ing this leque. Pope. 2. Farewell; adieu. In this fenfe leave is permiffion to depart.

Take leave and part, for you must part forth.
Shok.

with.

Evils that take leave.

(1) LEATHERCOAT. n.J. [leather and coat.] An apple with a tough rind.

There is a difh of leathercoats for you. Shak. (2.) LEATHERCOAT. See PYRUS, N° 2. *LEATHER DRESSER.n, f. (leather and dreffer. He who dreffes leather; he who manufactures hides for ufe. He removed to Cumæ; and by the way was entertained at the house of one Tychius, a leather-dreffer, Pope.

LEATHER-MOUTHED. adj. [leather and mouth By a leather-mouthed fish, I mean fuch as have their teeth in their throat; as, the chub or cheven. Walton.

* LEATHERN. adj. [from leather.] Made of leather.

I saw her hand; she has a leathern hand. Shak. The wretched animal heav'd forth fuch groans, That their discharge did ftretch his leathern coat Almost to bursting Shak.

In filken or in leathern purse retain A fplendid fhilling.

Phillips. * LEATHER-SELLER. n.. [leather and feller. He who deals in leather, and vends it,

LEATHER-WOOD. See DIRCA.

* LEATHERY. adj. [from leather.] Refembling leather.-Wormius calls this cruft a leathery fkin. Grew.

LEATHES, or LEATHES WATER, a beautiful lake of Cumberland, S. by E. of Kefwick, called alfo THIRLMERE, and WYTHBURN. It begins at the foot of Mount Helwellyn, fkirts it for 4 miles, and has an outlet, which joins the rapid river Greeta, and thus communicates with the lake of DERWENT. It is almoft interfected by two peninfulas, which are joined by a wooden bridge.

* LEAVE. n. [lefe, Saxon; from lyfan, to grant. 1. Grant of liberty; permiflion; allow. ance. By your leave, Ireneus, methinks I fee an evil lurk unefpied. Spenfer.

2

When him his deareft Una did behold, Difdaining life, defiring leave to die. Spenfer. You're welcome; give us leave, drawer. Shak. Sylla's fway, when the free fword took leave To act all that it would. Ben Jonfon. We dare not give Our thoughts fo unconfin'd a leave. Waller. No friend has leave to bear away the dead. Dryden. Offended that we fought without his leave. Dryden. -One thing more I crave leave to offer about fyllogifm, before I leave it. Locke. I must have leave to be grateful to any who ferves me, nor did the tory party put me to the hardship of afk

Occafion fmiles upon a fecond leave. Shak. But, my dear nothings, take your leave. Suckl -Many fars may be vifible in our hemifphere, that are not fo at prefent; and many thall take leave of our horizon, and appear unto fouthern habitations. Brown.

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(1.) To LEAVE v. a. pret. I left; I have left. [Of the derivation of this word the etymologifts give no fatisfactory account.] 1. To quit; to forfake.-A man fhall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife. Gen. ii. 24.

If they love lees, and leave the lufty wine, Envy them not their palates with the swine. Ben Jonfon

2. To defert; to abandon.-He that is of an upthankful mind, will leave him in danger that delivered him. Eccluf. xxix. 17. 3. To depart from, without action; as, I left things as I found them. -When they were departed from him, they left him in great difeafes. 2 Chron. xxiv. 25. 4. To have remaining at death.-There be of them that have left a name behind them. Eccluf. xliv. 8. 5. Not to deprive of.-They ftill have left me the providence of God, and all the promises of the gofpel, and my charity to them too. Taylor. 6. To fuffer to remain.-It leaveth a fufpicion, as if more might be faid than is expreffed. Bacon.Thefe things must be left uncertain farther dif coveries in future ages. Abbot's Defcription of the World-Who thofe are, to whom this right by defcent belongs, he leaves out of the reach of any one to discover from his writings. Locke. 7. Not to carry away. They encamped against them, and deftroyed the increase of the earth, and left no fuftenance for Ifrael. Judg. vi. 4-He shall eat the fruit of thy cattle; which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil. Deut. xxviii. 48.— Vaftius gave ftrict commandment, that they should leave behind them unneceffary baggage. Knolles. 8. To reject; not to choose.

