Lachifh, 7 miles S. of Eleutheropolis, Sennacherib befieged Lachifh, but did not take it. From thence he sent Rabshakeh against Jerufalem. Here king Amaziah was flain by his rebel subjects. LACHNEA, in botany, a genus of the monogynia order, belonging to the octandria clafs of plants; and in the natural method, to the 31st order, Veprecule. There is no calyx; the corolla is quadrifid, with the limb unequal; there is one feed, a little resembling a berry. LACHOW, a town of Poland, in Volhynia. (1.) LACHRYMAL. adj. [lachrymal, French.] Generating tears. It is of an exquifite fenfe, that, upon any touch, the tears might be squeezed from the lachrymal glands, to wash and clean it. Cheyne. in anatomy, is an appella LACHRYMALIS, (2.) LACHRYMAL,tion given to feveral parts of the eye. See ANATOMY, 568. LACHRYMARY. adj. [lachryma, Latin.] Containing tears.-How many dreffes are there for each particular deity? what a variety of shapes in the ancient urns, lamps, and lachrymary vef, fels! Addifon. * LACHRYMATION. n. f. [from lachryma, Lat.] The act of weeping, or shedding tears. (1.) LACHRYMATORY.n.f. [lachrimatoire, Fr.) A veffel in which tears are gathered to the honour of the dead. (2.) The LACHRYMATORY, in antiquity, was a veffel wherein the tears of a deceafed perfon's friends were preserved along with the afhes and urn. They were small glafs or earthen bottles, chiefly in the form of phials. At the Roman funerals, the friends of the deceafed, or the PRÆFI CA, women hired for that purpose, used to fill them with their tears, and depofit them very carefully with the afhes, in teftimony of their forrow, imagining the manes of the deceased were thereby greatly comforted. Many fpecimens of them are preferved in the cabinets of the curious, particularly in the British Museum. LACHSA, or HADSJAR, a prov. of Arabia Felix, bounded on the N. by Arabia Deserta, E. by the Perfian Gulf, S. by Oman, and W. by Nedsjed. Its camels and affes are much valued, and fome thoufands annually fold into Syria. It has alfo a pearl fishery and fome foreign trade. It is chiefly in habited by the Bedouins. See BEDOUINS. LACATE, a river of Saxony, which runs into the Allier, 4 miles E. of Zell. LACHWA, a town of Lithuania, in Brzesk. LACINIATED. adj. [from lacinia, Latin.] LACINIUM, in ancient geography, a noble promontory of the Bruttii, in Italy, the S. boundary of the Sinus Tarentinus and the Adriatic; all to the S. of it being deemed the Ionian Sea. It was famous for a rich temple of JUNO LACINIA, with a pillar of folid gold standing in it; which Han mbal intending to carry off, was, according to Cicero, diffuaded by a dream. It is now called Capo delle Colonne, from the columns of Juno's temple still standing on the NE, coast of Calabria Vitra. (1.) LACISA, or LAZISE, a strong, rich, and (1.) LACIZE, populous town and fort of Maritime Auftria, on the E. fide of Lake Gar Vol. XII. PART II. He was not able to keep that place three days, for lack of victuals. Knolles,— The trenchant blade, Toledo trufty, For want of fighting was grown rufty, And eat into itself, for lack Of fomebody to hew and hack. 2. Lack, whether noun or verb, is now almost obfolete. Hudibras. (2.) LACK, in geography, a town of Auftria, capital of Carniola, called alfo Bifchoff's Lack. It has a linen manufacture, and a great trade in iron, fteel, quickfilver, and corn, (3.) LACK, a township of Pennsylvania, in Mifflin county. (4) A LACK OF RUPEES, is 100,000 rupees; which fuppofing them ficcas, or standard, at 2s. 6d. each, amount to 12,500l. Sterling. (1.) To LACK. v. a. [laecken, to leffen, Dutch.] To want; to need; to be without,-Eyery good and holy defire, though it lack the form, hath notwithstanding in itself the fubftance, and with him the force of prayer who regardeth the very moanings, groans, and fighs of the heart. Hook. A land wherein thou fhalt eat bread without fcarcencfs; thou shalt not lack any thing in it. Deut. viii. 9. One day we hope thou fhalt bring back, Dear Bolingbroke, the juftice that we lack." Daniel. * Intreat they may; authority they lack. Daniel, (2.) To LACK. v. n. 1. To be in want.-The lions do lack and fuffer hunger. Common Prayer. 2. To be wanting.