To LURK. v. n. [probably lurch and lurk All naked. There might be many entertaining contrivances This our court, infected with their manners, Tusser's Husb. If sinners entice thee, consent not; if they say, let us lay wait for blood, let us turk privily for the innocent. Prov. i. 11. Lurk'd in her hand, and mourn'd his captive He springs to vengeance. Pope. I do not lurk in the dark: I am not wholly unknown to the world: I have set my name at length. Swift. LU'RKER. n. s. [from lurk.] A thief that lies in wait. LU'RKINGPLACE. n. s. [lurk and place.] Hiding place; secret place. Take knowledge of all the lurkingplaces where LU'SCIOUS. adj. [from delicious, say some; The food that to him now is as luscious as loches, shall shortly be as bitter as coloquintida. Shakesp. With brandish'd blade rush on him, break his glass, And shed the luscious liquor on the ground. Milton. And raisins keep their luscious native taste. Dryd. 3. Pleasing; delightful. they imagined. Psalms. Virtue was represented by Hercules: he is drawn offering to strike a dragon; by the dragon are meant all manner of lusts. Peacham on Drawing. All weigh our acts, and whate'er seems unjust, Impute not to necessity, but lust. Dryden. The lust of lucre. Pope. 3. Vigour; active power ; lustiness. Not used. He will bait him in with the luscious proposal of some gainful purchase. South. 4. to a great degree. LU'SCIOUSNESS. LU'SCIOUSLY. adv. [from luscious.] Sweet n. s. [from luscious.] Immoderate sweetness. him? Can there be a greater indulgence in God, than to imbitter sensualities whose lusciousness intoxicates us, and to clip wings which carry us from Decay of Piety. Peas breed worms by reason of the lusciousness and sweetness of the grain. Mortimer's Husbandry. LU'SERN. n. s. [lupus cervarius, Lat.] A lynx. LUSH. adj. Of a dark, deep, full colour, less. Giving sometimes prodigally; not because he To list; to like. Out of use. sires. Let's tune, and to it lustily a while. LU'STINESS. n.s. [from lusty.] Stoutness; Spenser. Where there is so great a prevention of the or dinary time, it is the lustiness of the child; but when it is less, it is some indisposition of the mother. Bacon's Nat. Hist. Cappadocian slaves were famous for their lasti ness, and being in good liking, were set on a stall to shew the good habit of their body, and made to play tricks before the buyers, to shew their ac tivity and strength. Dryden's Persius. LU'STLESS. adj. [from lust.] Not vigo- Garth. His better parts by lustral waves refin'd, His sons assembles, whose united prayer, That spirits are corporeal seems a conceit derogative unto himself, and such as he should rather labour to overthrow; yet thereby he establisheth the doctrine of lustrations, amulets, and charms. Brown's Vulg. Er. Should Io's priest command What were all their lustrations but so many solemn purifyings, to render both themselves and their sacrifices acceptable to their gods? South By ardent pray'r, and clear lustration, Psalm lxxiii. 7. 1. The mixed multitude fell a lusting; and the LU'STIHED. n.s. [from lusty.] Vigour; LU'SKISHLY. adv. [from luskish.] Lazily; ability. Not now in use. LU'SKISHNESS. n. s. [from luskish.] A disposition to laziness. Spenser. LUSO'RIOUS. adj. [lusorious, Lat.] Used in play; sportive. Things more open to exception, yet unjustly condemned as unlawful; such as the lusorious lots, dancing, and stage-plays. Bishop Sanderson. LU'SORY, adj. [lusorious, Lat.] Used in A goodly personage, Make livers pale, and lustihood dejected. Shakesp. -Lest it see more, prevent it; out, vile jelly! In all its lustre, to the noon-day sky. Addison's Ovid. The doubling lustres dance as quick as she. Pope. 3. Eminence; renown. His ancestors continued about four hundred years, rather without obscurity than with any great lustre. Wotton I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own. Swift 4. [From lustre, Fr. lustrum, Lat.] The space of five years. LU'STRING. n.s. [from lustre..] A shining silk; commonly pronounced lutestring.] LU'STROUS. adj. [from lustre.] Bright; shining; luminous. Noble