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Long doth she stay, as lotb to leave the land, From whose soft side she first doth issue make; She tastes all places, turns to ev'ry hand, Her flow'ry banks unwilling to forsake. Davies. Then wilt thou not be loth To leave this paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far!

Milton.

To pardon willing, and to punish loth; You strike with one hand, but you heal with both;

Lifting up all that prostrate lie, you grieve You cannot make the dead again to live. Waller. When Æneas is forced to kill Lausus, the poet shews him compassionate, and is loth to destroy such a master-piece of nature. Dryden.

As some faint pilgrim standing on the shore,
First views the torrent he would venture o'er;
And then his inn upon the farther ground,
Loth to wade through, and lotber to go round:
Then dipping in his staff doth trial make
How deep it is; and, sighing, pulls it back.

I know you shy to be oblig'd;
And still more loath to be oblig'd by me.

Dryden.

Southerne.

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LOATHINGLY. adv. [from loath.] In z fastidious manner.

LO ATHLY. adj. [from loath.] Hateful; abhorred; exciting hatred.

An huge great dragon, horrible in sight, Bred in the leathly lakes of Tartary, With murd'rous ravin.

Spenser. The people fear me; for they do observe Unfathered heirs, and loatbly births of nature. Shakspeare.

Sour-ey'd disdain and discord shall bestow The union of your bed with weeds so loathly, That you shall hate it. Shakspeare. LOATHLY. adv. [from loath.] Unwillingly; without liking or inclination,

The upper streams make such haste to have their part of embracing, that the nether, though Lothly, must needs give place unto them. Sidney. Lothly opposite I stood To his unnatural purpose.

Shakspeare. This shews that you from nature loathly stray, Donne. That suffer not an artificial day, LO ́ATHNESS. n. s. [from loath.] Unwil

lingness.

The fair soul herself

Weigh'd between lethness and obedience, Which end the beam should bow.

Should we be taking leave,

Shakspeare.

As long a term as yet we have to live,
The lothness to depart would grow. Shakspeare.

After they had sat about the fire, there grew a general silence and lethness to speak amongst them; and immediately one of the weakest fell down in a swoon. Bacon.

LO ATHSOME. adj. [from loath.]
1. Abhorred; detestable.
The fresh young Ay

Did much disdain to subject his desire
To loathsome sloth, or hours in case to waste.
Spenser.
While they pervert pure nature's healthful
rules
To loathsome sickness.

Milton.

If we consider man in such a loathsome and provoking condition, was it not love enough that he was permitted to enjoy a being? South. 2. Causing satiety or fastidiousness. The sweetest honey

Is loathsome in its own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite. Shaks. LO ATHSOMENESS. z. s. [from loathsome.] Quality of raising hatred, disgust, or abhorrence.

The catacombs must have been full of stench and loathsomeness, if the dead bodies that lay in them were left to rot in open nitches. Addison. LOAVES, plural of loaf.

Democritus, when he lay a dying, caused leaves of new bread to be opened, poured a little wine into them; and so kept himself alive with the odour till a feast was past. Bacon. LOB. n. s.

1. Any one heavy, clumsy, or sluggish. Farewell, thou lob of spirits, I'll begone, Our queen and all her elves come here anon. Shakspeare. 2. Lob's pound; a prison. Probably a prison for idlers, or sturdy beggars. Crowdero, whom in irons bound,

Thot basely threw'st into lob's pound. Hudibras. 3. A big worm.

For the trout the dew worm, which some also call the lob worm, and the brandling, are the chief. Walten.

To Los. v. a. To let fall in a slovenly or lazy manner.

The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks, And their poor jades

Leb down their heads, dropping the hide and hips. Shakspeare. LOBBY. n. s. [laube, German.] An opening before a room.

His lobbies fill with 'tendance,
Rain sacrificial whisp'rings in his ear,
Make sacred even his stirrup.

Shakspeare.

Before the duke's rising from the table, he stood expecting till he should pass through a kind of lobby between that room and the next, where were divers attending him. Wotton. Try your backstairs, and let the lobby wait, A stratagem in war is no deceit. King. LOBE. n. s. [lobe, Fr. 6os.] A division; a distinct part: used commonly for a part of the lungs.

Nor could the lobes of his rank liver swell To that prodigious mass, for their eternal meal.

Dryden.

Air bladders form lobuli, which hang upon the bronchia like bunches of grapes; these lobuli constitute the lobes, and the lobes the lungs.

Arbuthnot.

From whence the quick reciprocating breath, The labe adhesive, and the sweat of death. Servel. LOBSTER. n. 5, [lobster, Sax.] A crustaceous rish.

Those that cast their shell, are the lobster, the crab, and craw fish. Bacon.

