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Men have of late made use of a pendulum, as amore steady regulator. Loekc.
La'ted. adj. [from late.] Belated; sur-prised by the night.
I am so lated- in the world, that IHave lost ray way for ever. Shakesp.
The west glimmers with some streaks of day:Now spurs the lated [traveller apaceTo gain the timely inn. Shakesp . Macbeth .
Lately, adv. [from tor.] Not long ago.
Paul found a certain Jew named Aquila, latelycome from Italy . Acts, xviii. 1.
La'teness. n. s. [from late.] Time faradvanced.
Lateness in life might be improper to begin theworld with. Swift to Gay.
La'tent. adj. [latens, Lat .] Hidden;concealed; secret.
If we look into its retired movements, and moresecret latent springs, we may there trace out asteady hand producing good out of evil. Woodward.
Who drinks, alas! but to forget; nor seesThat melancholy sloth, severe disease,
MeraTy confused, and interrupted thought,Death's harbingers, lie latent in the draught. Prior.
What were Wood's visible costs 1 know not,and what were his latent is variously conjectured.
Swift.
LATERAL, adj, [lateral , Fr. lateralis ,Lat .]
1. Growing out on the side; belonging tothe side. -
Why may they not spread their lateral branchestill their distance from the centre of gravity de-press them ? Ray.
The smallest vessels, which carry the blood bylateral branches, separate the next thinner fluid orserum, the diameters of which lateral branches areless than the diameters of the blood-vessels.
Arbuthnot on Aliments.
5 Placed, or acting on the side.
Forth rush the Levant, and the ponfcnt windsKurus and Zephyr, with their lateral noise,
Sirocco and Libecchio. Milton.
I.atera'lity. n. s. [from lateral.] Thequality of having distinct sides.
We may reasonably conclude a right and leftlaterality in the ark, or naval edifice of Noah.
Broum.
La'terally . adv. [from lateral .] Bythe side; sidewise.
The days are set laterally against the columns ofthe golden number. Holder (m Time.
La'tevvard. adv. [late and peapb, Sax.]Somewhat late. ,
LATH. n. s. [larca, Sax . late, latte, Fr.]A small long piece of wood used to sup-port the tiles of houses.
With dagger of lath. Shakesp.
Penny-royal atkd orpin they use in the countryto trim their houses; binding u with a .aih or stick,and setting it against a wall. Bacon ’s Nat. Hist.
laths are made of heart of oak, for outside work,as tiling and plaistering; and of fit for insideplaistering, and pantile lathing. Moron.
The god who frights away,
With his lath sword, the thieves and birds of prey.
Dryden.
To Lath. v.a. [latter, Fr. from the noun.]To fit up with laths.
A small kiln consists of an oaken frame, lathedon ever; side. Mortimer’s Husbandry.
The plasterer’s work is commonly done by theyard square for lathing. Mortimer’s Husbandry.
Lath. n. s. [lae’S, Sax . It is explainedby Du Cange, I suppose from Spelman ,Portio comitatus major tres vel plureshundredas continens: this is apparentlyContrary to Spenser, in the following ex-ample.] A part of a county.
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If all that tything failed, then ail that lath wascharged for that tything; and if the lath failed,then all that hundred was demanded for them ;and if the hundred, then the shire, who wouldnot rest till they had found that uudutiful fellow,which was not amesnable to law. Spenser’s Ireland .
The fee-farms reserved upon charters grantedto cities and towns corporate, and the blanch rentsand lath silver answered by the sheriffs. Bacon .
Lathe , n. s. Tlietool of a turner by whichhe turns about his matter so as to shapeit by the chisel.
Those black circular lines we see on turned ves-sels of wood, are the effects of ignition, caused bythe pressure of an edged stick upon the vesselturned nimbly in the lathe. Ray.
To LATHER, v.n. [leSpan, Sax .] Toform a foam.
Cbuse water pure,
Such as will lather cold with soap. Baynard.
To La'theR . v. a. To cover with foam ofwater and soap.
La'ther . n.s. [from the verb.] A foamor froth made commonly by beating soapwith water.
LA'TIN . adj. [Latinos.] Written orspoken in the language of the old Ro-mans.
Augustus himself could not make a new Latin word. Locke.
La'tin . w. s. An exercise practised byschool-boys, who turn English into La-tin .
In learning farther his syntaxis, he shall not usethe common order in schools for making of Latins.
Ascham.
La'tinism. n. s. [latinisme, Fr. latinis-mus, low Lat.] A Latin idiom; a modeof speech peculiar to the Latin .