heroes, my sword and yours are kin, good sparks and lustrous. Shake The more lustrous the imagination is, it filleth Bacon's Nat. Hist. and fixeth the better. LUSTWORT. n.s. [lust and wort.] An herb. Shakesp. We yet may see the old man in a morning, Lusty as health, come ruddy to the field, And there pursue the chace. LUTANIST. n. s. [from lute.] plays upon the lute. LUTA'RIOUS. adj. [lutarius, Lat.] 1. Living in mud. 2. Of the colour of mud. Otway. One who LUXURIANT. adj. [luxurians, Lat.] Exuberant; superfluously plenteous. A fluant and luxuriant speech becomes youth The mantling vine gently creeps luxuriant. Milt. LUXURIOUS. adj. [luxurieux, Fr. luxu 1. Delighting in the pleasures of the table. A scaly tortoise-shell of the lutarious kind. Grew. 2. Administring to luxury. Those whom last thou saw'st In triumph, and luxurious wealth, are they 3. Lustful; libidinous. 2. [From lut, Fr. lutum, Lat.] A compo- 6. sition like clay, with which chemists close up their vessels. Some temper lute, some spacious vessels move, These furnaces erect, and those approve. Garth. To LUTE. v. a. [from the noun.] To close with lute, or chemists clay. Take a vessel of iron, and let it have a cover of iron well luted, after the manner of the chemists. Bacon's Nat. Hist. Iron may be so heated, that, being closely luted in a glass, it shall constantly retain the fire. Wilkins's Math. Magick. LUTULENT. adj. [lutulentus, Lat.] Muddy; turbid. To LUX. To LUXATE. disjoint. } v. a. [luxer, Fr. luxo, Lat.] To put out of joint; to Consider well the lurated joint, which way it slipped out; it requireth to be returned in the Wiseman. same manner. She knows the heat of a luxurious bed : Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty. I grant him bloody, Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful. Anon. Shakesp. Shakesp. Voluptuous; enslaved to pleasure. Luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest tow'rs. Milton. Softening by pleasure. Repel the Tuscan foes, their city seize, Protect the Latians in luxurious ease. Luxuriant; exuberant. Till more hands Dryden. Aid us, LUXURIOUSLY. adv. [from luxurious.] Luxuriously pick'd out. Shakesp Dryden. Where mice and rats devour'd poetick bread, And with heroick verse luxuriously were fed. Dryd. He never supt in solemn state; Nor day to night luxuriously did join. LUXURY. n. s. [luxuré, old Fr. luxuria, Lat.] 1. Voluptuousness; addictedness to plea Urge his hateful luxury, His bestial appetite in change of lust, 3. Luxuriance; exuberance. The undue situation or connexion of parts, in fractures and luxations, are to be rectified by chi-4. rurgical means. Floyer. Prior. LUXE. n.s. [French; luxus, Lat] Luxu- Flowers grow up in the garden in the greatest luxuriancy and profusion. Spectator. While through the parting robe th' alternate breast la full luxuriance rose. Thomson's Summer. Young trees of several kinds set contiguous in a fruitful ground, with the luxury of the trees will incorporate. Bacon, Delicious fare. He cut the side of the rock for a garden, and by laying on it earth, furnished out a kind of luxury for a hermit. Addison. in which men have the qualities of wild beasts. He sees like a man in his sleep, and grows as much the wiser as the man that dreamt of a lycanthropy, and was for ever after wary not to come near a river. Taylor. Spenser. LYKE. adj. for like. LYING. participial noun, from lie, whether it signifies to be recumbent, or to speak falsely, or otherwise. They will have me whipt for speaking true, thou wilt have me whipt for lying, and sometimes I am whipt for holding my peace. Shak. King Lear. Many tears and temptations befal me by the lying in wait of the Jews. Acts, xx. 19. LYMPH. n. s. [lymphe, Fr. lympha, Lat.] Water; transparent colourless liquor. When the cycle passeth through the mesentery, it is mixed with the lymph, the most spirituous and elaborated part of the blood. Arbuthnot on Ali. LYMPHATED. adj. [lymphatus, Lat.] Mad. Dict. LYMPHATICK. n. s. [lymphatique, Fr. from lympha, Lat.] The lymphaticks are slender