The new and complete dictionary of the English language

been made free:

freedom, the children defcended from parents who had DIE. of Arts. Libertinism (s. from libertine) The opinions of a libertine, the practice of a libertine, licentioufnefs, the ftate of one that is made free.

Libertin'ity (s. from libertine) The state of one that is made free. Scott. LIBERTUS (s. in Roman antiquity) A freedman, one delivered from a ftate of flavery.

LIBERTY (5. from the Lat. liber free) Freedom as op. pofed to flavery, freedom as oppofed to necefity; leave, permiffion; relaxation of reftraint; privilege,exemption. Libid'inift (s. from libidinous) A fenfualift, one who gives himfelf up to his lufts.

LIBID'INOUS (adj. from the Lat. libido luft) Licentious, lewd, lustful.

Libid'inously (adv. from libidinous) Licentiously,
lewdly, luftfully.

Libid'inoufness(s. from libidinous) Lewdness, luftfulness.Sc.
LIBIDO (s. from the Lat.) Luft; a strong inclination. Sc.
LIBITI'NA (s. in beatben mythology) Proferpine ac-
cording to fome, Venus according to others; the god.
defs who was fuppofed to fuperintend funeral rites.
Libitina'rian (1. from Libitina) One who affifted in car.
rying a dead corps to the grave.
Cole.
LIBITINA'RII (s. from Libitina) The perfons who were
to provide what was neceffary for funerals. Phillips.
Liitude (s. not much used) The will, the pleafure. C.
LIBITUM (s. from the Lat.) The will, the pleature.
Lib/long (s. in botany) The name of an herb.

LIBRA (s. in astronomy) The Balance, one of the figns

of the zodiac.

Li'bral (adj. from libra, but not much used) Belonging
to Libra, pertaining to a pair of fcales."

Libra'rian (3. from library) One who has the care of a
library, one who tranfcribes books.
LIBRARII (s. from library) Perions who were em-
played in tranfcribing books.

Scott.

Licen'tiating (s. from the part.) The act of giving powe
by license.
L'EAran
LICENTIOUS (adj. from the Lat. licentia liberty) Uret
ftrained, disorderly, prefumptuous.

Licen'tiously, (adv, from licentious) With too great E-
berty, without due reftraint.

Chanter.

Licen'tioufnefs (s. from licentious) A boldness of liberty,
a contempt of juft reftraint.
LICH (s. an old word, from the Sax. lice) A dead corps.
Lich, Liche (adj. obfolete) Like.
Chanter
Liche (s. obfolete) A phyfician, a surgeon. Chance.
LICHEN (5. in botany) The liverwort.
Lichenas'trum (s. in botany) The name of a plant.
Lichenoi'des (s. in botany) The lichen.
Li'chewake (s. obfolete) The lichwake.
Lich'gate (s. from lich, and gate) The gate through
which the dead are generally carried.
LICH'FIELD (s. from lich, and field, fo called from a mas
facre of about a thousand chriftians tubo bere fell a ja-
crifice to the fuperftition and rage of the pagans) A city
in Staffordshire, which, joined with Coventry, forms
one bishoprick; the cathedral is faid to be one of the
fineft in England; it fends two members to parliament,
has a market on Tuefday and Friday, and is 117
miles from London.

Lich'field (adj. from the fub.) Belonging to the city of
Lichfield, made in the city of Lichfield.
Lich'lane (s. from lich, and lane) The lane or way
through which the dead are generally carried.
Lich'fow! (s. from lich, and fowl) The night raven, the
Lich owl (s. from lich, and owl) A kind of owl which
fcreechowl, any bird accounted ominous.
was fuppofed to forebode death.

Lichtreet (5. from lich, and ftreet) The ftreet through
which the dead were generally carried to the grave.
Lich'wake (s. from lich, and wake) The custom of
watching with the dead, the time of watching with
a dead corps.

LIBRARY (s. from the Lat. liber a book) A large col-Lich'wale (s. in botany) The name of an herb.
lection of books, the place where a collection of books
is kept.
Libra'ta (s. in old records) A space of ground containing
about fifty acres.

LIBRATE v. t. from the Lat. libro to weigh) To poife,

to balance.

Librated (p. from librate) Poifed, balanced.
Li'brating (p. a. from librate) Poifing, balancing.
Libra'tion (s. from librate) The ftate of being balanced.
In aftronomy, a kind of trepidation in the heavens
which renders the declination of the ftars different at
different times.

Libratory (adj. from librate) Trembling like a balance
in equilibrum, affected with a kind of trepidation.
LIBYA (s. in ancient geography) Africa.
Libyan (adj. from Libya) Belonging to Libya, produced
in Libya.

Libyan (s. from the adj.) An inhabitant of Libya, a na-
tive of Libya.

Chaucer.

Lic'ande (adj. obfolete) Agreeable, pleafing.
Lice (s. plu. of loufe) More than one loufe.
Licebane (s. in botany) The name of a plant.
LICENCE (s. from the French) An exorbitant liberty,
a grant, a permiffion.

