We shall single out the deer: upon concession a long-lived animal, and in long-ævity by many conceived to attain unto hundreds.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iil. c. 9.

But Nineveh, which authours acknowledge to have exceeded Babylon, was of a longilateral figure, ninety-five furlongs broad, and an hundred and fifty long and so making about sixty miles in circuit.—Id. Cyrus' Garden, c. 2.

The villany of this Christian exceeded the persecution of heathens, whose malice was never so longimanous a3 0 reach the soul of their enemies; or to extend unto the exile of their elysiums.-Id. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 19.

[Cedar wood] is longevous, and an evergreen; and of evergreens best scented; and by its procerity, with the erect and regular position of its cones and branches, of all, the most beautiful; and the fairest instance of the perfection of vegetable life.-Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. iv. c. 8.

Which [obstinate sinners] despised the goodnesse, patience, and long sufferance of God, when hee called them continually to repentance.-Common Prayer. Commination. Or that his long-yearn'd life Were quite spun out.—B. Jonson, Ep. 42. On Giles & Jone. They have had so little mercy on him as to put him to the pennance of their long-some volume.

Bp. Hall. Defence of the Humble Remonstrance, s.1. In the beginning of the world, and so after Noah's flood, the longevity of men, as it was of absolute necessity to the more speedy peopling of the new world, so is a special instance of the divine providence in this matter. Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iv. c. 10.

Pope Leo himself saw that longinquity of region [longuinquas regiones] doth cause the examination of truth to become over dilatory.-Barrow. Of the Pope's Supremacy.

In algebra, we may proceed with perfect safety through he longest investigations, without carrying our attention beyond the signs, till we arrive at the last result.

Stewart. Of the Human Mind, c. 4. s. 2.

Oh! longevity, coveted by all who are advancing towards thee, cursed by all who have attained thee; railed at by the wise, betrayed by them who consult thee, and well spoken of by no one.-Observer, No. 144.

Mine, [legs] spindling into longitude immense,
In spite of gravity, and sage remark
That I myself am but a fleeting shade,
Provoke me to a smile.

Cowper. Task, b. v.

None of them, however, has taken any notice of the insensible transitions by which it [the word interval] came Fuccessively to be employed in a more enlarged sense; first, to express a limited portion of longitudinal extension in general; and afterwards limited portions of time as well as of space.-Stewart. Philosophical Essays, pt. i. Ess. 1. c. 1.

To withstand the bones being pulled asunder longitudinally, or in the direction of that line, a strong membrane runs from one end of the chain to the other.

Paley. Natural Theology, c. 8.

Here from the labours of the longsome way
Respiring they indulge a short delay.

Lewis. Statius. Thebaid, b. ix.

Ev'n mighty Pam, that kings and queens o'erthrew,
And mow'd down armies in the fights of Lu.

Pope. The Rape of the Lock, c. 3.

Sal found her deep-laid schemes were vain-
The cards are cut-"Come deal again—
No good comes on it when one lingers-
I'll play the card comes next my fingers-"
Fortune could never let Ned loo her,
When she had left it wholly to her.

Shenstone, To a Friend.
Methinks, old friend, 'tis wondrous true,
That verse is but a game at loo.
See LOB.

Id. Ib.

LO'OBY. LOOF, or Dut. Loeven, to ply to windward, Luff. de leef hebben, to sail before the wind, (see LEE,) from the A. S.Hlif-ian, to rise or raise. The loof of a ship, Skinner says, is, q.d. pars navis suprema, the loftiest part of the ship.

The viceadmirall of the Spaniards being a greater ship than any of ours, and the best saylor in all their fleete, loofed by and gaue the Concord the two first great shot, which she repayed presently againe. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ili. p. 589.

For hauing mountaines of fleeting yce on euery side, we went roomer for one, and loofed for another, some scraped vs and some happily escaped vs.-Id. Ib. vol. iii. p. 65.

Now Publicola seeing Agrippa put forth his left wing of Cæsar's armey to compass in Antonius ships that fought, ne was driven also to loof off to have moor room, and to go a little at one side, to put those farther off that were afraid, and in the middest of the battle.-North. Plutarch, p. 778.

The Spaniards seeing, & hauing not forgotten the fight which she made the night before, they loofed vp into the middest of their fleet againe.-North. Plutarch, p. 778. Stand to your tackle, mates, and stretch your oars : Contract your swelling sails and luff to wind. Dryden. Virgil. Eneis, b. v.

Now it freshens, set the braces, The topsail sheets now let go; Luff, boys, luff! don't make wry faces, Up your topsails nimbly clew.-G.A.Stevens. The Storm. A. S. Loc-ian; Dut. Luchten; Ger. Lug-en; to see, to be or cause to be an object of sight; to view; to turn or direct the eye or sight; the visual or perceptive powers; literally and metaphorically,—

LOOK, v. Look, n. Lo'OKER. Lo'OKING, n.

