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Discover more at large what cause that was,For 1 am ignorant, and cannot guess. Shakesp.
It does not belong to this place to have thatpoint debated at large. Watts .
La'rgely . adv. [from large.']
1. Widely; extensively.
2. Copiously ; diffusely ; amply.
Where the author treats more largely, it willexplain the shorter hints and brief intimations.
Wattson the Mind.
8. Liberally; bounteously.
How lie lives and eats :
How largely gives ; how splendidly he treats.Dry.
Those, who in warmer climes complaiuFrom Phoebus’ rays they suffer pain,
Must own, that pain is largely paidBy gen’rous wines beneath the shade. Swift.
4. Abundantly ; without sparing.
They their fill of love, and love’s disport,
Took largely; of their mutual guilt the seal.Milt.
La'rgeness. n. s. [from large*]
1. Bigness; bulk.
London excels any other city in the wholeworld, either in largeness , or number of inhabi-tants. Spratt.
Nor must Bumastils his old honours lose,
In length and largeness like the dugs of cows. Dry.
2. Greatness; comprehension.
There will be occasion for largeness of mind andagrecableness of temper. Collier of Friendship.
3. Extension ; amplitude.
They which would file away most from thelargeness of that offer, do in most sparing termsacknowledge little less. Hooker.
The ample proposition that hope makes,
In all designs begun on earth below,
Falls in the promis’d largeness. Shakesp.
Knowing best the largeness of my own hearttoward my people’s good and just contentment.
King Charles.
Shall grief contract the largeness of that heart.In which nor fear nor anger has a part ? Waller.
Man as far transcends the beasts in largeness ofdesire, as dignity of nature and employment.
G lanville's Apology.
If the largeness of a man’s heart carry him be-yond prudence, we may reckon it illustriousweakness. L'Estrange.
4. Wideness.
Supposing that the multitude and largeness ofrivers ought to continue as great as now ; we caneasily prove, that the extent of the ocean couldbe no less. Bentley.
La'RGESS. n. s. [largesse, Fr.] A pre-sent ; a gift; a bounty.
Our coffers with too great a court,
And liberal largess, are grown somewhat light.
Shakesp.
He assigned two thousand ducats, for a bountyto me and my fellows : for they give great larges-ses where they come. Bacon’s New Atlantis.
A pardon to the captain, and a largessAmong the soldiers had appeas’d their fury. Den.
The paltry largess too severely watch’d.
That no intruding guests usurp a share. Dryden.
Irus’s condition will not admit of largesses.
Addison.
Largi'tion. n. s. [largitio, Lat.] Theact of giving. Diet.
LARK. n. s . [lapepce, Sax . hrk, Dan./flu-rack , Scott.] A small singing bird.
It was the lark, the herald of the morn. Shak.
Look up a height, the shrill-gorg’d lark so farCannot, be seen or heard. Shakesp. K. Lear.
I’ll’ example of the heavenly lark,
Thy fellow poet, Cowley, mark. Cowley,
Mark how the lark and linnet sing;
With rival notes
They strain their warbling throats,
To welcome in the spring. Dryden.
La'RKER. n. s. [from lark.] A catcherof larks. Diet.
La'rkspur. n. s. [delphinium.] A plant.
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La'rvated. adj. [larvatus, Lat.] Mask-ed. Diet.
La'rum. n. s. [from alarum or alarm.]
1. Alarm ; noise noting danger.
His larum bell might loud and wide be heard,When cause requir’d, but never out of time. Spens.
The peaking coruute, her husband, dwelling ina continual larum of jealousy, comes to me in theinstant of our encounter. Shakesp.
How far off lie these armies ?
—Within a mile and half.
—Then shall we hear their larum , and they ours.
Shakesp.
She is become formidable to all her neighbours,as site puts every one to stand upon his guard,and have a continual larum bell in his ears. Hoivel.
2. An instrument that makes a noise ata certain hour.
Of this nature was that larum, which, thoughit were but three inches big, yet would both wakea man, and of itself light a candle for him at anyset hour. Wilkins.
1 see men as lusty and strong that eat but twomeals a day, as others, that have set their sto-machs, like larums, to call on them for four or five.
Locke.
The young ^Eneas, all at once let down,Stunu’d with his giddy larum half the town.
Dunciad.
LaRY'NGOTOMY. 71. S. [kcr^cyl and rlp-vu ',laryngotomie, Fr.] An operation wherethe fore-part of the larynx is dividedto assist respiration, during large tu-mours upon the upper parts ; as in aquinsy. Quincy.
