Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks: Pope, Translation of the Iliad, xxii. 373. Lance. s. [from Lat. lanx = dish.] Plate of a balance. Need teacheth her this lesson hard and rare, LAND A vein, in an apparent blue runneth along the 5. body, and if dexterously pricked with a lancet, emitteth a red drop.-Sir T. Browne, Vulgar Errours. Hippocrates saith, blood-letting should be done Used adjectivally. In Architecture. Pointed LAND Nation; people. These answers in the silent night received, The legions, now in Gallia, sooner landed He who rules the raging wind, Id., Translation from Horace, b. i. ode iii. Let him land, And solemnly see him set on to London. Early English, the first of the pointed or Gothic styles of architecture used in this country,... succeeded the Norman towards the end of the twelfth century, and gradually merged into the Decorated Land. v. n. Come to shore. at the end of the thirteenth.... This style first received the name of Early English from Mr. Millers in 1805, in his Ely Cathedral,' whence Mr. Rickman adopted it. It is the Gothic Saxon of Warton, the Lancet Arch Gothic of Dallaway, the Third Style, or English, or Lancet Order of Britton, the First Order of Milner, the Architecture Ogivale Primitive of De Caumont, and the First Pointed of the Ecclesiological, late Camden, Society.-Glossary of Architecture. Shakespear, King Lear, ii. 1. In their cruel worship they lance themselves with Lancewood. s. knives.-Glanville, Scepsis Scientifica. Lance. v. a. [Lat. lancea.] 1. Pierce; cut with, or as with, a lance. With his prepared sword he charges home My unprovided body, lanc'd my arm. The infernal minister advanced, Dryden, Theodore and Honoria, 300, 2. In Medicine. Incise with a lancet. We do lance Diseases in our bodies. See extract. Lancewood used for making bows, shafts, &c. is said by Schomburgk to be the wood of Duguetia quitarnensis.-Henfrey, Elementary Course of Botany, p. 225. Láncination. s. See next entry. Láncinating. adj. Piercing, or seeming to pierce, with a sudden shooting racking pain. The character of the pain assists us; which in some diseases is denoted by a definite name... Lacination and lacinating are the terms applied to the pains of cancer.-Marshall Hall, On Diagnosis. Id., Richard II. i. 3. Láncing. verbal abs. Act of one who uses a lance or lancet. Shakespear. Antony and Cleopatra, v. 1. Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more Than when it bites, but lanceth not the sore. Lance the sore, And cut the head; for till the core is found The secret vice is fed. Dryden. Láncelet. s. [small launce; the word being coined on the discovery of the fish in Britain.] Rare native cartilaginous fish so called; Amphioxus lanceolatus. The Zoological Society have since received two specimens of the lancelet, which were forwarded in a small bottle, with several examples of Leptocephalus Morrisii, from the Mediterranean by the late Dr. Leach, but no particular locality was named with them.-Yarrell, British Fishes. That differs as far from our usual severities, as the lancings of a physician do from the wounds of an adversary. Dr. H. More, Decay of Christian Piety. Land. s. [A.S.] 1. Country; region: (as distinguished from foreign countries). Between the floating ribs extends an aponeurosis, investment of the abdomen in the lancelet and lam- Láncely. adj. Suitable to a lance. Obsolete. He carried his lances, which were strong, to give a lancely blow.-Sir P. Sidney. Lancepesáde. s. See second extract. Since feathers were cashier'd, The ribbands have been to some office rear'd; J. Hall, Poems, p. 10: 1646. To th' Indies of her arm he flies, Fraught both with east and western prize, Arm'd like a dapper lancepesade, With Spanish pike, he broach'd a pore. Cleaveland. Láncer. s. [from Lance, s.] One who carries, or is armed with, a lance. Each launceer well his weightie launce did wield. Williams, Actions of the Low Countries, p. 21: 1618. Such the bold leaders of these lancers were. They cut themselves, after their manner, with I gave vent to it by an apertion with a lancet, and discharged white matter.-Wiseman, Surgery. 3. 4. Thy ambition, Thou scarlet sin, robb'd this bewailing land Of noble Buckingham. Shakespear, Henry VIII. iii. 2. What had he done to make him fly the land? Id., Macbeth, iv. 2. Earth: (as distinguished from water). By land they found that huge and mighty country. -Abbot. Yet, if thou go'st by land, tho' grief possess My soul ev'n then, my fears would be the less: But ah! be warn'd to shun the wat'ry way. Dryden, They turn their heads to sea, their sterns to land, And greet with greedy joy the Italian strand. Id., Translation of the Eneid, vi. 4. Used adjectivally, or as the first element of a compound. The princes delighting their conceits with confirming their knowledge, seeing wherein the seadiscipline differed from the land-service, they had pleasing entertainment.-Sir P. Sidney. He to-night hath boarded a land-carrack. Shakespear, Othello, i. 2. With eleven thousand land-soldiers, and twentysix ships of war, we within two months have won one town.-Bacon. Necessity makes men ingenious and hardy; and if they have but land-room or sea-room, they find supplies for their hunger.-Sir M. Hale, Origination of Mankind. The French are to pay the same duties at the dry ports through which they pass by land-carriage, as we pay upon importation or exportation by sea.-Addison, Freeholder. The Phoenicians carried on a land-trade to Syria and Mesopotamia, and stopt not short, without pushing their trade to the Indies.