If they write or speak publickly but five words, 12. one of them is lightly about the dangerous estate of the church of England in respect of abused ceremonies. Hooker. Shakesp. Shakesp Believe 't not lightly that your son Will not exceed the common, or be caught With cautelous baits and practice. Short summer lightly has a forward spring. 4. Without reason. Mitigation; abatement. lighten, to make less heavy.] [from to How oft when men are at the point of death, 2. His son, or one of his illustrious name, How like the former, and almost the same. Dryden's Eneid. As the earth was designed for the being of men, why might not all other planets be created for the like uses, each for their own inhabitants? Bentley. This plan, as laid down by him, looks liker an universal art than a distinct logick. Baker. Equal; of the same quantity. More clergymen were impoverished by the late war, than ever in the like space before. Spratt. [For likely.] Probable; credible. The trials were made, and it is like that the experiment would have been effectual. Bacon. The complaint was chiefly from the lights, a part as of no quick sense, so no seat for any sharp 4. Likely; in a state that gives probable expectations. This is, I think, an improper, though frequent use. disease. Hayward. LIGHTSOME. adj. [from light.] 1. Luminous; not dark; not obscure; not opake. Neither the sun, nor any thing sensible is that light itself, which is the cause that things are lightsome, though it make itself, and all things else, visible; but a body most enlightened, by whom the neighbouring region, which the Greeks call æther, the place of the supposed element of fire, is effected and qualified. Raleigh. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon. Equal posture, and quick spirits, are required to make colours lightsome. Bacon's Nat. Hist. The sun His course exalted through the Ram had run, Through Taurus, and the lightsome realms of love. Dryden. 2. Gay; airy; having the power to exhila rate. It suiteth so fitly with that lightsome affection of joy, wherein God delighteth when his saints praise him. Hooker. The lightsome passion of joy was not that which now often usurps the name; that trivial, vanishing, superficial thing, that only gilds that apprehension, and plays upon the surface of the soul. LIGHTSOMENESS. n. s. [from lightsome.] 1. Luminousness; not opacity; not obscurity; not darksomeness. South. It is to our atmosphere that the variety of colours, which are painted on the skies, the lightsomeness of our air, and the twilight, are owing. Cheyne's Philosophical Principles. 2. Cheerfulness; merriment; levity. LIGNALCES. n. s. [lignum aloes, Lat.] Aloes wood. The vallies spread forth as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lignaloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the water. Numb. xxiv. 6. LIGNEOUS. adj. [ligneus, Lat. ligneux, Fr.] Made of wood; wooden; resembling wood. paren It should be tried with shoots of vines, and roots of red roses; for it may be they, being of a more ligneous nature, will incorporate with the tree itself. Bacon's Natural History. Ten thousand seeds of the plant harts-tongue, hardly make the bulk of a pepper-corn: now the covers, and the true body of each seed, the chymous and ligneous part of both, and the fibres of those parts, multiplied one by another, afford a hundred thousand millions of formed atoms, but how many more we cannot define. LIGNUMVITÆ. n. s. [Lat.] Guaiacum; a very hard wood. LIGURE. n. s. A precious stone. Grew. The third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. Exodus. Of pointed lightnings, and their forky rays. Dryd. LIKE. adj. [lic, Sax. liik, Dut.] No warning of the approach of flame, Swiftly, like sudden death, it came; Like travellers by lightning kill'd, I bust the moment I beheld. Granville. 1. Resembling; having resemblance. Whom art thou like in thy greatness? Ezekiel, xxxi. 2. If the duke continues these favours towards you, you are like to be much advanced. Shakesp. Twelfth Night. He is like to die for hunger, for there is no more bread. Jeremiah, xxxviii. 9. The yearly value thereof is already increased double of that it was within these few years, and is like daily to rise higher till it amount to the Davies price of our land in England. Hopton resolved to visit Waller's quarters, that he might judge whether he were like to pursue his purpose. Clarendon. Many were not easy to be governed, nor like to conform themselves to strict rules. Clarendon. If his rules of reason be not better suited to the mind than his rules for health are fitted to our bodies, he is not like to be much followed. Baker on Learning. LIKE. n. s. [This substantive is seldom more than the adjective used elliptically; the like for the like thing, or like person.] 