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Am I this patient legman. Shaksp. Tempest. LOGOMACHY. n. s. [noyouaxía.] A contention in words; a contention about words.

Forced terms of art did much puzzle sacred theology with distinctions, cavils, quiddities; and so transformed her to a meer kind of sophis try and legomacby. Howel. Lo'GWOOD. n. s.

Logwood is of a very dense and firm texture; and is the heart only of the tree which produces it. It is very heavy, and remarkably hard, and of a deep, strong, red colour. It grows both in the East and West Indies, but no where so plentifully as on the coast of the bay of Campeachy. Hill's Math. Med.

To make a light purple, mingle ceruse with logwood water. Peacham.

LO HOCK. n. s.

Lebeck is an Arabian name for those forms of medicines which are now commonly called eclegmas, lambatives, or linctuses. Quincy. Lebocks and pectorals were prescribed, and venesection repeated. Wiseman's Surgery.

LOIN. n. s. [llwyn, Welsh.]

1. The back of an animal carved out by the butcher.

2. Loins; the reins.

My face I'll grime with filth,

Blanket my loins.

Thou slander of thy heavy mother's womb!
Shaksp. King Lear.
Thou loathed issue of thy father's loins! Shak.
Virgin mother, hail!

High in the love of heav'n! yet from my loins
Thou shalt proceed, and from thy womb the Son
Of God most high.
Milton's Par. Lost.
A multitude! like which the populous north
Pour'd never from her frozen lains, to pass
Rhene, or the Danaw, when her barbarous sons
Came like a deluge on the south. Milton.

T LOITER. v. n. [loteren, Dutch.] To
linger; to spend time carelessly; to
idle.

Sir John, you loiter here too long, being you
are to take soldiers up in the countries. Shaksp.
Whence this long delay?
You loiter, while the spoils are thrown away.
Mark how he spends his time, whether he
Dryden.
unactively loiters it away.
Locke.

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To LOLL. v. a. To put out: used of the
tongue exerted.

All authors to their own defects are blind;
Hadst thou but, Janus-like, a face behind,
To see the people, when splay mouths they
make,

To mark their fingers pointed at thy back,
Their tongues loll'd out a foot. Dryd. Persius.

By Strymon's freezing streams he sat alone, Trees bent their heads to hear him sing his wrongs,

LOMP. n. s.

Fierce tygers couch'd around, and loll'd their fawning tongues. Dryd. Virgil, A kind of roundish fish. LONE. adj. [contracted from alone.] 1. Solitary; unfrequented; having no company.

If we have gone wrong, let us redeem the mistake; if we have loitered, let us quicken our pace, and make the most of the present opportunity. LOITERER. 2. S. [from loiter.] A linRogers. 2. gerer; an idler; a lazy wretch; one who lives without business; one who it sluggish and dilatory.

Give gloves to thy reapers a largess to cry, And daily to loiterers have a good eye. Tusser. The poor, by idleness or unthriftiness, are rieteus spenders, vagabonds, and loiterers. Hayw. Where hast thou been, thou loiterer? Though my eyes clos'd, my arms have still been open'd,

Otway.

To search if thou wert come.
Providence would only enter mankind into
the useful knowledge of her treasures, leaving
the rest to employ our industry, that we live not
like idle loiterers and truants.

More.

Ever listless loit'rers, that attend
No cause, no trust, no duty, and no friend.

Pope.

Here the lone hour a blank of life displays.
Savage.

Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls,
And leave you in lone woods, or empty walls.
Pope.
Single; not conjoined or neighbouring

to others.

No lone house in Wales, with a mountain and a rookery, is more contemplative than this court. Pope.

LONELINESS. n. s. [from lonely.]
1. Solitude; want of company.

The huge and sportful assembly grew to him a tedious loneliness, esteeming nobody since Daiphantus was lost. Sidney.

2. Disposition to solitude.
I see

The mystery of your loneliness, and find
Your salt tears head.

Lo'NELY. adj. [from lone.]
1. Solitary.

I go alone,

Shakspeare.

Like to a lonely dragon; that his fen
Makes fear'd and talk'd of more than seen.

Shakspeart.

Why thus close up the stars

TLOLL. v. n. [Of this word the etymology is not known. Perhaps it might That nature hung in heav'n, and fill'd their lamps

LO'NGLY. adv. [from long.] Longingly; with great liking.

Master, you look'd so longly on the maid, Perhaps, you mark not what's the pith of all. Shakspeare. LO'NGSOME. adj. [from long.] Tedious; wearisome by its length.

