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Show s e f l Li/sTLE 5. [Contratted from /iffen.] ' To hearke to Then weigh, what lofs your honour ma with too credent ear you /ift his fongs lofe your heart, or your chafte treafur Shakefp his unmafterd importunity 1, this found I better know Be Lifi! 1 would T could hear mo. 1 O T ope Hamlet Fon on Liftlefnefs or forrow Confpicuous, with three /iffed colours gay Betok ning peace from God, and cov'nant new Milton T LI'sTEN w. a To hear 1 /it my pipe with the paper. Addifon's Spettator Philips Obfolete As they had feen me wit Liftering their fear I coul He, that no more muf Than they whom yout glofe The wonted roar was u the other thefe hangman's hands Shak not fay, amen fay, is /iffencd mor and eafe have taught t Shakefpeare amidft the woods at the tents of his foldiers; and at a time hear fome that fpoke very ill of him : whereupon h faid, If you fpeak ill of me, you fhould go a littl Bacor's Apophibegms farther off Liften, O ifles, unto me, and hearken, ye people in the truth To this humour moft of -our late comedies ow their fuccefs : the audience /iffens after nothing elfe 7./. [from /iffen. I1'stNER Addifon One tha Lifkener, fh will ferve t The hut a lodge, wa be a goo may make a tolerable figure, whic draw in the young chaplain Swift word, when fpoke by any brother i a warning to the reft to have a care o Without inclination ; without any determination to one thing more tha - another Intemperance and fenfuality clog men's fpirits make them grofs, /iffzfs, and unaétive Ti/lotforn If your care to wheat alone extend Let Maja with her fifters firlt defcend Before you truft in earth your fuzure hope Or elfe expect a lifticfs, lazy crops Dryder's Virgil Lazy lolling fos Of ever /ifilefs loit'rers, that acten No caufe 1 was lifflefs and defponding 2 Pove no truft Gulliver's Trawels Carelefs ; heedlefs : with of The fick for air before the portal gafp Or idle in their empty hives remain Bepumb' with cold, and /ifl/efs of their gaie Dryden LYTeraLLY {o no 2dv feparated from lead, or from thofe where gol filver are purified by means of that metal. T litkarge fold in the fhops is produced in the cop works, where lead has been nfed to purify t 1 have feen fome parcels of glafs adhering tot Th' unwieldy elephant T E‘ndeavmrin to tur His /ithe probofcis 2 majefty of Virgil S wil an verfion whic has lefs of hi ungovernabl [Ly%ep, Saxon.] Bad; forry;s corrupt It is in the work of Robert of Glou Li'tuomaxcy. n, /. [aiSe and y.a'fli'w»] Prediction by ftones As frrange muft be the Zithomarncy, or dwination. from this ftone, whereby Helenus the prophet for told the deftruction of Troy Brew LitronTrY PTICK. adj. [AiSc and rpibe lithontriptique, Fr. Any medicine pro per to diflolve the ftone in the kidnef or bladder Lrruo'romisT n. f. [Ai9 and rhuam A chirurgeon who extra@s the ftone b opening the bladder Litnoromy has mere of th a. / (4 an "'fl'!*'"' ‘The art or practice of cutting for the concifenefs ftone Lr'ricant cafi;l:tdnl';l tranflated Jirerally; his genius is too ftrong to bea a chain Diyden Lin ftones. and Euryalu poe [from Jithe. Litno'craPHY. # /i [AOu and yofe The art or prattice of engraving up too /iterally5 that giving more fcope to Mezentiu tha Miltor's Paradife Lif cefter written /Juther Ori as clofe as I was able, § have performed that epifod and. Laufus all his might,a Two Talbots winged through the /ither {ky In thy defpight fhall *fcape mortality. Shakefper /_-'mw;;./._' Nifu us' mirth Thou antick death to words; wor hi make the wreath' Li"rHER. adj. [from lithe.] Soft; plian fe are one flefh, I ca /ly taken, it is a ‘l‘i'lfi,,.ff" 2. With clofe adlierenc by word bernefs; flexibility ficuratively Byl LITHE. adj. [lie, Saxon.] Limber flexible; pliant; eafily bent Li'ruexess. # / Hil metal, or to feparate filver from it Bigh According to the-primitive import o words 3 no recrement is.ef; blown off from filver, they call /izharge of filw perfuaded beyon s Vulga Errours [fro Thi bellows, it will, in great part, be collected int form of a darkifh powder; which, becaufe it . Not attaining the true ‘deuterofcopy and fecon intention of the words, they are fain to omit thei fi:pf;!Confequr‘nccs, es, figures, or tropologies, and ar their /iteralitics of copper two kinds, litharge of gold, and litharge of file It is colleted from the furnaces where filveri: dangerous it