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Show LA ¥ am weary with drawing the deformities of life and /amars of the people, where every figure of imDryden perfection more refembles me Life he labours to refin Daily, nor of his little ftock denie Fit alms to /azars, merciful and meek Philips La"zar-nouse. ) #. /. [lazaret, French lazzaretto, Italian LazArRE TTO from lazar.] A houfe for the receptio of the difeafed ; an hofpital A plac A Jazar-houfe it {eemed, where were lai Milton Numbers of all difeas'd LA"ZARWORT.n./. [ Laferpitium.] A plant La‘zivy. adv. [from /Jazy.] Idly; fluggithly;5 heavily Watch him at play, when following his own inclinations; and fee whether he be ftirring an a&ive, or whether he /azi/y and liftlefl @way his time "I'ke caftern mations view the rifing fires dream Locke ‘Whilft night fhades us, and /azily retires Creech Idlenefs #. /. [from lazy. fluggifhnefs ; liftleflaefs ; heavinef action; tardinefs Tha inftanc of frau and /azinefs i the unjuf fteward, who pleaded that he could neither dig no beg, would quickly have been brought both to di South and to beg too, rather than ftarve My fortune you have refcued, not only from th power of others, but from my own modefty an lazinefs Lazinc idle adj D}_‘):(/éfl Sluggifh [from Jazy. The hands and the feet mutinied againft the belly they knew no reafon, why the one fthould be /azing and pampering itfelf with the fruit of the other' labour L' Efirange The fot cried, Utinam boc effet laborare, while h lay /azing and lolling upon his couch Sotuth Lazuvrl, z / ‘The ground of this ftone is blue, veined and fpotted with white an a gliftering or metallic yel lew: it appears to be compofed of, firft, a whit iparry, or cryftalline matter; fecondly, flakes o the golden or yellow talc; thirdly, a fhining yello fubftance; this fumes off' in the calcination of th ftone, and cafts a fulphureous fmell; fourthly, brigh blu fubftance of grea uf amon th painters, under the name of ultramarine ; and whe rich, is found, upon trial, to yield about one-fixth o copper, with a very little filver Woodward LAZY. adj. [This word is derived by correfpondent, with great probability from a 'aife, French; but it is however Teutonick; /Zj/er in Danifh, an lofigh in Dutch, have the fame meaning; and Spe/man gives this account o the word : Dividebantur antiqui Saxones u teftatu Nithardus i tre ordines ; Edhilingos Frilingo Lazzoes ; hoc elt nobiles, ingenuos ferviles : quam & nos diftin&tionem di retinuimus Sed Ricardo autem fecundo pars fervorum maxima fe in libertatem vindicavit; fic ut hodie apu thep 05 Whofe lazy waters without motion lay Rofcommon The /azy glutton fafe at home will keep Indulge his floth, and batten with his fleep. Dryden Like Eaftern kings a /azy ftate they keep Pope And clofe confin'd in their own palace fleep Or /azy lakes unconfcious of a flood ‘Whofe dull brown Naiads ever fleep in mud. Parnel ‘What amazing ftupidity is it, for men to be negligent of falvation themfelves ! to fit down /az and unaétive Rogers tedious 2. Slow Before his eyes appear'd, fad, noifome, dark LaziNess L LE Anglos rarior inveniatur fervus, qu mancipium dicitur. Reftat nihilominu antiqua appellationis commemoratio Ignavos enim hodie Jazie dicimus. 1. Idle fluggifh; unwilling to work Our foldiers, like the night-owl's /azy flight Or like a /azy thrather with a flail Fall gently down, as if they ftruck their friends Shake[peare Wicked condemned men will ever live like rogues and not fell te work, but be /azy, and fpend yictuals Bacon The ordinary method for recruiting their armies was now too dull and /azy an expedient to refift thi torrent Clarendon Lp. is a contra&ion of /ord Lea.n / [ley Saxon a fallow Saxon, a pafture. Groun not open Obfolete leagx inclofed Greatly agaft with this pittious plea Him refted the good man on the /Zea Spenfer Ceres, moft bounteous lady, thy rich /ea Of wheat, rye, barley, fetches, oats and peas Shakefpeare Her fallow /lea The darnel, hemlock, and rank fumitor Doth root upon Shakefpeare Dry up thy harrow'd veins, and plough torn /eas Whereof ingrateful man with liqu'rifh draughts And morfels unétuous, greafes his pure mind Shakefpeare Such court guife As Mercury did firft devife and on the /eas Milton The lowing herds wind flowly o'er the /ea. Gray LEAD. #. /. [lzo, Saxon. 