It happeneth often that a lobster hath the great claw of one side longer than the other. Brown, LOCAL. adj. [local, Fr. locus, Lat.] 1. Having the properties of place.

By ascending, after that the sharpness of death was overcome, he took the very local possession of glory, and that to the use of all that are his, even as himself before had witnessed, I go to prepare a place for you. Hooker.

A higher flight the vent'rous goddess tries, Leaving material world and local skies. Prior.

1. Relating to place.

The circumstance of local nearness in them unto us, might haply enforce in us a duty of greater separation from them than from those Hooker.

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LOCALITY. n. s. [from local.] Existence in place; relation of place, or distance. That the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality, is generally opinioned. Glanville.

Lo'CALLY. adv. [from local.] With respect to place.

Whether things, in their natures so divers as body and spirit, which almost in nothing communicate, are not essentially divided, though not lecally distant, I leave to the readers. Glanville. LOCATION. n. s. [locatio, Lat.] Situation with respect to place; act of placing; state of being placed.

To say that the world is somewhere, means no more than that it does exist; this though a phrase borrowed from place, signifying only its Locke. existence, not location.

LOCH. n. s. A lake. Scottish.

A lake or lech, that has no fresh water running into it, will turn into a stinking puddle. Cheyne. Lock. n. s. [loc, Sax. in both senses.] 1. An instrument composed of springs and boits, used to fasten doors or chests. No gate so strong, no lock so firm and fast, But with that piercing noise flew open quit or brast. Spenser.

We have locks, to safeguard necessaries, And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves.

Shakspeare.

As there are locks for several purposes, so are there several inventions in locks, in contriving their wards or guards. Moxon.

2. The part of the gun by which fire is struck.

A gun carries powder and bullets for seven charges and discharges: under the breech of the barrel is one box for the powder; a little before the luck, another for the bullets; behind the cock a charger, which carries the powder to the further end of the lock. Grew.

3. A hug; a grapple.

They must be practised in all the locks and gripes of wrestling, as need may often be in fight to tugg or grapple, and to close. Milton.

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Well might he perceive the hanging of her hair in locks, some curled, and some forgotten.

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His grizly locks, long growen and unbound, Disordered hung about his shoulders round.

Spenser.

The bottom was set against a lack of wool, and the sound was quite deaded. Bacon. They nourish only a lock of hair on the crown of their heads. Sandys. A lock of hair will draw more than a cable Grew.

rope.
Behold the locks that are grown white
Beneath a helmet in your father's battles. Addis.
Two locks that graceful hung behind
In equal curls, and well-conspir'd, to deck
With shining ringlets her smooth iv'ry neck.
Pope.
A tuft.

I suppose this letter will find thee picking of daisies, or smelling to a lack of hay. Addison. To Lock. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To shut or fasten with locks.

The garden, seated on the level floor, She left behind, and locking ev'ry door, Thought all secure.

Dryden.

2. To shut up or confine, as with locks.
I am lockt in one of them;
If you do love me, you will find me out. Shaksp.
We do lock

Our former sample in our strong-barr'd gate.
Shakspeare.

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To LOCK. v. n.

1. To become fast by a lock.

Gay,

For not of wood, nor of enduring brass,
Doubly disparted it did leck and close,
That when it locked, none might through it pass.
Spenser.

2. To unite by mutual insertion.

Either they lock into each other, or slip one upon another's surface; as much of their surfaces touches as make them cohere. Boyle. LOCKER. n. s. [from lock.] Any thing that is closed with a lock; a drawer.

I made lockers or drawers at the end of the boat.
Robinson Crusoe.

LOCKET. n. s. [loquet, Fr.] A small lock; any catch or spring to fasten a necklace, or other ornament.

Hudib.

Where knights are kept in narrow lists, With wooden lockets 'bout their wrists. Lo CKRAM. n. s. A sort of coarse linen.

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that sometimes they fall like a cloud upon the country, and eat up every thing they meet with. Moses describes four sorts of locusts. Since there was a prohibition against using locusts, it is not to be questioned but that these creatures were commonly eaten in Palestine, and the neighbouring countries. Calmet. To-morrow will I bring the locusts into thy Exodus. Air replete with the steams of animals rotting, has produced pestilential fevers; such have likewise been raised by great quantities of dead locusts. Arbuthnot.

coast.

LOCUST-TREE. n. 5.

The locust tree hath a papilionaceous flower, from whose calyx arises the pointal, which afterwards becomes an unicapsular hard pod, including roundish hard seeds, which are surrounded Lo'DESTAR. See LOADSTAR. with a fungous stringy substance. Miller. LO DESTONE. See LOADSTONE. To LODGE. V. a. [logian, Sax. loger, Fr.] 1. To place in a temporary habitation.

