship is called, perhaps, q. d. lever board, from the Lat. Lavus, and board. Lar may be a contraction of laveer, and that side of the ship so called because it laveers or lies obliquely The Portuguese beginning their voyage not far from the same streights, leave Africk on the larboard, and bend their course to the east.—Ralegh. Hist. of the World, b. ii. c. 1. s. 2. When on the larboard quarter they descry A liquid column tow'ring shoot on high. Falconer. The Shipwreck, c. 2. LARCENY. Fr. Larcin, larrecin; Lat. Latro- cinium. See the quotation from Blackstone. 1. Larciny, or theft, by contraction for latrociny, latro- And after on the daunce he went Largesse, that set all her entent For to ben honourable and free, Of Alexander's kinne was shee: When that she yafe, and saied, haue this.-Id. R. of the R, This horse with great solemnitee Was brought within the citee.-Gower. Con. 4. b. i. I bid not that thou do wast, But holde largesses in his measure.-Id. Ib. b. v. On Newe Yeres day, the king. [Henry VII.] being in a riche gowne dynede in his chamber, and gave to his officers of armes vi. I. of his largesse, wher he was cryed in his style accustumed.-Leland. Collectanea, vol. iv. p. 234. (From a A passage down the Earth, a passage wide, Wider by farr than that of after-times Over mount Sion, and, though that were large, Over the promis'd land to God so dear. Millon. Paradise Lost, b. iii. Had ris'n or heav'd his head, but that the will To lard,-to fatten, to cover with fat, to grease; The lagging ox is now unbound, Cotton. Noon Quatrains. and larderie.-Holinshed. Hen. III. an. 1235. The blood of oxen, goats, and ruddy wine, Ralegh. History of the World, b. v. c. 3. s. 14. The great donatives and largesses, upon the disbanding of Such as made Sheba's curious queen resort To the large-hearted Hebrew's famous court. Waller. To the Countess of Carlisle. And find, of sheep, and goats, a mingled flock, Under the shelter of a cavern'd rock, The largest and the best the pirate band Seiz'd, and prepar'd a banquet on the strand. LARK, n. A. S. Lafere; Dut. Lerke, lowerke; Ger. Lerch; Sw. Larkia. Wachter thinks the word compounded of the Celtic Laf, the voice, and orka, to be strong, and thus to signify cantu pollens, powerful in song. Vossius (de Vit. b. i. c. 2. and Etymol. in v. Galerita) forms it from the Ancient Gallic Alauda; in Modern French, Alou- ette; Dut. Leurik, from Alaurik. The word Alauda was unknown to the Romans until Cæsar gave that name to a legion "enrolled from the countries beyond the Alpes," (Suet. in Vita, c. 24.) The Lark was called Cassita, or Galerita, (sc. avis,) from the crest or tuft on its head. See To lowe lyvynge men the larke is resembled. Yet sang the larke, and Palamon right tho With holy herte, and with an high corage Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2214. Then like the larke that past the night Gascoigne. A straunge Passion in a Louer. Thus wore out night, and now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to discry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song. Milton. Paradise Regained, b. ii. Pride, like an eagle, builds among the stars, But Pleasure, lark-like, nests upon the ground. Young. The Complaint, Night 5. And shrill lark carols clear from her aerial tour. Beattie. The Minstrel, b. i. A noisy sound; as if summoning to arms; also The wailefull warre in time doth yeelde to peace, Tarbervile. After Misadventures come good Haps. His larum bell might lowd and wyde be herd, When cause requyr'd, but never out of time. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 9. Of this nature likewise was the larum mentioned by Wal- LARYNX. Fr. Larynx, laregau; Gr. Aapvy§, A cartilage forming the protuberance in the The exquisite mechanism of the larynx, its variety of muscles, its cartilages, all so exquisitely made for the pur- pose of respiration, and forming the voice, are very admir- able-Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iv. c. 7. For these seven couple of simple consonants, viz. B P- GK-DT-ZS-Th. Th-V F-J. S H-differ each from its partner, by no variation whatever of articulation; but singly by a certain unnoticed and almost imperceptible motion or compression of or near the larynx; which causes what LASCIVIOUSLY. LASCIVIOUSNESS. LASCI VIENT. Fr. Lascif; It. and Sp. gies without giving a pre- Drawing, attracting, alluring, or enticing, (to luxury, wantonness, or lust;) luxurious, wanton, Or perhaps from the same source as the Fr. Lasche, loose, (See LASH;) and hence— I finde that some of them haue not only bin offensiue for sundrie wanton speeches, and laciuious phrases, but further And to the meadows telling wanton tales, Her crystal limbs laciviously in pride (As ravished with the enamour'd gales) With often turnings casts from side to side. Drayton. The Barons' Wars, b. vi. The misery of Florimell, the virtuousnes of Belphebe, the But now his [Edgar's] mixture of vice marred all; espe- Men, by letting themselves loose to all manner of wretch- lasciviency of the bodily life, quite lose the relish and Hallywell. Malampr, (1686.) p. 9. lasciviousnesses, most bloudy violences, oppressions and ra- pines [were] generally abounding.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 37. So in the season when lascivious heat Burns in their veins, two branching-headed stags, Of all the herd competitors for sway, Long with entangled horns persist in strife, Nor yield, nor vanquish. Glover. The Athenaid, b. ii. LASH, n. Ger. Lassen; A. S. Les-an, to To let loose, to throw out, to cast out; to strike Many a stripe and many a greuous lashe She gauen to them that wolden louers be. For he lasheth out scripture in bedelem as fast as they Heaping huge strokes as thicke as showre of hayle, And lashing dreadfully at every part. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 6, Which to haue concealed had tended more to the opinion of virtue, than to lash out whatsoeuer his vnstaied mind affoorded.-Holinshed. Rich. II. an. 1397. - How smart a lash that speech doth giue my conscience? Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act iii. sc. 1. Juvenal was wholly employ'd in lashing vices, some of them the most enormous that can be imagined. The charioteer then whirl'd the lash around, The lash resounds, the coursers spring, Whitehead. The Youth and the Philosopher. Torn from their planks the cracking ring-bolts drew, LA'SSITUDE. Fr. Lassitude, lassele; Sp. Lassitud; Lat. Lassitudo, from lassus, contraction The one is called cruditie, ye other lassitude, whiche Sir T. Elyot. Castel of Helth, b. iv. c. 1. and warm water. The cause is, for that all lassitude is a kind of contusion, and compression of the parts; and bathing, and anointing give a relaxation, or emollition. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 730. The corporeal instruments of action being strained to a Armstrong. The Art of Preserving Health, b. i. The pattern or form of a foot; the mould or Let firm, well-hammer'd soles protect thy feet, A. S. Læst-an; Dut. Lees- LA'STINGNESS. To stay, remain, or continue last; to continue, to endure; to wear for a long time. This sorow & this drede lastid him thre gere. Bifore alle thingis haue ye charitie ech to othire in your- Trewly I was greatly reioysed in myne herte, of her faire behestes, and profered me to be slawe in all that she me wold ordein whyl my life lasted. Chaucer. The Testament of Loue, b. ii. There lasteth nothing but a throwe.-Gower. C. 4. Prol. Injustice never yet took lasting root, Nor held that long, impiety did win. This circle and ring of things returning always to their so much as often cutting.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 586. And covenants betwixt them surely seal'd, Each to the other lastingly to bind. Drayton. The Barons' Wars, b. iii. The ancients depicted friendship in the bearings and LASS. From ladde is derived, and formerly signifie its activity, and lastingness, readiness of action, and The mony for theyr masses Spent among wanton lasses.-Skelton. Boke of Colin Clout. Thy broomegroues Whose shadow the dismissed batchelor loues, Being lasse-lorne.-Shakespeare. Tempest, Act iv. sc. 1. Thus far the sportful Muse with myrtle bound, Has sung where lovely lasses may be found. The rural lass Whom once her virgin modesty and grace, Her artless manners, and her neat attire, So dignified, that she was hardly less aptnesses to do service.