Milton has made use of frequent transpositions,Latinisms, antiquated words and phrases, that hemight tile better deviate from vulgar and ordinaryexpressions. Addison.
Latinist, n. s. [from Latin .] Oneskilled in Latin .
Oldham was considered as a good Latinist.
Oldham’s Life.
LatTnity. n. s. [latinhe, Fr, latinitas ,Lat.] Purity of Latin stile; the Latin tongue.
If Shakespeare was able to read Plautus withease, nothing in Infinity could be hard to him.
Dennis.
To La'tinize . v. a. \latiniser, Fr. fromLatin .] To use words or phrases bor-rowed from the Latin .
1 am liable to be charged that 1 latinize toomuch. Dryden.
He uses coarse and vulgar words, or terms andphrases that are latinised, scholastick, and hard tobe understood. Watts,
La'tish. adj. [from late.] Somewhatlate.
Latiro'strous. adj. [latus and rostrum,Lat .] Broad-beaked.
In quadrupeds, in regard of the figure of theirheads, the eyes are placed at some distance; inlatirostrous and flat-billed birds, they are morelaterally seated. Brown.
La'titancy. n. s. [from latitans, Lat .]Delitescence ; the state of lying hid.
In vipers she has abridged their malignity bytheir secession or latituncy. Brown’s Vulg. Er.
La'titant. adj. [latitans, Lat .] Deli-tescent ; concealed ; lying hid.
Snakes and lizards, latitant many months in theyear, containing a weak heat in a copious humidi-ty, do long subsist without nutrition. Brown.
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Force the small latitant bubbles of air to disclosethemselves and break. Boyle.
It must be some other substance latitant in thefluid matter, and really distinguishable from it.
More.
Latita'tion. n.s. [from latito, Lat .]The state of lying concealed.
La'titude. n s. [latitude, Fr. latitudo,Lat .]
1. Breadth ; width ; in bodies of unequaldimensions the shorter axis; in equalbodies the line drawn from right to left.
Whether the exact quadrat, or the long square,he the better, I find not well determined ; though1 must prefer the latter, provided the length donot exceed the latitude above one third part.
Wottm.
2. Room; space ; extent.
There is a difference of degrees in men’s under-standings, to so great a latitude, that one may af-firm, that there is a greater difference betweensome men and others, than between some menand beasts. Locke.
3. The extent of the earth or heavens,reckoned from the equator to either pole;opposed to longitude.
We found ourselves in the latitude of thirty dr-grees two minutes south. South.
4. A particular degree, reckoned from theequator.
Another effect the Alps have on Geneva is, thatthe sun here rises later and sets sooner than it doesto other places of the same latitude . Addison.
5. Unrestrained acceptation; licentiousor lax interpretation.
In such latitudes of sense, many that love meand the church well, may have taken the covenant.
King Charles.
Then, in comes the benign latitude of the doc-trine of good-will, and cuts asunder all those hardpinching cords. South .
6. Freedom from settled rules; laxity.
In human actions there are no degrees, and pre-cise natural limits described, but a latitude is in-dulged. ^ Taylor.
1 took this kind of verse, which allows morelatitude than any other. Dryden.
7. Extent; diffusion.
Albertus, bishop of Ratisbon , for his greatlearning, and latitude of knowledge, sirnamedMagnus; besides divinity, hath written manytracts in philosophy Brmun.
Mathematicks, in its latitude, is usually dividedinto pure and mixed. Wilkins.
I pretend not to treat of them in their full lati~tude; it suffices to shew how the mind receivesthem from sensation and reflection. Locke.
Latitudina'rian. adj. [latitudinaire,Fr. latitudinarius, low Lat .] Not re-strained ; not confined; thinking or act-ing at large.
LatituAinurian love will be expensive, anti there-fore I would be informed what is to be gotten byit. Collier on Kindness.
Latitudina'rian. n. s. One who de-parts from orthodoxy.
La'trant. adj. [latrans, Lat .] Barking.
Thy care be first the various gifts to trace.
The minds and genius of the latrant race. Tickell.
LATRI'A. [xaTftU; latric, Fr.] Thehighest kind of worship ; distinguishedby the papists from duliu, or inferiorworship.
The practice of the calholick church makes ge-nuflections, prostrations, supplications, and otheracts of latria to the cross. Stillingjieet.
La'tten- n.s. [leton, Fr. latoen, I)ut.lat turn, Welsh .] Brass; a mixture ofcopper and calaminaris stone.
I To make lamp-black, take a torch or link, and
* hold it under the bottom of a lutten bason, and, a.
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