tants. London excels any other city in the whole world, either in largeness, or number of inhabiSpratt. Ner must Bumastus his old honours lose, In length and largeness like the dugs of cows. Dry. 2. Greatness; comprehension. There will be occasion for largeness of mind and agreeableness of temper. Collier of Friendship. 3. Extension; amplitude. They which would file away most from the largeness of that offer, do in most sparing terms acknowledge little less. Hooker. The ample proposition that hope makes, In all designs begun on earth below, Falls in the promis'd largeness. Shakesp Knowing best the largeness of my own heart toward my people's good and just contentment. King Charles. Shall grief contract the largeness of that heart, In which nor fear nor anger has a part? Waller. Man as far transcends the beasts in largeness of desire, as dignity of nature and employment. Glanville's Apology. If the largeness of a man's heart carry him beyond prudence, we may reckon it illustrious weakness. L'Estrange. 4. Wideness. Supposing that the multitude and largeness of rivers ought to continue as great as now; we can easily prove, that the extent of the ocean could be no less. Bentley. LA'RGESS. n. s. [largesse, Fr.] A present; a gift; a bounty. Our coffers with too great a court, Shakesp. He assigned two thousand ducats, for a bounty to me and my fellows: for they give great largesses where they come. Bacon's New Atlantis. A pardon to the captain, and a largess Among the soldiers had appeas'd their fury. Den. The paltry largess too severely watch'd, That no intruding guests usurp a share. Dryden. Irus's condition will not admit of largesses. Addison. LARGITION. n. s. [largitio, Lat.] The act of giving. Dict. LARK. n. s. [lapence, Sax. lerk, Dan. lavrack, Scott.] A small singing bird. It was the lark, the herald of the morn. Shak. Look up a height, the shrill-gorg'd lark so far Cannot be seen or heard. Shakesp. K. Lear. Th' example of the heavenly lark, Cowley. ed. LA'RVATED. adj. [larvatus, Lat.] Mask-11. His larum bell might loud and wide be heard, instant of our encounter. How far off lie these armies? -Then shall we hear their larum, and they ours. She is become formidable to all her neighbours, as she puts every one to stand upon his guard, and have a continual larum bell in his ears. Howel. 2. An instrument that makes a noise at a certain hour. Of this nature was that larum, which, though it were but three inches big, yet would both wake. a man, and of itself light a candle for him at any set hour. Wilkins. 2. 3. 4. To 1 see men as lusty and strong that eat but two 1. meals a day, as others, that have set their stomachs, like larums, to call on them for four or five. Locke. The young Eneas, all at once let down, Stunn'd with his giddy larum half the town. Dunciad. LARY'NGOTOMY. n. s. [λágvyę and Tiμva; laryngotomie, Fr.] An operation where the fore-part of the larynx is divided to assist respiration, during large tumours upon the upper parts; as in a quinsy, 2. Quincy. LARYNX. n. s. [λápvy.] The upper part of the trachea, which lies below the root of the tongue, before the pharynx. Quincy. There are thirteen muscles for the motion of the five cartilages of the larynx. Derham. LASCI VIENT. adj. [lasciviens, Lat.] Frolicksome; wantoning. LASCIVIOUS. adj. [lascivus, Lat.] 1. 2. In what habit will you go along? -Not like a woman; for I would prevent The loose encounters of lascivious men. He on Eve Shak. Began to cast lascivious eyes; she him Wanton; soft; luxurious. And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds The reason pretended by Augustus was the lasciviousness of his Elegies, and his Art of Love. Dryden's Preface to Ovid. LASCIVIOUSLY. adv. [from lascivious.] Lewdly; wantonly; loosely. LASH. n. s. [The most probable etymology of this word seems to be that of Skinner, from schlagen, Dut, to strike; whence slash and lash.] A stroke with any thing pliant and tough. From hence are heard the groans of ghosts, the pains Of sounding lashes, and of dragging chains. Dry. Rous'd by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail. Dryden. The thong or point of the whip which gives the cut or blow. Her whip of cricket's bone, her lash