L Y M 



L Y M 



Burm. Ind. 22S. O. flexuofum ; Linn. Suppl. 443, not Saxons, e^ranted, in a charter to the church of Sherborne, 



Sp. n. I'JIO- Adiantu:n volubile polypoidcs, live majus ; " the land of a inanlion near the weft bar.k of the Litr., lo 



Rumph. Amb. v. 6. 7,. t. 33.) — Stem round. Fronds that fait for t lie faid church (hould be boiled there." In 



palmate, in three or four lanceolate entire taper-pointed the Domcfday Survey we lind th^ manor of Lyme as bein^ 



lobes; the fertile ones much contracted. — Native of the in three divifions or parcel". £dward I. granted Lyme 



Eall Indies. We have it from Tranqucbar. — Tlie /caves the liberiies of an haven and borough ; and from that period 



are deeply palmate, fmooth, 'entire, pale green. 5/>/7f j' it increafed in buildings, and became fo profperous, that it 



marginal, very fliort, almoll round. was able to fnrnifh Edward III. with four fhips, and lixtv- 



Linnaeus confounded this with the Falli-parma, Hort. two mariners, for the fiege of Calais. In the reigns of 



Malab. V. 12. 63. t. 32, which fcems to be his real 0- 

 Jlcxuofum, and is Lygodlum Jlexuofum of Swartz, n. j. 



LYGON and Lygus, are uled for agniis callus. 



lA'GUM, in Geography, a town of Denmark, in 

 duchy of Slcfwick ; 14 miles W. of Apcnrade. 



LYING-IN Hosi-iT.vL. See Ho.spit.^l. 



Lying-iv Women., Diforders of. See Labour, Lochia, 

 Fever, Aftkk-p.mns, &c. 



Lyi.NG-lN Women, l'reatm:nt of. See Labour. 



Lying umkr the Sea, in Sea Lnngunge, is when, in a 



Henry IV. and V., the fouthern coall of Englt.nd was much 

 annoyed by the incurlions of the French : this town feverely 

 experienced their ell'eCts ; and being alfo afflicted by other 

 the calualties, its trade declined confiderably. It has fince been 

 occalionally retrieved and reduced ; but is now recovering its 

 importance through the relidence of merchants, who have 

 recently eredted fome handfome llonc-houfes ; ai.d as ihe 

 liarbour is confideied one of the bell in England, the 

 town \t capable of groat improvement. During the citfil 

 war in the reign cf Charles 1., Lyme was a place of great 



ftorni, the fhip is a-hull, and the helm fo taltened a lee, that confequence to the contending parties, efpecially to the 



the fea breaks upon her bow, or broadllde. royahlls ; great part of their dependence on the well of Eng- 



Lyi.sg fl/ort^, denote.; the ftate of a fliip, when prclTed land ariling from being in poflelFion of this town. The fieo-e 



down Tideways by a weight of iail in a frefli wmd that crofTes of Lyme was one of the moil remarkable that occurred 



the lliip's courfe either direClly or obliquely. during that eventful period. In the reign of James II., 



Lyiko-/o, or Lyi::g-ly, denotes the fifuation of a fliip Lyme was dillingiiilhed by the landing of the duke of Mon- 



when Ihe is retarded in her courfe, by arranging the fails in mouth here on his unfortunate contention for the kingdom, 



fuch a manner, as to counteraft each other with nearly an and by the fanguinary executions which took place on his 



equal effort, and render the (liip almoll immoveable, with defeat, 



refpcci to her progreifive motion or head-way. The privileges granted by Edward I. to this town have 



A fliip is ufually Irought-to by the main or fore-top-fails, been confirmed and increafed ky feveral fucceeding fove- 



one of which is laid a-back, whiltl the other is full ; fo that reigns. The corporation confills of a mayor, who acls as 



the latter puflies the lliip forwaiji, whilll the former refiils a jullice in the years before and after his mayoralty, a re- 



tlie impulfe, by forcing her a-(lern. This is particularly corder, town-clerk, and fifteen capital burgcd'es, of whom 



pradlifed in a general engagement, when the hoftile fleets two with the mayor are jultices. The royalty of the manor 



are drawn up in two lines of battle oppolite to each other: is veiled in the corporation. Lyme has been reprefented in 



it is alfo ufed to wait for fome other Ihip, either approaching parliament ever fince the twenty-third year of Edward I. 



