Pope. LILY-DAFFODIL. n. s. [lilio-narcissus.] It hath a lily flower, composed of six leaves, shaped like the flower of hyacinth: the roots are scaly, and shaped like those of the lily. There are three species of this plant; one with a blue flower, another white, and a third red. Miller. LILY of the Valley, or May lily. n. s. [lilium convallium.] The flower consists of one leaf, is shaped like a bell, and divided at the top into six segments; the ovary hecomes a soft globular fruit, containing several round seeds. It is very common in shady woods. Miller. Lily of the valley has a strong root that runs into the ground. Mortimer's Husbandry. LILYLIVERED. adj. [lily and liver.] Whitelivered; cowardly. A base, lilylivered, action-taking knave. Shak. LIMATURE. n. s. [limatura, Latin.] Filings of any metal; the particles rubbed off by a file. LIMB. 7. S. [lim, Sax. and Scot. lem, Dan.] 1. A member; a jointed or articulated part of animals. A second Hector, for his grim aspect, And large proportion of his strong knit limbs. O! that I had her here, to tear her limb meal! Shakspeare. Shakspeare. Now am I come each limb to survey, If thy appearance answer loud report. Milton. 2. [limbe, Fr. limbus, Lat.] An edge; a border: a philosophical word. By moving the prisms about, the colours again emerged out of the whiteness, the violet and the blue at its inward limb, and at its outward limb the red and yellow. Newton. To LIMB. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To supply with limbs. As they please, They limb themselves, and colour, shape, and size Assume, as likes them best, condense, or rare. Milton. 2. To tear asunder; to dismember. LIMBECK. n. s. [corrupted by popular pronunciation from alembick.] A still. Her cheeks, on which this streaming nectar fell, Still'd through the limbeck of her diamond eyes. Fires of Spain, and the line, Fairfax. Donne. Call up, unbound, Whose countries limbecks to our bodies be, Canst thou for gain bear? In various shapes, old Proteus from the sea, Drain'd through a limbeck to his naked form. Milton. The earth, by secret conveyances, lets in the sea, and sends it back fresh, her bowels serving for a limbeck. Howel. He first survey'd the charge with careful eyes, Yet judg'd, like vapours that from limbecks rise, It would in richer showers descend again. Dryd. The warm limbeck draws Salubrious waters from the nocent brood. Phil. LIMBED. adj. [from limb.] Formed with regard to limbs. A steer of five years age, large limb'd, and fed, To Jove's high altars Agamemnon led. Popco LIMBER. adj. Flexible; easily bent; pliant; lithe. You put me off with limber vows. Shaksp I wonder how, among these jealousies of court and state, Edward Atheling could subsist, being the indubitate heir of the Saxon line: but he had tried, and found him a prince of limber virtues; so as though he might have some place in hia caution, yet he reckoned him beneath his Wotton. fear. She durst never stand at the bay, having nothing but her long soft limber ears to defend her. More. The muscles were strong on both sides of the aspera arteria, but on the under side, opposite to that of the œsophagus, very limber. Ray. LIMBERNESS. n. s. [from limber.] Flexibility; pliancy. LIMBO. n. s. [Eo quod sit limbus inferorum. Du Cange.] 1. A region bordering upon hell, in which there is neither pleasure nor pain. Popularly hell. No, he is in tartar limbo, worse than hell, A devil in an everlasting garment hath him, One whose hard heart is button'd up with steel. Shakspeare. Oh what a sympathy of woe is this! As far from help as limbo is from bliss. Shaksp. All these up-whirl'd aloft Fly o'er the backside of the world far off, But Trulla straight brought on the charge; The knight and squire, where he was shut. Hudibras. Friar, thou art come off thyself, but poor I am left in limbo. Dryden's Spanish Fryar. LIME. n. s. [lim, gelyman, Sax. to glue.] 1. A viscous substance drawn over twigs, which catches and entangles the wings of birds that light upon it. Poor bird! thou'dst never fear the net or lime, The pitfall, nor the gin. Sbaksp. Macbeth. Jollier of this state Then toils for beasts, and lime for birds were