LAMDOI'DAL. n. s. [λáμda and d.]| Having the form of the letter lamda or A. The course of the longitudinal sinus down through the middle of it, makes it adviseable to trepan at the lower part of the os parietale, or at least upon the lamdoidal suture. Sharp's Surgery. LAME. adj. [laam, lama, Sax. lam, Dut.] 1. Crippled; disabled in the limbs. Who reproves the lame, must go upright. Daniel A greyhound, of a mouse colour, lame of one leg, belongs to a lady. Arbuthnot and Pope. 2. Hobbling; not smooth: alluding to the feet of a verse. Our authors write Whether in prose, or verse, 'tis all the same; The prose is fustain, and the numbers lume. Dryd. 3. Imperfect: unsatisfactory. That God vouchsafes to raise another world Milton. One pity'd, one contemn'd the woful times, One laugh'd at follies, one lamented crimes. Dryd. LAMENT n. s. [lamentum, Lat. from the verb.] 1. Sorrow audibly expressed; lamentation; grief uttered in complaints or cries. Shrubs are formed into sundry shapes, by moulding them within, and cutting them with-2. out; but they are but lame things, being too small to keep figure. Swift, who could neither fly nor hide, Bacon. Swift. To LAME. v. a. [from the adjective.] To make lame; to cripple. I never heard of such another encounter, which lames report to follow it, and undoes description to do it. The son and heir We, long ere our approaching, heard within Noise, other than the sound of dance, or song! Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. Milt. The loud laments arise Of one distress'd, and mastiffs mingled cries. Dryden. Expression of sorrow. To add to your laments, Wherewith you now bedew king Henry's hearse, I must inform you of a dismal fight. Shakesp. LAMENTABLE. adj. [lamentabilis, Lat. lamentable, Fr. from lament.] 2. Shakesp. Affronted once a cock of noble kind, Dryden. If you happen to let the child fall, and lame it, never confess. Swift LA MELLATED. adj. [lamella, Lat.] Covered with films or plates. The lamellated antennæ of some insects are surprisingly beautiful, when viewed through a microscope. Derham. LAMELY. adv. [from lame.] 1. Like a cripple; without natural force or activity. Those muscles become callous, and, having yielded to the extension, the patient makes shift to go upon it, though lamely. Wiseman's Surgery. 2. Imperfectly; without a full or complete exhibition of all the parts. Look not ev'ry lineament to see; Some will be cast in shades, and some will be So lamely drawn, you scarcely know 'tis she. Dry. 3. Weakly; unsteadily; poorly. LA MENESS. n. s. [from lame.] 1. The state of a cripple; loss or inability of limbs. Let blindness, lameness come; are legs and eyes Of equal value to so great a prize? Druden's Juv. Lameness kept me at home. Digby to Pope. 2. Imperfection; weakness. If the story move, or the actor help the tameness of it with his performance, either of these are sufficient to effect a present liking. Dryden's Spanish Fryar. To LAMENT. v. n. [lamentor, Lat lamenter, Fr.] To mourn; to wail; to grieve; to express sorrow. The night has been unruly where we lay; And chimneys were blown down: and, as they To be lamented; causing sorrow. The lamentable change is from the best; The worst returns to laughter. Shakesp. Mournful; sorrowful; expressing sor row. This bishop, to make out the disparity between the heathens and them, flies to this lamentable refuge. Stilling fleet. LAMENTABLY. adv. [from lamentable.] 1. With expressions or tokens of sorrow; mournfully. 2. The matter in itself lamentable, lamentably expressed by the old prince, greatly moved the two princes to compassion. Sidney. So as to cause sorrow. Our fortune on the sea is out of breath, And sinks most lamentably. Shakesp. Ant. and Cleo. 3. Pitifully; despicably. LAMENTATION. n. s. [lamentalio, Lat.] Expression of sorrow; audible grief. Be't lawful that 1 invocate thy ghost, To hear the lamentations of poor Anne. Shakesp. Richard III. His sons buried him, and all Israel made great lamentation for him. 1 Mac. ii. 10. LAMENTER. n. s. [from lament.] He who mourns or laments. Such a complaint good company must pity, whether they think the lamenter ill or not. Spect. LA MENTINE. n.s. A fish called a sea-cow or manatee, which is near twenty feet long, the head resembling that of a cow, and two short feet, with which it creeps on the shallows and rocks to get food; but has no fins: the flesh is commonly Dict. To LAMM. v. a. To beat soundly with a cudgel. LA'MMAS. n. s. [This word is said by Bailey, I know not on what authority, to be derived from a custom, by which the tenants of the archbishop of York were obliged at the time of mass, on the first of August, to bring a lamb to the altar. In Scotland they are said to wean lambs on this day. It may else be corrupted from lattermath.] The first of August. In 1578 was that famous lammas day, which buried the reputation of Don John of Austria. Bacon LAMP. n. s. [lampe, Fr. lampas, Lat.] 1. A light made with oil and a wick. O thievish night, Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, Milton. In lamp furnaces I used spirit of wine instead of oil, and the same flame has melted foliated gold. Boyle. 