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tiiaxim among the Greeks, and the fubjeft of one of Plu-- county town, ai\d 108 miles from LondoB, on the banks 



tarcli's fympoliacsi See Scolta and Song. of the river Soar, over which it has a good ftor.e bridge. 



Love, in its ufual and more appropriate fignification, According to it£ Cze and population, it may be efte^mei 



denotes that afFedlion, which, being compounded of intel- the fecond town in the county. Leland favs, '• The towa 



leflual and fenfitive love, or of animal delire, elleem, and of Lughborow is yn largencfs and good building next to 



benevolence, becomes the bond of attachment and union be- Leyrceder, of all the markette tounes yn the (hire, and hath 



tween iadividuals of the different fexes ; and makes them 

 feel in the lociety of each other a kind of happinefs which 

 they experience no where elfe. 



Love, Fam'ily of. See FamIlv. 



I^ovE, Platonic. See Platonic. 



Love -Apple, is the Englifh name for the fruit of the 

 lycoperficon, a plant cultivated in gardens with us, for the 

 fmg'ilarity of its appearance. The Portuguefe call it to- 

 mat&, and eat the fruit, either raw or Hewed : as do the 

 Jew families in England. See Solanum Lycopirjicum. 



l^QVE-Grafs. See Grass. 



Love in a Mifl. See PAs.sIO^^ Flower. 



Love lies Bleeding. See .AmaRaxthus. 



Love, Tree of. See Cercis. 



LOUE', in Geography, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Sarthe, and cliief place of a canton, in the 

 didrift of Le Mans; ij miles W. of Le Mans. The place 

 contains 1204, and the canton 12,563 • inhabitants, on a 

 territory of 245 kiliometres, in 16 communes. 



in it a four faire Urates or mo, well pavid. The paroch 

 chirche is faire. Chapelles or chirches bcfides, yn the 

 towne, be none. The hole toune is budded of tymbre. 

 At the foutheft end of the chirch is a faire houfc of tymbre, . 

 wher ons king Henry VLI. did lye." Loughborough cpij- 

 filts of one parifh, to which belong the t.vo hamlets of 

 Wood-thprpe and Knight-thorne, both about a n]ile ciilant; 

 each having its proper officers, and maintaining its own 

 poor. Great part of the town is^the proptrty of the earl 

 of Moira, to vvliom it came from his uncle the late earl of 

 Huntingdon, in who'.e famdy it has been fince the time of 

 queen Mary. The church is a large pile of building, con- 

 filling of a nave, fide afles, chancel, tranfept, and tower; 

 the latter was built by fubfcription, towards the end of the 

 fixteenth century. In the thurch-yard is a free grammar 

 fchool, which was endowed with the rents of certain lands, 

 &c. left by Tiiomas Burton for the maintenance of a chan- 

 try within the church. Here is alfo a charity fchool for 

 eighty boys and twenty girls. Four meeting-houfes are 



LOVELL, a town of .-\merica, in York county, Maine, appropriated to the Prefbyterians, Baptills, Quakers, and 

 N. of Great OlTipee, 89 miles N. of York. 



LOVENTIMUM, or Luextixu.m, in .Ancient Geogra 

 phy, a town of the Demetas, in Britain, fuppofed by fome, hen crofs 



without fufEcient reafon, to have been iwallovved up by an 

 earthquake in the fcite of the prefent Llyn Savanarhan, 

 near Brecknock, but by others, with great probability, to 

 have been fituated at or near Llan-Dewi-Brevi, in Cardi- 

 ganfhire ; where, in a field called Caer Ceftlib, or Callle- 

 ' tield, Roman coins and bricks are fometimes found. 



LOVER.\NO, in Geography, a to-.vn of Naples, in the 

 province of Otranto ; five miles N.N.E. of Nardo. 



LOVESKAIA, a town of Ruflia, on'T;he Cafpian fea ; 

 27 miles S E of Aflrachan. , 



LOUGH, or Lake, Arrow. See Arrow : — L. 

 Barra. See Barra :— L. 5fj. See Be(j : — L. Carra. See 

 Garu.^ : — L. dean. See Clean: — L. Conn. See Conn :^ 

 L. Corrib. See CoRRiB : — L. Contra. See Coutha : — L. 

 Curran. See Cuuran : — L. Derg. See Derg : — L, Der- 

 veragh. See Deiiveragh : — L. Ennel. See ExNEL : — L. 