To appear or seem, or cause to appear or seem; to have or take the appearance, the aspect. To look (with prepositions) is used as equivalent to words derived from the compounds of the Lat. Specere; e. g.–

A looking about,—circumspection, vigilance. To look out for,-to expect. To look at or into,-to inspect; and, thus, to examine, to search into, to investigate. A look or looking, forward,-prospect; backward,-retrospect.

Hour Louerd myd ys eyen of milce on the loketh theruore. R. Gloucester, p. 265.

Hys word was yholde stable, & yloked for dome.-Id. p.314.

The right lawes did he loke for fals men & fikelle.

R. Brunne, p. 36. & askid if thei wild stand to ther lokyng. Id. p. 86. And his lokynge was as leyt.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 28. And then at erst he loked upon me,

And seid thus; "What man art thou?" quod he,
"Thou lokest, as thou woldest finde an hare,
For ever upon the ground I see thee stare."

Chaucer. Prologue to Sire Thopas, v. 13,624.
For at the first look he on hire sette
He knew wel veraily, that it was she.

Id. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 5473.
Gower. Con. A. b. i.

With that hir loke on me she cast.

Id. Ib.

For whan he hath his tonge afiled With softe speche, and with lesynge, Forthwith his false pitous lokynge He wolde make a woman weene To gone vpon the feire greene Whan that she fauleth in the myre. Why smilest thou? say lokers on, What pleasure hast thou found? Vncertaine Auctors. Louer in despaire lamenteth his case. Whilest Antonius thus negligentlic looked to his charge, the Britons began a new rebellion.

Holinshed. The Historie of England, b. iv. c. 22.

His o'er-grown haire he from that sacred face
Shaues not, nor will in his sad lookes embrace
One ioy since first that wicked warre begunne.

May. Lucan, b. ii.

It vertue had to shew in perfect sight
Whatever thing was in the world contaynd,
Betwixt the lowest earth and heven's hight,
So that it to the looker appertaynd.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 2.
So that faire spectacle from him was reft,
Yet that which reft it no lesse faire was found:
So hidd in lockes and waves from lookers theft,
Nought but her lovely face she for his looking left.
Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 12.

But to goe through in this place with all things concern.

ing such looking-glasses, the best knowne in old time unto
tin and brasse tempered together.
our auncesters, came from Brindis, and those consisted of
Holland. Plinic, b. xxxiil. c. 9..

At length I wak'd, and looking round the bower,
Search'd every tree, and pry'd on every flower,
If any-where by chance I might espy,
The rural poet of the melody.

Dryden. The Flower & the Leaf.
The flowers she wore along the day:
And ev'ry nymph and shepherd said,
That in her hair they look'd more gay
Than glowing in their native bed.-Prior. The Garland.
Then with a kind compassionating look,
And sighs, bespeaking pity ere he spoke,
Few words he said.

Dryden. Absalom & Achilophel.

If it prosper not, the main weight of blame is surely laid upon him that advised the course; if you (saith the party, and say the lookers on) had not thus directed, it had not thus fallen out.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 22.

LOOM. In A. S. Loma, ge-loma; Dut. Alaem, alem, utensilia, supellex, utensils, things of fre quent and necessary use. Hence Somner adds,the heir-lome of lawyers, pro supellectile hereditariâ. Ray tells us that in Cheshire,-A loom is an instrument or tool in general. Also, any utensil, as a tub, &c.. Paribusque accingitur armis, is rendered by Douglas,-"With lume in hand fast wirkand like the laif;" (working like the rest.) May it not be from the A. S. Hleom, (for so lim was also written,) that which pertains Thus heir-loom,— that which appertains, an appurtenance to, or belongs to? (See LIMB.) the inheritance; brew-lumes, milk-lumes, warkloom, utensils or instruments appertaining or appropriate to brewing, milking, working; and then specifically applied to a particular frame or machine.

The lomes that ich laboure with and by flode deserve
Ys pater noster and my prymer.-Piers Plouhman, p. 77.
But the presumptuous damzell rashly dar'd
The goddess selfe to chalenge to the field,
And to compare with her in curious skill
Of workes with loome, with needle and with quill.
Spenser. Muiopolmos.
Or with loom'd wool the native robe supplies.

Savage. The Wanderer, c. 1.

Then shalt thou make loupes of jacynete coloure, alonge by the edge of ye one curtayne.-Bible, 1551. Exodus, c. 26. And at another lope of the wall on a ladder, ther was tho lorde of Sereell, and fought hande to hande with his enemyes.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 821. How shall your house-lesse heads, and vnfed sides, Your lop'd, and window'd raggednesse defend you From seasons such as these?

Shakespeare. Lear, Act iil. sc. 4. They found the gates fast barred long ere night And every loup fast lockt, as fearing foes despight. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 9. And from the towers of Troy there would appear The very eyes of men through loop-holes thrust.

Shakespeare. Rape of Lucrece.

But if those fail

Yet this uneasy loop-hol'd gaol,

In which ye're hamper'd by the fetlock,
Cannot but put y'in mind of wedlock.

