Addison.

Pass but some fleeting years, and these poor
eyes,

Where now without a boast some lustre lies,
No longer shall their little honours keep,
But only be of use to read or weep.

Prior. All nature laughs, the groves are fresh and fair,

The sun's mild lustre warms the vital air. Pope. 2. A sconce with lights.

Ridotta sips, and dances still she sce The doubling lustres dance as quick as she. Pope. 3. Eminence; renown.

His ancestors continued about four hundred years, rather without obscurity than with any great lustre. Wotton.

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own. Swift. 4. [from lustre, Fr. lustrum, Lat.] The space of five years.

LU STRING. n. s. [from lustre.]' A shining silk; commonly pronounced lutestring.

LU'STROUS. adj. [from lustre.] Bright; shining; luminous.

Noble heroes, my sword and yours are kin, good sparks and lustrous. Shakspeare. The more lustrous the imagination is, it illeth and fixeth the better.

Bacon..

LU'STWORT. n. s. [lust and wort.] An herb.

LU STY. adj. [lustig, Dutch.] Stout;
vigorous; healthy; abie of body.
This lusty lady came from Persia late,
She with the Christians had encounter'd oft.

Spenser.
If lusty love should go in quest of beauty,
Where should he find it fairer than in Biauch?
Shakspeare.
We yet may see the old man in a morning,
Lusty as health, come ruddy to the field,
And there pursue the chace.
LU'TANIST. . s. [from lute.] One who
plays upon the lute.

LUTA RIOUS. adj. [lutarius, Lat.] 1. Living in mud.

2. Of the colour of mud.

Otway.

A scaly tortoise-shell of the lutarious kind.

LUTE. n. s. [luth, lut, Fr.]

1. A stringed instrument of musick.

2.

Orpheus with his lute made trees,

And the mountain tops that freeze,

Bow themselves when he did sing.

Grew.

Shaksp.

May must be drawn with a sweet countenance, upon his head a garland of roses, in one hand a

Lute.

In a sadly pleasing strain

Let the warbling late complain.

Peacham.

LU'TULENT. adj. [lutulentus, Latin.] Muddy; turbid.

To LUX. v.a. [luxer, French; luxo, To LUXATE. Latin. To put out of joint; to disjoint.

same manner.

Consider well the luxated joint, which way it slipped out; it requireth to be returned in the Wiseman. Descending careless from his couch, the fall Lux'd his joint neck, and spinal marrow bruis'd. Philips. LUXATION. n. s. [from luxo, Latin.] 1. The act of disjointing. 2. Any thing disjointed.

The undue situation or connexion of parts, in fractures and luxations, are to be rectified by chirurgical means. LUXE. n. s. [Fr. luxus, Lat.] Luxury; Floyer. voluptuousness Not used.

The pow'r of wealth I try'd, And all the various luxe of costly pride. Prier. LUXURIANCE. n. s. [from luxurians, LUXURIANCY. Lat.] Exuberance; abundant or wanton plenty or growth. A fungus prevents healing only by its luxu riancy. Wiseman. Flowers grow up in the garden in the greatest luxuriancy and profusion. Spectator. While through the parting robe th' alternate breast In full luxuriance rose.

Thomson's Summer.

LUXURIANT. adj. [luxurians, Lat.] Exuberant; superfluously plenteous.

A fluent and luxuriant speech becomes youth well, but not age.

Bacon.

The mantling vine gently creeps luxuriant.
Milton.

If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant, it is his character to be so. Dryden.

Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine, But shew no mercy to an empty line. Pope. To LUXURIATE. 9. n. [luxurior, Lat.] To grow exuberantly; to shoot with superfluous plenty. LUXURIOUS. adj. [luxurieux, Fr. luxuriosus, Latin.]

1. Delighting in the pleasures of the table. 2. Administering to luxury. Those whom last thou saw'st In triumph and luxurious wealth, are they First seen in acts of prowess eminent, And great exploits, but of true virtue void.

A late string will bear a hundred weight without rupture, but at the same time cannot exert its elasticity. Arbuthnot. Lands of singing, or of dancing slaves, Love-whisp'ring woods, and late-resounding

waves.

Dunciad.

[from lut, Fr. lutum, Lat.] A composi tion like clay, with which chymists close up their vessels.

Some temper lute, some spacious vessels move, These furnaces erect, and those approve. Gurth.

Milton. Anon.

She knows the heat of a luxurious bed; Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty. I grant him bloody,

Sbaksp

Shaskp.

Luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest tow'rs.

4. Delicious fare.

He cut the side of the rock for a garden, and by laying on it earth, furnished out a kind of luxury for a hermit. Addison.

