See, on the fhore inhabits purple spring, Where nightingales their lovefick ditty fing. Dryd. To the dear miftrefs of my lovefick mind, Her fwain a pretty prefent has defign'd. Dryd. Of the reliefs to ease a lovefick mind, Flavia prescribes despair. Granville. LOVESOME. adj. [from love.] Lovely. A word not used.

Nothing new can spring Without thy warmth, without thy influence bear,

Or beautiful or lovefome can appear. Dryden. * LOVESONG. n. f. [love and fong.] Song exprefsing love.-Poor Romeo is already dead! Stabb'd with a white wench's black eye, run through the ear with a lovefong. Shak.

Lovefong weeds and fatyrick thorns are grown, Where feeds of better arts were early sown. Donne. * LOVESUIT. n. f. [love and fuit.] Courtship.His lovefuit hath been to me

As fearful as a fiege.

Shak.

A people near the northern pole that won, Whom Ireland fent from loughs and forefts 'hore,

Divided far by fea from Europe's fhore. Fairf -Lough Ness never freezes. Philof. Tranfa&. LOUGH-AGHREE, a lake of Ireland, in Down county, 4 miles ESE. of Dromore.

LOUGH-ALLEN, a lake of Ireland, in the county of Leitrim, above 30 miles in circumference, and furrounded by high mountains.

LOUGH-ALLUA, a lake in Cork, Munfter. LOUGH-ARROW, a lake in Sligo, Connaught. LOUGHBOROUGH, a town of England, in Leicefterfhire, the 2d in the county. In the time of the Saxons it was a royal village. Its market is on Thursday, and its fairs are on Apr. 25th, May 28th, Aug. Ift, and Nov. 2d. It has a large church, a free school, and 2 charity schools for 80 boys, and 20 girls. It has been much reduced by fires, but is ftill a very agreeable town, and is feated on the Foffe, which runs almost parallel with the Soar. The new canal has made its coal trade very extenfive. It is 18 miles N. of Leicester, and rog NW. by W. of London. Lon. 1. 10. W. Lat. 52. 48. N.

(1.) LOUGH-BRICKLAND, a lake of Ireland, in the county of Down, abounding with speckled trouts, which the name implies in the Irish.

(2.) LOUGH-BRICKLAND, a poft town of Ire land, near the lake (N° 1.), 58 miles from Dublin. It confifts of one broad ftreet, at the end of which is the parish church, built by Bp. Taylor, foon after the Restoration. The linen manufacture is carried on very extenfively; and the town is a great thoroughfare, the turnpike road from Dublin to Belfaft paffing near it. It has 5 fairs. LOUGH-COIN. See LOUGH-STRANGFORD. LOUGH-CONN, a lake of Ireland, in Mayo. LOUGH-CORRIB. See Corrib.

LOUGH-CURRAN. See CURRAN, No 3. (1.) LOUGH-DERG, a lake of Ireland, in Donegal, anciently called Derg-abhan, i. e. the river of the woody morafs, from a river which iffues out of this lake. It is famous for an ifland that contains St Patrick's purgatory, which is a narrow little cell, hewn out of the folid rock, in which a man could scarce ftand upright.

(2.) LOUGH-DERG, a lake of Ireland, between the counties of Galway and Tipperary.

LOUGH-DIAN, a lake in Down county, Ulfter. LOUGH-DRINE, a lake in Cork, Munster. LOUGH-EARNE, a great lake of Ireland, in the county of Fermanagh, near 20 miles in length, and in fome places 14 in breadth, diverfified with upwards of 300 islands, most of them well wooded, inhabited, and covered with cattle. It abounds with great variety of fish, such as huge pikes, large breams, roaches, eels, trouts, and falmon. The water of the lake in fome places is faid to have a particular foftnefs and fliminefs, that bleaches linen much fooner than could be done by other water. The lake is divided into the Upper and Lower, between which it contracts itself for 5 or 6 miles to the breadth of an ordinary river.

LOUGH-ERIN, a lake in Down county, in some places above 16 fathoms deep, producing very large pikes, trouts, ecls, &c.

(1.)

(1.) LOUGH-ESK, a lake in Down, Ulfter. (2.) LOUGH-ESK. See Esk, N° 4. LOUGH-FALCON, a lake of Ireland, in Down. LOUGH-FOYLE, a large lake or gulf of Londonderry, before the mouth of which is a great fand bank called the Towns, which, however, does not obftruct the navigation, as there are 15 fathoms of water in the channel. See LONDONDERRY, N° 2.