1. Some person or thing resembling another. He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.. Shakesp. Every like is not the same, O Cæsar! Shakesp. Though there have been greater fleets for number, yet for the bulk of the ships never the like Bacon's War with Spain. Albeit an eagle did bear away a lamb in her talons, yet a raven endeavouring to do the like was held entangled. Hayward. One offers, and in offering makes a stay; 2. Used with had; near approach; a state like to another state. A sense common, but, not just: perhaps had is a corrup tion for was. Report being carried secretly from one to another in my ship, had like to have been my utter overthrow. Raleigh. LIKE. adv. 1. In the same manner; in the same manner as it is not always easy to determine whether it be adverb or adjective. The joyous nymphs, and lightfoot fairies, Which thither came to hear their musick sweet, Now hearing them so heavily lament, Like heavily lamenting from them went. Spenser. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. Psal, ciii. 13. Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to bike-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly? Tillotson. I have lik'd several women; never any With so full soul. Sidney. Sidney. Shakesp. Tempest. I look'd upon her with a soldier's eye; That lik'd, but had a rougher task in hand Than to drive liking to the name of love. Shakesp. Scarce any man passes to a liking of sin in athers, but by first practising it himself. South. Beasts can like, but not distinguish too, Nor their own liking by reflection know. Dryden. 3. To please; to be agreeable to. Now disused. Well hoped he, ere long that hardy guest, If ever covetous hand, or lustful eye, Or lips he laid on thing that lik'd him hest, Should be his prey. Spenser's Fairy Queen. Say, my fair brother now, if this device Do like you, or may you to like entice. Hubberd. This desire being recommended to her majesty, it liked her to include the same within one entire lease. Bacon. He shall dwell where it liketh him best. Dent. There let them learn, as likes them, to despise God and Messiah. Milton's Par. Lost. To LIKE. v. n. 1. To be pleased with: with of before the thing approved. Obsolete.' Of any thing more than of God they could not by any means like, as long as whatsoever they knew besides God, they apprehended it not in itself without dependency upon God. Hooker. The young soldiers did with such cheerfulness like of this resolution, that they thought two days a long delay. Knolles. 2. To chuse; to list; to be pleased. The man likes not to take his brother's wife. Deuteronomy. He that has the prison doors set open is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes. Locke. LIKELIHOOD. } LIKELINESS. n. s. [from likely.] 1. Appearance; shew. Obsolete. What of his heart perceive you in his face, By any likelihood he shew'd to-day? That with no man here he is offended. Go forth and fetch their conqu'ring Cæsar in, 3. Probability; verisimilitude; appearance of truth. As it noteth one such to have been in that age, so had there been more, it would by likelihood as well have noted many. Hooker. Many of likelihood informed me of this before, which hung so tottering in the balance, that I could neither believe nor misdoubt. Shakesp. All's well that ends well. It never yet did hurt, To lay down likelihood and forms of hope. Shak. As there is no likehood that the place could be so altered, so there is no probability that those rivers were turned out of their courses. Raleigh's History of the World. Where things are least to be put to the venture, as the eternal interests of the other world ought to be; there every, even the least, probability, or likelihood of danger, should be provided against. South. There are predictions of our Saviour recorded by the evangelists, which were not completed till after their deaths, and had no likelihood of being so when they were pronounced by our blessed Saviour. Addison on the Christian Religion. Thus, in all likelihood, would it be with a libertine, who should have a visit from the other world: the first horror it raised would go off, as Atterbury. new diversions come on. LIKELY. adj. [from like.] 1. Such as may be liked; such as may please. Obsolete. These young companions make themselves believe they love at the first looking of a likely beauty. Sidney. Sir John, they are your likeliest men; I would have you served with the best. Shak. Henry IV. 2. Probable; such as may in reason be thought or