found, And deep-mouth'd dogs did forest walks surround, Dryden. LIM Or court a wife, spread out his wily parts, Like nets, or lime twigs, for rich widows' hearts. Pope. 2. Matter of which mortar is made: so called because used in cement. There are so many species of lime stone, that we are to understand by it in general any stone that, upon a proper degree of heat, becomes a white calx, which will make a great ebullition and noise on being thrown into water, falling into a loose white powder at the bottom. The lime we have in London is usually made of chalk," which is weaker than that made of stone. were Hill's Materia Medica. They were now, like sand without lime, ill bound together, especially as many as English, who were at a gaze, locking strange one upon another, not knowing who was faithful to their side. Bacon. As when a lofty pile is rais'd, We never hear the workmen prais'd, Who bring the lime, or place the stones, But all admire Inigo Jones. Swift. Lime is commonly made of chalk, or of any sort of stone that is not sandy, or very cold. Mortimer. 3. The linden tree. [lind, Sax. tilia, Lat.] The flower censists of several leaves, placed orbicularly, in the form of a rose, having a long narrow leat growing to the footstalk of each cluster of flowers, from whose cup rises the pointal, which becomes testiculated, of one capsule, containing an oblong seed. The timber is used by carvers and turners. These trees continue sound many years, and grow to a considerable bulk. Sir Thomas Brown mentions one, in Norfolk, sixteen yards in circuit. Miller. For her the limes their pleasing shades deny, For her the lilies hang their heads, and die. Pope. 4. A species of lemon. [lime, French.] Bear me, Pomona! to thy citron groves! To where the lemon and the piercing lime, With the deep orange glowing through the green, Their lighter glories blend. Thomson. To LIME. v. a. [from lime.] J. To entangle; to ensnare. O bosom, black as death! Shakspeare. Example, that so terribly shows in the wreck of maidenhood, cannet, for all that, dissuade succession, but that they are limed with the twigs that threaten them. Shakspeare. The bird that hath been limed in a bush, a. To smear with lime. Myself have lim'd a bush for her, And plac'd a quire of such enticing birds, That she will light to listen to their lays. Shaks. Those twigs in time will come to be limed, and then you are all lost if you do but touch them. L'Estrange. 3. To cement. This sense is out of use. 4. To manure ground with lime. Sbaksp. Encouragement that abatement of interest gave to landlords and tenants, to improve by draining, marling, and liming. Child. All sorts of pease love limed or marled land. Mortimer. LIM LIMEKILN. n. s. [lime and kiln.] Kiln They were found in a lime-kiln, and having passed the fire, each is a little vitrified. Woodz. LIMESTONE. n. s. [lime and stone.] The stone of which lime is made. Fire stone and lime store, if broke small, and LIME-WATER. 7. s. laid on cold lands, must be of advantage. Mort. Lime-water, made by pouring water upon quick-lime, with some other ingredients to take off its ill flavour, is of great service internally in all cutaneous eruptions, and diseases of the lungs. Hill. He tried an experiment on wheat infused in lime-water alone, and some in brandy and limewater mixed, and had from each grain a great increase. Mortimer. LIMIT. n. s. [limité, French; limiter, Lat.] Bound; border; utmost reach. The whole limit of the mountain round about shall be most holy. Exodus. We went, great emperor, by thy command, To view the utmost limits of the land; Ev'n to the place where no more world is found, But foaming billows beating on the ground. To LIMIT. v. a. [limiter, Fr. from the Dryden. noun.] 1. To confine within certain bounds; to restrain; to circumscribe; not to leave at large. They tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. Psalms. Thanks I must you con, that you Shakspeare. Swift. If a king come in by conquest, he is no longer a limited monarch. 