Upon a lowly ass more white than snow; Yet she much whiter; but the same did hide Under a vele, that wimpled was full low. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 1. To be plain argues honesty; but to be pleasing argues discretion. Sores are not to be anguisht with a rustick pressure, but gently stroak'd with a ladied hand. Fellham, pt. i. Res. 8. More did I feare, than euer in Warner. Albion's England, b. xi. c. 64. And now and then among, of eglantine a spray, He made a knight, Massinger. The Cily 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, (the n omitted,) from the A. Š. Lang, long; as we say, he stayes long, hee's long a comming. Minshew derives from log, truncus, and it is not improbable that it may have the same origin, viz. the Goth. Lag-yan, A. S. Lecgan, to lay or lic; 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 Some tardie cripple bare and countermand, Francis. Horace, Ep. 2. To Lollius. application is toSuperfluous 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. A large expanse of water within land, or having no immediate connexion with the sea. And the lake [lacus] was trodun withoute the citee, and the blood went out of the lake til to the bridelis of horsis bi Wiclif. Apocalips, c. 14. LAINER, Fr. straps or thongs, (Tyrwhitt.) furlongis a thousynde and sixe hundride. Nailing the speres, and helmes bokeling, Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2507. LAIR, or Skinner writes it leer, clearly LARE. Senough, he says, from Ger. Læger, cubile, and this from liegen, to lay. It is immediately from lay, or lai, layer or lair. The place where any one (deer or other animal) lays or is laid. Applied to the land or pasture in which they lie. In Hardyng's Chronicle (quoted by Dr. Jamieson) the place where Arthur was laid in burial. The mynster church, this day of great repayre A headlesse heap, him unawares there caught.-Id. Ib. To raine and snowe, they have wet By which means his sheep have got Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. iv. So stretcht out huge in length the arch-fiend lay Chain'd on the burning lake.-Millon. Paradise Lost, b. i. Our spacious lakes; thee, Larius, first; and next Bonacus, with tempest'ous billows vext. Dryden. Virgil, Geor. 2. I started up, and looking out, observed by the light of the moon the lake [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, sir, My old bones akes.-Shakespeare. Tempest, Act iii. sc. 3. LAMB, v. LAMB, 11. LA'MBKIN. } Goth. A. S. Dut. Ger. and Swed. Lamb, agnus. The origin of the word, says Junius, improbably enough, is to be sought, prefixo 1, from That none living are.-Browne. Shepheard's Pipe, Ec.. 3. the initial letters of the Gr. Auvos. This etymo -Out of the ground uprose As from his laire the wilde beast where he wonns In forrest wilde, in thicket, brake or den. logy, says Wachter, Stiernhiem despises, but suggests no other. Ihre remarks,-Apud Armoricos lamma notat saltare, which does not ill suit Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vii. this kind of animal. Minshew,-from lamb-ere, to lick. Where nature shall provide 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. LA'ITY. Sec 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. (See Menage and Martinius.) A word, says the former, of Arabic origin. (And see the quotation from Boyle.) Fr. "Lacque, sanguine; rosie or rubie colour. The true lacca is an Armenian gum, used in the dyeing of crimsons, and afterwards (grown artificial) employed by painters," (Cot Id. Rich. III. Act ii. sc. 1. grave.) And see LACKER. Yet not content, more to encrease his shame, To this, Idoineneus: "The fields of fight Architecture, who no less A goddess is, than painted cloth, deal board, 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. 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. It is applied to The young offspring of the sheep; (met.) to any one having the meckness, innocence of a 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) cold rawnesse and winde. which howsoever approved must certainely be corrected of Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 395. In the warm folds their tender lambkins lie Yon wanton lamb has crop't the woodbine's pride, Mason. The English Garden, b. ii. Upon the mantle-tree, for I am a pretty curious observer, stood a pot of lambative electuary, with a stick of liquorish. Tatler, No. 266. [] then put him into bed, and let him blood in the arm, advising a lambative of album, &c. Wiseman. Surgery, b. v. c. 5. To stroke his azure neck, or to receive The lambent homage of his arrowy tongue. LAME, v. LA'MELY. LA'MENESS. LA'MISH. Cowper. The Task, b. vi. To weaken or debilitate, to want, to injure, or deprive of, the natural power or strength; to maim, to cripple. 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. The golde hath made his wittes lame. Gower. Con. 4. b. v. I set aside to tell the restlesse toyle, Auf. I cannot help it now, Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Activ. sc. 7. What before pleas'd them all takes but one sense, A kind of sorrowing dulnes to the mind. Donne. Farewell to Love. Ben. Jonson. On Bank the Usurer. A tender foot will be galled and lamed, if you set it going in rugged paths: a weak head will turn, if you place it high, or upon the brink of a precipice. Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 3. Nothing of worth or weight can be atchieved with half a 1nind, with a faint heart, with a lame endeavour. Id. Ib. Ser. 18. 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. Eve, who unseen Brome. On the Death of his Schoolmaster. A hundred and twentie temporall men with diuers préests 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. And to the lammasse afterward he spousede the quene. The fift day it was after Lammasse-tide. How long is it now to Lammas-tide? R. Brunne, p. 221. Shakespeare. Romeo & Juliet, Act i. sc. 3. Nurse. Euen or odde, of all daies in the yeare come Lammas Eue at night shall she be fourteene. LAMP, n. Id. Ib. Fr. Lampe; It. Lampa, lam- A light; any thing possessing or communicating Hit is as lewede as a lampe, that no lyght ys ynne. And wel ycovered with a lampe of glas ? Oh sacred fyre, that burnest mightily Beaum. & Fletch. The Mad Lover, Actii. 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. Bottesworth," 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 blockhead 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, 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 petra dicta, nempe a lambendis petris. And tho he com hom, he wyllede of an lampreye to ete. liued threescore years.-Bacon. Hist. of Life & Death, § 11. There were found in Cæsar's fish-ponds, lampreyes to have LANCE, or LA'NCELY. Fr. Lancer, lance; It. Lanciare, lancia; Sp. Lanzar, lanza; Dut. Lancie, lansse; Ger. Lanze; Sw. Lants; Lat. Lancea. The etyLA'NCER. mologists have written much LA'NCET. about this word, and agree in (See Vossius, de ascribing it to a Celtic origin. 