LOUGH-GARA. See GARA.

derivation of the name Lochneach, which (he fays) feems to hint at this quality; Neafg or Neas, in Irish, fignifying a fore or ulcer, which might be corrupted into Neagh; hence he apprehends, that this lake was remarked at a much earlier period for its healing property. As to its petrifying power, it is mentioned by Nennius, a writer of the 9th century, who fays, Eft aliud flagnum quod facit ligna durafcere in lapides. Homines autem fiadunt ligna, et poftquam formaverunt, projiciunt in sagnum, et manent in eo ufque ad caput anni, et in capite anni lapis invenitur, et vocatur ftagnum LuchEchach.

LOUGH-GILL, two lakes in Sligo and Antrim. LOUGH-GUIR, a lake of Limerick, Munfter. LOUGH-HINE, a lake in Cork, 2 miles in circumference; abounding with falmon, white trouts, crabs, lobsters, efcalops, oyfters, &c.

LOUGH-INCHIQUIN, a lake in Clare county, Munfter; affording delicious fish and fine profpects.

LOUGH-INNY, a lake in W. Meath, Leinster. LOUGH-KAY, a beautiful lake of Ireland, in Leitrim, Connaught, interspersed with islands, fome containing old caftles and ruins, and fome of them highly cultivated.

LOUGH-KERNAN, a lake in Down, Ulfter. LOUGH-LANE, a lake in W. Meath, Leinster. LOUGH-LEAN. See KILLARNEY, N° 1. LOUGH-LEE, or Lough-Curran, an oval lake in Cork, 3 miles long and 1 broad, containing 3 islands, and abounding with falmon and trouts, LOUGH-LINN, a town in Roscommon. LOUGH-LOUGHAIL, a lake of W. Meath, 3 m. long, one broad, and containing 5 islands, planted with trees, and cultivated.

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LOUGH-MACNEAN, a lake in Cavan, Ulfter, containing 3 well cultivated islands.

LOUGH-MAGHAN, a lake in Down, Ulfter, covering 23 acres, and ftored with fish.

LOUGH-MORE, a large lake in Limerick. LOUGH-NEAGH, an extenfive lake of Ireland, in the counties of Armagh, Down, Derry, and Antrim. It is the largest in Europe, thofe of Ladoga and Onega in Ruffia, and that of Geneva in Switzerland, excepted; being 20 miles long and 16 broad. The area is computed to be 100,000 acres. It is remarkable for a healing virtue; and for petrifying wood, which is not only found in the water but in the adjacent foil at a confider able depth. On its fhores feveral beautiful gems have been discovered. Its ancient name was Loch eacha or Loch-Neach, from loch and Neach, won derful, divine, or eminent. Its petrifying powers are not inftantaneous, as feveral of the ancients have fuppofed, but require a long series of ages to bring them to perfection, and appear to be occafioned by a fine mud or fand, which infinuates itfelf into the pores of the wood, and which in procefs of time becomes hard like ftone. On the borders of this lake is Shane's caftle, the elegant feat of the Rt. Hon. John O'Neil. Dr Smyth feems to doubt whether the healing quality in this lake is not to be confined to one fide of it, called the fishing-bank; and he informs us, that this virtue was discovered in the reign of Charles II. in the inftance of the son of one Mr Cunningham, who had an evil which run on him in 8 or 10 places; and after all application feemed in vain, was perfectly healed, by bathing in this lake about 8 days. Hence that writer gives another

LOUGH-RAMOR, a lake of Ireland, in Cavan, near Virginia, about 40 miles from Dublin. It has several islands, with ruinous forts on them. LOUGH-REA, a town and lake in Galway, 15 miles SW. of Galway, and 86 from Dublin.

LOUGH-REE, a fpacious lake between the counties of Langford and Rofcommon, formed by the Shannon, and containing several islands.

LOUGH-RIG, a town of England, in Weft. moreland, near Rydal, with which it communicates by a bridge.

LOUGH-SALT, a lake of Ireland, in Donegal, on a mountain, between Kilmacrenan and Glenn Inn.

LOUGH-SCUDY, a lake of W. Meath, Leinster. LOUGH-SHARK, a lake in Down, 80 acres wide. LOUGH-SHELLIN, a large lake in West Meath, one mile from Daly's Bridge, connected with Lough-Inny at Finae.

LOUGH-SKY, a lake of Mayo, Connaught.

