East and West Indies, but no where so plenti-12. To hang out. Used of the tongue fully as on the coast of the bay of Campeachy. Hill's Mat. Med. To make a light purple, mingle ceruse with logwood water. Peacham. Lo Hock. n. s. Lohock is an Arabian name for those forms of medicines which are now commonly called eclegQuincy. Lohocks and pectorals were prescribed, and veresection repeated. 'Wiseman's Surgery. LOIN. n. s. [llwyn, Welsh.] mas, lambatives, or linctuses. 1. The back of an animal carved out by the butcher. 2. Loins; the reins. My face I'll grime with filth, Blanket my loins. Shakesp. King Lear. Thou slander of thy heavy mother's womb! Thou loathed issue of thy father's loins! Shak Virgin mother, bail! High in the love of Heav'n! yet from my loins Thou shalt proceed, and from thy womb the Son Of God most high. Milton's Parad. Lost. A multitude! like which the populous nortk Pour'd never from her frozen loins, to pass Rhene, or the Danaw, when her barbarous sons Came like a deluge on the south. Milton. To LOITER. v. n. [loteren, Dut.] To linger; to spend time carelessly; to idle. Sir John, you loiter here too long, being you are to take soldiers up in the countries. Shakesp. Whence this long delay? You loiter, while the spoils are thrown away. Dryden Mark how he spends his time, whether he unactively loiters it away. Locke. If we have gone wrong, let us redeem the mistake; if we have loitered, let us quicken our pace, and make the most of the present opportunity. Rogers. LOITERER. n. s. [from loiter.] A lingerer; an idler; a lazy wretch; one who lives without business; one who is sluggish and dilatory. Give gloves to thy reapers a largess to cry, And daily to loiterers have a good eye. Tusser's Husbandry. The poor, by idleness or unthriftiness, are riotous spenders, vagabonds, and loiterers. Hayward. Where hast thou been, thou loiterer? Though my eyes clos'd, my arms have still been open'd, To search if thou wert come. hanging out in weariness or play. The triple porter of the Stygian seat, With lolling tongue lay fawning at thy feet. Dry. With harmless play amidst the bowls he pass'd, And with his lolling tongue assay'd the taste. Dryden. To LOLL. v. a. To put out: used of the tongue exerted. All authors to their own defects are blind; Hadst thou but, Janus-like, a face behind, To see the people, when splay mouths they make, To mark their fingers pointed at thy back, Their tongues loll'd out a foot. Dryden's Perseus. By Strymon's freezing streams he sat alone, Trees bent their heads to hear him sing his wrongs, Fierce tygers couch'd around, and loll'd their fawning tongues. Dryden's Virgil. LOMP. n. s. A kind of roundish fish. LONE. adj. [contracted from alone.] 1. Solitary; unfrequented; having no Otway. 2. Time has made you dote, and vainly tell Of arms imagin'd in your lonely cell. Addicted to solitude. Dryden. Providence would only enter mankind into the useful knowledge of her treasures, leaving the rest to employ our industry, that we live not like idle loiterers and truants. More. Ever listless loit'rers, that attend No cause, no trust, no duty, and no friend. Pope. To LOLL. v. n. [Of this word the etymology is not known. Perhaps it might be contemptuously derived from lollard, LO'NESOME. adj. [from lone.] Solitary; a name of great reproach before the reformation; of whom one tenet was, that all trades not necessary to life are unlawful.] 1. To lean idly; to rest lazily against any thing. So hangs, and lolls, and weeps upon me; so shakes and pulls me. Shakesp. Othello. He is not lolling on a lewd love bed, But on his knees at meditation. Shak. Rich. III. Close by a softly murm'ring stream, Where lovers us'd to loll and dream. Hudibras. To all on couches, rich with cytron steds, And lay your guilty limbs in Tyrian beds. Dryden. Void of care he lolls supine in state, And leaves his business to be done by fate. Dryd. But wanton now, and lolling at our ease, We suffer all the invet'rate ills of peace. Dryden. A lazy, lolling sort Dunciad. Of ever listless loit'rers. dismal. You either must the earth from rest disturb, Or roll around the heavens the solar orb; Else what a dreadful face will nature wear? How horrid will these lonesome seats appear? Blackmore. LONG. adj. [long, Fr. longus, Lat.] 1. Not short: used of time. He talked a long while, even till break of day. Acts, xx. He was desirous to see him of a long season. Luke xxiii. 2. Not short; used of space. Empress, the way is ready, and not long. Death will not be long in coming, and the covenant of the grave is not shewed unto thee. 7. Tedious in narration. 8. 9. Ecclus. xiv. 12. Reduce, my muse, the wand'ring song, A tale should never be too long. Continued by succession to a great series. But first a long succession must ensue. Milton. [From the verb, To long.] Longing; desirous; or perhaps long continued, from the disposition to continue looking at any thing desired. Praying for him, and casting a long look that way, he saw the galley leave the pursuit. Sidney. By ev'ry circumstance I know he loves; Yet he but doubts, and parlies, and casts out Many a long look for succour. Dryden. 