-Peradventure they fhall lack five of the fifty righteous; wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? Genefis viii. 28.-There was nothing lacking to them: David recovered all, 1 Sam. xxx. 19.-That which was lacking on your part, they have fupplied. 1 Cor. xvi. 17. LACKAH, a river of Ireland, in Donegal. LACKARI, a town of Perfia, in Irak Agemi. * LACKBRAIN. n. f. [lack and brain.] One that wants wit.-What a lackbrain is this? Our plot is as good a plot as ever was laid. Shak. (1.)* LACKER.n.. A kind of varnish, which, fpread upon a white fubftance, exhibits a gold colour. (2.) LACKERS, or LACQUERS, are varnishes applied upon tin, brafs, and other metals, to preferve them from tarnishing, and to improve their colour. The baf:s of lacquers is a folution of the refinous fubftance called feed lac in spirit of wine. (See LACCA, § 1.) The spirit ought to be very much dephlegmated, to diffolve much of the lac. For this purpose, fome authors direct dry potafh to be thrown into the fpirit. This alkali attracs the water, with which it forms a liquid that subBibb b Gidea lides distinctly from the spirit at the bottom of the * LACKLUSTRE. adj. [lack and luftre.] Wantvellel, From this liquid the spirit may be fepa. ing brightness. rated by decantation. The spirit is thus greatly de- And then he drew a dial from his poke, phlegmated, but becomes impregnated with part And looking on it with lackluftre eye, of the alkali, which depraves its colour, and com- Says very wisely, It is ten o'clock. Shak. municates a property to the lacquer of imbibing LAC LEMAN See LEMAN. moisture from the air. These inconveniences may (1.) LACOMBE, James, a French historian, be prevented by difilling the spirit; or, if the born at Paris in 1924. He published several useful artist has not an opportunity of performing that abridgments of histories; but his bek work is Hif process, he may cleanse the spirit in a great mea. toire de Cbristine Reine de Suede : 12mo, 19621 sure from the alkali, by adding to it fome calcined (2.) LACOMBE De Prezet, Honorius, brother allım; the acid of which uniting with the alkali to James (N° 1.), was born at Paris in 1723. He remaining in the spirit, forms with it a vitriolated published, 1. Dictionnaire du Citoyen ; 2 vols &vo, tartar, which, not being soluble in spirit of wine, 1961: 2. Di&tionnaire de Jurisprudence; 3 vols falls to the bottom, together with the earth of the svo, 1763: 3. Les Pensées de Pope, avec la vie ; decomposed alum. To a pint of the dephleg- 12mo, 1966: 4. Didionnaire de Portraits et Anermated and purified spirit, about 3 oz. of powdered dates des Hommes Celebres ; a vole 8vo. Shell lac are to be added; and the mixture to be LACONIA, or a country in the S. of Pelodigested during fame day with a moderate heat. LACONICA, S ponnesus, having Argos and The liquor ought then to be poured off, ftrained, Arcadia on the N. Messenia on the W. the Mediand cleared by settling. This clear liquor is now terranean on the S. and the bay of Argos on the E. fit to receive the required colour from certain re- Its extent from N. to S. was about so miles. It finous colouring substances, the principal of which was watered by the Eurotas. The capital was are gamboge and annotto; the former of which called Sparta, or Lacedæmon: See LACEDÆMON, gives a yellow, and the latter an orange colour. No 2, and SPARTA. The brevity with wbich the To give a golden colou:, two parts of gamboge Laconians always expressed themselves became are added to one of annotto; but these colouring proverbial. See LACONICK. substances may be separately dissolved in the tinc- * LACONICALLY.adv. [from laconick.} Brief. ture of lac, and the colour required may be ad- ly; concisely, Alexander Nequam, a man of great justed by mixing the two folutions in different learning, and desirous to enter into religion there, proportions. When filver leaf or tin are to be writ to the abbot laconically. Camden's Remi. lacquered, a larger quantity of the colouring ma- LACONICISM. See LACONISM. Laconicism terials are requisite than when the lacquer is in- is certainly preferable, both in respect of found and tended to be laid on brass. sense, as well as regularity of derivation. * To LACKER. V. a. (from the noun.] To smear * LACONICK. adj. (laconicus, Lat. laconiques over with lacker. Fr.) Short ; brief; from Lacones, the Spartans, What shook the stage, and made the people who used few words.