there is a certainty in the proposition, and we know it. Dryden. When a man makes use of the name of any simple idea, which he perceives is not understood, he is obliged by the laws of ingenuity, and the end of speech, to make known what idea he makes it stand for. Locke. 2. To be informed of; to be taught. Ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you. 1 Sam. vi. 3. Milton. One would have thought you had known better things than to expect a kindness from a common L'Estrange. Led on with a desire to know What nearer might concern him. enemy. 3. To distinguish. Numeration is but the adding of one unit more, and giving to the whole a new name, whereby to know it from those before and after, and distinguish it from every smaller or greater multitude of Locke. units. 1. To have clear and certain perception; not to be doubtful. I know of a surety that the Lord hath sent his angel, and delivered me out of the hand of Herod. Acts. 2. Not to be ignorant. When they know within themselves they speak of that they do not well know, they would nevertheless seem to others to know of that which they may not well speak. Not to know of things remote, but know Bacon. Milton. In the other world there is no consideration that will sting our consciences more cruelly than this, that we did wickedly, when we knew to have done better; and chose to make ourselves miserable, when we understood the way to have been happy. Tillotson. They might understand those excellencies which they blindly valued, so as not to be farther imposed upon by bad pieces, and to know when nature was well imitated by the most able masters. Dryd. 3. To be informed. The prince and Mr. Poins will put on our jerkins and aprons, and Sir John must not know of it. Shakesp. There is but one mineral body, that we know of heavier than common quicksilver. Boyle. 4. To know for. To have knowledge of. A colloquial expression. He said the water itself was a good healthy water; but for the party that own'd it, he might have more diseases than he knew for. Shak. Hen. IV. 5. To know of. In Shakespeare, is to take cognisance of; to examine. Fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth, examine well your blood, Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice 3. Skill in any thing. You can endure the livery of a nun, For ay to be in a shady cloister mew'd. Shakesp. KNOWABLE. adj. [from know.] Cog- 4. noscible; possible to be discovered or understood. These are resolved into a confessed ignorance, 5. and I shall not pursue them to their old asylum;| and yet it may be, there is more knowable in these, Glanville. than in less acknowledged mysteries. "Tis plain, that under the law of works is comprehended also the law of nature, know ble by reason, as well as the law given by Moses. Lock. These two arguments are the voices of nature, the unanimous suffrages of all real beings and substances created, that are naturally knowable withBentley. One who out revelation. KNOWER. n. s. [from know.] has skill or knowledge. If we look on a vegetable, and can only say 'tis cold and dry, we are pitiful knowers. Glanville. I know the respect and reverence which in this address I ought to appear in before you, who are general knower of mankind and poetry. Southerne. KNOWING. adj. [from know.] 1. a Skilful; well instructed; remote from ignorance. You have heard, and with a knowing ear, That he, which hath your noble father slain, Pursu'd my life. Shakesp. Hamlet. The knowingest of these have of late reformed Boyle. their hypothesis. What makes the clergy glorious is to be knowing in their profession, unspotted in their lives, active and laborious in their charges. South. The necessity of preparing for the offices of religion was a lesson which the mere light and dictates of common reason, without the help of revelation, taught all the knowing and intelligent part of the world. South's Sermons. Bellino, one of the first who was of any consideration at Venice, painted very drily, according to the manner of his time: he was very knowing both in architecture and perspective. Dryden. All animals of the saine kind, which form a Addison. society, are more knowing than others. 