-Bp. Taylor. On Friendship. Quoth Cibber to Pope, "Tho' in verse you foreclose, I'll have the last word; for, by G-, I'll write prose.' Poor Colly, thy reasoning is none of the strongest, For know, the last word is the word that lasts longest." The particular circumstances, for which the automata of this kind are most eminent, may be reduced to these four. 1. The lastingness of their motion, without needing of a new supply.-Wilkins. Dædalus, c. 3. Your sufferings are of a short duration, your joy will last for ever.-Hart. Medit. on Christ's Death & Passion, N. 2. an, be-hlastan, onerare; to load, or impose a bur- then; Ger. Last, a load or weight; whence (he (qv) and to the load itself. By 21 Rich. II. c. 18, "All maner of ships accustomed to come to the said port (s. of Caleis) out of the countrey of England shall bring with them all their lastage of good stones convenient for stuffing the said beakens," (Rastal, p. 47.) By 31 Edw. I. a weight is declared to be fourteen stone, two weights of wool to make a sacke, and twelve sacks a last. A last of herrings to contain ten thousand, &c. (Id. p. 524.) And see Spelman, in v. Last, So that they shall be free from all toll, and from all custome; that is to say from all lastage, tallage, passage, cariage, &c.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 117. A last of white herrings is twelve barrels, of red herrings 20 cades or thousand; and of pilchards 10,000; of corn 10 quarters, and in some parts of England 21 quarters; of wool 12 sacks; of leather 20 dickers, or ten score; of hides or skins 12 dozen; of pitch, tar, or ashes 14 barrels; of gunpowder 24 firkins, weighing a hundred pound each. Tomline. Law Dictionary. LATCH, v. A. S. Lacc-an. See LACE. Piers Plouhman, p. 35. Id. p. 143. The pumie stones I hastly hent Bible, 1551. Mark, c. 1. And threw; but nought avayled: He was so wimble and so wight, From bough to bough he lepped light And oft the pumies latched. Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. March. Himself to ground; and therewithal did show Upon their glittering wings to latch him straight These rurall latches, to his entrance open, I will deuise a death, as cruell for thee Is it mete that the carnal be first, & that thing to be later-proceeding from, the side. more, which is spiritual & gostly.-Udal. Marke, c. 1. I should be loath To meet the rudeness, and swill'd insolence, Id. Paradise Lost, b. x. This latter rill also is the last that I doo reade of on the South side, and likewise on the West and North, till we haue sailed to S. Jes baie. Holinshed. The Description of Britaine, c. 12. I am so lated in the world, that I Id. Antony & Cleopatra, Act iii. sc. 9. Waller. To the Mutable Fair. Perhaps some doctor, of tremendous paunch, Thomson. Autumn. To crown Achilles' valiant friend with praise Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xvi. Your lateness in life (as you so soon call it) might be improper to begin the world with, but almost the eldest men As thou art tender to't.-Shakes. Wint. Tale, Act iv. sc. 3. may hope to see changes in a court. -But I haue words That would be howl'd out in the desert ayre, Id. Macbeth, Act iv. sc. 3. I find the latch thy fingers touch'd before, Parnel. The Gift of Poetry LATCH, latch'd, or letch'd, lick'd over, lecher, to lick, Fr. (Hanmer.) But hast thou yet latcht the Athenian's eyes, LA'TELY. LA'TENESS. Late, the adj. Goth. Lata, tardus, slow; A. S. Late, late; Dut. Laet; Sw. Lat; Goth. Latyan; A. S. Lat-ian, læt-an;-tardare, morari, to be or cause to be slow; to retard, to delay, to let. [The Goth. Lagy-an, to lay,-lagyed, lay-ed, layd, layt, late? and hence also the Lat. Lat, are?] Let or letted, hindered, kept back or behind, retarded, delayed: it is referred to time back or past, not long before, as the late reign, not that preceding it; the late king, not any preceding him; and is thus extended to any person or thing, lately in being. Last,-latest, latst, last. That this gode folk of Troie ouer come were at the last. Swift, to Gay, Nov. 23, 1727. Even he, who long the House of Com-ns led, That hydra dire, with many a gaping head, Found by experience, to his latest breath, Envy could only be subdu'd by death. Jenyns. Horace, Ep. 1. b. i. What, indeed, will be the particular effects in the first instance, of that general diffusion of knowledge, which the art of printing must sooner or later produce, and of that spirit of reformation with which it cannot fail to be accompanied, it is beyond the reach of human sagacity to conjecture.