10. [In musick and pronunciation.] Protracted: as, a long note; a long syllable. LONG. adv. 1. To a great length in space. The marble brought, erects the spacious dome, Or forms the pillars long-extended rows, On which the planted grove and pensile garden Prior. The martial Ancus Furbish'd the rusty sword again, Resum'd the long-forgotten shield. One of these advantages, which Corneille has laid down, is the making choice of some signal and long-expected day, whereon the action of the play is to depend. Dryden. So stood the pious prince unmov'd, and long Sustain'd the madness of the noisy throng. Dryd. The muse resumes her long-forgotten lays, And love, restor'd, his ancient realm surveys Dryden. No man has complained that you have dis coursed too long on any subject, for you leave us in an eagerness of learning more. Dryden. Persia left for you The realm of Candahar for dow'r I brought, Heav'n restores Pope. 3. In the comparative, it signifies for more time; and in the superlative, for most time. When she could not longer Lide him, she took for him an ark of bullrushes. Exodus, ii. 3. longing to a ship. Eldest parents signifies either the eldest men | LONGBOAT. n. s. [The largest boat beand women that have had children, or those who have longest had issue. 4. Not soon. Locke. Not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind. Acts, xxvii. 14. 5. At a point of duration far distant. If the world had been eternal, those would have been found in it, and generally spread long ago, and beyond the memory of all ages. Tillotson. Say, that you once were virtuous long ago? A frugal, hardy people. Philip's Briton. 6. [For along; au long, Fr.] All along; throughout: of time. Them among There sat a man of ripe and perfect age, Fairy Queen. LONG. adv. [gelang a fault, Sax.] By the fault; by the failure. A word now out of use, but truly English. Respective and wary men had rather seek quietly their own, and wish that the world may go well, so it be not long of them, than with pains and hazard make themselves advisers for the common good. Hooker. Shakesp. Shakesp. Maine, Blois, Poictiers and Tours are won away, Long all of Somerset, and his delay. Mistress, all this coil is long of you. If we owe it to him that we know so much, it is perhaps long of his fond adorers that we know so little more. Glanville. To LONG. v. n. [gelangen, Germ. to ask. Skinner.] To desire earnestly; to wish with eagerness continued; with for or after before the thing desired. Fresh expectation troubled not the land With any long'd for change, or better state. Shakesp And thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them. Deut. xxviii. 32. If erst he wished, now he longed sore. Fairfax. The great master perceived, that Rhodes was the place the Turkish tyrant longed after. Knolles. If the report be good, it causeth love, And longing hope, and well assured joy. Davies. His sons, who seek the tyrant to sustain, And long for arbitrary lords again, foes. He dooms to death deserv'd. Dryden's Eneid. Nicomedes longing for herrings, was supplied with fresh ones by his cook, at a great distance from the sea. Arbuthnot. Through stormy seas I courted dangers, and I long'd for death. Philips. At the first descent on shore, he did countenance the landing in his longboat. Wotton. They first betray their masters, and then, when they find the vessel sinking, save themselves in the longboat. L'Estrange. LONGEVITY. Length of life. n. s. [longævus, Lat.] LONGI MANOUS. adj. [longuemain, Fr. longimanus, Lat.] Longhanded; having long hands. Longitudinal is opposed to transverse: these vesiculæ are distended, and their longitudinal diameters straitened, and so the length of the whole muscle shortened. Cheyne. LO'NGLY. adv. [from long.] Longingly; with great liking. Master, you look'd so longly on the maid, Perhaps, you mark not what's the pith of all. Shakesp. wearisome by its length. The villainy of this Christian exceeded the per-LO'NGSOME. adj. [from long.] Tedious; socution of heathens, whose malice was never so longimanous as to reach the soul of their enemies, or to extend unto the exile of their elysiums. LONGIMETRY. n. s. [longus and μréw; longimetrie, Fr.] The art or practice of measuring distances. Brown. Our two eyes are like two different stations in longimetry, by the assistance of which the distance between two objects is measured. Cheyne's Philosophical Principles. LO'NGING. n. s. [from long.] Earnest desire; continual wish. When within short time I came to the degree of uncertain wishes, and that those wishes grew to unquiet longings, when I would fix my thoughts upon nothing, but that within little varying they should end with Philoclea. Sidney. I have a woman's longing, An appetite that I am sick withal, To see great Hector in the weeds of peace. Shak. The will is left to the pursuit of nearer satisfactions, and to the removal of those uneasinesses which it then feels in its want of, and longings after them. Locke. LONGINGLY. av. [from