Gloster's bastard son was kinder to his father, | than my daughters got 'tween the lauful sheets. Shakesp. King Lear. Interspers'd in lawns and opening glades, 12. Contrariety to rigorous precision: as Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. LAWFULLY. adv. [from lawful.] Le-2. [Linon, Fr.] Fine linen, remarkable 3. Looseness; not costiveness. gally; agreeable to law. This bond is forfeit ; I may be allowed to tell your lordship, the king. of poets, what an extent of power you have, and how laufully you may exercise it. Dryden. LAWFULNESS. n. s. [from lawful.] Legality; allowance of law. It were an error to speak further, till I may see some sound foundation laid of the lawfulness of the action. Bacon. La'WGIVER. n. s. [law and giver.] Legislator; one that makes laws. Solomon we esteem as the lawgiver of our na tion. Bacon. A law may be very reasonable in itself, although one does not know the reason of the lawgivers. Swift. LAWGIVING. adj. [law and giving.] Legislative. Lawgiving heroes, fam'd for taming brutes, And raising cities with their charming lutes. LAWLESS. adj. [from law.] Waller. 1. Unrestrained by any law; not subject to law. The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law. Raleigh's Essays. The lawless tyrant, who denies for being used in the sleeves of bishops. Should'st thou bleed, To stop the wounds my finest lawn I'd tear, Wash them with tears, and wipe them with my hair. Prior. From high life high characters are drawn, A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. Pope What awe did the slow solemn knell inspire; The duties by the lawn rob'd prelate pay'd, And the last words, that dust to dust convey'd! Tickel. LA'WSUIT. n. s. [law and suit.] A process in law; a litigation. The giving the priest a right to the title would produce lawsuits and wrangies; his attendance on the courts of justice would leave his people without a spiritual guide. Swift. LAWYER. n. s. [from law.] Professor of law; advocate; pleader. It is like the breath of an unfec'd lawyer, you gave me nothing for it. Shakesp. King Lear. Is the law evil, because some lawyers in their office swerve from it? Whitgifte. I have entered into a work touching laws, in a middle term, between the speculative and reverend discourses of philosophers, and the writings of lawyers. Bacon's Holy War. The nymphs with scorn beheld their foes, When the defendant's council rose; And, what no lawyer ever lack'd, With impudence own'd all the fact. LAX. adj. [laxus, Lat.] 1. Loose; not confined. 2. Milton. 3. Orpheus did not, as poets feign, tame savage beasts, Swift. Milton. Inhabit lax, ye pow'rs of heav'n! Disunited; not strongly combined. In mines, those parts of the earth which abound with strata of stone, suffer much more than those which consist of gravel, and the like laxer matter, which more easily give way. Woodward. Vague; not rigidly exact. Dialogues were only lux and moral discourses. Baker. Loose in body, so as to go frequently to stool; laxative medicines are such as promote that disposition. 5. Slack; not tense. Quincy. By a branch of the auditory nerve that goes between the ear and the palate, they can hear themselves, though their outward ear be stopt by the lax membrane to all sounds that come that way. Holder's Elements of Speech. LAX. n. s. A looseness; a diarrhoea. That they may hold excus'd our lawless lives. Shak.. The act of loosening or slackening. Fear not, he bears an honourable mind, And will not use a woman lawlessly. Shakesp. LAWMAKER. n. s. [law and maker.] Legislator; one who makes laws; a law-giver. Their judgment is, that the church of Christ should admit no lawmakers but the evangelists. [land, Dan. lawn, Welsh, LAWN. n. s. Hooker. LAXATIVE. adj. [laxatif, Fr. laxo, Lat.] Having the power to ease costiveness. Omitting honey, which is of a laxative power itself; the powder of loadstones doth rather coustipate and bind, than purge and loosen the belly. The oil in wax is emollient, laxative, and anodyne. Arbuthnot on Aliments. If sometimes it cause any larity, it is in the same way with iron unprepared, which will disturb some bodies, and work by purge and vomit. Brown. 4. Slackness; contrariety to tension. 