-Stewart. Of the Human Mind, Introd. pt. ii. s. 1. LA'TEEN sails, in French, Voiles latines, triangular sails, frequently used by small vessels in the Mediterranean, and also in the eastern seas. Can they be-quasi Latina? LATENT. Fr. Latent; It. Latente; Lat. LA'TENCY. Latens, pres. part. of lat-ere; Gr. An@ew, to lie hidden or concealed. See LATE. Lying hidden or concealed; secret, remote from view. My latent sense thy happier thought explores, Roscommon. Mr. Needler, to the Earl. Every breach of veracity indicates some latent vice, or some criminal intention, which an individual is ashamed to avow. And hence the peculiar beauty of openness or sin cerity.-Stewart. Outlines of Moral Philosophy. -Thwart of these as fierce Forth rush the Levant and the Ponent windes Milton. Paradise Lost, b. x. For some couple laterally or side-wise, as worms. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 17. These lateralities in man are not onely failible, if relatively determined into each other, but made in reference unto the heavens and quarters of the globe.-Id. Ib. b. iz In a field of ripe corn blown upon by the wind, there will appear as it were waves of a colour (at least gradually) differing from that of the rest of the field; the wind, by depressing some of the ears, and not at the same time others, making the one reflect more from the lateral and strawy parts than do the rest.-Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 678. LATH. LA'THING, N. LA'THY. } A. S. Lutta; Ger. Latte; Fr. Latte; Low Lat. Late. Francis (says Wachter) lid-on est secare, separare, to cut, to separate. It may be from the A. S. Lithe, in a consequential application; thin, slender. In plastering likewise of our fairest houses ouer our heads, we vse to laie first a laine or two of white morter tempered with haire vpon laths. Holinshed. The Description of England, c. 12. A small kiln consists of an oaken frame, lathed on every side.-Mortimer. Husbandry.. "A home should be built, or with brick, or with stone." Why 'tis plaster and lath; and I think that's all one. Prior. Down Hall, a Ballad, (1715.) Laths are made of fir for inside plaistering and pantile lathing.-Moxon. Mechanical Exercises The which he tossed to and fro amain West. On the Abuse of Travelling. LATHE, (a Turner's,) perhaps from Lith-ian. See LITHE. Could turn his word, and oath, and faith, Lathe is also applied to a barn or granary, (sc.) a place where corn or grain is brought together, laid up, or stored. Skinner thinks from lade, because laden with the produce of harvest. Why ne had thou put the capel in the lathe? Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 4085. As Alured divided the shires first, so to him is owing the constitution of hundreds, tithings, lathes, and wapentakes. Drayton. Poly-Olbion. Selden. Illustrations, These shires also he [Alfred] brake into lesser parts, whereof some were called lathes of the word galathian, which is to assemble togither. Holinshed. The Description of England, b. ii. c. 4. In some counties there is an intermediate division, between the shire and the hundreds, as lathes in Kent, and rapes in Sussex, each of them containing about three or four hundreds a piece. These had formerly their lathe-reeves and rape-reeves, acting in subordination to the shire-reeve. Blackstone. Commentaries, Introd. s. 4. LA'THER, v. Junius says, to smear with LA'THER, N. the foam of soapy water. GeLA'THERING, n. lethred is rendered by Somner, The undesignedness of the agreements (which undesigned-mollitus, made soft, lither or tender, from ge-lith-ian ness is gathered from their latency, their minuteness, their (see LITHE,) emollire, to soften. Lye thinks it