But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps? much livelier than ere while He seems; supposing here to find his son, Or of him bringing to us some glad news? Milton. 2. Gay; airy. Dulness delighted, ey'd the lively dunce, Rememb'ring she herself was pertness once. Pope. Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. Pope. 3. Representing life. 2. By his attorneys general to sue His livery, and deny his offered homage. Shakesp. Release from wardship. Had the two houses first sued out their livery, and once effectually redeemed themselves from the wardship of the tuimalts, I should then suspect my own judgment. King Charles. 3. The writ by which possession is obtained. Since a true knowledge of nature gives us plea-. sure, a lively imitation of it in poetry or painting must produce a much greater. Dryden's Dufresnoy. 4. Strong; energetick. His faith must be not only living, but lively too; it must be brightened and stirred up by a particular exercise of those virtues specifically requisite to a due performance of this duty. South. The colours of the prism are manifestly more full, intense, and lively, than those of natural bodies. Newton's Opticks. Imprint upon their minds, by proper arguments and reflections, a lively persuasion of the certainty of a future state. Atterbury. LI'VELILY. LIVELY. } adv. 1. Briskly; vigorously. They brought their men to the slough, who discharging lively almost close to the face of the enemy, did much amaze them. Hayward. 2. With strong resemblance of life. That part of poetry must needs be best, which describes most lively our actions and passions, our virtues and our vices. LIVER. n. s. [from live.] 1. One who lives. Dryden. 5. Prior. Be thy affections undisturb'd and clear, Guided to what may great or good appear, And try if life be worth the liver's care. 2. One who lives in any particular manner with respect to virtue or vice, happiness or misery. The end of his descent was to gather a church of holy christian livers over the whole world. Hammond's Fundamentals. If any loose liver have any goods of his own, the sheriff is to seize thereupon. Spenser on Ireland. Here are the wants of children, of distracted persons, of sturdy wandering beggars and loose disorderly livers, at one view represented. Atterbury. 3. [From lipene, Sax.] One of the entrails. With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come; And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Shakesp. Reason and respect Make livers pale, and lustihood dejected. Shakesp. LIVERCOLOUR. adj. [liver and colour.] Dark red. The uppermost stratum is of gravel; then clay of various colours, purple, blue, red, livercolour. Woodward. LIVERGROWN. adj. [liver and grown.] Having a great liver. I enquired what other casualties were most like the rickets, and found that livergrown was nearest. Graunt. LIVERWORT. n. s. [liver and wort; lichen.] A plant. That sort of liverwort which is used to cure the bite of mad dogs, grows on cominons, and open heaths, where the grass is short, on The state of being kept at a certain rate. Arbuthnot. 2. [In London.] A freeman of some standing in a company. LIVES. n. s. [the plural of life.] So short is life, that every peasant strives, In a farm house or field, to have three lives. Donne. LIVID. adj. [lividus, Lat. livide, Fr.] Discoloured, as with a blow; black and blue. It was a pestilent fever, not seated in the veins or humours, for that there followed no carbuncles, no purple or livid spots, the mass of the blood not being tainted. Bacon. Upon my livid lips bestow a kiss: O, envy not the dead, they feel not bliss! Drud. They beat their breasts with many a bruising blow, Dryden. Till they turn'd livid, and corrupt the snow. LIVIDITY. n. s. [lividité, Fr. from livid.] Discoloration, as by a blow. The signs of a tendency to such a state, are darkness or lividity of the countenance Arbuthnot. LIVING. participial adj. 1. Vigorous; active: as, a living faith. 