The linguadentals, f, v, as also the linguadentals, th, dh, he will soon learn. Holder's Elem. of Speech. LINGUIST. n. s. [from lingua, Lat.] A man skilful in languages. Though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet, if he had not studied the solid things in them, as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Milton. Our linguist received extraordinary rudiments towards a good education. Addison's Spectator. An herb. LINGWORT. n. s. LINIMENT. n. s. [liniment, Fr. linimentum, Lat.] Ointment; balsam; unguent. The nostrils, and the jugular arteries, ought to be anointed every morning with this liniment or balsam. Harvey. The wise author of nature hath provided on the rump two glandules, which the bird catches hold upon with her bill, and squeezes out an oily pap or liniment, fit for the inunction of the feathers. Ray. LINING. n. s. [from line.] 1. The inner covering of any thing; the inner double of a garment. Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? Milton. The fold in the gristle of the nose is covered with a lining, which differs from the facing of the Grew's Cosmologia. tongue. The gown with stiff embroid'ry shining, Looks charming with a slighter lining. 2. That which is within. taveru and tavern. O, thou art an everlasting bonefire light; thou hast saved me a thousand marks in links and torches, walking with thee in the night betwixt Shakesp. Henry IV. Whereas history should be the torch of truth, he makes her in divers places a fuliginous link of lies. Howel. Round as a globe, and liquor'd every chink, Goodly and great he sails behind his link. Dryden. One that bore a link On a sudden clapp'd his flaming cudgel, Like linstock, to the horse's touch-hole. Hudibras. 7. Perhaps in the following passage it may mean lampblack. To 1. There was no link to colour Peter's hat. Shakesp. LINK. v. a. [from the noun.] To complicate; as, the links of a chain. Descending tread us down, Milton. Thus drooping; or with linked thunderbolts Transfix us to the bottom of this gulph. Against eating cares, Milton Lap me in soft Lydian airs; Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. 2. To unite; to conjoin in concord, They're so link'd in friendship, That young prince Edward marries Warwick's daughter. Shakesp. To join; to connect. Prior. 3. The lining of his coffers shall make coats To deck our soldiers for these Irish wars. Shakesp. LINK. n. s. [gelencke, Germ.] 1. A single ring of a chain. The Roman state, whose course will yet go on The way it takes, cracking ten thousand curbs Of more strong links asunder, than can ever Appear in your impediment. Shakesp. Coriolanus. The moral of that poetical fiction, that the uppermost link of all the series of subordinate causes, is fastened to Jupiter's chair, signifies an useful truth. Hale. Link towns to towns with avenues of oak, Inclose whole downs in walls, 'tis all a joke. Pope. So from the first eternal order ran, And creature link'd to creature, man to man. Pope. 4. To join by confederacy or contract. They make an offer of themselves into the service of that enemy, with whose servants they link Hooker. themselves in so near a bond. Be advised for the best, Ere thou thy daughter link in holy band In the black form of cinder-wench she came O may no linkboy interrupt their love! Gay's Triv. LI'NNET. n. s. [linot, Fr. linaria, Lat.] A small singing bird. The swallows make use of celandine, the linnet of euphragia, for the repairing of their sight. More's Antidote. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Pope. LINSEED. n. s. [semen lini, Lat.] The seed of flax, which is much used in medicine. The joints may be closed with a cement of lime, linseed oil, and cotton. Mortimer's Husbandry. LINSEY WOOLSEY. adj. [linen and wool.] Made of linen and wool mixed. Vile; mean; of different and unsuitable parts. A lawless linseywoolsie brother, Half of one order, half another. Hudibras. Of wedlock, to that new unknown guest. Fairy Q. LINTEL. n. s. [linteal, Fr.] That part Blood in princes link'd not in such sort, As that it is of any pow'r to tye. Daniel's Civil War. Truths hang together in a chain of mutual de-5. To connect, as concomitant. pendence; you cannot draw one link without attracting others. Glanville. while she does her upward flight sustain, Touching each link of the continued chain, At length she is oblig'd and forc'd to see A first, a source, a life, a deity. 2. Any thing doubled and closed together. Prior. New hope to spring Make a link of horse hair very strong, and fasten it to the end of the stick that springs. 3. A chain; any thing connecting. Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit. Shakesp. I feel The link of nature draw me; flesh of flesh, Aud love, the common link, the new creation crown'd. Dryden's Knight's Tale. 4. Any single part of a series or chain of consequences; a gradation in ratiocination; a proposition joined to a foregoing and following proposition. These things are linked, and, as it were, chained one to another: we labour to eat, and we eat to live, and we live to do good; and the good which we do is as seed sown, with reference unto a future harvest. Hooker. Tell me, which part it does necessitate? I'll chuse the other; there I'll link th' effect; A chain, which fools to catch themselves project! Dryden. By which chain of ideas thus visibly linked together in train, i. e. each intermediate idea agreeing on each side with those two it is immediately placed between, the ideas of men and self-determination appear to be connected. Locke. n. s. [link and boy.] A LINKMAN. S boy that carries a torch to accommodate passengers with light. of the door frame that lies cross the door posts over head. Take a bunch of hysop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the tintel and the Exod. two side-posts. When you lay any timber or brick work, as lintels over windows, lay them in loam, which is Moxon. a great preserver of timber. Silver the lintals deep projecting o'er, And gold the ringlets that command the door. Pope's Odyssey LION. n. s. [lion, Fr. leo, Lat.] 1. The fiercest and most magnanimous of fourfooted beasts. King Richard's surname was Cor-de-Lion, for his lion-like courage. Camden's Remains. Be lion mettled; proud, and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are; Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be.Shak. Macbeth. The sphinx, a famous monster in Egypt, had the face of a virgin, and the body of a lion. Peacham on Drawing. They rejoice Each with their kind, lion with lioness; Piously valiant, like a torrent swell'd 2. A sign in the zodiack. The lion for the honours of his skin, The squeezing crab, and stinging scorpion shine For aiding heaven, when giants dar'd to brave The threaten'd stars. Creech's Manilius. LIONESS. n. s. [feminine of lion.] A she lion. LIP. n. s. [lippe, Sax.] 1. The outer part of the mouth, the muscles that shoot beyond the teeth, which are of so much use in speaking, that they are used for all the organs of speech. Those happiest smiles That play'd on her ripe lip, seem'd not to know What guests were in her Shakesp. No falsehood shall defile my lips with lies, Or with a veil of truth disguise. Sandys on Job. Her lips blush deeper sweets. Thomson's Spring. 2. The edge of any thing. eyes. In many places is a ridge of mountains some distance from the sea, and a plain from their roots to the shore; which plain was formerly covered by the sea, which bounded against those hills as its first ramparts, or as the ledges or lips of its vessel. Burnet. In wounds, the lips sink and are flaccid; a gleet followeth, and the flesh within withers. Wiseman. 3. To make a lip. To hang the lip in sullenness and contempt. A letter for me! It gives me an estate of seven years health; in which time I will make a lip at the physician. Shakesp. To LIP. v. a. [from the noun.] To kiss. Obsolete. A hand, that kings Have lipt, and trembled kissing. Shakesp. Oh! 'tis the fiend's arch mock, To lip a wanton and suppose her chaste. Shakesp. LIPLA BOUR. n. s. [lip and labour.] Action of the lips without concurrence of the mind; words without sentiments. Fasting, when prayer is not directed to its own purposes, is but liplabour. Taylor's Rule of Living. LIPOTHYMOUS. adj. [in and Jupis.] Swooning; fainting. If the patient be surprised with a lipothymous. langour, and great oppression about the stomach and hypochonders, expect no relief from cordials. Harvey on the Plague. LIPO THYMY. n. s. [λειποθυμία.] Swoon; fainting fit. The senators falling into a lipothymy, or deep swooning, made up this pageantry of death with a representing of it unto life. Taylor. In lipothymys or swoonings, he used the frication of this finger with saffron and gold. Brown. LIPPED. adj. [from lip.] Having lips. The common opinion hath been, that chrystal is nothing but ice and snow concreted, and, by duration of time, congealed beyond liquation. Brown's Vulgar Errours. To LIQUATE. v. n. [liquo, Lat.] melt; to liquefy. To If the salts be not drawn forth before the clay is baked, they are apt to liquate. Woodward on Foss LIQUEFACTION. n. s. [liquefactio, Lat. liquefaction, Fr.] The act of melting; the state of being melted. Heat dissolveth and melteth bodies that keep in their spirits, as in divers liquefactions; and so doth time in honey, which by age waxeth more liquid. Bacon's Natural History. The burning of the earth will be a true