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Show A In foft and delicate Zethe Bacon's Natural Hiftory fo old as to have milk The medicaments proper to diminith milk, ar Shakefp Lethe, the river of oblivion, roll His wat'ry labyrinth, which whofo drink Forgets both joy and grief lettuce Milton LerTER. z./. [from /Jet. 1. One who lets or permits 2. One who hinders 3. One who gives vent to any thing ; as a blood-letter LE'TTER. n. /. [lettre Latin. French litera 1. One of the elements of {yllables ‘Whe a Spaniar write a /erter by him the Indian would marvel how it fhould be poflible that he, to whom he came, fhould be able to kno all things Abbot The affes will do very well for trumpeters, an the hares will make excellent letter carriers. L'Ef? ) [ Th e abe fiile of /etters ought to b free eafy natural; as near approaching to familia tion as poflible: the two beft qualitie verfation are, good humour and goo thofe /Jetters are therefore certainly th fhew the moft of thefe two qualities Mrs P B ha wri to me an converfain conbreeding beft tha Walfb 3. Th verba th litera meaning Touching tranflations of holy {cripture, we ma not difallow of their painful travels herein, wh fritly have tied themfelves to the very origina letter inftrument Deda ( Ho knowet man /ettzrs, having never learned ? Fobn 5. Any thing to be read Good law at beft but a dead Jetter ar ar 6. Type with whic vii Spirits produce debility cophlegmacy, and dropfies Would'ft thou be firft minifter of ftate To have thy /ewees crouded with refor Of a depending LE'VEL The door Difcover ample fpaces o'er the fmoot And /evel pavement Miltor The garden, feated on the /ewel floor She left behind Dryden's Boccace 2. Bven with any thing elfe ;. in the fam line with any thing Our navy is addrefs'd, our pow'r collefted And ev'ry thing lies level to our with. Shakefpeare Now fhaves with /eve/ wing the deep Milton There is a knowledge which is very proper t man, and lies /ewe/ to human.underftanding, th knowledge of our Creator, and of the duty we ow to him Tillotfon was written, in the language of th underneath, bleflings LerTERED adj [fro g 5, - an f]'{;!fl/;,: lester. Lite rate5 educated to learning A martial man, net {weetened b 3. Having no gradation Be /ewel in preferments as level in your learning 1. To mak lities: as 2. T a Jettered edu fpecie are Cold leituce, and refrefhing sofemarine Spenfer reduc t th inequa The glory of God,- and the good of hi was the thing which the apoftes aime therefore. ought to be the mark wherea level To lay flat 1 pray thee overname them ; and, as thou namef them I will defcribe them; and, according to m defeription, /ewe/ at my affeion Shake[pears. mark be in the fame dire&io Plac'd near at hand in cpen view,And‘rais'd it till it Jewvel/'d righ Againft the glow-wormy tail of kite 4~ To make attempts ; to aim Ambitieu Yor Hudibyas did Zwe/ at thy crown Shakefpaare. 5-_ To efface diltin&ion or fuperiority : as infamy is always trying to Jevel Le'ver. # /o [from the adjeive. 1. A plane; a forface without protube rances or inequalities Afte drainin of the /ewel in: Northampton thire, innumerzhle mice did upon a fudden arife Hale's Original of Mankind Thofe bred ia a mountainous courfry overfi iz thofe that dwell on low /Jews iS S'J'z_l}'s"'x Travels 2. Rate ftandard; cuftomary height Love of her 1ade us raife up our'thoughts abov the ordinary Zewe of the world, fo as great clerk do not difdain our conf Sidrey The praifes of infpired me wit thoughts above my ordinar Dryder 3. Suitable or proportionate height It might per Above the lewe/ ad {1 1 affume to them th &zm/}' do- evermore diffever the violence of outrageou with He to his engine flew ‘We know by experience, that all downright rain church at, an we alf Hooker z. To conjecture;. to attempt to guefs Milton He will thy foes with filent e confound And their proud ftrudtures dex [ with the ground 3 Dryden 70 LEVEL. w. 2 1. To aim at; to bring the gun or arro to the fame dire&ion with the mark fam rich ideas draw To fit the /wvell'd ufe of humankind But oppofite in. level'd wet was fet or garden lettuce eabbage fettuce; Silefia Lttuce; white and blac " cos; white cos; red capuchin lettuce Miller Fat colworts, and co ng purfeline even; to free fro he /Jewels the walks like limbecks Lefs bright the moon [leBuca, Latin. commo And thence fomething elfe Collier on. Pride Th and: you, will foon b Bentley 7o LE'VEL. v, a. [from the adjeive. cation, is apt to have a tin@ure of fournefs Le‘rruce. » f of fuperiority conftruétion I believe is not, Jewel'd on the hoft, but globe Behold the la And rule of beings.in your Maker's mind another T I obferved one weight Jettered oa both fides ; an I found on one fide, written in the dialeét of men and underneath it, calamities; on the other fid [lepel, Saxon. 