Licence (v. t. from the sub. but not so common a spelling)
To license.

Licenced (p. from licence, but not fo common a spelling)

Licensed.

Licencing (p. a. from licence, but not ĵo common a spel-
ling) Licensing.

LICENSE (s. from the Lat. licentia liberty) An exorbi-
tant liberty, a grant, a permiffion.
Li'cenfe (v. t. from the fub.) To give liberty, to fet at
liberty, to permit by a legal grant.
Li'cenfed (p. from licente) Permitted, granted, fet at
liberty.

Li'center (s. from licente) One that grants a license, one
that permits.

Li'cenfing (p. a. from licenfe) Permitting, granting, fetting at liberty.

LICENTIATE (s. from the Lat. licentia licence) One who ufes license; a degree by which a man is authorized to practise in any faculty or profeffion; a barrister at common law.

Licentiate (v. t. from the fub.) To permit, to authorize ov licenfe.

Licentiated (p. from licentiate) Permitted, encouraged by licens.

Licentiating b. a. from licentiate) Permitting, encou raging by licence."

Lich'way (s. from lich, and way) The way by which
the dead were ufually carried to the grave.
LICITATION (s. from the Lat. liceo to jet a price for
fale) The act of expofing to fale to the highest bidder. §.
LICK (v. t. from the Sax. licean) To pafs over with the
tongue; to lap, to take in by the tongue. To bick upe
to devour.

Lick (s. from the verb) A blow, a kind of rough ufage. Dr.
Lick'ed (p. from lick) Paffed over by the tongue, de-
voured; with up: as, "It was all licked up."
Lick'er (s. from lick) One that licks.
LICK'ERISH (adj. from the Sax. licera a glutton) Nice
in the choice of food, greedy, eager; delicate, tempt-
ing the appetite.

Lick erithnets (s. from lickerifh) Nicenefs of palate.
LICK'EROUS (ad). from the Sax. licera a glution` Eager,
greedy, nice, tempting the appetite.
Waten.

Licking (p. a. from lick) Paing over with the tongue,
taking in by the tongue.

Licking (s. from the part.) The act of paffing over
with the tongue, a beating; but this fenje is low and
colloquial.

Lick'orish (s. not so correct a spelling) The licorice.
LICORICE (s. in botany, from the Greek phi(a) The
name of a plant having a root of a sweet tafte, the co-
gulated juice of the plant.

Licorice (adj. from the fub.) Belonging to a plant ef
which licorice is made. "Licorice root."

Lic'orous (adj. obfolete) Dainty, gluttonous, luxurious,
vile, wicked, luftful.

Chanter.

LID (s. from the Sax. hlid) A cover, a stopple that en-
ters the mouth of a vefel; the upper membrane that
covers the eye.

LID'DESDALE (5. in geography). A distric in Scotland.
LIE (s. from the French) Water impregnated with the
falts of afhes, a liquor impregnated with fome other
body; urine. "Chamber lie."

LIE (s. from the Sax. lige) A falfehood, a criminal falfe
hood, a charge of falsehood, a fétion.

Lie (int. from the hub.) To utter criminal falfehood, to
fpeak contrary to truth.

LIE

LIF

LIE (v. int. from the Sax. liegan) To reft horizontally, to lean upon, to be in a fate of decumbiture, to pass the time of fleep, to remain, to refide, to prefs upon, to be troublefome, to be hid, to be in a helpless flate, to be exposed, to confift, to belong to, to be in the power, to be charged upon, to coft. To lie at, to importune. To lie by, to reft. To be in, to be in childbed. To lie under, to be fubje&t to, to take shelter. To lie upon, to become an obligation, to be troublefome. To lie with, to converfe in bed. LIE' (adj. in beraldry) Stringed. Lie (adi. obfolete) Untilled.

Chaucer. LIEF (adj. from the Sax. leaf, but now grown obfolete) Dear, beloved.

Shakespeare. Shakespeare. Liefeft (adj. fup. of lief, but now grown obfolete) Deareft, most beloved. Shakespeare. Liefienant (s. an incorrect spelling) A lieutenant. Cole. LIEGE (1. from the Lat. ligo to bind) A fovereign, a fuperior lord.

Lief (adv. obfolete) Willingly.

Liege (adj. from the fub.) Bound by fome feudal tenure, fubject; fovereign, belonging to a fuperior lord. Lie' geance (s. not so common a word) An allegiance. Dict. of Arts. LIE GEANCY (s. from the French ligance) The duty of a fubject to a fovereign prince; the protection which a fovereign owes to his fubjects. Lie'gehomige (1. from liege, and homage) The homage paid by a vasal to his lord.

Scott.

Liegelord (s. from liege, and lord) A fuperior lord, a fovereign.

Lie'geman (s.from liege, and man) A subject, one who owes homage to a fuperior lord.

Liegepeople (s. from liege, and people) The subjects of
a fovereign prince, the fubjects of a state.
Lie'ger (s. from liege) A refident ambaffador. Denham.
LVEN (s. in anatomy) The spleen.