Hudibras, pt. ii. c. 1. The descending tendon, when it is got low enough, is passed through a loop, or ring or pully, in the os hyoides, and then made to ascend; and, having thus changed its line of direction, is inserted into the inner part of the chin: by which device, viz. the turn at the loop, the action of the muscle (which in all muscles is contraction) that before would have pulled the jaw up, now as necessarily draws it down.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 9.

'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat,
To peep at such a world; to see the stir
Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd;
To hear the roar she sends through all her gates
At a safe distance, where the dying sound
Falls a soft murmur on th' uninjur'd ear.

Cowper. Task, b. iv. LOORD. Dr. Jamieson, who notices the Lo'URDEN. antiquity of the etymology specified in the quotation from Verstegan, refers the word immediately to the Fr. Lourdin, and that to the Dut. Luyaerd, piger, desidiosus, ignavus homo, or loer, loerd, which have the same meaning, and to the latter of which Kilian traces the Fr. Lourd. Loord, lourd-en, are perhaps low-er-ed, lowerd, lowr'd, lourd, lourd-en; and thus from the same source and of equivalent meaning with lown and lowt, (qv.) It probably owes its lengthened termination, en into ane, from Verstegan's traditionary etymology. See LORD; It. Lord; Sp. Laud.

The Scotch writers use lurdanery, which is also preserved by Holinshed, (Scotland, Malcolme.) See Jamieson.

A low, debased, degraded, worthless person. Sibriht that schrew as a lordan gan lusk.-R. Brunne, p. 9. I wene that none wil say so but lurdanes, yt longed to make gay daies of Goddes passion, or make hym honored Eelder the he should.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 192.

Where euery lourden will become a leech.

Gascoigne. The Fruiles of Warre.

Mor. Siker thous but a leasie loord
And reeks much of thy swink,
That with fond termes, and witlesse wordes,
To blere mine eyes doest think.

Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. July.

Lourdaine. Because the Danes when they sometime domineered over the Englishmen, would be honoured with the name of laford, which is now lord, the people in scorne did call them lour danes, instead of lord, or rather laford dane, lour being as much to say in our ancient language, as ignavus in Latin, to wit, lither, cowardly, or sluggish.

Verstegan. Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, c. 10.

LOOS, v. Loos or los (says Tooke) is eviLO'SED.

the

hlis-an, celebrare, to celebrate; as laus also is :he has produced eight instances of the noun, and one of the past part. losed, from Chaucer.

To praise, to celebrate, to confer fame or renown upon.

Vor the kynges los so wyde sprong ynou Of godenesse & of cortesye, that her herte to hym drou. R. Gloucester, p. 189. Tho that first were foos & com of paien lay Of Cristen men haf los, & so thei wend away.

R. Brunne, p. 25.
To crye a largosse by for oure Lorde, goure good loose to
shewe.
Piers Ploukman, p. 116.
He despiseth and setteth at nought his good name or los.
Chaucer. Tale of Melibeus.

In heuen to ben losed with God hath none ende.
Id. Testament of Loue, b. i.

With this tale a duke arose,
Whiche was a worthy knight of lose.-Gower. Con. A. b. iii.

That much he feared least reprochfull blame
With foule dishonour him mote blot therefore;
Besides the losse of so much loos and fame,
As through the world thereby should glorific his name.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 12.

To free from its hold or fastening; to untie, to unbind, to remit, to dismiss; to relax, to separate or sever, to take away; to separate or sever, (from a close or connected state or condition,) to unclose; to disconnect, to disengage. And thus, loose, the adj. is opposed to-fixed or fastened, tied or tight; bound or obliged; (met.) close, connected, or adhering; confined, or defined, or definite; restricted or restrained.

The expression in Shakespeare," at his very loose," Mr. Steevens explains, "at his moment of parting, i. e. of his getting loose or away from

us.'

Anoon alle the doris weren opened, and the boondis of all weren loosed.Wiclif. Dedis, c. 16.

And by and by all the dores opened, & euery manes bādes were lowsed.-Bible, 1551. Id.

And whan the hors was laus, he gan to gon
Toward the fen. Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 4062.
This miller to the town his doughter send
For ale and bread, and rosted hem a goo8,
And bond hir horse, he should no more go loos.
Id. Ib. v.4136.

of trees, distinguished by Ovid from putator,—a pruner.

To hew or cut off (boughs or branches ;) generally, to cut off.

Then limbs like boughs were lopp'd; from shoulders arms
do fly.
Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 22.
Now thy selfe hath lost both lopp and topp;
Als my budding branch thou wouldest cropp;
But were thy yeres greene, as now bene mine,
To other delightes they would encline.

Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. February.
Sixt part of each?

A trembling contribution; why we take
From euery tree, lop, barke, and part o' th' timber.
Shakespeare, Hen. VIII. Act i. sc. 8.
Stern Hector wav'd his sword: and standing near
Where furious Ajax ply'd his ashen spear,
Full on the lance a stroke so justly sped,
That the broad falchion lopp'd its brazen head.

Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xvi. Thus by laying the axe to the root; not by lopping off the branches, but by laying the axe to the root, our Saviour fixed the only rule which can ever produce good morals. Paley, Ser. 1. If they are divided yet further, so as to be laid close, and bound up in a more uniform manner into several faggots,

So the principall men of degree in the army raised Vitellius' name, and defaced his images, and loosing Cæcina, who then was in bands, desired him to become intercessour in their behalfe.-Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 113.

Their [Robin-Hood's men] arrows finely pair'd, for timber and for feather,

With birch and Brazil piec'd, to fly in any weather;
And shot they with the round, the square or forked pile,
The loose gave such a twang, as might be heard a mile.
Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 26.
Kin. The extreme parts of time, extremelie forms
All causes to the purpose of his speed:
And often at his veric loose decides
That, which long processe could not arbitrate.

Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost, Act v. sc. 2.
Warr wearied hath perform'd what war can do,
And to disorder'd rage let loose the reins.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi. Whom their light errour loosely doth misguide. Drayton. The Barons' Wars, b. i. earth, which comforteth any tree. The cause of this, was nothing but the loosening of the Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 435. It was indeede Her old Malbecco, which did her upbrayd With loosenesse of her love and loathly deed. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 10.

All the bonds and restraints under which men lay, he so far loosed, that any man might be free, who would concur to his own liberty and enlargement.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 40.

To loose the links that gall'd mankind before,
Or bind them faster on, and add still more.

Cowper. Truth. Nor would a true patriot have given an entire loose to his zeal, for fear of running matters into a contrary extreme, by diminishing too far the influence of the crown. Hume, pt. i. Ess. 6.

I have already loosely observed that their system supposes a regular derivation of the language from a few short primitives.-Beddoes. Observ. on the Dutch Etymologists. His easy presence check'd no decent joy. Him even the dissolute admir'd; for lie A graceful looseness, when he pleas'd, put on, And laughing could instruct.

Armstrong. The Art of Preserving Health, b. iv.

LOP, v. Lor, n. LO'PPING, n.

This word does not appear to be of very ancient use in the lan

x. 33, is in preceding translations,-to cut. Drayton and Spenser are the most remote authorities that have occurred. Minshew derives it from the Dut. Loof; Ger. Laub, frons, q.d. ramos amputare; in Fr. Esbrancher," to lop or cut off boughs; to bare or deprive of branches," (Cotgrave.) Thus, frondator is in Lat. -a lopper

or burden.-Watts. On the Mind, c. 18.

LOPE. See LOBSTER.

LOPE, i. c. leapt. See LEAP.

LOQUACIOUS. quacità: Sp. Loquacidad;

Fr. Loquacité; It. Lo

LOQUA'CITY.

Lat. Loquacitas; from loqui, to speak, to talk. Talkative; free of speech; too free of speech; full of chatter, chattering. See LOCUTION.

To whom sad Eve with shame nigh overwhelm'd,
Confessing soon, yet not before her judge
Bold or loquacious, thus abasht repli'd.

Millon. Paradise Lost, b. x.

The swallow skims the river's watry face,
The frogs renew the croaks of their loquacious race.
Dryden. Virgil, Georg. 1.

Why loquacity is to be avoided, the wise man gives us a sufficient reason. Prov. x. 19. In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin. And Eccles. v. 7. In many words there are divers vanities.-Ray. On the Creation, pt.li. Then, nymph, again, with all their wonted ease, Thy wanton waters, volatile and free, Shall wildly warble, as they please,

Their soft, loquacious harmony.

Mason. To a Water Nymph. Most men desire likewise their turn in the conversation; and regard with a very evil eye that loquacity which deprives them of a right they are naturally so jealous of.

LORD, v. LORD, n. LO'RDING, 1. LO'RDLING, n. LORDLY, adj. LO'RDLY, ad. LORDLINESS. LO'RDSHIP.

Hume. Principles of Morals, 8. 8.

A. S. Hlaf-ord, afterwards loverd, (says Skinner,) from hlaf, bread, and ford for afford, to supply, because a lord supplies many with bread. Junius dislikes this afford, knowing no such word in the A. S., and pronounces hlaf-ord to be composed of hlaf, panis, bread, (see LOAF,) and ord, initium, origo; source, origin. Tooke composes the word of the same parts, but gives to hlaf its literal meaning, raised or exalted, as the past part. of hlif-ian, to raise :-Lord, therefore, means highborn, or of an exalted origin; hlaf, raised or exalted; and ord, ortus, source, origin, birth. (See OR, and ORD.) Verstegan writes copiously and curiously upon this word, and upon Lady. (See his Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, c. 10.)

Lord, then, is a general name for one high-born, or of high rank, and, consequentially, of high authority, a superior, a master.

To lord, to bo or become, to act as lord, i. e. abuse the authority or power of a superior; to as superior or master; as sovereign; to use or

dominecr.

Rebellion rages in our Irish province but, with miraculous and lossless victòries of few against many, is daily discomfited and broken.-Milton. An Apology for Smectymnuus. The losing gamester shakes the box in vain, And bleeds, and loses on, in hopes to gain.

Dryden. Ovid. Art of Love. Mau was by his fault a great loser, and became deprived of high advantages; yet the mercy of God did leave him in no very deplorable estate.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 37.

