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pared ; with which, by the addition of alum, wool and filk 

 may be dyed of a good durable green : for which purpofe 

 they mull be gathered as foon as they are ripe. 



LIHONS, in Geography, a town of France, in the depart, 

 ment of the Somme ; iS miles E. of Amiens. N. lat. 50' 

 15'. E. long. 2- 31'. 



LIKA, a county and province of Dalmatia, or Auilrian 

 Croatia, bordering on the Adriatic, oppofite to the ifland of 

 Pago. 



LIKAVA, a town and caiUe of Hungary ; 5 miles N. 

 of Rofenberg. 



LIKE Quantities, in Algebra, are thofe which are cx- 

 prefll'd by the fame letters, under the fame power, or equally 

 repeated in each quantity. 



Thus 2 h and 3 h, and g// and ^ff, arc like quantities ; 

 but %h and },hh, and ()ff and •,///, are unlike ones, be- 

 caufe the quantities have not every where the fame dimen- 

 fions, nor are the letters equally repeated. 



Like Signs, or Symbols, are when both are affirmative, or 

 both negarive. 



If one be affirmative, and the other negative, they are 

 unlike figns. 



Thus -t- 64 ^and + 5 </, have like figns ; but -j- gy' and 

 — ~ f, have unlike figns. 



LiKK Figures, in Geim;try, are fuch as have their angles 

 equal, and the fide* about thofe equal angles proportional. 

 See Similar. 



Like Arcs, in the projefiion of the fphcre in piano, are 

 parts of leffer circles, containing an equal number ot degrees 

 with the cor-cfponding arcs of greater ones. 



laiKEfoUd Figures, are fuch as are contained under like 

 planes, equal in number. 



LIKEN.\S, jn Geography, a town of Sweden, in the 

 province of Warmeland ; 60 miles N. N. W. of Philip- 

 Ibdt. 



LI-KIANG-TOU, a city of China, of the firft rank, 

 in the province of Yim-nan, near the fource of the river 

 Yan-gong-kiang. This place is faid to be occupied by 

 defcendants of fome ancient colanies of Chincfe ; it has no 

 other city under its jurildidtion, but the mountains that fur- 

 round it feparate it from the land of the Lamas. Its 

 mountains are faid to contain mines of gold. Amher and 

 pine-apples arc plentiful. The adjoining land is fertile, and 

 is well watered. N. lat. 26 52'. E. long. 100 8'. 



LIL A, a town of Abyffinia, on the coaft of the Red fea ; 

 48 miles S.S.E. of Arkiko. 



LILAC, in Botany, or rather LiL'ih, the Turkifh name 

 for the Privet, Ligujlrum vulgare, according to Dr. Sib- 

 thorp ; fee Prodr. Fl. Grxc. v. r. j. It is generjUy known 

 in England as the appellation of the beautiful and popular 

 Syringa vulgaris, which was introduced into our gardens, 

 under the name of Lilach, or Lillach, in the time of queen 

 Elizabeth ; nor was this word bv any me3n< borrowed, as 

 Dr. Johnfon fuppofes, from the Lilas of ths French, though 

 they have, doiibtlefs, one common origin. The clofe affi- 

 nity and near refemblance between the Privet and tlie Lilac, 

 leave no room for wonder at their having the fame name 

 among the Turks. The common as well as the Pjrlian 

 L'.lac is cultivated by them, and tiie former at leall is found 

 wild in fome countries under their dominion. Mattliiolus 

 has given a tine cut of it (fee Lilac, Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 575-, 

 576.), from a drawing brought from Conftantinople under 

 this n^me ; and it is curious to obferve how the incorrect 

 delineation of its fruit led him to miliake it for a plant of 

 the Piliacia kind, and thence to fupf ofe it a fort of Ckns 

 Vnguer.tiria-) cr Ben nut. 



