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•ught to be fo proportioned, that it never can get above 
a moderate bite. If it be fhut up for hay, it ought to be 
mown as foon as the feed-ftems are fully formed, before the 
flowers come out. If it be intended for feed, it ought 
to Hand until the flowers be fully blown; but it mud 
not be expended, in this cafe, that the ftraw will prove 
hay. 
As a fpring-feed, ray-grafs is preferable to every other 
grafs; and in autumn it renews its nutritious bite. This 
property, added to its produdtivenefs, and to the facility 
with which its feeds may be collected in quantity, give it 
a decided pre-eminence to every other blade-grafs at pre¬ 
sent known. But this, like other early grades, remains in 
a great meafure unproductive during the fummer-months. 
This renders it improper to be fown alone, for pafturage; 
and white clover, the trefoils, or other fummer-herbage, 
fhould be cultivated with it. In general, where preju¬ 
dices have arifen againft ray-grafs, it has been becaufe bad 
feed has been fown, or becaufe the foil is improper for it, 
or that the management has been faulty. 
Annual darnel is very injurious to a wheat-crop; but 
may eafily be avoided, as it is fown along with the feed, 
from which it may be Separated by the fieve; and,not being 
a root-weed, it is unpardonable to fuffer it to increafe to 
any confiderable degree. See Agrostemma and Cyno- 
surus. 
To LOLL, v, n. [Etymology not known : perhaps 
contemptuoully derived from Lollard, a name of great re¬ 
proach before the reformation ; of whom one tenet was, 
that all trades notneceflafy to life are unlawful.] To lean 
idly ; to reft lazily againft any thing.—So hangs, and lolls, 
and weeps, upon me; fo (hakes and pulls ine. Skakefpeare's 
Qthcllo. 
A lazy lolling fort 
Of ever-liftlefs loit’rers. Dunciad. 
To hang out: ufed of the tongue hanging out in weari- 
nefs or play : 
The triple porter of the Stygian feat 
With lolling tongue lay fawning at thy feet. Dryden. 
With harmlefs play amid ft the bowls he pafs’d, 
And with his lolling tongue aflay’d the tafte. Dryden. 
To LOLL, v.a. To put out: ufed of the tongue ex- 
ferted : 
All authors to their own defeats are blind ; 
Hadft thou but, Janus-like, a face behind, 
To fee the people, when fplay mouths they make, 
To mark their fingers pointed at thy back, 
Their tongues loll'd out a foot. Dryden's Perjius. 
LOL'LARDS. Mod ecclefiaftical writers affirm, that 
the Lollards were a particular fe£t, who differed from the 
church of Rome in many religious points ; and that Wal¬ 
ter Lollhard, who was burnt in the fourteenth century 
for herefy, was their founder. Dr. Mofheim, however, 
lias fhown in the molt fatisfaClory manner, that the term 
Tollhard was not a furname appropriate to any particular 
individual, but applied indifferently to various religious 
communities. 
The monk of Canterbury derives the origin of the 
word Lollard among us, from lolium, a tare ; as if the 
Lollards were the tares fown in Chrift’s vineyard. 
Abelly fays, that the word Lollard fignifies “ praifing 
God,” from the German leben, to praife, and herr, Lord ; 
becaufe the Lollards employed themfelves in travelling 
about from place to place, (inging pfalms and hymns. 