- Arbuthnot, Tables of ancient Coins, Weights, and Measures. Ground; surface of any place. Beneath his steely casque he felt the blow, And roll'd, with limbs relax'd, along the land. Rare. Pope. In plural. Estate real and immovable. To forfeit all your lands, and tenements, Shakespear, Henry VIII. iii. 2. Lord of himself, though not of lands. And having nothing, yet hath all. Sir II. Wotton. Shakespear, Henry V. v. chorus. I land, with luckless omens; then adore Dryden, Translation of the Eneid, iii. 25. Landdamn. v. a. See extracts, and Lant, with which it is probably connected. You are abused, and by some putter on, That will be damn'd for't; would I knew the villain, I would land-damn him. Shakespear, Winter's Tale, ii. 1. Probably land-damn was a coarse expression in the cant strain, formerly in common use, but since laid aside and forgotten, which meant the taking away a man's life. For land or lant is an old word for urine, and to stop the common passages and functions of nature is to kill.-Sir T. Hanmer. The preceding example is a very doubtful one of this sense of land; and the passage, in which it occurs has perplexed all the commentators on the poet. Land or lant is, however, in this sense, used in Lancashire.-Todd. Landaú. s. [German direct.] Kind of coach or carriage, of which the top may be opened and thrown back. Landaulét. s. [Fr. and German.] Kind of Landau so called. I am glad to find you so well to do in the world, with your fine landaulet which I saw in the yard.Opie, Temper. Lándcrab. s. Crustaceous animal, in many respects like a common crab, but capable of living a long time out of water, and making excursions by land, of the genus Gecarcinus (Gr. y=land; kapкivog = crab, the two words translating each other). The land-crabs have their branchiæ always supported by water through special modifications of the apertures of the branchial cavities, which enable them the better to retain fid, and also by numerous folds or by a spongy structure of the lining membrane of the respiratory cavity by which the quantity of the contained fluid may be augmented. The moisture contained in the branchial chambers of the land-crabs and tree-crabs is doubtless much more highly aerated than the water which bathes the branchiæ of the strictly aquatic species, and thus may explain the fact that the crustacea which habitually live out of water are drowned by being long immersed in that fluid.-Owen, Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, lect. xv. Landed. adj. [see Gifted.] Having a fortune, not in money but in land; having a real estate. A landless knight makes thee a landed squire. Shakespear, King John, i. 1. Cromwell's officers, who were for levelling lands while they had none, when they grew landed fell to crying up magna charta.-Sir W. Temple. A house of commons must consist, for the most part, of landed men.-Addison, Freeholder. Thus in every way the all absorbing church was still gathering in wealth, encircling new lands within her hallowed pale, the one steady merchant who in this vast traffic and sale of personal and of landed property never made a losing venture, but went on accumulating and still accumulating, and for the most part withdrawing the largest portion of the land in every kingdom into a separate estate, which claimed exemption from all burthens of the realm, until the realm was compelled into measures, violent often and iniquitous in their mode, but still inevitable.-Milman, History of Latin Christianity, b. vii. ch. vi. Lándfall. s. 1. Sudden translation of property in land by the death of a rich man. LAND 2. In Navigation. First land discovered after a sea-voyage. Lándflood. s. Inundation, or flood, caused by the sudden spread of water from a rainfall, rather than by the overflow of any natural or ordinary water-course. Apprehensions of the affections of Kent, and all other places, looked like a landflood, that might roll they knew not how far.-Lord Clarendon, History of the Grand Rebellion. LAND Young Fortinbras Lándlocked. part. pr. Shut in or enclosed by land. The haven before the town is land-lockt.-Sir T Herbert, Relation of some Years' Travels into Africa and the Great Asia, p. 100. There are few natural parts better landlocked, and closed on all sides, than this seems to have been.Addison, Travels in Italy. As good a poet as you are, you cannot make finer landscapes than those about the king's house.-Addison. Oft in her glass the musing shepherd spies The watery landscape of the pendant woods, And absent trees, that tremble in the floods. Pope. The Seasons of Thomson have been very instru mental in diffusing a general taste for the beauties of nature and landscape.-T. Warton, Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope. Landgrave. s. [German direct.] See Mar- Lándloper. s. Landman; term of reproach Landscape. v. a. Represent in landscape. grave. They had seen, from a quarrel which had broken out between the archbishop of Mentz and the landgrave of Thuringia, the absolute necessity of a king to maintain in Frederick's absence the peace of the empire.-Milman, History of Latin Christianity, b. x. ch. i. Lándgravíne. s. Female landgrave. Lándholder. s. One who holds lands. Money, as necessary to trade, may be considered as in his hands that pays the labourer and landholder; and if this man want money, the manufacture is not made, and so the trade is lost.-Locke. Lánding. s. 1. Act of coming on, or bringing anything to, shore. Agricola... sent his navy to hover on the coast, and with sundry and uncertain landings to divert and disunite the Britons.-Milton, History of England, b. ii. 2. Top of stairs. There is a staircase that strangers are generally carried to see, where the easiness of the ascent, the disposition of the lights, and the convenient landing, are admirably well contrived.-Addison, Travels in Italy. Lánding-net. s. Net used by anglers for landing such fish as can be drawn towards the bank by the rod and line, but not safely lifted out of the water. What a man can want with so many gig-whips I never can conceive. These, and fishing-rods, and landing-nets, and spurs, and boot-trees, and balls for horses, and surgical instruments for the same and a backgammon-board, form the major's library.