LACKEY, v. Fr. Lacquay; It. Lacayo. After it hath been strained through those curious co- 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 lather lackes he adde wyth hym al out. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, c. 18. Drayton. The Battle of Agincourt. Massinger. The Virgin Martyr, Act i. sc. 1. I might next trace it through the several meanders of the guts, the lacteals, and into the blood. Id. Ib. little stars constipated in that part of heaven, flying so Among pot-herbs are some laciescent 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 To drive you so on foot, unfit to tread And lackey by him, 'gainst all womanhead. Ro dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, 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 LACONICAL strictly or sparingly, to speak LACONICALLY. briefly or pithily." And HolLACO'NICISM. land-To laconize, to imitate LA'CONISM. the Lacedæmonians, either in LA'CONIZE, U. short and pithy speech or in hard life, (Plutarch, Explanation of Terms.) You that were once so economic, Quitting the thrifty style laconic, 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, ar 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 his laconic way, And yet we can reach our enemies' hearts with them.-Langhorne, Plutarch, vol. i. Lycurgus. LACTAGE. Lat. Lac, απο του γάλακτος, LA'CTARY. the first syllable being_cut LA'CTEAL, off;1-yara, (lac,) says LenLACTRAL, adj. nep, appears to have its name LA'CTEAN. from its bright whiteness, and LA'CTEOUS. to have LACTE'SCENT. sprung from (the obsolete primitive) ya-w, ab exLACTE'SCENCE. plicandi 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. Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c. 10. Skinner and Lye prefer A. S. Leode, people, (see One who, on account of his tender years, is Gay. The Shepherd's Week. Tuesday. LADDER. A. S. Hladre; Dut. Ladder; Ger. 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 outcry assayed to scale But after they were come to Syria, men named them to lie along, and to make their backs stepping stools or lad- upon, when they would mount into their coaches. If the barren sound Churchill. Sermons, Ded. TO LOAD. To lay or put on, to impose, a weight or burden; to put in, to take in, that which is to be borne 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. Dryden. Virgil, Geor. 3. I'll show thee where the softest cowslips spring Warton, Ecl. 8. If large the vessel, and her lading large, LADE, v. A. S. Hlad-an, to draw out. LA'DLE. JA.S. Hladle. 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 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 ! A ladle for our silver-dish Is what I want, is what I wish." Odzooks, Corisca, you have pray'd ill."-Prior. The Ladle. LADY. Tooke has written more elaborately than usual upon the origin of this word, and he traces it to the A. S. Hlaf, the past He supposes hlaf, part. of hlif-ian, to raise. That heo comen alle to London the hey men of this londe, Bible, 1551. Ib 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. 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. Why does the juice, which flows into the stomach, contain powers which make that bowel the great laboratory, as it is Mr. Nisby [is] of opinion that lac'd coffee is bad for the by its situation the recipient, of the materials of future nu-head.-Spectator, No. 317. trition ?-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 7. 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. Cowper. Task, b. vi. 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, Fr. Lacérer; It. Lace- LA'CERABLE. To rend or tear asunder; to sever-with the parts torn, (and not cut evenly.) And if the heat breaks the with what we call boyling. In streaming gold. rinthus ; 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, Young. Complaint, Night 9. LACE, v. Also, in old authors, written LACE, n. } Lasso,FF. Lacer, lace, 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, læc-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. c. coffee inter-laced, intermingled, or intermixed with some other ingredient. Some depend upon the intemperament of the part ulce. Since the lungs are obliged to a perpetual commerce with LACHE..} loose, (See LASH.) Skinner,-from Lat. Laxus. 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, Nailing the speres, and helmes bokeling, Id. The Milleres Tale, v. 3268. Then cometh lachesse, that is, he that whan he beginneth The first point of slouth I call The law also determines that in the king can be no negli Vncertaine Auctors. The Louer thinkes no paine, &c. | 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. What helpeth a man haue mete. In lacke of them, that be vnware The lack of one may cause the wrack of all; Davies. Wit's Pilgrimage. Frugal, where lack, supplies with what redounds, But tho' each Court a jester lacks, Dodsley. The Kings of Europe. LA'CKER, v. 