They found the war so churlish and longsome, as they grew then to a resolution, that, as long as England stood in state to succour those countries, they should but consume themselves in an endless war. Bacon's War with Spain.

When chill'd by adverse snows, and beating rain,

We tread with wearied steps the longsome plain.

Prior.

LO ́NGSUFFERING. adj. [long and suffering ] Patient; not easily provoked. The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness. Exodus. LO'NGSUFFERING. n. 5. Patience of offence; clemency. We infer from the mercy and long-suffering of God, that they were themselves sufficiently secure of his favour.

Rogers. LO'NGTAIL. n. s. [long and tail.] Cut and longtail: a canting term for one cr another. A phrase, I believe, taken from dogs, which, belonging to men not qualified to hunt, had their tails cut.

He will maintain you like a gentlewoman. -Aye, that I will come cut and longtail under the degree of a squire. Shakspeare. LO'NGWAYS. adv. [This and many other words so terminated are corrupted from wise.] In the longitudinal direction.

This island stands as a vast mole, which lies Longways, almost in a parallel line to Naples. Addison on Itely. LONGWINDED. adj. [long and wind.] Long breathed; tedious.

My simile

you minded,

Savift.

Which, I confess, is too long winded. LONGWISE. adv. [long and wise.] In the longitudinal direction.

They make a little cross of a quill, longwise of that part of the quill which hath the pith, and crosswise of that piece of the quill without pith. Bacon. He was laid upon two beds, the one joined longwise unto the other, both which he filled with his length. Hakewill.

Loo. H. S.

A game at cards.

A secret indignation, that all those affections of the mind should be thus vilely thrown away upon a hand at loo. Addison.

Pope.

In the fights of loo. LO'OBILY. adj. [looby and like.] Awkward; clumsy.

The plot of the farce was a grammar school, the master setting his boys their lessons, and a loobily country fellow putting in for a part among the scholars. L'Estrange

Lo'OBY. n. s. [Of this word the derivation is unsettled. Skinner mentions

lapp, German, foolish; and Junius, llabe, a clown, Welsh, which seem to be the true original, unless it come from lob.] A lubber; a clumsy clown.

The viees trace From the father's scoundrel race.

Who could give the looby such airs? Were they masons, were they butchers? Swift. LOOF. n s. That part aloft of the ship

which lies just before the chess-trees, as far as the bulkhead of the castle. See Dict.

To LOOF. v. a. To bring the ship close to a wind.

Lo'oFED. adj. [from aloof.] Gone to a distance..

She once being looft, Antony Claps on his sea-wing, like a doating mallard, Leaving the fight. Shakspeare.

To LOOK. v. n. [locan, Sax.] 1. To direct the eye to or from any object: when the present object is mentioned, the preposition after look is either on or at; if it is absent, we use for; if distant, after: to was sometimes used anciently for at.

Your queen died, she was more worth such

gazes

Than what you look on now. Shakspeare.
The gods look down, and the unnatʼral scene
They laugh at.
Shaksp. Coriolanus.
Abimelech looked out at a window, and saw
Genesis.
Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so
that I am not able to look up.

Isaac.

Psalms.

He was ruddy, and of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. 1 Samuel. The fathers shall not look back to their chilJeremiah. He had looked round about on them with anger. Mark.

dren.

The state would cast the eye, and look about to see whether there were any head under whom it might unite. Bacon.

Fine devices of arching water without spilling, be pretty things to look on, but nothing to health. Bacon's Essays.

Froth appears white, whether the sun be in the meridian, or any where between it and the horizon, and from what place soever the beholders look upon it. Boyle on Colours. They'll rather wait the running of the river dry, than take pains to look about for a bridge. L'Estrange.

Thus pond'ring, he looked under with his eyes, And saw the woman's tears.

Bertran; if thou dar`st, look out Upon yon slaughter'd host.

Dryden.

Dryden.

I cannot, without some indignation, look on an ill copy of an excellent original; much less can I behold with patience Virgil and Homer abused to their faces, by a botching interpreter. Dryd.

Intellectual beings, in their constant endeavours after true felicity, can suspend this prosecution in particular cases, till they have looked before them, and informed themselves, whether that particular thing lie in their way to their main end. Locke.

There may be in his reach a book, containing pictures and discourses capable to delight and instruct him, which yet he may never take the pains to look into. Locke.

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Towards those who communicate their thoughts in print, I cannot but look with friendly regard, provided there is no tendency in their writings to vice. Addison's Freeholder. A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with a generous neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude. Addison.

