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Rofe, a jioem famous in the middle ages. Under the al¬ 
legory of a rofe planted in a delicious garden, and pro¬ 
tected by walls and bulwarks, it defcribes a lover’s pur- 
fuit and final acquifition of the objeft of his pafiion. 
Lorris left the work unfinifhed ; and it was completed in 
the next century by John Clopinel, or de Metin. Not 
one quarter of the whole was compofed by Lorris; but 
Ills part is by much the moft poetical, abounding in rich 
and elegant defcription, and in the lively portraiture of 
allegorical perfon3ges. Much morality and fatire is in- 
terfperfed, efpecially in the part written by Johnde Meun. 
The bed edition of the Roman de la Rofe is that of the 
abbe de Lenglet, Amd. 3 volumes nmo, 1735- Chaucer 
has given a tranflation of the greater part of it, compri- 
fing all belonging to William ae Lorris. Warton's Hif, of 
Engli/k Pottry, 
LOR'RY (Anne-Ch3rles), a learned French phyfician, 
■was born in 1715, at Crofny, near Paris. He became 
doftor-regent of the faculty of Paris, and exercifed his 
profeflion with equal reputation and modedy. After a 
fuccefsful cafe, he was ufed to fay, ** I will never permit 
myfelf to aflert that 1 have cured fuel) a patient ; but that 
he was under my care, and the difeafe terminated happily.” 
He was the author of the following works : 1. Eflai fur 
1 ’Ufage des Alimens, pour fervir de commentaire anx 
livres dietetiques d’Hippocrate, 1753 and 1757. 2. De 
Melancholia et Morbis Melancholicis, 2 vols. 8vo. 1765. 
3. TraCfatusde Morbis Cutaneis,4to. 1777. Healfogave 
an edition of the Apliorifms of Hippocrates, Gr. and 
Lat. 8vo. 1759 5 °f the Works of Dr. Mead, in Latin, 2 
vols. Svo. of the Medicina Statica of Sancforius, with 
Commentaries, 1770, nmo. and of Dr. Adruc’s Memoires 
pour fervir a l’Hidoire de la Faculte de Montpellier, 4to. 
1767. Dr. Lorry died at the baths of Bourbonne in 1783. 
Eloy, Dill. de la Med. 
LORSCH, or Lau'rf.sheim, an abbey of Germany, 
fituated on a narrow ifland in the electorate of Mentz, 
founded by Pepin king of France. The emperor Frede¬ 
ric ceded it to the archbilhop of Mentz in 1232, as a fief 
of the empire. In the year 1768, a work was printed at 
Manheim, called Codex Laurediamenfis Diplomaticus, of 
confiderable life in the geography of the middle age. It 
is 6 miles ead ofWorms. 
LOR'SQUEN, a toivn of France, in the department of 
the Meurthe, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCt of 
Sarrebourg ; four miles fouth-fouth-ead of Sarrebourg. 
The place contains 1164, and the canton 13,680, inhabi¬ 
tants, in 29 communes. 
LORUHA'MA, [Heb. unpitied.J The name of a wo¬ 
man. Hofea. 
LORUN'GAH, a pafs in the mountains of Bengal : 
eighteen miles wed of Ramgur. 
LOS CHAR'CAS. See Charcas. 
LOS REY'ES. See the article Lima, vol. xii. See 
alfo Reyes. 
LOSA'RI, a town of the ifland of Corfica : fifteen miles 
north of Calvi. 
LOS'CHAN, a town of Bohemia: four miles ead of 
Prague. 
LOS'CHETZ, or Lostitz, a town of Moravia, in Ol- 
mutz : two miles fouth of Muglitz. 
LOS'DORF, a town of Bohemia, in Leitmeritz : fix 
miles wed-fouth-wed of Kamnitz. 
To LOSE, v.a. [leopan, Sax.] To forfeit by unfuc- 
cefsful conted : the contrary to win; 
The lighten’d courfers ran ; 
They rudi’d, and won by turns, and lof the day. Dryden. 
To forfeit as a penalty. In this fenfe is Paradife /of ; 
Fame ! few, alas! the cafual blefiing boad. 
So hard to gain, fo eafy to be /of! Pope. 
To be deprived of.—He /of his right hand with a fiiot, 
and, infteaJ thereof, ever after ufed a hand of iron. Knolles. 
Vol. XIII. No. 935. 
Who conquer’d him, and in what fatal ftrife 
The youth, without a wound, could lofe his life. Dryden. 
To differ diminution of.—The fear of the Lord goeth be¬ 
fore obtaining of authority ; but roughnefs and pride is 
the lofng thereof. Ecclus. x. 21.—If fait have lofhis favour, 
wherewith fhall it be falted ? Matthew. —To pofiefs no 
longer: contrary to keep.—T hey have lof their trade of 
woollen-drapery. Graunt. 
No youth fiiall equal hopes of glory give, 
The Trojan honour and the Roman boad, 
Admir’d when living, and ador’d when lof. Dryden. 
To mifs, fo as not to find : 
Venus wept the fad didader 
Of having lof her fav’rite dove. Prior. 
To feparate or alienate. It is perhaps in this fenfe always 
ufed pafiively, with to before that from which the repara¬ 
tion is made.—When men are openly abandoned, and loft 
to all fliame, they have no reafon to think it hard if their 
memory be reproached. Swift. 
But if to honour lof ’ris ftill decreed 
For you my bowl fhall flow, my flocks fiiall bleed ; 
Judge and aflert my right, impartial Jove. Pope. 
To ruin ; to fend in perdition : 
In fpite of all the virtue we can boad. 
The woman that deliberates is lof. Addifon. 
To bewilder; fo as that the way is no longer known.—• 
Nor are con dan t forms of prayer more likely to fiat and 
hinder thefpiritof prayer and devotion, than unpremedi¬ 
tated and confufed variety to did raft and lofe it. King Char lei. 
I will go lofe myfelf. 
And wander up and down to view the city. Shakefpcare. 
To deprive of.—How fhould you go about to lofe him a 
wife he loves with fo much pafiion ? Temple .— Not to em¬ 
ploy ; not to enjoy: 
The happy have whole days, and tho r e they ufe ; 
Th’ unhappy have but hours, and thefe they lofe. Dryden. 
To fquander; to throw away : 
. I no more complain, 
Time, health, and fortune, are not lof in vain. Pope. 
To fuffer to vanifh from view : 
Oft in thepaffions wild rotation tod, 
Our fpring of aftion to ourfelves is lof. Pope. 
To deflroy by fliipwreck: 
The coad 
Where firft my fhipwreck’d heart was lof. Prior. 
To throw away 5 to employ ineffeftually.—He has merit 
good-nature, and integrity, that are not often lof upon great 
men, or at lead are not all three a match for flattery. Pope's 
Letters.— ~ T ° mifs; to part with, fo as not to recover._ 
Ihefe fliarp encounters, where always many more men 
are/e/Z than are killed or taken prifoners, put fucli a don 
to Middleton’s march, that he was glad to retire. Claren. 
don— To be freed from : as, to lofe a fever : 
His feely back the bunch has got 
Which Edwin lof before. Parnel. 
To LOSE, v. n. Not to win : 
We’ll hear poor rogues 
Talk of court-news, and we’ll talk with them too* 
Who lofes, and who wins; who’s in, who’s out. Shakefp. 
To decline ; to fail: 
Wifdom in difeourfe with her 
Lofes difcountenanc’d, and like folly fhews. Milton. 
LOSE CREEK, a river of Kentucky, which runs into 
the Ohio in lat. 37. 32. N. Ion. 88. 24. W. 
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