LILjEA, in Ancient Geography, a town which, accord, 

 ing to Homer, was not far from the fprings of the Cephifius, 

 in the Phocide. When the Macedonians took poffeffion of 

 it, Patron, one of the citizens, roufed and armed the peo- 

 ple, and caufed them to evacuate it. In commemoration of 

 tliis evenf, hif feilow-citi/.ens erefted a ftatue to his honour 

 in the town of Delphi. In the time of Paufanias it had a 

 theatre, baths, and two temples, one in honour of Apollo, 

 and anot'ncr of Diana. The ilatues were formed of Ptn- 

 thelic marble. 



LILBURNE, JoHK, in Biography, famous for his ex- 

 ertions in the caufe of liberty during the tyrannies of 

 Charles I. and Cromwell, was born in the year 1618, of aft 

 ancient fa;nily, in the county of Durham. At an early age 

 he was fent, with very little education, to London, and put 

 apprentice to Mr. Thomas Hewfun, of London-fione, a 

 who'efale clothier. He had, probably, imbibed thole prin- 

 ciples for which he was afterwards diilinguifned among his 

 o'.vn relations in the country, and having a bold tmi intrepid 

 n-.ind, he was, from this period, involved in that perpetual 

 feries of contention and fufTcriiig, of v.hich we (hall proceed 

 to give a brief account. The tiril difplay of his temper 

 was exhibited in a complaint which he laid before the charri- 

 berlain of London, againll his maimer for ill ufage. He 

 car.-ied his point, and obtained redieis, and ever afterwards 

 not only lived in peace with him, but he fays, in his " Legal 

 and Fundamental I.,iberties, &c." that he had in Mr. Hew- 

 lon " the trueft friend that ever fervant had of a mafter 

 in the day of his trial." While he was in his apprenticef?:ip 

 he had much leifure time, which he fpent in reading tfit 

 bible, the book of Martyrs, and the works of Luther, 

 Calvin, Beza, &c. From thefc he unqueftionably imbibed 

 an cnthuliallic paffion for encountering all dangers and fuf- 

 ferings in the caufe of truth. In 1636 he was introduced 

 to the acquaintanct of Dr. Baftwick, at that time a prifcr.er 

 in the Gate-houfe, whom he conllantly vilited, and for whom 

 he co.itracled fuch a friendlhip and affettioii, that he could, 

 he fays, have readily laid down his life in his defence. He 

 was foon engaged aftively in the popular caufe, and carried 

 to Holland one of the doftor's anti-epifcopal writings ia 

 order to get it printed. Shortly after his return he was 

 apprehended, tried, and convicted in the ftar-chamber court 

 of printing and publilhing libels and feditious books. At 

 his examinations he refufed to anfwer the interrogatories of 

 his judges, and in every inilance he jullified and maintained tlie 

 rights and privileges attached to his cliaracler as an Englifh- 

 man. He was ientenced'' on this occafion to receive joo 

 lalhes, and then to be let in the pillory, which fentence was 

 executed with great leverity, the whipping being inilicfed 

 with knotted cords, as ordered by the bloody decree of old 

 fir Henry Vane. His fpirit was not, however, fubdued, 

 for eveii on the pillory he uttered many invedftivcs againll 

 the bifhops, and threw pamphlets from hi.s pockets among 

 the crowd. For this conducl he was remanded to prilon, 

 and, according to his own account, endured a world of other 

 unheard-of miferies and barbarous cruelties for three years 

 together. Though double-ironed, and in one of the woril 

 eel's in the prifon, he contrived while there to get another, 

 libel printed and publifhed. Such wa^ the opinion held 

 refpecting his defperate rcfoluiion, that a fire havinsr takea 

 place near the cell in which he wa< lucked up, he was fuf-. 

 pected of being the occafion oi it, for the fake of obtaining 

 his dehvcrauce, and the other prifoners and neighbours, 

 jomed in an application to have bim repioved, by which h^ 

 obtained a more airy fituation. On the meeting of the Long 

 Parl'.ament in 1640, he was allowed; he hberties of the Fleet, 

 an mdiil^ence that enabled him to appear a; a ricglesder of 

 t) ; gji 



