He has witnin himself all degrees of perfection that exist loosely and separately in all second beings. Norris.

4. Irregularly.

A bishop, living loosely, was charged that his conversation was not according to the apostles lives. Camden.

5. Negligently; carelessly.

We have not loosely through silence permitted Hooker. things to pass away as in a dream.

The chiming of some particular words in the memory, and making a noise in the head, seldom happens but when the mind is lazy, or very loosely and negligently employed. Locke.

6. Unsolidly; meanly; without dignity. A prince should not be so loosely studied, as to remember so weak a composition."

7. Unchastely.

Shakesp.

Pope.

The stage how loosely does Astræa tread, Who fairly puts all characters to bed? To Lo'OSEN. v. n. [from loose.] To part; to tend to separation.

When the polypus appears in the throat, extract it that way, it being more ready to loosen when pulled in that direction than by the nose. Sharp's Surgery.

To Lo'OSEN. v. a. [from loose.]
1. To relax any thing tied.
2. To make less coherent.

After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good, by loosening of the earth. Bacon's Nat. Hist. 3. To separate a compages.

From their foundation loosing to and fro, They pluck'd the seated hills with all their load. Milton. She breaks her back, the loosen'd sides give way, Aud plunge the Tuscan soldiers in the sea. Dryd. 4. To free from restraint.

It resolves those difficulties which the rules beget; it loosens his hands, and assists his understanding. Dryden's Dufresnoy

5. To make not costive.

Fear looseneth the belly; because the heat retiring towards the heart, the guts are relaxed in

the same manner as fear also causeth trembling. Bacon's Nat. Hist.

Lo'OSENESS. n. s. [from loose.] 1. State contrary to that of being fast or fixed.

The cause of the casting of skin and shell should| seem to be the looseness of the skin or shell, that sticketh not close to the flesh. Bacon's Nat. Hist. 2. Latitude; criminal levity.

A general looseness of principles and manners hath seized on us like a pestilence, that walketh not in darkness, but wasteth at noon-day. Atterb. 3. Irregularity; neglect of laws.

He endeavoured to win the common people, both by strained curtesy and by looseness of life. Hayward.

4. Lewdness; unchastity.

Courtly court he made still to his dame, Pour'd out in looseness on the grassy ground, Both careless of his health and of his fame.Spenser. 5. Diarrhoea; flux of the belly.

Taking cold moveth looseness by contraction of the skin and outward parts. Bacon's Nat. Hist. In pestilent diseases, if they cannot be expelled by sweat, they fall likewise into looseness. Baco.

Fat meats, in phlegmatick stomachs, procure looseness and hinder retention. Arbuth, on Aliments. Lo'OSESTRIFE. n. s. [lysimachia, Lat.] An herb. Miller.

Howell.

So long as there's a head, Hither will all the mountain spirits fly; Lop that but off. Dryden's Spanish Fryar. All that denominated it paradise was lopped off by the deluge, and that only left which it enjoyed in common with its neighbour countries. Woodward's Nat. Hist. Rhyme sure in needless bonds the poet ties, Procrustus like, the ax or wheel applies, size.

Smith.

LOP. n. s. [from the verb.] 1. That which is cut from trees. Or siker thy head very tottie is, So on thy corbe shoulder it leans amiss; Now thyself hath lost both lop and top, As my budding branch thou would'st crop. Spens. Nor should the boughs grow too big, because they give opportunity to the rain to soak into the tree, which will quickly cause it to decay, so that you must cut it down, or else both body and lop will be of little value. Mortimer.

2. [Loppa, Swedish.] A flea. LOPE. pret. of leap. Obsolete.

With that sprang forth a naked swain, With spotted wings like peacock's train, And laughing lepe to a tree. Spenser's Pastorals. LOPPER. n. s. [from lop.] One that

cuts trees.

LO'PPERED. adj. Coagulated: as loppered milk. Ainsworth. Thus it is still called in Scotland. LOQUA'CIOUS. adj. [loquax, Lat.] 1. Full of talk; full of tongue.

2.

To whom sad Eve,

Confessing soon; yet not before her judge
Bold, or loquacious, thus abash'd reply'd. Milton.
In council she gives licence to her tongue,
Loquacions, brawling, ever in the wrong. Dryden.
Speaking.

Blind British bards, with volant touch Traverse loquacious strings, whose solemn notes Provoke to harmless revels. Philips.

