Butler's Characters.

LOY

Neither of them the found, where the them lore. Sp. F.Q. B.V. C.VII. &.42. LO'RING. n. [from lore.] Inftructive discourse. That all they, as a goddess her adoring, Her wifdome did admire, and hearkned to her loring. Sp. F.2. B.V. C. VII. ft.42. "LO'TE-TREE. n. --- A plant." [Johnfon gives a defeription of it from Miller.]

Next comes the Lote-tree, in whofe dufky hue, Her black and fun-burnt country you might view. Tate's Cowley. "LOVE. n.

quacious.

The royal loofe-frife, royal gentian, grace Our gardens.

"LORDING. n.

Tate's Cowley. A little lord; a lord in con"tempt." Not neceffarily either; both Spenfer and Fairfax ufe the word as a general appellation of people above the vulgar.

Then liften, Lordings, if ye lift to weet
The caufe, why Satyrane and Paridell
Mote not be entertayn'd, as feemed meet,
Into that caftle, (as that Squyre does tell.).

F.Q. B.III. C.IX. ft.3.
He call'd the worthies then, and fpake them fo:
Lordings, you know, I yielded to your will,
And gave you license with this dame to go,
To win her kingdom, and that tyrant kill.
Fairfax. B.V. ft.3.
"LORE. n. - - - Leffon; doctrine; inftruction."
2. Workmanship.

In her right hand a rod of peace she bore,
About the which two ferpents weren wound,
Entrayled mutually in lovely lore.

Sp. F.2. B.IV. C.III. ft.42.
Loft. Not in ufe." It was used by

« LORE. Spenfer for the preterite

Left.

He unto her a penance did impose,

Which was, that through the world's wyde wildernes She wander fhould in companie of thofe, Till the had fav'd fo many loves as the did lofe. F.Q. B.VI. C.VII. ft.37. LOVE-AFFA'MISHT. adj. Famished through love. With light thereof I do myself fuftain, And thereon feed my love-affamisht heart. LOVE-A'PPLE. n. A plant.

Spenfer's Sonnets.

LOVE-JUICE. n. Juice to create love.
Thou hast mistaken quite,
And laid the love-juice on fome true love's fight.
Shaks. Mid. N. Dream.
LOVE-LABOURED. adj. Laboured through love.
Where filence yields

To the night-warbling bird, that now awake
Tunes fweeteft his love-labour'd fong.
LOVE-PINED. adj. Wafted by love.
Unquiet thought! whom at the first I bred

Milton.

Of th' inward bale of my love-pined heart, And fithence have with fighs and forrows fed, Till greater than my womb thou woxen art. Spenfer's Sonnet II. "LOVER. [mis-printed LOUVER.] n. An open"ing in the roof of a cottage. Spenfer."

But darkneffe dred and daily night did hover Through all the inner parte wherein they dwelt, Ne lightned was with window, nor with lover, But with continuall candle light, which delt A doubtfull fenfe of things. F.Q. B.VI. C.X. ft.42. LOVE-SHAFT. n. Cupid's arrow.

A certain aim he took

At a fair Vestal throned by the west,

And loos'd his love fhaft fmartly from his bow.

Shaky. Mid. N. Dream.

"LOYALTY. n. "2. Fidelity to a lady or lover." And then end life, when I end loyalty.

Shaky. Mid. N. Dream. LU'.

“LU DICROUSLY. adv. "cite laughter."

Cicero ludicrously defcribes Cato as endeavouring to act in the commonwealth upon the fchool paradoxes, which exercised the wits of the junior ftudents in the Stoic Burke. philofophy. LUMBER-ROOM. n. A room to put lumber in. Many great readers load their memories, and make lumber-rooms of their heads inftead of furnishing them Chefterfield. ufefully. LUMINOUSNESS. n. [from luminous.] Luftre. That luminoufnefs that appears in fome eyes. Spence's Crito. LUNA'RIAN. n. [from lunar.] An inhabitant of

the moon.

The Lunarians in the oppofite hemifphere never fee Adams on Globes. our earth.

LU'PERCAL. n. [Lat.] A feast kept at the place, where Romulus and Remus were fuppofed to have been fostered by [Lupa] a fhe wolf. It is the feaft of Lupercal. "LUSK. adj. --- Lazy."

Up, you luk.

Shaks. Julius Cæfar.

Brewer's Lingua. "LU'SKISHNESS. n. --- A difpofition to laziness. "Spenfer."

He hooke off lufkishness; and courage chill
Kindling afresh, gan battell to renew.
F.2. B.VI. C.I. ft. 25.

