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Show LE Strephon, with Zawy twigs of laurel tree 0to infira® an audi cJ a planation or dif A garland made on temples for to wear For he then chofen was the dignit Of village lord that Whitfontide to bears ~ Sidney Now your /eawy fcreens throw near enough dow Shakefpeare ¢ And fhow like thofe you are over lic T [lecher, Fr. Lecu. w. a Hanmer Haft thou yet Jeched the Athenian's eye Shake[peare With the love juice LE'CHER [Derive #. / from luxure, old French r c v o o é r t f l a t arit c u c h t i m a t f f r e If any minif n w e t a e t b a leéiurer recommend w - d d e m c r m n a l one orthodox o c t i m c t o u n t a t e i q refently r don e a C He got a leurefbip in town of fixty pounds LEep. part. pret. of Jead Then fhall they know that I am the Lord you God, which caufed them to be /ed into captivit Ezeks xxxix. 28 among the heathen The leaders of this people caufe them to err, an they that are /ed of them are deftroyed. Ifz. ix. 16 As in vegetables and animals, fo in moft othe bodies, not propagated by feed, it is the colour w . Lacke moft fix on, and are moft /ed by Pope Zeo Le'crER. @. 7. [from the noun.] T whore Die for adultery® no. 'The wren goes to't, an the fmall gilded fly does letcher in my fight. Shak Gut cats all day, and Jetchers all the night B. Fonfon luftful The fapphire fhould grow foul, and lofe it beauty, when worn by one that is Jecherous; th emerald fhould fly to pieces, if it touch the fki Derbam ‘of any unchafte perfon Le‘cuerousiy Lewdly adw [fro LeDGE. #./. [leggen, Dutch 1. A row; layer; ftratum The loweft /edge or row fhoul lecherous. luitfully Lr‘cuerousnEss. z. /. [from lecherous. Lewdnefs Lr'cuzry. # /. [from Jecher.] Lewdnefs ; laft The reft welter with as little fhame in open /echery as fwine do in the common mire Afeham Againft fuch lewdfters, and their lechery Thofe that betray them do no treachery. Shakefp Lr'ctioN. 2. /. [leftio, Latin.] A read LE'CTURE. #. /. [lefture, French. 1. A difcourfe pronounced upon any fubje&t Mark him, while Dametas reads his ruftic lecFure unto him, how to feed his beafts before noon and where to fhade the in the extreme heat Sidney ‘Wrangling pedant When in mufick we have fpent an hour Your /eture fhall have leifure for as much. Shak When letters from Cafar were given to Rufticus he refufed to open them till the philofopher ha done his /efures Taylar's Holy Living Virtue is the folid good, which tutors fhoul not only read /eftures and talk of, but the labou and art of education fhould furnith the mind with and faften there Laocke 2. The a&or pra&tice of reading; perufal In the leZure of holy feripture, their apprehenfions are commonly confined unto the literal fenfe o the text Brown 3. A magifterial reprimand ; a pedantic difcourfe Nulm‘xc'ia will be bleft by Cato's /ectures Addifon 7o Le'cTuRE. @. 4. (from the noun. 1. To infiru@ formally .. Loinftruct infolently and dogmatically / In that difeafe of grieved confcience And well could cure the fame; his name was p, tience be merel o 2. A ridge rifing above the reft; or proje€ling beyond the reft The four parallel fticks rifing above five inche higher than the handkerchief, ferved as Jedges o Gulliver each fide 3. Any prominence or rifing part Beneath a /edge of rocks his fleet he hides The bending brow above a fafe retreat provides Dryden Lepnorse #. [ld an horfe. fumpter horfe Her words, prevail'd, and then the learned /e His cunning han fediment; refufe commonl My cloaths, my fex, exchang'd for thee I'li mingle with the people's wretched Ze 2 [Se term fuppofe Prior by Siiunner fro Peau, French. It is generally that fid which is oppofite to the wind, as the /Z fhore is that the wind blows on T be under the /ee of the fhore is to b clofe under the weather fhore A /eeaward fhip is one that is not faft by wind, to make her way {o good as th might To lay a fhip by the ke, is t bring her fo that all her fails may li againft the mafts and throwds flat, an the wind to come right on her broad fide, fo that fhe wil way mak little or n Di& If we, in the bay of Bifcay, had had a port unde our /fe,.that we might have kept our tranfportin fhips with our men