3. Apt to blab; not secret. LOQUA CITY.

n. s. [loquacitas, Lat.] Too much talk. Why loquacity is to be avoided, the wise man gives sufficient reason, for in the multitude of words there wanteth not sin.

Ray.

Arbuthnot.

Too great loquacity, and too great taciturnity by fits. LORD. n. s. [plafond, Sax.] 1. Monarch; ruler; governour.

Milton.

3.

Man over man

Milton.

game,

'Tis death to fight, but kingly to control Lord-like at ease, with arbitrary Dow'r,

To peel the chiefs, the people to devour. Dryden. A husband.

I oft in bitterness of soul deplor'd

My absent daughter, and my dearer lord. Pope. 5. One who is at the head of any busi

6.

7.

ness; an overseer.

Grant harvest lord more by a penny or two, To call on his fellows the better to do. Tusser. A nobleman.

Thou art a lord, and nothing but a lord. Shakesp. A general name for a peer of England. Nor were the crimes objected against him so clear, as to give convincing satisfaction to the major part of both houses, especially that of the lords. King Charles. 8. A baron, as distinguished from those of higher title.

9. An honorary title applied to officers: as, lord chief justice, lord mayor, lord chief baron.

To LORD. v.n. To domineer; to rule despotically with over before the subject of power.

Unrighteous lord of love! what law is this, That me thou makest thus tormented be? The whiles she lordeth in licentious bliss Of her free will, scorning both thee and me. Spens. I see them lording it in London streets. Shakesp.

Those huge tracts of ground they lorded over, begat wealth, wealth ushered in pride. Howel. They had by this possess'd the tow'rs of Gath, Ani lorded over them whom now they serve. Milton.

I should choose rather to be tumbled into the dust in blood, bearing witness to any known truth of our Lord, than by a denial of truths, through blood and perjury wade to a sceptre, and lord it in a throne. South. But if thy passions lord it in thy breast, Art thou not still a slave? Dryden's Persius.

The valour of one man th' afflicted throne Imperial, that once lorded o'er the world, Sustain'd.

Philips.

The civilizers! the disturbers say, The robbers, the corrupters of mankind! Proud vagabonds! who make the world your home, And lord it where you have no right. Philip's Brit. LO'RDING. n. s. [from lord.] A little lord; a lord in contempt or ridicule. I'll question you

Of my lord's tricks, and yours, when you were boys.

You were pretty lordings then. Shak. Winter's Tale.
To lordings proud I tune my lay,
Who feast in bower or hall;

Though dukes they be, to dukes I say,
That pride will have a fall.
LO'RDLING. n. s. A diminutive lord.

Traulus, of amphibious breed,
By the dam from brdlings sprung,
By the fire exhal'd from dung.
LORDLINESS. n. s. [from lordly.]
1. Dignity; high station.

Swift.

Swift.

He made not lord.
Of Athens he was lord. Dryden's Knight's Tale.
We have our author's only arguments to prove,
that heirs are lords over their brethren. Locke.
They call'd their lord Actæon to the
He shook his head in answer to the name. Addison. 2. Pride; haughtiness.
O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, LO'RDLY. adj. [from lord.]
Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain.
Vanity of Human Wishes.
person.

Thou vouchsafest here to visit me,
Doing the honour of thy lordliness
To one so weak. Shakesp. Antony and Cleopatra.

Of this fair mansion, master of my servants,
Queen o'er myself; and even now, but now,
This house, these servants, and this same myself
Are yours, my lord. Shakesp. Merch. of Venice.
A tyrant; an oppressive ruler.
Now being assembled into one company, rather
without a lord than at liberty to accomplish their
misery, they fall to division.
Hayward.

1. Befitting a lord.

Lordly sins require lordly estates to support them. South.

2. Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent. Bad as yourself, my Lord;

An't like your lordly lord protectorship! Shakesp. Of me as of a common enemy,

So dreaded once, may now exasperate them,

I know not: lords are lordliest in their wine. Mitt.
Expect another message more imperious,
More lordly thund'ring than thou well wilt bear.
Milton

Ev'ry rich and lordly swain, With pride wou'd drag about her chain. Swift. LO'RDLY. adv. Imperiously; despotically; proudly.

So when a tyger sucks the bullock's blood, A famish'd lion, issuing from the wood, Roars lordly fierce, and challenges the food. Dryd. LO'RDSHIP. n. s. [from lord.]