liquefaction or dissolution of it, as to the exterior region. Burnet. LIQUEFIABLE. adj. [from liquefy.] Such as may be melted. There are three causes of fixation, the even spreading of the spirits and tangible parts, the closeness of the tangible parts, and the jejuneness or extreme comminution of spirits; the two first may be joined with a nature liquefiable, the last Bacon's Natural History. To LIQUEFY. v. a. [liquefier, Fr. liquefacio, Lat.] To melt; to dissolve. not. That degree of heat which is in lime and ashes, being a smothering heat, is the most proper, for it doth neither liquefy nor arefy; ant that is true maturation. Bacon's Natural History. To LIQUEFY. v. n. Το grow liquid. The blood of St. Januarius liquefied at the approach of the saint's head. Addison on Italy. LIQUE'SCENCY. n. s. [liquescentia, Lat.] Aptness to melt. LIQUE'SCENT. adj. [liquescens, Lat.] Melting. LIQUID. adj. [liquide, Fr. liquidus, Lat.] 1. Not solid; not forming one continuous substance; fluid. 2. 3. Gently rolls the liquid glass. Her breast, the sug'red nest Dr. Daniel. Of her delicious soul, that there does lie, ness. The many liquid consonants give a pleasing sound to the words, though they are all of one syllable. Dryden's Eneid. Let Carolina smooth the tuneful lay, Lull with Amelia's liquid name the nine, And sweetly flow through all the royal line. Pope's Horace. 4. Dissolved, so as not to be obtainable by law. If a creditor should appeal to hinder the burial of his debtor's corpse, his appeal ought not to be received, since the business of burial requires a quick dispatch, though the debt be entirely liquid. Auliffe's Parergon LIPPITUDE. n. s. [lippitude, Fr. lippi-LIQUID. n. s. Liquid substance; li tudo, Lat.] Blearedness of eyes. Diseases that are infectious are; such as are in the spirits and not so much in the humours, and therefore pass easily from body to body: such are pestilence's and lippitades. Bacon LIPWISDOM. n. s. [lip and wisdom.] Wisdom in talk without practice. I find hat all is but lipwisdom, which wants experience; I now, woe is me, do try what love can do. Sidney, ble than the fluid medium, which is the conveye of sounds, to persevere in the continued repeti tion of vocal airs. Glanville. LIQUIDNESS. n. s. [from liquid.] Qua lity of being liquid; fluency. Oil of auniseeds, in a cool place, thickened into the consistence of white butter, which with the least heat, resumed its former liquidness. Boyle. LIQUOR. n. s. [liquor, Lat. liqueur, Fr.] 1. Any thing liquid: it is commonly used of fluids inebriating, or impregnated with something, or made by decoction. Nor envy'd them the grape Whose heads that turbulent liquor fills with fumes Milton Sin taken into the soul, is like a liquor pour'd into a vessel; so much of it as it fills, it also seaSouth's Sermons. sons. 2. Strong drink: in familiar language. Cart wheels squeak not when they are liquored. LISNE. n. s. LIRICONFA'NCY. n. s. A flower. A cavity; a hollow. In the lisne of a rock at Kingscote in Gloucestershire, I found a bushel of petrified cockles, each near as big as my fist. Hale To LISP. v. a. [dlirp, Sax.] To speak with too frequent appulses of the tongue to the teeth or palate, like children. Come, I cannot cog, and say, thou art this and that, like a many of these lisping hawthorn buds, that come like women in men's apparel, and sniell like Bucklersbury in simpling time. Shakesp. Scarce had she learnt to lisp a name Of martyr, yet she thinks it shame Life should so long play with that breath, Which spent can buy so brave a death. Crashaw. They ramble not to learn the mode, How to be drest, or how to lisp abroad. Cleaveland. Appulse partial, giving some passage to breath, is made to the upper teeth, and causes a lisping sound, the breath being strained through the Holder's Elements of Speech. teeth. As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. Pope. LISP. n. s. [from the verb.] The act of lisping. overheard her answer, with a very pretty lisp, O! Strephon you are a dangerous creature. Tatler. LI'SPER. n. s. [from lisp.] One who lisps. LIST. n. s. [liste, Fr.] 1. A roll; a catalogue. He was the ablest emperor of all the list. Bacon Some say the loadstone is poison, and there fore in the lists of poisons we find it in many authors. Brown. Bring next the royal list of Stuarts forth, Undaunted minds, that rul'd the rugged north. Prior. 