obliquity, the suitableness of the circumstances in which (ge-lethred) may be interpreted lathered or in a they consist, to the places in which those circumstances lather. occur, and the eircuitous references by which they are traced out) demonstrates that they have not been produced by meditation, or by any fraudulent contrivance. Paley. Evidences, pt. ii. c 7. writing; the horse was in a lather, i. e. a foaming The words are common in speech, but not in sweat; the barber lathered his chin. Such fellowes will so Latine their tongues, that the simple cannot but wonder at their talke, and thinke surely they speak by some revelacion. Wilson. Arte of Rhetorike, (1553.) b. iii. Bretheren, this matter of Latinity is but a straw, but let me say this willing defence of a plain falshood, is a block, which your very friends cannot but stumble at. Bp. Hall. Ans. to the Vind. of Smectymnuus. You shall hardly find a man amongst them [the French] which can make a shift to express himself in that [the Latin] language, nor one amongst an hundred that can do it Latinly-Heylin. Voyage of France, p. 296. I owe also to Fenton the participle meandered, and to Sir W. D'Avenant the latinism of funeral ilicet. Harte. Religious Melancholy, Advert. Boileau and the French critics affected to despise those authors, [the modern Latin poets] and, for what reason it is difficult to discover, undervalued their Latinity. Eustace. Italy, vol. i. Prelim. Dis. The macaronian is a kind of burlesque poetry, consisting of a jumble of words of different languages, with words of the vulgar tongue latinized, and Latin words modernized. Cambridge. The Scribleriad, b. ii. Note 16. LATIRO STROUS, i. e. broad-beaked, flatbilled, from latus, broad, and rostrum, the beak. It [the pelican] is palmipedous, or fin-footed, like swans and geese; according to the method of nature in latirostrous or flat-bild birds.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. v. c. 1. Pres. part. of the Lat. Lati That in this sacred supper there is a sacrifice in that sense latun, aurichalcum, quasi gladtun, a nitore splen- Archdeacon Nares contends that it is brass, If thou laudest and ioyest any wight, for he is stuffed with soche maner richesse, thou art in that beleue begiled. Chaucer. The Test. of Louc, b. l. His stone is the grene emeraude Who is lyke thee? So gloryous in holynesse, fearfull, Shakespeare. 2 Pt. Hen. IV. Act iii. sc. 3. I am in this earthly world: where to do harme Sir Richard Scrope is depriued of the chancellorshippo as Samuel's, led in with exhortation and carried out with My discourse yet shall not be altogether landatory; but, threatening.-Bp. Hall. Sermon, March 24, 1613. Not simply a confutation, but a modest confutation with a laudatory of itself obtruded in the very first word. Milton. An Apology for Smectymnuus. [Saint Austin himself] acknowledges those virtuous dispositions and deeds to be the gift of God, to be laudable, to procure some reward, to avail so far, that they, because of them, shall receive a more tolerable and mild treatment I gen as flawme of fier, and hise feet lyk latoun. [Chalco- from divine justice -Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 40. libano.]-Wiclif. Apocalips, c. 2. His helme as latoun bright. Chaucer. The Rime of Sire Thopas, v. 13,806. LATTICE, n. Junius says, Cancelli ferrei; LATTICE, V. Sq.d. lett-isen; impediens ferrumentum; iron bars that let or hinder an entrance into places secured by them. Skinner, (among other conjectures,)—from the Dut. Latte, a lath; and thus meaning lathes-work, or work of laths. Fr. Latus. Gifford observes that lattices of various colours, or chequers, as they were LATITANtare, from lat-ere, to lie hidden sometimes called, formed (and still form) a very LA'TITANCY. or concealed. See LATENT. Lying or lurking hidden or concealed. Snakes, lizards, snails, and divers other insects latitant many months in the year, being cold creatures, containing a weak heat in a crass or copious humidity, do long subsist without nutrition.