-I grow laconick even beftare? yond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, Cato's iong wig, flower'd gown, and lacker'd or no, to questionary or petitionary epiftles of half chair. Pope, a yard long. Pope. * LACKEY. 17. f. [lacquais, Fr.] An attending, LACONICUM, a short pithy sententious speech, servant; a foot-boy.- such as the Lacedæmonians were remarkable for, A fellow-counsellor, See LACONIA. 'Mong boys, and grooms, and lackeys! Shak. . * LACONISM, n. f. [laconisme, Fr. lacanismus, He's cautious to avoid the coach and fix, Lat.) A concise style ; called by Pope, laconicism, And on the lackey's will no quarter fix. Dryden. See LACONICK.-As the language of the face is Lacqueys were never fo faucy and pragmátical universal, so it is very comprehensive: no laconism as they are now-a-days. Addison's Speat. can reach it. It is the short-hand of the mind, (1.) * T, LACKEY. v. a. (from the noun.] To and crowds a great deal in a little room. Collier attend servilely. I know not whether Milton has of the Afpe&t. used this word very properly. LACƠVIA, a town of Jamaica, ss miles W. This common body of Kingston Shak. LACSUR, a town of Persia, in Chorasan, LACTANTIUS FIRMIANUS, Lucius Cælius, Driving far off each thing of fin and guilt. Milt. a celebrated author in the beginning of the 4tă (2.) * TO LACKEY: V. n. To act as a foot-boy; century. According to Baronius, he was an to pay servile attendance. African; but others say, he was born at Fermo Oft have I servants seen on horses ride, io Ancona, whence be was called Firmianus. He The free and noble lacquey by their side. Sandys. ftudied rhetoric under Arnobius; and was afterOur Italian translator of the Æneis is a foot wards a professor of that science in Africa and Nipoets he lackeys by the side of Virgil, but never comedia, where he was so admired, that the emmounts behind him. Dryden. peror Conftantine appointed him preceptor to his * LACKLINEN. adj: (lack and linen.) Want- fon Crispus Cæsar. Lactantius was so far from ing shirts.--You poor, base, raícally, cheating, seeking the pleasures and riches of the court, that lacklinen mate; away you mouldy rogue, away. he lived there in poverty. His works are written Shakespeare in elegant Latin. The principal are, si Deira ..divine divina. 2. De operibus Dei, in which he treats of creation and providence. 3. Divine Inftitutions, in 7 books. This is his principal work: he there proves the truth of Chriftianity, and refutes all the objections that had been raised againft it; and he folidly, and with great ftrength, attacks the illufions of paganifm. His ftyle is pure, clear, and natural, and his expreffions noble and elegant, on which account he has been called the Cicero of the Chriftians. There is alfo attributed to him a treatife De morte perfecutorum; but feveral of the learned doubt its being written by Lactantius. The moft copious edition of his works is that of Paris in 1748, 2 vols 4to. (1.) LACTARY. adj. [la&areus, Lat.] Milky; full of juice like milk. From lactary, or milky plants, which have a white and lacteous juice difperfed through every part, there arife flowers blue and yellow. Brown. (2.) LACTARY. . f. {la&arium, Lat:] A dairy house. rate ufe of venery. Among the vulgar errors, is that of red-haired women being improper for wet nurses. If the menfes do not appear during the firft months, but after 6 or 8 months fuckling, the child fhould be weaned. Wet nurses should eat at least one hearty meal of animal food every day; with this a proper quantity of vegetables fhould be mixed. Broth or milk are proper for their breakfasts and fuppers. But if the ftrength should seem to fail, a bottle of ftrong ale or porter fhould be allowed, or a moderate quantity of spiritous liquors; a quartern of rum, for inftance, may be allowed in a quart of milk and water, i. c. a pint of each. Even pure fpirits should be given the nurse immediately before the gives the child the breaft, in cafes where the infant is troubled with gripes or flatulence. * (2.) LACTATION. n. f. [lado, Lat.] The act or time of giving fuck. (1.)