of war, we had take the In dian, fleet Raleigh The Hollanders were before Dunkirk with ‘th wind at northweft, making a /ez thore in all weathers 'gan to his wounds to lay And all things elfe the which his art did fesch Fair Quesn Phyfick is their bane Raleigh Unprovided of tackling and victualling, the are forced to fea by a ftorm; yet better do fo tha venture {plitting and finking on a /e fhore &Cha Him, baply flumb'ring on the Nor{;;;bfgf:; The pilot of fome fmall night-founderd {kiff Drier.ning fome ifland, oft, as feamen teli With fixed anchor in his fcaly rind The learried Jeeches in defpair depart And fhake their heads, defponding of their art Dryder Wife /ecches will not vain receipts obtrude Deaf to cornplaints they wait upon the ill D;yde,, Till fome fafe crifis The hoary wrinkled leech has watch'd and toil'd Tried every health-reftoring herb and gum And wearied out his painful fkill in vain Rowe A fkilful Jeach They fay, had wrought this blefled deed This leach Arbuthnot was yclept. Gay's Paflorals, faftens on animals, and fucks the blood it is ufed to draw blood where the lance is lefs fafe, whence perhaps the name I drew blood by leeches behind his ear Wifeman Sticking like Jeeches, till they burft with blood ‘Without remorfe infatiably Rofcommon Zo LeecH. v. a. [from the noun.] T treat with medicaments Le'ecucrarT. n fi [leech and craft The art of healing We ftudy fpeech, but others we perfuade We leecheraft learn, but others cure with it Leer. adj. [lieye, leve, Dutch. fond Lek. n. /. [lie, French. 1. Dregs lees Spenfer's Fairy Queen 2. A kind of {mall water ferpent, whic tion for all parts in building contiguous to board Wotton's. Architeéture ing; a variety in copies Every critick has his own hypothefis: if th common text be not favourable to his opinion, various /eéZion/fhall be made authentick Watts to lie. frone, clofely laid, without mortar: a general cau Lewd Lre'cuerovus. adj. [from lecher. Swift year, where he preached conftantly in perfon Dryden "To that fair Jetcher, the firong god of arms Dryden office of a letturer About his churning chaps the frothy bubbles rife She yields her charm Milly Batter'd by his Ze they lay The pafling winds through their torn canvafs play T . r d l r [ / z i Le'ctures Shakefpeare he cannot *fcape me You, like a letcher, out of whorifh loin Shakefp Are pleas'd to breed out your inheritors The lecher foon transforms his miftrefs; no Dryden In T6's place appears a lovely cow The fleepy leacher fhuts his little eyes Invefts the fea Saxon, [lzc / z LeecH f # Li' 1 phyfician profeflo o th 1. An infructor; o healin whenc w ftil uf coy le&ure t leech b r h 2. A preacher in a chu A leech, the which had great infigh luxuriais ufe he's at my houfe Mooys by his fide under the Jez, while aigh tured on geometry by Skinne in the middle ages in the fame fenfe. A whore-mafter 1 will now take the Zeacher i To r E. Davie Kind Whilome all thefe were low and Zef And lov'd their flocks to feed They never ftrove to be the chief And fimple was their weed Spenfer's Pafforals Leex. n. /. [leac, Saxon; Joock, Dutch leechk, Erfe3 porrum, Latin.] A plan Know'ft thou Fluellen ?-Yes -Tell him I'll knock his Zek about his pate Upon St. David's day Shakefpeares Leck to the Welih, to Dutchmen butter's dears Gay We ufe acrid plants inwardly and outwardly i gangrenes ; in the feurvy, water-crefles, horferadifh, garlick, or /eck pottage. Floyer on Humours LEER. z./. [pleane, Saxon. 1. An oblique view . I ipy entertainment in her; fhe gives the Zeer o invitation Shakefp. Merry Wives of W indfar Afide the devil turn' For envy, yet with jealous /eer malig Ey'd them afkance Milton 2. A laboured caft of countenance Damn with faint praife, concede with civil Zeer I place a ftatefman full before my fight A bloated minifter in all his geer With fhamelefs vifage, and perfidious Jeer 7o LEER. @. 2. [from the noun. Savift 1. To look obliquely ; to look archly I will zer upon him as he comes by ; and do bu mark the countenance that he will give me. Shak I wonder whether you tafte the pleafure of independency, or whether you do not fometimes Jee upon the court Savifte 2. To look with a forced countenance Bertra |