LU'ST-DIETED. adj. [luft and dieted.] Pampered.
But the fuperfluous, and luft-dieted man,
That flaves your ordinance, that will not fee
Because he doth not feel, feel your power quickly.
Shaks. Lear.
"LU'STLESS. adj. Not vigorous; weak. Spen-
"fer." Johnson gives no extract; and, from not
having one before his eyes, seems to have wanted
precifion in defining Spenfer's ufage of the word. Its
proper fenfe is probably

Liftlefs.

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LYR

Our stirring

Can from the lap of Egypt's widow pluck, The ne'er luft-wearied Antony. Shak. Ant. and Cleopatra. LU'TE-CASE. n. A cafe for a lute.

Bardolph ftole a lute cafe, bore it twelve leagues, and fold it for three halfpence. Shaks. Hen. V. LUTE-STRING. n. The ftring of a lute.

Nay, but his jefting spirit; which is now crept into a lute-firing, and now governed by stops. Shak. Much Ado. LUTHERAN. n. One who profeffes the christian religion as reformed by Luther. I know her for

A fpleeny Lutheran. LUTHERAN. adj.

Luther.

Shaky. Hen. VIII. According to the doctrine of

Their religion is Lutheran, which was propagated among them by Guftavus Vafa, about the year 1523. Guthrie. LUTHERANISM. n. The religion of Lutherans.

Proteftantifm is divided into Lutheranifm and Calvinifm, fo called from Luther and Calvin, the two distinguished Guthrie. reformers of the fixteenth century. LUXUR. n. [from luxure, Fr. A letcher.

A parch'd and juiceless luxur. Revenger's Tragedy. LY'AM. n. [poffibly from ligan, Sax. ducere.] A thong for holding a greyhound in hand.

My dog-hook at my belt to which my lyam's ty'd, My fheaf of arrows by, my wood-knife by my fide, My hound then in my lyam. Drayton's Mufe's Elizium. LYM. n. [limier, Fr.] A bloodhound.

Maftiff, greyhound, mungril grim, Hound or spaniel, brache, or lym. Shaks. Lear. LYMPHATIC. adj. [lymphaticus, Lat.] Enthufiaftical.

Horace either is, or feigns himself lymphatic, Shaftesbury. LYMPHATIC. n. [the adjective, by ellipfis.] A mad enthufiaft; a lunatic.

All nations have their lymphatics of fome kind or other. Shaftesbury. From Bethlem's walls the poor Lymphatic stray'd. Shenftone. LYRICISM. n. A lyric compofition.

Which indeed to do they must have our lyricisms at their finger-ends. Gray's Letters.

MACARONI.

1. A name generally given to pictures of the Virgin Mary.

Madonna, Titian.

Madonna, Schidoni.

Catalogue of Pictures in Devonshire-house. 2. [Ufed by Shakspeare for] Madam.

Two faults, Madonna, that drink and good counfel will amend. Twelfth Night. "MAGE. n. --- A magician. Spenfer." The hardy Mayd (with love to frend) First entering, the dreadful mage there fownd Deep bufied 'bout worke of wondrous end.

F.2. B.III. C.III. ft.14.

MAH

Magnetism fignifies both the tendency of the iron towards the magnet, and the power of the magnet to produce that tendency. Keid's Inquiry. "MAGNIFIER. n.

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2. A glass that increases the bulk of any object." The imagination is a greater magnifier than a microShenflone. fcopic glass. MAGNIFYING GLASS. n. A glafs that magnifies objects.

Malicé is a greater magnifying-glass than kindness. Marq. of Halifax. MAGNOLIA. n. An exotic plant, commonly called, the laurel-leaved tulip-tree. Miller fpecifies four

kinds of it.

The ftation.

The rich magnolias claim

Mafon's English Garden. MA'GOT-PIE. n. [perhaps a compound of the French word, magot and pie.] A magpie.

Augurs, and understood relations, have

By magot pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The fecret'ft man of blood. Shakspeare's Macbeth. MAHOGANY. n. A wood brought from fome of the West India iflands.

Say thou, that doit thy father's table praise,
Was there mahogena in former days?

Bramfon.

[This couplet is taken from the Man of taste; in the original edition of which poem (by the author himfelf) the word mahogena is printed in italics, in order to point it out as a corruption of the perfon fuppofed to fpeak it. But in the republication of this poem in Dodfley's Collection, the word is printed without any peculiar mark; and confequently mahogena left to pafs for Bramfton's own orthography. Thus is the literary world frequently mis-led by the infidelity or infufficiency of editors.]

in Johnson..

This is the day I am to perfect for him
The magifterium, our great work, the ftone.