1. Dominion; power.

Let me never know that any base affection should get any lordship in your thoughts. Sidney. It being set upon such an insensible rising of the ground, it gives the eye lordship over a good large circuit. Sidney. They which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles, exercise lordship over them, and their great ones exercise authority upon them.

4. Mark, x. 42. Needs must the lordship there from virtue slide. Fairfax.

2. Seigniory; domain.

How can those grants of the kings be avoided, without wronging of those lords which had those lands and lordships given them? Spenser on Ireland. There is lordship of the fee, wherein the master doth much joy, when he walketh about his own possessions. Wotton.

What lands and lordships for their owner know My quondam barber, but his worship now. Dryden. 3. Title of honour used to a nobleman not a duke.

1 assure your lordship, The extreme horrour of it almost turn'd me To air, when first I heard it.

Ben Jonson.

I could not answer it to the world, if I gave not your lordship my testimony of being the best husband now living. Dryden.

4. Titulary compellation of judges, and some other persons in authority and office.

LORE. n. s. [from læɲan to learn.] Les son; doctrine; instruction.

And, for the modest lore of maidenhood Bids me not sojourn with these armed men. Oh whither shall I fly?

5.

Pope.

Fame-few, alas! the casual blessing boast,
So hard to gain, so easy to be lost!
To be deprived of.

He lost his right hand with a shot, and, instead thereof, ever after used a hand of iron. Knolles. Who conquer'd him, and in what fatal strife The youth, without a wound, could lose his life. Dryden. To suffer diminution of.

thereof.

To possess no longer: contrary to keep.
They have lost their trade of woollen drapery.
Graunt.

No youth shall equal hopes of glory give, The Trojan honour and the Roman boast, Admir'd when living, and ador'd when lost. Dryd. We should never lose sight of the country, though sometimes entertained with a distant prospect of it.

6. To miss, so as not to find. Venus wept the sad disaster

7.

Fairfax. 8.

The law of nations, or the lore of war. Fairfax.
Calm regions once,

And full of peace; now tost, and turbulent!
For understanding rul'd not; and the will
Heard not her lore! but in subjection now
To sensual appetite.
Milton's Paradise Lost.
The subtile fiend his lore

Soon learn'd, now milder, and thus answer'd

smooth.

Milton.

Lo! Rome herself, proud mistress now no more Of arts, but thund'ring against heathen lore. Pope. LORE [leonan, Sax.] Lost; destroyed. Not in use.

LO'REL. n. s. [from leonan, Sax.] An abandoned scoundrel. Obsolete.

Siker thou speakest like a lewd lorell Of heaven to deemen so:

How be I am but rude and borrell, Yet nearer ways I know. Spenser's Pastorals. To LO'RICATE. v. a. To plate over.

Nature hat loricated, or plaistered over, the sides of the tympanum in animals with ear-wax, to stop and entangle any insects that should attempt to creep in there." Ray. LO'RIMER. n. s. [lormier, Fr.] BridleLO'RINER. cutter.

LO'RIOT. n. s. [galgulus.] A kind of bird. LORN. pret. pass. [of lonian, Sax.] Forsaken; lost.

Who after that he had fair Una lorn, Through light misdeeming of her loyalty. Fairy Q. To LOSE. v. a. pret. and part. lost. [leonan, Sax.]

1. To forfeit by unsuccessful contest: the contrary to win.

VOL. II.

Of having lost her fav'rite dove.

Addison.

Prior.

To separate or alienate. It is perhaps in this sense always used passively, with to before that from which the separation is made.

But if to honour lost 'tis still decreed

For you my bowl shall flow, my flocks shall bleed; Judge and assert my right, impartial Jove. Pope. When men are openly abandoned, and lost to all shame, they have no reason to think it hard, if their memory be reproached.

To ruin; to send to perdition. In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost. 9. To bewilder, so as that the longer known.

Swift.

Addison.

is way no

1 will go lose myself And wander up and down to view the city. Shakes. Nor are constant forms of prayer more likely to flat and hinder the spirit of prayer and devotion, than unpremeditated and confused variety to distract and lose it. King Charles.

When the mind pursues the idea of infinity, it uses the ideas and repetition of numbers, which are so many distinct ideas, kept best by number from running into a confused heap, wherein the mind loses itself. Locke.

But rebel wit deserts thee oft in vain, Lost in the maze of words he turns again 10. To deprive of.