5. Larity of a fibre, is that degree of cohesion in its parts which a small force can alter, so as to increase its length beyond what is natural. Quincy. In consideration of the laxity of their eyes, they are subject to relapse. Wiseman's Surgery. Openness; not closeness Hold a piece of paper close by the flame of a candle, and by little and little remove it further off, and there is upon the paper some part of that which I see in the candle, and it grows still less and less as I remove; so that if I would trust my sense, I should believe it as very a body upon the paper as in the candle, though infeebled by the laxity of the channel in which it flows. Digby on Bodies. LA'XNESS. n.s. Laxity; not tension; not precision; not costiveness. For the free passage of the sound into the ear, it is requisite that the tympanum be tense, and hard stretched; otherwise the laxness of that membrane will certainly dead and damp the sound. Holder. LAY. Preterite of lye. O! would the quarrel lay upon our heads. Shak. He was familiarly acquainted with him at such time as he lay embassador at Constantinople. 'Knolles. When Ahab had heard those words, he fasted, and lay in sackcloth. 1 Kings, xxi. 27. I try 'd whatever in the Godhead lay. Dryden. He rode to rouze the prey, That shaded by the fern in harbour lay, And thence dislodged. Dryden's Knight's Tale. Leaving Rome, in my way to Sienna, I lay the first night at a village in the territories of the ancient Veil. Addison. How could he have the retiredness of the clois ter, to perform all those acts of devotion in, when the burthen of the reformation lay upon his shoulders? Francis Atterbury. The presbyterians argued, That if the Pretender should i vade those parts where the numbers and estates of the dissenters chiefly lay, they would sit still. Swift. To LAY. v. a. [leczan, Sax. leggen, Dut.] 1. To place; to put; to reposite. This Brown. 2. LAXATIVE. n. s. A medicine slightly purgative; a medicine that relaxes the bowels without stimulation. Nought profits him to save abandon'd life, Nor vomits upward aid, nor downward laxative. Dryden. LAXATIVENESS. n. s. [from laxative.] Power of easing costiveness. Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Grazing the tender herb, were interpos'd. Milton. His mountains were shaded with young trees, that gradually shot up into groves, woods, and LAXITY. n. s. foresis, intermixed with walks, and lawns, and gardens. Addison 1. Stern beasts in trains that by his truncheon fell, Now grissly forms shoot o'er the lawns of hell. Pope. [laxitas, Lat.] Not compression; not close cohesion. The former causes could never beget whirlpools in a chaos of so great a laxity and thinness. Bentley 3. He laid his robe from him. They have laid their swords under their heads. Ezekiel. Soft on the flow'ry herb I found me laid. Milt. He sacrificing laid The entrails on the wood. To place along. Milton. Seek not to be judge, being not able to take away iniquity, lest at any time thou fear the person of the mighty, and lay a stumbling-block in the way of thy uprightness. Ecclus. A stone was laid on the mouth of the den. Dan. To beat down cern or grass. Another ill accident is laying of corn with great raius in harvest. Bacon's Natural History. Let no sheep there play, Nor frisking kids the flowery meadow's lay. May. 4. To keep from rising; to settle; to sti I'll use th' advantag. of my power, And lay the summer's dust with showers of blood. Shakesp It was a sandy soil, and the way had been full of dust; but an hour or two before a refreshing fragrant shower of rain had laid the dust. Ray 5 To fix deep; to dispose regularly: either of these notions may be conceived from the following examples; but regu After the egg lay'd, there is no further growth or 27 To enjoin as a duty, or a rule of ac nourishment from the female. Bacon's Nat. Hist. A hen mistakes a piece of chalk for an egg, and sits upon it; she is insensible of an increase or diminution in the number of those she lays. Addis. larity seems rather implied; so we say, 19. To apply with violence; as, to lay to lay bricks; to lay planks. Schismaticks, outlaws, or criminal persons, are not fit to lay the foundation of a new colony. Bac. 1 tay the deep foundations of a wall, And Enos, nam'd from me, the city call. Dryden. Men will be apt to call it pulling up the old foundations of knowledge; I persuade myself that the way I have pursued lays those foundations Locke. surer. 