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. Dyer. The Fleece, b. iv. Cawthorn. The Antiquarians Or oblong buckle, on the lacker'd shoe, Jago. Edge Hill, b, UL LACKEY, v. Fr. Lacquay; It. Lacayo. LACKEY, Junius (who proposes the verb to lacke; q. d. one who lacks, is poor or indigent, and therefore servilo) 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 adde wyth hym al out. Drayton. The Battle of Agincourt. Massinger. The Virgin Martyr, Act i. sc. 1. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 2. So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her.-Milton. Comus. LACONICK. Grainger. The Sugar Cane, b. iii. Fr. "Laconizer, to live strictly or sparingly, to speak briefly or pithily." And Holland-To laconize, to imitate the Lacedæmonians, cither in LA'CONIZE, V. short and pithy speech or in hard life, (Plutarch, Explanation of Terms.) You that were once so economic, Quitting the thrifty style laconic, 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 bad 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 his laconic way, And yet we can reach our enemies' hearts with them.-Langhorne. Plutarch, vol. i. Lycurgus. LACTAGE. LA'CTEAN. 3 LA'CTEOUS. LACTE'SCENT. After it hath been strained through those curious co anders, the lacteal veins, I might also observe its impregna- I might next trace it through the several meanders of the This lactean 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 Arbuthnot. On Aliments, Prop. 4. 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 LAD. Junius derives from A. S. Lad-an, LA'DKIN. 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 leed-an, to lead. Lad will thus mean wille One who, on account of his tender years, is Gay. The Shepherd's Week. Tuesday. LADDER. 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. The name is given to 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 outcry assayed to scale the trenches. the most part by setting vp ladders, others To lay or put on, to impose, a weight or burden; to put in, to take in, that which is to be borne or carried ;-the cargo. And they laded their asses with the corne and departed Their laded branches bow, Drayton. The Description of Elysium. Dryden. Virgil, Geor. S. I'll show thee where the softest cowslips spring Warton, Ecl. 8. If large the vessel, and her lading large, LADE, v. A. S. Hlad-an, to draw out. To dip (sc. some vessel or implement) into And lerede men a ladel bygge. with a long stele. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 7. Shakespeare. 3 Pt. Hen. VI. Act il. "Oh! may your altars ever blaze ! Is what I want, is what I wish." LADY. Tooke has written more elaborately than usual upon the 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, 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 son, in v. Laird. LACTARY. 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. (Yet were it no easie probleme to resolve) why also from leclery or milky plants which have a white and lacteous Juice dispersed through every part, there arise flowers blew and yellow-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c. 10. KAT 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. B. Jonson. Neptune's Triumph. A Masque. 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 nu-head.-Spectator, No. 317. trition ?-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. See the quotation from Plinie. 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 In streaming gold. itself, without the addition of the Spectator, that used to be 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, better than lace to it.-Id. No.488. Swift from her head she loos'd, with eager haste, Fr. Lacérer; It. Lace- To rend or tear asunder; to sever-with the parts torn, (and not cut evenly.) LAC 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, la chrymary 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. as to lacerate, and lift up great quantities or bubbles of rated, others upon the continual afflux of lacerative humours. Since the lungs are obliged to a perpetual commerce with Mark, how the labyrinthian turns they take; Young. Complaint, Night 9. LACE, v. Also, in old authors, written LACE, n. } Lasso,i. Loler, auto, ; whithe 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, Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2506. Hire shoon were laced on hire legges hie. Id. The Milleres Tale, v. 3268, And therefore sith I know of love's peine, Id. The Knighles Tale, v. 1888. LACK, v. Dut. Laecken, minuere, dimi To diminish, consequentially, to degrade, to find fault with, to blame. Hither the feble pair, by mutual aid, LACHE. Shakespeare uses the compounds lack-beard, -brain, -linen, lustre. Skinner,-from LACHESSE.