LY. A very frequent termination both of names of places and of adjectives and adverbs. When ly terminates the name of a place, it is derived from leng, Sax. a field. Gibson. When it ends an adjective or adverb, it is contracted from lich, like: as, beastly, beastlike; plainly, plainlike. LYCANTHROPY. 1. s. [lycanthropie, Fr. 2úzz and arewos.] A kind of madness, in which men have the qualities of wild beasts.

He sees like a man in his sleep, and grows as much the wiser as the man that dreamt of a lycanthropy, and was for ever after wary not to come near a river

Taylor. LYKE. adj. for like. Spenser. LYING. participiol noun, from lie, whether it signifies to be recumbent, or to speak falsely, or otherwise.

They will have me whipt for speaking true, thou wilt have me whipt for lying, and sometimes I am whipt for holding my peace. Shaksp. Many tears and temptations befal me by the lying in wait of the Jews.

Acts. LYMPH. n. s. [lymphe, French; lympha, Latin.] Water; transparent colourless liquor.

When the chyle passeth through the mesentery, it is mixed with the lymph, the most spirituous and elaborated part of the blood.

Arbuthnot.

LYMPHATED. adj. [lymphatus, Latin.] Mad.

Dict.

LYMPHATICK. n. s. [lymphatique, French; from lympha, Latin]

The lymphaticks are slender pellucid tubes, whose cavities are contracted at small and unequal distances: they are carried into the glands of the mesentery, receiving first a fine thin lymph from the lymphatick ducts, which dilutes the chylous fluid. Cheyne. Upon the death of an animal, the spirits may sink into the veins, or lymphaticks, and glandules. Floyer LYMPHEDUCT. n. s. (lympha and ductus, Latin.] A vessel which conveys the lymph.

The glands,

All artful knots, of various hollow threads, Which lympheducts, an art'ry, nerve, and vein, Involv'd and close together wound, contain. Blackmore. LYNDENTREE. n. s. [tilia, Latin.] A plant.

LYNX. n. s. [Latin.] A spotted beast, remarkable for speed and sharp sight.

He that has an idea of a beast with spots, has but a confused idea of a leopard, it not being thereby sufficiently distinguished from a lynx. Locke.

What modes of sight betwixt each wide ex

LYRICK.

LYRICAL. adj. [lyricus, Lat. lyrique, RICAL.} Fr.] Pertaining to a harp; or to odes or poetry sung to a harp; singing to a harp.

All his trophies hung and acts enroll'd In copious legend, or sweet lyrick song. Milton. Somewhat of the purity of English, somewhat of more equal thoughts, somewhat of sweetness in the numbers; in one word, somewhat of a finer turn, and more lyrical verse, is yet wanting. Dryden. The lute neglected, and the lyrick muse, Love taught my tears in sadder notes to flow, And tun'd my heart to elegies of woe. Pope. LYRICK. n. s. A poet who writes songs to the harp.

The greatest conqueror in this nation, after the manner of the old Grecian lyricks, did not only compose the words of his divine odes, but set them to musick himself. Addison.

LY RIST. n. [lyristes, Lat.] A musician who plays upon the harp.

His tender theme the charming lyrist chose Minerva's anger, and the direful woes Which voyaging from Troy the victors bore.

Pope

MAC

M.

MAC

mute.

2.

Dryden.

The mighty maces with such haste descend, They break the bones, and make the armour bend. Dryden.

3. [macis, Latin.] A kind of spice.

The nutmeg is inclosed in a threefold covering, of which the second is mace: it is thin and membraneous, of an oleaginous and a yellowish colour: it has an extremely fragrant, aromatick, and agreeable smell; and a pleasant, but accid, and oleaginous taste. Hill's Mat. Med. Water, vinegar, and honey, is a most excellent sudorifick it is more effectual with a little mace added to it. Arbuthnot. MACEA LE. n. s. [mace and ale.] Ale spiced with mace.

I prescribed him a draught of maceale, with hopes to dispose him to rest. Wiseman's Surg. MA CEBEARER. n. s. [mace and bear.] One who carries the mace before persons in authority.

I was placed at a quadrangular table, opposite to the muce-bearer. Spectator.

macerer, French.]

1. To make lean; to wear away.

Recurrent pains of the stomach, megrims, and other recurrent head-aches, macerate the parts, and render the looks of patients consumptive and pining. Harvey on Consumptions. 2. To mortify; to harass with corporal hardships.

Covetous men are all fools: for what greater folly can there be, or madness, than for such a man to macerate himself when he need not?

Burton.

Out of an excess of zeal they practise mortifications; they macerate their bodies, and impair their health. Fiddes.