longing.] With incessant wishes. Dryden. Some To his first bias longingly he leans, 1. war. They found the war so churlish and longsome, as they grew then to a resolution, that, as long as England stood in state to succour those countries, they should but consume themselves in an endless Bacon's War with Spain. When chill'd by adverse snows and beating rain, We tread with wearied steps the longsome plain. Prior. LO'NGSUFFERING. adj. [long and suffering.] Patient; not easily provoked. The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness. LO'NGSUFFERING. offence; clemency. We infer from the mercy and longsuffering of God, that they were themselves sufficiently secure of his favour. Rogers. LO'NGTAIL. n. s. [long and tail.] Cut and long tail; a canting term for one or another. A phrase, I believe, taken from dogs, which belonging to men not qualified to hunt, had their tails cut. He will maintain you like a gentlewoman. -Aye, that I will come cut and longtail under the degree of a squire. Shakesp. Merry Wives of Windsor. LO'NGWAYS. adv. [This and many other words so terminated are corrupted from wise.] In the longitudinal direction. This island stands as a vast mole, which lies longways, almost in a parallel line to Naples. Addison on Italy. The ancients did determine the longitude of all LO'NGWINDED. adj. [long and wind.] rooms, which were longer than broad, by the double of their latitude. Wotton. LONGANI'MITY. n. s. [longanimitas, 3. The distance of any part of the earth Lat. longanimité, Fr.] patience of offences. Swift. In They make a little cross of a quill, longwise of that part of the quill which hath the pith, and crosswise of that piece of the quill without pith. Bacon. He was laid upon two beds, the one joined longwise unto the other, both which he filled with his length. Hakewill. Loo. n. s. A game at cards. A secret indignation, that all those affections of the mind should be thus vilely thrown away upon a hand at loo. In the fights of loo. Addison Pope Lo'OBILY. adj. [looby and like.] Awkward; clumsy. a The plot of the farce was a grammar school, the master setting his boys their lessons, and loobily country fellow putting in for a part ameng the scholars. L'Estrange. LO'OBY. n. s. [Of this word the derivation is unsettled. Skinner mentions lapp, Germ. foolish; and Junius, labe of such animals as do not look the same way with both eyes, as of fishes, do not meet. Newton's Opticks. 2. To have power of seeing. Fate sees thy life lodg'd in a brittle glass, And looks it through, but to it cannot pass. Dryd. 3. To direct the intellectual eye. She once being looft, Antony Your queen died, she was more worth such gazes Isaac. that I am not able to look beautiful countenance, He was ruddy, and of a and goodly to look to. 1 Sam. xvi. 12. The fathers shall not look back to their children. Jeremiah. He had looked round about on them with anger. Mark, iii. The state would cast the eye, and look about to see whether there were any head under whom it might unite. Bacon. Fine devices of arching water without spilling, be pretty things to look on, but nothing to health. Bacon's Essays. Froth appears white, whether the sun be in the meridian, or any where between it and the horizon, and from what place soever the beholders Look upon it. Boyle on Colours. They'll rather wait the running of the river dry, than take pains to look about for a bridge. L'Estrange. Thus pond'ring, he look'd under with his eyes, And saw the woman's tears. Dryden's Knight's Tale. Bertran! if thou dar'st, look out Upon yon slaughter'd host. Dryden's Span. Fryar. I cannot, without some indignation, look on an ill copy of an excellent original; much less can I behold with patience Virgil and Homer abused to their faces, by a botching interpreter. Dryden. Intellectual beings, in their constant endeavours after true felicity, can suspend this prosecution in particular cases, till they have looked before them, and informed themselves, whether that particular thing lie in their way to their main end. Locke. 5. In regard of our deliverance past, and our dan ger present and to come, let us look up to God, and every man reform his own ways. Bacon's New Atlantis. We are not only to look at the bare action, but at the reason of it. Stilling fleet. The man only saved the pigeon from the hawk, that he might eat it himself; and if we look well about us, we shall find this to be the case of most mediations. L'Estrange. They will not look beyond the received notions of the place and age, nor have so presumptuous a thought as to be wiser than their neighbours. Locke. Every one, if he would look into himself, would find some defect of his particular genius. Locke. Change a man's view of things; let him look into the future state of bliss and misery, and see. God, the righteous Judge, ready to render every man according to his deeds. Locke. To expect. If he long deferred the march, he must look to fight another battle before he could reach Oxford. Clarendon. To take care; to watch. Shakesp. He that gathered a hundred bushels of apples, had thereby a property in them: he was only to look that he used them before they spoiled, else Locke. he robbed others. 