of film, Her waggoner a small grey-coated gnat. Shakesp. I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it. Addison. A leash, or string in which an animal is held; a srare: out of use. The farmer they leave in the lash, With losses on every side. Tusser's Husbandry. A stroke of satire; a sarcasm. The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well. L'Estrange. LASH. v. a. [from the noun.] To strike with any thing pliant; to scourge. Let's whip these stragglers o'er the seas again, Lash hence these over-weening rags of France. Shakesp He charg'd the flames, and those that disobey'd He lash'd to duty with his sword of light. Dryden. And limping death, lash'd on by fate, Comes up to shorten half our date. Dryden. Stern as tutors, and as uncles hard, We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward. Dryden. Leaning on his lance, he mounts his car, His fiery coursers lashing through the air. Garth, To move with a sudden spring or jerk. The club hung round his ears, and batter'd brows; He falls; and lashing up his heels, his rider throws. Dryden. 3. To beat; to strike with a sharp sound. The winds grow high, Impending tempests charge the sky; The lightning flies, the thunder roars, And big waves lash the frighted shores. 4. To scourge with satire. Prior. Could pension'd Boileau lash in honest strain, Flatt'rers and bigots ev'n in Louis' reign. Pope. 5. To tie any thing down to the side or mast of a ship: properly to lace. To LASH. v. n. To ply the whip. They lash aloud, each other they provoke, And lend their little souls at ev'ry stroke. Dryden. Gentle or sharp, according to their choice, To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice. Dryden. Let men out of their way lash on ever so fast, they are not at all the nearer their journey's end. South. Wheels clash with wheels, and bar the narrow street; The lashing whip resounds. LA'SHER. n. s. [from lash.] whips or lashes. Gay's Trivia. One that LASS. n. s. [from lad is formed laddess, by contraction lass. Hickes.] A girl; a maid; a young woman: used now only of mean girls. Now was the time for vig'rous lads to show What love or honour could invite them to; A goodly theatre, where rocks are round With reverend age, and lovely lasses crown'd. Waller. A girl was worth forty of our widows; and an honest, downright, plain dealing lass it was. L'Estrange They sometimes an hasty kiss Steal from unwary lasses; they with scorn And neck reclin'd, resent. Philips. LA'SSITUDE. n. s. [lassitudo, Lat. lassitude, Fr.] 1. Weariness; fatigue; the pain arising from hard labour. Lassitude is remedied by bathing, or anointing f with oil and warm water; for all lassitude is a kind of contusion and compression of the parts; and bathing and anointing give a e axation or emollition. Bacon's Nat. Hist. Assiduity in cogitation is more than our embodied souls can bear without lassitude or distempei. Glanville's Scepsis. She lives and breeds in air; the largeness and lightness of her wings and tail sustain her without lassitude. More's Antidote against Atheism. Do not over-fatigue the spirits, lest the mind be seized with a lassitude, and thereby be tempted to nauseate, and grow tired. Watts. From mouth and nose the briny torrent ran, And lost in lassitude lay all the man. Pope's Ody. 2. [In physick.] These are standing marks of facts delivered by those who were eye-witnesses to them, and which were contrived with great wisdom to last till time should be no more. Addison. LAST. n. s. [lære, Sax.] Lassitude generally expresses that weariness which proceeds from a distempered state, and not from exercise, which wants no remedy but rest: it proceeds from an increase of bulk, from a diminution of proper evacuation, or from too great a 1. consumption of the fluid necessary to maintain the spring of the solids, as in fevers; or from a vitiated secretion of that juice, whereby the fibres are not supplied. Quincy. LA'SSLORN. n. s. [lass and lorn.] Forsaken by his mistress. Not used. Brown groves, Why are ye the last to bring the king back? O, may some spark of your celestial fire. Merion pursued at greater distance still, Last came Admetus, thy unhappy son. 3. Beyond which there is no more. Pope. I