Steele.

I am fuperior, I can take or leave. 9. To fix as a token or remembrance.-This I leave with my reader, as an occafion for him to confider, how much he may be beholden to ex perience. Locke. 19. To bequeath; to give as inheritance.

That peace thou leav't to thy imperial line, That peace, O happy fhade! be ever thine.

Dryden. 11. To give up; to refign.—Thou shalt not glean thy vineyards; thou shalt leave them for the poor and ftranger. Lev. xix. 10.-If a wife man were left to himself, and his own choice, to wish the greateft good to himself he could devife; the fum of all his wishes would be this, That there were juft fuch a being as God is. Tillotson. 12. To permit without interpofition.-Whether Efau were a vassal, I leave the reader to judge. Locke. 13. To cease to do; to defift from. Let us return, left my father leave caring for the affes, and

take thought for us. 1 Sam. ix. 5. 14. TO LEAVE off. To defift from; forbear.-If, upon any occafion, you bid him leave off the doing of any thing, you must be fure to carry the point. Locke. -In proportion as old age came on, he left off fox-hunting. Addifon. 15. To LEAVE off To forfake. He began to leave off fome of his old acquaintance, his roaring and bullying about the ftreets: he put on a serious air. Arbuthnot. 16. To LEAVE out. To omit; to neglect.→

I am fo fraught with curious business, that I leave out ceremony. Shak, You may partake: I have told 'em who you

.are..

-I should be loth to be left out. B. Jonfon, -What is fet down by order and divifion doth demonftrate, that nothing is left out or omitted, but all is there. Bacon

Befriend till utmost end

Of all thy dues be done, and none left out. Milt. We the world's existence may conceive, Though we one atom out of matter leave.

Blackmore. -I always thought this paffage left out with a great deal of judgment by Tucca and Varius, as it feems to contradict a part in the fixth Æneid. Addifon. (2.)* TO LEAVE. V. n. 1. To ceafe; to defift. She is my effence, and I leave to be, If I be not by her fair influence Fofter'd, illumin'd, cherish'd, kept alive. Shak. And fince this business so far fair is done, Let us not leave till all our own be won. Shak. -He began at the eldeft, and left at the youngeft. Genefis. 2. To LEAVE off. To defift.-Grittus, hoping, that they in the castle would not hold out, left off to batter or undermine it, wherewith he perceived he little prevailed. Knolles.

But when you find that vigorous heat abate, Leave off, and for another fummons wait. Rofc. 3. To LEAVE off. To ftop.

Wrongs do not leave off there where they begin,

But ftill beget new mischiefs.

Daniel.

(3.) * To LEAVE. v. a. [from levy; lever, Fr.] To levy; to raife; a corrupt word, made, I believe, by Spenfer, for a rhime.

An army ftrong the leav'd,

To war on those which him had of his realm bereav'd. F. Queen. *LEAVED. adj. [from leaves, of leaf.] 1. Furnifhed with foliage. 2. Made with leaves or folds. -I will loofe the loins of kings, to open before him the two-leaved gates. Ifa. xlv. 1.

(1.)* LEAVEN. n. f. [levain, French; levare, Latin.] 1. Ferment mixed with any body to make it light; particularly ufed of four dough mixed in a mafs of bread.-It fhall not be baken with lear ven. Lev. vi. 17.-All fermented meats and drinks are eafieft digefted; and thofe unfermented by barm or leaven, are hardly digefted. Floyer. 2. Any mixture which makes a general change in the mass: it generally means fomething that depraves or corrupts that with which it is mixed. Many of their propofitions favour very ftrongly of the old leaven of innovations. K. Charles.