When he was come to the court of France, the king stiled him by the name of the duke of York; lodged him, and accommodated him, in great state. Bacon.

2. To afford a temporary dwelling; to supply with harbour for a night.

Ev'ry house was proud to lodge a knight. Dryd.. 3. To place; to plant.

When on the brink the foaming boar I met, And in his side thought to have lodg'd my spear, The desp'rate savage rush'd within my force, And bore me headlong with him down the rock. Otway.

He lodg'd an arrow in a tender breast, That had so often to his own been prest. Addis. In viewing again the ideas that are lodged in the memory, the mind is more than passive.

4. To fix; to settle.

Locke.

By whose fell working I was first advanc'd, And by whose pow'r I well might lodge a fear To be again displac'd. Shakspeare.

I can give no reason,

More than a lodg'd hate, and a certain loathing I bear Antonio. Shakspeare.

5. To place in the memory.

This cunning the king would not understand, though he lodged it, and noted it, in some particulars. Bacon.

6. To harbour or cover.

The deer is lodg'd, I've track'd her to her

covert; Rush in at once.

7. To afford place to.

8.

Addison.

The memory can lodge a greater store of images, than all the senses can present at one time. Cheyne

To lay flat.

down,

Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown

Though castles topple on their warders heads. We'll make foul weather with despised tears; Shakspeare. Our sighs, and they, shall lodge the summer corn, And make a dearth in this revolting land. Shakspeare.

To LODGE, V. n.

1. To reside; to keep residence.

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodgeth, sleep will never lie.
Shakspeare.

Something holy lodges in that breast,
And with these raptures moves the vocal air
To testify his hidden residence. Milton.

And dwells such rage in softest bosoms then? And lodge such daring souls in little men? Pope. 2. To take a temporary habitation. Why commands the king,

That his chief followers lodge in towns about him,

While he himself keepeth in the cold field?

Shakspeare. I know not where he lodges; and for me to devise a lodging, and say, he lies here or he lies there, were to lie in mine own throat. Sbaksp. Thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people. Samuel. 3. To take up residence at night. My lords And soldiers, stay and lodge with me this night. Shakspeare. Oh, that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people! Jeremiah.

Here thou art but a stranger travelling to thy country; it is therefore a huge folly to be afflicted, because thou hast a less convenient inn to lodge in by the way. Taylor. 4. To lie flat.

Long cone wheat they reckon in Oxfordshire best for rank clays; and its straw makes it not subject to lodge, or to be mildewed. Mortimer. LODGE. n. s. [logis, French.]

1. A small house in a park or forest.

He brake up his court, and retired himself, his wife and children, into a certain forest thereby, which he calleth his desart, wherein he hath built two fine lodges.

Sidney.

I found him as melancholy as a lodge in a

warren.

Shakspeare. He and his lady both are at the lodge, Upon the north side of this pleasant chase.

Shakspeare. Thus at their shady lodge arriv'd, both stood, Both turn'd, and under open sky ador'd The God that made both sky, air, earth. Milt. Whenever I am turned out, my lodge descends upon a low-spirited family. Swift. 2. Any small house appendant to a greater; as, the porter's lodge.

LODGEMENT. n. s. [from lodge; logement, French.]

1. Disposition or collocation in a certain place.

The curious lodgement and inosculation of the auditory nerves.

2. Accumulation; collection.

Derbam.

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1. One who lives in rooms hired in the house of another.

Base tyke, call'st thou me host? now, I scorn the term; nor shall my Nell keep lodgers.

Shakspeare. There were in a family, the man and his wife, three children, and three servants or lodgers. Graunt's Bills. Those houses are soonest infected that are crowded with multiplicity of lodgers, and nasty families. Harvey. The gentlewoman begged me to stop; for that a ledger she had taken in was run mad. Tatler. Sylla was reproached by his fellow lodger that whilst the fellow ledger paid eight pounds one shilling and fivepence halfpenny for the upper

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To his known lodgings, and his country dame. Dryden. He desired his sister to bring her away to the lodgings of his friend. Addison's Guardian. Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow. Pope. 2. Place of residence.

Fair bosom fraught with virtue's richest treasure,

The nest of love, the lodging of delight,

The bower of bliss, the paradise of pleasure, The sacred harbour of that heavenly spright.

3. Harbour; covert.

Spenser.

The hounds were uncoupled; and the stag thought it better to trust to the nimbleness of his feet, than to the slender fortification of his lodging. Sidney. 4. Convenience to sleep on.

Their feathers serve to stuff our beds and pillows, yielding us soft and warm lodging. Ray. LOFT. n. s. [lloft, Welsh; or from lift.] 1. A floor.

Eutychus fell down from the third loft. Acts.
There is a traverse placed in a left above.
Bacon.

