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very much brancheJ and forked, often four feet long, 

 mooth. Barh brown, tliick, tubercled, flightly allringent, 

 and turning \Yater red in which it has been macerated. 

 Wood whitifti and brittle. Leaves oblong, obtufc, entire 

 or emarginate, deciduous when the fruit is ripe. Floiueri 

 delicately fragrant, yellowidi-green, in fome plants alto- 

 gether barren, in others all of them fertile. Berry of a 

 jellovv colour. This plant has much the habit and appear- 

 ance of our Mifletoe, Vi/cum album, and is very remarkable 

 in its genus for being found in cold climates. 



L.. hniceroieks. Linn. Sp. PI. 473. (IttiCanni; Rheed. 

 Mai. V. 7. ^^. t. 29.) — Flower.s in an aggregated head, often 

 pentandrous. —This is a native of groves in Afia. — A very 

 handfome fpecies, whofe branches are long and flexuofe. 

 Lea-ves, ovate-lanceolate, ihickilh, entire, fmooth, veined, 

 bluntifli. Flowers about five in a duller, fcflile, tubular, 

 yellow, downy withinilde. Stamens generally five. Fruit 

 round, greenilh-yellow, containing a fmall, white nut, which 

 bas a bitter flavour. 



'L.corymbofus. Lamarck Dift. v. jj. 599. ( Lonicera 

 corymbofa ; Linn. Sp. PI. 249. Periclymeiiuni foliis acutis, 

 .floribus profunde difTeftis ; Feuillee Peruv. v. 2. 760. t. 45.) 

 — Corymbs axillary, oppofite. Leaves . ovale, icute. 

 Flowers quadrangular, with four petilsv and four ftamens. 

 — Native of Chili, from whence we have a fpecimen, by 

 favour of Mr. Menzies, which enables us better than Feu- 

 illee's figure to underftand ti.e fpecies. — ThcJIowcrs are of 

 a blood red, with yellow ftamens. By the hill mentioned 

 author's account this feems not to be parafitical. It is ufed 

 for dyeing a fine black colour. 



L0RANTHU.S, in Gardening, comprifes a plant of the 

 exotic kind for the (love, of which the Ipecies cultivated is, 

 the American !oranth:is (L. Amcricanus.) Its branches 

 are fubdivided, leafy, fmooth, pale green, brittle, and the 

 leaves pale with red flowers. 



This plant ramps over the higheft trees in Jamaica, &c. 

 efpecially the coccoloba grandifolia, with the root adhering 

 firmly to the bark like mifletoe, 



Ilethoei of Culture. — This plant may be incrcafed by fow- 

 ing the feeds, as foon a: they are fully ripened, in pots of 

 light rich earth, being kept in a mild hot-bed until the be- 

 ginning of the autumn, when they mull be plunged in the 

 bark hot-bed of the Hove, being afterwards treated as other 

 tender plants of the fame kind. 



It affords variety in flove colleftions. 



LORARII, among the i?om<-iHj, officers whofe bufinefs 

 it was, with whips and fcourges, to compel the gladiators 

 to engage. The lorarii alfo puniflied flaves who difi;beyed 

 their mailers. 



LORBUS, or Lekb.a, in Geography, a town of Africa, 

 in the country of Tunis, anciently called " Laribus Ca- 

 lonia;'' 10 miles W.S.W. of Tuberlak. 



LORCA, anciently called CHocrota, a town of Spain, of 

 confiderable fize, in Murcia, fituated very near the confines 

 of the kingdom of Granada, at the foot of a ileep moun- 

 tain, confining almoft wholly of fchift, and denominated the 

 Sierra del Cano, on the right bank of the Guadalentin. It 

 lies at the entrance of a fine rich country, abounding with 

 trees, particularly olive and mulberry, fertilized by the 

 above-mentioned river. The town had formerly a callle 

 advantageoufly fituated on the top of the mountain, which 

 ■was ftrong under the Moors and under the kings of Caliile; 