6. To be directed with regard to any object. 7. There may be in his reach a book, containing pictures and discourses capable to delight and instruct him, which yet he may never take the pains to look into. Locke. 8. Towards those who communicate their thoughts in print, I cannot but look with a friendly regard, provided there is no tendency in their writings to Addison's Freeholder. vice. A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with a generous neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude. Addison. I have nothing left but to gather up the reliques of a wreck, and look about me to see how few eud. I have left. Pope to Swift. The optick nerves of such animals as look the same way with both eyes, as of men, meet before they come into the brain; but the optick nerves Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Prov. iv. 25. To have any particular appearance; to seem. That spotless modesty of private and publick life, that generous spirit, which all other Christians ought to labour after, should look in us as if they were natural. Spratt. Piety, as it is thought a way to the favour of God; and fortuue, as it looks like the effect either of that, or at least of prudence and courage, beget authority. Something very noble may be discerned, but it looketh cumbersome. Felton on the Classicks. Late, a sad spectacle of woe, he trod The desart sands, and now he looks a god. Pope. From the vices and follies of others, observe how such a practice looks in another person, and remember that it looks as ill, or worse, in yourWatts. self. This makes it look the more like truth, nature being frugal in her principles, but various in the effects thence arising. Cheyne. To have any air, mein, or manner. Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret, I will be master of what is mine own. Shakesp. What haste looks through his eyes? So should he look that seems to speak things strange. Shakesp Give me your hand, and trust me you look well, and bear your years very well. Shakesp. Henry IV. Can these, or such, be any aids to us? Look they as they were built to shake the world, Or be a moment to our enterprize? Ben Jonson. It will be his lot to look singular, in loose and licentious times, and to become a by-word. Atterbury. 9. To form the air in any particular man ner, in regarding or beholding. That which was the worst now least afflicts me: These look up to you with reverence, and would be animated by the sight of him at whose soul they have taken fire in his writings. Swift to Pope. 10. To look about one. To be alarmed; to be vigilant. It will import those men who dwell careless to look about them; to enter into serious consultation, how they may avert that ruin. Decay of Piety. If you find a wasting of your fleshi, then look about you, especially if troubled with a cough. Harvey on Consumptions. John's cause was a good milch cow, and many a man subsisted his family out of it: however, John began to think it high time to look about him. Arbuthnot's "History of John Bul! 11. To look after. To attend; to take care of; to observe with care, anxiety, or tenderness. Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth. Luke. Politeness of manners, and knowledge of the world, should principally be looked after in a Locke on Education. Shakesp. Winter's Tale. If we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment. Heb. x. In dealing with cunning persons, it is good to say little to them, and that which they least look for. Bacon's Essays. This mistake was not such as they looked for; and, though the error in form seemed to be consented to, yet the substance of the accusation might be still insisted on. Clarendon, Inordinate anxiety, and unnecessary scruples in confession, instead of setting you free, which is the benefit to be looked for by confession, perplex you the more. Taylor. Look now for no enchanting voice, nor fear The bait of honied words. Drown'd in deep despair, He dares not offer one repenting prayer, Amaz'd he lies, and sadly looks for death. heir among the race of brutes, but will very little contribute to the discovery of one amongst man. Locke. king might appoint him keepers to look to him in sanctuary. Bacon. The dog's running away with the flesh, bids the cook look better to it another time. L'Estrange. For the truth of the theory I am no wise concerned; the composer of it must look to that. 21. To look to. To behold. To LOOK. v. a. 1. 13. To look into. To examine; to sift; to inspect closely; to observe narrowly. His nephew's levies to him appear'd To be a preparation 'gainst the Polack; But better look'd into, he truly found It was against your highness. Shakesp. Hamlet. The more frequently and narrowly we look into the works of nature, the more occasion we shall have to admire their beauty. Atterbury. It is very well worth a traveller's while to look into all that lies in his way. Addison on Italy. 