6. To put; to place. Then he offered it to him again; then he put it by again; but, to my thinking, he was very loth to lay his fingers off it. Shakesp. Julius Cæsar. Till us death lay To ripe and mellow, we are but stubborn clay. Dimne. They shall lay hands on the sick, and recover. Mark. They, who so state a question, do no more but separate and disentangle the parts of it, one from another, and lay them, when so disentangled, in their due order. Locke. pay, Pope's Statius We to thy name our annual rites will And on thy altars sacrifices lay. 7. To bury; to inter. David fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fa- 8. To station or place privily. 9. To spread on a surface. The colouring upon those maps should be laid ot. so thin, as not to obscure or conceal any part of the lines. Watts. 10. To paint; to enamel. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours; and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. Locke. 11. To put into any state of quiet. They bragged, that they doubted not but to abuse, and lay asleep, the queen and council of England. Bacon. 12. To calm; to still; to quiet; to allay. Friends, loud tumults are not laid With half the easiness that they are rais'd. B. Jon. Millon. After a tempest, when the winds are laid, The calm sea wonders at the wrecks it made. The husband found no charm to lay the devil in a petticoat, but the rattling of a bladder with beans in it. 14. To set on the table. 1 laid meat unto them. L'Estrange. Hos. xi. 4. 15. To propagate plants by fixing their twigs in the ground. The chief time of laying gilliflowers is in July, when the flowers are gone. Mortimer's Husbandry. 16. To wager; to stake. But since you be .nad, and since you may The sparrow hath found an house, and the eggs. blows. Lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her 22. Wo unto them that lay field to field. Isa. v. 8. To put in a state; implying somewhat of disclosure. If the sinus lie distant, lay it open first, and cure that apertion before you divide that in ano. Wise. The wars have laid whole countries waste. Addis. 23. To scheme; to contrive. tion. den. It seemed good to lay upon you no greater bur- A prince who never disobey'd, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver He bringeth down them that dwell on high; the Lay down by those pleasures the fearful and away. Every breast she did with spirit inflame, Don Diego and we have laid it so, that before 24. To charge as a payment. A tax laid upon land seems hard to the landholder, because it is so much money going out of his pocket. Locke. 25. To impute; to charge. Preoccupied with what This mad young man. Lay apart all filthiness. Granville. Retention is the power to revive again in our minds, those ideas which, after imprinting, have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight. Locke. When by just vengeance guilty mortals perish, The gods behold their punishment with pleasure, And lay the uplifted thunder-bolt aside. Addison. 33. To lay away. To put from one; not to keep. Queen Esther laid away her glorious apparel, 34. To lay before. and put on the garments of anguish. Esther,xiv.2. To expose to view ; to shew; to display. Shakesp. Hamlet. They lay the blame on the poor little ones. Locke. The weariest and most loathed life I cannot better satisfy your piety, than by ly ing before you a prospect of your labours. Wake. That treaty hath been laid before the commons. Swift. Their office it is to lay the business of the nation before him. Addison. To lay by. To reserve for some future time. Let every one lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him. 1 Cor. xvi. 2. 36. To lay by. To put from one; to dismiss. Let brave spirits that have fitted themselves for command, either by sea or land, not be laid by Bacon. as persons unnecessary for the time. Quit all that Lely's art can take, And yet a thousand captives make. Then he lays by the publick care, Thinks of providing for an heir; Learns how to get, and how to spare. The Tuscan king Waller. Denham. Laid by the lance, and took him to the sling. Dry. Fortune, conscious of your destiny, E'en then took care to lay you softly by; And wrapp'd your fate among her precious things, Kept fresh to be unfolded with your king's. Dry. Dismiss your rage, and lay your weapons by, Know I protect them, and they shall not die. Dry. When their displeasure is once declared, they ought not presently to lay by the severity of their brows, but restore their children to their former grace with some difficulty. Locke. 