pellucid tubes, whose cavities are contracted at small and unequal distances: they are carried into the glands of the mesentery, receiving first a fine thin lymph from the lymphatick ducts, which dilutes the chylous fluid. Cheyne. Upon the death of ananimal, the spirits may sink into the veins, or lymphaticks, and glandules. Floyer, LYMPHEDUCT. n. s. [lympha and ductus, Lat.] A vessel which conveys the lymph. The glands, All artful knots, of various hollow threads, LYNDEN-TREE. n s. [tilia, Lat.] A plant. LYNX. n. s. [Lat.] A spotted beast, remarkable for speed and sharp sight. He that has an idea of a beast with spots, has but a confused idea of a leopard, it not being thereby sufficiently distinguished from a lynx. Locke. What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lina's beam. Pope. LYRE. n. s. [lyre, Fr. lyra, Lat.] A harp; a musical instrument to which poetry is, by poetical writers, supposed to be sung. With other notes than to th' Orphean lyre. Milt. My softest verse, my darling lyre, Upon Euphelia's toilet lay. Prior. He never touched his lure in such a truly chromatick manner as upon that occasion. Arbuthnot. LYRICAL adj. [lyricus, Lat. lyrique, to LY'RICK. Fr.] Pertaining an harp, or to odes or poetry sung to an harp; singing to an harp. All his trophies hung and acts enroll'd In copious legend, or sweet lyrick soug. Milton Somewhat of the purity of English, somewhat of more equal thoughts, somewhat of sweetness in the numbers; in one word, somewhat of a finer turn and more lyrical verse is yet wanting. Dryd. The lute neglected, and the lyrick muse, Love taught my tears in sadder notes to flow, Pope. And tun'd my heart to elegies of woe. LY'RICK. n. s. A poet who writes songs to the harp. The greatest conqueror in this nation, after the manner of the old Grecian lyricks, and not only compose the words of his divine odes, but set them Addison. to musick himself. LY. A very frequent termination both of names of places and of adjectives and adverbs; when ly terminates the name of a place, it is derived from leag, Sax. a field. Gibson. When it ends an adjective or adverb, it is contracted from lich, like: as, beastly, beastlike; plain-LY'RIST. n. s. [lyristes, Lat.] A musily, plainlike. LYCANTHROPY. n. s. [lycanthopie, Fr. Xúxar and árdgwwe.] A kind of madness, cian who plays upon the harp. His tender theme the charming lyrist chose Minerva's anger, and the direful woes Which voyaging from Troy the victors bore. Pope. MAC M HAS, in English, one unvaried sound, by compression of the lips; Like a big wife, at sight of lothed meat, sugar. Donne. fully can there be, or madness, than for such a man to macerate himself when he need not? To steep almost to solution. In lotions in women's cases, he orders two por- MACERATION. n.s. [maceration, Fr. from 2. [Macaron, Fr.] A kind of sweet bis- MACAW. n. s. A bird in the West Indies, Miller. Quincy. MAD machina, Lat.] A constructor of en gines or machines. ness. MA CILENCY. n. s. [from macilent.] Lean- quereau, Fr.] A sea-fish. Some fish are gutted, split, and kept in pickle; as whiting and mackerel. Carew's Survey of Corna. Law ordered that the Sunday should have rest; And that no nymph her noisy food should sell, Except it were new milk or mackerel. King's Cook. Sooner shall eats disport in water clear, And speckled mackrels graze the meadows fair, MACKEREL GALE, seems to be, in _DryThan I forget my shepherd's wonted love. Guy den's cant, a strong breeze; such, I suppose, as is desired to bring mackerel fresh to market. Ray on the Creation. The saliva serves for a maceration and dissolution of the meat into a chyle. A species of the palm-tree, very common in the Caribbee islands, where the negroes pierce the tender fruit, whence issues a pleasant liquor; and the body of the tree affords a solid timber, sup-MACE-REED. n. s. [typha.] An herb. posed by some to be a sort of ebony. MACHINAL. adj. [from machina, Lat.] MACE. [magga, Sax. maça, Span.] Relating to machines. Dict. 1. An ensign of authority borne before To MACHINATE. v. a. [machinor, Lat. magistrates. machiner, Fr.] To plan; to contrive. MACHINATION. n. s. [machinatio, Lat. machination, Fr. from machinate.] Artifice; contrivance; malicious scheme. If you miscarry, Your business of the world hath so an end, And machination ceases. Shakesp King Lear. He mightily upheld that royal mace_ Which now thou bear'st. Fairy Queen 2. [Massue, Fr. massa, Lat.] A heavy blunt weapon; a club of metal. O murth'rous slumber! Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy execution. Knolles. Death with his mace petrifick smote. Milton. With his mace their nonarch struck the ground; With inward trembling earth receiv'd the wound, And rising streams a ready passage found. Dry. The mighty maces with such haste descend, They break the bones, and make the armour bend. Dryden. 3. [Macis, Lat.] A kind of spice. Be frustrate all ye stratagems of hell, And devilish machinations come to nought Milton. How were they zealous in respect of their temporal governours? Not by open rebellion, not by private machinations; but in blessing and submitting to their emperors, and obeying them in all things but their idolatry. Spratt. MACHINE. n. s. [machina, Lat. machine, The nutmeg is inclosed in a threefold covering, Fr. This word is pronounced masheen.] of which the second is mace: it is thin and mem-1. Any complicated work to which one branaceous, of an oleaginous and a yellowish colour: it has an extremely fragrant, aromatick, and agreeable smell, and a pleasant, but acrid aud oleaginous taste. Hill's Materia Medica. Water, vinegar, and honey, is a most excellent sudorifick it is more effectual with a little mace added to it. Arbuthnot. They put up every sail, The wind was fair, but blew a mackrel-gale. Dryd. MA'CROCOSM. n. s. [macrocosme, Fr. μακρὸς and κόσμος.] The whole world, or visible system, in opposition to the microcosm, or world of man. MACTATION. n. s. [mactatus, Lat.] The act of killing for sacrifice. MACULA. n.s. [Lat.] 1. A spot. And lastly, the body of the sun may contract some spots or macule greater than usual, and by that means be darkened. Burnet's Th. of the Ear 2. [In physick.] Any spots upon the skin, whether those in fevers or scorbu tick habits. To MA'CULATE. v. a. [maculo, Lat.] To I will throw my glove to death himself, a stain. MAD. adj. [gemaad. Sax. malto, Ital.] 1. Disordered in the mind; broken in the understanding; distracted; delirous without a fever. 2. The machinery signifies that part which the deities, angels, or demons, act in a poem. Pope. Covetous men are all fls: for what greater MACHINIST. n. s. [machines!e, Fr. from 2. Alack, sir, he is mad. Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind. Shakesp. This musick mads me, let it sound no more; Thy mother from the sea was sprung; A bear, enraged at the stinging of a bee, ran like mad into the bee-garden, and overturn'd all L'Estrange. the hives. Madmen ought not to be mad; But who can help his frenzy? Drunen's Sp. Friar. His gestures fierce Popt. He mark'd, and mad demeanour when alone. Min 3. Over-run with any violent or unreasonable desire: with on, after, of, perhaps better for, before the object of desire. It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols." Jer. I. 38. The world is running mad after farce, the extremity of bad poetry, or rather the judgment that is fallen upon dramatick writing. Dryden The people are not so very mad of acorns, Lut that they could be content to eat head of civil persons. Rymer. 