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loricated, or plaftered over, the Tides of the tympanum in 
animals with ear-wax, to hop and entangle any infers 
that (hould attempt to creep in there. Ray. 
LOR'ICATING, f. The aft of plating over; of de¬ 
fending with a coat of mail. 
LORICA'TION, or Lorification, / in chemiftry, 
is the covering of a glafs or earthen veflel with a coat or 
cruft of a matter able to refift the fire, to prevent its 
breaking in the performing of an operation that requires 
great violence of heat. When ve.Tels are expofed to a fire 
too ltrong for their ftrufture, or to the corrofive quality 
contained in them, or on the throwing on of frefh cold 
fuel into the fire where they Hand, it frequently happens 
that they crack and burft; for the preventing of which, 
the operator has recourfe to this method of coating or lo- 
ricating his vefiels. It is performed in the following man¬ 
ner: Take a quantity of walhed clay, with an admix¬ 
ture of pure fand, powder of calcined flints, or broken 
crucibles; and, inftead of pure water, moiften it with 
frefh blood that has not yet been coagulated, diluted with 
twice or three times its quantity of water ; make the clay 
with this into a thin pafte, and work into it fome cow’s 
hair, or other hair not too long nor too ft iff, and a little 
powdered and fifted glafs, if you have it at hand ; fmear 
over the veflel intended to be ufed with this pafte, by 
means of a pencil, and fet it to dry ; when dry, befinear 
it again, and repeat the operation till the veflel have a 
cruft of a third, or a quarter of an inch, at leaft, thick of 
this matter, and let it be thoroughly dry before it is ufed. 
To keep blood in a proper (fate for this life, it muft, when 
juft let out from the animal, be well ftirred about with a 
flick for Tome time, at leaft till it is quite cold ; and, being 
thus prepared, it will keep for fome days without coagu¬ 
lating, and fit for ufe. This compofition, with an ad¬ 
mixture of bole, worked into a pafte with the whites of 
eggs, diluted with water, makes alfo the proper lute for 
clofing the junftures of other chemical vefiels, in the dif- 
tilling ftrong fpirits. Chaptal recommends a foft mix¬ 
ture of marly earth, firft foaked in water, and then 
kneaded with frefh horfe-dung, as a mod excellent coating. 
The valuable method ufed by Mr. Willis of Wapping to 
fecure or repair his retorts ufed in the diftillation of phof- 
phorus, deferves to be mentioned here. The retorts are 
fmeared with a folution of borax to which fome flaked 
lime has been added ; and, when dry, they are again 
fmeared with a thin pafte of flaked lime and linfeed oil. 
This pafte, being made fomewliat thicker, is applied with 
fuccefs, during the diftillation, to mend fuch retorts as 
crack by the fire. Nicholj'orCs Chtm. Dicl. vol. i. 
LOR'EMER, or Loriner. See p. 612. 
LO'RIN (John), a learned French Jefuit, was born at 
Avignon in the year 1559- He filled the divinity-chair 
with great reputation, at Paris, Rome, Milan, and other 
places; and died at Dole, in 1634, when about feventy- 
five years of age. He was the author of long Commen¬ 
taries on Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, the Pfalms, 
Ecclefiaftes, the Book of Wifdom, the Afts of the Apof- 
tles, and the Catholic Epiftles. They difplay much eru¬ 
dition, and a critical knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew 
languages ; and they contain much valuable information 
on queftions relating to hiftory, doftrinal points, and ec- 
clefiaftical difcipline ; but they would have been much 
more ufeful and acceptable, had the author reduced them 
within a narrower compafs. 
LO'RING,/! [from lore.'] Inftruftive difeourfe : 
That all they, as a goddefs her adoring, 
Her wifdome did admire, and hearkened to her loring. Sp. 
LORIO'L, a town of France, in the department of the 
Drome : twelve miles fouth of Valence, and nine weft of 
Creft. 
LO'RIOT, f. A name fometimes ufed for the golden 
oriole, or Oriolus galbula, which fee. 
LOR'IPES, ad}. [Latin.] Club-footed. 
LOR'IPES, /. A name tiled by fome authors for the 
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long-legged plover, a bird remarkable for the length and 
weaknefs of its legs. See Charadrius himantopus, vol. 
iv. p. 105. 