(2.) LEAVEN is ufed to ferment and render light a much larger quantity of dough or pafte. See BAKING, 1-3; BARM, 2; BREAD, § 3; and

YEST. Leaven was strictly forbidden by the law of Mofes during the 7 days of the paffover; and the Jews, in obedience to this law, very carefully purified their houses from all leaven as foon as the vigil of the feaft began. Nothing of honey or leaven was to have place in any thing presented upon the altar during this folemnity. If, during the feaft, the leaft particle of leaven was found in their houfes, the whole was polluted. Leaven, in in its figurative sense, fignifies the bad paffions of envy, malice, and rancour, which four the temper, and extend their ferment over the focial affections; whereas unleavened bread implies fincerity, truth, and meeknefs. It is frequently used for any kind of moral contagion.

* To LEAVEN. v. n. [from the noun.] 1. To ferment by fomething mixed.

You must tarry the learning. Shak. -Whofoever eateth leavened bread, that foul fhall be cut off. Exod. xii. 17.-Breads we have of feveral grains, with divers kinds of leavenings and sea, fonings. Bacon. 2. To taint; to imbue.That cruel fomething, unpoffeft, Corrodes and leavens all the reft.

Prior.

(1.) * LEAVES. n. f. The plural of LEAF.Parts fit for the nourishment of man in plants are, feeds, roots, and fruits; for leaves they give no nourishment at all. Bacon.

(2.) LEAVES. See BOTANY, Ind. and LEAF, §2. (3) LEAVES, COLOURS EXTRACTED FROM. See COLOUR-MAKING, Index,

LEAVINGS. n. f. [from leave.] Remnant; relics; offal; refuse: it has no fingular.

My father has this morning call'd together, To this poor hall, his little Roman fenate, The leavings of Pharfalia. Addifon.

Then who can think we'll quit the place, Or ftop and light at Chloe's head, With fcraps and leavings to be fed? * LEAVY. adj. [from leaf.] Full of leaves; covered with leaves: leafy is more used.

Swift.

Strephon, with leavy twigs of laurel tree, A garland made on temples for to wear. Sidney. Now, near enough; your leavy screens throw down,

Macbeth.

And fhow like those you are. LEAWAVA, a fea-port on the E. coaft of Ceylon, famous for falt. Lon. 83. 15. E. Lat. 6. 40. N. LEBA, a town of Saxony, in Pomerania. LEBADEA, or an ancient town of Boeotia, LEBADIA, on the borders of Phocis, fituated between Helicon and Cheronea, near Corona. In it ftood the oracle of Jupiter Trophonius, which all who went to confult defcended into a fubterraneous gulf.

(1.) LEBANON, a celebrated mountain in the S. of Syria and N. of Canaan. See LIBANUS.

(2.) LEBANON, a town of Pennsylvania, containing 2 churches and 300 houfes in 1795; 82 miles NW. of Philadelphia.

(3.) LEBANON, a flourishing town of New Hampshire, in Grafton county, 5 miles SSE. of Hanover.

LEBEAS. See JUDE, § 1.

LEBEDA,

LEBEDA, OF LEBIDA, an ancient sea-port town of Tripoli, with a good harbour and an old castle, feated on the Mediterranean. Lon. 14. 50. E. Lat. 32. 50. N.

LEBEDOS, one of the 12 ancient cities of Ionia, fituated S. of Smyrna. It was the refidence of players, where they met from all parts of Ionia, as far as the Hellefpont, and celebrated annual games in honour of Bacchus. Strabo. It was overthrown by Lyfimachus, who removed the'inhabitants to Ephefus; after which it dwindled down to a village. Horace.

LEBEN, or one of the port towns of the LEBENA, Gortynians, near the promon. tory of Leon, on the SE. fide of Crete; famous for a temple of Æfculapius, built in imitation of that of Cyrenaica.

LÉBENTHOR, a town of Germany, in Stiria; 5 miles NNE. of Fridaw.

LEBER, a river of France, which runs into the Ill, below Schlettstadt.

LEBID, an Arabian poet of the 6th century, who was employed by Mahomet to anfwer the Satires that were written against him. He is faid to have lived to the great age of 140.

LEBIEDE, a market town of Italy, in the department of the Mincio, in the diftrict and late duchy of Mantua, feated on the Po.