2. Conscious; intelligent. Could any but a knowing prudent cause Begin such motions and assign such laws? If the Great Mind had form'd a different frame, Might not your wanton wit the system blame? Blackmore. KNOWING. n. s. [from know.] Knowledge. Let him be so entertained as suits gentlemen of your knowing to a stranger of his quality. Shakesp. KNOWINGLY.adv. [from knowing.] With skill; with knowledge. He knowingly and wittingly brought evil into the world. More. They who were rather fond of it than knowingly admired it, might defend their inclination by their reason. Dryden. To the private duties of the closet he repaired, as often as he entered upon any business of consequence: I speak knowingly. Atterbury. KNOWLEDGE. n. s. [from know.] 1. Certain perception; indubitable apprehension. Knowledge, which is the highest degree of the speculative faculties, consists in the perception of the truth of affirmative or negative propositions. Locke. Do but say to me what I should do, That in your knowledge may by me be done, And I am prest unto it. Shakesp. Merch. of Venice. 2. Learning; illumination of the mind. Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heav'n. Shakesp. 6. Shipmen that have knowledge of the sea. Kings. Acquaintance with any fact or person. The dog straight fawned upon his master for old knowledge. Sidney. Cognisance; notice. Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldst take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger? Ruth. Ben Jonson. A state's anger should not take I pulled off my headpiece, and humbly entreated her pardon, or knowledge why she was cruel. Sidn. To KNOWLEDGE. v. a. [not in use.] To acknowledge; to avow. The prophet Hosea tells us that God saith of the Jews, they have reigned, but not by me; which proveth plainly, that there are governments which God doth not avow: for though they be ordained by his secret providence, yet they are not knowledged by his revealed will. Bacon's Holy War. To KNUBBLE. v. a. [knipler, Dan.] To Skinner. To KNUCKLE. v. n. [from the noun.] To submit: I suppose from an odd custom of striking the under side of the table with the knuckles, in confession of an argumental defeat. KNUCKLED. adj. [from knuckle.] Jointed. The reed or cane is a watry plant, and groweth not but in the water: it hath these properties, that it is hollow, and it is knuckled both stalk and root; that, being dry, it is more hard and fragile than other wood; that it putteth forth no boughs, tho' many stalks out of one root. Bacon's Nat. Hist. KNUFF. n. s. [perhaps corrupted from knave, or the same with chuff.] A lout. An old word preserved in a rhyme of prediction. The country knuffs, Hob, Dick, and Hick, With clubs and clouted shoon, L. LAB chemist. LAB Not in use. L. A liquid consonant, which preserves | LABORANT. n. s. [laborans, Lat.] A always the same sound in English. In the Saxon it was aspirated, a play loaf; plærdig lady. At the end of a monosyllable it is always doubled; as, shall, still, full ; except after a diphthong; as, fail, feel, veal, cool. In a word of more syllables it is written single; as, channel, canal, tendril. It is sometimes put before e, and sounded feebly after it; as, bible, title. LA. interject. [corrupted by an effeminate pronunciation from lo; unless it be the French la] See; look; behold. La you! if you speak ill of the devil, How he takes it at heart. Shakesp. Twelfth Night. LABDANUM. n. s. A resin, of a strong not unpleasant smell, and an aromatick, but not agreeable taste. This juice exudates from a low spreading shrub in. Crete. Hill. To LA BEFY. v. a. [labefacio, Lat.] To weaken; to impair. LA BEL. n. s. [lubellum, Lat.] 1. A small slip or scrip of writing. When wak'd, I found Dict. This label on my bosom; whose containing Is so from sense in hardness, that I can Make no collection of it. Shakesp. Cymbeline. 2. Any thing appendant to a larger writing. On the label of lead, the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul are impressed from the papal seal. Ayliffe's Parergon. 3. [In law.] A narrow slip of paper or parchment affixed to a deed or writing, in order to hold the appending seal. So also any paper, annexed by way of addition or explication to any will or testament, is called a label or codicil. Harris. God join'd my heart to Romeo's; thou our hands; And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo seal'd, Or my true heart with treacherous revolt LA BENT. adj. [labens, Lat.] Sliding; gliding; slipping. Dict. LA BIAL. adj. [labialis, Lat.] Uttered by the lips. The Hebrews have assigned which letters are labial, which dental, and which guttural. Bacon's Natural History. Some particular affection of sound in its passage to the lips, will seem to make some composition in any vowel which is labial. Holder's Elements of Speech. LA BIATED. adj. [labium, Lat.] Formed with lips. LABIODENTAL. adj. [labium and dentalis.] Formed or pronounced by the co-operation of the lips and teeth. The dental consonants are very easy; and first the labiodentals, f, v, also the linguadentals, th, Holder. dh. I can shew you a sort of fixt sulphur, made by an industrious laborant. Boyle. LABORATORY. n. s. [laboratoire, Fr.] A chemist's work-room. It would contribute to the history of colours, if chemists would in their laboratory take a heedful notice, and give us a faithful account, of the colours observed in the steam of bodies, either Boyle. 