believed; such as may be thought more reasonably than the contrary: as, a likely story, that is, a credible story. LIKELY. adv. Probably; as may reasonably be thought. While man was innocent, he was likely ignorant of nothing that imported him to know. Glanville. To LIKEN. v. a. [from like.] To represent as having resemblance; to compare. The prince broke your head for likening him to a singing man of Windsor. Shakesp. Henry IV. For who, though with the tongue Of angels, can relate? or to what things Liken on earth conspicuous, that Tift may Human imagination to such height Of God-like power? Milton's Paradise Lost. LIKENESS. n. s. [from like.] 1. Resemblance; similitude. They all do live, and moved are To multiply the likeness of their kind. Spenser. A translator is to make his author appear as charming as he can, provided he maintains his character, and makes him not unlike himself. Translation is a kind of drawing after the life, where there is a double sort of likeness, a good one and a bad one. Dryden. There will be found a better likeness, and a worse; and the better is constantly to be chosen. Dryden. 2. Form; appearance. Never came trouble to my house in the likeness of your grace; for trouble being gone, comfort should remain. Shakesp. Bacon. Spirit of vitriol poured to pure unmixed seruin, coagulates as if it had been boiled. Spirit of seasait makes a perfect coagulation of the serum likewise, but with some different phænomena. Arbuthnot on Aliments. LIKING. adv. [Perhaps because plumpness is agreeable to the sight.] Plump; in a state of plumpness. I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink; for why should he see your faces worse liking, than the children which Dan. i. 10. are of your sort? LIKING. n. s. [from like.] Good state of body; plumpness. 1. I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I'm in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent. Shakesp. Their young ones are in good liking; they grow up with corn. Job, xxxix. 4. Cappadocian slaves were famous for their lustiness; and, being in good liking, were set on a stall, when exposed to sale, to shew the good habit of their body. Dryden's Notes to Persius. The white thorn is in leaf, and the lilach tree. LILIED. adj. [from lily.] Embellished with lilies. Nymphs and shepherds dance no more Milton. There are thirty-two species of this plant, including white lilies, orange lilies, red lilies, and Miller. martagons of various sorts. Oh! had the monster seen those lily hands Tremble, like aspen leaves, upon a lute, And make the silken strings delight to kiss them; He would not then have touch'd them for his life! Shakesp Shipwreck'd upon a kingdom, where no pity! No friends! no hope! no kindred weep for me! Almost no grave allow'd me! Like the lily, That once was mistress of the field, and flourish'd, I'll hang my head, and perish. Shakesp. [from limb.] with regard to limbs. Formed A steer of five years age, large limb'd, and fed, To Jove's high altars Agamemnon led. Arras, a river of Italy, is drawn like an old | LI'MBED. adj. Prior. Pope. For her the lilies hang their heads, and die. .ILY-DAFFODIL. n. s. [lilionarcissus.] [lilio-hyacin A foreign flower. LILY-HYACINTH. n. s. thus.] It hath a lily flower, composed of six leaves, shaped like the flower of hyacinth: the roots are scaly, and shaped like those of the lily. There are three species of this plant; one with a blue flower, another white, and a third red. Miller. LILY of the valley, or May lily, n. s. [lilium convallium.] The flower consists of one leaf, is shaped like a bell, and divided at the top into six segments; the Ovary becomes a soft globular fruit, containing several round seeds. It is very common in shady woods. Miller. Lily of the valley has a strong root that runs into the ground. Mortimer's Husbandry. LILYLIVERED. adj. [lily and liver.] Whitelivered; cowardly. A base, lilylivered, action-taking knave. Shakesp. King Lear. LIMATURE. n. s. [limatura, Lat.] Filings of any metal; the particles rubbed off by a file. LIMB. n. s. Dan.] [lim, Sax. and Scott. lem, 1. A member; a jointed or articulated part of animals. A second Hector, for his grim aspect, Shakesp. O! that I had her here, to tear her limb meal!' Shakesp. Now am I come each limb to survey, If thy appearance answer loud report. Milton's Agonistes. 2. [Limbe, Fr. limbus, Lat.] An edge; a border. A philosophical word. By moving the prisms about, the colours again emerged out of the whiteness, the violet and the blue at its inward limb, and at its outward limb the red and yellow. To LIMB. v. a. [from the noun] 1. To supply with limbs. As they please, Newton. They limb themselves, and colour, shape, and size Assume, as likes them best, condense, or rare. Milton. 