2. To restrain from a lax or general signification: : as, the universe is here limited to this earth. LIMITA NEOUS. adj. [from limit.] Belonging to the bounds. Dict. LIMITARY. adj. [from limit.] Placed at the boundaries as a guard or superintendant. Then, when I am thy captive, talk of chains, LIMITATION. n. s. [limitation, Fr. limitaProud limitary cherub! Milton tio, Lat.] 1. Restriction; circumscription. Hooker. Limitation of each creature, is both the perfection and the preservation thereof. Am I yourself, But, as it were, in sort of limitation? Shaksp. I despair, how this limitation of Adam's empire to his line and posterity, will help us to one heir. This limitation, indeed, of our author, will save those the labour, who would look for him amongst the race of brutes; but will very little contribute to the discovery amongst men. Locke. If a king come in by conquest, he is no longer a limited monarch; if he afterwards consent to limitations, he becomes immediately king de jure. 2. Confinement from a lax or undetermiSwift. nate import. The cause of error is ignorance, what restraints and limitations all principles have in regard of the matter whereunto they are applicable. Lesker A mongrel. LIMMER, R. S. Ainsw. To LIMN. v. a. [enluminer, Fr. to adorn books with pictures.] To draw; to paint any thing. Mine eye doth his effigies witness, Shakspeare. Emblems limned in lively colours. Peacham. How are the glories of the field spun, and by what pencil are they limned in their unaffected bravery? Glanville. LIMNER. n. s. [corrupted from enlumineur, a decorator of books with initial pictures.] A painter; a picture-maker. That divers limners at a distance, without either copy or design, should draw the same picture to an undistinguishable exactness, is more conceivable than that matter, which is so diversified, should frame itself so unerringly, according to the idea of its kind. Glanville's Scep. Poets are limners of another kind, To copy out ideas in the mind; Words are the paint by which their thoughts are shown, And nature is their object to be drawn. Grano. Lí'MOUS. adj. [limosus, Latin.] Muddy; slimy. That country became a gained ground by the muddy and limous matter brought down by the Niles, which settled by degrees unto a firm land. Brown's Vulgar Errours. They esteemed this natural melancholick acidity to be the limous or slimy fœculent part of Floyer. the blood. LIMP. adj. [limpio, Italian.] The chub eats waterish, and the flesh of him is not firm, limp and tasteless. Walton's Angler. 2. It is used in some provinces, and in Scotland, for limber, flexile. To LIMP. v. n. [limpen, Saxon.] To to walk lamely. hait; An old poor man, Who after me hath many a weary step Limp'd in pure love. Son of sixteen, Shakspeare. Pluck the lin'd crutch from thy old limping sire. How far Shakspeare. The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow In underprising it; so far this shadow Shaksp. When Plutus, with his riches, is sent from Jupiter, he lips and goes slowly; but when he is sent by Pluto, he runs, and is swift of foot. Bacon. Limping death, lash'd on by fate, Comes up to shorten half our date. Dryden. The limping saith observ'd the sadden'd feast, And hopping here and there put in his word. Can syllogism set things right? No: majors soon with minors fight: Or both in friendly consort join'd, The consequence limps false behind. LIMPET. n. 5. Dryden. Prior. A kind of shellfish. Ainsworth. LIMPID. adj. limpide, Fr. limpidus, Lat.] Clear; pure transparent. The springs which were clear, fresh, and limpid, become thick and turbid, and impregnated with sulphur as long as the earthquake lasts. Woodward. The brook that purls along The vocal grove, now fretting o'er a rock, Gently diffus'd into a limpid plain. Thomson, LIMPIDNESS. n. s. [from limpid.] Clearness; purity. LIMPINGLY. adv. [from limp.] In a lame halting manner. LIMY. adj. [from lime.] 1. Viscous; glutinous. Striving more, the more in laces strong Himself he tied, and wrapt his winges twain In limy snares the subtil loops among. Spens. 2. Containing lime. A human skull covered with the skin, having been buried in some limy soil, was tanned, or turned into a kind of leather. Grew's Museum. To LIN. v. n. [ablinnan, Sax.] To yield; to give over. Unto his foe he came, Resolv'd in mind all suddenly to win, Or soon to lose before he once would lin. Spens, LINCHPIN. .s. An iron pin that keeps the wheel on the axle tree. Dict. L'INCTUS. n. s. [from lingo, Lat.] MeLINDEN. 