or expected ; or to avoid purfuing a dangerous courfe. The right of election is in the mayor, burgelTes, and free- 



efpecially in dark or foggy weather, &c. Falconer. men ; tiie voters being between thirty and forty. The 



Lyixg-Zo in n Storm. See Trying church is a neat, though ancient edifice, but is not parti- 



LYKSBORG, or Luxburg, in Geography, a town of cularly worthy of notice. The cullom-houfe is a modern 



Denmark, in the duchy of Slcfwick, on a promontory near brick building, fupported on pillars, for the cenvenience of 



the Baltic ; 7 miles N.E. of Flenfljorg. the corn -market, which is held beneath. The quay is c&m ■ 



LYKSALE, a tov.n of Sweden, in the Lapmark of modious, though not fpacious ; and round the harbour are 



Uniea ; So miles S.S.W. of U:nea. leveral fmall forts mounted with cannon for its defence. 



LYIVIAN, a town fliip of America, in Grafton county. The principal public work, however, is the cobb, or pier. 



New Hamplhire, fituated at the foot of a mountain on the which, in its ancient llate, was coinpofed of vail j>iecci oi 



eall fide of Connecticut river, between Littleton and Bath, rocks rudely piled on each other; but is now formed of 



7 miles W. by N. of New Concord ; incorporated in 1761, ilone. This is a fabric of the greateil utility on this coalt, 



and containing 533 inhabitants. — Alfo, a town in the county there being no other flicker for ftiipping between the Start 



i>t New York, Maine', north of Wells and call of Aitred, to point and the Portland road ; and although at this place the 



each of winch it adjoins. fouth-weil wind blows with extreme violence, veifels ride in 



LYME, a town of Grafton county, New Hampfliire. — the harbour in perfeCl fccurity. The cobb has fufl'enxl 



Alfo, a po'l-town in New London county, Connecticut, very mucli by thcfe winds : it was totally dedroyed in the 



the " Nchan'.ick" of the Indians, at the mouth of the Con- reign of Richard II.; and in the lall century it fullained 



ne>:ticut river, on its eal^ fide ; fettled about the year 1664, great injury by three ftorms, but was repaired by govern- 



and incorporated in 1667 ; and containing, in three pariflies, ment at the expence of 6000/. Charles II. granted 100/. 



43!io iiih ibitants. 



LYME REGIS, a fea-port, borough, and market-town, 

 in the liundred of Whitchurch, in Briiport divilion of Dor- 

 tctfhire, England, is fituated 23 miles dillant from Dor- 

 chefter, and 143 from London, on the little river Lyme, 

 Dear the fea. Its fituition, in a cavity between two rocky 



per annum towards its repair, out of the culloms of the port, 

 which is Hill continued ; and the inhabitants anp.ually chufe 

 two cobb ward*ens to fuperintend the improvement. The 

 population of this town, in the year 1801, was Hated to be 

 145 1 ; the number of houfes, which are chiefly conllrufted 

 of blue rag-done, and covered with flate, was 276. A mar- 



hills, on a dechvity, makes it difficult of accefs ; and that ket is held on Saturdays, and two fairs annualh 

 part of the town nearell to the fea is fo very low, that at Lyme was the birth-piace of Thomas Coram, the bene- 

 Iprmg-tides the under-rooms and cellars are overflowed to the volent patron and contriver of the Foundling hofpital in 

 depth of ten or t.velve feet. Lyme is mentioned in hiilory London. He died March 19, 1751, in his eighty-fourth 

 in the eighth ceiitHry, when Cenwulf, king of the Weil year, and was buried in the vault under the chapel of the 



4 U 3 hofpital. 



