In my stunn'd ears. Addison's Cato. LOAD. n. s. (more properly lode, as it was anciently written; from lædan, Sax. to lead.) The leading vein in a mine. The tin lay couched at first in certain strakes amongst the rocks, like the veins in a man's body, from the depth whereof the main load spreadeth out his branches, until they approach the open air. Carew's Survey of Cornwall. Their manner of working in the lead mines, is to follow the lead as it lieth. Carew. LOADER. N. s. [from load.] He who loads. LOADSMAN. n. s. [load or lode and man.] He who leads the way; a pilot. LOADSTAR. n. s. [more properly as it is in Mandeville, lodestar, from lædan, to lead.] The polestar; the cynosure; the leading or guiding star. She was the loadstar of my life; she the blessing of mine eyes; she the overthrow of my desires, and yet the recompence of my overthrow. Sidney. My Helice, the loadstar of my life. Spenser. O happy fair! Your eyes are loadstars, and your tongue sweet More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds apShakspeare. That clear majesty Which standeth fix'd, yet spreads her heavenly worth, Lodestone to hearts, and lodestar to all eyes. LOADSTONE. n. s. [properly lodestone or leading-stone. See LOADSTAR.] The magnet; the stone on which the mariners compass needle is touched to give it a direction north and south. air! pear. Davies. The loadstone is a peculiar and rich ore of iron, found in large masses, of a deep iron grey where fresh broken, and often tinged with a brownish or reddish colour: it is very heavy, and considerably hard, and its great character is that of affecting iron. This ore of iron is found in England, and in most other places where there are mines of that metal. Hill. The use of the loadstone was kept as secret as any of the other mysteries of the art. Swift. LOAF.n. s. [from hlap or lap, Sax.] 1. A mass of bread as it is formed by the baker: a loaf is thicker than a cake. Easy it is Of a cut loaf to steal a shive we know. Shaksp The bread corn in the town sufficed not for six days: hereupon the soldiers entered into proportion; and, to give example, the lord Clinton limited himself to a loaf a-day. Hayward. With equal force you may break a loaf of bread into more and less parts than a lump of lead of the same bigness. Digby. 2. Any thick mass into which a body is wrought. Your wine becomes so limpid, that you may bottle it with a piece of loaf sugar in each botMortimer. tle. LOAM. n. s. [lim, laam, Sax. limus, Lat. from λιμνη, a fen, Junius.] Fat, unctuous, tenacious earth; marl. The purest treasure Is spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. Sbakspeare. Alexander returneth to dust: the dust is earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam might they not stop a beer barrel? Shaksp. To LOAM. v. a. [from the noun.] To smear with loam, marl, or clay; to clay. The joist ends and girders which be in the walls, must be loamed all over, to preserve them from the corroding of the mortar. Moxon. LO'AMY. adj. (from leam.) Marly. The mellow earth is the best, between the two extremes of clay and sand, if it be not loamy and binding. Bacon. Auricula seedlings best like a loamy sand, or light moist earth; yet rich and shaded. Evelyn. LOAN. n. s. [hlæn, Sax.] Any thing lent; any thing given to another, on condition of return or repayment. The better such ancient revenues shall be paid, the less need her majesty ask subsidies, fifteens, and loans. Bacon. You're on the fret, Because in so debauch'd and vile an age, Thy friend and old acquaintance dares disown The gold you lent him, and forswear the loan. Dryden. LOATH. adj. [lað, Sax.) Unwilling; disliking; not ready; not inclined. These fresh and delightful brooks, how slowly they slide away, as loth to leave the company of so many things united in perfection! Sidney. With lofty eyes, halt loth to look so low, She thanked them in her disdainful wise, Ne other grace vouchsafed them to show Of princess worthy. Spenser. When he heard her answers loth, he knew Some secret sorrow did her heart distrain. Long doth she stay, as loth 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 lotb To leave this paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far! To pardon willing, and to punish loth; You strike with one hand, but you heal with both; Milton. Lifting up all that prostrate lie, you grieve I know you shy to be oblig'd; Dryden. Southerne. To his unnatural purpose. That suffer not an artificial day, LOATHNESS. n. s. [from loath.] Unwillingness. The fair soul herself Sbakspeare. 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 lothness to speak amongst them; and immediately one of the weakest fell down in a swoon. LO'ATHSOME. adj. [from loath.] 1. Abhorred; detestable. Swift. 2. To consider with the disgust of satiety. Loathing the honey'd cakes, I long'd for bread. Cowley. Our appetite is extinguished with the satisfaction, and is succeeded by loathing and satiety. 