2. Any kind of light, in poetical language, real or metaphorical. Thy gentle eyes send forth a quick'ning spirit, And feed the dying lamp of life within me. Rowe Cynthia, fair regent of the night, O may thy silver lamp from heaven's high pow'r, Direct my footsteps in the midnight hour. Gay. LA'MPASS. n. s. [lampas, Fr.] A lump of flesh, about the bigness of a nut, in the roof of a horse's mouth, which rises above the teeth. Farrier's Dict. His horse possest with the glanders, troubled with the lampass, infected with the fashions. Shak LA'MPBLACK. n.s. [lamp and black.] It is made by holding a torch under the bottom of a bason, and as it is furred striking it with a feather into some shell, and grinding it with gum water. Peacham on Drawing. LAMPING. adj. [λáμmiláwr.] Shining; sparkling. Not used. Happy lines, on which with starry light Those lamping eyes will deign sometimes to look. Spenser. LAMPO'ON. n. s. [ Failey derives it from lampons a drunken song. It imports, let us drink, from the old French lamper, and was repeated at the end of each couplet at carousals. Trev.] A personal satire; abuse; censure written not to reform but to vex. They say my talent is satire; if so, it is a fruitful age: they have sown the dragon's teeth themselves, and it is but just they should reap cach other in lampoons. Dryden. Make satire a lampoon. Pope. To LAMPOON. v. a. [from the noun.] To abuse with personal satire. LAMPOONER. n. s. [from lampoon.] A scribbler of personal satire. We are naturally displeased with an unknown critick, as the ladies are with a lampooner, because we are bitten in the dark. Druden. The squibs are those who are called libellers, lampooners, and pamphleteers. Tatler. LA'MPREY. n. s. [lamproye, Fr. lampreye, Dut.] Many fish much like the eel frequent both the sea and fresh rivers; as the lamprel, lamprey, and Walton. lamperne. LA'MPRON. n. s. A kind of sea fish. drowned. These rocks are frequented by lamproons, and greater fishes, that devour the bodies of the Broome on the Odyssey LANCE. n. s. [lance, Fr lancea, Lat.] A long spear, which, in the heroick ages, seems to have been generally thrown from the hand, as by the Indians of this day. In latter times the combatants thrust them against each other on horseback. Spear; javelin. He carried his lances, which were strong, to give a lancely blow. Sidney. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. Shakesp. They shall hold the bow and the lance. Jeremiah, 1. 42. Hector beholds his jav'lin fall in vain, Nor other lance, nor other hope remain; He calls Deiphobus, demands a spear In vain, for no Deiphobus was there. To LANCE. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To pierce; to cut. Pope. Shakesp. With his prepared sword he charges home My unprovided body, lanc'd my arm. In their cruel worship they lance themselves Glanville's Scepsis. Th' infernal minister advanc'd, with knives. on shore. The legions, now in Gallia, sooner landed In Britain. Shakesp. Cymbeline. LANCINATION. n. s. [from lancino, Lat.]| To LAND. v. a. [from the noun.] To set 1. A country; a region; distinct from The nations of Scythia, like a mountain flood, 3. By land they found that huge and mighty Abbot. country. 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. Dry. They turn their heads to sea, their sterns to land, And greet with greedy joy th' Italian strand. Dry. It is often used in composition, as opposed to sea. The princes delighting their conceits with confirming their knowledge, seeing wherein the seadiscipline differed from the land-service, they had pleasing entertainment. Sidney. He to-night hath boarded a land carrack; If it prove lawful prize, he's made for ever. Shak. With eleven thousand land-soldiers, and twentysix ships of war, we within two months have won Bacon. one town. Necessity makes men ingenious and hardy; and if they have but land-room or sea-room, they find supplies for their hunger. Hale's Origin of Man. I writ not always in the proper terms of navigation, or land-service. Dryden's Æneid. by sea. 