2. [Lice, Fr.] Inclosed ground in which tilts are run, and combats fought. Till now alone the mighty nations strove, The rest, at gaze, without the lists did stand; And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove, Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand. Dryden. Paris thy son, and Sparta's king advance, The ocean, overpeering of his list, Shakesp. Hamlet. choice. Alas, she has no speech! -Too much; I find it still when I have list to sleep. Shakesp. Nothing of passion or peevishness, or list to contradict, shal have any bias on my judgment. King Charles. he saw false reynard where he lay full low; I need not swear he had no list to crow. Dryden. 5. [Li ium, Lat. lisse, Fr.] A strip of cloth. A linen stock on one leg; and a kersey boot hose on the other, gartered with a red and blue list. Shakesp Instead of a list of cotton, or the like filtre, we made use of a siphon of glass. A list the cobler's temples ties, To keep the hair out of his eyes. 6. A border. Boyle. Swift. They thought it better to let them stand as a list, or marginal border, unto the Old Testament. Hooker. To LIST. v. n. [Lyrtan, Sax.] To chuse ; Fairy Queen. Unto them that add to the word of God what them listeth, and make God's will submit unto their will, and break God's commandments for their own tradition's sake, unto them it seemeth Hooker. not good. They imagine, that laws which permit them not to do as they would, will endure them to Hooker. speak as they list. Let other men think of your devices as they list, in my judgment they be mere fancies. Whitgifte. Now by my mother's son, and that's myself, It shall be noon, or star, or what I list. Shakesp. Kings, lords of time, and of occasions, may Take their advantage when, and how, they list. Daniel. When they list, into the womb That bred them they return; and howl, and gnaw My bowels, their repast. Milton's Par. Lost. To LIST. v. a. [from list a roll.] 1. To enlist; to enrol or register. For a man to give his name to Christianity in those days, was to list himself a martyr, and to bid farewel not only to the pleasures, but also to the hopes of this life. South. They list with women each degen'rate name, Who dares not hazard life for future fame. Dryden. 2. To retain and enrol soldiers; to enlist. The lords would, by listing their own servants, persuade the gentlemen in the town to do the like. Clarendon. The king who raised this wall appointed a million of soldiers, who were listed and paid for the defence of it against the Tartars. Two huudred horse he shall command; Though few, a warlike and well-chosen band; These in my name are listed. Dryden. LI'STED. adj. Striped; particoloured in long streaks. Over his head beholds A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow Conspicuous, with three listed colours gay, Betok'ning peace from God, and cov'nant new. Milton. As the show'ry arch With listed colours gay, or, azure, gules, Delights and puzzles the beholders eyes. Philips. To LISTEN. v. a. To hear; to attend. Obsolete. Lady, vouchsafe to listen what I say. Shakesp. One cried, God bless us! and, Amen! the other: As they had seen me with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, Amen! Shakesp. Milton. To hearken; to give It may be the palate of the soul is indisposed by listlesness or sorrow. Taylor. LIT, the preterite of light; whether to light signifies to happen, or to set on fire, or guide with light. Believe thyself, thy eyes, That first inflam'd, and lit me to thy love, 1 lit my pipe with the paper. Addison's Spectator. LITANY. n. s. [λíláva; litanie, Fr.] A form of supplicatory prayer. Supplications, with solemnity for the appeasing of God's wrath, were, of the Greek church, termed litanies, and rogations of the Latin. Hooker. Recollect your sins that you have done that week, and all your lifetime; and recite humbly LITERAL. adj. [literal, Fr. litera, Lat.] and devoutly some penitential litanies. Taylor. 1. He, that no more must say, is listened more Than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose. Shakesp. The wonted roar was up amidst the woods, And fill'd the air with barbarous dissonance, At which I ceas'd and listen'd them a while. To LISTEN. v. n. attention. Listen to me, and if you speak me fair, I'll tell you news. Shakesp. Antigonus used often to go disguised, and listen at the tents of his soldiers; and at a time heard some that spoke very ill of him: whereupon he said, If you speak ill of you should me, go a little farther off. Bacon's Apophthegms. Listen, O isles, unto me, and hearken ye people. Isaiah, xlix. 2. When we have occasion to listen, and give a more particular attention to some sound, the tympanum is drawn to a more than ordinary Holder. tension. On the green bank I sat, and listen'd long; Nor till her lay was ended could I move, But wish'd to dwell for ever in the grove. Dryden. He shall be receiv'd with more regard, And listen'd to, than modest truth is heard. Dryden. To this humour most of our late comedies owe their success the audience