Pope.

How should you go about to lose him a wife he loves with so much passion? Temple.

11.

Not to employ; not to enjoy. The happy have whole days, and those they use; Th' unhappy have hours, and these they lose. Dryden.

To lose these years which worthier thoughts require, To lose that health which should those thoughts inspire. Savage.

12. To squander; to throw away. I no more complain, Time, health, and fortune are not lost in vain. Pope. 13. To suffer to vanish from view.

Like following life in creatures we dissect, We lose it in the moment we detect.

Oft in the passions' wild rotation tost, Our spring of action to ourselves is lost. 14. To destroy by shipwreck.

Pope.

Not to win.

We'll hear poor rogues

Parnel.

Talk of court news, and we'll talk with them too, Who loses, and who wins; who's in, who's out. Shakesp. 2. To decline; to fail.

Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd, and like folly shews. Milt. LO'SEABLE. adj. [from lose.] Subject to privation.

Consider whether motion, or a propensity to it, be an inherent quality belonging to atoms in general, and not loseable by them. Boyle. Lo'SEL. n. s. [from lorian to perish.] A scoundrel; a sorry worthless fellow. A word now obsolete.

Such losels and scatterlings cannot easily, by any sheriff, be gotten, when they are challenged for any such fact. Spenser.

A losel wand'ring by the way,
One that to bounty never cast his mind,
Ne thought of honour ever did assay
His baser breast.

No man can be provident of his time that is not prudent in the choice of his company; and if one of the speakers be vain, tedious, and trifling, he that hears, and he that answers, are equal losers of their time. Taylor's Holy Living. It cannot last, because that act seems to have been carried on rather by the interest of particular countries, than by that of the whole, which must be a loser by it. Temple.

A bull with gilded horns, Shall be the portion of the conquering chief; A sword and helm shall chear the loser's grief. Dryd. Losers and male contents, whose portion and inheritance is a freedom to speak. South. Loss. n. s. [from lose.]

1. Detriment; privation; diminution of good: the contrary to gain.

The only gain he purchased was to be capable of loss and detriment for the good of others. Hooker. An evil natured son is the dishonour of his father that begat him; and a foolish daughter is born to his loss. Ecclus.

The abatement of price of any of the landholder's commodities, lessens his income and is a clear loss. Locke.

Her fellow ships from far her loss descry'd: But only she was sunk, and all were safe beside. Dryden

There succeeded an absolute victory for the English, with the slaughter of above two thousand of the enemy, with the loss but of one man, though not a few hurt. Bacon. 5. Fault; puzzle: used only in the following phrase.

Not the least transaction of sense and motion in man, but philosophers are at a loss to comprehend. South's Sermons.

Reason is always striving, and always at a loss, while it is exercised about that which is not its proper object. Dryden. A man may sometimes be at a loss which side to close with. Baker on Learning.

6. Useless application.

It would be loss of time to explain any farther our superiority to the enemy in numbers of men and horse. Addison.

LOST. participial adj. [from lose.] No longer perceptible.

In seventeen days appear'd your pleasing coast, And woody mountains, half in vapours lost.

Pope.

LOT. n. s. [hlaut, Goth. plot, Sax. lot, Dut.]

1. Fortune; state assigned.

Kala at length concludes my ling'ring lot:
Disdain me not, although I be not fair,
Who is an heir of many hundred sheep, ̧
Doth beauty keep which never sun can burn,
Nor storms do turn.

Sidney. Our own lot is best; and by aiming at what we have not, we lose what we have already. L'Estran. Prepar'd I stand; he was but born to try The lot of man, to suffer and to die. Pope's Odyssey. 2. A die, or any thing used in determining chances.

Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the scapegoat. Lev. xvi. 8. Their tasks in equal portions she divides, And where unequal, there by lots decides. Dryd. Ulysses bids his friends to cast lots, to shew, that he would not voluntarily expose them to so imminent danger.

A lotion is a form of medicine compounded of aqueous liquids, used to wash any part with. Quincy.

In lotions in women's cases, he orders two portions of hellebore macerated in two cotyle of Arbuthnot on Coins.

water.

Fish used to salt water delight more in fresh; we see that salmon and smelts love to get into rivers, though against the stream. Bacon's Natural History. Wit, eloquence, and poetry, Arts which I lov'd.

Cowles.