LIEN (s. in law) A bond, a covenant, a contract.
Lien (v. int. pret, or participial form of lie) Lain. Genef.
Lienter'ic (adj. from lientery) Belonging to the lientery.
LIENTERY (s. from the Greek Xov footb, and EVTEDY
an intestine) That kind of diarrhoea in which the food
paffes fo fuddenly as to be discharged by itool with
little or no alteration.

Liferwites. an old word) A fine for adultery or fornication. Lies (s. obfolete) Lees. Chaucer.

LIEU (s, from the French) Place, room, stead. "In lieu of tithes."

Lieve (ado. from lief) Willingly.

Lieutenancy (s. from lieutenant) The office of lieutenant, the body of lieutenants.

LIEUTENANT ́(3. from lieu, and tenant) A deputy, one that acts by vicarious authority; one who holds the next rank to a fuperior in office, one who holds the next rank to a fuperior in command. Lieutenantship (s. from lieutenant) The office or rank

of lieutenant.

LIFE (s. from the Sax. lifian to live) The union and cooperation of foul with body, the ftate of being alive, the enjoyment of exiftence; animal exiftence, a liv ing perfon; blood, the fuppofed vehicle of life; a manner of living; the continuance of the prefent ftate; a living form, an exact resemblance; a narrative of past life; common occurrences, human affairs; fpirit, vivacity, resolution; a word of tenderness. My dearest life."

Life (adj. from the fub. frequently used in compofition) Belonging to life, connected with life.

Life annuity (s. from life, and annuity) An income, an annual income for term of life.

Lifeblood (3. from life, and blood) The vital blood, the ⚫ blood neceffary to life.

Life everlasting (s. in botany) The name of a plant. Life'giving (p. a. from life, and give) Having the power to give life, quickening, enlivening.

Life'guard (s. from lite, and guard) The guard of a fovereign prince, the guard attending the perfon of a fovereign.

Lifehold (s. from life, and hold) A real estate held on a leafe for lives.

Life land (s. from life, and land) Land held on a leafe for lives.

Lifelets (adj. from life) Deftitute of life, dead, unanimated, void of fame, void of spirit. Lifelessly (adv. from lifeless) Without vigour, without spirit.

Chaucer.

Liffelennels (s. from lifeless) The flate of being lifeless. Sc.
Life ich jadi, obfolete) Lively.
Lifelike (adj. from life, and like) Refembling the life,
like a living perion.
Lífely (adj. Gjuete) Lively.

Chauter.

Li'ferent (s. from life, and rent) A falary or rent for term of life. Li'feftring (s. from life, and fring) A nerve, a ftring imagined to convey life.

Daniel.

Lifetime (s. from life, and time) The continuance or duration of life.

Lifeweary (adj. from life, and weary) Weary of life, wretched. Shakespeare LIFFEY (s. in geography) One of the principal rivers in Ireland.

LIFT (v. t. from the Swedish lifta) To heave, to raise from the ground, to exalt, to elevate; with up emphatically: as, "The Lord lifted up his bead from mijery,"

Lift (v. int.) To ftrive to raife; with at: as, “And lift at their tails ere a winter be past."

lift.

Lift (s. from the verb) The act of lifting, the manner of
lifting; an endeavour, a struggle. In the Scotch dia-
left, a load, a furcharge; the sky, the firmament.
Lift (s. a fea term) A rope to raise or lower a fail.
Lift (v. . pret. of lift, but not much ufed) Lifted, did
Lift (p. from the verb, but not much used) Lifted. 2 Cbr.
Lift (s. a local word) A kind of gate.
Lifte (adj. an obfolete fpelling) Left, contrary to right. C.
Lift'ed (p. from lift) Raited up, exalted, elevated;
with up: as, Lifted up with pride."
Lift'er (s. from lift) One that lifts; a crutch.
Lift'haufe (s. an old word) The left hand.
Lifting (p. a. from lift) Raifing up, exalting, elevating.
Lift'ingpieces (s. in clockwork) The parts that lift up

and unlock the detents.

Cote

Cole.

Lig (v. int. obfolete) To lie, to lie in concealment. Sp. LIG'AMENT (s. from the Lat. ligo to bind) A ftrong com

pact fubftance which unites the bones in articulation; that which connects the parts of the body; a bond, a chain, an entanglement.

Ligament al (adj. from ligament) Belonging to a ligament, compofing a ligament.

Ligament'um (adj. from ligament) Belonging to a ligament. "Wifeman. LIGAMENTUM (s. in botany, from the Lat.) A ligament. LIGATION (s. from the Lat. ligo to bind) The act of binding, the ftate of being bound.

Chaucer.

LIG ATURE (s. from the Lat. ligo to bind) A bondage,
the act of binding, the fate of being bound.
Lige (v. int. obfolete) To lie down.
Lig'eance (s. a larv term) The higheft kind of homage,
Lig'eancy (s. a law term) Ligeance.
Phillips.
Li'ges (s. in farriery) A diftemper of the mouth incident
to horfes.

Spenfer.

Chaucer.

