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L I M 



rfal root ; a truth which it is difficult t» prove in any other 

 manner. See La Croix's Elemens de Algebra, and La 

 Grange's work above quoted. 



Limits, in a Milkary Senfi, denote the diftance which a 

 centry is allowed on his poll, viz. fifty paces to the right, 

 and as many to the left ; and though the weather be ever fo 

 bad, he mull not get under cover. 



Limits of a Flamt, its greateft excurfions or diftances 

 from the ecliptic. See Planet. 



LIMITANEI, among the Romans, an appellation given 

 to the foldiers who were ftationed on the frontiers of the 

 empire. 



LIMITROTOPHI, among the Romans, the fame with 

 limitaneL 



LIMMA, or Leimma, an interval of the Greek Mufic, 

 which is a comma lefi than the feniitone maior, and, re- 

 trenched from a tone major, leaves behind the A^otom: ; 

 which fee. 



The ratio of the limma is 24; to 256, and is generated 

 bv beginning at C, and moving by 5ths to B ; for then the 

 quantity by which the neighbouring C exceeds B, is pre- 

 cifelv in the ratio which we have ellablifhed. 



Piiilolaus, and all the Pythagoreans, made the liinma a 

 diatonic interval, which anfwercd to our femitone major : 

 for, after two conjunctive tones major, there remains only 

 that interval to complete the true 4th, or tetrachord. So 

 that, according to them, the interval from E to F was lels 

 than that from F to Y -j^. Our chromatic fcale gives quite 

 the contrary. RoulTeau. 



The abbe Roudier has given the mufical etymology of 

 the word leimma, according to Aritlo,\enu3. ^lem. lur la 

 Muf. des Anc. p. I42. 



LIMMAT, in Geography, a river of Switzerland, which 

 rifes in the Alps, about 1 1 miles S. of Glarus, alluming the 

 name of Lint or Linth, and having pafled Glarus and joined 

 the Mat, near the lake of Wallenftadt, takes the name of 

 Limmat, and having traverfed the lake of Zurich, joins the 

 Aar, three miles N. of Baden. The llream of this river is 

 very rapid ; its water beautifully tranfparent ; and its bor- 

 ders, at tirft flat, afterwards gently riling into hills clothed 

 with pafture and wood, or divided into vineyards, and at 

 lail becoming quite perpeiadicular, and fringed to the water's 

 .edge with hanging trees. About a mile from Baden, where 

 the Limmat flows with the greatell rapidity, is a beautiful 

 wooden bridge, 240 feet long, and fufpended about 20 feet 

 from the furface of the water. It was the lall work of 

 Grubenman, the felf-taught architect, and is far fuperior in 

 elegance to *hat of Schaffhaufen. 



ilMMEN, a town of Holland ; j miles S. of Alc- 

 maer. 



LIMNiEUS, .ToHN, in Biography-, an eminent German 

 jurilt, was born at Jena in 1592, where his father was pro- 

 felTor of mathematics. Having received a good education 

 in ths elements of learning, he went to Weimar to purfue 

 his maturer lludies, and from thence to the univcrfity of his 

 native place, where he remained till the death of hus father 

 in 1614, when he removed to Altdorf. In 1618, he en- 

 gaged himfelf as travelling tutor to two young men of 

 Nuremberg, whom he accompanied to France, England, 

 and Holland. Having fmilhed his esgagement with thefe, 

 he took upon himfelf the office of private tutor to fevtral 

 young perfons of rank, among whom was Albert, margrave 

 of Brandenburg. In proccfs of time, this prince gave him 

 the poll of chamberlain and member of his privy council. 

 He died in the enjoyment of thefe offices in the year 1663. 

 His works are numerous, and valued for their erudition. 

 The ch>«f are, " Traclatus de Academiis," 4to. ; " Notilix 



Rpgni Galliie," 2 vols. 4to. ; " De jure imperii Roraano- 

 Germanici," J vols. 410. Moreri. 



LIMNER, corrupted from the French word fn/ummrar, 

 a decorator of books with initial or other pictures. Johnfon. 