37. To lay down. To deposit as a pledge, equivalent, or satisfaction. I lay down my life for the sheep. John, x. 15. I dare my life lay down, and will do't, Sir, more. spear. The story of the tragedy is purely fiction; for I take it up where the history has laid it down. Dry. 89. To lay down. To commit to repose. I will lay me down in peace and sleep. Psal xlviii. And they lay themselves down upon cloaths laid to pledge by every altar. Amos, ii. 8. We lay us down, to sleep away our cares; night shuts up the senses. Glanville's Scepsis. Some god conduct me to the sacred shades, Or lift me high to Heus' hilly crown, Or in the plains of Tempe lay me down. Dryden 40. To lay down. To advance as a proposition. I have laid down, in some measure, the description of the old known world. Abbot. Kircher lays it down as a certain principle, that there never was any people so rude, which did not acknowledge and worship one supreme deity. Stillingfleet. I must lay down this for your encouragement, that we are no longer now under the heavy yoke of a perfect unsimning obedience. Wake. Plato lays it down as a principle, that whatever is permitted to befal a just man, whether poverty or sickness, shall, either in life or death, conduce to his good. Addison. From the maxims laid down many may conclude that there had been abuses. Swift. 41. To lay for. To attempt by ambush, or insiduous practises. Knolles. He embarked, being hardly laid for at sea by Cortug-ogli, a famous pirate. 42. To lay forth. To diffuse; to expa tiate. O bird! the delight of gods and of meu! and The great master having a careful eye over every part of the city, went himself unto the sta tion, which was then hardly laid to by the Bassa Mustapha. Knolles. Whilst he this, and that, and each man's blow, Doth eye, defend, and shift, being laid to sore; Backwards he bears. Daniel's Civil War. They saw the happiness of a private life, but they thought they had not yet enough to make them happy, they would have more, and laid in 56. to make their solitude luxurious. Dryden. Readers, who are in the flower of their youth, should labour at those accomplishments which may set off their persons when their bloom is gone, and to lay in timely provisions for manhood and old age. Addison's Guardian. 16. To lay on. To apply with violence. We make no excuses for the obstinate: blows are the proper remedies; but blows laid on in a way different from the ordinary. Locke on Educat. 47. To lay open. To shew; to expose. Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak, Lay open to my earthy gr ss conceit, Prov. xiii. 16. Smother'd in errours, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your word's deceit. Shak. A fool layeth open his folly. 48. To lay over. To incrust; to cover; to decorate superficially. To lay together. To collect; to bring into one view. If we lay all these things together, and consider the parts, rise, and degrees of his sin, we shall find that it was not for nothing. South. Many people apprehend danger for want of taking the true measure of things, and laying matters rightly together. L'Estrange. My readers will be very well pleased, to see so many useful hints upon this subject laid together in so clear and concise a manner. Addis. Guardian. One series of consequences will not serve the turn, but many different and opposite deductions must be examined, and laid together, before a man can come to make a right judgment of the point 57. To lay under. To subject to in question. Locke. A Roman soul is bent on higher views, To civilize the rude unpolish'd world, And lay it under the restraint of laws. Addison. Wo unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; 58. To lay up. To confine to the bed or to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach: behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. Habb. ii. 19. 