will slay the f them with the sword. Amos. Unhappy slave, and pupil to a bell, Unhappy to the last the kind releasing knell. Cow. The swans, that on Cayster often try'd Their tuneful songs, now sung their lust, and dy'd. Addison. O! may fam'd Brunswick be the last, The last, the happiest British king, Whom thou shalt paint, or I shall sing. Addison. But, while I take my last adieu, Prior. Heave thou no sigh, nor shed a tear. Wit not alone has shone on ages past, But lights the present, and shall warm the last. 4. The lowest; the meanest. Antilochus Pope. Takes the last prize, and takes it with a jest. Pope. 5. Next before the present; as, last week. 6. Utmost. Fools ambitiously contend For wit and pow'r; their last endeavours bend Toutshine each other. Dryden's Lucretius. 7. At last. In conclusion; at the end. Gad, a troop shall overcome him; but he shall overcome at the last. Gen. xlix. 19. Thus weather-cocks, that for a while Freind. 8. The last; the end. The mould on which shoes are formed. The cobler is not to go beyond his last. L'Estr. A cobler produced several new grins, having been used to cut faces over his last. Addison's Spec. Should the big last extend the shoe too wide, Each stone would wrench the unwary step aside. Gay. 2. [Last, Germ.] A certain weight or measure. LA'STERY. n. s. A red colour. The bashful blood her snowy cheeks did spread, That her became as polish'd ivory, Which cunning craftsman's hand hath overlaid, With fair vermilion, or pure lastery. Spenser. LA'STAGE. n. s. [lestage, Fr. lastagie, 1. Custom paid for freightage. Dut. plære, Sax. a load.] 2. The ballast of a ship. LA'STING. participial adj. [from last.] 1. Continuing; durable. 2. Every violence offered weakens and impairs, and renders the body less durable and lasting.Ray. Of long continuance; perpetual. White parents may have black children, as negroes sometimes have lasting white ones. Boyle on C. The grateful work is done, The seeds of discord sow'd, the war begun : Frauds, fears, and fury, have possess'd the state, And fix'd the causes of a lasting hate. Dryden. A sinew cracked seldom recovers its former strength, and the memory of it leaves a lasting caution in the man, not to put the part quickly again to any robust employment. Locke. LA'STINGLY. adv. [from lasting.] petually; durably. LA'STINGNESS. n. s. [from lasting.] rableness; continuance. 2. [Lecher, Fr.] To smear. But hast thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyes With the love juice, as I did bid thee do? Shak LA'TCHES. n. s. Latches or laskets, in a ship, are small lines like loops, fastened by sewing into the bonnets and drablers of a ship, in order to lace the bonnets to the courses, or the drablers to the bonnets. Harris. LATCHET. n. s. [lacet, Fr.] The string that fastens the shoe. There cometh one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose. Mark, i. 7. LATE. adj. [lær, Sax. laet, Dut. in the comparative latter or later, in the superlative latest or last. Last is absolute and definite, more than latest.] 1. Contrary to early; slow; tardy; long delayed. 2. 3. My hasting days fly on with full career, Just was the vengeance, and to latest days All the difference between the late servants, and those who staid in the family, was, that those latter were finer gentlemen. Addison's Spectator. The deceased: as, the works of the late Mr. Pope. 4. Far in the day or night. LATE. adv. 1. After long delays; after a long time. It is used often with too, when the proper time is past. O boy! thy father gave thee life too soon, And hath bereft thee of thy life too late. Shakesp A second Silvius after these appears, Silvius Æneas, for thy name he bears: For arms and justice equally renown'd, Who late restor'd in Alba shall be crown'd. Dryd. He laughs at all the giddy turns of state, When mortals search too soon, and fear too late. Dryden. The later it is before any one comes to have these ideas, the later also will it be before he comes to those maxims. Locke. I might have spar'd his life, But now it is too late. The latch mov'd up. Gay's Pastorals. Then comes rosy health from her cottage of thatch, Where never physician had lifted the latch Smart. 