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Show "1 Th calt fitigant fits not down with ong ¢rof verdi&t, but recommences his fuit. Deray of Picty The litigants tear cne another to picces for th benefit of fome third jnteretts L'Efrange's Fables Engaged in a jeridica Li'ricant. adf contett Judicial aéts are thofe Writings and matters whic relate to judicial proceedings, and are fped in ope court at the inftance of one or both of the partie Ayliffe's Parergon litigant Zo L1 T1GATE w. a. [litige, Latin. ' T conteft in law; to debate by judicia procefs 9% Li't1gaTE. @. 7. To manage a fuit to carry on a caufe =. / Fruitful as the fow that carry' The thirty pigs at one large /Jirter farrow'd Dryden's Suwvenal 5. Any number of things thrown fluttifhly about Streplfon, who found the room wss void Stole in, and took a ftri€t furve (Of ali the Jitrer as it lay Zo Li'rTER huma tempt 1. Inclinabl adj A human fhape My father name to law-{uits quarrelfome wra nglm_g Soldiers find warsf and lawyers find out fil Donne Litigious men, who quarrels move His great application to the law had not infee his temper with any thing pofitive or /irigious fld{/gfan 2. Difputable; controvertible In fitigious and controverted caufes, the will o God is to have them to do whatfoever the fentenc of judicial and final decifion fhall determine Hooker No fences parted fields, nor marks, nor bounds Diftinguifh'd acres of /itigious grounds Dryden's Georg adwv Liti'crousiy [fro ou kind of vehicular bed capable of containiing a bed hung between two horfes z. To cover with things negligently, o fluttifhly fcattered about The room with volumes Zirter'd round He was carried in a rich chariot /itter-wife, wit Bacon's New Atlantis two horfes at each end The drowfy frighted fteeds 3. To cover with firaw But for his eafe well Jitter'd was the floor 4. To fupply cattle with bedding LI'TTLE. adj. comp. /g/s, {uperlat. leaf? [leitels, Gothick; lyzel, Saxon. Fofbua, xix animals diminutive o 3. A brood of young I do here walk before thee Jike a fow that hat Shakejpeare overwhelmed all her /izrey but one numerous /itter of ftrange denfelefs opinions, that crawl about the world South A wolf came toa fow, and very kisdly offere L Eftrange to take care of her /itter Full many a year his hateful head had bee For tribute paid, nor fince in Cambria feen The laft of all the /izrer *fcap'd by chance And from Geneva firft infefted Frances - Dryden Vor. II Nor murm'ring take the /ittle I receive Dryden There ‘are many expreffions, which, carryin with them no clear ideas, are like to remove bu ljttle of my ignorance Locke 3. A f{light affair As if *twere /ittle from their town to chafe I through the feas purfued their exil'd race. Dryd I view with anger and difdain How /ittle gives thee joy or pain A print, a bronze), a flow'r, a root Prior 4. Not much Thefe they are fitted for, and Jittle clfe. Cheyne Li'rTLE. adv 1. In a {fmall degree receive definitio o name changed as /ittle as pofiible b Watts's Logick 2. In a {mall quantity 3. In fome degree fhoul but not great Orway Where there is too great a thinne(s in th fluids, fubacid fubftances are proper, though the are a /irtle aftringent Arbuthnot th heart of the wicked is /ittle worth. Prov. x. 20 Finding him /ittle ftudious, fhe chofe rather t endue him with converfative qualities of youth; as Wotton prefs, becaufe he was /ittle of ftature. Luke, xix. 3 His fon, being then very /iztie, 1 confidered onl as wax, to be moulded as one pleafes Locke One wou'd have all things /itrle; hence has try' Turkey poults, frefh from the egg, in batter fry'd S‘H).'fl or import Li'rrrLENEss. n. /. [from Jitle. 1. Smalnefs of bulk All trying, by a love of /itt/encfs _ When thou waft /itt/e in thine own fight, waf thou not made the head of the tribes 1 Sam. xv. 17 Clarendon He was a very /ittle gentleman All that is paft ought to feem /ittle to thee, beTaylor's Guide to Dewotion caufe it is fo in itfelf 4. Not much not many To make abridgments, and to draw to lef Even that nothing which at firft we were. Dosne We may fuppofe a great many degrees of /Jittlenefs and lightnefs in thefe earthy particles, fo a .many of them might float in the air Burnet 2, Meannefs want of grandeur The Englifh and French in verfe are forced t Rewelations He muft be loofed a /ittle feafon. A little fleep, a little