4. Enraged; furious. Holy writ represents St. Paul as making havock of the church, and persecuting that way unto the death, and being exceedingly mad against them. Decay of Piety. To MAD. v. a. [from the adjective.] To make mad; to make furious; to enrage. O villain! cried out Zelmane, madded with finding an unlooked-for rival. Sidney. This will witness outwardly, Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Milton's Par. Lost. MA'DAM. n. s. [ma dame, Fr. my dame.] Certes, madam, ye have great cause of plaint. Spenser. Madam, once more you look and move a queen! Philips. MA'DBRAIN. adj. [mad and brain.] MA'DBRAINED. Disordered in the mind; hotheaded. I give my hand opposed against my heart, Unto a madbrain rudesby, full of spleen. Shakesp. He let fall his book, And as he stoop'd again to take it up, This madbrain'd bridegroom took him such a cuff, That down fell priest and book. Shakesp. MADCAP. n. s. [mad and either cap; taking the cap for the head, or alluding to the caps put upon distracted persons by way of distinction.] A madman; a wild hotbrained fellow. That last is Biron, the merry madcap lord; ̧ Not a word with him but a jest. Shakesp. The nimble-footed madcap prince of Wales, The dog-star rages, nay, 'tis past a doubt, Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, To MADDEN. v. a. To make mad. Pope. Such mad ning draughts of beauty,, MADDER. n. s. [madere, Sax.] A plant MERE. adv. It is derived from the Sax. MADE. participle preterite of make. fest. MADEFACTION. n. 8. [madefacio, Lat.] MAGAZINE. n. s. [magazine, Fr. from the To all madefaction there is required an imbibi-1. A storehouse, commonly an arsenal or tion. Bacon To MA'DEFY. v. a. [madefio, Lat.] To MA'DHOUSE. n. s. [mad and house.] A If it should appear fit to bestow shipping in those harbours, it shall be very needful that there be a magazine of all necessary provisions and ammunitions. Raleigh's Essays. Milton. Plain heroick magnitude of mind All rang'd in order, and dispos'd with grace. Pope. A fellow in a madhouse being asked how he came there? Why, says he, the mad folks abroad are too many for us, and so they have mastered all the sober people, and cooped them up here. L'Estran. MADLY. adv. [from mad.] Without un-2. Of late this word has signified a misderstanding; furiously. He wav'd a torch aloft, and madly vain, He who ties a madman's hands, or takes away his sword, loves his person while he disarms his MADNESS. n. s. [from mad.] South 1. Distraction; loss of understanding ; Why, woman, your husband is in his old lunes Shakesp. Merry Wives of Windsor. 2. Fury; wildness of passion; rage. Madrier, in war, is a thick plank, armed with Bailey MADRIGAL. n. s. [madrigal, Span. and Fr. from mandra, Lat. whence it was written anciently mandriale, Ital.] A pastoral song; any light airy short song. A madrigal is a little amorous piece, which contains a certain number of unequal verses, not tied to the scrupulous regularity of a sonnet, or subtilty of an epigram: it consists of one single rank of verses, and in that differs from a canzonet, which consists of several strophes, which return in the same order and number. Bailey. Shakesp. Waters, by whose falls herb. cellaneous pamphlet, from a periodical miscellany called the Gentlemen's Magazine, and published under the name of Sylvanus Urban, by Edward Cave. MAGE. n. s. [magus, Lat.] A magician. Spenser. MA'GGOT. n. s. [magrod, Welch; millepeda, Lat. maðu, Sax.] 1. A small grub, which turns into a fly. Out of the sides and back of the common cater- From the sore although the insect flies, Taffata phrases, silken terms precise, Henceforth my wooing mind shall be exprest 2. Capricious; whimsical. MAGICAL. adj. [from magick.] Acting, or performed by secret and invisible powers, either of nature, or the agency of spirits. I'll humbly signify what, in his name, That magical word of war, we have effected. Shak They beheld unveiled the magical shield of your Ariosto, which dazzled the beholders with too much brightness; they can no longer hold up their arms. Dryden. By the use of a looking-glass, and certain attire made of cambrick upon her head, she attained to an evil art and magical force in the motion of her Tatler. eyes. MAGICALLY. adv. [from magical.] Ac-|MAGISTERIALLY. adv. [from magiste. In the time of Valens, divers curious men, by the The noble ruin of her magick, Antony, force of all these motives? 2. The secret operations of natural powers. The writers of natural magick attribute much to the virtues that come from the parts of living creatures, as if they did infuse immaterial virtue into the part severed. Bacon. Th' Hesperian fruit, and made the dragon sleep; There are millions of truth that a man is not concerned to know; as whether Roger Bacon was a mathematician or a magician. 