* LACTEAL. adj. [from lac, Lat.] Milky; conveying chyle of the colour of milk.-As the food paffes, the chyle, which is the nutrit ve part, is feparated from the excrementitious by the lacteal veins; and from thence conveyed into the blood. Locke. (3.) LACTEALS. See ANATOMY, Index. LACTEOUS. adj. [lacteus, Latin.] 1. Milky. Though we leave out the lacteous circle, yet are there more by four than Philo mentions. Brown. -2. Lacteal; conveying chyle.-The lungs are fuitable for refpiration, and the la&eous vetiels for the reception of the chyle. Bentley. LACTER, a cape of the island of Coos. * LACTESCENCE. n. f. [lu&efco, Lat.] Tendency to milk, or milky colour-This la&tefcence does commonly enfue, when wine, being impregnated with gums, or other vegetable concretions, that abound with fulphureous corpufcles, fair water is fuddenly poured upon the folution. Boyle. (1.) LACTATIO, or among medical writers, (1) LACTATION, denotes NURSING, or giving fucks The mother's breaft, if poffible, fhould be allowed the child, at least during the first month; for thus the child is more peculiarly. (2.) * LACTEAL. n.f. The veffel that conveys benefited by what it fucks, and the mother is chyle. The mouths of the lacteals may permit preferved from more real inconveniences than the aliment, acrimonious or not fufficiently attenuated, falfely delicate imagine they would fuffer by com- to enter in people of lax conftitutions, whereas pliance herewith; but if by an infirm conftitu- their sphincters will shut against them in fuch as tion, or other causes, the mother cannot fuckle have strong fibres. Arbuthnot. her child, let dry nurfing under the mother's eye be purfued. When women lofe their appetite by giving fuck, both the children and themselves are thereby injured; wet nurfes are to be prefer red, who, during the time they give the breaft, have rather an increased appetite, and digeft more quickly the former are apt to wafte away, and fometimes die confumptive. Those nurses with whom lactation may for a while agree, should wean the child as foon as their appetite leffens, their ftrength feems to fail, or a tendency to hyfteric fymptoms are manifeft. When the new-born child is to be brought up by the mother's breast, apply it thereto in 10 or 12 hours after delivery; thus the milk is fooner and more eafily supplied, and there is lefs hazard of a fever than when the child is not put to it before the milk begins to flow of itself. If the mother does not fuckle her child, her breafts should be fo kept warm with flannels, or a hare fkin, that a constant perspiration may be fupported; which will prevent much inconvenience from the milk. The child, notwithstandng all care in dry nurfing, fometimes pines if a breaft is not allowed. In this cafe a wet nurse hould be provided, if poffible one that has not been long delivered of a child. She thould be young, of a healthy habit, an active difpofition, a mild temper, and whose breasts are well filled with milk. If the milk be good, it is fweetish to the taste, and totally free from faltnefs; to the eye it appears thin, and of a bluish caft. That the woman hath ber menfes, if otherwife healthy, need not be any objection: and as to the custom of abftaining from venery while fhe continues fuckle a child, it is fo far without reafon to fupport it, that in fact, a rigorous chastity is as hurtful, and often more pernicious, than an immode. (1.) * LACTESCENT. adj. [lactefcens, Latin.] Producing milk, or a white juice.-Amongst the pot-herbs are some lacefcent plants, as lettuce and endive, which contain a wholesome juice. Arbuth. (2.) LATESCENT. See next article, $ 2. (1.) LACTIFEROUS, adj. [lac and fere.] What conveys or brings milk. He makes the breafts to be nothing but glandules, made up of an infinite number of little knots, each whereof hath its excretory vessel, or lactiferous duct. Ray. (2.) LACTIFEROUS and LACTESCENT are appellations given to plants abounding with a milky juice, as the fow-thiftle and the like. It is applied to all those plants which abound with a thickcoloured juice, without regarding whether it is white or not. Moft lactiferous plants are poifonous, except