flumber, a /ittle foldin of the hands to fleep; fo fhall poverty come upo Proverbs thee And now in /ittle fpac Milton The confines met By faid experiment I kno 3. Want of dignity How /ittle weight my words with thee can find Milton Li'TTORAL. adj. [littoralis, Latin. lIonging to the fhore A Jittle learning is a dang'rous thing Drink deep, or tafte not the Pierian fpring 5 but /itrle of his liberality Dryden Nor grudge I thee the much that Grecian give That poem was infamoufly bad; this paralle is [littls better Dryden's Dufrefiioy Several clergymen, otherwife /ittle fond of obfcur terms, yet in their {ermons were very liberal of al thofe which they find in ecclefiaftical writers ance or o much: of the poetry of dancing and fencing 3. Of fmall dignity, power Milton Take off the /itter from your kernel beds. Ewely Their Jitter is not tofs'd by fows unclean Dryden's Virgil tha {mall He fought to fee Jefus, but could not for th To crouch in Zitter of your ftable planks Shakefpeare upo great {mall bulk plants Refleé No They hav The tongue of the juft is as choice filver The coaft of Dan went out too /it for them 2 Ifrael and Judah; and if that had beea too /ittle, would have given fuch and fuch things 2 Sam. xii, 8 4. Not much 1. Small in extent Litters thick befiege the donor's gate And begging lords and teeming:ladies wai Dryden's Fuwvenal ‘The promis'd dole unde Dryden feed wh gathered into drops The poor fleep little He found a ftall where oxen ftood Here modeft matrons in foft /itters driv'n Dryden's AEneid In folemn pomp appear firaw lai Swift of huma mained in their mountains, peopled their again flowly, by little and little Bacor's N By freeing the precipitated matter fro by filtration, aad diligently grinding the white cipitate with water, the mercury will itz/e by i Th They foun To my litter ftrait Weaknefs pofiefleth me. Shakefpeare's King Fobn 2. Th all form or fathion. | Hakewwill on Prowvidence We might conceive that dogs were created blind King a carriag That draw the /itter of clofe curtain'd fleep Shakefpeare's Tempeft Autolycus, .being Zirzer' Brown Wranglingly Lirrciousness. n. j. [from Jitifious. A wrangling difpofition ; inclinatio 2 con becaufe we obferve they were /Jittered fo with us /litigious. to vexatious {uits LI'TTER. #. f. [l/itiere, French. o m under Mercury, who, as T am, was likewife frapper up of unconfidered trifles Shakefpeare The whelps of bears are, at firft /ittering, with one in th Clarendon [litigienx, French! in abhorrenc or o A freckled whelp, hag-born, not honour'd wit cations, that hath not confefied, he had rather hav Liri'cious being of beafts Save for the fon that the did /itzer bere Never one clergyman had experience of both /izitha @w. a. [from the noun. Then was this ifland from /Jitigate.] Judicial conteft; fuit o law three fuits in Weftminfter-hall arches Saift 1. To bring forth : ufe Latin [litigatio . 'The poot remnan 4. A birth of animals The appellant, after the interpofition of an appeal ftill Zitigates in the fame caufe. Ayliffe's Parergon Litica"rion I Some no none i thi Pope fenfe it al ways ftands between the article and th noun I leave him to reconcile thefe contraditions which may plentifully be found in him, by an one who will but read with a /izt/e attention. Locke LB RE s 7 1. A {mall fpace Much in /Jitt/e was writ ; and all convey' With cautious care, for fear to be betray'd. Dryden 2. A fmall part; a {mall proportion He that defpifeth little things, fhall perith b little and little Leclaf raife their language with metaphors, by the pomp oufnefs of the whole phrafe, to wear off any /irt/enefs that appears in the particular parts Addifor The angelick grandeur, by being eoncealed, does not awaken our poverty, nor mortify our /ittlenefs f much as if it was always difplayed Li'rurcY #. / [agpyie s liturgie Collier Be Fr. Form of prayers; formulary ot public devotions We dare not admi as eithe appointet an n fuch form of /Jiturgy fcriptur a all or ver Hooker little ta be read in the church The blefledeft of mortal wights began to be importuned, fo that a*great part of divine firurgy wa Howel addrefied folely to her It is the greateft folemnity of prayer, the mof powerful /iturgy and means of impetration in thi Taylor world Jo L1vE. @, z. [lypan, lyrizan, Saxon. 1. To be in a ftate of animation to b not dead s |