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; poisc, equipoise. A cheerliness did with her hopes arise In ys rygt hond ys lance he nom, that ycluped was Ron. And with that word, with all his force a dart Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. ii. The surgen launceth and cutteth out the dead flesh. Tyndali. 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 themselues, 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, Id. 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 lancequencts, 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. See LANCE. LANCH, or LAUNCH. To throw, to send forth, to cmit, 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 launcelh 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, c. 6. They cried to have the sailes hoisted up, and signe given to lanch foorth, that they might passe forward on the our nie.-Holinshed. History of England, vol. i. b. iv. c. 21. In divers enquiries about providence, to which our curiosity 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 etyLA'NDING, 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.) Sce the quotation from Dryden. Engelond ys a wel god lond, ich wene of eche lond best, Wiclif. Mark, c. 4. Gower. Con. 4. 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 pigge, 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. -Now sir young Fortinbras, Nor land-floods after rain, her never move at all. 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. 18. 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. Corbet. Iler Boreale. Thus royal sir, to see you landed here, Was cause enough of triumph for a year. Dryden. To his Majesty. 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 ii. 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 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 suune in summer for drieng vp the lanes.- Holinshed. Desc. of Britaine, 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, lenguada; 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 comaunded 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 hath our language originally had then that. Verstegan. Restit. of Decayed Intelligence, c. 7. Hee's growne a very land-fish languagelesse, a monster. Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. ill. 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, Fr. Languir: It. Languire; Sp. Languir; Lat. Languere; perhaps (Vossius) from Gr. Aayy - ew quod est pigrari, otiari, tricari, ut languentes solet ; to be slow, to idle or trifle; as the languid or faint usually do. 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 ou ech by hemsilf and heelide hem.-Wiclif. Luke, c. 4. If this harmonical temperature of the whole body be dis- Methinks the highest expressions that language, assisted The menstruum also working as languidly upon the coral, 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. LA'PPET. LA'PPER. LA'PFUL. 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 Mason. Caraclacus. Has o'er his languid powerless limbs diffus'd and the same meaning, affording a sufficient cause for the various applications, viz. to fold or turn over; as a dog in licking with his tongue; as an To Armstrong. The Art of Preserving Health, b. ill. edge, or border, or hem of cloth or other material: A sullen languour still the skies opprest, 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. Chaucer. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 11,262. Now wol I speke of woful Damian, Id. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9741. 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. Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. i. s. 1. Who now was falne into new languishment Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 1. Cymothoë and Cymodocé were nigh, Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. Xviii, My thighes are thin, my body lanck and leane. Gascoigne. Dan Bartholomew of Bathe. Shakespeare. Antony & Cleopatra, Act i. sc. 4. LANTERN. Fr. Lanterne; It. and Sp. Lan- 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 lantne. al hus lyf after. Piers Plouhman, p. 137. Ne me teendith not a lanterne and puttith it undir a And tho she hath do set vp light 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. Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 688. And carry it in coffre, or in a lappe. Id. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8461. That mantil lapped hir aboute.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. For many a vice, as saith the clerke There hongen vpon slouthe's lappe.-Id. Ib. b. iv. Bible, 1551. 3 Kings, c. 21. And gathered thereof coloquintidaes his lappefull. Id. 4 Kings, c. 4. Drayton. The Man in the Moon. And ever against eating cares, Id. Paradise Lost, b. iv. Indulgent Fortune does her care employ, Are we pleased? then showers of blessings must descend on our heads, then flouds of wealth must run into the laps Upon a toure, where she goth ofte.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv. of our favourites; otherwise we are not satisfied Cambden! the nourice of antiquitie, Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 23. They may be lappers of linnen, and bailiffs of the manor. Swift. 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 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 Th' important acting of your dread command. Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act iii. sc. 4. - Once more I will renew His lapsed powers, though forfeit and enthrall'd 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. LA'PWING. A. S. Lepewinc, hleapwince; neau. In his buff doublet, larded o'er with fat Of slaughter'd brutes, the well-oil'd champion shone. The lard is of great use in medicine, being an ingredient in various sorts of plasters, either pure, or in the form of Fr. Large, largesse; It. Largo, larghezza; Sp. Largo, largueza; Lat. Largus; of unsettled ety- mology. Scaliger and Scheidius think from the Gr. Aaupos, copious, abundant. It is applied to any thing that exceeds the usual or common number or magnitude; to any thing Big or bulky, great, ample, wide, extensive, or comprehensive; (met.) abundant, copious, plentiful. Largess; Fr. Largesse,-a gift or donation; proceeding from the largeness of the donor's 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 eldrcs 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. may be a contraction of laveer, and that side of 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. cinium. 1. Larciny, or theft, by contraction for latrociny, latro- Lat. Lardum, which Macrobius In the same wise is he to blame, that spendeth over largely. Chaucer. The Tale of Melibeus. 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. A. b. i. 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. 1. 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. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. til. Had ris'n or heav'd his head, but that the will To lard,-to fatten, to cover with fat, to grease; Larder, a store-room for lard; generally, for The larderer, (larderarius,) or superintendent of provisions, is recorded by Spelman, (Gloss.) The lagging ox is now unbound, Colton. 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 |