-Thackeray, Book of Snobs, ch. xxvi. Lánding-place. s. Place for landing. 1. In Navigation. On dry land: (as opposed to water). By midnight the three frigates approached within three miles of the place; but, owing to a strong gale of wind in the offing, and a strong current against them inshore, they were not able to get within a mile of the landing-place before day-break. ... The frigates landed their men.-Southey, Life of Nelson, ch. iv. They thought that they should attack the king with more advantage on the Middlesex than on the Surrey bank, and when he was returning than when he was going.... The place was to be a narrow and winding lane leading from the landing-place on the north of the river to Turnham Green. The spot may still be easily found. The ground has since been drained by trenches. But in the seventeenth century it was a quagmire, through which the royal coach was with difficulty tugged at a foot's pace.Macaulay, History of England, ch. xxi. 2. In Building. Small terrace or platform: (often in a staircase, as opposed to the stairs). Let the stairs to the upper rooms be upon a fair, open newel, and a fair landing-place at the top.Bacon. The landing-place is the uppermost step of a pair of stairs, viz. the floor of the room you ascend upon. -Moxon, Mechanical Exercises. 3. Resting-place. What the Romans called vestibulum was no part of the house, but the court and landing-place between it and the street. Arbuthnot," Tables of ancient Coins, Weights, and Measures. Lándjobber. s. One who buys and sells lands for other men; one who buys land to sell it again, rather than as a permanent investment. If your master be a minister of state, let him be at home to none but land-jobbers, or inventors of new funds.-Swift. Lándlady. s. Female landlord. 1. Woman who has tenants holding from her. 2. Mistress of an inn. If a soldier drinks his pint, and offers payment in Wood's halfpence, the landlady may be under some difficulty.-Swift. Lándless. adj. Without property; without fortune. 1. One who owns land or houses, and has Landslip. s. Displacement of land: (genetenants under him. 2. This regard shall be had, that in no place, under any landlord, there shall be many of them placed together, but dispersed.-Spenser, View of the State of Ireland. It is a generous pleasure in a landlord, to love to Upon our arrival at the inn, my companion fetched out the jolly landlord, who knew him by his whistle.-Addison. Lándlordry. s. State of a landlord. Lándman. s. One who lives or serves on land; countryman: (Landsman, perhaps, the commoner term). If to-morrow Our navy thrive, I have an absolute hope Shakespear, Antony and Cleopatra, iv. 3. The ships being so filled with landmen, there was a great want of water.-Bishop Burnet, History of his own Time, an. 1708. It often astonishes a landman to observe with what precision a sailor can distinguish, in the offing, not only the appearance of a ship, which is altogether invisible to the landman, but the number of her masts, the direction of her course, and the rate of her sailing.-A. Smith, On the External Senses. Lándmark. s. 1. 2. Anything set up to preserve the boundaries of lands. I' the midst, an altar, as the land-mark, stood, Milton, Paradise Lost, xi. 432. The land-marks by which places in the church had been known, were removed.-Lord Clarendon, History of the Grand Rebellion. Though they are not self-evident principles, yet if they have been made out from them by a wary and unquestionable deduction, they may serve as landmarks, to shew what lies in the direct way of truth, or is quite besides it.-Locke. Lándrail. s. Native grallatorial bird so called, of the family Rallidae; corncrake. 1. rally from water underneath). And wasn't it a sight to see, When, ere his song was ended, Like some great landslip, tree by tree, The country-side descended; And shepherds from the mountain-eaves Look'd down, half-pleas'd, half-frighten'd, As dash'd about the drunken leaves The random sunshine lighten'd! Lándstreight. 8. of land. Tennyson, Amphion. Narrow passage, or slip A city... seated upon seven hills, at or near unto the sea; indeed in a foreland or landstreight, where two seas meet.-Bishop Mountagu, Appeal to Cæsar, p. 158: 1625. Lándtax. s. Tax laid upon land and houses. If mortgages were registered, land-taxes might reach the lender to pay his proportion.-Locke. Lándwaiter. s. Officer of the customs, who is to watch what goods are landed. Give a guinea to a knavish land-waiter, and he shall connive at the merchant for cheating the queen of a hundred.-Swift, Examiner. Lándward. adv. Towards the land. They are invincible by reason of the overpowering mountains that back the one, and slender fortification of the other to landward.-G. Sandys, Travels. Landwind. s. Gale or wind from the land. A sudden stiff land-wind in that self hour To seaward forced this bird. Donne, Poems, p.304. Lándworker. s. One who tills the ground. The latter state, that of the land-worker, is represented as under a curse, and is made the punishment of his disobeying a positive command.-Pownall, On Antiquities, p. 140. Lane. s. [A.S. lana.] 1. Narrow way between hedges. 2. All flying Through a straight lane, the enemy full-hearted Shakespear, Cymbeline, v. 3. I know each lane, and every alley green, Dingle or bushy dell, of this wild wood, And every bosky bourn. Milton, Comus, 311. Through a close lane as I pursued my journey. Otway, The Orphan. A pack-horse is driven constantly in a narrow lane and dirty road.