-m ton 
verging < 3 ownwar 3 s, quite entire, veinlefs, henry. Flow- 
*rs fickle-fhaped, orange, Foun 4 by Koenig, growing 
on trees about Madras. 
16. Loranthus fpicatus, or fpiked loranthus i fpikes 
quadrangular. This branching (hrubby plant grows on 
other fhrubs. The. root divides in two, furrounding the 
branch to which it fallens itleif, and then uniting again ; 
it there puts out fibres on every fide, and runs along the 
branch frequently to a great length. Branches woody, 
diff-ufcd, brittle. Leaves quite entire, blunt, finooth, co¬ 
riaceous, fat to the touch, petioled, oppofite, with all-end¬ 
ing veins or nerves almo.fi all fpringing from the bafe; 
their figure varies, being ovate, oval, obovate, or roundilh. 
Flowers fmall, inodorous, red, very many, deepfr fefiile in 
four longitudinal rows. Berry ovate-oblong-, green with 
a red tip, and containing a milky glutinous juice. Na¬ 
tive of Carthagena in New Spain, in woods; flowering in 
April and May. 
"17. Loranthus Cochinenfis, or Cochin-china loranthus: 
peduncles many-flowered, heaped ; leaves acute. Stem 
woody, twilled, fiiort, very much branched. Native of 
Cochin-china, on the branches of trees in gardens. 
18. Loranthus pedunculatus, or pedflncled loranthus: 
(racemes fun pie, folitary; flowers in threes, peduncled. 
Root as in L. fpicatus; branches (hiding, long, reclined. 
Leaves cordate-ovate, quite entire, with a (hort point, 
fnining, oppofite, two inches long, with veins from the 
midrib. Flowers inodorous, fmall; calyx of the fruit 
ovate, concave, entire; petals white: it happens fre¬ 
quently that there are no antherse, out cufped upright 
bodies in their place ; and hence the flowers in this fpe- 
cies are very frequently abortive. Native of Carthagena, 
jn woods, efpecially in i'alt marfhes. 
19. Loranthus leffilis, or feflile loranthus: racemes fim- 
-ple, folitary; flowers in threes, feflile. This has the ha¬ 
bit of the preceding, but the branches as in L. fpicatus. 
Leaves ovate, an inch and a half long. The flowers have 
■no proper peduncles, but are placed on the thickened top 
of the partial peduncle. All the filaments are always an- 
fheriferous. Berries of a dulky greenifh red colour. Na¬ 
tive of Carthagena, in woods. 
LORA'RII,/! Among the Romans, officers whofe bu- 
finefs it was, with whips, and fcotirges, to compel the gla¬ 
diators to engage. The lorarii alfo punilhed (laves who 
difobeyed their matters. 
LOR'BUS, or Lerba, a town of Africa, in the country 
of 'Funis; anciently called Laribus Colonia : ten miles vvelt- 
fouth-weft of Tuberlake. 
LOR'CA, anciently called Cliocrata, a town of Spain, 
of conflderable fize, in Murcia, fituated very near the con¬ 
fines of the kingdom of Granada, at the foot of a deep 
mountain, confiding almoft wholly of fchid, and denomi¬ 
nated the Sierra del Cano, on the right bank of the Gua- 
dqjentin. 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 cadle, ad vantageoufly fituated on the top of the 
mountain, which was ftrong under the Moors and under 
the kings of Cadile ; 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 part on the decli¬ 
vity of the hill formerly occupied by the Moors ; and the 
latter, which is more modem and better built, (lands alto¬ 
gether on level ground ; it has four gates and feveral 
.fquares, and two fuburbs ; and its extent is fufficient to 
accommodate 1200 perfons. The population of Lorca is 
computed at about 30,000 inhabitants, partly of noble 
ancient families, and devoted to agriculture, and partly 
very poor ; intermixed with the other inhabitants are fe¬ 
veral wandering vagabonds, called Gitanos, or gypfies. 