2. Being in motion; having some natural energy, or principle of action: as, the living green, the living springs. LIVING. n. s. [from live.] Support ; which one lives. What livery is, we by common use in England know well enough, namely, that it is an allowance of horse meat; as they commonly use the word stabling, as to keep horses at livery; the which word, I guess, is derived of livering or delivering forth their nightly food; so in great houses, the livery is said to be served up for all night; that is, their evening allowance for drink: and livery is also called the upper weed which a serving man wears; so called, I suppose, for that it was delivered and taken from him at pleasure: so it is apparent, that, by the word livery, is there meant horse meat, like as by the coigny is understood man's meat. Some say it is derived of coin, for that they used in their coignies not only to take meat but money; but I rather think it is derived of the Irish, the which is a common use amongst landlords of the Irish to have a common spending upon their tenants, who being commonly but tenants at will, they used to take of them what victuals they list; for of victuals they were wont to make a small reckoning. Spenser on Ireland. The cloaths given to servants. My mind for weeds your virtue's livery wears. 2. Sidney. Perhaps they are by so much the more loth to forsake this argument, for that it hath, though nothing else, yet the name of scripture, to give it some kind of countenance more than the pretext of livery coats affordeth. Hooker. I think, it is our way, Shakesp. Yet do our hearts wear Timon's livery, That see I by our faces. Shakesp. Timon of Athens. Ev'ry lady cloath'd'in white, And crown'd with oak and laurel every knight, Are servants to the leaf, by liveries known Of innocence. Dryden's Flower and Leaf. On others int'rest her gay liv'ry flings, Interest that waves on party-colour'd wings; Turn'd to the sun she casts a thousand dyes: And as she turns the colours fall or rise. Dunciad. If your dinner miscarries, you were teized by the footmen coming into the kitchen; and to prove it true, throw a ladleful of broth on one or There is no living without trusting some body or other, in some cases. L'Estrange. Livelihood. For ourselves we may a living make. Hubberd. Then may I set the world on wheels, when she can spin for her living. Shakesp. Isaac and his wife, now dig for your life, Or shortly you'll dig for your living. Denham. Actors must represent such things as they are capable to perform, and by which both they and the scribbler may get their living. Dryden's Duf. 4. Benefice of a clergyman. Some of our ministers having the livings of the country offered unto them, without pains, will, neither for any love of God, nor for all the good they may do, by winning souls to God, be drawn forth from their warm nests. Spenser. The parson of the parish preaching against adultery, Mrs. Bull told her husband that they would join to have him turned out of his living for using personal reflections. Arbuthnot. LIVINGLY. adv. [from living.] In the living state. In vain do they scruple to approach the dead, who livingly are cadaverous, or fear any outward pollution, whose temper pollutes themselves. Brown's Vulgar Err. LIVRE. n. s. [Fr.] The sum by which the French reckon their money, equal nearly to our ten-pence. LIXI'VIAL. adj. [from lixivium, Lat.] 1. Impregnated with salts like a lixivium. The symptoms of the execretion of the bile vitiated, were a yellowish colour of the skin, and a lixivial urine. Arbuthnot. 2. Obtained by lixivium. Helmont conjectured, that lixivial salts do not LIXI'VIATE. adj. [lixivieux, Fr. from pre-exist in their alcalizate form. Boyle. liaivium.] Making a lixivium. In these the salt and lixiviated serosity, with 2. some portion of choier, is divided between the guts and the bladder Brown. Lixiviate salts to which pot-ashes belong, by piercing the bodies of vegetables, dispose them to part readily with their tincture. Boyle. LIXIVIŮM. n. s. [Lat.] Lye; water impregnated with alkaline salt, produced from the ashes of vegetables; a liquor which has the power of extraction. I made a lixivium of fair water and salt of wormwood, and having frozen it with snow and salt, I could not discern any thing more like to wormwood than to several other plants. Boyle. LIZARD. n. s. [lisarde, Fr. lacertus, Lat.] An animal resembling a serpent, with legs added to it. There are several sorts of lizards some in Arabia of a cubit long. In America the eat lizards; it is very probable likewise that they were eaten in Arabia and Judæa, since Moses ranks them among the unclean creatures. Calmet. Thou'rt like a foul mis-shapen stigmatick, Mark'd by the destinies to be avoided, As venomous toads, or lizards dreadful stings. Shakesp. Adder's fork, and blind worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing. Shakesp. Macbeth. LIZARDITAL. n. s. A plant. LIZARDSTONE. n. s. [lizard and stone.] A kind of stone. L.L.D. [legum doctor.] A doctor of the canon and civil laws. Lo. interj. [la, Sax.] Look; see; behold. It is a word used to recall the attention generally to some object of sight; sometimes to something heard, but not properly; often to something to be understood. 