49. To lay out. To expend. Milton. Fathers are wont to lay up for their sons, Thou for thy son art bent to lay out all. Tycho Brahe laid out, besides his time and industry, much greater sums of money on instruments than any man we ever heard of. Boyle. The blood and treasure that's laid out, Is thrown away, and goes for nought. Hudibras. If you can get a good tutor, you will never repent the charge; but will always have the satisfaction to think it the money, of all other, the best laid out. Locke. I, in this venture, double gains pursue, And laid out all my stock to purchase you. Dryd. My father never at a time like this Would lay out his great soul in words, and waste Such precious moments. Addison's Cato. A melancholy thing to see the disorders of a houshold that is under the conduct of an angry stateswoman, who lays out all her thoughts upon the publick, and is only attentive to find out miscarriages in the ministry. Addison's Freeholder. When a man spends his whole life the among stars and planets, or lays out a twelve-month on the spots in the sun, however noble his speculations may be, they are very apt to fall into burlesque. Addison. Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermillion, planted in it a double row of ivory, and made it the seat of smiles and blushes. Addison. 50. To lay out. To display ; to discover. He was dangerous, and takes occasion to lay out bigotry, and false confidence, in all its colours. To lay out. To dispose; to plan. Atterbury. 51. The garden is laid out into a grove for fruits, a vineyard, and an allotment for olives and herbs. Notes on the Odyssey. chamber. Temple. 59. To lay up. To store; to treasure; to reposite for future use. St. Paul did will them of the church of Corinth, every man to lay up somewhat by him upon the Sunday, til himself did come thither, to send it to the church of Jerusalem for relief of the poor there. Hooker. Those things which at the first are obscure and hard, when niemory hath laid them up for a time, judgment afterwards growing explaineti them. Hooker. That which remaineth over, lay up to be kept until the morning. Exod. xvi. 23. The king must preserve the revenues of his crown without diminution, and lay up treasures in store against a time of extremity. Bacon. The whole was tilled, and the harvest laid up in several granaries. serve. Temple. I will lay up your words for you till time shall Dryden. This faculty of laying up, and retaining ideas, several other animals have to a great degree, as well as man. Locke. What right, what true, what fit, we justly call, Hens will greedily eat the herb which will make them lay the better. Mortimer's Husbandry. To lay out. With the reciprocal pro. 2. To contrive; to form a scheme. noun, to exert; to put forth. so he lays himself forth upon the graceful ess of 52. L'Estrange. the raven. 43. To lay forth. To place when dead in a decent posture. Embalm me, Then lay me forth; although unqueen'd, yet like A queen, and daughter to a king, inter me. Shak. 44. To lay hold of. To seize; to catch. Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out. Deut. xxi. 19. Favourable seasons of aptitude and inclination, be heedfully laid hold of. Locke. 45. To lay in. To store; to treasure. Let the main part of the ground employed to gardens or corn be to a common stock; and laid No selfish man will be concerned to lay out himself for the good of his country. Smalridge. 53. To lay to. To charge upon. When we began, in courteous manner, to lay his unkindness unto him, he, seeing himself coufronted by so many, like a resolute orator, went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falshood. Sidney. 54. To lay to. To apply with vigour. Let children be hired to lay to their bones, From fallow as needeth, to gather up stones. Tusser. We should now lay to our hands to root them up, and cannot tell for what. Oxford Reasons against the Covenant. 3. To lay about. To strike on all sides; to act with great diligence and vigour. At once he wards and strikes, he takes and pays, Now forc'd to yield, now forcing to invade, Before, behind, and round about him lays. Spens. And laid about in fight more busily, Than th' Amazonian dame Penthesile. Hudibres. In the late successful rebellion, how studiously did they lay about them, to cast a slur upon the king? South. He provides elbow-room enough for his couscience to lay about, and have its full play in. South. 5. To lay in for. To make overtures of oblique invitation. I have laid in for these, by rebating the satire, where justice would allow it, from carrying too Dryden. sharp an edge. 6. To lay on. To strike; to beat without intermission. His heart laid on, as if it try'd To force a passage through his side. Hudibras. Dryden. 