1. sublimed or distilled. The flames of love will perform those miracles they of the furnace boast of, would they employ themselves in this laboratory. Decay of Piety.. LABORIOUS. adj. [laborieux, Fr. laboriosus, Lat.] 1. Diligent in work; assiduous. 2. That which makes the clergy glorious, is to be knowing in their professions, unspotted in their lives, active and laborious in their charges, bold and resolute in opposing seducers, and daring to look vice in the face; and, lastly, to be gentle, courteous, and compassionate to all. A spacious cave within its farmost part, Was hew'd and fashion'd by laborious art, Through the hill's hollow sides. South. Dryden. To his laborious youth consum'd in war, And lasting age, adorn'd and crown'd with peace. Prior. Requiring labour; tiresome; not easy. Do'st thou love watchings, abstinence, and toil, Laborious virtues all? learn them from Cato. Addison LABO'RIOUSLY. adv. [from laborious.] With labour; with toil. The folly of him, who pumps very laboriously in a ship, yet neglects to stop the leak. Decay of Piety. I chuse laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air. Pope. LABO'RIOUSNESS. n. s. [from laborious.] 1. Toilsomeness: difficulty. The parallel holds in the gainlessness, as well as the laboriousness of the work; those wretched creatures, buried in earth and darkness, were never the richer for all the ore they digged; no more is the insatiate miser. Decay of Piety. 2. Diligence; assiduity. LA'BOUR. n. s. Įlabeur, Fr. labor, Lat.] 1. The act of doing what requires a painful exertion of strength, or wearisome perseverance; pains; toil; travail; work. If I find her honest, I lose not my labour; if she be otherwise, it is labour weii bestowed. Shak. I sent to know your faith, lest the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain." 1 Thes. iii. 5. 2. Work to be done. LAB Not knowing 'twas my labour, 1 complain Of sudden shootings, and of grinding pain; My throws come thicker, and my cries encreas'd, Which with her hand the conscious nurse supDryden. press'd. Not one woman of two hundred dies in labour. Graunt. His heart is in continual labour; it even travails with the obligation, and is in pangs till it be delivered. "South's Sermons. To LABOUR. v. n. [laboro, Lat.] 2. Who is with him? Shakesp. King Lear. Let more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein. Exod. v. 9. He is so touched with the memory of her bene volence and protection, that his soul labours for an expression to represent it. Notes on the Odyssey. Epaphras saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect. Col. iv. 12. To do work; to take pains. The matter of the ceremonies had wrought, for the most part, only upon light-headed, weak men, whose satisfaction was not to be laboured for. Clarendon. A labouring man that is given to drunkenness, shall not be rich. Eccles. xix. 1. That in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day. Neh. iv. 22. As a man had a right to all he could employ his labour upon, so he had no temptation to labour for more than he could make use of. Locke 3. To move with difficulty. The stone that labours up the hill, Mocking the lab'rer's toil, returning still, Is love. 6. They abound with horse, Of which one want our camp doth only labour. Ben Jonson. I was called to another, who in child bed laboured Wiseman. of an ulcer in her left hip. To be in distress; to be pressed. To this infernal lake the fury flies, Here hides her hated head, and frees the lab'ring skies. Dryden. Trumpets and drums shall fright her from the throne, As sounding cymbals aid the lab'ring moon. Dryden's Aurengzebc. This exercise will call down the favour of Heaven upon you, to remove those afflictions you now labour under from you. Wake's Prep. for Death. To be in child-birth; to be in travail. There lay a log unlighted on the earth, When she was labouring in throws of birth; For th' unborn chief the fatal sisters came, And rais'd it up, and toss'd it on the flame. Dryden's Ovid. Here, like some furious prophet, Pindar rode, And seem'd to labour with th' inspiring God. Pope. To LABOUR. v. a. 1. To work at; to move with difficulty; to form with labour; to prosecute with effort. To use brevity, and avoid much labouring of the work, is to be granted to him that will make an abridgment. 