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 Addison's Freeholder. The Phoenicians carried on a land-trade to Syria and Mesopotamia, and stopt not short, without pushing their trade to the Indies. Arbuth, on Coins. The species brought by land-carriage were much better than those which came to Egypt by sea. Arbuthnot. LANCEPESADE. n. s. [lance spezzate, Fr.] 4. Ground; surface of the place. Unu- To th' Indies of her arms he flies, Fraught both with east and western prize, Which, when he had in vain essay'd, Arm'd like a dapper lancepesade With Spanish pike, he broach'd a pore. Cleaveland. LANCET. n. s. [lancette, Fr.] A small pointed chirurgical instrument. I gave vent to it by an apertion with a lancet, and discharged white matter. Wiseman's Surgery. A vein, in an apparent blue runneth along the body, and if dexterously pricked with a lancet, emitteth a red drop. Brown's Vulg. Errours. Hippocrates saith, blood-letting should be done sual. Beneath his steely casque he felt the blow, And roll'd with limbs relax'd, along the land. Pope. 5. An estate real and immoveable. 6. with broad lancets or swords, in order to make a large orifice the manner of opening a vein then was by stabbing or pertusion, as in horses. Arbin. To LANCH. v. a. [lancer, Fr. This word is too often written launch: it is only a 7. vocal corruption of lance.] To dart; to cast as a lance; to throw; to let fly. See whose arm can lanch the surer bolt, To forfeit all your goods, lands, and tenements, of Polonia. This man is freed of servile hands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall: Wotton. Lord of himself, though not of lands, land. These answers, in the silent night receiv'd, Probably land-damn was a coarse expression in You are abused, and by some putter on, He who rules the raging wind, To thee, O sacred ship, be kind, Thy committed pledge restore, And land him safely on the shore. Dryd. Horace. Another Typhis shall new seas explore, Another Argo land the chiefs upon th' Iberian Dryden. shore. To LAND. v. n. To come to shore. Let him land, And solemnly see him set on to London. Shakesp. I land, with luckless omeus: then adore Their gods. Dryden's Æneid. LANDED. adj. [from land.] Having a fortune, not in money, but in land; having a real estate. A landless knight makes thee a landed squire. Shakesp Men, whose living lieth together in one shire, are commonly counted greater landed than those whose livings are dispersed. Bacon. Cromwell's officers, who were for levelling lands while they had none, when they grew landed fell to crying up magna charta. n. s. [land and flood.] Apprehensions of the affections of Keut, and all other places, looked like a landflood, that might Clarendon. roll they knew not how far. LAND-FORCES. n. s. [land and force.] Warlike powers not naval; soldiers that serve on land. We behold in France the greatest land-forces that have ever been known under any christian prince. Temple. LANDHOLDER. n. s. [land and holder.] One who holds lands. Money,as necessary to trade,may be considered as in his hands that pays the labourer and land holder; and if this man want money, the manufac ture is not made, and so the trade is lost. Locke. LA'NDJOBBER. n. s. [land and job.] One who buys and sells lands for other men. If your master be a minister of state, let him be at home to none but land-jobbers, or inventors of Lew funds. Swift. LANDGRAVE. n. s. [land and grave, a count, German.] A German title of dominion. LA'NDING. n. s. [from land.] LANDING PLACE. The top of stairs. Let the stairs to the upper rooms be upon a fair, open newel, and a fair landing-place at the top. Bac. The landing-place is the uppermost step of a pair of stairs, viz. the floor of the room you ascend upon. Moron. 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 Ita. What the Romans called vestibulum was no part of the house, but the court and landing place between it and the street. Arbuthnot on Coins LANDLADY. n. s. [land and lady.] 1. A woman who has tenants holding from her. 2. The mistress of an inn. If a soldier drinks his pint, and offers payment in Wood's half-pence, the landlady may be under some difficulty. Swift. Hath in the skirts of Norway, here and there, LA'NDLOCKED. adj. [land and lock.] Shut There are few natural parts better landlocked, and closed on all sides, than this seems to have Addison on Italy. LA'NDLOPER. n. s. [land and lopen, Dut.] been. 2. All flying A narrow street; an alley. Locke. There is no street, not many lanes, where there does not live one that has relation to the church. Spratt's Sermons. A landman; a term of reproach used by 3. A passage between men standing on LANDLORD. n. s. [land and lord.] This regard shall be had, that in no place, under any landlord, there shall be many of them placed together, but dispersed. Spenser's State of Ireland. It is a generous pleasure in a landlord, to love! to see all his tenants look fat, sleek, and contented. Clarissa. 