LEBLANC, Marcel, one of the 14 learned Jefuits, fent by Lewis XIV. to Siam. He wrote a Hiftory of the Revolutions of Siam, in 2 vols 8vo. He died at Mofambique.

LEBRADE, a town of Holstein. LEBRIJA, or an ancient, ftrong, and pleaLEBRIXA, fant town of Spain, in Anda Jufia; feated on a territory abounding in corn, wine, and olives, of which they make the best oil in Spain. Lon. 5. 32. W. Lat. 36. 52. N.

LEBUS, a town of Brandenburg, with a bifhop's fee, fecularized in favour of the houfe of Brandenburg, feated on the Oder. It has been often facked. Lon. 14. 55. E. Lat. 52. 28. N.

LECASELLO, a town of Liguria, 23 miles NE. of Genoa.'

LECCE, a rich, populous, and beautiful town of Naples, in the province of Otranto, of which it is the capital, and a bishop's fee, anciently called Aletium. Lon, 18. 20. E. Lat. 40. 38. N. LECCI, a town in Corfica, 5 miles N. of Porto Vecchio.

(1.) LECCO, a diftrict of ITALY, in the department of the Lario, and late duchy of Milan, on the banks of lake Como; containing 75,417 citizens in May 1801.

(2.) LECCO, the capital of the above district, is feated on the SE. arm of lake Como, out of which the Adda flows below this town. It has various manufactures and extenfive trade. Lon. 9. 40. E. Lat. 45. 45. N.

LECETA, a town of Spain, in Navarre. (1.) LECH, a river of Germany, which rifes in Tirol, runs N. dividing Suabia from Bavaria, and pafling by Landspruck and Augsburg, falls into the Danube below Donawert.

(2.) LECH, or LECK, a river of Holland, which is a branch of the Rhine, and receives this name at Wyke-Duerstadt. After paffing Cullemburg,

Vianen, Schonhoven, &c. it runs into the Maese at Krimpe.

(3.) LECH, or LECHE, a river of France, which rifes in the depart. of Forets (ci devant duchy of Luxemburg), and falls into the Meuse near Dinant.

*To LECH. v. a. [lecher, French.] To lick over Hanmer.

Haft thou yet leched the Athenian's eyes With the love juice? Shak. LECHEA, in botany, a genus of the Trigynia order, in the Triandria clafs of plants.

* LECHER. n. s. [Derived by Skinner from luxure, old French: luxuria is ufed in the middle ages in the same sense.} A whoremaster.—I will now take the lecher; he's at my house; he cannot 'scape me. Shak.

You, like a lecher, out of whorish loins Are pleas'd to breed out your inheritors. Shak. The lecher foon transforms his mistress; now In Io's place appears a lovely cow. Dryden. The fleepy lecher fhuts his little eyes. Dryden. She yields her charms

To that fair lecher, the ftrong god of arms.

Pope.

*To LECHER, V. n. [from the noun.] To whore. -Die for adultery? no. The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my fight. Shak.— Gut eats all day, and lechers all the night. Ben Jonfen.

* LECHEROUS. adj. [from lecher.] Lewd; luftful. The fapphire fhould grow foul, and lote its beauty, when worn by one that is lecherous. Derb.

* LECHEROUSLY. adv. [from lecherous.] Lewdnefs.

* LECHERY. n. f. [from lecher.] Lewdness; luft.-The reft welter with as little thame in open lechery, as fwine do in the common mire. Afcham's Schoolmaster.

Against fuch lewdfters, and their lechery,
Those that betray them do no treachery.

Shak. LECHES, a town of France, in the department of Dordogne, 3 miles S. of Mucidan.

LECHLADE. See LEACHLADE. LECHNICH, a town of France, in the depart. of the Roer, and late electorate of Cologne. Lon. 6. 35. E. Lat. 50. 40. N.

(1.) LECK. See LECH, N° 2.

(2.) LECK, a town of Denmark, in Slefwiek.

