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Show N %,3. With elevation of language or fentiment; {ublimely My lowly verfe may /oftily arife And lift itfelf unto the higheft fkies Y Lo FriNEss. #. /. [from Jofty. ai 1 Fairy Queen ‘2. Sublimity ; elevation of fentiment Three poets in three diftant ages born The firft in loftirefs of thought furpafs'd 2» ' The next in majefty; in both the laft Pride Dryden haughtinefs ‘ < figure Collier JO'FTY.adj. [from lof¥, or lift. . High; hovering; elevated in place Pgpe See nodding forefts on the mountains dance " _. ». Elevate in condition or charaier Thus faith the high and /ffy One Ifaiab 1« Sublime ; elevated in fentiment bl Himfelf to fing and build the /of7y rhime iy 4. o Proud Milton haughty The eyes of the /ofty fhall be humbled o " 1 Ifziab Lofty and four to them that lov'd him not ' But to thofe men that fought him, fweet as fummer Shakefpeare Man, the tyrant of our fex, I hate A lowly fervant, but a Jofty mate Dryden ©,0G. 7./. [The original of this wor " 1s not known Séinner derives it fro liggan Saxon t lie Funiu fro logge, Dutch, {fluggith; perhaps th ~ Latin, Zignum, is the true original. 1. A fhapelefs bulky piece of wood ‘Would the light'ning ha Burnt up thofe /gs that thou'rt injoin'd to pile Shake[peare The worms with many feet are bred under /g of timber, and many times in gardens, where n dogs are Bacon Some /log, perhaps, upon the waters fwam An ufelefs drift, which rudely cut within 3apa ¢ And hollow'd, firft a floating trough became And crofs fome riv'let pafiage did begin 2. A Hebre meafure whic Dryden hel quarter of a cab, and confequently five{ixths of a pint According to Dr Arbuthnot it was a liquid meafure, th feventy-fecond part of the bath o ephah, and twelfth part of the hin Calmet A meat offering mingled with ol and one kg o oil Lew Lo'carrruems o Adys b an z [ [logarithme Fr a8 Logarithms, which are the indexes of the ratio of numbers one to another, were firft invented b Napier lord Merchifon, a Scottifh baron, and afterwards completed by Mr. Briggs, Savilian profefior at Oxford They are a feries of artificia sumbers contrived for the expedition of calculation, and proceeding in an arithmetical proportion, as the numbers they anfwer to do in a geometrical ‘one; for inftance DURT TR R 167 130 6 Where the numbers above N 128" 35 51 beginning with (o) and arithmetically proportional, are called logarithms ‘The addition and fubtraction of logarithms anfwer ¥ to the multiplication and divifion of the number they correfpond with; and this faves an infinite dea of treuble In like manner will the extra@ion o 100ts be performed, by difle@ing the lgarithms o any numbers for the fquare root, and trife@in them for the cube, and fo on Harris lo'cears. n / infead of woode an Hanmer breeding, bu Shake[p. Hamlet a heav head; or rather from log A dol motionlefs mafs, as blockhead. a blockhead; a thickicul Where haft been, Hal -With three or four /sggerbeads, amongft thre or fourfcore hogtheads Shakefpeare's Henry IV thi /lggerhead t what have we to d quench other people's fires L' Eftrange To fallto Loccrrueans } Toicuflle To goto LocGERHEADS t fight wit out weapons A couple of travellers that took up an afs, fel Z'Efr to loggerhcads which fhould be his mafter Lo'GGERHEADED. adj. [from loggerbead He kne .. ufe of bone pins, throwing at them with another bone inftca Say Cities of men with /ofty gates and tow'rs. Milton See lofty Lebanon his head advance -, boys often mak LocGrruEaD Auguftus and Tiberins had /oftinefs enough i their temper, and affeted to make a fovereig in the thirty-third ftatute of Henry VII Iti the fame which is now called kittle-pins, in whic to play at /ggars with them 1 which is one of the ublawful gaimes enumetate of bowling Did thefe bones coft no more th local elevation Height LO LO LO Loggars is the ancient name of a play or game Dull; ftupid; doitfh You loggerbeaded and unpolifh'd groom, what no attendance? Shakefpeare's Taming of the Shreav LO'GICK. #. /. [logique, French 5 logica Latin, from aéyo:. The art of reafoning One of the feven fciences Legick is the art of ufing reafon well in our enquiries after truth, and the communication of it t others Watts's Logick Talk /logick with acquaintance And praétife rhetorick in your common talk Shake[peare By a /ogick that left no man any thing which h might call his own, they no more looked upon i as the cafe of one man, but the cafe of the kingdom Clarendon Here foam'd rebellious /ogick, gagg'd and bound There fript fair rhetorick languifh'd on the ground PzPL' Lo"cicavr. adj. [from logick. 