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Show ."ti'f-_\ LE LE They fummon'd up their meiny, ftrait took horfe Commande me to follow and atten clean.sh data import.tsv out README "The lLifure of their anfwer Shakefp. King Lear O happy youth For whom thy fates refetve fo fair a bride He figh'd, and had no ifure more to fay His honour call'd his eyes another way. ~ Dryden T fhall leave with him that rebuke, to be confi dered at his Zeifure 3. Want of lesfure Locke Not ufed More than I have faid, loving countrymen The /eifure and enforcement of the tim Forbids to dwell on Shakefpeare's Richard 111 hurry He was the wretchedeft thing when he was young So long a growing, and fo /eifurely That, if the rule were true, he fhould be gracious Shakefpeare The earl of Warwick, with a handful of men fired Leith and Edinburgh, and returned by a Zeifurely march Hayward The bridge is human life : upon a Zeifurely furvey of it, I found that it confifted of threefcor ~ v and ten intire arches Addifon LrtsurzLy. adwv. [from leifure.] No in a hurry; flowly; deliberately The Belgians hop'd, that with diforder'd hafte Our deep-cut keels upon the fands might run Or if with caution /eifurely we paft Their numerous grofs might charge us one b one We defcended very leifurcly careful to count the fteps Le'man laimant Dryden m friend bein Addifon n. /. [Generally fuppofed to b th lover French ; but ima gined by Funius, with almoft equal probability, to be derived from /Jecf, Dutch or leop, Saxon, beloved, and man Thi etymology is ftrongly fupported by th antient orthography, according to whic it was written Jeweman.] A {weetheart a gallant y or a miftrefs Hanmer Hold for my fake, and do him not to dye But vanquifh'd, thine eternal bondflave make And me thy worthy meed wato thy /eman take Spenfer A cup of wire That's brifk and fine And drink unto the /eman mine Shakefpeare Le'mma. n. /. [Mnupa 5 lemme, French A propofition previoufly aflumed LE'MON. n. /. [limen nium, low Lat. French Jimo Pomona 2. The tree that bears lemons The Jemon tree hath large fff leaves; th flower confifts of many leaves, which expand i form of a rofe: the fruit is almoft of an ova figure, and divided into feveral cells, in ‘which ar lodged hard feeds, furrounded by a thick flefh fubftance, which, for the moft part, is full of a acid juice There are many varieties of this tree and the fruit is yearly imported from Lifbon i great plenty Miller #./. [from Jemon. fugar Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent fuch more to be thus oppofite with Heav'n Thou fhalt not give him thy money upon ufury nor /end him thy victuals for increafe Lev. xxv. 37 They dare not give, and e'en refufe to lend ‘To their poor kindred, or a wanting friend. Diryden 2. To {uffer to be ufed on condition tha it be reftored T'll Jend it thee, my dear, but have no power t give it from me Shake[peare The fair blefling we vouchfafe to fend Nor can we fpare you long, though often we ma lend Dryden 3. To afford; to grant in general Covetoufnefs lik th fea receives the tribut of all rivers, though far unlike it in /ending an back again Decay of Piety Painting and poefy are two fifters fo like, tha they /end to each other their name and office t on is called a dumb poefy, and the other a fpeakin picture Dryden's Dufrefnoy From thy new hope, and from thy growing ftore Now /end affiftance, and relieve the poor. Dryden Cato /end me for a while thy patience And condefcend to hear.a young man fpeak. Addif Cephifa, tho Wilt Zend a hand to clofe thy miftrefs' eyes A Philips Le'NDER. 2. /. [from /lend. 1. One who lends any thing 2. One who make a trad money to intereft of puttin Let the ftate be anfwered fome {mall matter, an the reft left to the /nder; if the abatement b fmall, it will not difcourage the /lender: he tha took ten in the hundred, wil eight than give over this trade fooner defcend t Bacon Whole droves of /enders crowd the bankers door To call in money Dryden's Sparifp Fryar Intereft would certainly encourage the lender t venture in fuch a time of danger Addifon Lencra. a /. [from leng, Saxon. 1. The extent of any thing material fro end to end ; the longeft line that can b drawn through a body There is in Ticinum a church that is in /ngr one hundred feet, in breadth twenty, and in height Bacon 2. Horizontal extenfion Mezentius rufhes on his foes And firft unhappy Acron overthrows Stretch'd at his /ength he fpurns the fwarthy ground .Dr_yduz To where the /zmon and the piercing lime ‘With the deep orange, glowing through the green Their lighter glories blend Thomfon, made of water lemons In common worldly things 'tis call'd ungratefi With dull unwillingnefs to pay a debt times The juice of /emons is more cooling and aftringent than that of oranges Arbuthnot The dyers ufc it for dying of bright yellows an Zemon colours Mortimer EMONA'DE lent[lenan, Saxon 5 Jeenen, Dutch. 