1. The last time; the time next before To LATCH. v. a. [from the noun.] How long is't now since last yourself and 1 the present. Were in a mask? Shakesp. 1. To fasten with a latch. He had strength to reach his father's house: the door was only latched; and, when he had the latch in his hand, he turned about his head to see his pursuer. Locke. 3. Philips's Distrest Mother. To make roses, or other flowers, come late, is an experiment of pleasure; for the ancients esteemed much of the rosa sera. Bacon's Nat. History. There be some flowers which come more early, and others which come more late, in the year. Bacon's Nat. History. Lately; not long ago. They arrived in that pleasant isle, Where sleeping late, she left her other knight. Spenser. In reason's absence fancy wakes, Ill-matching words and deeds long past or late. Milton The goddess with indulgent cares. And social joys, the late transform'd repairs. Pope. From fresh pastures, and the dewy field, The lowing herds return, and round them throng With leaps and bounds the late imprison'd young. Pope. 4. Far in the day or night. Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed. That you do lie so late? -Sir, we were carousing till the second cock. Shakesp. Late the nocturnal sacrifice begun, Nor ended till the next returning sun. Dryden. 5. Of late; lately; in times past; near the present. Late in this phrase seems to be an adjective. Who but felt of late? Milton 2 Placed, or acting on the side. Forth rush the Levant, and the ponent winds Furus and Zephyr, with their lateral noise, Sirocco and Libecchio. Milton. The LATERALITY. n. s. [from lateral.] LATERALLY. adv. [from lateral.] By The days are set laterally against the columns of LATH. n, s. [larta, Sax. late, latte, Fr.] With dagger of lath. Shakesp. Penny-royal and orpin they use in the country to trim their houses; binding it with a ath or stick, and setting it against a wall. Bacon's Nat. Hist. Laths are made of heart of oak, for outside work, as tiling and plaistering; and of fin for inside plai tering, and pantile lathing. The god who frights away, Moxon. With his lath sword, the thieves and birds of prey. Dryden. A small kiln consists of an oaken frame, lathed The plasterer's work is commonly done by the yard square for lathing. Mortimer's Husbandry. LATH. n. s. [læð, Sax. It is explained by Du Cange, I suppose from Spelman, Portio comitatus major tres vel plures hundredas continens: this is apparently contrary to Spenser, in the following example.] A part of a county. If all that tything failed, then all that lath was charged for that tything; and if the lath failed, then all that hundred was demanded for them; and if the hundred, then the shire, who would not rest till they had found that undutiful fellow, which was not amesuable to law. Spenser's Ireland. The fee-farms reserved upon charters granted to cities and towns corporate, and the blanch rents and lath silver answered by the sheriffs. Bacon. LATHE. n. s. The tool of a turner by which he turns about his matter so as to shape it by the chisel. Those black circular lines we see on turned vessels of wood, are the effects of ignition, caused by the pressure of an edged stick upon the vessel turned nimbly in the lathe. Ray. To LATHER. v.n. To form a foam. [leonan, Sax.] Augustus himself could not make a new Latin LATIN. n. 8. An exercise practised by In learning farther his syntaxis, he shall not use LATINISM. n. s. [latinisme, Fr. latinis- Milton has made use of frequent transpositions, Oldham was considered as a good Latinist. LATINITY. n. s. [latinité, Fr. latinitas, If Shakespeare was able to read Plautus with To LATINIZE. v. a. [latiniser, Fr. from 1 am liable to be charged that 1 latinize too LA'TISH. adj. [from late.] Somewhat LATIRO'STROUS. adj. [latus and rostrum, In quadrupeds, in regard of the figure of their heads, the eyes are placed at some distance; in LA TITANCY. n. s. [from latitans, Lat.] In vipers she has abridged their malignity by We found ourselves in the latitude of thirty degrees two minutes south. South. A particular degree, reckoned from the equator. Another effect the Alps have on Geneva is, that the sun here rises later and sets sooner than it does to other places of the same latitude. Addison. 