B. Fonfon's Alchemift. MA'GNES. n. [Lat.] Magnet. Spenfer ufes it as an adjective.

On th' other fyde an hideous rock is pight
Of mighty Magnes ftone.

"MAGNETISM. n.

"1. Power of the loadstone." Johnfon here (contrary to his more ufual and properer mode of explication) jumbles two fenfes into one.

word, fee MOHAMMEDAN.] Of the religion inftituted by Mahomet.

The Mahometan clergy seem to have a different policy. Shaftesbury. MAHO METAN. n. A worshipper of Mahomet.

Guthrie.

Mecca and Medina are curiosities only through the fuperftition of the Mahometans. MAHO'METANISM. n. The religion of Maho

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MAL

Mahometifm, Paganifm, Judaifm, or any other belief, may ftand, as well as the trueft, upon this foundation. Shaftesbury. "MAID-MA'RIAN. n. --- A dance fo called from a buffoon drest like a man, who plays tricks to the "populace." To make any fense of this one must suppose man an erratum for woman; and then it agrees with Johnson's note on Hen. IV. P.I. A.III. fc.3. But all the other commentators make MaidMarian really a woman; which accords with the following paffage:

Yet old Queen Madge,

Though things do not fadge,

Will ferve to be Queen of a May-pole, Two princes of Wales

For Whitfun-ales,

And her grace Maid-marion Claypole. Butler's Remains. MAINOUR. n. [law Fr.] A thing ftolen and found

on the thief.

The remaining methods of profecution are without any previous finding by a jury. One of thefe, by the common law, was when a thief was taken with the mainour; that is with the thing ftolen upon him, in For he might, when fo detected, *be brought into court, arraigned, and tried without indictment.

manu.

Blackflone. *[Be (to make grammatical English) fhould be altered into have been, as this part of the law was changed in Edward the third's time.] "MAINPERNABLE. adj. Bailable."

Mainpernable, that may be mainprifed, or delivered to mainpernors. Termes de la Ley. "MAINPERNOR. n. Surety; bail."

Mainpernors differ from bail, in that a man's bail may imprifon or furrender him before the ftipulated day of appearance; mainpernors can do neither. Blackfione. MAINTENANCE. n. [In law.] Affiftance afforded to another to carry on a law fuit.

Maintenance is an officious intermeddling in a fuit, which no way belongs to one, by maintaining or affisting either party to profecute or defend it. Blackflone. MAI'STRY. n. [Fr.] Myftery; art.

In the difference of wits I have obferved there are many notes; and it is a little maiftry to know them.

[For a ftill older fenfe of this fee Gloffary to HOCCLEVE.] 7% MAKE. v. n. [a Grecifm.]

B. Jonfon's Difcoveries. word, nearly fimilar,

To compofe verfes. Full many maidens often did him woo Them to vouchfafe emongst his rimes to name, Or make for them, as he was wont to do For her, that did his heart with love inflame.

Spen). Aftrophel.

Befides her peerlefs fkill in making well,
And all the ornaments of wondrous wit
Such as all womankind did far excel.

Spenf. Colin Clout. MA'KER. n. [from the verb explained in last article.] A poet.

We require in our poet, or maker (for that title our language affords him elegantly with the Greek) a goodnefs of natural wit. B. Jonfon's Difcoveries. Such a poet is indeed a fecond maker. Shaftesbury. MA'KING. n. [from make.] A poem. For fro' thy makings milke and melly flowes, To feed the fongfter fwaines with art's foot-meats. Davies of Hereford. MALECOTOOʻN, MELICO'TTON. n. [This is

What you could ask me, that I should deny,
Or stand so mammering on.

"MA'MMON. ». . Riches."

Shakspeare's Othello.

If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your truft the true riches? Luke. Ch. XVI. v.11.

MA'N-CHILD. n. A male child.

Bring forth men-children only,
For thy undaunted mettle fhould compofe
Nothing but males.

Shakspeare's Macbeth. "MANDA'MUS. n. A writ granted by the king." More properly by the Court of King's Bench.'

A mandamus is in general, a writ iffuing in the King's name from the Court of King's Bench. Blackflone. "MANDARI'N. n. A Chinese nobleman or magi"ftrate."

Out of these are chofen all their chief officers, and mandarines both civil and military. Temple. "MA'NDRAKE. n." Among the examples of this word is filently foifted in one (from Othello) of MANDRAGORA. That both names have the fame meaning feems to be agreed on; but the manner of introducing this fingle example of mandragora betrays a manifeft overfight, either in Johnson or the editor.

MA'NEGE. n. [Fr.] A riding-school.