-Locke. Narrow street; alley. There is no street, not many lanes, where there does not live one that has relation to the church.Bishop Sprat, Sermons. But how shall I forget the solemn splendour of a 3. Passage between men standing on each second course, which was served up in great state by Stripes in a silver dish and cover, a napkin twisted round his dirty thumbs, and consisted of a landrail not much bigger than a corpulent sparrow.Thackeray, Book of Snobs, ch. xxvii. The landrail is a summer visitor to this country, generally making its appearance in the southern counties during the last ten days of April; but in Yorkshire, and still farther north, as mentioned by Mr. Selby and others, it is seldom observed or heard till the second week in May.... Its presence is indicated by its creaking note; and hence one of its names, that of Corn Crake or Corn Creak.-Yarrell, British Birds. Landscape. s. [German, landschaft, from side. The earl's servants stood ranged on both sides, and made the king a lane.-Bacon, History of the Reign of Henry VII. Lángrel-shot (also Langridge-shot). s. [?] Kind of chain-shot. Langrel, or langrage (mitraille, French) [is] a particular kind of shot, formed of bolts, nails, bars, or other pieces of iron tied together, and forming a sort of cylinder, which corresponds with the bore of the cannon, from which it is discharged, in order to wound or carry away the masts, or tear the sails and rigging. of the adversary, so as to disable him from flight or pursuit. It is seldom used but by privateers and merchantmen.-Falconer, Nautical Dictionary: Burney's ed. Meanwhile Nelson received a severe wound on the head from a piece of langridge-shot.-Southey, Life of Nelson, p. 233: ed. 1828. Langteraloó. s. Game at cards; lant. See Loo. An old ninepence bent both ways by Lilly the almanack-maker for luck at langteraloo.-Tatler, no. 245. 51 O! good my lord, no Latin; I am not such a truant since my coming, He not from Rome alone, but Greece, Sir J. Denham, On Mr. Abraham Cowley. With this hope, however, academies have been instituted, to guard the avenues of their languages, to retain fugitives, and repulse intruders; but their vigilance and activity have hitherto been vain; sounds are too volatile and subtile for legal re straints; to enchain syllables, and to lash the wind, are equally the undertakings of pride, unwilling to measure its desires by its strength. The French language has visibly changed under the inspection of the Academy; the stile of Amelot's translation of father Paul is observed by Le Courayer to be un peu passé; and no Italian will maintain, that the diction of any modern writer is not perceptibly different from that of Boccace, Machiavel, or Caro. Total and sudden transformatious of a language seldom happen; conquests and migrations are now very rare but there are other causes of change, which, though slow in their operation, and invisible in their progress, are perhaps as much superiour to human resistance as the revolutions of the sky or intumescence of the tide.-Johnson, Preface to the Dictionary. The science of grammar affords another instance of the existence of special laws in the formation of systems. Some languages have more elasticity than others, and greater capabilities; and the difficulty of explaining the fact does not lead us to doubt it. There are languages, for instance, which have a capacity for compound words, which, we cannot tell why, is in matter of fact denied to others. We feel the presence of a certain character or genius in each, which determines its path and its range; and to discover and enter into it is one part of refined scholarship. And when particular writers, in consequence perhaps of some theory, tax a language beyond its powers, the failure is conspicuous.-J. H. Newman, Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, ch. i. sec. iii. 3. Style; manner of expression. Though his language should not be refin'd, Lord Roscommon. To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet...ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up.Daniel, iii. 4, 5. Lánguage. v. a. Give language to; express. A new dispute there lately rose In best languaging this story. Lovelace, Lucasta, p. 82. Lánguage-master. s. One whose profession is to teach languages. The third is a sort of language-master, who is to instruct them in the style proper for a minister.Spectator. Lánguaged. adj. 1. Endowed with, or knowing, language; using language properly or gracefully. Not eloquent, nor well-languaged [indisertus]. Barret, in v. Eloquent. They are the only knowing men in Europe, The only languaged men of all the world. B. Jonson, Volpone. 2. As the second element in a compound, or as two words: (in the extract it translates Polygot). He wand'ring long a wider circle made, And many languaged nations has survey'd. Lánguid. adj. [see Languish, v. n.] 1. Faint; weak; feeble. Pope. Whatever renders the motion of the blood languid, disposeth to an acid acrimony: what accelerates the motion of the blood, disposeth to an alkaline acrimony.-Arbuthnot. Many sick, and keep up; colds without coughing or running at the nose; only a languidness and faintness.-Life of A. Wood, an. 1678, p. 273. Lánguish. v. n. [Fr. languir, pres. part. languissant; Lat. languesco = begin to, have a tendency to, languish, fade, or flag; langueo 3. With soft appearance. 1. 2. 3. 4. = languish; languidus = languid.] Grow feeble; pine away; lose strength. We and our fathers do languish of such diseases. -2 Esdras, viii. 31. Let her languish A drop of blood a day; and, being aged, Die of this folly. Shakespear, Cymbeline, i. 2. Be no longer vigorous in motion; not be vivid in appearance. Sink or pine under sorrow, or any slow passion. I have been talking with a suitor here, A man that languishes in your displeasure. Shakespear. Othello, iii. 3. I was about fifteen when I took the liberty to chuse for myself, and have ever since languished under the displeasure of an inexorable father.