5. Unrestrained acceptation; licentious or lax interpretation. 6. In such latitudes of sense, many that love me and the church well, may have taken the covenant. King Charles. Then, in comes the benign latitude of the doctrine of good-will, and cuts asunder all those hard Freedom from settled rules; laxity. pinching cords. South. In human actions there are no degrees, and precise natural limits described, but a latitude is indulged. Taylor. I took this kind of verse, which allows more latitude than any other. Dryden. 7. Extent; diffusion. Albertus, bishop of Ratisbon, for his great learning, and latitude of knowledge, sirnamed Magnus; besides divinity, hath written many tracts in philosophy. Broen. Mathematicks, in its latitude, is usually divided into pure and mixed. Wilkins. I pretend not to treat of them in their full latitude; it suffices to shew how the mind receives them from sensation and reflection. Locke. LATITUDINARIAN. adj. [latitudinaire, Fr. latitudinarius, low Lat.] Not restrained; not confined; thinking or acting at large. Latitudinarian love will be expensive, and therefore I would be informed what is to be gotten by it. Collier on Kindness. LATITUDINA'RIAN. n. s. One who departs from orthodoxy. LATRANT. adj. [latrans, Lat.] Barking. Thy care be first the various gifts to trace, LATRIA. [arpia; latrie, Fr.] The The practice of the catholick church makes genuflections, prostrations, supplications, and other acts of latria to the cross. Stilling fleet. Deli-LATTEN. n. s. [leton, Fr. latoen, Dɩ t. lattun, Welsh.] Brass; a mixture of copper and calaminaris stone. Snakes and lizards, latitant many months in the year, containing a weak heat in a copious humidity, do long subsist without nutrition. Brown. To make lamp-black, take a torch or link, and hold it under the bottom of a latten bason, and, as it groweth black within, strike it with a feather into some shell. Peacham. LATTER. adj. [This is the comparative of late, though universally written. with it, contrary to analogy, and to our own practise in the superlative latest. When the thing of which the comparison is made is mentioned, we use later; as, this fruit is later than the rest; but latter when no comparison is expressed, but the reference is merely to time; as, those are latter fruits. Volet usus Quem penes arbitrium est, & vis, & norma loquendi.] 1. Happening after something else. 2. Modern; lately done or past. Hath not navigation discovered, in these latter ages, whole nations at the bay of Soldania? Locke. 3. Mentioned last of two. Watts. The difference between reason and revelation, and in what sense the latter is superior. LATTERLY. adv. [from latter.] Of late; in the last part of life: a low word lately hatched. Latterly Milton was short and thick. Richards. LATTICE. n. s. [lattis, Fr. by Junius written lettice, and derived from lett leɲn a hindring iron, or iron stop; by Skinner imagined to be derived from latte, Dut. a lath, or to be corrupted from nettice or net-work: I have sometimes derived it from let and eye; leteyes, that which lets the eye. It may be deduced from laterculus.] A reticulated window; a window made with sticks or irons crossing each other at small distances. My good window of lattice, fare thee well; thy casement I need not open, I look through thee. Shakesp. The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattess. Judges, v. 28. Up into the watch-tower get, And see all things despoil'd of fallacies: Donne. Cleaveland. The trembli g leaves through which he play'd, Dappling the walk with light and shade, Like lattice windows, give the spy Room but to peep with half an eye. To Lattice. v. a. [from the noun.] To decussate, or cross; to mark with cross parts like a lattice. LAVATION. n. s. act of washing. [lavatio, Lat.] The Such filthy stuff was by loose lewd varlets sung before the chariot on the solemn day of her lavaHakewill. tion. LAUD. v. a. to celebrate. O thou almighty and eternal Creator, having considered the heavens the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained, with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious name. LAUDABLE. adj. Bentley. [laudabilis, Lat.] 1. Praise-worthy; commendable. I'm in this earthly world, where to do harm Affectation endeavours to correct natural defects, and has always the laudable aim of pleasing, though it always misses it. Locke. 