those with compound flowers, which are generally innocent. Of the poisonous lactefcent plants, the moft remarkable are fumach, agaric, maple, burning thorny plant, caffada, celandine, puccoon, prickly poppy, and the plants of the natural order contorte, as fwallow wort, apocynum, cynanchum, and cerbera. The bellBbbba shaped Thaped flowers are partly noxious, as cardinal LACTUCA VIROSA, the Atrong-scented wild letflower; partly innocent, as campanula. Among tuce, which is indigenous in Britain, and grows in the lactelcent plants with compound flowers that fome places in conliderable abundance, differs reare innocent, may be mentioned dandelion, picris, ry essentially in its qualities from the garden let. hyoferis, wild lettuce, gum-succory, hawk-weed, túce. Although it has not been introduced into baftard hawk-weed, hypochæris, goat's beard, any of the modern pharmacopeias, yet it has of and most species of lettuce: we say most species, late been highly extolled for some purposes in mebecause the prickly species of that genus are said dicine. It smells Atrongly of opium, and resem. to be of a very virulent and poisonous nature ; .bles it in some of its effects; and its narcotic po: though Mr Lightfoot denies this, and affirms that er, like that of the poppy, resides in its milky - they are a safe and gentle opiate, and that a fyrup juice. An extract from the expressed juice is remade from the leaves and talks is much prefer. .commended in small doses in droply. In dropfies able to the common diacodium. of long standing, proceeding from visceral obftrucLACTUCA, in botany, a genus of the polyga. tions, it has been given to the extent of balf an mia æqualis order, belonging to the fyngenelia :ounce a-day. It is said to agree with the ftomach, class of plants; and in the natural method ranking to quench thirst, to be gently laxative, powerfully under the 49th order, Compostæ. The receptacle diuretic, and somewhat diaphoretic. Plentiful diis naked; the calyx imbricated, cylindrical, with .lution is allowed during its operation. Dr Collia a membranaceous margin; the pappus is simple, of Vienna asserts, that out of 24 dropfical patients, ftipated, or stalked. There are several species, all but one were cured by this medicine. most of which are of no use, and never cultivated LACUNA, (Latin.) in old records, a ditch; 2 but in botanic gardens for variety. Those com- furrow for a drain ; a blank in a writing. Afk. monly cultivated in the kitchen garden for use, LACUNÆ, among anatomifts, certain excreare, 1. The common or garden lettuce. 2. Cab- tory canals in the genital parts of women. bage lettuce. 3. Silesia lettuce. 4. Dutch brown LACUNAR, n. S. in architecture, an arched lettuce. 5. Aleppo lettuce. 6. Imperiál lettuce. roof or ceiling, more especially the planking or 7. Green capuchin lettuce. 8. Versailles or up- flooring above porticos or piazzas. right white Cos lettuce. 9. Black Cos. 10. Red LACY, John, an English actor and play-writer, Cos. 11. Red capuchin lettuce. 12. Roman let- in the reign of Charles Il. with whom he was a fatuce. 13. Prince lettuce. 14. Royal lettuce. 15. -vourite. He wrote, 1. The Dumb Lady: 2. The Egyptian Cos lettuce. --The first fort is very com- Old Troop, or Monsieur Ragou : 3. Sir Hercules mon in gardens, and is fown for cutting very Buffoon. young, to mix with other falads in fpring.. The LACYDAS, or 2 a Greek philosopher, born at ad is the fame, only improved by culture. It LACYDES, may be sown in all seafons, but in the hot months of Arcesilaus, and his successor in the academy. He requires fhady borders. To have it in continua. taught in a garden given him by Attalus king of tion, the first crop should be fown in Feb. in an Pergamus; but that prince sending for him to open situation; the others at three weeks distance; court, he replied, “That the pictures of kings the later ones under covert, but not under the should be viewed at a distance." He imitated his drippings of trees. The Silesia, imperial, royal, mafter in doing good without caring to have it black, white, and upright Cos lettuces, may be known. He had a goose which followed him every first fown in the end of Feb. or beginning of March, where by night