is in fenfible things to uf Litera'LiTy. & /. [from literal. ginal meaning Li'sTrEss. adj. [from /ift. 1 rum, Lat. Litharge is properly lead vitrified, either alone If the lead be blown off from the filver by t metaphorical expreifions unto the people, and wha abfurd conceits they will fwallow in their /iterals an example we have in our profeflion Brozon Savift Tiffeners Li'raarGE. #. /. [litharge, Fr. litha meaning Liftners never hear well of themfelves. L'Efrange of its ufefulnefs the worl Addifan': F; 7eeloldy being primarily of ufe in archi 3. Confifting of letters: as, the /irera notation of numbers was known to Earopeans before the cyphers Li'reravr. ». / Primitive or litera Howel convinc teft or cupel as well as the gold or fitharge The fitteft for publick audience are fuch as, following a middle courfe between the rigour of litera tranflations and the liberty of paraphrafts, do wit greater fhortne(s and plainnefs deliver the meaning Hooker Ho an with a mixtur 2. Following the letter, or exa&® words They are light of belief, great /iffners 2fter news If fhe conftantly attends the tea, an ture tecture, hath no other Jizeral notation but what belongs to it in relation to an houfe, or other building; nor figurative, but what is founded in that and deduced from thence Hammond hearkens ; a hearkener and if preferment attend defervers, there'win' Bi not want fupplies When men of learning are aéted by akuow: ledge of the werld, they give a reputation to jiy, Hooker A foundatio Ifaiab, xlix Dryd This kingdom hath been famous for good J Through all the writings of the ancient fathers we fee that the words which were, do continue the only difference is, that whereas before they ha a literal, they now have a metaphorical ufe, an are as fo many notes of remembrance unto us, tha what they did fignify in the letter, is accomplifhe Liffen to me, and if you fpeak me fair Shakefpeare 1l tell you news Antigonus ufed often to go difguifed, and /iffe Spestayy, Li"TERATURE. #n. /. [literatura, Latin] Learning; fkill in letters 1. According to the primitive meaning not figurative attention /iterati on the project fq me for the difcovery of the longitude. adj. [literal, French; litera LI'TERAL Latin. 'To hearken; to giv And /iffer'd to, than modeft truth is heard 1 fhall co'n_fult fom ture Recolleét your fins that you have done that week and all your lifetime; and recite humbly and deTaylor voutly fome penitential Zitanies At which I ceas'd and /iffen'd them a while. Milton ‘When we have occafion to /iffen, and give a mor particular attention to fome found, the tympanu Holder is drawn to a more than ordinary tenfion On the green bank I fat, and /iffen'd long Nor till her lay was ended could I move But wifh'd to dwell for ever in the grove. Dryden He fhall be receiv'd with more regard LITERATI. ». /. [Italian.] Theleam of God's wrath, were, of the Greek church, terme Hocker litanies, and rogations of the Latin And fill'd the air with,barbarous diffonance To Li'sTEN. w. literary Supplications, with folemnity for the appeafin Lady, vouchfafe to /iffen what I fay. Shakefpeare It may be f{aid, this epi/folarj cor refpondence was political oftener thfi Lirany. n. /. [Aawas litanie, French. A form of {upplicatory prayer toattend One cried, God blefs us! and, amen ters f Believe thyfelf, thy eyes That firft inflam'd, and /it me to thy love, Thofe ftars, that ftill muft guide me to my joy- Southerne As the thow'ry arc Delights and puzzles the beholders eyes whethe light fignifies to happen, or to Jet on fire or guide awith light Over his head behold A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bo rary is not properly afed of mifive |y Taylr preterite of Jight th Lit gules Literary hiftory, is an account o ftate of learning and of ‘the liye learned men Literary converfatiowr talk about queftions of learning, . [; an I f l f l r [ / 7 S N E T Li' attention ; want of defire Tt may be the palate of the foul is indifpofed b long ftreaks With Ziffed colours gay, or, azure Lu'rerary adj [literarius Refpedting letters; regarding lea {ee whether he be ftirring and aive, or whethe he lazily and Jifflefly dreams away his time. Locke Striped; particoloured i Li'sTED. adj watch him at play To know this perfectly fuftain With without attention out thought to attend to liften L Li ngfif o / French. of law litigans n N Latin; /it engage in a flnc' |