3. To steep almost to solution.

In lotions in women's cases, he orders two portions of hellebore macerated in two cotyle of Arbuthnot.

water.

MACERATION. n. s. [maceration, French; from macerate.]

1. The act of wasting, or making lean. 2. Mortification; corporal hardship. 3. Maceration is an infusion either with or without heat, wherein the ingredients are intended to be almost wholly dissolved. Quincy. The saliva serves for a maceration and dissolution of the meat into a chyle. Ray on the Creat. MACE-REED. . s. [typha.] An herb. MACHINAL. adj. [from machina, Lat.] To MACHINATE. v. a. Relating to machines. Dict. [machinor, Latin; machiner, French.] To plan; to contrive.

MACHINATION. n. s. [machinatio, Lat.
machination, Fr. from machinate.] Arti-
fice;
contrivance; malicious scheme.
If you miscarry,

Your business of the world hath so an end,
And machination ceases.

Shakspeare.

O from their machinations free, That would my guiltless soul betray; From those who in my wrongs agree, And for my life their engines lay?

Sandys.

Be frustrate all ye stratagems of hell, And devilish machinations come to nought. Milt, How were they zealous in respect of their temporal governors? Not by open rebellion, not by private machinations; but in blessing and submitting to their emperors, and obeying them in all things but their idolatry. MACHINE. n. s. [machina, Lat. maSpratt. chine, Fr.] This word is pronounced masheen.

1. Any complicated work in which one part contributes to the motion of another.

We are led to conceive this great machine of the world to have been once in a state of greater simplicity, as to conceive a watch to have been. once in its first materials. Burnet

MACHINERY. . s. [from machine.] 1. Enginery; complicated workmanship; self-moved engines.

2. The machinery signifies that part which the deities, angels, or demons, act in a poem. Pope. MACHINIST. n. s. [machineste, Fr. from machina, Lat.] A constructor of engines or machines. MACILENCY. n. s. [from macilent.] LeanDict.

ness.

MA'CILENT. adj. [macilentus, Latin.] Lean.

MACKEREL. n. s. [mackereel, Dut. maquereau, Fr.] A sea fish.

Some fish are gutted, split, and kept in pickle; as whiting and mackerel. Carew.

Law ordered that the Sunday should have rest;

And that no nymph her noisy food should sell, Except it were new milk or mackerel. King. Cooner shall cats disport in water clear, And speckled mackreli graze the meadows fair, Than I forget my shepherd's wonted love. Guy. MACKEREL-GALE seems to be, in Dry

n's cant, a strong breeze; such, I suppose, as is desired to bring mackerel fresh to market.

They put up every sail,
The wind was fair, but blew a mackrel-gale.

Dryden.

MACROCOSM. n. S. [macrocosme, Fr. pangis and xéos.] The whole world, or visible system, in opposition to the microcosm, or world of man. MACTATION. n. s. [mactatus, Lat.] The act of killing for sacrifice, MACULA. n. s. [Latin.]

1. A spot.

And lastly, the body of the sun may contract some spots or macula greater than usual, and by that means be darkened. Burnet.

2. [In physick.] Any spots upon the skin, whether those in fevers or scorbutick habits.

To MACULATE. v. a. [maculo, Latin.]
To stain; to spot.
MACULATION.' n. s. [from maculate.]
Stain; spot; taint.

I will throw my glove to death himself, That there's no maculation in thy heart. Shaksp. Ma ́cule. n.s. [macula, Lat.] A spot; a stain. MAD. adj. Italian.] 4. Disordered in the mi d; broken in the

[gemaad, Saxon; matto,

2.

His gestures fierce

He mark'd, and mad demeanour when alone. Milton

3. Overrun with any violent or unreasonable desire with on, after, of, perhaps better for, before the object of desire. It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. Jeremiah.

The world is running mad after farce, the extremity of bad poetry, or rather the judgment that is fallen upon dramatick writing. Dryden. The people are not so very mad of acorns, bur that they could be content to eat the bread of civil persons. Ryner.

4. Enraged, furious.

Holy writ represents St. Paul as making havock of the church, and persecuting that way unto the death, and being exceedingly med against them. Decay of Piety. To MAD. v. a. [from the adjective.] To make mad; to make furious; to enrage. O villain! cried out Zelmane, madded with Anding an unlooked-for rival.

Sidney

This will witness outwardly, As strongly as the conscience does within, To the madding of her lord.

Shakspeare.

This mads me, that perhaps ignoble hands Have overlaid him, for they cou'd not conquer. Dryden.

To MAD. v. n. To be mad; to be furious.
The madding wheels

Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise
Of conflicts!
Milton's Par. Lost.
She, mixing with a throng
Of madding matrons, bears the bride along.