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I have nothing left but to gather up liques of a wreck, and look about me to see how few friends I have left. Pope to Swift.

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fret,

The optick nerves of such animals as look the 8. To have any air, mien, or manner. same way with both eyes, as of men, meet be Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fore they come into the brain: but the optick nerves of such animals as do not look the same way with both eyes, as of fishes, do not meet. Newton's Opticks.

2. To have power of seeing.

Fate sees thy life lodg'd in a brittle glass, And looks it through, but to it cannot pass.

3. To direct the intellectual eye.

Dryden.

In regard of our deliverance past, and our danger present, and to come, let us look up to God, and every man reform his own ways. Bacon. We are not only to look at the bare action, but at the reason of it. Stilling feet. The man only saved the pigeon from the hawk, that he might eat it himself; and if we look well about us, we shall find this to be the case of most mediations. L'Estrange. They will not look beyond the received notions of the place and age, nor have so presumptuous a thought as to be wiser than their neighbours.

Locke. Every one, if he would look into himself, would and some defect of his particular genius.

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And look'd ́as lightly press'd by fairy feet. Dryd. That spotless modesty of private and publick life, that generous spirit, which all other Christians ought to labour after, should look in us as if they were natural.

Spratt.

Piety, as it is thought a way to the favour of God; and fortune, as it looks like the effect either of that, or at least of prudence and courage, beget authority. Temple.

Cowards are offensive to my sight; Ner shall they see me do an act that looks Below the courage of a Spartan king. Dryden. To complain of want, and yet refuse all offers of a supply, looks very sullen. Burnet.

Should I publish any favours done me by your Lordship, I am afraid it would look more like vanity than gratitude. Addison.

Something very noble may be discerned, but it looket cumbersome. Felton on the Classicks. Late, a sad spectacle of woe, he trod The desart sands, and now he looks a god. Pope. From the vices and follies of others, observe how such a practice looks in another person, and remember that it looks as ill, or worse, in yourself. Watts. This makes it look the more like truth, nature being frugal in her principles, but various in the effects thence arising.

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I will be master of what is mine own. Shaksp. What haste looks through his eyes?

So should he look that seems to speak things strange. Shakspeare. Give me your hand, and trust me you look well, and bear your years very well. Shakspeare. Can these, or such, be any aids to us? Look they as they were built to shake the world, Or be a moment to our enterprize? B. Jonson. Though I cannot tell what a man says; if he will be sincere, I may easily know what he looks. Collier.

It will be his lot to look singular in loose and licentious times, and to become a by-word. Atterbury, 9. To form the air in any particular manner, in regarding or beholding.

I welcome the condition of the time, Which cannot look more hideously on me, Than I have drawn it in my fantasy. Shaksp. "That which was the worst now least afflicts me: Blindness, for had I sight, confus'd with shame, How could I once look up, or heave the head? Milton.

These look up to you with reverence, and would be animated by the sight of him at whose soul they have taken fire in his writings.

Swift to Pope. 10. To Look about one. To be alarmed; to be vigilant.

It will import those men who dwell careless to look about them; to enter into serious consultation, how they may avert that ruin. Decay of Piety. If you find a wasting of your flesh, then look about you, especially if troubled with a cough. Harvey.

John's cause was a good milch cow, and many a man subsisted his family out of it: however, John began to think it high time to look about him. Arbuthnot's Hist. of John Bull, 11. To Look after. To attend; to take care of; to observe with care, anxiety, or tenderness.

Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth. Luke.

Politeness of manners, and knowledge of the world, should principally be looked after in a Locke.

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say little to them, and that which they least look for. Bacon's Essays. This mistake was not such as they looked for; and though the error in form seemed to be consented to, yet the substance of the accusation might be still insisted on. Clarendon.

Inordinate anxiety, and unnecessary scruples in confession, instead of setting you free, which is the benefit to be looked for by confession, perplex you the more. Taylor. Look now for no enchanting voice, nor fear The bait of honied words. Milton.

Drown'd in deep despair,

He dares not offer one repenting prayer: Amaz'd he lies, and sadly looks for death. Dryd. I must with patience all the terms attend, Till mine is call'd; and that long look'd for day Is still encumber'd with some new delay. Dryd.

This limitation of Adam's empire to his line, will save those the labour who would look for one heir amongst the race of brutes, but will very little contribute to the discovery of one amongst Locks.