Had the sad city fate's decree foreknown,
What floods, fast falling, should her loss bemoan.
Rowe. Lucan, b. vii.

All the sons of Adam are by disobedience in a lost condition (lost in errour and sin, lost in gilt and condemnation, lost in trouble and misery), and, the son of man (saith he himself) came to save, To aroλwλos, that which was lost (or whatever was lost.)-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 39.

I heard him make enquiry, whether the frigorifick faculty of these corpuscles be loosable, or not. Boyle. Works, vol. iii.

753. p. A man who loses his sight, improves the sensibility of his touch but who would consent, for such a recompence, to part with the pleasures which he receives from the eye.

Stewart. Of the Human Mind, pt. ii. s. 1. Introd. Many do not think themselves sufficiently compensated for their losing of their dinners, by all the eloquence of our most celebrated speakers.-Hume, pt. i. Ess. 13.

LO'SENGE, or Fr. Lozenge. Menage Lo'ZENGE. writes largely upon this word; mentioning among others the etymology proposed by Scaliger, and selected by Skinner,-a voce laurenge, on account of its resemblance to the leaf of the laurus, which has the figure of a rhombus. Mr. Tyrwhitt says,-" A quadrilateral figure of equal sides but unequal angles, in which the arms of women are usually painted," (Rom. of the Rose.) Losynges seems to signify small figures of the same form in the fretwork of a crown," (House of Fame.)

I painted all with amorettes
And with losenges and scochons,

With birdes; liberdes, and lions.-Chaucer. R. of the R. With crownes wrought full of losinges. Id. The House of Fame, b. iii. They of Megari also do shew a tombe of the Amazones in their city which is as you go from the market place to the place they call Rhus; where they find an ancient tombe, cut in form and fashion of a losenge.

North. Plutarch, p. 12. The rhombus or lozenge figure so visible in this order, was also a remarkable form of battle in the Grecian cavalry. Brown. Cyrus' Garden, c. 1. Twoe other large diamonds cut lozen wise, garnished with small diamonds. Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii. App.

LO'SENGERE.) Fr. Losengier; Sp. Lison-
LO'SENGERY. Sjero, a flatterer, beguiler,
deceiver, (Cotgrave.) See LEASING.
Sir Jon mad him prest, he trost that losengere.
R. Brunne, p. 288.

Alas! ye lordes, many a false flatour
Is in your court, and many a losengeour.

Chaucer. The Nonnes Precstes Tale, v. 15,332.

Flaterers ben the devil's nourices, that nourish his Children with milk of losengerie.-Id. The Persones Tale. There to end their liues with shame, as a number of such other loosengers had often doone before them.

LOT, n. LOT, v. Lo'TTERY.

Holinshed. Historic of Scotland. Conarus.

A. S. Hleot-an, sortiri, to cast lots; Dut. Lot-en, loot-en; Sw. Lotta; Goth. Hlauts; A. S. Hlot; Ger. Los; Dut. Lot; Sw. Lott; Fr. Lot; It. Lotto. Tooke considers the A. S. Hlot to be the regular past tense and past part. of Hlidan, tegere, operire, to cover; and that it means something covered or hidden. Upon this past part. then the A. S. Hleot-an, sortiri, must have been formed.

Lot, that which,-circumstance or event, part or portion, chance or fortune,-which is covered, concealed, unknown.

Lot is also applied to any thing which is used (sec CLERGY) to decide or determine, or bring to light or disclose, the lot or thing (yet) unknown. Lot-teller,-a teller of covered or hidden things.

To lot or allot, (qv.)—to give by lot, to grant or distribute by lot; and then generally to give, grant, distribute, or apportion. And the noun,Portion or share.

The strengest me schal bi choys and bi lot al so Chese out, and sende in to other lond, here beste for to do. R. Gloucester, p. 111. Lotes did thei kast, for whom thei had that wo. R. Brunne, p. 124. And aftir that thei hadden crusified him, thei departiden his clothis and kesten lot.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 27. When they had crucified hym, they parted hys garmentes & dyd caste lot.—Bible, 1551. Ib.

And every third yeare withouten dout, They casten lotte.-Chaucer. The Legend of Ariadne. Upon fortune her lotte thei cast.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. Witches, in foretime named lot-tellers; now commonly called sorcerers.- Catalogue of English Printed Books, 1595. By Andrew Maunsell.

You goodly sister floods, how happy is your state!
Or should I more commend your features, or your fate,
That Milford, which this isle her greatest port doth call,
Before your equal floods is lotted to your fall?
Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 5.
This they call the Feast of Lots, because Haman had cast
their life and their death, as it were vpon the hazard of a lot.
Hooker., Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. v. § 70.

Gabriel, to thee thy course by lot hath giv'n
Charge and strict watch, that to this happie place
No evil thing approach or enter in.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi.

The virgins also shall on feastful days
Visit his tomb with flowers, only bewailing
His lot unfortunate in nuptial choice,
From whence captivity and loss of eyes.

Id. Samson Agonistes.