Liggin (v. int. obfolete) To lie down. Ligging (p. a. obfolete) Lying. LIGHT (s. from the Sax. leaht) The medium of fight, the enianation of a luminous body: a luminous body; an illumination of mind, a mentál view; an explanation, a point of view, the part of a picture which is drawn with bright colours.

Light (adj. from the jub.) Luminous, bright, tending to whiteness.

LIGHT (adi, from the Sax. leaht) Having little weight in comparison of the bulk; eafy to be born, eafy to be endured, eafy to be performed; lightly armed, active, eafy to be acted upon, nimble, unincumbered; flight, trivial; thin, unfubitantial; gay, airy; unchaste, irregular in conduct.

Light (adv. ratber colloquial, from the adj.) Lightly. Ho. Light (v. t. from the fub.) To kindle, to fet on fire, to give light, to direct by light, to illuminate. Light (v. t. from the adj.) To lighten, to ease of a burden.

LIGHT (v. int. from the Dutch lickt by chance) To happen, to fall upon by accident LIGHT (v. int. from the Sax. alightan) To defcend from, to fall, to fall on, to fettie, to reft: with on, or upon: as," The ye shall light upon fome toy." "He lighted on a better friend."

Light'ed (p. from light) Kindled, set on fire, directed by light, delivered of a burden.

Light'en (v. 1. from light) To enlighten, to illuminate; to unload, to disburden; to cheer, to exhilarate. Light'en (v. int.) To flash as lightening, to shine like lightening,

Light'ened (p. from lighten) Kindled, fet on fire; delivered of a burden, cheered, exhilarated. Light'ening (p. a. from lighten) Unloading, delivering of a burden.

Light'ening

Lightening (s. from the part. but not so common a pel-
ling) Lightning, the fath of light which precedes
thunder.

Lighter (s. from light) A large boat into which' fhips
are unloaded.

Lighter (alj. comp. from light) Light in a greater de-
gree.

Light'erman (s. from lighter, and man) One who ma-
nages a lighter.

Lightest (adj. fup. of light) Light in the greatest de-
gree.

Light fingered (adj. from light, and finger) Thievish,
inclined to theft, nimble of conveyance.

Lightfoot (adj. from light, and foot) Light of foot,
nimble.

Light foot (s. a cant word) Venison.

Lightfooted (ad), from lightfoot) Light of foot, nimble
in running, active.

Lightheaded (adj. from light, and head) Delirious,
having the understanding affe&ted by the violence of
difeafe; unsteady, weak, thoughtle's.
Lightheadedness (s. from lightheaded) The state of be-
ing lightheaded.

Light'horte (s. from light, and horfe) A body of horse-
men lightly armed.

Lighthouse (s. from light, and houfe) A high building
with a light at the top as a guide to fhips at sea.
Lighting (p. a. from light) Kindling, fetting on fire;
giving light, directing by light; eating of a burden;
falling on by chance; lettling on.
Lighvlegged (adj, from light, and leg) Swift, nimble.
Light'lefs (adj. from light) Void of light, dark.
Lightly (adu. from light) Without weight, with little
Impremon, without difficulty, without much affection,
with nimbleness, with levity.

Light'minded (adj. from light, and mind) Unfettled, unfteady.

Lightnefs (s. from light) The want of weight, nimble.
nefs, agility, inconftancy, unsteadiness, the want of
chafity, the want of conduct in women.
Light'nefe (s. from light) Light.
Lightning (s. from light) The flash of light which pre-
Chaucer.
cedes thunder; a mitigation, an abatenient.
Lights (s. from light) The lungs, the organs of respira-

tion.

Lightiome (adj. from light) Having light, luminous; gay, airy; cheering.

Lightfomeneis (s. from lightfome) The state of being lightfome.

Chau.

Lig'ine (s. obfolete) A line, a lineage, a descent.
Ligna'tion (s. from the Lat. lignum, but not much used)
The aft of providing wood.

Lignaloes (s. in medicine) The wood of aloes.
Lig'nean (adi. not used) Ligneous.

Cole.

Scott.
LEGIUS (adj. in old records Pure, full, perfect.
Cole.
Ligne (s. obfolete) A line, a lineage, a descent.
LIGNE (v. t. fupposed to be from the French ligner) To
Chaucer.
line, to couple as a dog with a bitch.
Lignes (s. abjolete) Pleasure.
Ligneous (adj. from the Lat. lignum wood) Wooden,
Chaucer.
made of wood, refembling wood.
LIGNICIDE (s. from the Lat. lignum wood, and cædo
to cut, but not much used) One that cuts wood.
LIGINIPER DA (s. in the history of injects) The worm
Cole.
that deftroys timber.

LIGNUM (s. from the Lat.) Wood, the woody part of

a plant.

LIG NUMALOES (s. in medicine) The wood of aloes. LIGNUM NEPHRITICUM (3. in medicine) A kind of wood imported from the West Indies very good for the flone in the kidneys.

LIGNUM VITE (s. in medicine) A very hard kind of wood, the guaiacum.