3. 4. 5. Weight; pressure; encumbrance. Jove lighten'd of its load Th' enormous mass, the labour of a God. Weight; or violence of blows. Like lion mov'd they laid on load, And made a cruel fight. Pope. Chevy Chace. Far heavier load thyself expect to feel From my prevailing arm. Any thing that depresses. Milton. And Mnestheus laid hard load upon his helm. Dryden. How a man can have a quiet and cheerful mind under a great burden and load of guilt, I know not, unless he be very ignorant. Ray. As much drink as one can bear. There are those that can never sleep without their load, nor enjoy one easy thought, till they have laid all their cares to rest with a bottle. A mariner having discharged his gun, and loading it suddenly again, the powder took fire. Wisem. To make heavy by something appended or annexed. Thy dreadful vow, loaden with death, still sounds In my stunn'd ears. Addison's Cato. LOAD. n. s. [more properly lode, as it was anciently written; from lædan, Sax. to lead.] The leading vein in a mine. The tin lay couched at first in certain strakes amongst the rocks, like the veins in a man's body, from the depth whereof the main load spreadeth out his branches, until they approach the open Carew's Survey of Cornwall. air. I am yours for ever. The loach is a most dainty fish; he breeds and feeds in little and clear swift brooks or rills, and lives there upon the gravel, and in the sharpest streams: he grows not to be above a finger long, and no thicker than is suitable to that length: he is of the shape of an eel, and has a beard of wattels like a barbel: he has two fins at his sides, four at his belly, and one at his tail, dappled with many black or brown spots: his mouth, barbel-like, under his nose. This fish is usually full of eggs or spawn, and is by Gesner, and other physicians, commended for great nourishment, and to be very grateful both to the palate and stomach of sick persons, and is to be fished for with a small worm, at the bottom, for he seldom rises above the gravel. He LO'ADSMAN. n. s. [lode and man.] who leads the way; a pilot. LO'ADSTAR. n. s. [more properly as it is in Maundeville, lodestar, from lædan to lead.] The polestar; the cynosure; the leading or guiding star. She was the loadstar of my life; she the blessing of mine eyes; she the overthrow of my desires, and yet the recompence of my overthrow. Sidney. My Helice, the loadstar of my life. Spenser. O happy fair! Your eyes are loadstars, and your tongue sweet air! That clear majesty Which standeth fix'd, yet spreads her heavenly worth, Lodestone to hearts,and lodestar to all eyes. Davies. LO'ADSTONE. . s. [properly lodestone or lading-stone. See LOADSTAR.] The magnet; the stone on which the mariners compass needle is touched to give it a direction north and south. The loadstone is a peculiar and rich ore of iron, found in large masses, of a deep iron-grey where fresh broken, and often tinged with a brownish or reddish colour; it is very heavy, and considerably hard, and its great character is that of affecting irou. This ore of iron is found in England, and! in most other places where there are mines of that metal. Hill's Mat. Med. The use of the loadstone was kept as secret as any of the other mysteries of the art. Swift. LOAF. n. s. [from play or lap, Sax.] 1. A mass of bread as it is formed by the baker: a loaf is thicker than a cake. Easy it is Of a cut loaf to steal a shive we know. Shakesp. The bread corn in the town sufficeth not for six days: hereupon the soldiers entered into proportion; and, to give example, the lord Clinton limited himself to a loaf a-day. Hayward. 