-Addison, Spectator. Look with softness or tenderness. Lánguish. v. a. What man who knows What woman is, yea, what she cannot choose But must be, will his free hours languish out For assur'd bondage? Shakespear, Cymbeline, i. 7. That he might satisfy, or languish, that burning flame.-Florio, Translation of Montaigne, p. 495: Cyllenius spies How leaden sleep had seal'd up all his eyes; It withers on the stalk with languish'd head. These unhappy languishers in obscurity should be furnished with such accounts of the employments of people of the world, as may engage them in their several remote corners to a laudable imitation. -Mrs. E. Carter, in the Rambler, no. 100. Lánguishing. part. adj. Showing languor. It is an overture of health acceptable to sick and languishing persons. Barrow, Sermons, iii. 43. (Rich.) A most portentous face of scoundrelism; a fat, snub, abominable face; dew-lapped, flat-nosed, greasy, full of greediness, sensuality, oxlike obstinacy; a forehead impudent, refusing to be ashamed; and then two eyes turned-up, seraphically languishing, as in divine contemplation and adoration.Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Count Cagliostro. Alas! my Dorus, thou seest how long and languishingly the weeks are past over since our last talking.-Sir P. Sidney. Not Titian's pencil ere could so array, So fleece with clouds the pure ethereal space; 3. Well hoped I, and fair beginnings had, Spenser. Academical disputation gives vigour and briskness To isles of fragrance, lily-silver'd vales Diffusing languor in the panting gales. Pope, Dunciad, iv. 303. 4. In Medicine. See extract. Languor and lassitude signifies a faintness, which may arise from want or decay of spirits, through indigestion, or too much exercise; or from an additional weight of fluids, from a diminution of secretion by the common discharges.-Quincy, Lánguorous. adj. Tedious; melancholy. Obsolete. Dear lady, how shall I declare thy case, Lángure. v. n. Languish. Obsolete. Spenser. Languering in care, sorrow, or thought.-Hulvet. Lánifice. s. [Lat. lana = wool + facio = make.] Making of wool; woollen manufacture. The moth bre deth upon cloth and other lanifices, especially if they be laid up dankish and wet.Bacon, Natural and Experimental History. Lank. adj. [Provincial German, lancke.] 1. Loose; not filled up; not stiffened out; not fat; not plump; slender. The commons hast thou rack'd: the clergy's bags Are lank and lean with thy extortions. Shakespear, Henry VI. Part II. i. 3. We let down into the receiver a great bladder well tied at the neck, but very lank, as not containing above a pint of air, but capable of containing ten times as much.-Boyle. Now, now my bearded harvest gilds the plain; Thus dreams the wretch and vainly thus dreams on, Till his lank purse declares his money gone. LANK 2. ? Drooping; ? dishevelled. He piteous of her woes, rear'd her lank head, five in number.... Ten additional pieces contribute Lap. v. n. Be spread or turned over any- Milton, Comus, 836. Dark lantern. Lantern capable of having the Lank. v. n. Become lank; fall away. All this Lánkness. s. Attribute suggested by Lank; want of plumpness. Thou shalt eat, but thou shalt not thrive with it: there shall be a kind of lankness and depression within thy belly for very famine.-Stokes, On the Prophets, p. 329: 1659. Lánky. adj. Tall and thin. Peacock's feathers are stuck in the tails of most families. Scarce one of us domestic birds but imitates the lanky pavonine strut and shrill genteel scream.-Thackeray, Book of Snobs, ch. xx. Lánner. s. [N.Fr. lanier.] Species of hawk. 'Tis well if among them you can clearly make out a lanner, a sparrow-hawk, and a kestril.-Sir T. Browne, Miscellanies, p. 118. Here are . . . sundry other birds; as goshawks, lannars, hobbies.-Sir T. Herbert, Relation of some Years' Travels into Africa and the Great Asia, p. 383. The lanner is a hawk common in all countries, especially in France; she is lesser than the falcongentle. You may know the lanners by these three tokens: 1. They are blacker hawks than any other: 2. They have less beaks than the rest: 3. and lastly, they are less armed and pounced than other falcons. -Gentleman's Recreation. (Nares by H. and W.) The lanner and the lanneret are accounted hard hawks, and the very hardest of any that are in ordinary or in common use at this present time.Latham, vol. ii. p. 9. (Nares by H. and W.) Lánneret. s. Little hawk. Of lanner, eagle, &c. are formed lanneret, eaglet. -Butler, English Grammar: 1633. Lant. s. See Loo. Lant. s. [A.S.] Urine. Obsolete. Your frequent drinking country ale with lant in it.-Glapthorne, Wit in a Constable: 1639. Lant. v. a. ? Mix or wet with urine: (the extract, however, seems to point out some thick, glairy, adulterating mixture rather than urine). They found the ears unguented with warm water, well lanted with a viscous ingredient.—7 -The Spaniard, 1719. (Nares by H. and W.) Lánted. part. adj. Mixed with urine. My hostess takings will be very small, Although her lanted ale be nere so strong. Marriage Broaker: 1662. (Nares by H. and W.) Lantern. s. [Lat. laterna, lanterna.] 1. Transparent case for holding a light, often made of horn, whence the catachrestic spelling lant-horn. God shall be my hope, My stay, my guide, my lantern to my feet. Shakespear, Henry VI. Part II. ii. 3.. A candle lasteth longer in a lanthorn than at large.-Bacon. Our ideas succeed one another in our minds, not O thievish night, Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars, That nature hung in heav'n, and fill'd their lamps With everlasting oil? Milton, Comus, 195. Vice is like a dark lanthorn, which turns its bright side only to him that bears it, but looks black and dismal in another's hand.-Dr. H. More, Government of the Tongue. Lantern-jaws. s. Term used of a thin visage, such as if a candle were burning in the mouth, might transmit the light. Being very lucky in a pair of long lanthorn-jaws, he wrung his face into a hideous grimace.