LIMNIA, in Botany. See Claytonia. 



LIMNING, (trom enluminer, Fr. to aJirn tochs '■j.i'ttb 

 paintings), As thele paintings, or illuminationo, as tliey 

 are called, were always done in water-oolours. limning is 

 never properly employed, except it be to defignate thai 

 fpecies of art, which is now commonly known by the name 

 of miniature-painting, wrought in thofe colours, and on 

 paper ; indeed, it is become almoft obfolete, though, in the 

 minds of the vulgar, it is fometimes ulod to fignify the 

 art ot painting generally, and more particularly Portrait- 

 painting ; which fee. See alfo the articles Miniatuke and 

 Wa'tek-coi,oli«. 



LIMNITIS, a word ufed bv the ancients to exprefs the 

 concretion of round reeds, or water-plants, by fome called 

 adarce : or fomewhat analogous to that. 



LIMNOPEUCE, in Botany, from ^ly.r, a pool ot /air, 

 and rT-.y.r., a pine-trt-e, a name given by Vaillant to the 

 Pinajlclla of Dillenius, Hippuris of Linnxus, in allufion to 

 its fpiry (haoe and watery habitation. See Hii'PUKls. 



LIMNOPHILA, from y.iu-.r., a pool or lake, and ;l^•., 

 to loi'e, becaufe it inhabits fuch places. Brown Prod. Nov. 

 HoU v. I. 442. Clafs and order, JJiJynamia ytngiofpermia. 

 Nat. Ord. Perfenatte, Linn. Scrophulari^, Jiiff 



Efl. Ch. Caly.x tubul^,' five-cleft, equal. Corolla fun- 

 nel-fhapcd ; limb in five nearly equal fegments. Stamens 

 within the tube ; anthers cohering in pairs. Stigma dilated, 

 oblique. Capfi.le of two cells, and two deeply divided 

 valves, the partition inferted into that edge of the valv.s 

 which burlls lateft. 



Herbs that inhabit marlhes, with oppofite deep-cut leave?, 

 moltly divided into three parts to the bale, which gives 

 them the appearance of being whorled. Flo wer-llalk s 

 axillary, with two bradleas at the top. 



The only fpecies named by the author is 



L gratioloidcs. (Hottonia indica ; Linn. Sp. PI. 20S. 

 H. flore folitario ex foliorum ali=; proveniente ; Burm. Zcvl. 

 121. t jj f. I. Tsiudan-tfieia ; Rheede Hort. Malab. 

 V. 12. 71 t. ^6.) — Gathered in the Tropical part of New 

 Holland by Mr Brown, who fufpeCts that feveral fpecies 

 are confounded by botaaifts under the above denomination, 

 to be alcertained by examination of them in a recent ilatv^ 

 only. It is remarkable that the plant of the Htrlus jilula- 

 laricus is faid to grow in a dry fandy foilf See HoT- 

 TO.NIA. 



LIMO. See Citrus. 



LIMOCINCTI, among the Romans, a kind of priefls, 

 who officiated at public lacrifices, and were drefled with a 

 garment called limus. 



LIMOD.ORUM, in Botanf, XsiusJi^oj, a fort cf parali- 

 tical plant, or rather, as it fhoold feem, fome kind of tare, it 

 being faid to choke or fulTocate the fanum gitium. By 

 this latter name we are not perhaps to underltand literally 

 the fenugreek or Trigomtla, but may extend it to any other 

 plant cultivated for hay in Greece, as more th<)i) one of the 

 leguminous tribe are, or have been. Dodonius applied this 

 ancient name to the Oroiancbe, or Broom Rape ; Clufius to 

 the Orchis aiortiva of Linnaeus ; which at leail is what he 

 defcnbcd and intended, in his Stirp. Panncn. 241, though in 

 his Hijhria acut uiOphrys Nidus- Avu is, by millake, annexed 

 to that defcription. Linmus, having referred the plant cf 

 Clufius to the genus Orchis, adopted the name in quellion 

 for a new genus of the lame natural oraer ; but Swartz, m 

 his excellent trcatile on this order, havi:,£ referred the Lin- 



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