 but it is now in ruins. Lorca is now much larger than 

 it was under the Moors, by whom it was taken in 714; it 

 is divided into the upper and lower town, the former being 

 the old pa-t on the declivity of the hill formerly occupied 

 by the Moors, and the latter, which is more modern and 



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better built, (lands altogether on level ground ; it has four 

 gates and fevcral fqu;u-es, and two iuburbs, and its extent 

 is fufiicient to accommodate l2,coo perfons. The popula- 

 tion of Lorca is computed at about 30,000 inhabitants, 

 partly noble of ancient families, and devoted to agriculture, 

 and partly very poor : intermixed with the other inhabitants 

 are feveral wandering vagabonds, called Gitanos or gypfies. 

 Lorca has at prefent a collegiate chapter, eight paridi 

 churches, feven monalleries, two nunneries, two hofpitals, 

 one for men and the other for vifomen, and a college for the 

 inllruiSioii of youlli. It is governed by a corregidor, and 

 twenty-four regidors, who form the principality ; it has a 

 manufafture of ialt-pctre, but has no kind of commerce. 

 Some of the produce of the country is taken from it, par- 

 ticularly filk and kali ; but this trade is carried on by 

 foreigners^ efpecially the French, who are fettled here. 

 The town fufl'ered much in i 8c2 by an inundation from a 

 large bafon or lefervoir, which had been condrudled of an 

 Immenfe fize in order to water the whole of its adjacent ter- 

 ritory. This bafon being undermined, the water ni(hed 

 from it with ftich impetuolity, that it wholly dellroyed one 

 of its fuburbs, confilling of about 600 boules, and feveral 

 public buildings, and extended its dellrnctive ravages to an 

 extent of 16 leagues, fo that the number of people who 

 perifhed was ellimated at 6000 and the animals at 24,000. 

 The whole lofs was eflimated at 200 millions of reals, or 

 about 2,083,333/. fterling. Lorca is diftant 42 miles W, 

 from Carthagtna. N. lat. 37' 38'. W. long. i''. 



LORCH, a town of Germany, the inhabitants of which 

 chiefly fubfill by cultivating vineyards and making wine; 

 24 miles W.N.W. of Mentz. 



LORCHAUSEN, a town of Germany, feated on the 

 Rhine ; 27 miles W. of Mentz. 



LORD, a title of honour attributed to thofe who are 

 noble, either by birth, or creation ; and veiled with the 

 dignity of a baron. 



The word is of Saxon origin, and primarily denotes a 

 bread-giver, alluding to the hcfpitality of our ancient no- 

 bles : it is formed, according to Camden, from hlaford, 

 afterwards written loford; a compound of hiaf, bread, and 

 ford, to fupply, afford. 



In this fenfe, lord amounts to the fame with peer of the 

 realm, lord of parliament. 



Lord is alfo applied to thofe fo called by the courtefy of 

 England ; as all fons of a duke or m.irquis, and the eldtft 

 fon of an earl. 



LoKD is alfo an appellation given to divers perfons honour- 

 able by office ; as loftl chief juftice, lord chancellor, lord of 

 the treafury, admiralty, &c. 



Loud is alfo a title fometimes given to an inferior perfon 

 who has a fee, and confequenlly the homage of tenants 

 within his manor. 



For bv his tenants he is called lord, and in fome places, 

 for diftiiiction fake, land-lord. 



It is in this laft fignification that the word lord is prin- 

 cipally ufed in our law-books, where it is divided into lord 

 paramount, and lordmefne. 



Loud Meftte, is he that is owner of a manor, and by 

 virtue thereof hath tenants holding of him in fee, and by 

 ct>py of court-j-oll ; and yet holds himielr of a fuperior lord 

 called lord paraviount. 



We aifo read of very lord, and very tenant. 



Loud in Grofs, he who is lord, not by reafon of any manor, 

 as the king in rLfpect of his cro^n, &c.' 



Very Lord, is lie who is immediate lord to his tenant ; 

 and very tenant, he who holds immediately of that lord. 



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