He lov'd my worthless rhymes, and, like a friend, Would find out something to commend. Cowley.

Let high-sighted tyranny range on, Till each man drop by lottery.

Shakesp.

The lottery that he hath devised in these three chests of gold, silver, and lead, will never be chosen by any but whom you shall rightly love. Shakesp. Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man, her slave, oppress, Still various and unconstant still, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery of life.

Dryden's Horace. Every warriour may be said to be a soldier of fortune, and the best commanders to have a lottery South. for their work.

Lo'VAGE. n.s. [levisticum, Lat.] A plant. LOUD. adj.

1. Noisy; striking the ear with great force.

Contending on the Lesbian shore, His prowess Philomelides confess'd,

And loud acclaiming Greeks the victor bless'd.

The numbers soft and clear,

Pope,

to offend.

LOVE. n. s. [from the verb.]

1.

3. It seems in Shakespeare to signify a lucky or wished chance.

If you have heard your general talk of Rome, And of his friends there, it is lots to blanks My name hath touch'd your ears; it is Menenius. Shakesp. 4. A portion; a parcel of goods as being drawn by lot: as, what lot of silks had you at the sale?

5. Proportion of taxes: as, to pay scot and lot.

LOTE tree, or nettle tree. n. s.

A plant. The leaves of the lote tree are like those of the nettle. The fruit of this tree is not so tempting to us, as it was to the companions of Ulysses: the wood is durable, and used to makes pipes for wind instruments: the root is proper for hafts of knives, and was highly esteemed by the Romans for its beauty and use. Miller. LOTOS. n. s. [Lat.]

See LOTE.

The trees around them all their food produce, Lotos, the name divine, nectareous juice. Pope. LOTION. n. s. [lotio, Lat. lotion, Fr.]

2.

South.

To regard with passionate affection, as

that of one sex to the other.

Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love. -It is to be made all of sighs and tears; It is to be made all of faith and service; It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion, and all made of wishes; All adoration, duty, and obedience; All humbleness, all patience, all impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance.

I could not love I'm sure

One who in love were wise.

3.

Love the Lord thy God with all thine heart.

Deut. vi. 5.

The passion between the sexes. Hearken to the birds love-learned song,

The dewie leaves among! Spenser's Epithalam. While idly I stood looking on,

Shakesp.

I found th' effect of love in idleness.
My tales of love were wont to weary you;

I know you joy not in a love discourse. Shakesp.
I look'd upon her with a soldier's eye,
That lik'd, but had a rougher task in hand
Than to drive liking to the name of love. Shakesp.
What need a vermil-tinctur'd lip for that,
Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn? Milt.
Love quarrels oft in pleasing concord end,
Not wedlock treachery, endang'ring life. Milton.
A love potion works more by the strength of
charm than nature.
Collier on Popularity.

You know y' are in my power by making love. Let mutual joys our mutual trust combine, And love, and love-born confidence be thine.

Dryden.

Pope.

Cold is that breast which warm'd the world before, And these love-darting eyes must roll no more. Pope

Kindness; good-will; friendship. What love, think'st thou, I sue so much to get? My love till death, my humble thanks, my prayers? That love which virtue begs, and virtue grants.

Shakesp God brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince. Daniel, i. 9. The one preach Christ of contention, but the other of love. Phil. i. 17. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

John, xiii. 35. Unwearied have we spent the nights, Till the Ledean stars, so fam'd for love, Wonder'd at us from above.

Courtship.

Demetrius

Cowley

Made love to Nedar's daughter Helena, And won her soul. Shakesp. Mids. Night's Dream. If you will marry, make your loves to me, My lady is bespoke.

Shakesp. King Lear. The enquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, the preference of it; and the belief of truth, the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human naBacon.

ture.

4. Tenderness; parental care.

Shakesp.

5.

Cowley.

The jealous man wishes himself a kind of deity to the person he loves; he would be the only employment of her thoughts.

No religion that ever was, so fully represents the goodness of God, and his tender love to mankind, which is the most powerful argument to Tillotson.

the love of God.

Liking; inclination to: as, the love of one's country.

In youth, of patrimonial wealth possest, The love of science faintly warm'd his breast.

Addison.

Fenton.

Open the temple gates unto my love. Spenrev. If that the world and love were young, And truth in ev'ry shepherd's tongue; These pretty pleasures might me move, To live with thee, and be thy love.

Shakesp.