1. Pertaining tologick; taught in logick The heretick complained greatly of St. Auguftine, as being too full of /ogical fubtilties. Hooker Thofe who in a /gical difpute keep in genera terms, would hide a fallacy Dryden ‘We ought not to value ourfelves upon our ability, in giving fubtile rules, and finding out /ogica arguments, fince it would be more perfection no to want them Baker 2. Skilled in logick; furnithed with logick A man who fets up for a judge in critici{m thould have a clear and /gica/ head Addifer Lo'cicaLLy. adv. [from legical. cording to the laws of logick Ac How can her old good ma With honour take her back again u. f [logicien Prior French /lo gicus, Latin.] A teacher or profeflor o logick ; a man verfed in logick If a man can play the true /logician, and have a well judgment as invention, he may do great matters If we ma believe our Xgicians ma Bacon is diftin guithed from all other creatures by the faculty o Addifon laughter Yach ftaunch polemick ftubborn as a rock Each ficrce fogician fill expelling Locke Pope's Dunciad Came whip and fpur A logician might put a cafe that would ferve fo Savift an exception The Arabian phyficians were fubtile men, an mott of them logicians ; accordingly they have give method, and fhed fubtilty upon theirauthor, Baker Lo‘emax ' / [l an max. whofe bufinefs is to carry logs Lo‘coMacHY tentio . f. [Aeyopaxia. in words words Qn A con a contentio abou Forced terms of art did much puzzle facre theology with diftinétions, cavils, quiddities; an fo transformed her to a meer kind of fophiftry an bgomachy Howel Lo'ewoop #. / Leogwoed is of a very denfe and firm texturs; an is the heart only of the tree whi¢h produces it. I is very heavy, and remarkably hard, and of a deep ftrong, red colour it grows both in the Zaft an Welt Indies, but no where fo plentifully as on th coatt of the bay of Campeachy Hi/l's Mat. Med "t'omakealight purple, mingle cerufe with /ogwoo water Peacham Lo'sock Lokac is an Arabian name for thofe forms of medicines which now commonly <ailed eclegmas lambatives€5, Or 2 ictufe LKuincy Lobock and Ipe&iorals were P preicribed, 5 and venefection repeated W ijeman''s Surgery Lorw n. [llwyn Welfh. 1. The back of an animal carved out b the batcher 2. Loins the reins My face I'll grime with filth Blanket my /Joins Shakefpeare's King Lear Thou flander of thy heavy mother's womb Thou loathed iffue of thy father's loins| Shake[p Virgin mother, hail High in the Jove of Heav'n! yet from my /in Thou fhalt proceed, and from thy womb che So Of God mof high Milton's Paradifc Loff A multitude! like which the populous nort Pour'd never from her frozen Jins, to paf Rhene, or the Danaw, when her barbarous fon Came like a deluge on the fouth = Milton Zo LOITER linger t @. . [loteren, Dutch. fpen tim T carelefsly 5. t idle Sir John, you /Aiter here too long, being you are to take foldiers up:in the countries Skake[peareeWhence this long delay You Liter, while the {poils are thrown away. Dryd. Mark how he fpends his time, whether he unacively loiters it away Locke.If we have gone wrong, let us redeem the miftake; if we have ljtered, let us quicken our pace and make the moft of the prefent opportunity Rogers Lo"tTERER . /. [from liter.] A linger er; an idler; a ldzy wretch; one who lives without bufinefs; one who is flug gith and dilatory Give gloves to thy reapers a largefs to cry And daily to /iterers havea good eye. Tuffér's Hifb The poor, by idienefs or unthriftinefs, are riotous fpenders, vagabonds, and /literers From hence I logically gather The woman ¢annot live with either Loci'cian ¥or your fak Am 1 this patient bigman Shakefpeare's Tempef Hayward Where haft thou been, thou Z#terer Though my eyes clos'd, my arms have ftill been open'd To fearch if thou wert come tavay Providence would only enter mankind into th ufeful knowledge of her treafures, leaving the ref to employ our induftry, that we live not. like idl loiterers und truants More Ever liftle(s Zir'rers, that atten No caufe, no truft, no duty, and no friend Pope 7o LOLL. @. n. [Of this word the etymology is not known. Perhaps it migh be contemptuovily derived from lo/lard a name of great reproach before the reformation of who on tene was, that all trades not neceflary to life ar unlawful. 1. To lean idly ; to relt lazily againft an thing S |