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Show LAT The effefts are, extenfion of the great weflels compreflion of the lefler, and /acerations upon {mal Arbuthnot caufes LA'CERATIVE. adj. [from lacerate.] Tearing ; having the power to tear Some depend upon the intemperament of th part ulcerated, others upon the continual afflux o Harwey on Confumptions lacerative humours French. JLa‘cHRYMAL, adj. [lachrymal Generating tears It isof an exquifite fenfe, that, upon any touch the tears might be fqueezed from the /achryma glands, to wafh and clean it Cheyne's Philofophical Principles La'cCHRYMARY. adf. [lachryma, Latin. Containing tears Ho many dreffes are there for each particula deity? what avariety of fhapes in the ancient urns Addifon lamps, and Jachrymary vellels LacuryMa'TioN. # f. [from lachryma The a& of weeping, or fhedLat. ding tears La'curymaTory. n. [ [lachrimatoire Fr.] A veflelin which tearsare gathere to the honour of the dead Laci'N1ATED. adj. [from lacinia, Lat. Adorned with fringes and borders 9 LACK Duatch. without a w t leflen to need to b [laecken want T Every good and holy defire, though it /ack th form, hath notwithftanding in itfelf the fubftance and with him the force of prayer who regardet the very moanings, groans, and fighs of the heart Hooker A land wherein thou thalt ea fearcene(s ; thou fhalt not /ack an One day we hope thou fhalt brin Dear Bolingbroke, the juftice that w Intreat they may; authority the . Fy{ whic e 0 yhore.etter t for my The lions do Jack and fuffer hunger Peradventure there fhall /ack five of the fift righteous ; wilt thou deftroy all the city for lack o Genefisy viii. 28 There was nothing /acking to them : David re1 Sam. xxX. 19 Govered all That which was Jackirg on your part, they hav 1 Core Xvie 17 fupplicd ewh 1. Want ; need ; failure P:flam Suc Com. Prayer 2. To be wanting Lack. n /. [from the verb. oft lik In the fcripture there neither wanteth an thing, the Jack whereof might deprive us of life Hooker Many that are not ma Have fure more /ack of reafon Shake[peare He was not able to keep that place three days for Jack of vi€tuals Kuolles ol com e ope ind Jacz For want of fighting was grown rufty Harv Of fomebody to hew and hack The trenchant blade toledo trufty for Jac And eat into itfelf Hudibras atin 2. Lack by \'iO almoft obfolete La'cksrain, n. /. [lack and brain. that wants wit whethe nou What a /Jackbroin is this plot as ever was laid La'cker #. / or verb is no On Our plot is as good Shakefpeare's Henry 1V A kind of varnith, which {pread upon a white fubftance exhibit a gold colour 7o La'cker. v. a. [from the noun. {fmea T over with lacker What {hook the ftage, and made the people ftare Law's long wig, fowerd gown, and.Jacker'd. chair La'ckey. w. /. [laguais, Fr. ing fervant; a foot-boy Pope An attend Wait elfe at door 'Mon boys a fellow counfellor and grooms and lackeys ! Shakefpeare''s Hene VIII Though his youthful blood be fir'd with wine He's cautious to avoid the coach and fix And on the Jackeys will no quarrel fix Dryden's Fuwvenal Lacqueys were never fo faucy and pragmatical a they are now-a-days Addifon's Spetatir 7o La'ckey. w. g. [from thenoun.] T attend fervilely. I know not whethe Milton has ufed this word very properly This common body Like to a vagabond flag upon the ftream Goes to, and back lacqueying the varying tide "To rot itfelf with motion Shakcfpeare's Antony and Cleopatra So dear to heav'n is faintly chattity That when a foul is found fincerely fo A thoufand liveried angels /ackey her Driving far off each thing of fin and guilt. Milton Zo La'ckey. w. n. To at as a foot-boy to pay fervile attendance Oft have I fervants feen on horfes ride The free and noble /acguey by their fide. Sandys Our Italian tranflator of the AEneis is a foo poct; he Jackeys by the fide of Virgil, but neve mounts behind him Dryden La'ckLiNEN,adj, [lack and linen.] Wanting fhirts Yo poor bafe rafcally cheating lackline mate; away, you mouldy rogue; away Shakefpeare's Henry IV LA'CkLUSTRE adj Wanting brightnefs [lack an luftre. And then he drew a dial from his poke And looking on it with lacklufire eye Says very wifely, Itisteno'clock Shakefpeare LACO'NICK. adj. [laconicus, Lat. laconique, Fr.] Short, brief; fraom Lacones who ufed few words I grow laconick even beyond laconicifm j fo fometimes I return only yes, or no, to queftionar or petitionary epiftles of half