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LOSENIT'ZA, a town of European Turkey, in Servia s 
thirty miles fouth-fouth-weft of Sabacz. 
LO'SEABLE, adj. Subject to privation.—Confider 
whether motion or a propensity to it, be an inherent 
quality belonging to atoms in general, and not lofcable by 
them. Boyle. 
LO'SEL,/. [from lopnn, Sax. to perifh. ] A Scoundrel; 
a forry worthlefs fellow. Objokte. —Such lo/els and Scatter- 
lings cannot eafily, by any Iheriff, be gotten, when they 
are challenged for any fuch fact. Spenfer, 
Be not with work of tofds wit defamed, 
Ne let fuch verfes poetry be named. Hubbcrd's Tale. 
LOS'ENGE,/ {lafange, Fr.] The old and correct way of 
fpelling Lozenge, which fee. As lozenges wbre gene- 
rall}' compofed of fubltances fweetand grateful to the pa¬ 
late, hence the fame word is tiled in Chaucer to Signify 
flattering lies; and hence we ha ve-Lofenger, a liar, a de¬ 
ceiver, a flatterer; and Lofcngery, for flattery and deceit. 
LOSEN'KO (Anthony,) an hiftory-painter, who flou¬ 
rished at Peterfburgh during the lalt century. He was ad¬ 
mitted in 1759 into the Academy of Arts, who fent him 
to Italy and France, where he exerciSed his talents. His 
Sketches are in great requelt. His molt admired pieces 
are, the portrait of the princefs Potozka, and the Parting 
of Ileftor and Andromache. After being appointed di¬ 
rector of the academy, he died in 1773. 
LO'SER,/. One that is deprived of any thing; one 
that forfeits any thing; one that is impaired in his poSFef- 
Sion or hope : the contrary to winner or gainer.— No man 
can be provident of his time that is not prudent in the 
choice of his company ; and, if one of the Speakers be vain, 
tedious, and trifling, he that hears, and he that anfwers, 
are equal lofers of their time. Taylor's Holy Living. 
With the lojcrs let it fympathize, 
For nothing can feem foul to thofethat w in. Shaiefpeare. 
LO'SER, a town of the electorate of Salzburg, on the 
Stampach : twenty miles eaft of Kufrltein, and twenty-one 
South-welt Salzburg. 
LO'SING,/ The aCt by which lofs is fullained, the 
Slate of being loft. 
LOSI'TO, a town of Naples, in the province of Bari: 
Six miles eaft of Bittetto. 
L.OSOR'GA, a towm of the ifland of Sardinia, eleven 
miles South of Bola. 
LOS'QUET, a fmall ifland in the English Channel, near 
the coaft of France. Lat. 43. 49. N. Ion. 3.31. W. 
LOSS,/; Detriment; privation; diminution of good ; 
the contrary to gain. —The only gain he purchafed was 
to be capable of lofs and detriment for thegood of others. 
Hooker. —An evil-natured fon is the dishonour of his fa¬ 
ther that begat him ; and a fooiilh daughter is born to 
his Infs. Ecclus.— M \(&; privation: 
If he were dead, what would betide of me ?— 
No'other harm but lofs of Inch a lord.— 
The lofs of fuch a lord includes all harms, Skakefpeare. 
Deprivation; forfeiture: 
Lofs of Eden, till one greater man 
Reltore it, and regain. Milton. 
DeftruCtion.—There fucceeded an abfolute victory for the 
English, with the Slaughter of above two thoufand of the 
enemy, with the lofs but of one man, though not a few 
hurt. Bacon. 
Her fellow-Ships from far her lofs defcry’d, 
But only She was funk, and all were fafe belide. Dryden. 
Fault ; puzzle : ufed only in the following phrafer—Rea- 
f'oh is always driving, and aiways at a lofs, while it is ex- 
ercifed about that which is not its proper object. Dryden. 
■—A man may Sometimes be at a lofs which fide to clofe 
with. Baker on Learning. —UTelefs application.—It would 
be lofsoi time to explain any farther our Superiority to the 
enemy in numbers of men and horfe. Addifcn. 
LOT 
LOSS, a clufter of fmall illands in the Atlantic, near 
the coalt of Africa. Lat. 9.16.N. Ion. 13. W. 