The banish'd never hopes his love to see. Dryden.

4. To be pleased with; to delight in.

The lover and the love of human kind. Vope. 7. Lewdness.

Prior.

Love is the great instrument of nature, the bond and cement of society, the spirit and spring of the

universe: love is such an affection as cannot so properly be said to be in the soul, as the soul to be in that it is the whole man wrapt up into one desire.

11. Picturesque representation of love. The lovely babe was born with ev'ry grace; Such was his form as painters, when they show Their utmost art, on naked loves bestow. Dryden. 12. A word of endearment.

'Tis no dishonour, trust me, love, 'tis none; I would die for thee. Dryden's Don Sebastian. 13. Due reverence to God.

I know that you have not the love of God in you. John.

Love is of two sorts, of friendship and of desire; the one betwixt friends, the other betwixt lovers; the one a rational, the other a sensitive love: so our love of God consists of two parts, as esteeming of God, and desiring of him. Hammond.

The love of God makes a man chaste without the laborious arts of fasting, and exterior disciplines; he reaches at glory without any other arms but those of love. Taylor 14. A kind of thin silk stuff. Ainsworth. This leaf held near the eye, and obverted to the light, appeared so full of pores, with such a transparency as that of a sieve, a piece of cypress, or lovehood. Boyle on Colours. Lo'vEAPPLE. n. s. A plant. Miller. LOVEKNOT. n. s. [love and knot.] A complicated figure, by which affection interchanged is figured. LOVELETTER. n. s. [love and letter.] Letter of courtship.

Have I escaped loveletters in the holyday time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them? Shakesp.

The children are educated in the different notions of their parents; the sons follow the father, while the daughters read loveletters and romances to their mother.

1. One who is in love.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. Shak. Let it be never said, that he whose breast Is fill'd with love, should break a lover's rest.

Dryd.

2. A friend; one who regards with kind

3.

ness.

Your brother and his lover have embrac'd, Shak. I tell thee, fellow,

Thy general is my lover: I have been

Shakesp.

The book of his good act, whence men have read
His fame unparallel'd haply amplified.
One who likes any thing.

To be good and gracious, and a lover of knowledge, are amiable things. LOUVER. n. s. [from l'ouvert, Fr. an opening.] An opening for the smoke to go out at in the roof of a cottage.

Burnet's Theory of the Earth.

Spenser. LO'VESECRET. n. s. [love and secret.] Secret between lovers.

What danger, Arimant, is this you fear? Or what lovesecret which I must not hear? Dryden. LOVESICK. adj. [love and sick.] Lisordered with love; languishing with amorous desire.

See, on the shoar inhabits purple spring,

Where nightingales their lovesick ditty sing. Dryd.
To the dear mistress of my bovesick mind,
Her swain a pretty present has design'd. Dryden.
Of the reliefs to ease a lovesick mind,
Flavia prescribes despair.
Granville.

Away to sweet beds of flowers,

Lovethoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers. Shakesp LO'VETOY. n.s. [love and toy.] Small presents given by lovers.

Has this amorous gentleman presented himself with any lovetoys, such as gold suuff-boxes? Arbuthnot and Pope. Lo'VETRICK. n. s. [love and trick.] of expressing love.

Art

Donne.

Other disports than dancing jollities; Other lovetricks than glancing with the eyes. LOUGH. n. s. [loch, Irish, a lake.] A lake; a large inland standing water.

A people near the northern pole that won, Whom Ireland sent from loughes and forests hore, Divided far by sea from Europe's shore. Fairfax. Lough Ness never freezes. Phil. Trans. LO'VING. participial adj. [from love.] 1. Kind; affectionate.

So loving to my mother, That he would not let ev'n the winds of heav'n Visit her face too roughly. Shakesp. Hamlet. This earl was of great courage, and much loved of his soldiers, to whom he was no less loving again. Hayward.

2. Expressing kindness.

The king took her in his arms till she came to herself, and comforted her with loving words. LOVINGKINDNESS. n. s.

Esther, xv. 8. Tenderness;

favour; mercy. A scriptural word. Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies, and thy lovingkindnesses. Psalm xxv. 6.

He has adapted the arguments of obedience to the imperfection of our understanding, requiring us to consider him only under the amiable attributes of goodness and lovingkindness, and to adore him as our friend and patron. Rogers. LOVINGLY. adv. [from loving.] Affectionately; with kindness.