listens after nothing else. Addison. news. One that LISTNER. n. s. [from listen.] Listners never hear well of themselves. LI'STLESS. adj. [from list.] Temple.. Without inclination; without any determination to one thing more than another. Intemperance and sensuality clog men's spirits, make them gross, listless, and unactive. Tillotson. If your care to wheat alone extend, Let Maja with her sisters first descend, Before you trust in earth your future hope, Or else expect a listless, lazy crop. Dryden's Virgil. Lazy lolling sort 3. [From list; enclosed ground.] To enclose for combats. How dares your pride presume against my laws, As in a listed field to fight your cause? Unask'd the royal grant. Dryden's Knight's Tale. 4. [From list a shred or border.] To sew together, in such a sort as to make a particoloured shew. Some may wonder at such an accumulation of benefits, like a kind of embroidering or listing of one favour upon another. Wotton's Life of Bucking. 5. [Contracted from listen.] To hearken to; to listen; to attend. Then weigh, what loss your honour may sustain, If with too credent ear you list his songs; Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open To his unmaster'd importunity. Shakesp. Hamlet. I, this sound I better know: List! I would I could hear mo. Ben Jonson. Of ever listless loit'rers, that attend Pope. I was listless and desponding. Gulliver's Travels. Careless; heedless: with of. 2. The sick for air before the portal gasp, Or idle in their empty hives remain, Dryden. LI'STLESLY. adv. [from listless.] Without thought; without attention. To know this perfectly, watch him at play, and see whether he be stirring and active, or whether he lazily and listlesty dreams away his Locke. LI'STLESNESS. n. s. [from listless.] Inattention; want of desire. time. According to the primitive meaning; not figurative. Through all the writings of the ancient fathers, we see that the words which were, do continue; the only difference is, that whereas before they had a literal, they now have a metaphorical use, and are as so many notes of remembrance unto us, that what they did signify in the letter, Hooker. is accomplished in the truth. A foundation being primarily of use in architecture, hath no other literal notation but what belongs to it in relation to an house, or other building; nor figurative, but what is founded in Hammond. that, and deduced from thence. Following the letter, or exact words. The fittest for publick audience are such as, following a middle course hetween the rigour of literal translations and the liberty of paraphrasts, do with greater shortness and plainness deliver the meaning. Hooker. 3. Consisting of letlers: as, the literal notation of numbers was known to Europeans before the cyphers. LITERAL. n. S. Primitive or literal meaving. How dangerous it is in sensible things to use metaphorical expressions unto the people, and what absurd conceits they will swallow in their literals, an example we have in our profession. LITERALITY. n. s. [from literal.] Original meaning. Brown. Not attaining the true deuteroscopy and second intention of the words, they are fain to omit their superconsequences, coherences, figures, or tropologies, and are not sometimes persuaded beyond their literalities. Brown's Vulgar Errours. LITERALLY. adv. [from literal.] 1. According to the primitive import of words; not figuratively. That a man and his wife are one flesh, I can comprehend; yet literally taken, it is a thing impossible. Swift. 2. With close adherence to words; word by word. Endeavouring to turn his Nisus and Euryalus as close as I was able, I have performed that episode too literally; that giving more scope to Mezentius and Lausus, that version, which has more of the majesty of Virgil, has less of his conciseness. Dryden. So wild and ungovernable a poet cannot be translated literally; his genius is too strong to bear a chain. Dryden. LITERARY. adj. [literarius, Lat.] Respecting letters; regarding learning. Literary history is an account of the state of learning and of the lives of learned men. Literary conversation, is talk about questions of learning. Literary is not properly used of missive letters. It may be said, this epistolary When men of learning are acted by a knowledge of the world, they give a reputation to literature, and convince the world of its usefulness. to carry on a cause. The appellant, after the interposition of an appeal, still litigates in the same cause. Ayliffe's Parergon. LITIGATION. n. s. [litigatio, Lat. from litigate.] Judicial contest; suit of law Never one clergyman had experience of both litigations, that hath not confessed, he had rather have three suits in Westminster-hall, than one in