LOS'SA, a town of Silefia, in the principality of Brieg : 
five miles South-eaft of Brieg. 
LOS'SA, or Los'se, a river of Thuringia, which runs 
into tile Unftrutt. 
LOS'SABACH, a river of Saxony, which runs into the 
Mulda near Eulenburg. 
LOSSAU', a tow n of Germany, in the principality cf 
Bayreuth : nine miles fouth-eaft of Bayreuth. 
LOSS'EN, a town of the duchy of Courlaud : thirty-two 
miles fbuth-eaft of Seelburg. 
LOSSTE, a river of Scotland, which rifes in the county 
of Murray, and runs into the fee at LoSfiemouth. It is 
celebrated for its trout. 
LOSS'IEMOUTH, a feaport town of Scotland, in the 
county of Murray, Situated at the mouth of the Lofiie. It 
has only a Sloop and a few fiShing-veflels which belong to 
the place; the harbour is convenient for vefiels of 80 tons. 
In 1793, it had only 180 inhabitants: fix miles north 
of-Elgin. 
LOSS'IN (Great), a town in thefouth part of the ifland 
of Clierfo, containing about 1800 inhabitants. 
LOSS'IN (Little), a town of the ifland Cherfo, con¬ 
taining about 1600 inhabitants: one mile fouth of Great 
Loflin. 
LOSS'IUS (Lucas), of Lunenburg, a Lutheran divine 
and fchooi-rr,after, well Skilled in mufic, who published at 
Nuremburg, in 1553, Erotomata Muficse prafficas, and Lu¬ 
theran PSalmodia. At the time of the Reformation, the 
Lutherans preferved more mufic in their liturgy than the 
Calvinifts, or the Church of England. 
LOSS'NITZ, a town of Saxony, iu the lord Sir ip ofSchou- 
berg, ten miles fouth-eaft of Zwicka, and fifty South-well 
of Drefden. Lat. 50. 32. N. Ion. is. 37. E. 
LOST, participal adj. No longer perceptible: 
In fe vert teen days appear’d your pleafing coaft. 
And woody mountains, half in vapours loft. Pope. 
LOS'TITZ. See Loschetz. * 
LOS'TORFF, a town of Austria : nine miles weft of 
St. Polten. 
LOSTWITH'IEL. See Lestwithiel, vcl. xii. p. 535. 
LOS'VA, a river of Ruflia, which runs into the SoSva 
in the government of Tobolsk, forty miles weft of Pelim, 
LOS'ZLAU, or Wodislau, a town of Silefia, and 
principal place of a lordShip in the principality of Rari- 
bor : eighteen miles north-north-weft of Tefchen, and 
eleven fouth-eaft of Rafibor. Lat. 49. 57. N. Ion. 18. 18. E. 
LOT,/! \_hlaut, Gothic ; hlot:. Sax. lot, Dut.] Fortune; 
State afligned.—Our own lot is belt; and, by aiming at w hat 
we have not, we lofe what we have already. L'Eflrange. 
Prepar’d I Stand ; he was but born to try 
The lot of man, to Suffer and to die. Pope’s Odyffey. 
A die, or any thing ufed in determining chance's.—Aaron 
Shall calt lots upon the tyvo goats; one let tor the Lord, 
and the other lot for the fcape-goat. Lev . xvi. 8. 
Their talks in equal portions She divides; 
And, where unequal, there by lots decides. Dryden. 
It feems in Shakefpeare to fignify a lucky or vviftied chance >. 
If you have heard your general talk of Rome, 
And of his friends there, it is lots to blanks 
My name hath touch’d your ears ; it is Menenius. S/iakefp. 
A portion ; a parcel cf goods as being drawn by lot: as, 
Whar/ctf of fiIks had you at the fale ?—Proportion of taxes: 
as, To pay Scot and lot. 
Lot is in Perfian pur-, whence the Ptirim, or feaft of 
lots. EJlher iii. Cafting lots is authorised in many parts 
of Scripture. God commanded that lots Should be calt 
upon the two goats, offered for the fins of the multitude, 
on the folemn day of expiation; to afeertain which of 
the two Should be facrificed, and which fet at liberty, 
a Lev. 