LECROPT, a parish of Scotland, in the coun. ties of Perth and Stirling, bounded on the Sw. by the Teath, and on the E. by the Forth and Allan; about 3 miles long, and nearly as broad; containing about 2000 acres, and affording a grand profpect of the romantic fcenery on the banks of the above rivers, the caftle and bridge of Stirling, the abbey of Cambufkenneth, the rock of Craigforth, the hills of Dundaff, the Ochils, &c, The foil is one half rich clay, the other dry-field. All the ufual crops are produced. The populaton, in 1794, was 470; the decrease, fince 1755, 158. There is a large natural wood, ten orchards, and a great number of planted trees in this parish; besides part of a chain of ancient forts, called kiers, erected by Galgacus, to watch the motions

of

of the Romans under Agricola, about A. D. 79. Dr J. Robertfon places this part in Lon. 47. o. W. of Edinburgh. Lat. 56. 11. N.

LECTI, beds or couches, were of two kinds amongst the Romans, being destined to two different uses, to lie upon at entertainments, and to repose on for sleep. The former were called leЯi triclinares, the latter lecti cubicularii. See BED, § 2, and 6.

LECTICA was a litter or vehicle, in which the Romans were carried. It was of two kinds, covered and uncovered. The covered lectica is called by Pliny cubiculum viatorum, a traveller's bed-chamber. Auguftus frequently ordered his fervants to stop his litter, that he might fleep upon the road. This vehicle was carried by 6 or 8 LECTICARII. The lectica differed from the SELLA, for in the first the traveller could recline himself for fleep, in the latter he was obliged to fit. The lectica was invented in Bithynia; the fella was a Roman machine, and efteemed the more honourable of the two. Lectica was alfo the name of the funeral bed, or bier for carrying out the dead. LECTICARII, among the Romans, fervants who carried the LECTICA.

LECTICARIUS was alfo an officer in the Greek church, whose business it was to bear off the bodies of those who died, and to bury them. These were otherwise denominated decani and copiata. LECTIO, READING, in a medical view, is faid by Celfus (lib. i. cap. 4.) to be bad, especially after fupper, for thofe whofe heads are weak; and (in lib. 1. cap. 8.) he recommends reading with an audible voice for fuch as have weak ftomachs. It is alfo directed by Paulus Æginetus as an exercise, lib. 1. cap. 19.

*LECTION. 2. f. lectio, Lat.] A reading; a variety in copies. If the common text be not favourable to his opinion, a various lection shall be made authentick. Watts.

LECTISTERNIUM, a folemn ceremony obferved by the Romans in times of public danger, wherein an entertainment was prepared with great magnificence, and ferved up in the temples. The gods were invited to partake of the good cheer, and their ftatues placed upon couches round the table, in the fame manner as men ufed to fit at meat. The firft lectifternium held at Rome was in honour of Apollo, Latona, Diana, Hercules, Mercury, and Neptune, to put a stop to a contagious diftemper which raged amongft the cattle, A. U. C. 354. At thefe feafts the Epulones prefided, and the facred banquet was called epulum. See EPU LO, EPULUM, &c. Something like the lectifter nium was occafionally observed among the Greeks, according to Cafaubon.

LECTIUS, James, fyndic of Geneva, a refpectable poet and critic of the 16th century. His chief work is his Collection, entitled Poeta Græci Veteres, in 2 vols folio. He died in 1612.

LECTORES, among the ancient Romans, ferwants in great men's houses, who read while their mafters were at fupper. They were called by the Greeks ANAGNOSTA.

LECTOURE, an ancient and ftrong town of France, in the dep. of Gers, and ci-devant prov. of Galcony, with a caftle; feated on a mountain,

at the foot of which runs the Gers. Lon. o. 42. E. Lat. 43. 56. N.

* LECTURE. n. f. [lecture, French.] 1. A difcourse pronounced upon any subject.-Mark him, while Dametas reads his ruftick lecture unto him, how to feed his beafts before noon. Sidney.