the arches. Clarendon. Addison's Freeholder. LITIGIOUS. adj. [litigieux, Fr] LITHARGE. n. s. [litharge, Fr. lithargy-1. Inclinable to law-suits; quarrelsome; rum, Lat.] Litharge is properly lead vitrified, either alone or with a mixture of copper. This recrement is of two kinds, litharge of gold, and litharge of silver. It is collected from the furnaces where silver is separated from lead, or from those where gold and silver are purified by means of that metal. The litharge sold in the shops is produced in the copper works, where lead has been used to purify that metal, or to separate silver from it. Hill. I have seen some parcels of glass adhering to the test or cupel as well as the gold or litharge. Boyle.. If the lead be blown off from the silver by the bellows, it will, in great part, be collected in the form of a darkish powder; which, because it is blown off from silver, they call litharge of silver. Boyle. LITHE. adj. [hide, Sax.] Limber; flexible; pliant; easily bent. Th' unwieldly elephant, To make them mirth, us'd all his might, and wreath'd His lithe proboscis. Milton's Par. Lost. wrangling. Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still Disputable; controvertible. 2. Hooker. No fences parted fields, nor marks, nor bounds, Distinguish'd acres of litigious grounds. Dryden's Georg LITIGIOUSLY. adv. [from litigious.] Wranglingly. LITIGIOUSNESS. n. s. [from litigious.] 3. Of small dignity, power, or import- LITHENESS. n. s. [from lithe.] Limber-1. A kind of vehiculary bed; a carriage ness; flexibility. LITHER. adj. [from lithe.] Soft; pliant. Thou antick death, Two Talbots winged through the lither sky, In thy despight shall 'scape mortality. Shakesp. 2. [Lyden, Sax.] Bad; sorry; corrupt. It is in the work of Robert of Gloucester written luther. LITHOGRAPHY, n. s. [90s and ypa@w.] The art or practice of engraving upon stones. LITHOMANCY.. s. [xidos and μávla.] Prediction by stones. As strange must be the lithomancy, or divination, from this stone, whereby Helenus the prophet foretold the destruction of Troy. Brown. LITHONTRI PTICK. adj. [xí90s and Tic; lithontriptique, Fr.] Any medicine proper to dissolve the stone in the kidneys or bladder. LITHOTOMIST. n. s. [xides and Téμvw.] A chirurgeon who extracts the stone by opening the bladder. LITHOTOMY. n. s. [Xídos and réμw.] The art or practice of eutting for the stone. LITIGANT. n. s. [litigans, Lat. litigant, Fr.] One engaged in a suit of law. The cast litigant sits not down with one cross verdict, but recommences his suit. Decay of Piety. The litigants tear one another to pieces for the benefit of some third interest. L'Estrange's Fables. LITIGANT. adj. Engaged in a juridical ance. When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes? 1 Sam. xv. 17. He was a very little gentleman. Clarendon All that is past ought to seem little to thee, because it is so in itself. Taylor's Guide to Devotion. Not much; not many. He must be loosed a little season. Revelations. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep; so shall poverty come upon Proverbs. thee. And now in little space The confines met. Milton. By sad experiment I know How little weight my words with thee can find. A little learning is a dang’rous thing;. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. Pope. 5. Some; not none: in this sense it always stands between the article and the noun. I leave him to reconcile these contradictions, which may plentifully be found in him, by any one who will but read with a little attention. LITTLE. n. s. Locke. 1. A small space. Much in little was writ; and all convey'd With cautious care, for fear to be betray'd. Dryden. L'Estrange. 2. 5. Fruitful as the sow that carry'd Strephon, who found the room was void, Swift. To LITTER. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To bring forth: used of beasts, or of human beings in abhorrence or contempt. Then was this island, Save for the son that she did litter here, A small part; a small proportion. He that despiseth little things, shall perish by little and little. Ecclus The poor remnant of human seed which remained in their mountains, peopled their country again slowly, by little and little. Bacon's New A By freeing the precipitated matter from the res by filtration, and diligently grinding the white precipitate with water, the mercury will little by little be gathered into drops. Boyle I gave thee thy master's house, and the house of Israel and Judah; and if that had been to little, I would have given such and such things. 