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The more frequently and narrowly we look into the works of nature, the more occasion we shall have to admire their beauty. Atterbury. It is very well worth a traveller's while to look into all that lies in his way. Addison on Italy. 14. To Look on. To respect; to esteem; to regard as good or bad.

Ambitious men, if they be checked in their desires, become secretly discontent, and look upon men and matters with an evil eye. Bacon.

I a harmless maid

Should ere a wife become a nurse,

Her friends would took on her the worse. Prior.

15. To LOOK on. To consider; to conceive of; to think.

I looked on Virgil as a succinct, majestick writer; one who weighed not only every thought, but every word and syllable. Dryden.

He leaked upon it as morally impossible, for persons infinitely proud to frame their minds to an impartial consideration of a religion that taught nothing but self-denial and the cross.

South. Do we not all profess to be of this excellent religion? but who will believe that we do so, that shall look upon the actions, and consider the lives of the greatest part of Christians? Tillotson.

In the want and ignorance of almost all things, they looked upon themselves as the happiest and wisest people of the universe. Lacke.

Those prayers you make for your recovery are to be looked upon as best heard by God, if they move him to a longer continuance of your sickness. Wake.

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18. To Look out. To search; to seek.

When the thriving tradesman has got more than he can well employ in trade, his next thoughts are to look out for a purchase. Locke.

Where the body is affected with pain or sickness, we are forward enough to look out for remedies, to listen to every one that suggests them, and immediately to apply them. Atterbury.

Where a foreign tongue is elegant, expressive, and compact, we must look out for words as beau tiful and comprehensive as can be found. Felton, The curious are looking out, some for flattery, some for ironies in that poem; the sour folks think they have found out some. Swift. 19. To LOOK out. To be on the watch. Is a man bound to look out sharp to plague himself? Collier. 20. To LOOK to. To watch; to take care of.

There is not a more fearful wild fowl than your lion living; and we ought to look to it.

Shakspeare.

Shakspeare.

Who knocks so loud at door? Look to the door there, Francis. Let this fellow be looked to; let some of my people have a special care of him. Shakspeare. Uncleanly scruples fear not you; look tit. Shakspeare. Know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. Proverbs. When it came once among our people, that the state offered conditions to strangers that would stay, we had work enough to get any of our men to lock to our ship. Басоп. If any took sanctuary for case of treason, the king might appoint him keepers to look to him in

sanctuary.

Bacon.

The dog's running away with the flesh, bids the cook look better to it another time. L'Estran. For the truth of the theory I am in no wise concerned; the composer of it must look to that. Woodward.

21. To LOOK to. To behold. To LOOK. v. a.

1. To seek; to search for.

Looking my love, I go from place to place, Like a young fawn that late hath lost the hind, And seek each where. Spenser.

2. To turn the eye upon.

Let us look one another in the face. 2 Kings, 3. To influence by looks.

Such a spirit must be left behind!" A spirit fit to start into an empire, And look the world to law. Dryden's Cleomenes. 4. To Look out. To discover by searching.

Casting my eye upon so many of the general bills as next came to hand, I found encouragement from them to look out all the bills I could. Graunt.

Whoever has such treatment, when he is a man, will look out other company, with whom he can be at ease, Locke, Look. interj. [properly the imperative mood of the verb: it is sometimes look ye.] See! lo! behold! observe!

Look, where he comes, and my good man too; he's as far from jealousy as I am from giving him cause. Shakspeare.

Look you, he must seem thus to the world: fear not your advancement. Shakspeare.

Look, when the world hath fewest barbarcus people, but such as will not marry, except they know means to live, as it is almost every where at this day, except Tartary, there is no danger of inundations of people. Bacon's Essays. Look you! we that pretend to be subject to a

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Constitution, must not carve out our own quality; for at this rate a cobler may make himself a lord. Collier on Pride. Look. n. s.

1. Air of the face; mien; cast of the countenance.

Thou cream-fac'd loon,

Psalms.

Where got'st thou that goose look? Shaksp.
Thou wilt save the afflicted people, but will
bring down high looks.
Them gracious Heav'n for nobler ends de-
sign'd,

Their looks erected, and their clay refin'd.
J. Dryden, jun.
And though death be the king of terrors, yet
pain, disgrace, and poverty, have frightful looks,
able to discompose most men.
Locke.

2. The act of looking or seeing.

Then on the croud he cast a furious look, And wither'd all their strength.

Dryden. When they met they made a surly stand, And glar'd, like angry lions, as they pass'd, And wish'd that ev'ry look might be their last. Dryden.