2. 14. To look on. To respect; to esteem; to regard as good or bad. Ambitious men, if they be checked in their desires, become secretly discontent, and look upon men and matters with an evil eye. Bacon's Essays. If a harmless maid Prior. Should ere a wife become a nurse, Her friends would look on her the worse. 15. To look on. To consider; to conceive of; to think. I looked on Virgil as a succinct, majestick writer; one who weighed not only every thought, but every word and syllable. Dryden. He looked upon it as morally impossible, for persons infinitely proud to frame their minds to an impartial consideration of a religion that taught nothing but self-denial and the cross. South. Do we not all profess to be of this excellent religion? but who will believe that we do so, that shall look upon the actions, and consider the lives of the greatest part of Christians? Tillotson. In the want and ignorance of almost all things, they looked upon themselves as the happiest and wisest people of the universe. ness. Locke. Those prayers you make for your recovery are to be looked upon as best heard by God, if they move him to a longer continuance of your sickWake's Preparation for Death. 16. To look on. To be a mere idle spectator. I'll be a candle-holder, and look on. Shakesp. Some come to meet their friends, and to make merry; others come only to look on. Bacon. 17. To look over. To examine; to try one by one. Look o'er the present and the former time, 31 no example of so vile a crime Appears, then mourn. Dryden's Juvenal. A young child, distracted with the variety of his play-games, tired his maid every day to look them over. Locke. 18. To look out. To search; to seek. When the thriving tradesman has got more than he can well employ in trade, his next thoughts are to look out for a purchase. Locke. Where the body is affected with pain or sickness, we are forward enough to look out for remedies, to listen to every one that suggests them, and immediately to apply them. Atterbury. Where a foreign tongue is elegant, expressive, and compact, we must look out for words as beautiful and comprehensive as can be found. Felton on the Classicks. The curious are looking out, some for flattery, some for ironies, in that poem; the sour folks think they have found out some. Swift. 19. To look out. To be on the watch. Is a man bound to lock out sharp to plague himCollier. 20. To look to. To watch; to take care of. self? There is not a more fearful wild fowl than your lion living; and we ought to look to it. Shakesp. Who knocks so loud at door? Look to the door there, Francis. Shakesp. Shakesp. Let this fellow be looked to: let some of my people have a special care of him. Uncleanly scruples fear not you; look to't. Shak. Know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. Proverbs, xxvii. 33. When it came once among our people, that the state offered conditions to strangers that would stay, we had work enough to get any of our men to look to our ship. Bacon. if any took sanctuary for case of treason, the 3. 4. To seek; to search for. Woodward. Such a spirit must be left behind! A spirit fit to start into an empire, And look the world to law. Dryden's Cleomenes. To look out. To discover by searching. Casting my eye upon so many of the general bills as next came to hand, I found encouragement from them to look out all the bills I could. Graunt. Whoever has such treatment, when he is a man, will look out other company, with whom he can be at ease. Locke LOOK. interj. [properly the imperative mood of the verb: it is sometimes look ye.] See! lo! behold! observe! Look, where he comes, and my good man too; he's as far from jealousy as I am from giving him cause. Shakesp. Look you, he must seem thus to the world: fear not your advancement. Shakesp. Look, when the world hath fewest barbarous people, but such as will not marry, except they know means to live, as it is almost every where at this day, except Tartary, there is no danger of inundations of people. Bacon's Essays. Look you! we that pretend to be subject to a constitution, must not carve out our own quality; for at this rate a cobler may make himself a lord. Collier on Pride. Look. n. s. 1. Air of the face; mein; cast of the countenance. 2. Thou cream-fac'd loon! Where got'st thou that goose look? Shakesp. Thou wilt save the afflicted people, but will bring down high looks. Psal. xviii. 27. Them gracious Heav'n for nobler ends design'd, Their looks erected, and their clay refin'd. J. Dryden, jun. And though death be the king of terrors, yet pain, disgrace, and poverty, have frightful looks, able to discompose most men. The act of looking or seeing. Then on the croud he cast a furious look, And wither'd all their strength. Locke. "Dryden. When they met they made a surly stand, And glar'd, like angry lions, as they pass'd, And wish'd that ev'ry look might be their last. Lo'OKER. n. s. [from look.] 1. 