as well as by day; and when the on a warm light soil, and in an open situation; died, be made a magnificent funeral for her! He when they come up, they muft be thinned to 15 taught the same doctrine as Arcefilaus; and, like inches distance every way, they will then require some moderns, faid, that we ought to determine no farther care than to be kept clear of weeds. nothing, but always to fuspend our opinion. He The black Cos, as it grows large, should have it: died A. A. C. 212. leaves tied together to whiten the inner part. Suc- * LAD. n. f. (leade, Saxon, which commonly ceeding crops of these should be sown in April, fignifies people, but sometimes, says Mr Lye, a May, and June; and toward the end of August, boy.] 1. A boy; a ftripling, in familiar language. for a winter crop, to be preserved under glasses, We were or in a bed arched with hoops and covered with Two lads, that thought there was no more bemats. The most valuable of all the English lettu hind. Shak. "ces are the white Cos or the Versailles, the Silesia, — The poor ladwho wants knowledge, must set his and the black Cos. The brown Dutch and the invention on the rack, to say something where be green capuchin are very hards, and may be fown knows nothing. Locke.-Too far from the ancient late under walls, where they will stand the winter, forms of teaching several good grammarians have and be valuable when no others are to be had. departed, to the great detriment of such lads as The red capuchin, Roman, and prince lettuces, have been removed to other schools. Watts. are very early, and are fown for variety; as are A boy; a young man, in paftoral language.-also the Aleppo ones for their beauty. The leve- For grief whereof the lad would after joy, ral forts of garden lettuces are very wholesome, But pin'd away in anguish. Spenfer. emollient, cooling falads, easy.of digestion, and The shepherd lad, fomewhat laxative. Most writers suppose that Whose offspring on the throne of Judah fat they have a narcotic quality; and indeed in many So many ages. Milton 'cases they contribute to procure reft, by abating (1.) * LADDER. n. f. [bladre, Saxon.] 1. A heat, and relaxing the fibres. The feeds are in frame made with steps placed between two uprighe the number of the 4 lesser cold feeds. pieces. Whose } Cyrene, who was the difciple Whofe compoft is rotten, and carried in time, as not to give the enemy time to load his piece. And spread as it should be, thrift's ladder may As the soldiers who mount first may be easily tuma climb. Tusjer. bled over, and their fall may cause the attack to Some cut the pipes, and some the engines play, fail, their breasts should be protected by the fore And some more bold mount ladders to the fire. parts of cuirasses; for if they can penetrate, the Dryden. rest may easily follow. The success of an escalade Easy in words thy style, in sense sublime; is infallible, if they mount the 4 fides at once, and 'Tis like the ladder in the patriarch's dream, shower a number of grenades amongft the enemy, Its foot on earth, its height above the skies. especially when supported by some grenadiers and Prior. - picquets, who share the enemy's fire. -I saw a stage erected about a foot and a half LADE. n. f. Lade is the mouth of a river, from the ground, capable of holding four of the and is derived from the Saxon lade, which figniinhabitants with two or three ladders to mount it. fies a purging or discharging; there being a dis. Gulliver's Travels. 2. Any thing by which one charge of the waters into the fea, or into fome climbs. -Such a one, who wanting true sufficiency - greater river. Gibson's Camden. to raise him, would make a ladder of any mischief. * To LADE. v. la. preter. laded; and part. pafSidney.- five, laded or laden. (from bladen, Saxon.] It is I must climb her window, now commonly written load. 1. To load; to The ladder made of cords. Shak. . freight; to burthen.-And they laded their alles Northumberland, thou ladder, by the which with corn, and departed thence. Genefis xlii. 26. My cousin Bolingbroke ascends mythrone. Shak. –The experiment which sheweth the weights of Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, several bodies in comparison with water, is of use Whereto the climber upward turns his face. in lading of thips, and hewing what burthen they Shak. will bear. Bacon. 