Lorca has at prefent a collegiate chapter, eight parifh- 
churches, feven monafleries, two nunneries, two hoipitals, 
«ne for men and the other for women, aad a college for 
h O E 
the inftruflian of youth. It is governed by a eorreg 5 dot» r 
and twenty-four regidors, who form the principality 5 it 
has a manufacture of falt-petre, but 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 fo¬ 
reigners, efpecially the French, who are fettled here. The 
town fuflered much in 180a by an inundation from a large 
bafin or refervoir, which had been ccnftruCled of an im- 
menfe fize in order to water the whole of its adjacent ter¬ 
ritory. This bafin being undermined, the water rufhed 
from it with fuch impetuofity, that it wholly deftroyed 
one of its fuburbs, confiding of about 600 houfes, and fe¬ 
veral public buildings, and extended its deftru&ive ra¬ 
vages to an extent of 16 leagues ; fo that the number of 
people who perifiied was eftimated at 6000, and the ani¬ 
mals at 24,000. The whole lofs was eftimated at 200 mil¬ 
lions of reals, or about 2,083,333!. fteriing. Lorca is dis¬ 
tant forty two miles weft of Carthagena. Lat. 37. 38. N. 
Ion. 2. W. 
LORCH, a town of Germany, whofe inhabitants fub- 
fift principally by cultivating vineyards and making'wine. 
In 1707, 3000 Germans were defeated here by the marfhal 
de Villars, and their commander general Janus made pri- 
foner : twenty-four miles weft-fouth-weft of Mentz, and 
five fouth-fouth-eaft of Caub. 
LORCH, or Lorich, (Melchior), an engraver of the 
German fcliool, was born at Flenfburg, in the duchy of 
Slcfwic, in the year 1527 ; and died at Rome in 1586. He 
was diftinguifhed as an artift and an antiquary : fome 
time about the middle period of his life, he made a voyage 
to Conftantinople, where he painted and engraved the 
portraits of the grand feignior and his favourite, which 
are now become very rare, and where he formed that col¬ 
lection of Turkifh drefies, which were afterwards engraven 
on wood, and publifhed in the year 1576, in a folio vo¬ 
lume. His engravings are decidedly thofe of a man of 
talent: he drew with conflderable fpirit, and a tolerable 
degree of correClnefs. His works on wood are executed 
■with much freedom and boldnefs; while in thofe on cop¬ 
per thefe qualities are in fome degree loft in the nsatnefs 
to which he laboured his finifhing. Strutt fueaks of a 
crucified figure, which is defigned lo much in the Ityle 
of Michael Angelo, that he fuppofeS it to be engraven 
after fome work of that great mafter, as a very extraordi¬ 
nary production. The works of Lorich, which are held 
in moil requeft among connoifleurs, are—The portrait of 
Martin Luther, dated 1548; that of Albert Durer, with 
four Latin verfes, dated 1550, a very rare print; done in 
imitation of a cameo; Ariltotle, dated 1561; St. Jerome 
in the Defert, dated 1546 ; thefe are on copper. His bed 
engravings on wood, are a fet mentioned above, of th« 
coftume of Turkey, in fmall folio, dated from 5570 to 
1581 ; the Tiburtine Sybil, dated 1571 ; a woman prefling 
her breaft, with numerous animals below, and inferibed 
Ops Saturni conjux materqae Deorum, a very l'pirited engrav¬ 
ing in folio, dated 1565 ; and the deluge, a large folio, 
engraven on two blocks, the impreffions from which are 
afterwards palled together. The vyorks of Lorch may be 
knowm by one or other of the monograms annexed to the 
preceding Plate. 
LOR'CHHAUSEN, a town of Germany, fituated on 
the Rhine: tvventy-feven miles weft of Mentz 
LORD, f. [hlapqib, Sax.] Monarch; ruler; gover¬ 
nor.—We have our author’s only arguments to prove s 
that heirs are lords over their brethren. Locke. 
O’er love, o’er fear,-extends his wide domain. 
Unconquer’d lord of pleafure and of pain. Joktifon . 
Mafter; fupreme perfon : 
But now I was the lord 
Of this fair manfion, mafter of my fervants. 
Queen o’er myfelf; and even now', but now. 
This houfe, thefe fervaflts, and this fame myfelf. 
Are yours, my lord, Shahefp, Mach, of Venice. 
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