1. To afiord or fupply, on condition o repayment mear fifty : it reporteth the voice twelve or thirtee 1. The fruit of the lemon-tree Bear me 7o LEND. @. a. preterite, and part. pafl Shake[peare LevSURELY. adj. [from leifure.] No hafty ; deliberate don withou " LE Liquo and the juice o 3. Comparative extent; a certain portio of {pace or time: in this fenfe 1t has plural Large /engthe of feas and fhore Between my father and my motherlay. Shakefpearc To get from th' enemy, and Ralph, free Left danger, fears, and foes, behin And beat, at leaft, three /engtbs th wind, Hudibs Time glides along with undifcover'd hafte The futare but a /ength beyond the patt Dryden 4. Extent of duration or fpace Wha Zength of lands wha pafs'd What ftorms fuftain'd, and o caf ocean wha have yo fhores bee Dryden Having thus got the idea of duration, the nex ‘Thou, and thy wife, and children, fhould wal Ay my gardens, buy toys, and drink /emonade Arbutbe Fo Bull thin is to get fome meafure of this common dura tion, whereby to judge of its diffgrent Jengrhs Locke 5. Long duration or protraction May Heav'n great monarch blifs With lengt Such toi Such lengt In lengt and mak now ftands ftill augment you of days, and every day like this. Dryd requir'd the R nn \ZT)C of labour for {o vaf ne. Dryden of time it will cover the whole plain one mountain with that on which i Addifon 6. Reach or expanfion of any thing I do not recommend to all a purfuit of fciences to thofe extenfive lengths to which the modern have advanced Watts 7. Full extent uncontra&ed ftate If Letitia, who fent me this account, will acquaint me with the worthy gentleman's name, will infert it at /ength in one of my papess Addifin's Speiator 8. Diftance He had marched to the /ngth of Excter, whic he had fome thought of beficging Clarendon 9. End time latter par o ap aflignabl Churches purged of things burdenfome, all wa brought at the /rgth unto that wherein now w ftand Hooker A crooked ftick is not ftraitened, unlefs it b bent as far on the clear contrary fide, that fo i may fettle itfelf at the /emgth in a middle ftate o evennefs hetween them both Hooker 10. 4¢ LEncTH [An adverbial mod of fpeech. It was formerly written a the length. At laft; in conclufion At length, at length, T have thee in my arms Though our malevolent ftars have ftruggled hard And held us long afunder. Dryden's King Arthur 70 LE'NGTHEN. @, a. [from length. 1. To draw out; to make longer; t elongate Relaxing the fibres, is making them flexible or eafy to be lengthened without rupture Arbuth Falling dews with fpangles deck'd the glade And the low fun had lengthen'd every thade. Pope 2. To protra&t ; to continue Frame your mind to mirth and merriment Which bars a thoufand harms, and lengthbens life Shakefpeare Break off thy fins by righteoufnefs, and thine ini quities by fhewing mercy to the poor: if it may b a lengthening of thy tranquillity Dane It is in our power to fecure to ourfelves an intereft in the divine mercies that are yet to come, an to Jengthen the courfe of our prefent profperity Atterbury's Sermons 3. To protra& pronunciation The learned languages were lefs conftrained i the quantity of every fyllable, befide helps of grammatical figures for the Jemgthening or abbreviatio of them Dryden 4. 7o LenGTHEN out 1s only emphatical. extend What i A day, an I"d hoar ‘To lengthe [The particle ou To protra ; t T pleafe to lengthen out his dat take a pride to cozen fate up every moment of my life out the payment of my tears Dryden Dryd It lengthens out every a& of worthip, and produces more lafting and permanent impreflions i the mind, than thofe which accompany any tran fient form of words Addifon 7o Le'NGTHEN. w. 2. 'To grow longer to increafe in length On ma as well mak a yard whof part lengthen and fhrink, as a meafure of trade in materials, that have not always a fettled value. Lo Still *tis farther from its en Still finds:its error lengthen with its way Prior Le'~eruwise adv [length and «wife. According to the length in a longitu dinal dire&ion Le'N1ENT. adj. [leniens, Latin. E 1. 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