When in music we have spent an hour, Your lecture thall have leisure for as much. Shak. -When letters from Cæfar were given to Rufticus, he refused to open them till the philofopher had done his lectures. Taylor.-Virtue is the folid good, which tutors should not only read lectures and talk of, but education fhould furnish the mind with, and fasten there. Locke. 2. The act or practice of reading; perufal. In the lecture of holy fcripture, their apprehenfions are commonly confined unto the literal sense of the text. Brown. 3. A magifterial reprimand; a pedantick discourse.

Numidia will be bleft by Cato's lectures. Addif. (1.) To LECTURE. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To inftruct formally. 2. To inftruct infolently and dogmatically.

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(2.) To LECTURE. v. n. To read in public; to inftruct an audience by a formal explanation or discourse; as Wallis lectured on geometry:

(1.) * LECTURER. n. f. [from lecture.] 1. An inftructor; a teacher by way of lecture. 2. A preacher in a church hired by the parish to affift the rector or vicar.-If any minifter refused to admit into his church a lecturer recommended by them, and there was not one orthodox or learned man recommended, he was presently required to attend upon the committee. Clarendon.

(2.) LECTURERS, (§ 1, def. 2.) in the church of England, are an order of preachers, distinct from the rector, vicar, and curate. They are chofen by the veftry or chief inhabitants, fupported by voluntary fubfcriptions and legacies, and uiually preach on the Sunday afternoon. But the term is moft generally applied to those who preach on any stated day. By 13 and 14 Car. II. cap. 4. lecturers in churches, unlicensed, and not conforming to the liturgy, fhall be difabled, and shall suffer 3 months imprisonment in the common gaol; and two juftices, or the mayor in a town corporate, fhall, upon certificate from the ordinary, commit them. Where there are lectures founded by the donations of pious perfons (fuch as that of Lady Mayer's at St Paul's), the lecturers are appointed by the founders, without any interpofition of rectors, &c. only with the leave of the bishop. But the lecturer is not entitled to the pulpit, without the confent of the rector or vicar, who is poffeffed of the freehold of the church.

* LECTURESHIP. n. f. [from lecture.] The office of a lecturer. He got a lectureship in town of 6ol. a year, where he preached conftantly in person. Swift.

LECYTHIS, in botany, a genus of the monogynia order, in the polyandria clafs of plants.

*LED. part. pret. of lead.-Then fhall they know that I am the Lord your God, which caufed them to be led into captivity among the heathen. Ezek. xxxix. 28.-The leaders of the people caufed them to err, and they that are led of them are deftroyed. Ifa. ix. 16.-As in vege

tables

LEDNAIG, a river of Perthshire, in the paris of Comrie, abounding with trouts.

tables and animals, fo in most other bodies, not propagated by feed, it is the colour we moft fix on, and are most led by. Locke.

LEDA, in fabulous hiftory, a daughter of king Thefpius and Eurythemis, who married Tyndarus king of Sparta. Jupiter faw her bathing in the Eurotas, when fhe was fome few days advanced in pregnancy, and ftruck with her beatity, refolved to deceive her. He perfuaded Venus to change herself into an eagle, while he affumed the form of a swan, and after this metamorphofis Jupiter, as if fearful of the bird of prey, fed through the air into the arms of Leda, who willingly fhel tered the trembling fwan from the affaults of his fuperior enemy. Nine months after this adventure, Leda brought forth two eggs, from one of which sprung POLLUX and Helena, and from the other CASTOR and Clytemneftra. The two for mer were deemed the offspring of Jupiter, and the others claimed Tyndarus for their father. Some mythologifts attribute this amour to Neme fis, and not to Leda; and say that Leda was entrusted with the education of the children, which fprung from the eggs brought forth by Nemefis; others maintain that Leda received the name of NEMESIS after death. Homer and Hefiod make no mention of the metamorphofis of Jupiter into a fwan, whence fome think, that the fable was unknown to these two ancient poets, and invented after their time.

LEDA-NEGUS, a town of Abyssinia. LEDAT, a town of France, in the dep. of Lot and Garonne ; 3 miles NNW. of Villeneuve.