2. The master of an inn. Upon our arrival at the inu, my companion fetched out the jolly landlord, who knew him by his whistle. Addison. LANDMARK. n. s. [land and mark.] Any thing set up to preserve the boundaries of lands. I' th' midst, an altar, as the land-mark, stood, Rustick, of grassy sod. each side. The earl's servants stood ranged on both sides, 1. 2. Milton. That landscape! and of pure, now purer air, The sun scarce uprisen, Milton. Milton. Shot parallel to th' earth his dewy ray, Milton. We are like men entertained with the view of Oft in her glass the musing shepherd spies If mortgages were registered, land-taxes might reach the lender to pay his proportion. Locke. LAND-WAITER. n. s. [land and waiter.] An 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 an hundred. Swift's Examiner. Human speech. We may define language, if we consider it more materially, to be letters, forming and producing words and sentences; but if we consider it according to the design thereof, then language is apt signs for communication of thoughts. Holder. The tongue of one nation as distinct from others. 2. 3. Let her languish A drop of blood a-day; and, being aged, We and our fathers do languish of such diseases. His sorrows bore him off; and softly laid The troops with hate inspir'd, Their darts with clamour at a distance drive, What man who knows What woman is, yea, what she cannot chuse The land shall mourn, and every one that dwell- ◆ I have been talking with a suitor here, A man that languishes in your displeasure. Shakesp. Othello. I was about fifteen when I took the liberty to chuse for my self, and have ever since languished under the displeasure of an inexorable father. Addison's Spectator. Let Leonora consider, that, at the very time in 4. To look with softness or tenderness. 1. Weakly; feebly; with feeble softness. He wand'ring long a wider circle made, The third is a sort of language-master, who is to LANGUET. n. s. [languette, Fr.] Any By that count which lovers books invent, Humility it expresses, by the stooping or bend- 1. Faintness; wearisomeness. Well hoped I, and fair beginnings had, Academical disputation gives vigour and brisk- n. 8. [from languid.] feebleness; want LANDWARD. adv. [from land.] Towards To LANGUISH. v.n. [languir, Fr. langueo, the land. They are invincible by reason of the overpouring Lat.] mountains that back the one, and slender fortifi-1. To grow feeble; to pine away; to lose estion of the other to landward. Sandy's Journey. strength. LANE. n. s. [laen, Dut. lana, Sax.] 4. To isles of fragrance, li-silver'd va [In physick.] Diffusing languor in the panting gales. Duna Languor and lassitude signifies a faintness, which may arise from want or decay of spirits, through indigestion, or too much exercise; or from an ad 19 ditional weight of fluids, from a diminution of secretion by the common discharges. Quincy. LA NGUOROUS. adj. [languoreux, Fr.] Tedious; melancholy. Not in use. Dear lady, how shall I declare thy case, Whom late I left in languorous constraint. Spenser. To LANIATE. v. a. [lanio, Lat] To tear in pieces; to rend; to lacerate. LANIFICE n. s. [lanificium, Lat.] Woollen manufacture. 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. LANTERN jaws. A 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. Addis. S. LANU'GINOUS. adj. [lanuginosus, Lat.] Downy; covered with sott hair. The moth breedeth upon cloth and other lani-LAP. n. s. [læppe, Sax. lappe, Germ.] fices, especially if they be laid up dankish and 1. The loose part of a garment, which Bacon. may be doubled at pleasure. wet. LA'NIGEROUS. adj. [laniger, Lat.] Bearing wool. LANK. adj. [lancke, Dut.] 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. Shakesp. Name not Winterface, whose skin's slack, Lank, as an unthrift's purse. Donne We let down into a 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. Moist earth produces corn and grass, but both Too rank and too luxuriant in their growth, Let not my land so large a promise boast, Lest the lank ears in length of stem be lost. Dryd. Now, now my bearded harvest gilds the plain, Thus dreams the wretch, and vainly thus dreams He, piteous of her woes, rear'd her lank head, And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectar'd lavers strew'd with asphodil. Milton. LA'NKNESS. n. s. [from lank.] Want of plumpness. If a joint of meat falls on the ground, take it up A gentle bee, with his loud trumpet murm'ring, Spenser. She bids you All on the wonton rushes lay you down, Can from the lap of Egypt's widow pluck Heav'n's almighty sire Himself into her lap in fruitful show'rs. Crashaw. Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, and that happiness should drop into their laps. Tillotson. He struggles into breath, and cries for aid; Then, helpless, in his mother's lap is laid. He creeps, he walks, and issuing into man, Grudges their life from whence his own began: Retchless of laws, affects to rule alone, Anxious to reign, and restless on the throne. Dry. To LAP. v. a. [from the noun.] LANNER. n. s. [lanier, Fr. lannarius, 1. A common foot soldier. LA'NTERN. n. s. [lanterne, Fr. luterna, Lat. It is by mistake often written lanthorn.] A transparent case for a candle. God shall be my hope, My stay, my guide, my lanthorn to my feet. Shak Thou art our admiral; thou bearest the lanthorn in the poop, but 'tis in the nose of thee; thou art the knight of the burning lamp. Shak. Henry IV. A candle lasteth longer in a lanthorn than at large. Bacon. Amongst the excellent acts of that king, one O thievish night, Milton Vice is like a dark lanthorn, which turns its oright side only to him that bears it, but looks black and dismal in another's hand. Gov. of the To. Judge what a ridiculous thing it were, that the continued shadow of the earth should be broken by sudden miraculous eruptions of light, to prevent the art of the lantern-maker. More's Div. Dial. Our ideas succeed one another in our minds, not much unlike the images in the inside of a lanthorn, turned round by the heat of a candle. Locke 2. A lighthouse; a light hung out to guide 2. To wrap or twist round any thing. He hath a long tail, which, as he descends from a tree, he laps round about the boughs, to keep himself from falling. Grew's 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. Newton. To involve in any thing. As through the flow'ring 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 Cawder 'gan a dismal conflict, Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lant in proof, Confronted him. Shakesp. Macbeth. When we both lay in the field, Frozen almost to death, how he did lap me, Ev'n in his garments, and did give himself, All thin and naked, to the numb cold night.Shak. Ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs. Milton. Indulgent fortune does her care employ, And smiling, broods upon the naked boy; Her garments spreads; and laps him in the folds, And covers with her wings from nightly colds. Dryden. To LAP. v. n. [lappian, Sax. lappen, Dut.] To feed by quick reciprocations of the tongue. The dogs by the river Nilus' side being thirsty, lap hastily as they run along the shore. Digby. They had soups served up in broad dishes, and so the fox fell to lapping himself, and hade his guest heartily welcome. L'Estrange. The tongre serves not only for tasting, but for mastication and deglutition, in man, by licking; in the dog and cat kind by lapping. Ray on Creat. To LAP. v. a. To lick up. For all the rest They'll take suggestion, as a cat laps milk. Shak. Both men and dogs came; yet they tore the hide, and lapt their fill. Chapman's Iliad. LAPDOG. n. s. [lap and dog.] A little dog, fondled by ladies in the lap. One of them ma le his court to the tap-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. Lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake, And sleepless lovers just at twelve awake. Pope. LAPFUL. n. s. [lap and full.] As much as can be contained in the lap. One found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lapful, and shred them into the pot of pottage. 2 King Will four per cent. increase the number of le ders? 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. LAPICIDE. n. s. [lapicida, Lat.] A stone cutter. Dict. LAPIDARY. n. s. [lapidaire, Fr.] One who deals in stones or gems. 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. L'Estrange. Of all the many sorts of the gem kind reckoned up by the lapidaries, there are not above three or four that are original. Woodward's Nat. Hist. To LAPIDATE. v. a. [lapido, Lat.] To Dict. stone; to kill by stoning. LAPIDATION. n. s. [lapidatio, Lat. lapidation, Fr.] A stoning. LAPIDEOUS. adj. [lapideus, Lat] 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. LAPIDE SCENCE. n. s. [lapidesco, Lat.] 