Others, much to the fame purpofe, derive lollhard, lullhard, 
lollert, or lullert, as it was written by the ancient Germans, 
from the old German word lul/cn, lollen, or lallen, and the 
termination hard, with which many of the High Dutch 
words end. Lollen fignifies “ to fing with a low voice,” 
and therefore Lollard is a linger, or one who frequently 
lings; and in the vulgar tongue of the Germans it de¬ 
notes a perfou who is continually praifing God with a 
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fong, or finging hymns to his honour. The Alexians, 
or Cellites, were called Lollards , becaufe they were public 
fingers who made it their bufinefs to inter the bodies of 
thofe who died of the plague, and fang a dirge over them 
in a mournful and indiftincl tone as they carried them to 
the grave. The name was afterwards aflumed by perfons 
that dilhonoured it; for we find that, among thofe Lollards 
who made extraordinary pretences to piety and religion, 
and fpent the greateft part of their time in meditation, 
prayer, and fuch acts of piety, there were many abomi¬ 
nable hypocrites, who entertained the moll ridiculous 
opinions, and concealed the moft enormous vices under 
the fpecious malk of this extraordinary profeffion. And 
many injurious afperfions were propagated againft thofe 
who aflumed this name by the prielts and monks ; fo that* 
by degrees, any perfon who covered heretics or crimes 
under the appearance of piety, was called a Lollard. 
Thus the name was not ufed to denote any one particular 
feet, but was formerly common to all perfons and all feeds 
who were fuppofed to be guilty of impiety towards God 
or the church, under an external profeffion of extraordi¬ 
nary piety. However, many focieties conlilting both of 
men and women under the name of Lollards , were formed 
in moft parts of Germany and Flanders, and were fup- 
ported partly by their manual labour, and partly by the 
charitable donations of pious perfons. The magiitrates 
and inhabitants of the towns where thefe brethren and 
fillers refided, gave them particular marks of favour and 
protection, on account of their great ufefulnefs to the 
fick and needy. They were thus fupported againft their 
malignant rivals, and obtained many papal conftitutions, 
by which their inftitute was confirmed, their perfons ex¬ 
empted from the cognizance of the inquifitors, and fub- 
jedted entirely to the jurifdiftion of the bifhops; but, as 
thefe meafures were infufficient to fecure them from mo- 
leftation, Charles duke of Burgundy, in the year 1472, 
obtained a folemn bull from pope Sixtus IV. ordering that 
the Cellites, or Lollards, lhould be ranked among the reli¬ 
gious orders, and be delivered from the jurifdiCtion of the 
bifhops ; and pope Julius II. granted them yet greater pri¬ 
vileges in the year 1506. Mofheim informs us that many 
focieties of this kind are dill fubfifting at Cologne, and 
in the cities of Flanders, though they have evidently de¬ 
parted from their ancient rules. 
Walter, who was burnt at Cologne, is by fome called 
a Bcggard, by others a Lollard, and by others a Minorite. 
This Walter was a Dutchman by birth, who was diftin- 
guifhed for his eloquence, and became the chief leader 
and champion of the Beggards upon the Rhine. Havinp- 
been driven by perfecution from Upper Germany, he re¬ 
moved from Mentz to Cologne, where he was arrefted by ' 
the inquifition. Being tried for herely, and refufing to 
renounce the opinions of the myftics which he had em¬ 
braced, he was condemned to the flames. To this cruel 
punilhment he fubmitted, with the fortitude and cheer- 
fulnefs of a primitive martyr, in the year 1322. We are 
told that Walter the Lollard and his followers rejected 
the facrifice of the- mafs, extreme unltion, and penances 
for fin ; arguing, that Chrift’s fufferings were fufficient. 
He is likewife laid to have fet afide baptifm, as a thing of 
no efteCt ; and repentance, as not abfolutely neceflary. Sec. 
In England, the followers of Wickliffe were called, by 
way of reproach, Lollards, from fome affinity there was 
between fome of their tenets; though others are of opi¬ 
nion that the Englifh Lollards came from Germany. 
They were folemnly condemned by the archbifhop of Can¬ 
terbury and the council of Oxford. 
LOL'LARDY, f. The doctrine of Lollards.— Lollardy 
was made a temporal offence, and indictable in the king’s 
courts. Blachjlone. 
LOLLGUN'GE, a town of Bengal •. twenty miles eaft- 
north-eaft of Purneah. 
LOL'LIA PAUI.LI NA, a beautiful woman, who mar¬ 
ried Caius Caefar, and afterwards Caligula. She was di¬ 
vorced and put to death by means of Aarippina. Taoitus. 
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