1. Ever; nothaving one part higher tha Addifon leter. adj Miltom 7. To fuit; to proportion Dryden Dryden Dryd The whole body of puritans was drawn to-be abettors of all villainy by a few men, whofe defign from the firft were lewelled to deftroy both religio and governmente Swift 3. T None of her fylvan fubjets made their court Lewees and couchees' pafs d without refort books are printed [fro gaping, fervile court Milton level'd {mote oz the hoft 6. To dire& to any end parts ; and fuch are commonly afthmatick and dropfical Quincy The iron ladles that /etter founders ufe to th cafting of printing /letters, are kept conftuntly i melting metal Moxon %o LE‘TTER. w. a ftamp with letters Th globe and bloats the habit, or raifes white tumours in the feet, legs, or any othe LEVEE. . /. [French. 1. The time of rifing 2. The concourfe of thofe who crow round a man of power in a morning o to aim Level'd with fuch impetuous fury fmote vifcid, and cold, whereby it ftuff Arbuthnot the admiffio ITron globes which on the viétor hof flatulency, fevers, lenArbuthnot on Aliments phlegmatick t Level'd his deadly aim One to the gunners on St. Jago's tow'r Bid 'em for thame /ewe/ their cannon lower [from lexwith vifci Afthmatick perfons have voracious appetites and for want of a right fanguification are leuco aflen Each at the hea LrvcorHLEGMA TICK. adj. [arwxds an @réypa.] Having fuch a conftitution o body where the blood is ofa pale colour neve 5. To point in taking aim deprefled parts o Lrvcorsre'cmacyY. z / cophlegmatick.] Palepefs juices and cold fweatings thi 15 whereb ca thofe brutifh appetites which would over-run th foul, and Jewel its fuperior with its inferior faculties Decay of Piety Wifeman's Surgery 4. Letters without the fingular: learning The Jews marvelled, faying Reafo Some furgeons bring out the bone in the bore but it will be fafer to raife it up with your lewator when it is but lightly retained in fome part In obedience to human laws, we muft obferv the Zezzer of the law, without doing violence to. th 2 4. To bring to equality of condition as fierc the fkull are lifted up Hooker reafon of the law, and the intention of the lawgiver Taylor's Holy Living Thofe words of his muft be underfiood not according to the bare rigour of the /Zerter, but according to the allowances of expreffion Sourh What ! fince the pretor did my fetters loofe And left me freely at my own difpofe May I not live without controul and awe Excepting ftill the Jetter of the law Dryden Eaft Levaxt. n. /o The eaft, particularl thofe coalts of the Mediterranean ealf of Italy LEVATOR. n. /. [Latin.] A chirurgica and is one of th expreflion lewant, French. Forth rufh the /ewvant, and the ponent winds Eurus and Zephyr Milton's Paradife Loft beft /letter writers I know; very good fenfe, civility, and friendfhip, without any ftiffnefs or conftraint Savift "™ He /cvels mountains, and he raifes plains And not regarding diff 'rence of degree Abas'd your daughter, and exalted me Dryden Wifeman's Surgery endive Thwart of thofe an epifile woul mountainous billows of the fea Raleigh With unrefifted might the monarch reigne ern S/'Ja(w.‘/]u‘fll‘d They ufe to write it on the top of ltierse Shak I have a Jetter from: he Of (uch contents as you will wonder at Shake/p purflane LE'VAN'T. adj A fuperfcription was written over him in /Jetter of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew Lxke, xxiil. 38 Thou whorefon Zed ! thou unneceflary Jetter 2. A written meflage winds, and beat down and lewel the fwelling an Lettuee 'is thought to be poifonous, when it i The conquering wine hath fteept our fenf " L/E LEY toward I fuppofe like, it muf b ce their minds {o-fa on, a |