LEDBURY, a well built town of Herefordfhire, inhabited moftly by clothiers, who carry on a pretty large trade. Lon. 2. 27. W. Lat. 52. 6. N.

LEDDER, a river of Wales, in Carnarvon. LEDENIZZE, a populous village of Maritime Auftria, in the prov. of Albania, and diftrict of Rifano.

LEDER, a lake of Germany, in the Tirolefe. LEDERSEE, a river of Italy, in the dep. of the Mincio, and late prov. of the Veronefe, which runs into the lake Garda.

LEDESMA, an ancient and ftrong town of Spain, in Leon, feated on the Tome. Lon. 5. 25. W. Lat. 47. 2. N.

* LEDGE. n. f. [leggen, Dutch, to lie.] 1. A row; layer; ftratum.-The loweft ledge or row fhould be merely of ftone, closely laid, without mortar: a general caution for all parts in build ing contiguous to board. Wotton. 2. A ridge rifing above the reft, or projecting beyond the reft. The four parallel fticks, above five inches higher than the handkerchief, ferved as ledges on each fide. Gulliver. 3. Any prominence, or rifing part.-

Beneath a ledge of rocks his fleet he hides. Dryd. LEDGER, n. f. an improper fpelling of LECER. See BOOK-KEEPING, and LEGER.

* LEDHORSE. n. f. [lead and horfe.] † A fumpter horse.

LEDIGNAN, a town of France, in the dep. of Gard, 15 miles W. of Nifmes.

LEDOYRA, a town of Spain, in Galicia. LEDUM, MARSH CISTUS, or WILD ROSEMARY; a genus of the monogynia order, be longing to the decandria clafs of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 18th order, Bicornes. The calyx is quinquefid; the corolla plain and quinquepartite; the capfule quinquelocular, and opening at the bafe. There is but 1 fpecies, viz. LEDUM PALUSTRE, with very narrow leaves. It grows naturally upon bogs and moffes in Yorkfhire, Chefhire, and Lancashire; rifing with a flender shrubby stalk about two feet high, dividing into many flender branches, garnished with narrow leaves, like thofe of heath. The flowers are produced in small clusters at the end of the branches, and are shaped like those of the strawberry tree, but spread wider at top. They are of a reddish colour, and are fucceeded by feed. veffels filled with small feeds which ripen in autumn. This plant is with difficulty raised in a garden; for as it naturally grows upon bogs, unlefs it has a fimilar foil it will not thrive. It muft be procured from the place of its growth, and taken up with good roots, otherwise it will not live. LEDWICH, a river of England, in Salop. LEDYARD, John, a native of North America, famed for travelling through diftant and little known regions, chiefly on foot. After living feveral years with different tribes of the American Indians, he made a voyage to the S. Sea, in the humble station of a corporal of marines, along with the celebrated captain Cook. On his return he became anxious to traverfe the vaft continent between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. With only 10 guineas, he croffed the British channel to Oftend, and proceeded by Denmark and the Sound to Stockholm and Petersburgh. On his ar rival at this laft metropolis, he was obferved as an extraordinary perfon; and though without ftockings and fhoes, was invited to dine with the Portuguese ambaffador. Being now supplied with neceffaries, he travelled eastward 6000 miles through Siberia to Yakutzk, thence to Oczakow, and back again to Yakutzk, where he was seized in the emprefs's name by two Ruffians, who conveyed him on a fledge through the deferts of N. Tartary, and left him on the borders of Poland, telling him, that if he returned to Ruffia, he would be hanged. In fpite of poverty, he made his way to Koningsberg, where he obtained pe cuniary affittance, which enabled him to reach London. Being introduced to the Society for promoting the difcovery of the interior parts of Africa, they employed him; and he proceeded to Grand Cairo in Egypt, where he engaged with the conductor of a caravan, and was on the point of fetting out for Sennaar, when he was seized with an indifpofition, on the 17th Jan. 1789, which terminated in his death. He was a man of an amiable and philantrophie difpofition; and, in his various peregrinations, fuffered many hardships among the barbarous nations whom he vifited; but, in the account he publifhed of his Travels,

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