2. Dryden. Looker on. Spectator, not agent. Shepherds poor pipe, when his harsh sound testifies anguish, into the fair looker on, pastime not passion enters. Sidney. Such labour is then more necessary than pleasant, both to them which undertake it, and for the lookers on. Hooker. My business in this state Made me a looker on here in Vienna; Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble Till it o'er-run the stew. Shakesp. Meas. for Meas. Did not this fatal war affront thy coast, Yet sattest thou an idle looker on? The Spaniard's valour lieth in the eyes of the looker on; but the English valour lieth about the soldier's heart: a valour of glory and a valour of natural courage are two things. Bacon. Fairfax. Command a mirror hither straight, Shakesp There is none so homely but loves a lookingglass. South. We should make no other use of our neighbours faults, than of a looking-glass to mend our own manners by. L'Estrange. The surface of the lake of Nemi is never ruffled with the least breath of wind, which perhaps, together with the clearness of its waters, gave it formerly the name of Diana's looking-glass From her cabin'd loophole peep. Milton. Milton. The captive hasteneth that he may be loosed. Isaiah. He loosed and set at liberty four or five kings of the people of that country, that Berok kept in chains. Abbot. 5. To free from any obligation. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. What hath a great influence upon the health, is going to stool regularly: people that are very loose have seldom strong thoughts, or strong bodies. Locke on Education. 11. Disengaged; not enslaved. Their prevailing principle is, to sit as loose from pleasures, and be as moderate in the use of them as they can. Atterbury. Walk not near you corner house by night; for 6. To free from any thing that shackles 12. Disengaged from obligation: comthere are blunderbusses planted in every loophole, that go off at the squeaking of a fiddle. 2. A shift; an evasion. the mind. Ay; there's the man, who, loos'd from lust and monly with from; in the following line with of. Dryden's Spanish Fryar. Now I stand 7. Less to the pretor owes than to himself. Dryden. Loose of my vow; but who knows Cato's thoughts? Addison. 13. Free from confinement. Luke. They did not let prisoners loose homeward. Isaiah, When heav'n was nam'd they loos'd their hold Prior. Needless, or needful, I not now contend, In which y' are hamper'd by the fetlock, less fellow. D. Trevoux derives lour- Siker, thou's but a lazy loord, And rekes much of thy swinke, That with fond terms and witless words Then sprung she forth, they follow'd her amain. Ye should have hearkened, and not have loosed The emperor loosing from Barcelona, came to the 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. If he should intend his voyage towards my wife, Lo! I see four men loose walking. Dan. iii. 25. Those few that clashed might rebound after the Not tight: as, a loose robe. With extended wings a host might pass, Wanton; not chaste. 14. Remiss; not attentive. If to break loose from the conduct of reason, and to want that restraint of examination which keeps us from chusing the worse, be liberty, madmen and fools are only the freemen. Locke. Like two black storms on either hand, We ourselves make our fortunes good or bad and when God lets loose a tyrant upon us, or a sickness, if we fear to die, or know not to be patient, the calamity sits heavy upon us. Taylor. In addition and division, either of space or duration, it is the number of its repeated additions or divisions that alone remains distinct, as will appear to any one who will let his thoughts lose in the vast expansion of space, or divisibility of matter. Locke If improvement cannot be made a recreation, they must be let loose to the childish play they fancy; which they should be weaned from, by being made surfeit of it. Locke. Milton. LOOSE. n. s. [from the verb.] Fair Venus seem'd unto his bed to bring If an author be loose and diffuse in his stile, the Vague; indeterminate; not accurate; It is but a loose thing to speak of possibilities, without the particular designs; so is it to speak of lawfulness without the particular cases. Bacon. It seems unaccountable to be so exact in the quantity of liquor where a small error was of little concern, and to be so loose in the doses of powerful medicines. To bleer mine eyes do'st think. Spenser's Pastorals. 8. Not strict; not rigid. 1. Liberty; freedom from restraint. Come, and forsake thy cloying store, And all the busy pageantry 2. That wise men scorn, and fools adore : Dryden's Horace. Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow, To mind the rider's voice, or hear the reins; Poets should not, under a pretence of imitating Dismission from any restraining force. Air at large maketh no noise, except it be sharply percussed; as in the sound of a string, where air is percussed by a hard and stiff body, Bacon. and with a sharp loose. LO'OSELY. adv. [from loose.] 1. Not fast; not firmly; easily to be disengaged. I dare venture nothing without a strict exami- I thought your love eternal: was it ty'd Her golden locks for haste were loosely shed Without union or connection. |