Ligs (s. in farriery) A difeafe of the mouth incident to horfes.

St.

LIKE (v. t. from tbe Sax. lican) To choose with fome de Chauth gree of pleature, to approve, to view with fome kind of approbation; to please, to gratify: but this ene now grown obfolete.

Spenser

Like (v. t. used imperfonally, or with the reciprocal pro noun) To please, to gratify. There let them learn, as likes them, to delpile God and Mejab."

Like (v. int.) To choofe, to lift, to be pleafed. “The man likes not to take his brother's wife." To approve; with of: as, " The young foldiers did like of this res lution." But this conftruction is now grown out of ule. Rmolles.

Liked (p. from like) Chofen with approbation, 4proved more than common.

Likelier (adj. comp. of likely) Likely in a greater degree.

Likeliest (adj. fup. of likely) Likely in the greatest de-
gree.

Likelihood (s. from likely) Probability, appearance of
truth; an appearance, a refembiance; but the sanjs
are now grozun obfolete.
Li'keline's (s. from likely) Probability; appearance,
Li'kely (adj. from like) Probable, credible, pleafng, ft
Sbake peare.
comeliness; but these fenfes are now become obsolete.
to be liked; but this fenje is now become objoldie or
colloquial.

Liken (v. t. from like) To compare, to reprefent as
Likely (adv. from like) Probably, in all probability.
having a refemblance; with to: as, " To what fel
I liken this generation."

Likened (p. from liken) Compared, brought into com-
parifon.

Likening (p. a. from liken) Comparing, bringing into
comparison.

Chanter

Chaucer.

Li'kenefs (s. from like) Refemblance, fimilitude; a form,
Lifker (s. from like, but not much ufed) One that likes.
an appearance; one who is like another.
Liker (adj. comp. of like) Like in a greater degree. Bal.
Lik'erous (adj. obfolete) Dainty, gluttonous; wicked,
Lik'eroufnels (s. obfolete) Lickerichness.
luftfal.
Likeft (adj. fup. of like, but not much used) Like in the
greatest degree.
Likewife (adu. from like) In like manner.
Li'king (p. a. from like) Approving, chooing with
Likewife (com, from the adv.) Allo, moreover, too.
Li'kin (v. t. ibjolete) To please, to be agreeable to. CE.
fome degree of approbation.

Li'king (s. from the part.) Plumpnefs, a good fate of
Liking (adj. from like) Plump, having plumpnefs. Das.
Li'kir (adj. comp. of like, obsolete) More like, liker. Cb.
hody, an inclination, a defire; a flate of trial.
LILAC (s. in botany, a different spelling) The lilach.
Lilach (adj. from the fub.) Belonging to the lilach,
LILACH (s. in botany) A kind of shrub.
Dift. of Arts.

"The lilach tree."

Басым

Lilia'cious (adj. from lily) Belonging to the lily, re-
fembling the lily.

LILIAS/TRUM (5. in botany) A kind of lily.
LIL/10ASPHODELUS (s. in botany) The Lilisftrum.
Lili'ed (adj. from lily) Ornamented with lilies.
LIL'IOFRITILLAʼRIA (s. in botany) A fpecies of iritil-

Jaria.

Ligue (s. an obj lete fpelling) A league, an alliance.
LIG'ULA (5. from the Lat.) A little tongue, a latchet for LILIONARCISSUS (s. in botany) The amaryllis.
a fhoe, a lace, a point.

LILIOHYACINTHUS (s. in betany) A species of fcilis,
a kind of fquill.

Lig'ula (s. in old records) The copy of a court roll.
Lig'ulated (adj. in botany, from ligula) Having the fower
leaves turning downwards with three indentures, but
not divided into fegments.

LIGURE (s. in natural bistory) A kind of precious
Exodus.

flone.

LIGURIAN (s. not much used, from the Lat. ligurio to eat with delicacy) A glutton.

Cole.

LIGURITION (S. from the Lat. ligurio to feed with deli-
cay) The act of eating to excels, gluttony.
LIGUS TICUM (s. in botany) A kind of lovage.
LIGUS/TRUM (s, in botany) The privet; the with bind.

LILITH (s. from the Heb. fignifying the night) The name
of a woman who was fuppofed by the Jews to have
been the wife of Adam before Eve; an imaginary
LILIUM (s. in botany) The lily.
speare who was fuppofed to carry away or destroy
young children.
Lilly (s. in botany, a diferent spelling) The lily, a genu
Lil'ied (p. an obfolete spelling) Lolled.

ย

Spenter.

LILY (s. from the Lat. lilium) A genus of plants, a well
of plants.

known flower.

Lily daffodil (s. in botany) A Bower of foreign
growth.
Lify byacinth

Lilyhyacinth (s, in botany) A fpecies of fquill.
Lilylivered (adj. from lily, and liver, a cant word)
Cowardly, fainthearted.
Shakespeare.
LAMA (s. in geography) The capital of Peru, a province
in South America fubject to the Spaniards.
Lima'ceous (adj. from limax) Belonging to a fnail.
Li'mail (s. objete) The flings of metal."