} Lascher, or Lasche, slacke, loose, Lacke, is deficere, deesse; the noun Laecke, de- A defect or failure, a want, (sc.) of strength, of The lord of hus lacchese, and hus luther sleuthe, Where is & shall be eternall Joy, incomparable myrth without heaviness, Lasting interminable, lacking no goodness. R. Gloucester, p. 548. App. Fair scho was. thei seiden, & gode withouten lak. By nom hym al that he hadde.-Piers Ploukman, p. 141. The first point of slouth I call To leuen all thyng behinde.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv. And shode he was with maistrie, Id. The Complaint of Venus. And plant my plaint within her brest, LACHRYMAL. Id. The Marchantes Tale, v. 10,078. Fr. Lachrymal; It. Lagrimal: Sp. Lacrymoso; Lat. Lacrima; Gr. Aaxpv What helpeth a man haue mete, In lacke of them, that be vnware LA CHRYMATORY. Fncertaine Auctors. The Louer thinkes no paine, &c. | weep. 1186 Id. 1b. Prol. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ll. c. 7. Davies. Wit's Pilgrimage. Brooke. Universal Beauty, b. i. Dodsley. The Kings of Europe. To lay on, to cover with See LAKE, and the quotation from Dampier. lacquer, or lacque, i. e. with a preparation of lac. It. Lacca. LACK, n. The lack of Tonquin is a sort of gummy juice, which desks, or any sort of frames to be lackered, are made of fir, drains out of the bodies or limbs of trees. The cabinets, or pine tree. The workhouses where the lacker is laid on, are accounted very unwholesome. Dampier. Voyages, an. 1638. Dyer. The Fleece, b. iv. Cawthorn. The Antiquarians LACKEY, v.Į Fr. Lacquay; It. Lacayo. I might next trace it through the several meanders of the guts, the lacteals, and into the blood.-Id. Ib. After it hath been strained through those curious coLA'CKEY, n. Junius (who proposes the verb landers, the lacteal veins, I might also observe its impregnations from the glands and lymphæducts. to lacke; q. d. one who lacks, is poor or indigent, Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iv. c. 9. and therefore servilo) 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 adde wyth hym al out. R. Gloucester, p. 389. Than they of Heynnaulte bought lyttle nagges to ryde at theyr 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 Agincouri. 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. So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, Lord of the Seasons! They in courtly pomp LACO NICK. LACO'NICAL. LACO'NICALLY. LACO'NICISM. Grainger. The Sugar Cane, b. iil. Fr. "Laconizer, to live strictly or sparingly, to speak briefly or pithily." And Holland-To laconize, to imitate the Lacedæmonians, either in short and pithy speech or in hard life, (Plutarch, Explanation of Terms.) LA'CONISM. LA'CONIZE, v. You that were once so economic, Denham. 4 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 his laconic way, And yet we can reach our enemies' hearts with them.-Langhorne. Plutarch, vol. i. Lycurgus. LACTAGE. LA'CTARY. LA'CTEAL, n. LA'CTEAL, adj. LA'CTEAN. LA'CTEOUS. LACTE SCENT. LACTE'SCENCE. Lat. Lac, απο του γάλακτος, the first syllable being cut off;-yaλa, (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. cam 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. Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c. 10. This lactean 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, LA'DKIN. 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 leed-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. And the more he hath and wynneth the world at hus wille And lordeth in lecdes 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. LADDER. 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. The name is given to A machine formed of steps, supported at each end by upright side-picces. 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 outcry assayed to scale the trenches. the most part by setting up 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 LADE, v. LA'DING, n. TO LOAD. Churchill. Sermons, Ded. A. S. Lad-an; Dut. Laden; See Ger. Laden; Sw. Ladda. To lay or put on, to impose, a weight or burden; to put in, to take in, that which is to be borne or carried; the cargo. And they laded their asses with the corne and departed thence.-Bible, 1551. Gen. c. 42. Their laded branches bow, Drayton. The Description of Elysium. Dryden. Virgil, Geor. 3. I'll show thee where the softest cowslips spring Warton, Ecl. 8. If large the vessel, and her lading large, LADE, v. A. S. Hlad-an, to draw out. LA'DLE. A. S. Hladle. 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. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 7. Shakespeare. 3 Pt. Hen. VI. Act il. "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'DIED. LA'DYFY, U. Tooke has written more elaborately than usual upon the 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, 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. 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