LO'RIS. See Lemur tardigradns, vol. xii. p, 413. 
LOR'ME, a town of France, and feat of a tribunal, ira 
the department of the Nyevre : thirty-three miles north- 
eaft of Nevers, and fix eaft-north-eaft of Corbigny. 
LOR'ME (Philibert de). an eminent French architefl, 
was born at Lyons in the early part of the fixteenth cen¬ 
tury. He went to Italy at the age of fourteen, to ftudy 
the beauties of ancient art, when his zeal and afliduiry 
attrafted the notice of cardinal Cervino, afterwards pope 
Marcellus II. who took him into his palace, and aflifterl 
him in his purfuits. He returned to France in 1536, and 
was employed in feveral buildings, in which he introduced 
contrivances not before known in that country ; and to 
him is attributed the banifhment of the Gothic tafte from 
France, and the fubftitution of the Grecian. Cardinal 
du Bellay made him known to Henry II. for whom he 
planned the horfe-flioe at Fontainebleau, and the chateaus 
of Anet and Meudon. After the death of that king, 
Catharine de Medicis made him intendant of her build¬ 
ings. Under her direftion he repaired and augmented fe- 
veral of the royal refidences, and made a commencement 
of the palace of the Thuilleries. As a recompence for 
his fervices, he was prefented in 1555 with two abbacies, 
and created counfellor and almoner in ordinary to the 
king. Thefe favours are faid to have made him infolent; 
and the post Ronfard conceived lo much difpleafure or 
jealoufy againft him, that he fatirifed him in a piece en¬ 
titled La Truelle Crojfee, the Croziered Trowel. De Lorme 
in return (hut the garden of the Thuilleries againft him; 
but the queen took the part of the poet, and reprimanded 
the reverend architeft. fie died in 1577. De Lorme 
publiflied, 1. Dix Livres d’Architefture, fol. 1567. in 
which there is much ufeful inftruftion concerning the 
manner of cutting (tones, and conltructing a building, 
in which he excelled more than in knowledge of the ar- 
chiteftural orders. 2. Nouvelles Inventions pour biea 
batir & a petits frais, fol. 1576 the plan of laving ex- 
penl’e. conlifts chiefly in fubftituting fir to the ufual build¬ 
ing-timber, which he firft pronofed and praftifed ia 
France. D'Argenville Vi.es des Archit. 
LORN , pret. pajf. [lojilan, Sax.] Forfaken; loft : 
Who after that he had fair Una lorn, 
Through light mifdeeniing of her loyalty. Fairy Queen, 
LORN, a divifion of Argyll (hire in Scotland, which 
gives the title of marquis to the duke of Argyll. It ex¬ 
tends above thirty miles in length from north to fouth, 
and about nine at its utmoft breadth ; bounded on the 
eaft by Braidalbin ; on the weft by the iflands ; on the 
north; by Lochaber ; and is divided from Knapdale, on 
the Couth, by Loch Etive, on the banks of which (lands 
the cattle of Bergomarn, wherein the courts of juftice 
were anciently held. This di ft rich, abounding'with lakes, 
is the moll pleafant and fertile part of Argyillhire, pro¬ 
ducing plenty of oats and barley. It once belonged to 
the ancient family of Macdougal, (till redding on the fpot; 
but devolved to the lords of Argyll in confequence of a 
marriage with the heirefs, at that time a branch of the 
Stuart family. 
The chief place cf note in this diftrift is the cattle of 
Dunftaffnage, a feat- of the Scottifh kings previous to the 
conqueft of the Pifls in 843 by Kenneth II. In this 
place was long preferved the famous (tone, the palladium 
of North Britain ; brought, fays legend, out of Spain, 
where it was-firft ufed as a feat of juftice by Gathelus, 
coeval with Mofec. It continued here as the coronation- 
chair till the reign of Kenneth II. who removed it to 
Scone, anno 840, in order to fecure his reign ; for, accord¬ 
ing to the infeription, 
Ni fallat fatum, Scoti quocunque locatum, 
Invenient lapidsm , regnare tencant-ur ibidem. 
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