2. To tear asunder; to dismember. LIMBECK. n. s. [corrupted by popular pronunciation from alembick.] A still. Her cheeks, on which this streaming nectar fell, Still'd through the limbeck of her diamond eyes. Fairfax. Fires of Spain, and the line, Whose countries limbecks to our bodies be, Canst thou for gain bear? Call up, unbound, Donne. In various shapes, old Proteus from the sea, Drain'd through a limbeck to his naked form. Milton. The earth, by secret conveyances, lets in the sea, and sends it back fresh, her bowels serving for a limbeck. Howel. He first survey'd the charge with careful eyes, Yet judg'd, like vapours that from limbecks rise, 1t would in richer showers descend again. Dryd. The warm limbeck draws Salubrious waters from the nocent brood. Philips. Pope's Iliad. LIMBER. adj. Flexible; easily bent: pliant; lithe. You put me off with limber vows. Shakesp. I wonder how, among these jealousies of court and state, Edward Atheling could subsist, being the indubitate heir of the Saxon line: but he had tried, and found him a prince of limber virtues ; so as though he might have some place in his caution, yet he reckoned him beneath his fear. Wotton. At once came forth whatever creeps the ground, Insect, or worm: those wav'd their limber faus For wings; and smallest lineaments exact In all the liveries deck'd of summer's pride. Milton. She durst never stand at the bay, having no-. thing but her long soft limber ears to defend her. More on Atheism. The muscles were strong on both sides of the aspera arteria, but on the under side, opposite to that of the esophagus, very limber. Ray on Creation. LIMBERNESS. n. s. [from limber.] Flexibility; pliancy. LIMBO. n. s. [Eo quod sit limbus inDu Cange.] ferorum. 1. A region bordering upon hell, in which there is neither pleasure nor pain. Popularly hell. No, he is in tartar limbo, worse than hell, A devil in an everlasting garment bath him, One whose hard heart is button'd up with steel. Shakesp. The flower consists of several leaves, placed orbicularly, in the form of a rose, having a long narrow leaf growing to the footstalk of each cluster of flowers, from whose cup rises the pointal, which becomes testiculated, of one capsule, containing an oblong seed. The timber is used by carvers and turners. These trees continue sound many years, and grow to a considerable bulk. Sir Thomas Brown mentions ene, in Norfolk, sixteen Miller yards in circuit. For her the limes their pleasing shades deny, For her the lilies hang their heads, and die. Pope. A species of lemon. [lime, Fr.] Bear me, Pomona! to thy citron groves! To where the lemon and the piercing time, With the deep orange glowing through the green, Their lighter glories blend. Thomson's Summer. To LIME. v. a. [from lime.] 1. To entangle; to ensnare. Oh bosom, black as death! Shakesp. Hamlet Example, that so terribly shows in the wreck of maidenhood, cannot, for all that, dissuade succession, but that they are limed with the twigs that threaten them. Shakesp. Shakesp. The bird that hath been limed in a bush, With trembling wings misdoubteth ev'ry bush, And I, the hapless male to one sweet bird, Have now the fatal object in my eye, Oh what a sympathy of woe is this! But Trulla straight brought on the charge; Where my poor young was lim'd, was caught, and kill'd. 2. To smear with lime. The knight and squire, where he was shut. Hudib. Poor bird! thou'dst never fear the net or lime, And deep-mouth'd dogs did forest walks surround. Dryden. Or court a wife, spread out his wily parts, Like nets, or lime twigs, for rich widows hearts. Pope. 2. Matter of which mortar is made: so called because used in cement. There are so many species of lime stone, that we are to understand by it in general any stone that, upon a proper degree of heat, becomes a white calx, which will make a great ebullition and noise on being thrown into water, falling into a loose white powder at the bottom. The lime we have in London is usually made of chalk, which is weaker than that made of stone. Hill's Materia Medica. They were now, like saud without lime, ill bound together, especially as many as were English, who Shakesp. Myself have lim'd a bush for her, And plac'd a quire of such enticing birds, That she will fight to listen to their lays. Shakesp. Those twigs in time will come to be limed, and then you are all lost if you do but touch them. L'Estrange. To cement. This sense is out of use. I will not ruinate my father's house, Who gave his blood to lime the stones together, And set up Lancaster. Shakesp Henry