2 Mac. Had you requir'd my helpful hand Th' artificer and art you might command, To labour arms for Troy. Dryden's Æneid. An eager desire to know something concerning him, has occasioned mankind to labour the point, under these disadvantages, and turn on all hands 2. to see if there were any thing left which might have the least appearance of information. Pope's Essay on Homer. 2. To beat; to belabour. Take, shepherd, take a plant of stubborn oak, And labour him with many a sturdy stroke. Dryd. LA'BOURER. n. s. [laboureur, Fr.] 1. One who is employed in coarse and toilsome work. If a state run most to noblemen and gentlemen, and that the husbandmen be but as their work-folks and labourers, you may have a good cavalry, but never good stable foot. Bacon. The sun but seem'd the lab'rer of the year, Fach waxing moon supply'd her wat'ry store, To swell those tides, which from the line did bear Their brimful vessels to the Belgian shore. Dryden. Labourers and idle persons, children and strip-| lings, old men and young men, must have divers diets. Arbuthnot. Not balmy sleep to lab'rers faint with pain, Not show'rs to larks, or sun-shine to the bee, Are half so charming, as thy sight to me. Pope. Yet hence the poor are cloth'd, the hungry fed, Health to himself, and to his infants bread, The lab'rer bears. Pope. The prince cannot say to the merchant, I have no need of thee; nor the merchant to the labourer, I have no need of thee. Swift. 2. One who takes pains in any employ 3. There the fond fly entangled, struggled long, Himself to free thereout; but all in vain: For striving more, the more in laces strong, Himself he tied, and wrapt his winges twain In limy snares, the subtil loops among. Spenser. A snare; a gin. The king had snared been in love's strong lace. Fairfax. A plaited string, with which women fasten their clothes. 4. Ornaments of fine thread curiously woven. Our English dames are much given to the wearing of costly laces; and, if they be brought from Italy, they are in great esteem. Bacon. 5. Iextures of thread, with gold or silver. He wears a stuff, whose thread is coarse and 6. round, But trimm'd with curious lace. Herbert. Sugar. A cant word; now out of use. If haply he the sect pursues, That read and comment upon news; He takes up their mysterious face, He drinks his coffee without lace. To LACE. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To fasten with a string run through eilet holes. 2. Prior. I caused a fomentation to be made, and put on a laced sock, by which the weak parts were strengthened. Wiseman. At this, for new replies he did not stay, But lac'd his crested helm, and strode away. Dryd. These glitt'ring spoils, now made the victor's gain, He to his body suits; but suits in vain : Messapus' helm he finds among the rest, And laces on, and wears the waving crest. Dryd. Like Mrs. Primly's great belly; she may lace it down before, but it burnishes on her hips. Congreve. When Jenny's stays are newly lac'd, Fair Alma plays about her waist. Prior. To adorn with gold or silver textures sewed on. It is but a night-gown in respect of yours; cloth of gold and coats, and lac'd with silver. Shakesp. Hanmer. 3. To embellish with variegations. Word of denial in thy labra's here; Word of denial: froth and scum, thou ly'st. Shax. LABYRINTH. n. s. [labyrinthus, Lat.] A maze; a place formed with inextricable windings. Suffolk, stay; Thou may'st not wander in that labyrinth; There Minotaurs, and ugly treasons lurk. Shakesp. Words, which would tear The tender labyrinth of a maid's soft tear. Donne. My clamours tear The ear's soft labyrinth, and cleft the air. Sandys. The earl of Essex had not proceeded with his Look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder East; Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountains tops. And my sons lacerate and rip up, viper-like, the womb that brought them forth. Howel's England's Tear The heat breaks through the water, so as to lacerate and lift up great bubbles too heavy