Each markt his lot, and cast it in to Agamemnon's caske.
Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. vii.
Some sense, and more estate, kind heaven
To this well lotted peer has given.

Prior. The Ladle. Moral.
The lols produced, each hero signs his own;
Then in the General's helm the fates are thrown.
Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. vii.
And with his signature impress'd
Each plac'd his lot in Agamemnon's helm.-Couper. Ib.
That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may
learn from the universal success of lotteries
Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i. c. 10.
Lat. Lotio, from lotum, past part.

LO'TION. of lavare, to wash. A wash, wash.

generally applied to a medicated

In Animadversions, saith he, I find the mention of old cloaks, false beards, night-walkers, and salt lotions; therefore

the animadverter haunts playhouses and bordelloes; for if he did not, how could he speak of such gear? Milton. An Apology for Smectymnuus.

It is observable, that this provision is not found in fish,the element in which they live supplying a constant lotion to the eye.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 3. LOUD, or LOWD.

bellow.

LOVE, v. Love, n. LO'VEABLE. Lo'VELESS. Lo'VELY, adj. Lo'VELY, ad. Lo'VELILY. LO'VELINESS. Lo'VER. LO'VERED. LO'VESOME Lo'VING, n. LO'VINGLY. LOVINGNESS.

See the verb to low or

A. S. Lufian; Dut. Lieven; Ger. Lieben, amare, diligere. Wachter derives from lieb, bonum, because every one desires that which is good lieb, it is more probable, is from lieb-en, grateful, and therefore good. It may at least admit a conjecture that the A. S. Lufian, to love, has a reason for its application similar to that of the Lat. Diligere; (legere, to gather, to take up or out (of a number,) to choose, sc. one

Love, the noun, is applied emphatically to the passion between the sexes. Lover is, by old writers, applied as friend-by male to male. Lore is much used-prefixed.

Euereft he louede hym the more, & al Englysse vor hys loue.-R. Gloucester, p. 320.

Kynewolf, of the kynred of Adelardes blode,
A while lufed the Inglis, & wele with tham stode.

R. Brunne, p. 9. Non on so faire of face, of spech so lufly.—Id. p. 30. Thouh he be loveliche to loken on. and lofsom a bedde. Piers Plouhman, p. 179.

Moost dere britheren, loue we togidre, for charite is of God, ech that loueth his brothir is borun of God and knowith God he that loueth not knowith not God, for God is charite.-Wiclif. 1 Jon, c. 4.

Beloued, let vs loue one another: for loue commeth of God and euerye one that loueth, is borne of God, and knoweth God, for God is loue.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

But I haue knowen you, that ye haue not the love of God in you. Wiclif. Jon, c. 5.

But I know you, that ye haue not the loue of God in you. Bible, 1551. 16. And whiche been hool and sooth and chast & rightwys, and lovable do ghe.-Wiclif. Laodisensis, p. 100.

And who is it that schal anoye you if he ben sueris and loueris of goodness.-Id. 1 Petir, c. 3.

Harde is the heart that loueth nought
In Mey, whan all this mirth is wrought.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose.

Sir Mirthe her by the finger hade
Dauncing, and she him also,
Great loue was atwixt hem two.
Whan that Arcite had romed all his fill,
And songen all the roundel lustily,
Into a studie he fell sodenly,

As don these lovers in hire queinte geres.

Id. Ib.

Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 1533.

What (quod she) moste of all, maked I not a louedaie bitwene God and mankind, and chese a maide to be nompere, to put the quarell at ende.-Id. Testament of Loue, d. i.

Lucia likerous loved hir hosbond so,
That for he shuld alway upon hire thinke,
She yave him swiche a maner love-drinke,
That he was ded er it was by the morow.

Id. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 6336.
A love-knotte in the greter end ther was.
Id. Prologue, v. 197.

Sire Thopas fell in love-longing,
Al whan he herd the throstel sing,
And pricked as he were wood.

Id. The Rime of Sire Thopas, v. 13,702.

What woll ye more, O lovesome lady dere,
Let Troy and Troians fro your herte passe,
Drive out that bitter hope, and make good chere.

Id. Troil. & Cres. b. v.

Which thus his wife hath loste for euer,

But netheless she had a leuer,

The kynge her weddeth and honoureth.-Id. Ib.

Thou art pleasaunte (O my loue) euen as louelinesse itself. Bible, 1551. Ballettes, c. 6.

I wyll singe of the Lorde, that dealeth so louingelye with me.-Id. Ps. 13.

Haile wedded loue, mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring, sole proprietie,
In Paradise, of all things common else.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iv.
No tyger-reft her yong, nor savage brood,
No, not the foaming boare, that durst approve
Lovelesse to leave the mighty queene of love.

Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. B.

For nothing lovelier can be found In woman, then to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote. Millon. Paradise Lost. b. ix. With this I depart, that as I slewe my best louer for the shall please my country to need my death.

To prefer, to desire, as an object of possession or enjoyment; to delight in, to be pleased or gratified with, to take pleasure or gratification in, delight in.