2. Healthy; salubrious. Good blood, and a due projectile motion or circulation, are necessary to convert the aliment into landable animal juices. LAUDABLENESS. n. s. [from laudable.] Arbuthnot. Praise-worthiness. Dryden. LA'UDABLY. adv. [from laudable.] In 1. 2. Unsafe, that we must lave our honours In these so flatt'ring streams. Shakesp. But as 1 rose out of the laving stream, Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length, She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves Dryd. [Lever, Fr.] To throw up; to lade; to draw out. Though hills were set on hills, Some stow their oars, or stop the leaky sides, In her chaste current oft the goddess laves. And with celestial tears augments the waves. Pope. To LAVEER. v. n. To change the direction often in a course. How easy 'tis when destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind: But those that 'gainst stiff gales laveering go, Must be at once resolv'd, and skilful too. Dryden. LA'VENDER. n.s. [lavendula, Lat.] A plant. It is one of the verticillate plants, whose flower consists of one leaf, divided into two lips; the upper lip, standing upright, is roundish, and, for the most part, bifid; but the under lip is cut into three segments, which are almost equal; these flowers are disposed in whorles, and are collected into a slender spike upon the top of the stalks. Miller. The whole lavender plant has a highly aromatick smell and taste, and is famous as a cephalick, Hill. nervous, and uterine medicine. And then again he turneth to his play, To spoil the pleasures of that paradise; The wholesome sage, and lavender still grey, Rank smelling rue, and cummin good for eyes. Spenser. Soak'd in his enemies blood, and from the stream gore. He gave her to his daughters, to imbathe In nectar'd lavers strew'd with asphodil. Milton. Young Aretus from forth his bridal bow'r Brought the full laver o'er their hands to pour. Pope's Odyssey. To LAUGH. v. n. [plapan, Sax. lachen, Germ, and Dut. lach, Scott.] 1. To make that noise which sudden merriment excites. 2. 3. You saw my master wink and laugh upon you. Shakesp. There's one did laugh in's sleep, and one cried, Murther! They wak'd each other. At this fusty stuff The large Achilles, on his prest bed lolling, From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause. Shakesp Shakesp. Laughing causeth a continued expulsion of the breath with the loud noise, which maketh the interjection of laughing, shaking of the breast and sides, running of the eyes with water, if it be violent. Bacon's Natural History. [In poetry.] To appear gay, favourable, pleasant, or fertile. Entreat her not the worse, in that I pray Shakesp. Henry VI. Then laughs the childish year with flowrets crown'd. Dryden. The plenteous board, high-heap'd with cates divine, And o'er the foaming bowl the laughing wine. Pope. To laugh at. To treat with contempt; to ridicule. Presently prepare thy grave, : Lie where the light foam of the sea may beat Thy grave-stone daily make thine epitaph, That death in thee at others lives may laugh.Shok. 'Twere better for you, if 'twere not known in council; you'll be laughed at. Shakesp The dissolute and abandoned, before they ale aware of it, are betrayed to laugh at themselves, and upon reflection find, that they are merry at their own expence. Addison. No wit to flatter left of all his store; Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn LAUGH. n. s. [from the verb.] The convulsion caused by merriment; an inarticulate expression of sudden merriment. Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then hid in shades, eludes her eager swain; But feigns a laugh, to see me search around, LAUGHABLE. adj. [from laugh.] Such And by that laugh the willing fair is found. Pope. as may properly excite laughter. Nature hathi fram'd strange fellows in her time: Some that will evermore peep through their eye, And laugh like parrots at a bagpiper; And others of such vinegar aspect, That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. Shak. Casaubon confesses Persius was not good at turning things into a pleasant ridicule; or, in other words, that he was not a laughable writer. LA'UGHER. n.s. [from laugh.] A man Dryden. fond of merriment. n. s. LAUGHINGLY. adv. [from laughing.]