fo the air to buoy up, and causeth boiling. Derham's Physico Theology, Here lacerated friendship claims a tear. Vanity of Human Wishe LACERA'TION. n. s. [from lacerate.] The act of tearing or rending; the breach made by tearing. The effects are, extension of the great vessels, compression of the lesser, and lacerations upen small causes. Arbuthno LACERATIVE. adj. [from lacerate.] Tearing; having the power to tear. Some depend upon the intemperament of the part ulcerated, others upon the continual afflux of lacerative humours. Harvey on Consumptions. LA CHRYMAL. adj. [lachrymal, Fr.] Generating tears. It is of an exquisite sense, that, upon any touch, the tears might be squeezed from the lachryma glands, to wash and clean it. Cheyne's Philosophical Principles. LACHRYMARY. adj. [lachryma, Lat.] Containing tears. How many dresses are there for each particular deity? what a variety of shapes in the ancient urns, lamps, and lachrymary vessels? Addison. LACHRY MA'TION. n. s. [from lachryma, Lat.] The act of weeping, or shedding tears. LA CHRYMATORY. n. s. [lachrimatoire, Every good and holy desire, though it lack the form, hath notwithstanding in itself the substance, and with him the force of prayer who regardett the very moanings, groans, and sighs of the heart. Hooker. A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness; thou shalt not lack any thing in it. Deut. viii. 9. One day we hope thou shalt bring back, Dear Bolingbroke, the justice that we lack. Daniel. Intreat they may; authority they lack. Daniel To LACK. v. n. Shakesp. Then clap four slices of pilaster on't, That, lac'd with bits of rustic, makes a front. Pope. 4. To beat; whether from the form which L'Estrange uses, or by corruption of lash. Go you, and find me out a man that has no curiosity at all, or I'll lace your coat for ye. L'Estrange. accustomed wariness and skill; but run into laby- LACED Mutton. An old word for a whore. rinths, from whence he could not disentangle himself. Clarendon. Aye, sir, I, a lost mutton, gave your letter to her a lac'd mutton, and she gave me nothing for my labour. Shakesp. LA CEMAN. n. s. [lace and man.] One who deals in lace. I met with a nonjuror, engaged with a laceman, whether the late French king was most like Augustus Cæsar, or Nero. Addison's Spectator. LA'CERABLE. adj. [from lacerate.] Such as may be torn. Since the lungs are obliged to a perpetual commerce with the air, they must necessarily lie open to great damages, because of their thin and lacerable composure. Harvey. To LACERATE. v. a. [lacero, Lat.] To tear; to rend; to separate by violence. Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous; wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? Gen. viii. 28. There was nothing lacking to them: David recovered all. 1 Sam. xxx. 19. That which was lacking on your part, they have supplied. 1 Cor. xvi. 17. LACK. n. s. [from the verb.] 1. Want; need; failure. What a lackbrain is this? Our plot is as good a plot as ever was laid. Shakesp. Henry IV. ACKER. n. s. A kind of varnish, which, spread upon a white substance, exhibits a gold colour. To LACKER. v. a. [from the noun.] To smear over with lacker. What shook the stage, and made the people stare? Cato's long wig, flower'd gown, and lacker'd chair. Pope. A'CKEY. n. s. [laquais, Fr.] An attending servant; a foot-boy. They would shame to make me Wait else at door; a fellow counsellor, 'Mong boys, and grooms, and lackeys! Shakesp. Henry VIII. Though his youthful blood be fir'd with wine, He's cautious to avoid the coach and six, And on the lackeys will no quarrel fix. Dryden's Juvenal. Lacqueys were never so saucy and pragmatical as they are now-a-days. Addison's Spectator. To LACKEY. v. a. [from the noun.] To attend servilely. I know not whether Milton has used this word very properly. This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to, and back, lacqueying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. Shak. Ant. and Cleop. So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt. Milt. To LACKEY. v. n. To act as a footboy; to pay servile attendance. Oft have I servants seen on horses ride, The free and noble lacquey by their side. Sandys. Our Italian translator of the Eneis is a foot poet; he lackeys by the side of Virgil, but never mounts behind him. Dryden. LACTA'TION. n. s. [lacto, Lat.] The act LA'CTEAL. adj. [from lac, Lat.] Milky; or time of giving suck. conveying chyle of the colour of milk. As the food passes, the chyle, which is the nutritive part, is separated from the excrementitious by the lacteal veins; and from thence conveyed into the blood. Locke. LACTEAL. n. s. The vessel that conveys chyle. The mouths of the lacteals may permit aliment, acrimonious or not sufficiently attenuated, to enter in people of lax constitutious, whereas their sphincters will shut against them in such as have strong fibres. LACTEOUS. adj. [lacteus, Lat.] 1. Milky. 