3. To see food with dislike. Rogers. Loathing is a symptom known to attend disorders of the stomach; the cure must have regard to the cause. Quincy. Bacon. Is loathsome in its own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite. Shaks. LO'ATHSOMENESS.n.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 loaves 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. To Los. v. a. To let fall in a slovenly or lazy manner. The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks, And their poor jades Les 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. λοβος.] 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. S. [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. 2. 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 other. Hooker. Where there is only a local circumstance of worship, the same thing would be worshipped, supposing that circumstance changed. Stilling fleet. 1. Being in a particular place. Dream not of their fight, As of a duel, or of the local wounds Of head, or heel. Milton. How is the change of being sometimes here, sometimes there, made by local motion in vacuum, without a change in the body moved? Digby. 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. LOCALLY. adv. [from local.] With respect to place. Glanville. 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. Shukspeare. 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. 4. Any enclosure. Milton. Sergesthus, eager with his beak to press Betwixt the rival galley and the rock, Shuts up the unwieldy centaur in the lock. To Lock. v. n. 1. To become fast by a lock. Gay. For not of wood, nor of enduring brass, 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. LO'CKET. N. s. [loquct, Fr.] A small Where knights are kept in narrow lists, With wooden lockets 'bout their wrists. Hudib. LOCKRAM. n. s. A sort of coarse linen. Hanmer. The kitchin malkin pins Her richest lockram about her reeky neck, Clamb'ring the walls to eye him. Sbaksp. LOCKRON. n. 5. A kind of ranunculus. LOCOMOTION. n. s. [locus and motus, Latin.] Power of changing place. All progression, or animal locomotion, is performed by drawing on, or impelling forward, some part which was before at quiet. LOCOMOTIVE. adj. [locus and moveo, Latin.] Changing place; having the power of remo removing or changing place. I shall consider the motion, or locomotive faculty of animals. In the night too oft he kicks, Or shows his locomotive tricks. Brown. Derbam. Prior. An animal cannot well be defined from any particular, organical part, nor from its locomotive faculty, for some adhere to rocks. Arbuthnot. LOCUST. n. S. [locusta, Lat.] A devouring insect. The Hebrews had several sorts of lecusts, which are not known among us: the old historians and modern travellers remark, that locusts are very numerous in Africk, and many places of Asia; LOCUST-TREE. N. S. Miller. 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 LODESTAR. See LOADSTAR. with a fungous stringy substance. LODESTONE. 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 Bacon. great state. 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, He lodg'd an arrow in a tender breast, 4. To fix; to settle. Locke. By whose fell working I was first advanc'd, I can give no reason, 5. To place in the memory. Sbakspeare. This cunning the king would not understand, though he lodged it, and noted it, in some parti culars. 6. To harbour or cover. Bacon. The deer is lodg'd, I've track'd her to her covert; Rush in at once. 7. To afford place to. Addison. The memory can lodge a greater store of images, than all the senses can present at one time. 8. To lay flat. Cheyne. Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown To LODGE. V. n. Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, Something holy lodges in that breast, 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 tor 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. 4. To lie flat. Taylor. 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. 5. [logis, French.] 1. A smali 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 Sbakspeare. warren. 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. LO'DGEMENT. 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. Passing through the spheres of watchful fire, And hills of snow, and lofts of piled thunder. A weasel once made shift to slink In at a corn loft, through a chink. LOFTILY. adv. [from lofty.] 1. On high; in an elevated place. 2. Proudly; haughtily. Milton. Pope. They speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. Psalms. 3. With elevation of language or sentiment; sublimely. My lowly verse v may loftily arise, And lift itself unto the highest skies. Spenser. LO'FTINESS. n. s. [trom 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. |