LIMATE (v. t. from the Sax. limo to file, but not much used) To file, to polish. Bailey. Lima'tion (s. from limate, but little ufed) The act of filing, the act of polishing.

Li'mature (s. from limate) The filings of metal, that which is rubbed off by the action of the file. LIMAX (s. from the Lat.) A fnail.

LIMB (s. from the Sax. lim) A member of the body, an articulated part of an animal.

Limb (s. from limbus, a philofophical word) An edge,

a border.

Limbler (adj. of uncertain derivation) Pliant, flexible, eafily bent.

Lunberer (adj. comp. of limber) Limber in a greater degree. Limbereft (adj. fup. of limber) Limber in the greatest degree. Lim berhole (s. a fea term) One of the holes cut in the timbers of a ship to convey the bilge water to the pump.

Limberness (s. from limber) Pliancy, flexiblenefs. Limbing (p. a. from limb) Furnishing with limbs, tearing limb from limb.

LIMBO (s. probably from limbus) A region bordering upon hell, hell; any place of mifery and restraint, a prifon.

LIMBUS (3. from the Lat.) The limb, the utmost edge of a mathematical inftrument. LIME (3. from the Sax. glyman to glue) A viscous subftance, a viscous matter with which birds are catched; the calx of stone, the matter of which mortar is made.

Lime (v. t. from the fub.) To entangle, to enfnare; to cement, to fmear with a viscous fubftance; to manure ground with the calx of stone.

Lime (s. in botany) The linden.

Lime (adj. in botany) Belonging to the lindentree. Lime (adj. from the jub, frequently used in compofition) Belonging to the calx of ftone, ufed in making lime, impregnated with lime.

LIME. t. from the French ligner) To couple as a dog

to a bitch.

LIME (s.) A borough and port town of Dorsetshire; it has a market on Friday, iends two members to parliament, and is 147 miles from London. Lime (adj. from the fub.) Belonging to Lime, made at

Lime.

LIME (s. from the Italian limone) A small lemon. Bailey. Lime (s. an obfolete spelling) Alimb. Chaucer Li'mebush (s. from lime, and buth) A device for catching birds by means of birdlime.

Limed (p. from time) Smeared over with lime, manured with lime, impregnated as a bitch by a dog. Limehound (s. an old quord) A bloodhound. Phillips. Li'mekila (s. from lime, and kiln) A kila to burn lime. LIMENARCH, LIMENAR'CHA (s. in antiquity) An of ficer or centinel to prevent robberies and other diforders on the highway; a warden of a leaport. Phillips. LIMENTIUS(s.în blatten mythology) The power which was fuppoted to guard the threshold.

LIMER (s. from the French limer) A large dog for
hunting the wild boar.
Li'mere (s.) A kind of hound.
Chaucer.
LIM'ERIC (5.) A county in Ireland, the capital of that

Chaucer. LIMIT (s. from the Lat. limitor to bound) A bound, a border, the utmost reach.

LIMIT (v. t. from the Lat. limitor to bound) To confine within certain bounds, to refrain, to circumfcribe. Limita'neous (adj. from limit, not much used) Belonging Scott

to the bounds or limits.

Lim'itary (adj. from limit) Placed at the bounds, placed on the borders as a guard or fuperintendant. Milton. Limita'tion (s. from limit) A refriction, a confinement from a lax undeterminate fignification. Limited (p. from limit) Confined, restrained, circumfcribed, refrained from a lax or general fignification. Limiter (s. objulete) One who went about felling indulgences. Spenfer

Limiting (p. a. from limit) Confining, reftraining, cir Limitour (5. obfolete) A friar who had a particular grant cumfcribing.

Chaucer.

for begging within certain limits. LIM'MA" (s. "in music) An interval in the fcale of the ancients.

LIM'MER (s. not much used) A mongrel; an animal generated between different fpecies; one born of parents of different nations. Ainsworth. Chaucer.

LIM/MIS (s. an obsoletespelling) Limbs. LIMN (v. t. from the French enluminer) To draw, to Lamned (p. from limn) Drawn, drawn to the life. paint a likeness. Limmer (s. from limn) A painter, one who draws likenefes, a picture maker.

Limn'ing (p. a. from limn) Drawing, painting to the life.

Limning (s. from the part.) The act of painting to the life, the act of painting in water colours. D. of A. LIMN'OPEUCE (s. in botany) The horsetail. LIMOCTO'NIA (s. from the Greek) The utmost distress of hunger.

LIMODORUM (s. in botany) A genus of plants, the

orchis.

LIMOL'OGY (s. from the Greek now; the peftilence, and Aoys a defcription, but not much used) A treatise on the plague.

Bailey. LIMOMA CHIA (s. from the Greek og bunger, and Maxy a fight) The utmoft diftrefs of hunger. Bai. LIM ON (s. from the Italian limone, but not so common a. Spelling) The lemon.

Limona'de (s. from limon, but not so common a spelling) Lemonade, water impregnated with the juice of lemons.