2. Arbuthnot. Though we leave out the lacteous circle, yet are there more by four than Philo mentions. Brown's Vulgar Errours. Lacteal; conveying chyle. The lungs are suitable for respiration, and the lacteous vessels for the reception of the chyle. Bentley. 2. 3. it. inhabitants, with two or three ladders to mount Gulliver's Travels. Any thing by which one climbs. Then took she help to her of a servant near about her husband, whom she knew to be of a hasty ambition; and such a one, who wanting true sufficiency to raise him, would make a ladder of any mischief. I must climb her window, The ladder made of cords. Sidney. Shakesp. Northumberland, thou ladder, by the which My cousin Bolingbroke ascends my throne. Shak Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face. Shar. A gradual rise. Endow'd with all these accomplishments, we leave him in the full career of success, mounting fast towards the top of the ladder ecclesiastical, which he hath a fair probability to reach. LADE. n. s. Swift. Lade is the mouth of a river, and is derived from the Saxon lade, which signifies a purging or discharging; there being a discharge of the waters into the sea, or into some greater river. Gibson's Camden. LACTE'SCENCE. n. s. [lactesco, Lat.] Ten- To LADE. v. a. preter. laded; and part. This lactescence does commonly ensue, when wine, being impregnated with gums, or other vegetable concretions, that abound with sulphureous corpuscles, fair water is suddenly poured upon Boyle on Colours. LACTE'SCENT. adj. [lactescens, Lat.] Producing milk, or a white juice. the solution. Amongst the pot-herbs are some lactescent plants, as lettuce and endive, which contain a wholesome juice. Arbuthnot. LACTIFEROUS. adj. [lac and fero.] What conveys or brings milk. 1. He makes the breasts to be nothing but glandules, made up of an infinite number of little knots, each whereof hath its excretory vessel, or 2. lactiferous duct. Ray on the Creation. LACKLINEN. adj. [lack and linen.] Want-LAD. n. s. [leode, Sax. which commonly signifies people, but sometimes, says Mr. Lye, a boy.] ing shirts. You poor, base, rascally, cheating, lacklinen mate; away, you mouldy rogue, away. Shakesp. Henry IV. LACKLUSTRE. adj. [lack and lustre.] Wanting brightness. Shakesp. And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking on it with lacklustre eye, Says very wisely, It is ten o'clock. LACO NICK. adj. [laconicus, Lat. laconique, Fr.] Short; brief: from Lacones, the Spartans, who used few words. I grow laconick even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary episles of half a yard long. Pope to Swift. LA'CONISM. n. s. [laconisme, Fr. laconismus, Lat.] A concise stile: called by Pope, laconicism. See LACONICK. As the language of the face is universal, so it is very comprehensive: no laconism can reach it. It is the short-hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room. Collier of the Aspect. LACO'NICALLY. adv. [from laconick.] Briefly; concisely. Alexander Nequam, a man of great learning, and desirous to enter into religion there, writ to the abbot laconically. Camden's Remains. LACTARY. adj. [lactareus, Lat.] Milky; full of juice like milk. From lactary, or milky plants, which have a white and lacteous juice dispersed through every part, there arise flowers blue and yellow. Brown's Vulgar Errours. LACTARY. n. s. [lactarium, Lat.] A dairy house. Two lads, that thought there was no more behind, But such a day to-morrow as to-day, And to be boy eternal. Shakesp. Winter's Tale. The poor lad who wants knowledge must set his invention on the rack, to say something where he knows nothing. Locke. Too far from the ancient forms of teaching several good grammarians have departed, to the great detriment of such lads as have been removed to other schools. Watts. A boy; a young man, in pastoral language. For grief whereof the lad would after joy, But pin'd away in anguish, and self-will'd annoy. Spenser. The shepherd lad, Whose offspring on the throne of Judah sat So many ages. LA'DDER. n. s. [pladne, Sax.] 