VI 4. To manure ground with lime. Encouragement that abatement of interest gave to landlords and tenants, to improve by draining marling, and liming. Child All sorts of pease love limed or marled land. Mortimer LIMEKILN. n. s. [lime and kiln.] Kilr. where stones are burnt to lime. The counter gate is as hateful to me, as the reek of a lime-kiln. Shak. Merry Wives of Windsor. They were found in a lime-kiln, and having passed the fire, each is a little vitrified. Woodward. LIMESTONE. n. s. [lime and stone.] The stone of which lime is made. Fire stone and lime stone, if broke small, and laid Mortimer. on cold lands, must be of advantage. LIME-WATER. n. s. Lime-water, made by pouring water upon quick lime, with some other ingredients to take off its ill flavour, is of great service internally in all cutaneous eruptions, and diseases of the lungs. Hill. He tried an experiment on wheat infused in lime water alone, and some in brandy and limewater mixed, and had from each grain great inMortimer's Husbandry. We went, great emperor! by thy comman I, To view the utmost limits of the land; Ev'n to the place where no more world is found, The chub eats waterish, and the flesh of him is not firm, limp, and tasteless. Walton's Angler. To LIMIT. v. a. [limiter, Fr. from the 2. It is used in some provinces, and in noun.] Thanks I must you con, that you Are thieves profest; for there is boundless theft In limited professions. Shakesp. Timon of Athens. If a king come in by conquest, he is no longer a limited monarch. Swift. 2. To restrain from a lax or general signification: as, the universe is here limited to this earth. LIMITA NEOUS. adj. [from limit.] Belonging to the bounds. Dict. LIMITARY. adj. [from limit.] Placed at the boundaries as a guard or superintendant. Then, when I am thy captive, talk of chains, Proud limitary cherub? Milton's Par. Lost. LIMITATION. n. s. [limitation, Fr. limitatio, Lat.] 1. Restriction; circumscription. Limitation of each creature, is both the perfection and the preservation thereof. Hooker. Am I yourself, But, as it were, in sort of limitation? Shakesp. I despair, how this limitation of Adam's empire to his line and posterity, will help us to one heir. This limitation, indeed, of our author, will save those the labour, who would look for him amongst the race of brutes; but will very little contribute to the discovery amongst men. Locke. If a king come in by conquest, he is no longer a limited mouarch; if he afterwards consent to limitations, he becomes immediately king de jure. Swift. 2. Confinement from a lax or undeterminate import. The cause of error is ignorance, what restraints and limitations all principles have in regard of the matter whereunto they are applicable. LÍMMER. n. s. A mongrel. Scotland, for limber, flexile. To LIMP. v. n. to walk lamely. [limpen, Sax.] To halt; An old poor man, Son of sixteen, Shakesp. When Plutus, with his riches, is sent from Can syllogism set things right? Prior. LIMPID. adj. [limpide, Fr. limpidus, Hooker. 2. To LIMN. v. a. [enluminer, Fr. to adorn paint any thing. Mine eye doth his effigies witness, Poets are limners of another kind, And nature is their object to be drawn. Granville. LIMOUS. adj. [limosus, Lat.] Muddy; slimy. That country became a gained ground by the muddy and limons matter brought down by the Nilus, which settled by degrees unto a firm land. Brown's Vulgar Errours. They esteemed this natural melancholick acidity to be the limous or slimy fœculent part of the blood. Floyer. LIMP. adj. [limpio, Ital.] [from limp.] In a Striving more, the more in laces strong A human skull covered with the skin, having 3. A thread extended to direct any operations. We as by line upon the ocean go, Whose paths shall be familiar as the land. Dryd. 4. The string that sustains the angler's hook. Victorious with their lines and eyes, Long is it since I saw him, I shall have good fortune; go to, here's a simple line of life; here's a small trifle of wives. Shakesp Here, while his canting drone-pipe scan'd The mystic figures of her hand, In the preceding line, Ulysses speaks of Nausicaa, yet immediately changes the words into the masculine gender. Broome. In moving lines these few epistles tell They pierce the broken foc's remotest lines. 10. Work thrown up; trench. Now snatch an hour that favours thy designs, Unite thy forces, and attack their lines. Dryden. 