-Addison, Spectator. Lanthánium. 8. [Gr. λav@ávo = lie hid, keep concealed. The -um belongs to the technical language of chemistry, showing that the object to which it applies belongs to the class of metals.] Metal so called. The oxyds of cerium, thorium, yttrium, and lanthanium enter into the constitution of a few rare species.-Dana, System of Mineralogy. Lántify. v. a. Moisten with lant or urine. A goodly piece of puff paste, A little lantified to hold the gilding. A. Wilson, Inconstant Lady, ii. 2. (Nares by H. and W.) Lányard. s. [?] In Navigation. Small rope or short piece of cord, fastened to several machines in a ship, and serving to secure them in a particular place. Call all hands to clear the wreck, Lap. s. [A.S. læppe.] G. A. Stevens, The Storm. 1. Loose part of a garment, which may be doubled at pleasure. 2. If a joint of meat falls on the ground, take it up gently, wipe it with the lap of your coat, and then put it into the dish.-Swift, Advice to Servants, Directions to the Footman. Part of the clothes that lies over the knees of a person seated. It feeds each living plant with liquid sap, And fills with flowers fair Flora's painted lap. She bids you Spenser. Both men and dogs came, yet they tore the hide and lapt their fill. Chapman, Iliad. s. Drink; liquor. Slang. Here's pannum and lap, and good poplars of yarrum. Jovial Crew. (Nares by Hand W.) I my selfe have oftentimes dined or supped at a great man's boord, and when I have risen the servants of the house have inforced me into the cellar or buttery, where (in the way of kindnesse) they will make a man's belly like a sowse-tub, and inforce me to drinke, as if they had a commission under the devil's great seale to murder men with drinking, with such a deal of complemental oratory, as Off with your lap, Wind up your bottome, or Up with your taplash, and many more eloquent phrases than Tully or Demosthenes never heard off. Taylor (the Water Poet): 1630. (Nares by H. and W.) Lápdog. s. Little dog, fondled by ladies in the lap. One of them made his court to the lap-dog, to improve his interest with the lady.-Collier. [These] if the laws did that exchange afford, Would save their lap-dog sooner than their lord. Dryden, Translation of Juvenal, vi. 853. Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake, And sleepless lovers just at twelve awake. Pope, Rape of the Lock, i. 15. As the cat or lap-dog of some lovely nymph, for whom ten thousand lovers languish, lies quietly by the side of the charming maid, and, ignorant of the scene of life on which they repose, meditates the future capture of a mouse, or surprisal of a plate of bread and butter; so Adams lay by the side of Fanny, ignorant of the paradise to which he was so near; nor could the emanation of sweets which flowed from her breath overpower the fumes of tobacco which played in the parson's nostrils.Fielding, Adventures of Joseph Andrews. All on the wanton rushes lay you down, He struggles into breath, and cries for aid; Dryden. ap He denied the truth of the Pope's charges; he pealed to the conscience of the Pope. Gregory demanded by what right he presumed to intrude into that awful sanctuary. Kings and princes were humbly to repose themselves on the lap of priests; Christian emperors were bound to submit themselves not only to the supreme pontiff, but even to other bishops.'-Milman, History of Latin Christianity, b. x. ch. iv. much unlike the images in the inside of a lanthorn, turned round by the heat of a candle.-Locke. 2. Lighthouse; light hung out to guide ships. Caprea, where the lanthorn fix'd on high, Shines like a moon through the benighted sky, While by its beams the wary sailor steers. Addison. 3. In Architecture. Kind of little dome 2. raised over a large one, or over the roof of the building; sort of turret full of windows, by means of which the building is illuminated. It [the saint's bell] was usually placed where it might be heard farthest, in a lantern at the springing of a steeple.-T. Warton, History of the Parish of Kiddington, p. 8. 4. In Zoology. See extract. The digestive apparatus of the echinus consists of a mouth armed with teeth, surrounded by a mus cular labial membrane, and five pairs of pinnate tubular tentacula, of an esophagus and stomach, and of an intestine suspended by a mesentery to the interior of the shell, and which, after performing one or two circumgyrations, terminates by a distinct outlet opposite to the mouth.... The teeth are Wrap or twist round anything. He hath a long tail, which, as he descends from a tree, he laps round about the boughs to keep himself from falling.-Grew, Museum. About the paper, whose two halves were painted with red and blue, and which was stiff like thin pasteboard, I lapped several times a slender thread of very black silk.-Sir I. Newton. Involve in anything. As through the flowering forest rash she fled, In her rude hairs sweet flowers themselves did lap, And flourishing fresh leaves and blossoms did enwrap. Spenser. The thane of Cawdor 'gan a dismal conflict, Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapt in proof Confronted him. Shakespear, Macbeth, i. 2. Ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs. Milton, Il Penseroso, 135. Indulgent fortune does her care employ, And smiling broods upon the naked boy; Her garment spreads, and laps him in the folds, And covers with her wings from nightly colds. Dryden. Here was the repository of all the wise contentions for power between the nobles and commons, lapt up safely in the bosom of a Nero and a Caligula. -Swift. facing. Part of the coat which laps over; They were all dressed in white uniforms with facings or lapel.-Wraxall, Berlin, ii. 449. Lápful. s. As much as can be contained in the lap. One... found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lapful, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage.-2 Kings, iv. 39. Will four per cent. increase the number of lenders? if it will not, then all the plenty of money these conjurers bestow upon us is but like the gold and silver which old women believe other conjurers bestow by whole lapfulls on poor credulous girls.-Locke. Artificer who cuts precious stones. The art of the lapidary, or that of cutting, polishing, and engraving gems, was known to the ancients, many of whom have left admirable specimens of their skill. The Greeks were passionate lovers of rings and engraved stones; and the most parsimonious among the higher classes of the Cyrenians are said to have worn rings of the value of ten minæ (about 30%. of our money). By far the greater part of the antique gems that have reached modern times may be considered as so many models for forming the taste of the student of the fine arts, and for inspiring his mind with correct ideas of what is truly beautiful. With the cutting of the diamond, however, the ancients were unacquainted, and hence they wore it in its natural state. Even in the middle ages this art was still unknown: for the four large diamonds which enrich the clasp of the imperial mantle of Charlemagne, as now preserved in Paris, are uncut octahedral crystals. But the art of working diamonds was probably known in Hindostan and China, in very remote periods. After Louis de Berghen's discovery in 1476, of polishing two diamonds by their mutual attrition, all the finest diamonds were sent to Holland to be cut and polished by the Dutch artists, who long retained a superiority, now no longer admitted by the lapida. ries of London and Paris.-Ure, Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, p. 738. 2. One who deals in stones or gems. A false diamond is not set in a ring without a subtill foyle, in such wise as the deceit of the deceiver may hardly be discovered without the help of an expert lapidary.-Knight, Trial of Truth, fol. 22: 1580. As a cock was turning up a dunghill, he espied a diamond: Well (says he) this sparkling foolery now to a lapidary would have been the making of him; but, as to any use of mine, a barley-corn had been worth forty on't.-Sir R. L'Estrange. Lápidary. adj. Monumental; inscribed on stone. See two sermons preached on occasion of bishop Gunning's death, and in Dr. Jenkin's lapidary verses prefixed to those sermons.- Life of Dr. Barwick, note, p. 40: 1724. A nobler eulogium than all the lapidary adulation of modern epitaphs.-Connoisseur, no. 131. Lapidátion. 8. Stoning. All adulterers should be executed by lapidation: the ancienter punishment was burning: death always, though in divers forms.-Bishop Hall, Contemplations on the Old and New Testaments, b. iv. Lapídeous. adj. Stony; of the nature of stone. There might fall down into the lapideous matter, before it was concreted into a stone, some small toad, which might remain there imprisoned till the matter about it were condensed.-Ray, Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of the Creation. Lapidéscence. s. Stony concretion. Of lapis ceratites, or cornu fossile, in subterraneous cavities, there are many to be found in Germany, which are but the lapidescencies, and putrefactive mutations of hard bodies.-Sir T. Browne, Vulgar Errours. Lapidéscent. adj. Growing or turning to Dealer in stones or gems. Hardness, wherein some stones exceed all other 2. 3. Notions of the mind are preserved in the memory, 3. Omitted or let slip by mistake or inadver- The lapse of time and rivers is the same, And a wide ocean swallows both at last. A difference strikes at length the musing heart: Cowper, A Comparison. Petty error; small mistake; slight offence; little fault. These are petty errours and minor lapses, not considerably injurious unto truth.-Sir T. Browne, Vulgar Errours. The weakness of human understanding all will confess; yet the confidence of most practically disowns it; and it is easier to persuade them of it from others' lapses than their own.-Glanville, Scepsis Scientifica. This scripture may be usefully applied as a caution to guard against those lapses and failings, to which our infirmities daily expose us.-Rogers. It hath been my constant business to examine whether I could find the smallest lapse in style or propriety through my whole collection, that I might send it abroad as the most finished piece.-Swift. Translation of right from one to another. In a presentation to a vacant church, a layman ought to present within four months, and a clergyman within six, otherwise a devolution, or lapse of right, happens.-Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici. Lapse. v. n. 1. Glide slowly; fall by degrees. 2. This disposition to shorten our words by retrenching the vowels, is nothing else but a tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those northern nations from whom we are descended, and whose languages labour all under the same defect.-Swift, Letter to the Lord Treasurer. Fail in anything; slip; commit a fault. Of whom he's chief, with all the size that verity Shakespear, Coriolanus, v. 2. Id., Cymbeline, iii. 6. bodies, being exalted to that degree, that art in vain 3. Slip as by inadvertency or mistake. endeavours to counterfeit it, the factitious stones of chemists in imitation being easily detected by an ordinary lapidist.-Ray. Lápis lazuli. s. [Lat. lapis, -idis = stone.] Mineral so called, a silicate of soda, lime, and aluminum. The lapis lazuli, or azure stone, is . . . worked into a great variety of toys. It is found in detached lumps, of an elegant blue colour, variegated with clouds of white, and veins of a shining gold colour; to it the painters are indebted for their beautiful ultra-marine colour, which is only a calcination of lapis lazuli.