1. A frame made with steps placed between two upright pieces. And they laded their asses with corn, and de Gen. xlii. 26. parted thence. The experiment which sheweth the weights of several bodies in comparison with water, is of use in lading of ships, and shewing what burthen they will bear. Bacon. The vessels, heavy laden, put to sea With prosp'rous winds; a woman leads the way. Dryden. Though the peripatetick doctrine does not satisfy, yet it is as easy to account for the difficulties he charges on it, as for those his own hypo. thesis is laden with. Locke [bladan to draw, Sax.] To heave out; to throw out. He chides the sea that sunders him from them, Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way. Shakesp. They never let blood; but say, if the pot boils too fast, there is no need of lading out any of the water, but only of taking away the fire; and so they allay all heats of the blood by abstinence, and cooling herbs. Temple. If there be springs in the slate marl, there must Mortimer. be help to lade or pump it out. LA'DING. n. s. [from lade.] Weight; burthen. Some we made prize, while others burnt and rent With their rich lading to the bottom went. Waller. The storm grows higher and higher, and threatens the utter loss of the ship: there is but one way to save it, which is, by throwing its rich lading overboard. South. It happened to be foul weather, so that the ma riners cast their whole lading over-board to save themselves. L'Estrange. Why should he sink where nothing seem'd to press? His lading little, and his ballast less. Swift. LA'DLE. n.s. [plæble, Sax. from þladan; leaugh, Erse.] 1. A large spoon; a vessel with a long handle, used in throwing out any liquid from the vessel containing it. LA'DLE-FUL. n. s. [ladle and full.] If a footman be going up with a dish of soup. let the cook with a ladle-ful dribble his livery all the way up stairs. Swift. LA'DY. n. s. [plærdig, Sax.] 1. A woman of high rank: the title of lady properly belongs to the wives of knights, of all degrees above them, and to the daughters of earls, and all of higher ranks. I am much afraid, my lady, his mather play'd false with a smith. Shakesp. I would thy husband were dead; I would make thee my lady.--I your lady, Sir John! alas, I should be a pitiful lady. Shakesp. Merry Wives of Windsor. I am sorry my relation to so deserving a lady should be any occasion of her danger and affliction. King Charles. 2. An illustrious or eminent woman. O foolish fairy's son, what fury mad Hath thee incens'd to haste thy doleful fate? Were it not better I that lady had, Than that thou hadst repented it too late? Spen. Before Homer's time this great lady was scarce heard of. Raleigh. May every lady an Evadne prove, That shall divert me from Aspasia's love. Waller. Should I shun the dangers of the war, With scorn the Trojans wou'd reward my pains, And their proud ladies with their sweeping trains. Dryden We find on medals the representations of ladies, that have given occasion to whole volumes on the account only of a face. Addison on Ancient Medals. 3. A word of complaisance used of women. Say, good Cæsar, That I some lady trifles have reserv'd, Shakesp. Ant. and Cleop. I hope I may speak of women without offence to the ladies. Guardian. The parcels had lain by, before they we opened, between four and five years. Miller. LAIR. n.s. [lai, in Fr. signifies a wi sow, or a forest: the derivation is easy in either sense; or from leger, Dut The couch of a boar, or wild beast. Out of the ground uprose, As from his lair, the wild beast, where he wens In forest wild, in thicket, brake or den. Milton Sha' esp. When dazies pied, and violets blue, 1. Coming behind; falling short. I could be well content show of a rearward. I am some twelve or fourteen noonshines Lag of a brother. Shakesp. King Lear. 2. Sluggish; slow; tardy. It is out of use, but retained in Scotland. 3. He, poor man, by your first order died, And that a winged Mercury did bear; Some tardy cripple had the countermand, That came too lag to see him buried. Shakesp. Richard III. We know your thoughts of us, that laymen are Lag souls, and rubbish of remaining clay, Which Heav'n, grown weary of more perfect work, Set upright with a little puff of breath, Last; long delayed. And bid us pass for men. Dryden's Don Sebastian. Pack to their old play-fellows; there I take They may, cum privilegio, wear away The lag end of their lewdness, and be laugh'd at. Shakesp. LAG. n. s. But range the forest, by the silver side Of some cool stream, where nature shall provide Green grass and fatt'ning clover for your fare, And mossy caverns for your noon-tide lair. Dryden's Virg LAIRD. n. s. [plafond, Sax.] 