LIMO'NIA (s. in botany) The anemony; the windflower.
LIMO'NIUM (s. in botany) The statice.
LIMOSE (adj. from the Lat. limus mud) Limous, muddy.
LIMOSELLA (s. in botany) A genus of plants.
Limos'ity (s. from limole) The state of being muddy.
LIMOUS (adj. from the Lat. iinius mud) Muddy, full-
of mud, like mud, flimy.

LIMP (v. int. from the Sax. limpen) To halt, to walk lamely.

LIMP (adj. from the Italian limpio) Vapid, weak, taftelefs; limber, fiexible, but this fenfe is rather local. Lim'per (adj. comp. of limp) Limp in a greater degree. Limpleft (adj. fup. of limp) Limp in the greatest de

Limpid'ity (s. from limpid, but not much uftd) LimpidBailey. Lim'pidnefs (s. from limpid) Purity, clearnefs, traf parency..

LIM PIN (5. in ichthyology) A fhell fish, a muscle. Limp'ing (p. a. from limp) Halting, going lamely Limping (s. from the part.) The act of halting. Limpingly (adv. from limping) In a limping manner, Lim'pitude (s. from limpid, but not much ued) "Pureness,

clearners.

Scott.

Limp'nets (1. from limp) Limbernefs, flexibleness.
Li'my (adj. from lime) Containing time, viscous, glu-

tinous.

Lin (v. int. oblete) To Atop, to give over, to lean. Sp.
Lin'age s. an obfolete spelling) A lineage, a family. Cb.
LIN'AMENT (s. from the Lat. Inamentum, but not much
used) A tent for a wound made of linen, lint. Bailly.
LINARIA (5. in botany) The toadflax.
Lina'rium (s. in old records) A place where fax is fown.
LINCH (s. from the Sax.) A caufey, a bank to deftin-
guish bounds
Lingh

Yyy

Lingua'city (s. from lingua. but not much used; Loqu

city.

Stat

LINGUADENTAL (adj. from the Lat. lingua the targ
and dens dentis a fostb) Uttered by the joint ai
of the tongue and teeth.

Linch (s. from the foregoing) A linchpin.
Linch/p (s. from linch, and pin) The iron pin that
keeps the wheel on the axletree.
LINCOLN (5.) An ancient city in Lincolnshire; it is a
county of itself, the fee of a bishop, and the largest
diocefe in England; fends two members to parliament, LINGUA'LIS (s, in anatomy) A muscle of the tongue.
has a market on Friday, and is 131 miles from London. LINGUATA'LA (s. in ichthyology) The name of a fih,
Lincoln (adj. from the fub.) Belonging to the city of a fpecies of pleuronectes.
Lincoln, made in the city of Lincoln.
Ling'uift (s. from lingua) A man skilled in languages.
LINCOLNSHIRE (s.) A large maritime county in Eng. LING/ULA (s. in botany) The adderstongue.
land fituate on the German ocean; the foil for the LINGULA CA (s. in botany and ichthyology) The ad-
moft part rich and fertile, and the air, excepting the derstongue; the fole.
'fens, is judged tolerably falubrious; it contains one LING'UOSE (adj. from the Lat. linguofus, but not much
city, four Boroughs, and upwards of thirty other ufe) Full of tongue, talkative.
Batty.
market towns; fends twelve members to parliament, Lhiguosity (1. from linguofe, but not much ujed Lo
two for the county, two for the city of Lincoln, and quacity, talkativeness.
Philips.
two for each of the four boroughs, Stamford, Gran-Ling wort is, in botany) The name of an herb.
tham, Bollon, and Grimsby.
LINIGEROUS (adj. from the Lat. linum fax, and gero
Lincolnshire (adj. from the fub.) Belonging to the county
to carry) Bearing fax, producing linen."
of Lincoln, produced in the county of Lincoln.
LINIMENT (s. from the Lat. linimentum) An urguent,
LINC TUS (3. from the Lat. lingo to lick) A form of a balíain, an ointment.
medicine to be licked up by the tongue.
Linde (s. in botany) The limétree.

Chaucer.

LIND'EN (S. in botany, from the Sax. lind) The lime

tree.

Linden (adj. from the sub.) Belonging to the limetree, made of the limetree,

Lind'entree (s. from linden, and tree) The lime. LINDSEY (s. in gography) One principal divifion of the county of Lincoin.

Scxt.

Li'ning (p. a. from line, Covering the infide, ftrengthen-
ing within, impregnating as a dog.

Li'ning (s. from the part.) The inner covering, the inner
double of a garment; that which is within.
Lin'io (s. in old records) A linchpin.

LINK (s. from the Danish lenck) The single ring of a chain,
any thing doubled and fattened at the ends; a chain, a
thing connected; any fingle part of a series or chita
of consequences.

Link'boy (s. from link a torch, and boy) A boy that

carries a torch.