-Sir J. Hill. Lapis lazuli fuses to a white glass, and, if calcined and reduced to powder, loses its colour, and gelatinizes in muriatic acid: with borax it effervesces and forms a colourless glass. It is usually found in granite or crystalline limestones. It is brought from Persia, China, Siberia, and Bucharia; the specimens often contain scales of mica and disseminated pyrites. On the banks of the Indus it occurs disseininated in a grayish limestone. The richly coloured varieties of lapis lazuli are highly esteemed for costly vases and ornamental furniture. Magnificent slabs are contained in some of the Italian cathedrals. It is also employed in the manufacture of mosaics, and when powdered constitutes the rich and durable paint called ultramarine.-Dana, System of Mineralogy. Lápling. s. Person wrapped up in sensual delights. Contemptuous. You must not stream out your youth in wine, and live a lapling to the silk and dainties.-Hewytt, Ser mons, p.7: 1658. Lápper. s. One who laps by wrapping up. They may be lappers of linen, and bailiff's of the manor.-Swift. 4. Homer, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites, has lapsed into the burlesque character, and departed from that serious air essential to an epick poem.-Addison. They would lose their sting and body, and Fall by the negligence of one proprietor If the archbishop shall not fill it up within six Suffer to slip; suffer to fall or be vacant. I returned a present answer . . . that I would either give, or lapse the benefice, as his majesty's gracious letters required of me.-Archbishop Laud, History of his Troubles, p. 200. As an appeal may be deserted by the appellant's lapsing the term of law, so it may also be deserted by a lapse of the term of a judge.-Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici. Accuse; convict of a fault. The offence is not of such a bloody nature:- I shall pay dear. Shakespear, Twelfth Night, iii. 6. Lappet. s. Part of a garment, or dress, that 2. Fallen from perfection, truth, or faith; laps over the rest. How naturally do you apply your hands to each other's lappets, and ruffles, and mantuas!-Swift. Lapse. s. [Lat. lapsus, pret. part. of labor = slide, glide, slip.] 1. Flow; fall; glide; smooth course. Round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, ruined; lost. Once more I will renew Milton, Paradise Lost, iii. 175. These were looked on as lapsed persons, and great Let there be no wilful perversion of another's meaning; no sudden seizure of a lapsed syllable to play upon it.-Watts. Lapsing. part. adj. Falling from perfection, truth, or faith. All publick forms suppose it the most principal. universal, and daily requisite to the lapsing state of human corruption.-Dr. H. More, Decay of Chris tian Piety. Lápstone. s. Cobbler's stone, on which he hammers his leather. It is not uncommon for the cobbler to throw aside his lapstone, and become the preacher of the Word.-Hints on Evangelical Preaching. Lapwing. s. Native grallatorial bird with flapping wings so called, of the genus Vanellus (rannus = fan); green plover, pewit, pyewype. The lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.-Shakespear, Hamlet, v. 2. Ah! but I think him better than I say, curse. And yet would herein others' eyes were worse; Far from her nest the lapwing cries away; My heart prays for him, though my tongue do Id., Comedy of Errors, iv. 2. The lapwing or peewit is one of the best known among our native birds; the first name suggested by its peculiar mode of flight-a slow flapping of its long wings; the second name having reference to the frequently repeated note of the bird, which the sound of the word peewit closely resembles. The French, in imitation of its note, call this bird dixhuit.-Farrell, British Birds. Lápwork. s. Work in which one part is interchangeably wrapped over the other. A basket made of porcupine quills: the ground is a packthread caul, woven into which, by the Indian women, are wrought, by a kind of lapwork, the quills of porcupines, not split, but of the young ones intire; mixed with white and black in even and indented waves.-Grew, Museum. Lar. s. [Lat.] Household god. Lovelace, Lucasta Posthuma, p. 48. The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint. Lárcenous, adj. Having the character of larceny. Being brought thither, and the first compliments being passed between the squire and his worship, the former asked the latter what crime those two young people had been guilty of. No great crime,' answered the justice; I have only ordered them to Bridewell for a month.' But what is their crime?' repeated the squire. Larceny, an't please your honour,' said Scout. Ay,' says the justice, a kind of felonious larcenous thing. I believe I must order them a little correction too, a little stripping and whipping.' -Fielding, Adventures of Joseph Andrews. The acquittal of any noble and official thief will not fail to diffuse the most heartfelt satisfaction over the larcenous and burglarious world.-Sydney Smith, Peter Plymley's Letters, letter iv, Larceny. s. [Lat. latrocinium.] Theft; robbery. [Larceny] is twofold, viz. grand and petit, i.e. great and small; that, when what is stolen exceeds, this, when it exceeds not, twelve pence in value.Bullokar. Larciny, or theft, is distinguished by the law into two sorts; the one called simple larciny, unaccompanied with any other atrocious circumstance; and inixed or compound larciny, which also includes in it the aggravation of taking from one's house or person. Simple larciny, when it is the stealing of goods above the value of twelve pence is called grand larciny: when of goods to that value, or under, petty larciny.-Sir W. Blackstone. Those laws would be very unjust, that should chastise murder and petty larceny with the same punishment.-Spectator. Larch. s. [Lat. larix.] Tree so called, akin to the firs and pines. Some botanical criticks tell us, the poets have not |