'The lord of a manor in the Scottish dialect. Shrive but their title, and their moneys poire. A laird and twenty pence pronounc'd with noise, When constru'd but for a plain yeoman go, And a good sober two-pence, and well so. Cleave LA'ITY. n. s. [λάθ.] 1. The people, as distinguished from the clergy. 2. An humble clergy is a very good one, and an humble laity too, since humility is a virtue that equally adorns every station of life. Suit The state of a layman. The more usual cause of this deprivation is a mere laity, or want of holy orders. Ayliffe's Parerg LAKE. n. s. [lac, Fr. lacus, Lat.] 1. A large diffusion of inland water. 2. 1. The lowest class; the rump; the fag 3. 4. Mistress, importing power and domi-2. Of all these bounds, even from this line to this, LADY-BIRD. n. s. A small red insect vaginopennous. Fly lady-bird, north, south, or east or west, Fly where the man is found that I love best. Gay. This lady-fly I take from off the grass, Whose spotted back might scarlet red surpass. Gay. LADY-DAY. n. s. [lady and day.] The day on which the annunciation of the blessed virgin is celebrated. LA'DY-LIKE. adj. [lady and like.] Soft; delicate; elegant. Her tender constitution did declare, Too lady-like a long fatigue to bear. Dryden. LADY-MANTLE. n. s. [Alchimilla.] A plant. Miller. LA DYSHIP. n. s. [from lady.] The title of a lady. Madam, he sends your ladyship this ring. Shak. If they be nothing but mere statesmen, Your ladyship shall observe their gravity, And their reservedness, their many cautions, Fitting their persons. Ben Jonson's Catiline. Waller. 1 the wronged pen to please, Make it iny humble thanks express Unto your ladyship in these. 'Tis Galla; let her ladyship but peep. Dryd. Juv. LA'DY'S-SLIPPER. n. s. [Calceolus.] A plant. Miller. end. He that comes last, or hangs behind. The last, the lag of all the race. Dryden's Virg. What makes my ram the lag of all the flock? Pope. To LAG. v.n. 1. To loiter; to move slowly. 2. I shall not lag behind, nor err The way, thou leading. The knight himself did after ride, Leading Crowdero by his side, And tow'd him, if he lagg'd behind, Like boat against the tide and wind. Fairy Q. Milton. Hudibras. If he finds a fairy lag in light, She hourly press'd for something new; Swift. LAGGER. n. s. [from lag.] A loiterer; an idler; one that loiters behind. LA'ICAL. adj. [laique, Fr. laicus, Lat. λá] Belonging to the laity, or people, as distinct from the clergy. In all ages the clerical will flatter as well as the laical. Camden. LAID. Preterite participle of lay. Mary seeth two angels in white, sitting, the He adds the running springs and standing lales, And bounding banks for winding rivers makes. Dryden. Small plash of water. A middle colour, betwixt ultramarine and vermilion, yet it is rather sweet than harsh. It is made of cochineal. Dryden. LAMB. n. s. [lamb, Goth. and Sax.] 1. The young of a sheep. I'm young; but something You may deserve of him through me, and wisdom, To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb, T'appease an angry god. Shakesp. Macbeth. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy knowledge, would he skip and play? Pope. Typically, the Saviour of the world. Thou Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Common Prayer. LAMBKIN. n. s. [from lamb.] A little lamb. 2. "Twixt them both they not a lambkin left, And when lambs fail'd, the old sheeps lives they reft. Hubberd's Talë. Pan, thon god of shepherds all, Which of our tender lambkins takest keep. Spenser's Pastorais. Clean as young lambkins, or the goose's down, And like the goldfinch in her Sunday gown. Gaw. LA MBATIVE. adj. [from lumbo to lick.] Taken by licking. In affections both of lungs and weazon, physicians make use of syrups, and lambative niedicines. Brown LAMBATIVE. n. s. A medicine taken by licking with the tongue. I stitch'd up the wound, and let him blood in the arm, advising a lambative, to be taken as necessity should require. Wiseman's Surgery. LAMBSWOOL. n. s. [lamb and wool.] Ale mixed with the pulp of roasted apples. A cup of lambs-wool they drank to him there. Song of the King and the Mitter. LA MBENT. adj. [lambens, Lat.] Playing about; gliding over without harm. From young Julus head A lambent flame arose, which gently spread |