11. Method; disposition. The heavens themselves, the planets, and this Observe degree, priority, and place, To LIN. v. n. [ablınnan, Sax.] To yield; 12. Extension; limit. Shakesp. Milton's Par. Lost. 13. Equator; equinoctial circle. When the sun below the line descends, 14. Progeny; family, ascending or de- He chid the sisters He sends you this most memorable line, Shakesp. Shakesp. Henry V. Some lines were noted for a stern, rigid virtue, savage, haughty, parsimonious and unpopular; others were sweet and affable. Dryden. His empire, courage, and his boasted line, Were all prov'd mortal. A golden bowl Roscommon, The queen commanded to be crown'd with wine Philip 15. A line is one-tenth of an inch. Locke. Her women are about her: what if I do line one of their hands? Shakesp. Cymbeline.LI He, by a gentle bow, divin'd How well a cully's purse was lin'd. 3. To guard within. Swift. Notwithstanding they had lined some hedges with musqueteers, they were totally dispersed. Clarendon. 4. To strengthen by inner works. Line and new repair our towns of war 5. To cover with something soft. 6. To double; to strengthen with help. Who lin'd himself with hope, Eating the air, on promise of supply. Shakesp. Shakesp. Henry IV. The two armies were assigned to the leading of two generals, both of them rather courtiers, and assured to the state, than martial men; yet lined and assisted with subordinate commanders of great experience and valour. Bacon. 7. To impregnate: applied to animals generating. Thus from the Tyrian pastures lin'd with Jove He bore Europa, and still keeps his love. Creech. LINEAGE. n. s. [linage, Fr.] Race; progeny; family, ascending or descending. If he had been the person upon whom the crown had lineally and rightfully descended, it Clarendon. was good law. NEAMENT. n. s. [lineament, Fr. lineamentum, Lat.] Feature; discriminating mark in the form. Noble York Found that the issue was not his begot: Which well appeared in his lineaments, Being nothing like the noble duke, my father. Shakesp. Six wings he wore, to shade His lineaments divine. Milton's Par. Lost. Man he seems In all his lineaments, though in his face The glimpses of his father's glory shine. Milton. There are not more differences in men's faces, and the outward lineaments of their bodies, than there are in the makes and tempers of their minds; only there is this difference, that the distinguishing characters of the face, and the lineaments of the body, grow more plain with time, but the peculiar physiognomy of the mind is most discernible in children. Locke. I may advance religion and morals, by tracing some few lineaments in the character of a lady, who hath spent all her life in the practice of both. Swift. The utmost force of boiling water is not able to destroy the structure of the tenderest plant: the lineaments of a white lily will remain after the Arbuthnot. strongest decoction. LINEAR. adj. [linearis, Lat.] Composed of lines; having the form of lines. Where-ever it is freed from the sand stone, it is covered with linear striæ, tending towards several centers, so as to compose flat stellar figures. Woodward on Fossils. LINEATION. n. s. [lineatio, from linea, Lat.] Draught of a line or lines. There are in the horney ground two white liWoodward. neations, with two of a pale red. LI'NEN. n. s. [linum, Lat.] Cloth made of hemp or flax. Here is a basket, he may creep in; throw foul linen upon him, as if going to bucking. Shakesp. Unseen, unfelt, the fiery serpent skims Between her linen and her naked limbs. Dryden. LI'NEN. adj. [lineus, Lat.] 1. Made of linen. Better to rush at once to shades below, Than linger life away, and nourish woe. 2. To hesitate; to be in suspense. Perhaps thou ling rest, in deep thoughts detain'd Of th' enterprize so hazardous and high. Milton 3. To remain long. In an ill sense. Let order die, 4. And let this world no longer be a stage To feed contention in a ling ring act. Shakesp Ye brethren of the lyre, and tuneful voice, Your very fear of death shall make ye try Prior. To remain long without any action or determination. Let your brief plagues be mercy, And linger not our sure destructions on. Shakesp LI'NGERER. n. s. [from linger.] One who lingers. LINGERINGLY. adv. [from lingering.] With delay; tediously. Of poisons, some kill more gently and linger ingly, others more violently and speedily, yet Hale. both kill. LI'NGET. n. s. [from languet; lingot, Fr.] A small mass of metal. Other matter hath been used for money, as among the Lacedemonians, iron linguets quenched with vinegar, that they may serve to no other use. Camden. LINGO. n. s. [Portuguese.] Language; tongue; speech. A low cant word. I have thoughts to learn somewhat of your Congreve lingo, before I cross the seas. LINGUACIOUS. adj. [linguax, Lat. Full of tongue; loquacious; talkative. LINGUADENTAL. adj. [lingua and dens, Lat.] Uttered by the joint action of the tongue and teeth. |