2. With equal force you may break a loaf of bread into more and less parts than a lump of lead of the same bigness. Digby. Any thick mass into which a body is wrought. Your wine becomes so limpid, that you may bottle it with a piece of loaf sugar in each bottle. Mortimer. LOAM. n. s. [lım, laam, Sax. limus, Lat. from xin a fen, Junius.] Fat, unctuous, tenacious earth; marl. The purest treasure Is spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. Shakesp. Alexander returneth to dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam might they not stop a beer barrel? Shakesp. To LOAM. v. a. [from the noun.] To smear with loam, marl, or clay; to clay. The joist ends, and girders which be in the walls, must be loamed all over, to preserve them from the corroding of the mortar. Moxon's Mech. Exer. LO'AMY. adj. [from loam.] Marly. The mellow earth is the best, between the two extremes of clay and sand, if it be not loamy and binding. Bacon. Auricula seedlings best like a loamy sand, or light moist earth; yet rich and shaded. Evelyn. LOAN. n. s. [}læn. Sax.] Any thing lent; any thing given to another, on condition of return or repayment. The better such ancient revenues shall be paid, the less need her majesty ask subsidies, fifteens, and loans. Bacon. You're on the fret, Because, in so debauch'd and vile an age, Thy friend and old acquaintance dares disown The gold you lent him, and forswear the loan. Dryden. LOATH. adj. [lað, Sax.] Unwilling; disliking; not ready; not inclined. These fresh and delightful brooks, how slowly Then wilt thou not be loth Davies Milton To pardon willing, and to punish loth; You strike with one hand, but you heal with both; Lifting up all that prostrate lie, you grieve You cannot make the dead again to live. Waller, When Eneas is forced to kill Lausus, the poet shews him compassionate, and is loth to destroy Dryden. such a master-piece of nature. As some faint pilgrim standing on the shore, First views the torrent he would venture o'er. Why do I stay within this hated place, Where every object shocks my loathing eyes? Rowe. LO'ATHER. n. s. [from loath.] One that loaths. LO'ATHFUL. adj. [loath and full.] 1. Abhorring; hating. Which he did with loathful eyes behold, He would no more endure. Hubberd's Tale. 2. Abhorred; hated. Above the reach of loathful sinful lust, Whose base effect, through cowardly distrust Of his weak wings, dare not to heaven flie.Spenser. LO'ATHINGLY. adv. [from loath.] In a fastidious manner. LO'ATHLY. adj. [from loath.] Hateful; abhorred; exciting hatred. An huge great dragon, horrible in sight, Fairy Queen. The people fear me; for they do observe Unfathered heirs, and loathly births of nature. Shakesp. Sour-ey'd disdain and discord shall bestow LO'ATHLY. adv. [from loath.] The upper streams make such haste to have their part of embracing, that the nether, though loathly, must needs give place unto them. Sidney. Lothly opposite I stood To his unnatural purpose. Shakesp. King Lear. This shews that you from nature loathly stray, That suffer not an artificial day. Donne. LO'ATHNESS. n. s. [from loath.] lingness. The fair soul herself Weigh'd between lothness and obedience, Which end the beam should bow. Unwil Shakesp. 3. Thou basely threw'st into lob's pound. Hudibras. A big worm, For the trout the dew worm, which some also call the lob worm, and the brandling, are the chief. Walton's Angler. To LOB. v. a. To let fall in a slovenly or lazy manner. The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks, And their poor jades Lob down their heads, dropping the hide and hips. Shakesp. LO'BBY. n. s. [laube, Germ.] An opening before a room. His lobbies fill with 'tendance, Rain sacrificial whisp'rings in his ear, Make sacred even his stirrup. Shakesp. Timon of Athens. Before the duke's rising from the table, he stood expecting till he should pass through a kind of lobby between that room and the next, where were divers attending him. Wotton. Try your backstairs, and let the lobby wait, A stratagem in war is no deceit. King. LOBE. n. s. [lobe, Fr. 20s.] A division; a distinct part: used commonly for a part of the lungs. Nor could the lobes of his rank liver swell To that prodigious mass, for their eternal meal. Dryden. Air bladders form lobuli, which hang upon the bronchia like bunches of grapes; these lobuli constitute the lobes, and the lobes the lungs. Arbuthnot on Aliments. From whence the quick reciprocating