If the weather is very hot, you may leave your rid ing at the manege till your return to Paris. Cheferfield. MANGLE. n. [poffibly from manivelle, Fr.] A machine to fmooth linen with To MA'N

By faphire lakes through em'rald groves. MANICHE AN. n. [from a Perfian, who affumed the name of Manes, and founded a remarkable fect of incoherent religion.] A believer in two equipollent deities, one good, the other evil.

Could the wild Manichean own that guide, The good would triumph, and the ill fubfide! MANICHE AN. adj. Of Manicheans.

Boyfe.

What has been faid is methinks fufficient to ruin the Manichean caufe, and exclude the independent principle of evil. Wollafton's Religion of Nature. MA'NIOC. n. [called manihot by Miller, and treated of under iatropha.] A plant in the West Indies.

The Manioc grows to the fize of a large fhrub, or small

tree, and produces roots fomewhat refembling parsnips. After carefully fqueezing out the juice, these roots are grated down to a fine powder, and formed into cakes, called Caffada bread. One fpecies of manioc is altogether free of any poisonous quality, and may be eaten without any preparation, but that of roafting it in the Robertfon.

embers.

MA'NLIKE. adj. Of man's nature.

He fifhes, drinks, and wafts
The lamp of night in revels: is not more manlike
Than Cleopatra.
Shakfp. Antony and Cleopatra.
Under his forming hand a creature grew,
Manlike, but different fex.

MA'NLING. n. A diminutive of Man.

Milton.

Auguftus often called him his witty manling from the littleness of his ftature. B. Jonfon's Difcoveries. MA'NNERIST. n. Any artift who performs all his works in one unvaried manner.

Not fuch a likeness, as, through Hayman's works, (Dull mannerist) in Chriftians, Jews, and Turks, Cloys with a fameness. Churchill's Gotham. MA'NSION-HOUSE. n. [In law.] An inhabited house. Nor is the breaking open of houfes wherein no man refides, which therefore for the time are not manfionhoufes, attended with the fame circumftance of midnight Blackflone. MANTICHORA. n. An Indian wild beaft, defcribed by Pliny, L. VIII.

terror.

What are they? speak. Mantichoras, monttrous beafts, enemies to mankind, that have double rows of teeth in their heads. Mileries of Inf. Marriage. MANTOLOGY. n. [from μartwo, hoyos, Gr.] Gift of prophecy.

The reader would not pardon an author, who, treating of this fubject, thould omit that remarkable mantology,

The cocklings cocker'd we bewail too late, When that we fee our offspring gaily bent, Women man-wood and men effeminate. " MA'NY. n

Sidney.

1. A multitude, a company, a great number, peo"ple." Spenfer in one place ufes it for a fmall coinpany of high rank.

That this faire many were compel'd at last
To fly for fuccour to a little fhed.

F.2. B.III. C.IX. ft.11.
MANY-TWINKLING. adj. Gleaming variously.
To brisk notes in cadence beating,
Glance their many-twinkling feet.
Gray.
"To MAR. v. a.
Obfolete." Why this verb
fhould be termed obfolete is difficult to conceive.
Jobnfon himself has brought examples of it from
Waller and Dryden; and it is ftill intelligible to all
MARAUDER. n. [maraudeur, Fr.] A foldier that
ranks of people.
roves in queft of plunder.
MA'RBLE-BREASTED. adj. Proof against courtship.
Live you the marble-breafed tyrant ftill?
Shak. Twelfth Night.
MARBLE-CONSTANT. adj. As impenetrable as
Now from head to foot

marble.

I am marble-conftant. Shakspeare's Antony and Cleopatra. "MARCHIONESS. n. --- The wife of a marquis.' This definition is very incomplete; and the paffage, which Johnson would illuftrate it by from Shakspeare, might have fhewn him that it was fo. For the marchionefs of Pembroke was created fuch in her own right, when he was wife to nobody. Therefore in the room of Johnfon's expofition fubftitute A dignity in a female, anfwerable to that of Marquefs in a male, conferred either by creation or by marriage with a marquefs.' "MARGRAVE. n. "Germany." Three fuch mill-ftones muft fooner or later grind his Pruffian Majefty to a mere Margrave of Brandenburgh. Chesterfield. MARGRAVINE. n. A female title acquired by marrying a Margrave. "MARKER. n. "2. One that notes."

A title of fovereignty in

Mathematicians are the fame thing to mechanics, as markers at tennis-courts are to gameters. Butler's Characters. MAROO'NING. 2. The barbarous act of fetting a perfon on fhore where there are no inhabitants. Af's Dict.

MA'R