LOUGH STRANGFORD, a lake of Ireland, in the county of Down, fo named from the fmall port of STRANGFORD, on the W. fide of its entrance into the fea. It was formerly named LOUGHCOIN, or LOUGH-COYNE. (See Down, N° ii.) It is a deep bay, about 17 miles long, and from 4 to 5 broad; stretching W. to Downpatrick, N. to Comber and Newton, and covering 25,775 acres Irish. It abounds with excellent fish; and off the bar there is a herring fishery about Auguft. The bar or entrance is about 3 miles below Strangford; and has a long rock in the middle of the paffage, dangerous on account of the current; though there is a broad paffage on either fide, and deep water. The current is very strong and rapid, running at the rate of 6 or 7 miles an hour. Few veffels go higher up than Strangford. The iflands in this lake are numerous; Dr Boat enumerated 260. From an actual furvey, made when Dr Smyth wrote his hiftory, it appears, there are 54 islands known by particular names, and many more nameless; thefe 54 iflands contain 954 acres. The great manufacture carried on in these islands, and on the coafts of the lake, is kelp; which employs a number of hands, and has been computed to produce to the proprietors above 1000l. a-year clear profit. Four of the islands are called SWAN ISLANDS, from the number of swans that frequent them.

LOUGH-SWILLY, a lake in Louth, Leinster. LOUGHTON, the name of s English villages, in Bucks, Devonshire, Effex, and 2 in Lincolnfh. LOUGNON, a river of France, which runs into the Saone, at Pentarlier.

LOUHANS. See LOUANS.

LOVIBOND,

LOVIBOND, Edward, Efq. an English poet, born in Middlesex, and educated at Kingston upon Thames. He wrote feveral efteemed Poems, which were collected and published in one volume, in 1785; and feveral Effays in the Periodical Paper called The World. He died at his feat near Hampton in 1775.

LOVIGNANO, a town of Naples, in the province of Otranto; 12 miles SSW. of Brindifi. *LOVING. papticip. adj. [from love.] 1. Kind; affectionate.

So loving to my mother, That he would not let ev'n the winds of heav'n Vifit her face too roughly. Shak. Hamlet. -This earl was of great courage, and much loved of his foldiers, to whom he was no lefs loving again. Hay. 2. Expreffing kindness,-The king took her in his arms till fhe came to herself, and comforted her with loving words. Efth. xv. 8.

* LOVINGKINDNESS. n. J. Tenderness; favour; mercy. A fcriptural word.-Remember, O Lord, thy lovingkindnesses. Pfalm xxv. 6.-He has adapted the arguments of obedience to the imperfection of our understanding, requiring us to confider him only under the amiable attributes of goodness and lovingkindness, and to adore him as our friend and patron. Rogers.

* LOVINGLY. adv. [from loving.] Affectionately; with kindness.-The new king, having no lefs lovingly performed all duties to him dead than alive, pursued on the fiege of his unnatural brother, as much for the revenge of his father, as for the establishing of his own quiet. Sidney.-It is no great matter to live lovingly with good-natured and meek perfons; but he that can do fo with the froward and perverfe, he only hath true charity. Taylor.

* LOVINGNESS. n. f. [from loving.] Kindnefs; affection.-Carrying thus in one perfon the only two bands of goodwill, lovelinefs and lovingnefs. Sidney.

LOVINGTON, a town of Hampshire.

(1.) LOUIS, the French name for Lewis. See LEWIS, N° 1-27. It is astonishing how general the practice has of late become, among modern English authors, of writing Louis inftead of Lervis, as if the English name was obfolete. This and many fimilar pieces of affectation are the more ridiculous, that at leaft 99 out of every 100 English readers can neither read nor pronounce properly fuch words as Louis, Jean, &c. (See CI-DEVANT.) Such pedantry might be pardonable in the compiler of a Newspaper, who, in the hurry of tranflation for the prefs and the poft, might copy the Franch names by miftake, inftead of tranflating them; but when we find fuch refpectable writers as Dr Watkins following the example of the Newscompilers, and inferting in his Biographical Di&. memoirs of the whole 16 Lewifes of France, and 9 of Germany, Hungary, Poland, &c. under Louis, without so much as a fingle reference from the old English name LEWIS, it looks as if our literati were combined in a confpiracy with thofe of France to explode the English language. What would be thought of a French author, who fhould compile, at Paris, a History of France, or a Biographical Dictionary, in the French Language, and inftead of Louis infert the Englith name Lewis VOL. XIII. PART II.

throughout his work?-If the celebrated but un fortunate Briffot was accused of a degree of An glo-mania, for only inferting the English letter W inftead of Ou in his French title of Ouarville (which it is faid he did, from his fondness for English liberty), what degree of GALLOMANIA may not thofe English authors be accused of, who daily pefter us with French words, names, and phrafes, while our own language is abundantly copious, and almost as much preferable to the French, as our laws, liberties, religion, and conftitution, are to those of that nation? See LANGUAGE, Sec. V. and VI.