2. The highest floor.

To lull him in his slumber soft,

Atrickling stream from high rock tumbling down,
And ever drizzling rain upon the loft,
Mixt with a murmuring wind.

3. Rooms on high.

Spenser.

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They speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. Psalms.

3. With elevation of language or sentiment; sublimely.

Spenser.

My lowly verse may loftily arise, And lift itself unto the highest skies. LOFTINESS. n. s. [from lofty.] 1. Height; local elevation 2. Sublimity; elevation of sentiment. Three poets in three distant ages born; The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, The next in majesty; in both the last. Dryden. 3. Pride; haughtiness.

Augustus and Tiberius had loftiness enough in their temper, and affected to make a sovereign figure. Colier.

LOFTY. adj. [from loft, or lift.]
1. High; hovering; elevated in place.
Cities of men with lofty gates and tow'rs.

Milton.

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A couple of travellers that took up an ass, fell to loggerheads which should be his master.

L'Estrange. LOGGERHEADED. adj. [from loggerhead.] Dull; stupid; doltish.

You loggerheaded and unpolish'd groom, what! no attendance? Shakspeare. LOGICK. n. s. [logique, Fr. logica, Lat. from λόγος.] The art of reasoning.

One of the seven sciences.

Logick is the art of using reason well in our enquiries after truth, and the communication of Watts' Logick

it to others. Shakspeare.

The worms with many feet are bred under logs of timber, and many times in gardens, where no logs are.

Bacon.

Some log, perhaps, upon the waters swam, An useless drift, which rudely cut within,

And hollow'd, first a floating trough became, And cross some riv'let passage did begin. Dryd. 2. An Hebrew measure, which held a quarter of a cab, and consequently fivesixths of a pint. According to Dr. Arbuthnot it was a liquid measure, the seventy-second part of the bath or ephah, and twelfth part of the hin.

Calmet.

A meat offering mingled with oil, and one log of oil. Leviticus.

LOGARITHMS. n. s. [logarithme, French; abyos and agiduos.]

Logarithms, which are the indexes of the ratios of numbers one to another, were first invented by Napier lord Merchison, a Scottish baron, and afterwards completed by Mr. Briggs, Savilian professor at Oxford. They are a series of artificial numbers contrived for the expedition of calculation, and proceeding in an arithmetical proportion, as the numbers they answer to do in a geometrical one; for instance, 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

8

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1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 Where the numbers above, beginning with (0), and arithmetically proportional, are called logarithms. The addition and subtraction of ioga rithms answers to the multiplication and division of the numbers they correspond with; and this saves an infinite deal of trouble. In like manner will the extraction of roots be performed, by dissecting the logarithms of any numbers for the square root, and trisecting them for the cube, and so on. Harris. LOGGATS. n. s.

Loggats is the ancient name of a play or game, which is one of the unlawful games enumerated in the thirty-third statute of Henry VIII. It is the same which is now called kittle-pins, in which boys often make use of bones instead of wooden pin, throwing at them with another bone instead of bowling. Hanmer.

Did these bones cost no more the breeding, but to play at loggats with them. Sbaksp. LOGGERHEAD. n. s. [logge, Dut. stupid, and head; or rather from log, a heavy

Talk logick with acquaintance, And practise rhetorick in your common talk. Shakspeare. By a logick that left no man any thing which he might call his own, they no more looked upon it as the case of one man, but the case of the kingdom. Clarendon. Here foam'd rebellious logick, gagg'd and bound, There stript fair rhetorick languish'd on the ground. Pope. LOGICAL. adj. [from logick.] 1. Pertaining to logick; taught in logick. The heretick complained greatly of St. Augustine, as being too full of logical subtilties. Hooker. Those who in a logical dispute keep in general terms, would hide a fallacy. Dryden.

We ought not to value ourselves upon our ability, in giving subtile rules, and finding out lo gical arguments, since it would be more perfec tion not to want them. Baker.

2. Skilled in logick; furnished with logick.

A man who sets up for a judge in criticism, should have a clear and logical head. Spectator. LOGICALLY. adv. [from logical.] According to the laws of logick.

Prior.

How can her old good man With honour take her back again? From hence I logically gather, The woman cannot live with either. LOGICIAN. n. s. [logicien, Fr. logicus, Lat.] A teacher or professor of logick a man versed in logick.

If a man can play the true logician, and have as well judgment as invention, he may do great Bacon.

matters.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. Addison. Each staunch polemick subborn as a rock, Each fierce logician still expelling Locke, Came whip and spur.

Pope's Dunciad. A logician might put a case that would serve for an exception. Srvifi.

The Arabian physicians were subtile men, and most of them logicians; accordingly they have given method, and shed subtilty upon their author. Baker.

Lo'GMAN. n. s. [log and man.] One whose business is to carry logs.

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