Lo ́OKER. n. s. [from look.] 1. One that looks.

2. LOOKER on. Spectator, not agent. Shepherds poor pipe, when his harsh sound testifies anguish, into the fair looker on, pastime not psssion enters. Sidney. Such labour is then more necessary than pleasant, both to them which undertake it, and for the lookers on. Hooker.

My business in this state

Made me a looker on here in Vienna;

Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble Till it o'er-run the stew.

Shakspeare. Fairfax.

Did not this fatal war affront thy coast, Yet sattest thou an idle looker on?

The Spaniard's valour lieth in the eyes of the lecker on; but the English valour lieth about the soldier's heart: a valour of glory and a valour of natural courage are two things.

The people love him,

Bacon.

Addison.

The lookers on, and the enquiring vulgar
Will talk themselves to action. Denham's Sophy.
He wish'd he had indeed been gone,
And only to have stood a looker on.
LOOKING GLASS. n. s. [look and glass.]
Mirror; a glass which shows forms
reflected.

Command a mirror hither straight,
That it may shew me what a face I have.
-Go some of you and fetch a looking-glass.

Shakspeare. There is none so homely but loves a lookingglass. South. We should make no other use of our neighbour's faults, than of a looking-glass to mend our own manners by. L'Estrange.

The surface of the lake of Nemi is never ruffled with the least breath of wind, which perhaps, together with the clearness of its waters, gave it formerly the name of Diana's lookingglass. Addison.

LOOM. n. s. [from lomus, a bottom of thread. Minshew. Lome is a general name for a tool or instrument. Junius.] The frame in which the weavers work their cloth.

He must leave no uneven thread in his loom, er by indulging to any one sort or reproveable discourse himself, defeat all his endeavours against the rest. Gov. of the Tongue. Minerva, studious to compose Her twisted threads, the web she strung, And o'er a leem of marble hung.

Addison.

A thousand maidens ply the purple loom, To weave the bed, and deck the regal room. Prior. To LOOM. v. n. [leoman, Saxon.] To appear at sea, Skinner. LOOM. n. s. A bird.

A loom is as big as a goose; of a dark colour, dappled with white spots on the neck, back, and wings; each feather marked near the point with two spots; they breed in Farr Island. Grew. LOON. . s. [This word, which is now used only in Scotland, is the English word lown.] A sorry fellow; a scoundrel; a rascal.

Thou cream-fac'd loon!
Where got'st thou that goose look? Shakspeare.
The false loon who could not work his will
By open force, employ'd his flatt'ring skill:
I hope, my lord, said he, I not offend?
Are you afraid of me that are your friend?

Dryden. This young lord had an old cunning rogue, or, as the Scots call it, a false loon of a grandfather, that one might call a Jack of all trades.

Arbuthnot. LOOP. n. s. [from loopen, Dut. to run.] A double through which a string or lace is drawn; an ornamental double or fringe.

Nor any skill'd in loops of fing'ring fine,
Might in their diverse cunning ever dare
With this, so curious network, to compare.

Make me to see 't, or at least so prove it,
Spenser.
That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop,
To hang a doubt on.

Bind our crooked legs in hoops
Made of shells, with silver loops.

Shakspeare.

Ben Jonson.

An old fellow shall wear this or that sort of cut in his cloaths with great integrity, while all the rest of the world are degenerated into buttons, pockets, and loops. Addison. Lo'OPED. adj. [from loop.] Full of holes.

Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That 'bide the pelting of this pitiless storm! How shall your houseless heads and unted sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend

you

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From seasons such as these? Lo ́OPHOLE. n. s. [loop and hole.] 1. Aperture; hole to give a passage. The Indian herdsman shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds, At loopholes cut through thickest shade. Milton. Ere the blabbing Eastern scout, The nice morn on the Indian steep, From her cabin'd loophole peep.

Milton.

Walk not near yon corner house by night; for there are blunderbusses planted in every loop bole, that go off at the squeaking of a fiddle. Dryden. 2. A shift; an evasion.

Needless, or needful, I not now contend, LOOPHOLED. adj. [from lorphote.] Full For still you have a loophole for a friend. Dryd of holes; full of openings or void

spaces,

Hudibras.

This uneasy loopbol'd gaol,
In which y' are hamper'd by the setlock,
Cannot but put y' in mind of wedlock.
LOORD.
n. s. [lord, Dutch; lourdant,
F.ench; lurdan, Erse; a heavy, stupid,
or witless fellow. D Trevoux derives
Jourdant from Lorde or Lourde, a village

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