7. To lay on. To act with vehemence : used of expences. My father has made her mistress Of the feast, and she lays it on. 8. To lay out. To take measures. Shakesp. I made strict enquiry wherever I came, and laid out for intelligence of all places, where the intrails of the earth were laid open. Woodward. On Ceres let him call, and Ceres praise With uncouth dances, and with country lays. Dry. LAZARETTO. Ev'n gods incline their ravish'd ears, Dennis. LAY. adj. [laicus, Lat. A] Not clerical; regarding or belonging to the people as distinct from the clergy. All this they had by law, and none repin'd, The pref'rence was but due to Levi's kind : But when some lay preferment fell by chance, The Gourmands made it their inheritance. Dryd. Lay persons, married or unmarried, being doctors of the civil law, may be chancellors, officials, &c. Auliffe's Parergon. It might well startle Our lay unlearned faith. LAYER. n. s. [from lay.] Rowe. 1. A stratum, or row; a bed; one body spread over another. 2. 9. To lay upon. To importune; to request with earnestness and incessantly. Obsolete. All the people laid so earnestly upon him to take LAY. n.s. [from the verb.] A viol should have a lay of wire-strings below, Upon this they lay a layer of stone, and upon 2. A wager. It is esteemed an even lay, whether any man lives ten years longer: I suppose it is the same, that one of any ten might die within one year. Graunt. 3. A layer of rich mould beneath, and about this natural earth to nourish the fibres. Evelyn. The terrestrial matter is disposed into strata or layers, placed one upon another, in like manner as any earthly sediment, settling down from a flood in great quantity, will naturally be. Woodward. A sprig of a plant. Many trees may be propagated by layers: this is to be performed by slitting the branches a little way, and laying them under the mould about half a foot; the ground should be first made very light, and, after they are laid, they should have a little water given them: if they do not comply well in the laying of them down, they must be pegged down with a hook or two; and if they have taken sufficient root by the next winter, they must be cut off from the main plants, and planted in the nursery: some twist the branch, or bare the rind; and if it be out of the reach of the ground, they fasten a tub or basket near the branch, which they fill with good mould, and lay the branch in Miller. Transplant also carnation seedlings, give your layers fresh earth, and set them in the shade for a week. Evelyn. it. A hen that lays eggs. The oldest are always reckoned the best sitters, and the youngest the best layers. Mortimer. LA'YMAN. n. s. [lay and man.] 1. One of the people distinct from the clergy. LAY. n. s. [ley, leag, Sax. ley, Scott.] To the maiden's sounding timbrels sung, Shakesp. Nor then the solemn nightingale Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays. Milton If Jove's will Have link'd that amorous power to thy soft lay, Now timely sing. Milton. He reacli'd the nymph with his harmonious lay, Whom all his charms could not incline to stay. Waller. Laymen will neither admonish one ansther themselves, nor suffer ministers to do it. Government of the Tongue. Since a trust must be, she thought it best To put it out of laymens pow'r at least, And for their solemn vows prepar'd a priest. Dry. Where can be the grievance, that an ecclesiastical landlord should expect a third part value for his lands, his title as antient, and as legal, as that of a layman, who is seldom guilty of giving such beneficial bargains? Swift. An image used by painters in contriving attitudes. You are to have a layman almost as big as the Of murdered men, which therein strewed lay. LAZAR. n. s. [from Lazarus in the gospel.] One deformed and nauseous with filthy and pestilential diseases. They ever after in most wretched case, Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay. F. Queen. I'll be sworn, and sworn upon't, she never shrowded any but lazars. Shakesp I am weary with drawing the deformities of life, and lazars of the people, where every figure of imperfection more resembles me. Dryden. Life he labours to refine Daily, nor of his little stock denies Fit