2 Sam. xii. 8 They have much of the poetry of Mecenas but little of his liberality. Dryder Nor grudge I thee the much that Grecians give Nor murm'ring take the little 1 receive. Dryde There are many expressions, which, carryin with them no clear ideas, are like to remove bu little of my ignorance. Lock 4. Not much. The tongue of the just is as choice silver; the heart of the wicked is little worth. Prov. x. 20. Finding him little studious, she chose rather to 4. endue him with conversative qualities of youth; as, dancing and fencing. Wotton. That poem was infamously bad; this parallel is little better. Dryden's Dufresnoy. Several clergymen, otherwise little fond of obscure terms, yet in their sermons were very liberal of all those which they find in ecclesiastical writers. LITTLENESS. n. s. [from little.] 1. Smallness of bulk. Swift. All trying, by a love of littleness, To make abridgments, and to draw to less Even that nothing which at first we were. Donne. We may suppose a great many degrees of littleness and lightness in these earthly particles, so as many of them might float in the air. 2. Meanness; want of grandeur. Burnet. The English and French, in verse, are forced to raise their language with metaphors, by the pompousness of the whole phrase, to wear off any littleness that appears in the particular parts. 3. Want of dignity. Addison. The angelick grandeur, by being concealed, does not awaken our poverty, nor mortify our littleness so much, as if it was always displayed. Collier. Our high-plac'd Macbeth Shakesp. He had been most of his time in good service and had something to live on now he was old. Temple. 11. To be in a state of motion or vegeta- In a spacious cave of living stone, Cool groves and living lakes Pure oil and incense on the fire they throw; 1. Quick; not dead. See the minutes how they run; What greater curse could envious fortune give, Brown. Live while you live, the Epicure would say, I live to pleasure when I live to thee. Doddridge. 6. LITTORAL. adj. [littoralis, Lat.] Be-7. longing to the shore. LITURGY. n. s. [λilepyía; liturgie, Fr.] Form of prayers; formulary of publick devotions. We dare not admit any such form of liturgy, as either appointeth no scripture at all, or very little to be read in the church. Hooker. The blessedest of mortal wights began to be importuned, so that a great part of divine liturgy was addressed solely to her Howel. It is the greatest solemnity of prayer, the most powerful liturgy and means of impetration in this world. Taylor. To LIVE. v. n. [lyrian, lyrigan, Sax.] Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame, Dryden. O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest! Ecclus. xli. 1. Dr. Parker, in his sermon before them, touched them so near for their living, that hey went near to touch him for his life. Hayward. The condition required of us is a conjuncture of all gospel graces rooted in the heart, though mixed with much weakness, and perhaps with My statutes and judgments, if a man do, he It was a miraculous providence that could make Mark how the shifting winds from west arise, To continue; not to be lost. Watts. The shepherd swains shall dance and sing, 9. To feed. Shakesp. Those animals that live upon other animals have 10. To maintain one's self; to be sup- A most notorious thief; lived all his life-time of The number of soldiers can never be great in Shakesp. Henry V. [It appears to be corrupted from livelode.] Support of life; maintenance; means of living. LIVELIHOOD. n. s. Ah! luckless babe! born under cruel star, And in dead parents baleful ashes bred; Full little weenest thou what sorrows are Left thee for portion of thy livelihood! Fairy Q. That rebellion drove the lady from thence, to find a livelihood out of her own estate. Clarendon. He brings disgrace upon his character, to submit to the picking up of a livelihood in that strolling way of canting and begging. L'Estrange. It is their profession and livelihood to get their living by practices for which they deserve to forfeit their lives. South. They have been as often banished out of most other places; which must very much disperse a people, and oblige them to seek a livelihood where they can find it. Addison's Spectator. Trade employs multitudes of hands, and furnishes the poorest of our fellow-subjects with the opportunities of gaining an honest livelihood: the skilful or industrious find their account in it. LIVELINESS. n. s. [from lively.] 2. Vivacity; sprightliness. Extravagant young fellows, that have liveliness and spirit, come sometimes to be set right, and so make able and great men; but tame and low spirits very seldom attain to any thing. Locke. LI'VELODE. n. s. [live and lode, from lead; the means of leading life.] Maintenance; support; livelihood. She gave like blessing to each creature, Many a time, and oft, Young and old come forth to play Milton. |