2. S. [lino, Sax.] The lime tree. dicine licked up by the tongue. See LIME. I shall have good fortune; go to, here's a simple line of life; here's a small trifle of wives. Shakspeare. Here, while his canting drone-pipe scan'd The mystic figures of her hand, He tipples palmestry, and dines On all her fortune-telling lines. 6. Delineation; sketch. Cleaveland. You have generous thoughts turned to such speculations: but this is not enough towards the raising such buildings as I have drawn you here the lines of, unless the direction of all affairs here were wholly in your hands. Temple. The inventors meant to turn such qualifica tions into persons as were agreeable to his character, from whom the line was drawn. Pope. 7. Contour; outline. Oh lasting as those colours may they shine, Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line! Pope. 8. As much as is written from one margin to the other; a verse. In the preceding line, Ulysses speaks of Nausicaa, yet immediately changes the words to the masculine gender. Broome. In moving lines these few epistles tell What fate attends the nymph who loves too well. Garth. They pierce the broken foe's remotest lines. Addison. 9. Rank of soldiers. When first they put the name of king upon me, Some lines were noted for a stern, rigid virtue, savage, haughty, parsimonious and unpopular; others were sweet and affable. Dryden. His empire, courage, and his boasted line, Were all prov'd mortal. Rescommon. A golden bowl Notwithstanding they had lined some hedges with musqueteers, they were totally dispersed. Clarendon. 4. To strengthen by inner works. 5. To cover with something soft. Pluck the lin'd crutch from thy old limping sire. Shakspeare. 6. To double; to strengthen with help. Who lin'd himself with hope, Eating the air, on promise of supply. Shaksp. Shakspeare. The two armies were assigned to the leading of two generals, both of them rather courtiers, and assured to the state, than martial men; yet lined and assisted with subordinate commanders of great experience and valour. Bacun. 7. To impregnate: applied to animals generating. Thus from the Tyrian pastures lin'd with Jove He bore Europa, and still keeps his love. Creech. LINEAGE. n. s. [linage, French.] Race; progeny; family, ascending or descend ing. Both the lineage and the certain sire From which I sprung, from me are hidden yet. Spenser. Joseph was of the house and lineage of David. Luke. The Tirsan cometh forth with all his generation or lineage, the males before him, and females following him; and if there be a woman from whose body the whole lineage is descended, there is a traverse where she sitteth. Bacon. Men of mighty fame, And from th' immortal gods his lineage came. Dryden. No longer shall the widow'd land bemoan A broken lineage, and a doubtful throne, But boast her royal progeny's increase, And count the pledges of her future peace. Addison. This care was infused by God himself, in order to ascertain the descent of the Messiah, and to prove that he was, as the prophets had foretold, of the tribe of Judah, and of the lineage of David. Atterbury. LI'NEAL. adj. [linealis, from linea, Latin.] 1. Composed of lines; delineated. When any thing is mathematically demonstrated weak, it is much more mechanically weak; errors ever occurring more easily in the management of gross materials than lineal designs. Wotten. 2. Descending in a direct genealogy. To re-establish, de facto, the right of lineal succession to paternal government, is to put a man in possession of that government which his fathers did enjoy, and he by lineal succession had Locke. a right to. 3. Hereditary; derived from ancestors. Peace be to France, if France in peace permit Our just and lineal entrance to our own. Shaks 4. Allied by direct descent. Queen Isabel, his grandmother, Was lineal of the lady Ermengere. Shakspeare O that your brows my laurel had sustain'd! Well had I been depos'd if you had reign'da There are not more differences in men's faces, and the