 Erne. See Erne: — 'L. Foyle. SeeFoyLE: — L. Gara. See 

 Gara:— L. Gawnah. See GaWNAH :.— L. Giy/y. See 

 GiLLY : — 1>. Glin. See Glin : — L. Gur. See Guu : — L. 

 Hoyle. See WoYl.^ -.—L.. Hync. See Hyne : — A^. Iron. 

 See Iron:— L. Killarney. See KlLL.\RXEy: — L. Lame. 

 See ^ARNE :— L. Lena. See Lena:— L. Malar. See 

 Malar : — ^L. Majk. See Majsk.:- 

 viN : — L. Naftay. See Naftay 



Nallenrof : — L. Neagh. See Neagh : — L. Ogram. See 

 Ogbam : — L. Oughter. See Ovghter :—L,. Pal/is. See 

 Pallis:— L. Ramar. See Ramar : — L,. Rafihan. See 

 Raphan : — L. Rea. "See Rea : — L. Rec. See Rec : — 

 h. Sal en. See Saleen:"L. Shelan. See Sheban :-r- 

 L. StrangftjrJ. See Strangford : — L. Swilly. See 

 SwiLLY: — h.Ta. SeeTA: — L,.Triorty. SeeTRlOHTY: — 

 L. Tra. See Tra. 



LOUGHABER, or Loohaber, a fmall fcttlement in 

 Georgia, on a hranth of Savannah river, abgve its con- 

 fluence with the Tuga'o. 



LOUGHBOROUGH, a market town and parifh 

 in the hundred of \Ve!l Gofcote, and county of Lei- 

 ceiler, England, is Ikuated 12 miles diilant from the 



Wefleyan Methodiils. On the fcite of an old crofs, 

 a modern market-houfe, or what is called the butter and 

 was ereded in 1742 ; it is fupported by eight 

 round brick pillars. At the upper end of the market place 

 Hands a ruinous brick edifice, caUed the court chamber, 

 where the lord of the manor's court leet is annually held. 

 The building appears to have been erefted in 168S ; it is 

 fometimes uled as a theatre and ball-room. The town fuf- 

 fered leverely by the plague at various periods in the fix- 

 teenth and feventcentU centuries. Under the acl of iSoo, 

 tlie population was returned as 4546, inhabiting 9S1 houfes. 

 The chief manufactures carried on here are holiery, wool- r 

 combing, and frame work knitting. 



Six annual fairs are held, and a weekly market on Thurf- 

 days. In the year 1770, the town contained 43 licenfed 

 inns and alehoufes ; in 17S3, the number exceeded 50. 



The Loughborough canal, wluch communicates with that 

 called the Union canal, and with the river Soar, has proved 

 very ferviceable to this town, and an advantageous concert^ 

 to the original proprietors ; as 95/. a-ycar dividend has been ' 

 paid on a (hare of 1 25/. ; and one of thefe (hares has .beep..! 

 fold for iSco/. Nicho's's Hiilory i)f Leicefltifhite. 



Loughborough, <^ townfhip of Upper Canada, in Frou- - 

 tenac county, N. of Kingllon. . 



LoUGtiBOKOUGii Canal, an inlet on the W. coafl of 

 h. 3Ielvin. See Mel- North America, in the gulf of Georgia, about 30 miles 

 : — L. Nallenroe. See long, and one broad, between mountains nearly perpeudj- - 

 cular. The entrance is in N, lat. 30", 27'. E. long. 234," 



35'- ' ■ 



LOUGHBRICKL;^ ND,' a .poil-town of Ireland, in . 

 the county ot Down, on the road to Belfaft. It is 58 •■ 

 miles north from Dublin, and 22 from BclfafL . 



LOUGHGALL, a fniall poil-town of Ireland, in the 

 county of Armagh ; it is (16 miles N.. from Dublin, Sn^,.; 

 three^niles N.N.W. from RichliilL . 



LOUGH REA, a poil-town of Ireland, in the county 

 of Galway. It is iituated on a fine lake of the lame name, 

 and IS 87 miles AV. by S. from Dubhn. 



LOUHANS, a town of France, and principal place 

 of a dillriCl, in the department of the Saone and Loire, , 

 fituated at the confiux of .the Seille. aad^Sfllcan. 'I he ,• 



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