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 21. It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not most of any) a very abstemious animal, and such as by reason of its frigidity, paucity of blood, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the observations are often made) will long subsist without a visible sustentation.-Id. Ib. Fr. Latitude; It. La common ale-house sign, (B. Jonson, Every Man Fr. Clere-voyes,-lattices, or secret holes to spie Lettice-caps; Fr. Lassis,-in chequer or net work. For out of the wyndowe of my house I loked thorow the lettesse.-Bible, 1551. Prouerbes, c. 7. Yet, in my opinion, obsolete words may then be laudabiy nificant than those in practice.-Dryden. Juvenal, Ded. revived, when either they are more sounding, or more sig. But he, whom ev'n in life's last stage Is paid, at least, in peace of mind, LAVE, v. Cowper. The Moralizer Corrected. Fr. Laver; It. Lavare; Sp. Lavar; Lat. Lavare, to wash, Gr. Ao-ew, seu λo-eev, ex que λov-ew, contractum; to wet or wash. To wash or wet, to bathe, to cleanse or purify with water. And laveth hem in the lavendrie.-Piers Plouhman, p.281, Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 5869. The aulter of incense, the brazen lauer, the anoyntinge oyle.-Bible, 1551. Exodus, c. 30. And in the foure corners were vndersetters vnder the I know that Alexander was adorned with most excellent lauatorye.—Bible, 1551. 3 Kings, c. 7. LATITURIAS, adj. titudine, p. Latitud, vertues, and hurt with very few known vices. For therein LATITUDINA RIAN, n. Lat. Latitudo, from laLATITUDINARIANISM. (the initial cut off.) Just bad, from los, Breadth; applied generally to extent, or extensiveness; (met.) without restriction or confinement, or limitation; looseness, laxity. The thirde partye shal containe diuers tables of longitudes and latitudes of starres, fixe in the astrolabie. Chaucer. The Astrolabie. This island (which Tacitus mistaketh no doubt for Mona Casaris, and so doth Ptolomie as appeareth by his latitudes) is situat about two miles from the shore of North Wales. Holinshed. Description of Britaine, c. 10. Those who did not carry this so far as to think, as some said they did, that the church was to be pulled down; yet said, a latitudinarian party was like to prevail and to engross all preferments.-Burnet. Own Time, an. 1689. He [Wilkins] was look'd upon as the head of the latitudinarians, as they were then stiled: i. e. persons that had no great liking for the liturgy or ceremonies, or indeed the government of this church, but yet had attained to such a largeness and freedom of judgment, as that they could conform, tho' without any warmth or affection for these things. Birch. Life of Tillotson. The nation was less governed by laws than by customs, which admitted a great latitude of interpretation. Hume. History of England, vol. i. App. 1. He [Jortin] was a lover of truth, without hovering over the gloomy abyss of scepticism; and a friend to free enquiry, without roving into the dreary and pathless wilds of latifudinarianism.-Dr Parr. Tracts by a Warburtonian. the chiefest in the Greek and Roman history. Of old time our countrie houses in steed of glasse did vse Derham. Physico-Theology, b. viii. c. 3. Note 1. Of texture firm a lattice-work, that brac'd To the end that we shoulde not thynke to bee sufficient, that all our synnes haue been forgeuen vs through the lauacre of baptisme.-Udal. Luke, c. 4. His ears hang laving like a new lugg'd swine. Let us go find the body where it lies The Cardinal's carriage exceeded all bounds of moderation; for when he said mass, he made Dukes and Earls to serve him of wine, with a say taken, and to hold the bason at the lavatory.-Baker. Hen. VIII. an. 1518. Such filthy stuffe was by loose lewd varlets sung before her [Berecynthia] charet on the solemne day of her lavation. Hakewill. Apologie, b. iv. c. 1. s. 7. The left presents a place of graves, Parnell. A Night Piece. On Death. Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. iii. LAVE, v. (lade.) To draw out, (Lye.) And, Mr. Tyrwhitt says, Laved, past part. Fr.drawn, spoken of water taken out of a well." and lased out of the noble welles of his mother Caliope the [Orpheus] songe in wepinge, all that euer he had received goddesse.-Chaucer. Boecius, b. iii. |