Shakespeare. Julius Cæsar, Act iii. sc. 2. Yet takes he much delight

Bolyman... from his heart had banish'd
Justice of kings, and lovingness of fathers.

Lord Brooke. Mustapha.
Who young and simple, would not be so lover'd.
Shakespeare. A Lover's Complaint.
The night-warbling bird, that now awake
Tunes sweetest his love-labour'd song.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. v.
T'awayt his comming of your ioyous make,
And hearken to the birds love-learned song,
The deawy leaves among.-Spenser. Epithalamion.
That would she ought, or would she naught,
This lad would never from her thought,

She in love-longing fell.

Drayton, Ecl. 4.

And in the violet-embroider'd vale
Where the love-lorn nightingale
Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

From loveless youth to unrespected age,
No passion gratify'd, except her rage.

Millon. Comus.

Pope. Mora! Essays, "Epist. 2. Alive, the hand of crooked age had marr'd Those lovely features, which cold death hath spar'd.

Waller. On the Picture of a fair Youth.

Belv. Pierre! thou art welcome.
Come to my breast! for by its hopes, thou look'st
Lovelily dreadful; and the fate of Venice
Seems on thy sword already.

Olway. Venice Preserved, Act ii. sc. 3.
A generous bottle and a lovesome she,
Are th' only joys in nature next to thee.

Id. Epistle to Mr. Duke. The love of good, and solicitude to procure it, is not only the ruling principle of every sentient being, but it meets with the full approbation of every rational being.

Cogan. On the Passions, c. 1. s. 3.

In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed;
In war, he mounts the warrior's steed;

In halls, in gay attire is seen;

In hamlets, dances on the green.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
And men below, and saints above;
For love is heaven and heaven is love.

Scott. Lay of the Last Minstrel, c. 3.

Forlorn of hope the lovely maid I left,
Pensive and pale, of every joy bereft :
She to her silent couch retir'd to weep,
Whilst I embark'd in sadness on the deep.

Falconer. The Shipwreck, c. 1. A portrait, said to be of his queen, in the Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford, conveys no idea of her loveliness, nor of any skill in the painter.

Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. c. 3.

The Revolution shewed them [the Tories] to have been, in this respect, nothing but a genuine Court party, such as might be expected in a British Government; that is, lovers of liberty, but greater lovers of monarchy.-Hume, pt. i. Ess.9. The Court had gone a good way beyond the fashion of the preceding reign, when the gallantry in vogue was to wear a lock of some favourite object; and yet Prynne had thought that mode so damnable, that he published an absurd piece against it, called The unloveliness of lovelocks.

Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iii. c. 1.

LOUKE:-Skinner tells us, is said to be-0. ellow receiver: Jamieson thinks Chaucer used the word as equivalent to a trull (in v. lucky.) Tyrwhitt seems to suspect it has an affinity to lusk, (qv.)

And forthere n'is no thefe without a louke
That helpeth him to wasten and to souke,
Of that he briben can or borrow may.

LOUNGE, v. LOUNGE, n. LOUNGER.

Chaucer. The Cokes Prologue, v. 4413.

We owe this modern usage to the old English Lungis; (Fr. Longis; It. Longone, which Menage derives from the Lat. Longus,) a long, lazy loiterer.

To loiter about inactively.

But I will roar aloud and spare not, to the terror of, at present, a very flourishing society of people, called loungers, gentlemen whose observations are mostly itinerant, and who think they have already too much good sense of their own to be in need of staying at home to read other people's. Guardian, No. 124. You, my good sir, who have lounged about to such good purpose as to be able to improve others, will, I hope, take your weaker brothers and sisters under your direction; and if you will make Dunn's rooms a Lounging hall instead of a chapel, I think I may venture to assure you it will be better attended in the one character than in the other. Lounger, No. 8.

40ep, from peep-ev, perdere, corrumpere, sive quia est animal perniciosum, et luis instar serpens, sive quia corrumpit et ex corruptione nascitur. A lousy jougelour can deceiven thee, And parde yet can I more craft than he.

Chaucer. The Freres Tale, v. 7048. Like lice away from dead bodies they crawl. Wyatt. Of such as had forsaken him. If eteruall life be due vnto the pilde traditions of lowsie friers, where is the Testament become that God made vnto us in Christ's bloud?-Tyndall. Workes, p. 132.

Which herbe [plantaine] hath this good propertie over and besides, to cure the lowsie disease, whereof Scylla the Dictatour died, who was eaten with lice. Holland. Plinie, b. xxvi. c. 13.

A taylor despicably poor, In every hole for shelter crept, On the same bulk, botch'd, lous'd, and slept. Somervile. Tales, &c. c. 3. Trees (especially fruit-bearers) are infested with the measels-to this commonly succeeds lousiness.-Evelyn, ii. 7.6. Go on in pity to this wretched isle, Which ignorant poetasters do defile With lousy madrigals for lyric verse.

LOUVRE.