1. Such as suits a master. Locke. A downright advice may be mistaken, as if it Peremptoriness is of two sorts; the one a magis- Magistery is a term made use of by chemists to Paracelsus extracteth the magistery of wine, exposing it unto the extremity of cold: whereby the aqueous parts will freeze, but the spirit be unconBrown. gealed in the centre. The magistery of vegetables consists but of the You share the world, her magistracies, priest- Wealth and felicity, amongst you, friends Ben Jonson. He had no other intention but to dissuade men from magistracy, or undertaking the publick of fices of state. Brown. Let but the acts of the ancient Jews be but in differently weighed, from whose magnanimity, in causes of most extreme hazard, those strange and unwonted resolutions have grown, which, for all circumstances, no people under the roof of heaven did ever hitherto match. Hooker They had enough reveng'd, having reduc'd Their foe to misery beneath their fears; The rest was magnanimity to remit, If some convenient ransom was propos'd. Milton. Exploding many things under the name of tri fles is a very false proof either of wisdom or mag nanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame. Swift. MAGNANIMOUS. adj. [magnanimus, Lat.] To give a kingdom hath been thought Milton All mortals I excell'd, and great in hopes, MAGNANIMOUSLY. adv. [from magna- A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skilful7, and magnanimously, all the offices of peace and war. Milt. on Education. MAGNET. n. s. [magnes, Lat.] The loadstone; the stone that attracts iron. Two magnets, heav'n and earth, allure to bliss, Some have disputed even against magistracy it-1. self. }udj. [from magnet.] Relating to the magnet. Atterbury. Review this whole magnetick scheme. Blackmore. What a presumption is this for one, who will not allow liberty to others, to assume to himself such a licence to controul so magisterially? Bramhall against Hobbes. MAGISTERIAL. adj. [from magister, Lat.] MAGISTRATE. n.s. [magistratus, Lat.] A man publickly invested with authority; a governor; an executor of the laws. Such a government is maternal, not magisterial, King Charles. Ile bids him attend as if he had the rod over him; and uses a magisterial authority while he inDryden. structs him. 2. Lofty; arrogant; proud; insolent; despotick. We are not magisterial in opinions, nor, dictator-like, obtrude our notions on any man. Brown's Vulg. Er. Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payL'Estrange. ment. Those men are but trepanned who are called to govern, being invested with authority, but bereaved of power; which is nothing else but to mock and betray them into a splendid and magisterial way of being ridiculous. 3. Chemically prepared, after the manner of a magistery. South. Of corals are chiefly prepared the powder ground upon a marble, and the magisterial salt, to good purpose in some fevers: the tincture is no more than a solution of the magisterial salt. Grew. They chuse their magistrate! 2. Having powers correspondent to those of the magnet. The magnet acts upon iron through all dense bodies not magnetick, nor red hot, without any di minution of its virtue; as through gold, silver, lead, glass, water. Newton's Opticks. 3. Attractive; having the power to draw things distant. The moon is magnetical of heat, as the sun is of She should all parts to reunion bow; Turn swift their various motions, or are turn'd MAGNALITY. n. s. [magnalia, Lat.] A 4. Magnetick is once used by Milton for Too greedy of magnalities, we make but favourable experiments concerning welcome truths. Brown. With deadly hue, an armed corse did lye, magnet. Milton. Draw out with credulous desire, and lead 1. Many other magnetisms, and the like attractions through all the creatures of nature. 2. Power of attraction. Brown. By the magnetisms, of intrest our affections aro irresistibly attracted. Glanville's Scepsis. |