alms to lazars, merciful and meek. Philips } LA'ZAR HOUSE. Įn. s. [lazaret, Fr. lazzaretto, Ital. from lazar.] A house for the reception of the diseased; an hospital. n.s. [laserpitium.] A LA'ZILY. adv. [from lazy.] Idly; sluggishly; heavily. Watch him at play, when following his own inclinations; and see whether he be stirring and active, or whether he lazily and listlessly dreams away his time. Locke. The eastern nations view the rising fires, Whilst night shades us, and lazily retires. Creech. LAZINESS. n. s. [from lazy.] Idleness; sluggishness; listlessness; heaviness in action; tardiness. That instance of fraud and laziness, the unjust steward, who pleaded that he could neither dig nor beg, would quickly have been brought both to dig and to beg too, rather than starve. South. My fortune you have rescued, not only from the power of others, but from my own modesty and laziness. Dryden. LA'ZING. adj. [from lazy.] Sluggish; idle The hands and the feet mutinied against the belly they knew no reason, why the one should be lasing, and pampering itself with the fruit of L'Estrange. the other's labour The sot cried, Utinam hoc esset laborare, while he lay lasing and lolling upon his couch. South. LAZULI. n. s. The ground of this stone is blue, veined and spotted with white, and a glistering or metallick yellow; it appears to be composed of, first, a white sparry, or crystalline matter; secondly, flakes of the golden or yellow tale; thirdly, a shining yellow substance; this fumes off in the calcination of the stone, and casts a sulphureous smell; fourthly, a bright blue substance, of great use among the painters, under the name of ultramarine; and when rich, is found, upon trial, to yield about onesixth of copper, with a very little silver. Woodward. LAZY. adj. [This word is derived by a correspondent, with great probability from a l'aise, French; but it is however Teutonick; lijser in Danish, and losigh in Dutch, have the same meaning; and Spelman gives this account of the word: Dividebantur antiqui Saxones, ut testatur Nithardus, in tres ordines; Edhilingos, Frilingos & Lazzos ; hoc est nobiles, ingenuos & serviles: quam & nos distinctionem diu retinui mus. Sed Ricardo autem secundo pars servorum maxima se in libertatem vindicavit; sic ut hodie apud Anglos rarior inveniatur servus, qui mancipium dicitur. Restat nihilominus antiquæ appellationis commemmoratio. Ignavos enim hodie lazie dicimus.] Wicked condemned men will ever live like To rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and Bacon. spend victuals. Whose lazy waters without motion lay. Roscom. The ordinary method for recruiting their armies, was now too dull and lazy an expedient to resist Clarendon. this torrent. LD. is a contraction of lord. LEA. n. s. [ley, Sax. a fallow; leag, Sax. a pasture.] Ground inclosed, not open. Obsolete. Greatly agast with this pittious plea ; Him rested the good man on the lea. LEAD. v. a. [from the noun.] To fit with lead in any manner. He fashioneth the clay with his arm, he applieth himself to lead it over; and he is diligent to make clean the furnace, Ecclus. xxxviii. 30. There is a traverse placed in a loft, at the right hand of the chair, with a privy door, and a carved window of glass leaded with gold and blue, where the mother sitteth. Bacon. To LEAD. v.a preter. I led; part. led. [lædan, Sax. leiden, Dut.] 1. To guide by the hand. Spenser. 2. Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, fetches oats and peas. Shak. Her fallow leas The darnel, hemlock, and rank fumitory Shakesp. As Mercury did first devise, Milton. LEAD. n. s. [læd, Sax.] Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound Hill. Shakesp. Of lead, some I can shew you so like steel, and so unlike common lead ore, that the workmen call it steel ore. Boyle. There is a cliff whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep: Bring me but to the very brim of it, And I'll repair the misery thou dost bear, With something rich about me: from that place I shall no leading need. Shakesp. Doth not each on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to waterLuke, xiii. 15. ing? They thrust him out of the city, and led him Luke, iv. 29. unto the brow of the hill, To conduct to any place. Save to every man his wife and children, that they may lead them away, and depart. 