La'rynx . n. s. [Xapvy|.] The upper partof the trachea, which lies below the rootof the tongue, before the pharynx.
Quincy.
There are thirteen muscles for the motion of thefive cartilages of the larynx. Derham.
Lasci'vif.nt. adj. [lasciciens, Lat.] Fro-licksome ; wantoning.
Lasci'vious. adj. [lascivus, Lat.]
1. Lewd ; lustful.
In what habit will you go along ?
—Not like a woman; for I would preventThe loose encounters of lascivious men. Shak.
He on Eve
Began to cast lascivious eyes ; she himAs wantonly repaid ; in lust they burn. Milton.
Notwithstanding all their talk of reason andphilosophy, and those unanswerable difficultieswhich, over their cups, they pretend to haveagainst Christianity ; persuade but the covetousman not to deify'fiis money, the lascivious man tothrow off his lewd amours, and all their giant-Hkeobjections against Christianity shall presently va-nish. South.
2. Wanton ; soft; luxurious.
Grim visag’d war hath smooth’d his wrinkl’dfront;
And now, instead of mounting barbed steedsTo fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady’s chamber,
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. Shakesp.
Lasciviousness, n.s. [from lascivious.']Wantonness; looseness.
The reason pretended by Augustus was the las-civiousness of his Elegies, and his Art of Love .
Lasci'viously. adv. [from lascivious.]Lewdly; wantonly; loosely.
LASH. n.s. [The most probable etymo-logy of this word seems to be that ofSkinner, from schlagen, Dut. to strike ;
I whence slash and lash.]
LAS
1. A stroke with any thing pliant andtough.
From hence are heard the groans of ghosts, th*pains
Of sounding lashes, and of dragging chains. Dry.
Rous’d by the lash of his own stubborn tail,Our lion now will foreign foes assail. Dryden.
2. The thong or point of the whip whichgives the cut or blow.
Her whip of cricket’s bone, her lash of film,
Her waggoner a small grev-coated gnat. Shakesp.
I observed that your whip wanted a lash to u.
Addison .
3. A leash, or string in which an animalis held ; a snare : out of use.
The farmer they leave in the lash,
With losses on every side. Tusser’s Husbandry.
4. A stroke of satire; a sarcasm.
The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogatingthat to ourselves which succeeds well. L’Estrange.
To Lash. v. a. [from the noun.]
1. To strike with anything pliant; toscourge. •
Let’s whip these stragglers o’er the seas again,
’ Lash hence these over-weening rags of France .
Shakesp.
He charg’d the flames, and those that disobey'dHe lash'd to duty with his sword of light.DryJen.
And limping death, lash'd on bj fate,
Comes up to shorten half our date. Dryden .
Stern as tutors, and as uncles hard,
We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward. Dryden.
Leaning on his lance, he mounts his car,
His fiery coursers lashing through the air. Garth.
2. To move with a sudden spring or jerk.
The club hung round his ears, and batter’d
brows;
He falls ; and lashing up his heels, his riderthrows. Dryden.
3. To beat; to strike with a sharp sound.
The winds grow high,
Impending tempests charge the sky;
The lightning flies, the thunder roars,
And big waves lash the frighted shores. Prior.
4. To scourge with satire.
Could pension’d Boileau lash in honest strain,Flatt’rers and bigots ev’n in Louis’ reign. Pope.
5. To tie any thing down to the side ormast of a ship : properly to lace.
To Lash. v. n. To ply the whip.
They lash aloud, each other they provoke,
And lend their little souls at ev’ry stroke.Dryden.
Gentle or sharp, according to their choice,
To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice, Dryden.
Let men out of their way lash on ever so fast,they are not at all the nearer their journey’s end.
South.
Wheels clash with wheels, and bar the narrowstreet;
The lashing whip resounds. Gay’s Trivia.
La'sher . n. s. [from lash.~\ One thatwhips or lashes.
Lass. n.s. [from lad is formed laddess ,by contraction lass. HickesJ] A girl;a maid; a young woman: used nowonly of mean girls.
Now was the time for vig’rous lads to showWhat love or honour could invite them to;
A goodly theatre, where rocks are roundWith reverend age, and lovely lasses crown’d.
Waller.
\ girl was worth forty of our widows ; and auhonest, downright, plain dealing lass it was.
L’Estrange.
They sometimes an hasty kissSteal from unwary lasses ; they with scornAnd neck reclin’d, resent. Philips.
La'ssitude. n. s. [lassitudo, Lat. lassi-tude, Fr.]
1. Weariness; fatigue; the pain arisingfrom hard labour.
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