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. Brown. LAPIDESCENT. adj. [lapidescens, Lat.] Growing or turning to stone. LAPIDIFICATION. n. s. [lapidification, Fr.] The act of forming stones. Induration or lapidification of substances more Bucon. soft is another degree of condensation. LAPIDIFICK. adj. [lapidifique, Fr.] Forming stones. The atoms of the lapidifick, as well as saline principle, being regular, do concur in producing regular stones. Grew LAPIDIST. n. s. [from lapides, Lat.] A dealer in stones or gems. The lapis lazuli, or azure stone, is a copper ore, very compact and hard, so as to take a high polish, and 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 lapus lazuli. Hill. LAPPER. n. s. [from lap.] 1. One who wraps up. They may be lappers of linen, and bailiffs of the manor. Swift. 2. One who laps or licks. How naturally do you apply your hands to each other's lappets, and ruffles, and mantuas? Swift. LAPSE. n. s. [lapsus, Lat.] 1. Flow; fall; glide; smooth course. Round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murm'ring streams. Milton Notions of the mind are preserved in the me mory, notwithstanding lapse of time. 2. Petty error; small mistake; slight offence; little fault. Hale. These are petty errors and minor lapses, not considerably injurious unto truth. Brown's Vulg. Er. 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 other lapses than their own. Glanville. 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 stile or propriety through my whole collection, that I might send it abroad as the most finished piece. Swift. 3. 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. To LAPSE. v. n. [from the noun.] 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. 2. To fail in any thing; to slip; to commit a fault. I have ever verified my friends, To lapse in fulness, Brave soldier, doth he lie Larding the plain. Shakesp. Henry V. To fall by the negligence of one pro- 3. To mix with something else by way of prietor to another. improvement. If the archbishop shall not fill it up within six months ensuing, it lapses to the king. Ayliffe. To fall from perfection, truth, or faith. Once more I will renew His lapsed pow'rs, though forfeit, and inthrall'd Milton. A sprout of that fig-tree which was to hide the curse. Ah! but I think him better than I say, An exact command, Larded with many several sorts of reasons. Shak. To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose. Dryden. This similitude is not borrowed of the larder house, but out of the school house. Ascham. Flesh is ill kept in a room that is not cool; whereas in a cool and wet larder it will keep lonBacon. ger. So have I seen in larder dark, Dorset. Morose, perverse in humour, diffident King. A basket made of porcupine quills: the ground The left-hand side of a ship, when you stand Or when Ulysses on the larboard shunn'd Milton. Those laws would be very unjust, that should LARCH. n. s. [larix, Lat.] A tree. Some botanical criticks tell us, the poets have not rightly followed the traditions of antiquity, in metamorphosing the sisters of Phaeton into poplars, who ought to have been turned into larch trees; for that it is this kind of tree which sheds a gum, and is commonly found on the banks of Addison on Italy. the Po. LARD. n.s. [lardum, Lat. lard, Fr.] So may thy pastures with their flow'ry feasts, By this the boiling kettle had prepar'd, Is sorer than to lie for need; and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars. Shakesp.Cymbeline. 3. To slip, as by inadvertency or mistake. Honier, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites, has lapsed into the burlesque character, and departed from that serious air essential to an epick To LARD. poem. Addison. Let there be no wilful perversion of another's meaning; no sudden seizure of a lapsed syllable to play upon it. 4. To lose the time. For which if I be lapsed in this place, I shall pay dear. Watts. Shakesp. Twelfth Night. Dryden. T' involve the lean in cauls, and mend with lard. noun.] v. a. [larder, Fr. from the To stuff with bacon. The larded thighs on loaded altars laid. Dryden. Or garnishes his lamb with spitch-cockt eel. King. Now Falstaff sweats to death, As an appeal may be deserted by the appellant's And lards the lean earth as he walks along. Shak. Skippon gave a large testimony under his hand, that they had carried themselves with great civility. Clarendon. I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education, and say a great many things which have been said before. Felt.on the Clas. 5. At large. Without restraint; without confinement. If you divide a cane into two, and one speak at the one end, and you lay your ear at the other, it will carry the voice farther than in the air at large. Bacon. Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Your zeal becomes importunate; 6. At large. Diffusely; in the full ex tent. |