outward lineaments of their bodies, than there are in the makes and tempers of their minds; only there is this difference, that the distinguishing characters of the face, and the lincaments of the body, grow more plain with time, but the peculiar physiognomy of the mind is most discernible in children. Locke. I may advance religion and morals, by tracing some few lineaments in the character of a lady, who hath spent all her life in the practice of both. Swift. The utmost force of boiling water is not able to destroy the structure of the tenderest plant: the lineaments of a white lily will remain after the strongest decoction. Arbuthnot. LINEAR. adj. [linearis, Lat.] Composed of lines; having the form of lines. Wherever it is freed from the sand stone, it is covered with linear striæ, tending towards several centres, so as to compose flat stellar figures. Woodward. LINEATION. n. s. [lineatio, from linea, Latin.] Draught of a line or lines. There are in the horney ground two white lineations, with two of a pale red. Woodward. LINEN. n.s. [linum, Latin.] Cloth made of hemp or flax. Here is a basket, he may creep in; throw foul linen upon him, as if going to bucking. Shakspeare. Unseen, unfelt, the fiery serpent skims Between her linen and her naked limbs. Dryd. Lí ́NEN. adj. [lineus, Latin.] 1. Made of linen. list. A linen stock on one leg, and a kersey boot hose on the other, gartered with a red and blue Shakspeare. Death of thy soul! those linen cheeks of 2. Resembling linen. thine Are counsellors to fear. What soldiers, wheyface? Shakspeare. LINEN-DRA PER. n. s. [linen and draper.] He who deals in linen. LING. n. s. [ling, Islandick.] 1. Heath. This sense is retained in the northern counties; yet Bacon seems to distinguish them. Heath, and ling, and sedges. Our English bring from thence good store of fish, but especially our deepest and thickest ling, which are therefore called island lings. Abbot. LING. The termination notes commonly diminution; as, kitling, and is derived from klein, German, little: sometimes a quality; as, firstling, in which sense Skinner deduces it from langen, old Teutonick, to belong. To LINGER. v. n. [from leng, Sax. long.] 1. To remain long in languor and pain. Like wretches, that have linger'd long, We'll snatch the strongest cordial of our love. 2. Dryden Popco Better to rush at once to shades below, Than linger life away, and nourish woe. To hesitate; to be in suspense. Perhaps thou ling'rest, in deep thoughts de tain'd Of th' enterprize so hazardous and high. Paradise Regained 3. To remain long. In an ill sense. Let order die, 4. Shaksp And let this world no longer be a stage Your very fear of death shall make ye try Prior. To remain long without any action or determination. We have lingered about a match between Anne Page and my cousin Slender, and this day we shall have our answer. Shakspeare. 5. To wait long in expectation or uncertainty. I must solicit All his concerns as mine: And if my eyes have pow'r, he should not sue In vain, nor linger with a long delay. Dryden. 6. To be long in producing effect. She doth think, she hath strange ling'ring poisons. Shakspeare. To LINGER. V. a. To protract; to draw out to length. Out of use. I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse. Borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. Shaksp. Shakspeare. She lingers my desires. Let your brief plagues be mercy, And linger not our sure destruction on. Shaksp. LINGERER. . s. [from linger.] One who lingers. LINGERINGLY. adv. [from lingering.] With delay; tediously. Of poisons, some kill more gently and lingeringly, others more violently and speedily, yet both kill. Hale. Lí ́NGET. n. s. [from languet; lingot, Fr.] Other matter hath been used for money, as among the Lacedemonians, iron linguets quenched with vinegar, that they may serve to no other Camden. use. Bacon. LINGO. n. s. [Portuguese.] Language; tongue; speech. A low cant word. I have thoughts to learn somewhat of your linge, before I cross the seas. Congreve. . [lingbe, Dutch.] A kind of sea fish. When harvest is ended, take shipping, or ride, Ling, salt-fish, and herring, for Lent to provide. Tusser. |