The new king, having no less lovingly performed all duties to him dead than alive, pursued on the siege of his unnatural brother, as much for the revenge of his father, as for the establishing of his own quiet. Sidney.

It is no great matter to live lovingly with goodnatured and meek persons; but he that can do so with the froward and perverse, he only hath true charity. Taylor.

LO'VINGNESS. n. s. [from loving.] Kindness; affection.

Carrying thus in one person the only two bands of good-will, loveliness and lovingness. Sidney.

LOVELILY. adv. [from lovely.] Amiably; in such a manner as to excite love.

A word not used.

Nothing new can spring

Without thy warmth, without thy influence bear, Or beautiful or lovesome can appear. Dryden. LO'VESONG. n. s. [love and song.] Song expressing love.

Poor Romeo is already dead! Stabb'd with a white wench's black eye, Run through the ear with a lovesong. Shakesp. Lovesong weeds and satyrick thorns are grown, Where seeds of better arts were early sown. Donne. LOVE'SUIT. n. s. [love and suit.] Courtship.

His lovesuit hath been to me As fearful as a siege.

Shakesp. Cymbeline. Lo'VETALE. n. s. [love and tale.] Narra

There were lice upon man and beast. Exod. viii. 18. Frogs, lice, and flies, must all his palace fill With loath'd intrusion. Milton.

It is beyond even an atheist's credulity and imprudence to affirm, that the first men might proceed out of the tumours of trees, as maggots and flies are supposed to do now, or might grow upon trees; or perhaps might be the lice of some prodigious animals, whose species is now extinct. Bentley.

Not that I value the money the fourth part of the skip of a louse. Swift. To LOUSE. v. a. [from the noun.] To clean from lice.

As for all other good women, that love to do but little work, how handsome it is to louse themselves in the sunshine, they that have been but a while in Ireland can well witness. Spenser on Ireland. You sat and lous'd him all the sun-shine day. Swift. Lo'USEWORT. n. s. The name of a plant; called also rattle and cock's-comb. Lo'USILY. adv. [from louse.] In a paltry, mean, and scurvy way. Lo'USINESS. n. s. [from lousy.] The state of abounding with lice. Lo'usy. adj. [from louse.]

1. Swarming with lice; over-run with lice. Let him be daub'd with lace, live high and whore,

Sometimes be lousy, but be never poor. Dryden. Sweetbriar and gooseberry are only lousy in dry times, or very hot places. Mortimer's Husbandry. 2. Mean; low born, bred on the dung-hill. I pray you now, remembrance on the lousy knave, mine host.

-A lousy knave,to have hisgibes and his mockeries. Shakesp. LOUT. n. s. [loete, old Dut. Mr. Lye.] A mean aukward fellow; a bumpkin; a clown.

Pamela, whose noble heart doth disdain, that the trust of her virtue is reposed in such a lout's hands, had yet, to shew an obedience, taken on shepherdish apparel. Sidney.

This lowt, as he exceeds our lords, the odds 1s, that we scarce are men, and you are gods. Shakesp.

I have need of such a youth, That can with some discretion do my business; For 'tis no trusting to yon foolish lout. Shakesp. Thus wail'd the louts in melancholy strain. Gay. To LOUT. v. n. [plutan to bend, Sax.] To pay obeisance; to bend; to bow; to stoop. Obsolete. It was used in a good sense.

He fair the knight saluted, louting low, Who fair him quitted, as that courteous was. Spenser.

Under the sand bag he was seen,

Louting low, like a for'ster green.

Ben Jonson.

The palmer, grey with age, with count'nance
Lowting low,

His head ev❜n to the earth before the king did bow. Drayton.

To LOUT. v. a. This word seems in
Shakespeare to signify, to overpower.
I am lowted by a traitor villain,
And cannot help the noble chevalier.
LOUTISH. adj. [from lout.] Clownish;
bumpkinly.

Shakesp.

This loutish clown is such, that you never saw so ill-favoured a visar; his behaviour such, that he is beyond the degree of ridiculous. Sidney. LO'UTISHLY. adv. [from lout.] With the air of a clown; with the gait of a bumpkin.

Low. adj.

1. Not high.

Their wand'ring course now high, now low, then hid,

Progressive, retrograde.

2. Not rising far upwards.

It became a spreading vine of low stature.

Milton.

Ezek. xvii. 6.

3. Not elevated in place, or local situa

tion.