LINE (s. from the Lat. linea) A fender ftring; a ftring LINK s. from the Greek Aux vos a light). A kind of torch.
extended to direct any operations; an extent, a liLink (v. t. from the sub.) To unite, to join, to ceased as
mit; extenfion lengthwife; an outline; as much as in the links of a chain; to unite in a regular feries of
is written from one margin to another, a verse in confequences.
poetry, a rank, an order; a trench, a work thrown
up in fortification; a mark or wrinkle on the hand or
face; a method, a difpofition; a progeny, the pedi-Link'ed (p. from link) Joined, connected as the links of
gree of a family; the equator, the equinoctial circle; a chain, connected in a regular series of confequences.
the tenth part of an inch.
Linking (p. a. from link) Joining, connecting as in the
links of a chain, connecting in a regular feries of con-
LINLITHGOW (s.) A parliament town in Scotland in
fequences.
the county of Weft-Lochien.
LINNEA (S. in botany) A gerus of plants.
Linnen (s. not fo common afpelling) Linen.
LIN'NET (s. in ornithology) The name of a fmall finging
bird.

LINE (v. t. fuppo ed to be from the Lat. linum linen) To

cover on the infide, to guard within, to strengthen by inner works, to ftrengthen, to cover over. LINE (v. t. from the French ligner) To perform the at of generation as a dog on a bitch. Creech. LINEA (s. from the Lat.) A line. Lineage (s. from linea) A race, a progeny, the pedigree of a family.

Lineal (alj. from linea) Compofed of lines, delineated,
defcending in a direct genealogy, claimed by a direc
defcent, allied by a direct descent.

Lineally (adv.from lineal) In a direct line.
Linament (s. from linea) A feature, a diftinguishing

mark in the form.

Linear (adj. from linea) Compofed of lines, having the form of lines.

Linea'tion (s. from linea) The draught of a line, the appearance of lines.

Li'ned (p. from line) Covered on the infide, ftrengthened within, impregnated, impregnated as a bitch by a dog. LIN'EN (s. from the Lat. linum) Cloth made of flax, cloth made of hemp.

Lin'en (adj. from the fub.) Made of fax or hemp, compofed of fix or hemp, refembling flax or hemp. Lin'endraper (5. from linea, and draper) One who deals in linen cloth.

LING (s. from the 10andick) Heath, a kind of heath.
Ling (s. in ichthyology) The name of a fea fish.
LINGENT (s. in a mtblogy) The name of a bird.
LING'ER (v. int. from the Sax. leng long) To remain
tong, to hesitate, to be in fufpenfe, to remain long in
a gradual state of decline.

Linger (v. 1. but not used by late writers) To protract,
to draw out at length.
Sbake, care.
Ling'er (s. in ornithology) The name of a bird, the
lingent.

Linglerer (s. from linger) One that lingers.
Lingering (p. a. from linger) Remaining long, hesitat-
ing, gradually declining."

Ling'eringly (adv. from lingering) With delay, in a
gradual manner.

Lin'get (s. a different spelling) The lingent, the name of
a bird.
Phillips.
Lin'gey (adj. a local word) Limber, flexible. Bailey.
LINGO (s. a low cant word) A language, a tongue, a
Congreve.

fpeech.

LINGUA (s. from the Lat.) The tongue, a language.
Lingua'cious (adj. from lingua) Loquacious, talkative.
Lingua'cioufnels (1. from linguacious) Loquacity, talka
LiveRefs.

Scott.

D. of A.

Linos'ity (s. from linum fax) The state of abounding
with flax.

Start.
Linieed (s. from linum fax, and feed: The feed of £zx.
Lin fredoil (s. from lifeed, and oil) The oil exprefed
from the feed of flax.

Lin'fey (s. in commerce) Stuff made of linen and woollen.
Lin'fey (adj. from the jub. Made of linen and woollen.
Lin'feywoolfey (s. from linen, and wool) Linsey, a kind
of cloth made of linen and woollen.
Lin'fevwoulley (adj. from the fub.) Made of linen and
woollen; vile, mean, compofed of diffimilar parts.
Lins'pin (. a 1fferent felling) A linchpin.
Lin'flock (s. from lint, and stock) A staff with a match
at the end of it used in firing cannon.

LINT (1. from the Lat. linteum) The foft woolly fub
itance fcraped from linen cloth to lay on fores, the
foit fubftance of flax.

Cale.

Lintearicus tad,, not used) Belonging to linen.
LIN/TEL (s. from the French lenteal) The upper or crois
part of a door frame.

LINTER (s. in anatomy, from the Lat.) The inner rim
of the ear, the fchapa.

LINTON (.) A town in Cambridgeshire; it has a mar-
ket on Thursday, and is 48 miles from London.
Lin'ton (zdj, from the fub.) Belonging to Linton, made
LUNUM (s, in botary, from the Lat.) Flax.
LINUS (1.) A man's name.

at Linton.

2 Tim.

Linx (s. not be common spelling) The lynx.
LION (3. in 2uclpy, from the Lat. leo) The fierecât and,
molt magnanimous of all quadrupeds.
Liloncel (3. in heraldry) A mall tion.
Lioncelles (s. in be aldry) Several lions in the fame

coat.

Lio'nstooth

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