1 Sam. xxx. 22. Then brought he me out of the way, and led me about the way without unto the outer gate. Ezek. xlvii. 2. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters. Psal. xxiii. 2. 3. To conduct as head or commander. Would you lead forth your army against the enemy, and seek him where he is to fight? Spen. He turns head against the lion's armed jaws; And being no more in debt to years than thou, Leads antient lords, and rev'rend bishops on To bloody battles. Shakesp. Henry IV. 4. 5. 6. Lead is employed for the refining of gold and silver by the cupel; hereof is made common ceruss with vinegar; of ceruss, red lead; of plum-7. bum ustum, the best yellow ochre; of lead, and Grew. half as much tin, solder for lead. 2. [In the plural.] Flat roof to walk on; Are smother'd up, leads fill'd, and ridges hors'd Shakesp. If thou wilt have The leading of thy own revenges, take One half of my commission, and set down As best thou art experienc'd. Shakesp. He led me on to mightiest deeds, Above the nerve of mortal arm, Against the uncircumcis'd, our enemies : But now hath cast me off. Milton's Agonistes. Christ took not upon him flesh and blood, that he might conquer and rule nations, lead armies, or possess places. This distemper is most incident to such as lead a sedentary life. To LEAD. v. n. 1. To go first and show the way. I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me, and the children, be able to endure. Gen. xxxiii. 2. To conduct as a commander. 3. Cyrus was beaten and slain under the leading of a woman, whose wit and conduct made a great figure. Temple. To shew the way, by going first. He left his mother a countess by patent, which was a new leading example, grown before some. what rare. Wotton. The way of maturing of tobacco must be from the heat of the earth or sun; we see some leading of this in musk-melons sown upon a hot-bed Bacon. dunged below. The vessels heavy-laden put to sea With prosp'rous gales, a woman leads the way. Dryden LEAD. n. s. [from the verb.] Guidance; first place: a low despicable word. Yorkshire takes the lead of the other counties. LEADEN. adj. [leaden, Sax.] South. 2. He might muster his family up, and lead them out against the Indians, to seek reparation upon any injury. To introduce by going first. Lay'st thou the leaden mace upon my boy, A leaden bullet shot from one of these guns against a stone wall, the space of twenty-four paces from it, will be beaten into a thin plate. Wilk. Heavy; unwilling; motionless. If thou do'st find him tractable to us, Encourage him, and tell him all our reasons: If he be leuden, icy, cold, unwilling, Be thou so too Locke. Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in. Num.xxvii.17. His guide, as faithful from that day, As Hesperus that leads the sun his way. Fairfax. To guide; to shew the method of at taining. Human testimony is not so proper to lead us into the knowledge of the essence of things, as to acquaint us with the existence of things. Watts. To draw; to entice; to allure Appoint him a meeting, give him a shew of comfort, and lead him on with a fine baited delay. Shakesp. The lord Cottington, being a master of temper, knew how to lead him into a mistake, and then drive him into choler, and then expose him. Clar. To induce; to prevail on by pleasing motives. Shakesp. Richard 111. I'll strive with troubled thoughts to take a nap, Lest leaden slumber poize me down to-morrow, When I should mount with wings of victory. Shakesp I would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top, raised with statues interposed. 8.To pass; to spend in any certain manner. The sweet woman leads an ill life with him. Shak. Bacon. I'll draw the form and model of our battle, Shakesp. I have given him for a leader and commander Isaiah, Iv. 4. to the people. Those escaped by flight, not without a sharp jest against their leaders, affirming that, as they had followed them into the field, so it was good Hayward. reason they should follow them out. When our Lycians see Our brave examples, they admiring say, Denham. Behold our gallant leaders. The brave leader of the Lycian crew. Dryden. One who goes first. Nay, keep your way, little gallant; you were wont to be a follower, now you are a leader. Shok. One at the head of any party or fac tion: as, the detestable Wharton was the leader of the whigs. 31 |