O mighty Cæsar! dost thou lye so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure? Shakesp Julius Cas. Equal in days and nights, except to those Beyond the polar circles; to them day Had unbenighted shone, while the low sun, To recompense his distance, in their sight Had rounded still th' horizon, and not known Or east or west. Milton. Whatsoever is washed away from them is carried down into the lower grounds, aud into the sea, and nothing is brought back.

Burnet's Theory of the Earth. 4. Descending far downwards; deep. The lowest bottom shook of Erebus. Milton. So high as heav'd the tumid hills, so low, Down sunk a hollow bottom, broad and deep, Capacious bed of waters. Milton.

His volant touch Instinct through all proportions low and high Fled and pursu'd transverse the resonant fugue. Milton.

5. Not deep; not swelling high shallow: used of water.

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As two men were walking by the sea-side at low water, they saw an oyster, and both pointed at it together. L'Estrange.

It is low ebb sure with his accuser, when such peccadillos are put in to swell the charge. Atterb. Not of high price: as, corn is low. Not loud; not noisy.

As when in open air we blow,

The breath, though strain'd, sounds flat and low:
But if a trumpet take the blast,
It lifts it high, and makes it last.

Waller.

The theatre is so well contrived, that, from the very deep of the stage, the lowest sound may be heard distinctly to the farthest part of the audience; and yet, if you raise your voice as high as you please, there is nothing like an echo to cause confusion. Addison on Italy.

In latitudes near to the line. They take their course either high to the north, or low to the south. Abbot's Descrip. of the World. Not rising to so great a sum as some other accumulation of particulars.

Who can imagine, that in sixteen or seventeen hundred years time, taking the lower chronology that the earth had then stood, mankind should be Burnet. propagated no farther than Judæa?

10. Late in time: as, the lower empire. 11. Dejected; depressed.

His spirits are so low his voice is drown'd,
He hears as from afar, or in a swoon,
Like the deaf murmur of a distant sound.

Though he before had gall and rage, Which death or conquest must assuage; He grows dispirited and low,

He hates the fight, and shuns the foe. 12. Impotent; subdued.

Dryden.

To be worst, The lowest, most dejected thing of fortune, Stands still in esperance.

We wand'ring go through dreary wastes, Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps,

And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps. Pope. 2. Not at a high price; meanly. It is chiefly used in composition.

3.

Proud of their numbers, and secure in soul,
The confident and over-lusty French:
Do the low-rated English play at dice? Shakesp.
This is the prettiest low-born lass, that ever
Ran the greensord; nothing she does or seems,
But smacks of something greater than herself,
Too noble for this place. Shakesp. Winter's Tale.
Whenever I am turned out, my lodge descends
upon a low-spirited creeping family. Swift.
Corruption, like a general flood,
Shall deluge all; and av'rice creeping on,
Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
Pope.

In times approaching towards our own. In that part of the world which was first inhabited, even as low down as Abraham's time, they wandered with their flocks and herds. Locke. 4. With a depression of the voice.

Lucia, speak low, he is retir'd to rest. Addison 5. In a state of subjection.

How comes it that, having been once so low brought, and thoroughly subjected, they afterwards lifted up themselves so strongly again? Spenser. Pricr. To Low. v. a. [from the adjective.] To sink; to make low. Probably misprinted for lower.

Shakesp. Milton.

Why but to awe, Why but to keep ye low and ignorant? To keep them all quiet, he must keep them in greater awe and less splendor; which power he will use to keep them as low as he pleases, and at no more cost than makes for his own pleasure.

Graunt.

Milton.

The value of guineas was lowed from one-andtwenty shillings and sixpence to one-and-twenty shillings. Swift. To Low. v. n. [plonan, Sax. The adjective low, not high, is pronounced lo, and would rhyme to no: the verb low, to bellow, low; and is by Dryden rightly rhymed to now.] To bellow as a cow. Doth the wild ass bray when he has grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? Job, vi. 5 The maids of Argos, who, with frantick cries, And imitated lowings, fill'd the skies. Roscommon. Fair lö grac'd his shield, but Iö now, With horns exalted stands, and seems to low. Dryden.

Had he been born some simple shepherd's heir, The lowing herd, or fleecy sheep his care. Prior. Lo'wBELL. n.s. [laeye, Dut. lez, Sax. or log, Islandick, a flame, and bell.] A kind of fowling in the night, in which