(2.) Lovis, John. See Louys.

(3.)* LOUIS D'OR. n. f. [Fr.] A golden coin of France, valued at about twenty fhillings.-If he is defired to change a louis d'or, he must confider of it. Spectator.

(4.) The Louis D'OR, or Lewidore, was firfe ftruck in 1640, under Lewis XIII. and had long a confiderable currency before the revolution. See MONEY.

(5.) LOUIS, FORT, a French fettlement near the mouth of the Coza in Florida, 60 miles NE. of the month of the Miffifippi. It was the refidence of the governor of Louisiana, till the peace in 1763.

(6.) LOUIS, KNIGHTS OF ST, a ci-devant military order in France, inftituted by Lewis XIV. in 1693. Their colours were of a flame colour, and paffed from left to right; the king was their grand mafter. There were in it 8 great croffes, and 24 commanders; the number of knights was not limited. At their inftitution, the king charged his revenue with a fund of 300,000 livres for the penfions of the commanders and knights.

(7.) LOUIS, ST, an ifland on the W. coaft of Africa, at the mouth of the Senegal, with a fort. It was ceded to the British at the peace in 1763; but retaken by the French during the American war, and ceded to them by the peace of 1783Lon. 15. 35. W. Lat. 16. o. N.

(8.) LOUIS, ST, a lake of Canada. Lon. 13. 20. W. Lat. 45. 25. N.

(9.) Louis, ST, a fea port town of Hifpaniola, on the S. coaft; 220 miles W. of St Domingo. (10.) LOUIS, ST, a town of Louifiana, on the W. coaft of the Miffifippi. Lon. 90. 50. W.

(11.) LOUIS, ST, the capital of Grande Terre, in Guadaloupe; with a fort; 9 miles SE. of Salt River.

(12.) LOUIS, ST, a Spanish town on the W. fide of the Miffifippi, 13 miles below the mouth of the Missouri. It is under a Spanish commandant, but the inhabitants are chiefly French, who have had a liberal education, and, by conciliating the affections of the natives, have drawn all the Indian trade of the Missouri to the town. It confifts of above 220 large ftone houfes, and above 800 inhabitants, who have large flocks of cattle, &c. It is 5 miles N. by W. of Cahokia, and 150 W. by S. of St Vincent's on the Wabash.

(13.) LOUIS, ST, DE MARANHAM, a town on the N. coast of Brazil.

(1.) LOUISA, a fea port of Sweden, on the N. coaft of the Gulf of Finland, built in 1745.

(2.) LOUISA, a county of Virginia, 35 miles long, and 20 broad; bounded on the N. by Orange, NE. by Spottfylvania, SE. by Goochland, Iii

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SW. by Fluvanna, and W. by Albemarle counties. It contained 3894 citizens, and 4573 flaves, in 1795.

(3.) LOUISA, a river of Virginia, which runs into the Cole, a SW. branch of the Great Kanhaway.

LOUISBOURG, the capital of Cape Breton. LOUISBURG, or It has an excellent harbour, LOUISBURGH, near 12 miles in circumference. It was taken by the British in 1745; reftored by the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748; retaken by the British in 1758; and ceded to them in 1763, when the fortifications were rafed. (See BRETON, CAPE, $2, 3.) Lon. 59. 48. W. - Lat. 45.54. N.

LOUISIANA, a country of North America, bounded on the S. by the gulph of Mexico, on the E. by the Miffifippi, on the W. by New Mexico, and on the N. by an unknown country. It extends from 29° to 40° Lat. N. and from about the 80° to 96° or 97° Lon. W. of London. The climate varies according to the latitudes. The fouthern parts are not so hot as thofe parts of Africa which lie under the fame parallel, and the northern parts are colder than the countries of Europe at the fame diftance from the pole: the caufes of which are fuppofed to be the thick forefts which over-run the country, and the great number of rivers; the former preventing the fun from heating the earth, and the latter supplying it with moist vapours; befides the cold winds which come from the north over vaft tracts of land. They have bad weather, but it never lafts long, for the rain generally falls in ftorms and fudden showers; the air is wholefome, the inhabitants healthy, and they who are temperate live to a great old age. The country is extremely well watered; and almoft all the rivers that run through it fall into the Miffilippi.

(1.) LOUISVILLE, a town of Georgia, on the NE. bank of the Great Ogeechee, 45 miles SW. of Augufta. Lon. 82. 42. W. Lat. 32. 55. N.