Dryden.

MAD. n. s. [maðu, Saxon.] An earthworm, Ainsworth. MADAM. n. s. [ma dame, Fr. my dame.] The term of compliment used in address to ladies of every degree. It was anciently spoken as in French, with the accent upon the last syllable.

Certes, madam, ye have great cause of plaint.
Spenser.

Madam, once more you look and move a
queen!

Philips.

MA'DBRAIN, adj. [mad and brain.} MADERAINED.S Disordered in the

mind'; hotheaded.

I give my hand oppos'd against my heart, Unto a madbrain rudesby, full of spleen. Shaks. He let fall his bock,

And as he stoop'd again to take it up, This madbrain'd bridegroom took him such a cuft,

That down fell priest and book. Shakspeare. MADCAP. n. s. [mad and cap; either taking the cap for the head, or alluding to the caps put upon distracted persons by way of distinction.] A madinan; a wild hotbrained fellow.

That last is Biron, the merry madcap lord; Not a word with him but a jest. Shakspeare. The nimble-footed madcap prince of Wales, And his comrades, that datt the world aside, And bid it pass. Shakspeare's Henry IV. To MADDEN. v. n. [from mad.] To become mad; to act as mad.

The dog-star rages, nav 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam or Parnassus is let out; Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. Pope To MADDEN, V. a. To make mad. Such madning draughts of beauty, As for a while o'erwhelm'd his raptur'd thought.

Thomson. MADDER. n. 5. [madene, Sax.] A plant.. The flower of the madder consists of one single Jeaf, which is cut into four or five segments, and expanded at the top; the flower-cup afterwards becomes a fruit, composed of two juicy berries closely joined together, containing seed for the most part hollowed like a navel; the leaves are rough, and surround the stalks in whorles.

Miller.

Madder is cultivated in vast quantities in Holland: what the Dutch send over for medicinal se is the root, which is only dried; but the greatest quantity is used by the dyers, who have it sent in coarse powder. Hill. MADE. The participle preterit of make. Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; 'but that the works of God should be made manifest. Jobn. MADEFACTION n. s. [madefacio, Lat.] The act of making wet.

To all madefaction there is required an imbi

bition.

Bacon.

To MA DEFY. v. a. [madefio, Latin.] To moisten; to make wet. MANGEHOWLET. n. 5. [bubo.] An owl. Ainsworth.

MADHOUSE. n. s. [mad and house.] A house where madinen are cured or confined.

A fellow in a madhouse being asked how he came there? Why, says he, the mad folks abroad are too many for us, and so they have mastered all the sober people, and cooped them up here. L'Estrange. MADLY. adv. [from mad.] Without understanding; furiously.

He wav'd a torch aloft, and madly vain, Sought godlike worship from a servile train. Dryden. MADMAN, n. s. [mad and man.] A man deprived of his understanding.

They shall be like madmen, sparing none, but still sporting. 2 Esdras.

He that eagerly pursues any thing, is no better than a madman. L'Estrange He who tics a madman's hunds, of takes away

his sword, loves his person while he disarms his frenzy. South.

MADNESS. n.s. [from mad.]

1. Distraction; loss of understanding; perturbation of the faculties.

Why, woman, your husband is in his old lunes again he so buffets himself on the forehead, that any madness I ever yet beheld, seemed but tameness and civility to this distemper. Shaksp.

There are degrees of madness as of folly, the disorderly jumbling ideas together, in some more, some less. L.Ac.

2. Fury; wildness of passion, rage.

The power of God sets bounds to the raging of the sea, and restrains the madness of the peo ple. King Charles. He rav'd with all the madness of despair, He roar'd, he beat his breast, and tore his hair. Dryden.

MADRIER. n. s.

Madrier, in war, is a thick plank armed with iron plates, having a cavity sufficient to receive the mouth of the petard when charged, with which it is applied against a gate, or other thing intended to be broken down. Bailey MADRIGAL n. s. [madrigal, Spanish and French, from mandra Latin; whence it was written anciently mandriale, Ital.} A pastoral song, any light airy short song.

A madrigal is a little amorous piece, which contains a certain number of unequal verses, not tied to the scrupulous regularity of a sonnet, or subtility of an epigram: it consists of one single rank of verses, and in that differs from a canzonet, which consists of several strophes, which return in the same order and number. Bailey Waters, by whose falls Birds sing melodious madrigals.

Shakspeare.

His artful strains have oft delay'd The hudding brook to hear his madrigal. Milt. Their tongue is light and trifling in comparison of the English; more proper for sonnets, madrigals, and elegies, than heroick poetry. Dryd. MA ́DWORT. n. s. [mad and wort.] An