|2. Supine credulous frailty exposes a man to be both a prey and laughing-stock at once. L'Estrange. LAUGHTER. n. s. [from laugh.] Convulsive merriment; an inarticulate expression of sudden merriment. To be worst, The lowest, most dejected thing of fortune, Shakesp. The act of laughter, which is a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely voluntary, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves. To rove at large; to expatiate; to make excursions. From hence that gen'ral care and study springs, That launching and progression of the mind Dav. Whosoever pursues his own thoughts, will find them launch out beyond the extent of body into Locke. the infinity of space. road. Spenser has not contented himself with submissive imitation: he launches out into very flowery paths, which still conduct him into one great Prior. He had not acted in the character of a suppliant, if he had launched out into a long oration." Broome. 1 have launched out of my subject on this article. Arbuthnot. To LAUNCH. v. a. All art is used to sink episcopacy, and launch We find not that the laughter-loving dame Mourn'd for Anchises. Waller. Prior. Pain or pleasure, grief or laughter. 1. Prodigal; wasteful; indiscreetly liberal. 3. Wild; unrestrained. Bellona's bridegroom, lapt in proof, Should we thus lead them to a field of slaughter, Addison. LA'VISHLY. adv. [from lavish.] Pro- My father's purposes have been mistook ; Shakesp. Then laughs the childish year with flowrets crown'd, And lavishly perfumes the fields around. Dryden. Praise to a wit is like rain to a tender flower; if it be moderately bestowed, it cheers and revives; but if too lavishly, overcharges and depresses him. Pope. LAVISHMENT. Į n. s. [from lavish.] ProLA VISHNESS. digality; profusion. First got with guile, and then preserv'd with dread, And after spent with pride and lavishness. FairyQ. To LAUNCH. V. N. [It is derived by Skinner from lance, because a ship is pushed into water with great force. 1. To force a vessel into the sea. Launch out into the deep, and let down your So short a stay prevails; The King of Heav'n, obscure on high, Under this thick-grown brake we'll shroud For through this laund anon the deer will come; LAUNDRESS. n.s. [lavandiere, Fr. Skin- The laurel, ineed of mighty conquerors, Fairy Queen The laurel or cherry-bay, by cutting away the side branches, will rise to a large tree. Mortimer LAURELED. adj. [from laurel.] Crowned or decorated with laurel; laureate. Hear'st thou the news? my friend! th' express is come With laurell'd letters from the camp to Rome. Then future ages with delight shall see Erse.] n. s. The countess of Richmond would often say, The laundress must be sure to tear her smocks in 2. The act or state of washing. Chalky water is too fretting, as appeareth in laundry of cloaths, which wear out apace. Bacon. LAVOLTA. n. s. [la volte, Fr.] An old dance, in which was much turning and much capering. Hanmer. I cannot sing, Milton Hooker. Shaken. And therefore law shall scorn him further trial Than the severity of publick power. Tom Touchy is a fellow famous for taking the A distinct edict or rule. When what's not meet, but what must be, was Then were they chosen. Shakesp. Coriolanu. 7. The rules or axioms of science: as, the laws of mechanicks. 8. An established and constant mode or process; a fixed correspondence of cause and effect: as, the laws of magnetism. Natural agents have their law. 9. I dy'd, whilst in the womb he stay'd, Hooker. Attending Nature's law. Shakesp. Cymbeline. The Mosaical institution: distinguished from the gospel. Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by these shadowy expiations. Mitten. 10. The books in which the Jewish religion is delivered: distinguished from the prophets. 11. A particular form or mode of trying and judging: as, law martial, lan mercantile, the ecclesiastical law whereby we are governed. LAUREATION. n. s. [from laureate.] It 12. Jurisprudence; the study of law: as |