(2.) LOUISVILLE, a town of Kentucky, capital of Jefferson county, on the S. bank of the Ohio, at the rapids; 70 miles W. of Lexington. Lon. 86. 6. W. Lat. 38. 4. N.

LOUITZ, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Rava, 54 miles E. of Gnefna. Lon. 19. o. E. Lat. 52. 26. N.

LOU-KIEN, a river of China, in Chen-fi. LOULAY, a town of France, in the dep. of Lower Charente, 6 miles N. of St Jean d'Angely. LOUDE, a town and river of Portugal, in Algarve; with a castle, an hofpital, and about 4400 inhabitants, 9 miles N. of Faro.

I.OUNG, LOCH. See LoCH-LONG. LOU-NGAN, a city of China, of the first rank, in the prov. of Chan-fi, 267 miles SSW. of Pekin. Lon. 130. 20. E. of Ferro. Lat. 36. 42. N.

* Të LOUNGE. v. n. [lunderen, Dutch.] idle; to live lazily..

To

* LOUNGER. n. f. [from lounge.] An idler. (1.) LOUP, a river of Canada, which runs into the St Lawrence, go miles below Quebec.

(2.) LOUP, ST, a town of France, in the dep. of the Two Sevres; 9 miles NNE. of Partenay.

(3.) LOUP, ST, a town of France, in the dep. of the Upper Saone; 6 miles NW. of Luxeuil.

(4.) LOUP, ST DE SALLE, a town of France in the dep. of Saone and Loire; 11 m. N. of Chalons. LOUPPE, a town of France, in the dep. of Eure and Loire; 18 miles W. of Chartres.

LOURDE, a town of France, in the dep. of the Upper Pyrenees, and late prov. of Bigorre; with an ancient caftle on a rock, 6 miles N. of Argellez, and 10 S. of Tarbe. Lon. o. 5. W. Lit. 43. 8. N.

LOUREZA, a town of Spain, in Galicia. LOUROUX, a town of France, in the dep. of Indre and Loire, 9 miles NW. of Loches, and 15 S. of Tours.

LOUROZA, a town of Portugal, in Beira. LOURY, a town of France, in the dep. of the Loiret; 9 miles NE. of Orleans.

(1.)* LOUSE. n. f. plural lice. [lus, Saxon; luys, Dutch.] A fmall animal, of which different species live on the bodies of men, beafts, and perhaps of all living creatures.-There were lice upon man and beaft. Exod. viii. 18.

Frogs, lice, and flies, muft all his palace fill With loath'd intrufion. Milton. It is beyond even an atheist's credulity and impudence to affirm, that the firft men might proceed out of the tumours of trees, as maggots and flies are fuppofed to do now, or might grow upon trees; or perhaps might be the lite of some prodigious animals, whofe fpecies is now extinct. Bentl. Not that I value the money the fourth part of the fkip of a loufe. Swift.

(2.) LOUSE, in zoology. See PEDICULUS. *To LOUSE. v. a. [from the noun.] To clean from lice.-As for all other good women, that love to do but little work, how handsome it is to loufe themfelves in the funshine, they that have been but a while in Ireland can well witness. Spenfer.

You fat and lous'd him all the sunshine day.

Swift. (1.) LOUSEWORT. n. f. The name of a plant; called alfo rattle and cock's comb.

(2.) LOUSEWORT. See PEDICULARIS. LOUSILY. adv. [from louse.] In a paltry, mean, and scurvy way.

The state of

*LOUSINESS. n. f. [from loufy.] abounding with lice. (1.)* LOUSY. adv. [from loufe.] 1. Swarming with lice; over-run with lice.

Let him be daub'd with lace, live high and whore,

Sometimes be lousy, but be never poor. Dryden. -Sweetbriar and goofeberry are only loufy in dry times, or very hot places. Mortimer. 2. Mean; low born; bred on the dunghil.-I pray you now remembrance on the lousy knave mine hoft.-A louly knave, to have his gibes and his mockeries. Shakespeare.

(2.) LOUSY DISEASE. See MEDICINE, Index. *LOUT. n. f. [loete, old Dutch. Mr Lye.] A mean awkward fellow; a clown.-Pamela, whofe noble heart doth disdain, that the truft of her virtue is repofed in fuch a loat's hands, had yet, to show an obedience, taken on thepherdish apparel. Sidney.

This lowt, as he exceeds our lords, the odds Is, that we fcarce are men, and you are gods. Shakespeare.

'Tis no trusting to yon foolish lout.

Shak

Thus