3. A gradual rise.—Endowed with all these accom- The vessels, heavy laden, put to sea plishments, we leave him in the full career of suc. With prosperous winds; a woman leads the way. ceis, mounting fast towards the top of the ladder Dryden. ecclefiaftical, which he hath a fair probability to -Though the peripatetick doctrine does not fareach. Swift. tisfy, yet it is as easy to account for the difficul. (2.) LADDERS, SCALING, in the military art, ties he charges on it, as for those his own hypoare used in scaling, when a place is to be taken by thesis is laden with. Locke. 2. [bladan, to draw, surprise. They are made several ways: here we Saxon.) To heave out; to throw out. make them of flat staves, so that they may move He chides the sea that sunders him from them, about their pips, and shut like a parallel ruler, for Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way. Shak. conveniently carrying them: the French make , -They never let blood; but say, if the pot boils them of several pieces, so as to be joined together, too fat there is no need of lading out any of the and to be made of any necessary length: fome. water, but only of taking away the fire; and so times they are made with single ropes, knotted they allay all heats of the blood by abstinence and at proper diftances, with iron hooks at each end; cooling herbs. Temple. If there be springs in the one to faften them upon the wall above, and Nate marl, there must be help to lade or pump it the other in the ground; and sometimes they out. Temple. are made with two ropes, and staves between (1.) LADEN, part. adj. in the sea language, them, to keep the ropes at a proper distance the state of a ship when she is charged with a to tread upon. When they are used in fca- weight or quantity of any sort of merchandises, or ling walls, they ought to be rather too long than other materials, equal to her tonnage or burden. too thort, and to be given in charge only to the If the cargo with which she is laden is extremely ftoutest of the detachment. The soldiers should heavy, her burden is determined by the weight of carry them with the left arm passed through the the goods; and if light, she carries as much as the second step, taking care to bold them upright close can stow, to be fit for the purposes of navigation. to their fides, and very short below to prevent any As a ton in measure is generallyestimated at 2000lb. accident in leaping into the ditch. The first rank in weight, a vessel of 200 tons ought accordingly of each division, provided with ladders, should set to carry a weight equal to 400,000lb. when the out with the rest at the signal, marching resolute- matter of which the cargo is composed is specifily with their firelocks fung, to jump into the cally heavier than the water in which she floats; ditch; when they arrive, they should apply their or, in other words, when the cargo is fo heavy ladders against the parapet, observing to place that she cannot float high enough with so great a them towards the falient angles rather than the quantity of it as the hold will contain. middle of the curtain, because the enemy have lefs (2.) LADEN IN BULK, the state of being freightforce there. The ladders must be placed within ed with a cargo which is neither in casks, boxes, a foot of each other, without too much nor too bales, nor cases, but lies loose in the hold; being little Nope, that they may not be overturned or defended from the moisture or wet of the hold, broke by the weight of the soldiers mounting upon by a number of mats and a quantity of dunage. them. The ladders being applied, those who have such are usually the cargoes of corn, salt, or such carried them, and those who follow, should mount materials. up, and ruh upon the enemy sword in hand : if LADENAW, a town of Austria, 2 m. S. of Tulo. be who goes first, happens to be overturned, the (1.) LADENBURG, a town of Germany, in next hould take care not to be thrown down by the Palatinate of the Rhine, seated on the Neckar, his comrade; but immediately mount himself, fo on the E. bank of the Rhine, 6 miles E, of Man. |