1. Lead is the heavieft metal except gol and quickfilver. Lead is the fofteft o all the metals, and very duétile, thoug lefs fo than gold : it is very little fubjet to ruft, and the leaft fonorous o all the metals except gold. The fpecifick gravity of /ead is to that of wate as 11,322t0 1000 Lead, when kept i fufion over a commo all other bodies To fi with lead in any manner He fafhioneth the clay with his arm, he applict himfelf to lead it over clean the furnace and he is diligent to mak Ecclufs xxxviii. 30 There is a traverfe placed in a loft, at the righ hand of the chair, with a privy door, and a carve window of glafs /eaded with gol the mother fitteth To LeaDp. . a [leban and blue, wher Bacon preter. I/led Saxon part. led leiden, Dutch. 1. To guide by the hand There is a cliff, whofe high and bending hea Looks fearfully on the confined deep Bring me but to the very brim of it And I'll repair the mifery thou doft bear With fomething rich about me : from that plac I fhall no leading need Shakefpeare Doth not each on the fabbath loofe his ox o his afs from the ftail, and /ead him away to watering Luke, xiil. 1 They thruft hi out of the city, and /ed hi unto the brow of the hill Lukey ive 2 2. 'T'o conduét to any place Save to eyery man his wife and children, tha they may Zead them away, and depart 1 San. XXX, 22 Then brought he me out of the way, and /e me about the way without unto the utter gate Ezck. xlviie 2 He maketh me to lie down in green paftures; h leadeth me befide the fill waters Pfal. xxiiis 2 3. To conduét as head or commander With the mincing Dryades On the lawns Zo LEaD. @. 4. [from the noun. fire, throw except gold u that ar mixed, all others being lighter, excep Mercury, which will not bear that degree of heat : itafterwards vitrifies wit thef})afer metals, and carries them off in form of {coriz, to the fides of th veflel. The weakef acids are the bef folvents for /ead: it diffolves very readily in aqua fortis diluted with water as alfo in vinegar The fmoke of /ea works is a prodigious annoyance, an fubjets both the workmen, and th cattle that graze about them, to a mortal difeafe Hill Thou art a foul in blifs, but I am boun Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tear Do fcald like molten Zad Shake[peare Of /ead, fome 1 can thew you fo like fteel, an fo unlike common Zead ore, that the workmen cal it fteel ore Boyle Lead is employed for the refining of gold and filver by the cupel; hereof is made eommon ceruf with vinegar ; of cerufs, red /ead; of plumbu uftum, the beft yellow ochre; of /ead, and half a much tin, folder for /cad Grez 2. [In the plural.] Flat roof to walk on becaufe houfes are covered with Jead Stalls, bulks, windows Are {fmother'd up, leads fil'd, and ridges hots' With variable complexions; all agreein In carneftnefs to fec him Shakefpeare Iwould have the tower two ftories, and goodly /ead' upon ghe top, raifed with ftatues lnterpofed Bacoz Would you /zad forth your army againft the ene my, and feek him where he is to fight Spenfer He turns head againft the lion's armed jaws And being no more in debt to years than thou Leads antient lords, and rev'rend bifhops, o To bloody battles Shakefpeare's Henry I If thou wilt hav The leading of thy own revenges, tak One half of my commiffion As beft thou art experienc'd and fet dow Shakefpeare He /ed me on to mightieft deeds Above the nerve of mortal arm Againft the uncircumcis'd, our enemies But now hath caft me off Miiton's Agoniftes Chrift took. not upon him fleth and blood, tha he might conquer and rule nations, /ead armies, o poflefs places South He might mufter his family up, and /ni the out againft the Indians, to feek reparation-upon an inJury. Locke 4. To introduce by going firft Which may go out before them, and which ma go in before them, and which may /ead them out and which may bring them in. Numb. xxvii. 1 His guide, as faithful from that day As Hefperus that /eads the fun his way Fairfa 5. Toguide taining to fhow the method of at Human tettimony is not fo proper to Zad us int the knowledge of the efience of things, as t acquaint us with the exiftence of things Hatss 6. T'o draw to entice to allure Appoirt him a meeting, give him a fhew of comfort, and /ead him on with a fine baited delay Shake[peare The lord Cottington, being a mafter of temper knew how to /ead him into a miftake, and -the drive him into choler, and thea expofe him Clarendon 7. To induce motives to prevail on by pleafin What I did, I did in honour Led by th® impartial condué of my foul Shakefp He was driven by the neceffities of the times, mor than /ed by his own difpofition, to any rigour o altions K. Charles What I fay will havelittleinfluence on thofe whof ends /ead them to with the continuance of the war 8. To pafs; to{pepdinany certain manner D S‘u‘::/‘} Th |