Olway. To Mr. Creech. If a rascal can show a louse through a microscope, he expects all the heads in England to itch till they behold it. Observer, No. 21. A lover (says Minshew) or tunnel on the toppe of the house, from the Fr. L'ouvert, that is, apertus, a place open to let out the smoke. An open place (to let in or out any thing.) See the quotation from Holland's Plutarch in v. Lantern.

But darknesse dred and daily night did hover
Through all the inner parts, wherein they dwelt;
Ne light'ned was with window, nor with lover,
But with continual candle light.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 11.

An envious man, having caught his neighbour's pigeons in a net, feeding on his stack, plucked off their tails, and let them go, which though they could fly forward home, yet were they soon after found dead in the dove-cote, famished for want of food, and unable to fly up perpendicularly, and so out at the lover.-Fuller. Worthies. Northamptonshire. Whose shrill saint's-bell hangs on his lovery, While the rest are damned to the plumbery.

LOW, v. Low, adj. Low, ad. Lo'wer, or Lour, v. Lo'WERING, n. LO'WERINGLY. Lo'WLY.

Bp. Hall, b. v. Sat. 1. [They] set hearths in the midst of the roome, for chimneyes, which vented the smoake at a louver in the toppe. Carew. Survey of Cornwall, fol. 53. Skinner derives from the Dut. Leegh, humilis; leeghen, demittere; and this from the verb Liggen, to lay. And Tooke is of opinion that low (in Dut. Laag) is the past part. of the A. S. Lic-gan, jacere, cubare, to lay or lie; that the verb to low, or to make low, is according to common custom formed of this past part. ; that the past part. of this verb to low, is indifferently either Low-en, low'n, lown; or lowed, low'd, lowt; that again of this part. lowt, we have made another verb, viz. to lowt, to do, or to bear one's self, as the lowed person, i. e. the lowt, does. Somner, in v. Hleare, (see LEER,) observes that in Dut. Be-loeren is to look with the brow or forehead drawn down, and that loeren is to contract the forehead, to frown; with us to lowrc. And Doct. Th. H. (in Skinner) that to lower isfrontem demittere; to depress the forehead.

LO'WLIHOOD.
LO'WLINESS.
LO'WNESS.
Lown, or
LOON.
LowT, or
LOUT, v. & n.
Lo'UTING, n.
Lo'UTISII.

Low, the adjective, is,-laid, recumbent; fallen, prostrate, cast down, dejected; sunk, depressed; (met.) humble, meek, submissive; dejected, depressed, degraded, debased, demeaned.

To lower, to humble or humiliate; to stoop, to depress, to sink, to cast down or deject, to degrade, to debase, to demean to lower or lour, (as the sky,) consequentially, to overcloud, to darken; (as the countenance,) to draw down or contract the brow or forehead; to look sullen or gloomy, to frown.

And the Mone the lowest is of the planets.
R, Gloucester, p. 112.

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And lo the veil of the temple was torent in tweyn pertis fro the highest to the lowest.—Id. Matthew, c. 27.

A meek brothir have glorie in his enhaunsing, and a riche man in his lownesse.-Id. James, c. 1.

How mighty and how great a lord is he,
For he can make of low hertis by,

And of high low, and like for to dy,
And hard hertes he can maken free.

Chaucer. The Cuckow and the Nightingale.

This worthy limitour this noble frere
He made alway a manere louring chere
Upon the sompnour.

Id. The Freres Tale, v. 6,848.

This was prouyded yt no subiet of the kynges nor other w'in his lande shuld bye any salt, but of the kyng & at his pryce, and ouer yt he areryd & lowyd ye coynes and moneys of his lande, to the great auautage of hymself & enpouerysshyng of his sayd subiectes.

Fabyan. Philip de Valoys, an. 15. And now on hir, and then on him, Full lowringly did leare.

Gascoigne. The Complaint of Phylomene. But no man can truely glory in hym, but suche an one as is not offended with hys humilitie and lownesse. Udal. Matthew, c. 16.

from the fower quarters of the world: and againe from the Aungels shall fynde them out, and gather them together hyghest pole of heauen to the lowmost.-Id. Marke, c. 13.

Such simple wedowes therfore dooe thei easily flocke and loute, through countrefaicting of holinesse. Id. Luke, c. 20. This lowtish clown is such, that you never saw so illfavoured a vizor.-Sidney. Arcadia, b.i.

The crowching client, with low-bended knce,
And manie worships, and faire flatterie,
Tells on his tale as smoothly as him list,
But still the lawyer's eye squints on his fist.

Bp. Hall, b. ii. Sat. 3. No threat'ning cloud, all charg'd with hailstones, lowres. Stirling. Domes-day. The Twelfth Houre. -Darkness now rose, As daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring night Her shadowy offspring; unsubstantial both, Privation meer of light and absent day.

Milton. Paradise Regained, b. iv. Skie low'rd, and, muttering thunder, som sad drops Wept at compleating of the mortal sin Original. Id. Paradise Lost, b. ix. Stand firm, for in his look defiance lours.-Id. Ib. b. iv. We of our parts saluted him in a very lowly and submissive manner; as looking that from him we should receive sentence of life or death.-Bacon. New Atlantis. 7 8