breath, The lobe adhesive, and the sweat of death. Sewel. LOBSTER. n. s. [lobster, Sax.] A crustaceous fish. Those that cast their shell, are the lobster, the crab, and craw fish. Bacon's Natural History. It happeneth often that a lobster hath the great claw of one side longer than the other. Brown. LOCAL. adj. [local, Fr. locus, Lat.] 1. Having the properties of place. By ascending, after that the sharpness of death was overcome, he took the very local possession of glory, and that to the use of all that are his, even as himself before had witnessed, I go to prepare a place for you. Hooker. A higher flight the vent'rous goddess tries, Leaving material world, and local skies. Prior. 2. Relating to place. 3, The circumstance of local nearness in them unto us, might haply enforce in us a duty of greater separation from them than from those other. Hooker. Where there is only a local circumstance of worship, the same thing would be worshipped, supposing that circumstance changed Stilling fleet. Being in a particular place. Dream not of their fight, As of a duel, or of the local wounds Of head, or heel. Milton's Paradise Lost. How is the change of being sometimes here, sometimes there, made by local motion in vacuum, without a change in the body moved? Digby on Bodies. LOCALITY. n. s. [from local] Existence in place; relation of place, or distance. That the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality, is generally opinioned. Glanville. With resLO'CALLY. adv. [from local.] pect to place. Whether things, in their natures so divers as body and spirit, which almost in nothing communicate, are not essentially divided, though not Glanville. locally distant, I leave to the readers." LOCATION. n. s. [locatio, Lat.] Situation with respect to place; act of placing; state of being placed. To say that the world is somewhere, means no more than it does exist; this, though a phrase borrowed from place, signifying only its existence, not location. Locke. LOCH. n. s A lake. Scottish. A lake or loch, that has no fresh water running into it, will turn into a stinking puddle. Cheyne's Philosophical Principles. LOCK. n. s. [loc, Sax. in both senses.] 1. An instrument composed of springs and bolts, used to fasten doors or chests. No gate so strong, no lock so firm and fast, But with that piercing noise flew open quit or Fairy Queen. 2. brast. We have locks, to safeguard necessaries, And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves. Shakesp. As there are locks for several purposes, so are there several inventions in locks, in contriving their wards or guards. Moxon The part of the gun by which fire is struck. A gun carries powder and bullets for seven charges and discharges: under the breech of the barrel is one box for the powder; a little before the lock, another for the bullets; behind the cock a charger, which carries the powder to the further end of the lock. Grew. 3. A hug; a grapple. They must be practised in all the locks and gripes of wrestling, as need may often be in fight to tugg Sergesthus, cager with his beak to press Betwixt the rival galley and the rock, Shuts up the unwieldy centaur in the lock. Dryden. 5. A quantity of hair or wool hanging together. Well might he perceive the hanging of her hair in locks, some curled, and some forgotten. Sidney. A goodly cypress, who bowing her fair head over the water, it seemeth she looked into it, and dressed her green locks by that running river. Sidney. His grizly locks, long growen and unbound, Spenser. Addison. Then seek to know those things which make us And having found them, lock them in thy breast. LOCOMOTION. n. s. [locus and motus, 8. To lay flat. All progression or animal locomotion, is per- Prior. An animal cannot well be defined from any particular organical part, nor from its locomotive faculty, for some adhere to rocks. Arbuthnot. LO'CUST. n. s. [locusta, Lat.] A de vouring insect. Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown Though castles topple on their warders heads. 1. 