a yard long Pope to Swift La"conism.n./. [laconifme, Fr. laconifinus Lat. A concife ftile: called by Pope laconicifm See LACONICK As the language of the face is univerfal, fo i is very comprehenfive: no /Jaconifn can reach it It is the fhort-hand of the mind; and crowds great deal in a little room Collicr of the Afpect Laco''NicaLvy. adv Briefly; concifely Alexande Nequam [fro a ma laconick. of grea learning and defirous to enter into religion there, writ to th abbot /aconically Camden's Renains La'crary.adj. [la&areus, Lat. full of juice like milk Milky From laftary, or milky plants, which have white and laéteous juice difperfed through ever part, there arife flowers blue and yellow Brown's Pulga in people of lax conftitutions, whereas their fphinéles will thut againft them in fuch as have ftrong fibres They would fhame to make m the Spartans fjplm a lact bread withou thing in it Deut. viii. 9 back Jack. Daxicl /Jacks Danicl ToLack. v. z 1. To be in want five Jragt LA LA Errours Arbuthuot Lacre'ous. adj. [lafteus, Lat. 1. Milky Though we leave out the lafeous circle, yet: ag there more by four than Philo mentions Brown's Vulgar Errours 2. La&eal 5 conveying chyle The lungs are fuitable for refpiration, and th lafteous veflels for the reception of the chyle LacTe'scEnce Tendenc Thi #. / to milk laétefeenc doe Bentloy [laflefco Latin. or millg colour commonty~emfue wine, being impregnated with gums, or other vegetable concretions, that abound with fulphuredu corpufcles, fair water is fuddenly poured upon th folution Boyle on Colours Lacre'scenT. adj. [laétgfiens, Lat.] Producing milk, or a white juice Amongft the pot-herbs are fome /aé?zfcent plants as lettuce and endive, whic juice contain a wholefom Arbutbnot Lacti'rerOvUS.adj. [lac and fero. conveys or brings milk Milky; conveying chyle of the colour of milk As the food pafles, the chyle, which is th nutritive part, is feparated from the excrementitiou by the /af#cal veins; and from .thence conveye into the blood Locke La'cTear. z. / chyle Theveflel that convey The mouths of the /zfeals may permit aliment acrimonious or not fufficiently attenuated, to ente Wha He makes the breafts to be nothing but glandales made up of an infinite number of litde knots, eac whereof hath its excretory veffel, or /affifercus dut Ray on the Creation Lap #. / [leobe Saxon whic com monly fignifies people, but fometimes fays Mr. Lye, a boy. 1. A boy; aftripling,in familiar language We wer Two /ads, that thought there was no more behind But fuch a day to-morrow as to-day And to be boy eternal Shake[p. Winter's Tale The poor /zd who wants knowledge muft.fet hi invention on the rack, to fay fomething where h knows nothing Locke Too far from the ancient forms of teaching feveral good grammarians have departed to the grea detriment of fuch /ads as have been removed to othe fchools Watts 2. A boy; a young man, in paftoral language For grief whereof the /zd would after joy But pin'd away in anguifh, and felf-will'd anaoy Spenfer The fhepherd /ad Whofe offspring on the throne of Judah-fa So many ages Miltons. LA'DDER. . /. [plabpne, Saxon. 1. A frame made with fteps placed betwee two upright pieces Whofe compolft is rotten, and carried in-time, And fpread as it fhould bey thrift's ladd:r may climb Tuffer Now ftreets grow throng'd, and bufy as by day Some run for buckets to the hallow'd quire Some cut the pipes, and fome the engines play And fome more bold mount/adders to the fire. Dry Eafy in words thy ftile, in fenfe fiblime *Tis like the /adder in the patriarch's dream Its foot on earth, its height above the fkies. Pricr 1 faw a itage ereéted about a foot and a half fro the ground, capable of holding four of the inhabit La'crary.n. /. [ladarium, Lat.] A dair houfe ants, with two or three Jadders to moun Gullizer' Lacrta'rioN. #. f. [laio, Lat.] Thea& { 2. Any thing by which one climbs or time of giving fuck La'cteAvr. adj. [from lac, Lat. whe it Trapels Then took fhe help to her of a fervant near abou her hufband, whom fhe knew to be of a hatty am bition; and fuch a one, who wanting true fuiliciency to raiie him, would make a /adder of an mifchief Sidn P I muft ¢climb her window The ladder made of cords Shake[p-are Northumberland, thou /adder, by the whic My coufin Bolingbrok afcends my throne Shat Lowlinefs is young ambition's ladder Whereto the climber upward turas his face S2ak B 2 ; \ rr a |