LOO 



LOO 



j^ood tin-glafs, or bifmiith, two parts ; earc-fully (kirn off the accidental variations of the temperature of the air at 

 the drofs ; then take the crucible from the fire, and before different parts, producing great irregularilies in its refrac- 

 the mixture grows cold, add to it lo parts of clear quick- tion, efpecially near the horizon. Accordingly the rare- 

 filver, and having ftirrcd them well together, keep tlie fluid faiflion of the air in the neighbourhood of the furface of 

 in a new clean glafs. When you arc going to ufe it, firft water, .of a building, or of the earth itfdf, occafions a 

 purge it by itraining it through linen, and gently pour diltant obj-'ft to appear depreffed indcad of being elevated, 

 ibme ounces into the glaf-i to be foliated through a narrow and to be fometimes feen at once both depreffed and ele- 

 paper funnel, reaching almoft to the glafs, to prevent the vated, fo as to appear double, one of the images being 

 liquor from flying to the fides. After this, by cextroully generally in an inverted poGtion, as if the furface poffeffed- 

 inchning the glafs every way, endeavour to faften it to the a reflective power ; and there feems to be a confiderable ana- 

 internal furface ; which done, let it reil for fonie hours ; logy between this kind of refraction and the total reflection 

 then repeat the fame operation, and fo continue at times, which happens within a denfer medium. See F.vta Mor- 

 till the liquor is flowly pafftjd over, and equally fixed to tiie ^ana. 



L,0OM-Qak, a gentle, eafy gale of wind, in which a (hip 

 can carry her top-fails a-trip. 



LOOMAKA, in Geography, a town of Bootan ; 28 

 miles S. of TaH'afudon. 



LOON, in Ornithology. See CoLYMBUS gladalls, and 

 CoLVMBVS yfuritiis. 



LOONENBURG, in Geography, a town of Green 

 county, New York, near the city of Hudfon. 



LOONGHEE, a town of the Birman empire, on the 

 ■ " " " ■" ■ ■ of 



■whole fuperficies ; which mav be difcerned by expofiiig the 

 glafs to the eve between that and the ligli'. Boyle's works 

 abr. vol. i. p. I 29. 



For the method of blowing and cafiing glafs, and the 

 choice of the materials for looking-glafles, fee Glass. 

 Lo')KiN-G-G/i*/f, Venus' s, in Botany. See Cami-anl'LA. 

 LOOKNAPOUR., in Geography, a town of Hinduollan, 

 in Onde ; 15 miles S.W. of Kaiiabad. 



LOOK-OUT, Cape, a cape on the coaft of North 

 Carolina, being the fouthern part of a long, infulated, and Irawaddy, which has a celebrated temple; ^J miles N 

 narrow drip of land. E. of Core Sound. Its N. point Prome. N. lat. 19 42'. 



forms the S. fide of Ocrecoch inlet, which leads into Pam- LOONPOUll, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat ; 40 

 lico Sound; N.E. of Cape Fear, and S. of Cape Hatteras, miles E. of Juna^^ur. 



in about N. lat. ^4 50'. Its excellent harboiu- has been filled LOOP, in the Iron IVoris, is a part of a fow or blocl 

 up with fand fince thr year 1777 — .-inother cape, of the of call iron broken or melted off from the reft, and prepared 

 fame name, lies on the fouthern coaft"of Hudlon's bay, in for the forge or hammer. The ufual method is, to break 

 New South Wales, E.S.E. of the mouth of Severn river, off the loopof about three quarters of a hundred weight. 

 N. lat. 56^ W. long. 84 . This loop they take up with their ilinging-tongs, and beat 



Look-out, in Sra Language, denotes a watchful .atten- it with iron fledges upon an iron-plate near the fire, that fo 

 tion to fome important object, or event, which is expected it may not fall to pieces, but be in a condition to be carried 

 to arife from the prefent fituation of a fliip, &c. It is under the hammer. It is then placed under the hammer, 

 principally ufed when there is a probabiHty of danger from and a little water being drawn to make the hammer move 

 the real or fuppofed proximity of land, rocks, enemies, but foftly, it is beat very gently, and by this means the 

 &c. There is always a look-out kept on a fhip's forecalUe drofs pnd foulnefs are f>-.rced off, and after this they draw 

 at fea, to watch for any dingerous objects lying near her more and more water by degrees, and beat it more and 

 track ; the mate of the watch accordingly calls often from more till they bring it to a fourfquare mafs, of about two 

 the quarter deck, looi out afore there J to the perfonS ap- feet long, which they call a bloom, 

 pointed to this fervice. Falconer. Loop, in Rural Economy, the hinge of a door or gate. 



LOOKSEENGAH, in Geography, a town of Bengal ; See Gate. 

 3^ miles N.V/. of Ramgur. Loor-Z/ofo, in Sea Language, are holes made in the 



LOOL, m Metallurgy, a veffel made to receive the coamings of the hatches of a ihip, to fire mufkets through 

 wafhings of ores of metals. The heavier or more metalline in a clofe fight. 

 parts of the ores remain in the trough to which they are 

 Vv-afhed ; the lighter, and more earthy, run off with the 

 water, but fettle in the lool. 



LOOM, in Geography, a town of Norway ; 60 miles 

 S.E. of Rrmfdal. 



LOOPHEAD, in Geography, a cape of Ireland, in the • 

 county of Clare, being tiie north point of the mOuth of the 

 Shannon. On this headland is a lighthoufe. N. lat. ^2* 

 30'. W. long. 9 ^o'. 



LOOPING, in Metallurgy, a word ufed by the miners 

 Loo:.!, the weaver's frame ; a machine whereby feveral of loine counties of England, to exprefs the running toge- 



diftintt threads are woven into one piece, 



Looms are of various llructures, accommodated to the 

 rarious kinds of materials to be woven, and the various 

 itiariners of weaving tht.m ; via,, for woollens, filks, linens, 

 cottons, cloths of gold ; and other works, as taptftry, rib- 

 bands, (lockings, &c, divers of which will be found under 

 their proper heads. See Weaving. > 



The weaver's l<jom-engine, otherwife called the Dutch 

 loom-engine, was brought into uie from Floiland lo London, 

 in or about the year 1676. 



Loom, Neir, in Lqiu. See HEIR-Zoom. 



Loo.M, at Sea. If a fhip appears big, when at a diftance, 

 they fay (he looms, or appears a great fail ; the term is alfo have retained, though we much fufpect it to have been ori 

 ufed to denote tlie indiffintl appearance of any other diltant ginally an error of the prefs ; but liaving nothing Letter to 

 cbjedts. guide us, we leave matters as we fintj them. It is pity fo 



The mod remarkable phenomena of this kind, depend on fine a genus ihould not have a certain or intelligible appella- 



6 > tion. 



ther of the matter of an ore into a mafs, in the roafting, or 

 firit burning, iniended only to calcine it fo far as to make 

 it fit for powdering. This accident, which gives the mi- 

 ners fome trouble, is generally owing to the continuing of the 

 fire too l-jug in this proccis. 



LOOSA, in Botany, a name which originated with 

 Adanion, but of whofe meaning or derivation we find no 

 account, except that it has been fuppofed intended to com- 

 memorate fome Spanifli botanill, of whofe merits or nar!-.e 

 nothing elfe is known. Adanfon writes it Lcuja, in J he is 

 followed by Jacquin and the French botaiiills. LiniiKUS, 

 Murray and Schreber ufe tlie above orthograjiiiy, which we 