2. The Hebrews had several sorts of locusts, which coast. Exodus. Air replete with the steams of animals rotting, The locust-tree hath a papilionaceous flower, One conduces to the poet's completing of his work; the other slackens his pace, and locks him up like a knight-errant in an enchanted castle. Dryden's Dedication to the Eneid. The father of the gods Confin'd their fury to those dark abodes, And lock'd'em safe within, oppress'd with mountain loads. Dryden's Eneid. If one third of the money in trade were locked 1. up, must not the landholders receive one third less? Locke. Always lock up a cat in a closet where you keep your china plates, for fear the mice may steal in and break thein. Swift. Pope's Horace. Your wine lock'd up, Plain milk will do the feat. 3. To close fast. Death blasts his bloom, and locks his frozen eyes. To LOCK. v. n. 1. To become fast by a lock. Gay. For not of wood, nor of enduring brass, 2. To unite by mutual insertion. To place in a temporary habitation. When he was come to the court of France, the king stiled him by the name of the duke of York; lodged him, and accommodated him in great Bacon's Henry VII. 2. To afford a temporary dwelling; to supply with harbour for a night. 3. Either they lock into each other, or slip one upon another's surface; as much of their surfaces touches as makes them cohere. Boyle. 4. LOCKER. n. s. [from lock.] Any thing I made lockers or drawers at the end of the boat. state. Ev'ry house was proud to lodge a knight. Dryd. When on the brink the foaming boar I met, Otway. He lodg'd an arrow in a tender breast, Addison. Shakesp. To reside; to keep residence. Something holy lodges in that breast, And dwells such rage in softest bosoms then? I know not where he lodges; and for me to devise a lodging, and say, he lies here or he lies there, were to lie in mine own throat. Shakesp. Thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people. Samuel. To take up residence at night. And soldiers, stay and lodge by me this nign Shakesp. Oh, that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people! Jeremiah. Here thou art but a stranger travelling to thy country; it is therefore a huge folly to be afflicted, because thou hast a less convenient inn to lodge in by the way. Taylor. 4. To lay flat. Long cone wheat they reckon in Oxfordshire best for rank clays; and its straw makes it not subject to lodge, or to be mildewed. Mortimer's Husbandry. LODGE. n. s. [logis, Fr.] 1. A small house in a park or forest. In viewing again the ideas that are lodged in LO'DGEMENT. n. s. [from lodge, loge Locke. the memory, the mind is more than pasɛive. I bear Antonio. Shakesp. Merchant of Venice. ment, Fr.] 1. Disposition or collocation in a certain place. The curious lodgement and inosculation of the auditory nerves. Derham. 2. Accumulation; collection. 5. This cunning the king would not understand, 3. 6. To harbour or cover. The deer is lodg'd, I've track'd her to her covert; 7. To afford place to. The memory can lodge a greater store of images, than all the senses can present at one time. Cheyne's Philosophical Principles. An oppressed diaphragm from a mere lodgment The military pedant is making lodgments, and fighting battles, from one end of the year to the other. Addison. LO'DGER. n. s. [from lodge.] 1. One who lives in rooms hired in the house of another. Base tyke, call'st thou me host? now, I scorn the term; nor shall my Nel keep lodgers. Shakesp. Ray on the Creation. Himself to sing and build the lofty rhime. Milton. The eyes of the lofty shall be humbled. Isaiah. mer. Dryden. Man, the tyrant of our sex, I hate, 1. A shapeless bulky piece of wood. The worms with many feet are bred under logs of timber, and many times in gardens where no logs are. Bacon. Some log, perhaps upon the waters swam, A couple of travellers that took up an ass, fell to loggerheads which should be his master. L'Estrange. LO'GGERHEADED. adj. [from logger head.] Dull; stupid; doltish. You loggerheaded and unpolish'd groom, no attendance? Shakesp. Taming of the Shre LOGICK. n. s. [logique, Fr. logica, Lat. from xóos.] The art of reasoning. One of the seven sciences. what! Logick is the art of using reason well in our enquiries after truth, and the communication of it to others. Watts's Logick. Talk logick with acquaintance, And practise rhetorick in your common talk. Shakesp. By a logick that left no man any thing which he might call his own, they no more looked upon as the case of one man, but the case of the kingdom. Clarendon Here foam'd rebellious logick, gagg'd and bound, There stript fair rhetorick languish'd on the ground. Pope. LOGICAL. adj. [from logick.] 1. Pertaining to logick; taught in logick. The heretick complained greatly of St. Augustine, as being too full of logical subtilties. Hooker. Those who in a logical dispute keep in general terms, would hide a fallacy. Dryden. And hollow'd, first a floating trough became, And cross some riv'let passage did begin. Dryden. 2. An Hebrew measure, which held a quarter of a cab, and consequently fivesixths of a pint. According to Dr. Arbuthnot it was a liquid measure, the 2. seventy-second part of the bath or ephah, and twelfth part of the hin. Calmet. A meat offering mingled with oil, and one log of vil. Lev. LOFT. n s. [lloft, Welsh; or from LO'GARITHMS. n. s. [logarithme, Fr. lift.] Passing through the spheres of watchful fire, And hills of snow, and lofts of piled thunder. A weasel once made shift to slink In at a corn loft, through a chink. LOFTILY, adv. [from lofty.] 1. On high; in an elevated place. 2. Proudly; haughtily. Milton. Pope. They speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. Psalm 1xxiii. 8. 3. With elevation of language or sentiment; sublimely. My lowly verse may loftily arise, And lift itself unto the highest skies. Fairy Queen. LO'FTINESS. n. s. [from lofty.] 1. Height; local elevation. 2. Sublimity; elevation of sentiment. Farce poets in three distant ages born; The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, The next in majesty; in both the last. Dryden. 3. Pride; haughtiness. Augustus and Tiberius had loftiness enough in their temper, and affected to make a sovereign figure. Collier. LOFTY. adj. [from loft or lift.] λόγος and ἄξιθμος.] Logarithms, which are the indexes of the ratios of numbers one to another, were first invented by Napier lord Merchison, a Scottish baron, and afterwards completed by Mr. Briggs, Savilian professor at Oxford. They are a series of artificial numbers contrived for the expedition of calculation, and proceeding in an arithmetical proportion, as the numbers they answer to do in a geometrical one; for instance, 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 248 16 32 64 128 256 512 Where the numbers above, beginning with (2), and arithmetically proportional, are called logarithms. The addition and subtraction of logarithms answers to the multiplication and division of the numbers they correspond with; and this saves an infinite deal of trouble. In like manner will the extraction of roots be performed, by dissecting the logarithms of any numbers for the square root, and trisecting them for the cube, and so on. Harris. LO'GGATS. n.s. Loggats is the ancient name of a play or game, which is one of the unlawful games enumerated in the thirty-third statute of Henry VIII. It is the same which is now called kittle-pins, in which boys often make use of bones instead of wooden pins, throwing at them with another bone instead of bowling. Hanmer. Did these bones cost no more the breeding, but to play at logguts with them? Shakesp. Hamlet. LOGGERHEAD. n. s. [logge, Dut. stupid, and head; or rather from log, a heavy motionless mass, as blockhead.] A dolt; a blockhead; a thick scull. Where hast been, Hal? -With three or four loggerheads, amongst three or fourscore hogsheads. Shakesp. Henry IV. We ought not to value ourselves upon our ability, in giving subtile rules, and finding out logical arguments, since it would be more perfeetion not to want them. Baker. Skilled in logick; furnished with logick. A man who sets up for a judge in criticism, should have a clear and logical head. Addison. LOGICALLY. adv. [from logical.] Aecording to the laws of logick. How can her old good man With honour take her back again? From hence I logically gather, The woman cannot live with either. LOGMAN. n. s. [log and man.] One whose business is to carry logs. For your sake Am I this patient logman. Shakesp. Tempest. LO'GOMACHY. η. δ. [λογομαχία.] A contention in words; a contention about words. Forced terms of art did much puzzle sacred theology with distinctions, cavils, quiddities; and so transformed her to a meer kind of sophistry Lo'GwOOD. n. s. and logomachy. Howel. Logwood is of a very dense and firm texture; and is the heart only of the tree which produces it. It is very heavy, and remarkably hard, and of a deep, strong red colour. It grows both in the |