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prudence, and the proportions of the provocation : it 
would not have Tallied out into complaint or loudnefs. South. 
LOU'DON, a county of Virginia, in America, on the 
river Potowmac, adjoining Fairfax, Berkeley, and Faquier, 
counties; about fifty miles long and twenty broad; con¬ 
taining 1 5,533 free inhabitants, and 4990 fiaves. Its chief 
town is Leelburg. Quarries of grey done, white flint, and 
lime, are tound in this county. The climate is favourable 
to apples, pears, peaches, plums, cherries, and grapes. 
The county was firlt fettled from Pennfylvania and New 
Jerfey. 
LOU'DON, a townlhip in Rockingham county, New 
Hamplhiie, taken from Canterbury, and incorporated in 
1773 ; fituated. eaft of the Merrimack-river; and contain¬ 
ing 1279 inhabitants.—A townlhip in Berldhire county, 
Maffachufetts ; twenty-one miles fouth-eaft of Lenox ; 
incorporated in 1773 ; containing 614 inhabitants, and 
13,000 acres, of which 2944 are ponds. 
LOUDUN', a town of France, and principal place of a 
diftriCV, in the department of the Vienne, fituated on an 
eminence between the Creufe and the Dive ; twelve miles 
eaft of Thouars. The place contains 5138, and the canton 
11,299, inhabitants, in eighteen communes. Lat.47.o.N. 
Ion. o. 10. E. 
LOUE', a town of France, in the department of 
the Sar ;e, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
triCl of T e Mans; fifteen miles weft of Le Mans. The 
place contains 1204, and the canton 12,563, inhabitants, 
in fixteen communes. 
To LOVE, v. a. [lupian, San.] To regard with paf- 
fionate affeCtion, as that of one lex to the other.—The 
jealous man wilhe.s hitnfelf a kind of deity to the perfon 
he loves-, he would be the only employment of her thoughts. 
Addifon. 
Good fliepherd, tell this youth what ’tis to love. 
—It is to be made all of fighs and tears ; 
It is to be made all of faith and fervice ; 
It is to be all made of fantafy, 
All made of pafflon, and all made of willies j 
All adoration, duty, and obedience ; * 
All humblenefs, all patience, all impatience, 
All purity, all trial, all obfervance. Shakefpeare. 
To regard with the affection of a friend : 
None but his brethren he, and lifters, knew. 
Whom the kind youth preferred to me. 
And much above myfelf I lov'd them too. Cozvley. 
To regard with parental tendernefs.—He that loveth me 
fliall be loved of my Father; and I will love him, and will 
manifeft myfelf to him. John. —To be pleated with ; to 
delight in.—Fi(h ufed to fait water delight more in frefh : 
we Tee that falmons and fmeits love to get into rivers, 
though againft the ftream. Bacon's Nat. Hijl. 
He lov'd my worthless rhimes, and, like a friend. 
Would find out fomething to commend. Cowley. 
To regard with reverent unwillingnefs to offend.— Love 
the Lord thy God with all thine heart. Deut. vi. 5. 
LOVE, f. The pafiion between the fexes.—You know 
y’are in my pow’r by making love. Dryden. 
Let mutual joys our mutual truft combine, 
And love and love-born confidence be thine. Pope. 
Kindnefs; good-will; friendfhip.—— By this fliall all men 
know that ye are my difciples, if ye have love one to an¬ 
other. John xiii. 35. 
What love, think’ft thou, I fue fo much to get? 
That love which virtue begs, and virtue grants. Shakefpeare. 
Courtftiip: 
Demetrius 
Made love to Nedar’s daughter Helena, 
And won her foul. Skakefp. Midf. Night's Dream, 
If you will marry, make your loves to me ; 
My lady is befpoke. Shakejpeare' & King Lear . 
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Tendernefs; parental care.—No religion that ever was, 
fo fully reprefents the goodnefs of God, and his tender 
love to mankind, which is the moft powerful argument to 
the love of God. Ti/lot/on. —Liking; inclination to: as, 
The love of one’s'country : 
In youth, of patrimonial wealth poffeft. 
The love of fcience faintly warm’d his breaft. Fenton. 
ObjeCl beloved.—The lover and the love of human kind, 
Pope. 
If that the world and love were young 
And truth in every Ihepherd’s tongue; 
Thefe pretty pleafures might me move, 
To live with thee, and be thy love. Shakefpeare » 
Lewdnefs : 
He is not lolling on a lewd love bed, 
But on his knees at meditation. Shakefpeare, 
Unreafonable liking.—The love to fin makes a man fin 
againft his own reafon. Taylor. —Fondnefs ; concord.— 
Shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the 
fpiiit of meeknefs ? 1 Cor. iv. 21. 
Come, love and health to all 1 
Then I’ll fit down : give me fome wine ; fill full. Skakefp . 
Principle of union.— Love is the great inftrument of na¬ 
ture, the bond and cement of fociety, the fpiritand fpring 
of the univerfe: love is fuch an affection as cannot fo pro¬ 
perly be laid to be in the foul, as the foul to be in that: 
it is the whole man wrapt up into one defire. South.— -Pic- 
turefque reprefentation of love : 
The lovely babe was born with every grace : 
Such was his form as painters, when they fhow 
Their utmoft art, on naked loves beftow. Dryden, 
A word of endearment: 
’Tis no dilhonour, trull me, love, ’tis none : 
I would die for thee. Dryden's Don Sebajlian. 
Due reverence to God.— Love is of two forts, of friend- 
fhin and of defire ; the one betwixt friends, the other be¬ 
twixt lovers; the one a rational, the other a fenfitive, love: 
fo our love of God confifts of two parts, as efteeming of 
God, and defiring of him. Hammond. —The love of God 
makes a man chafte without the laborious arts of faffing, 
and exterior difeiplines; he reaches at glory without any 
other arms but thofe of love. Taylor. —A kind of thin filk 
ftuff.—This leaf held near the eye, and obverted to 
the light, appeared fo full of pores, with fuch a tranfpa- 
rency as that of a lieve, a piece of cyprefs, or love hood. 
Boyle on Colours, [Ufed poetically by Spenfer for] Lover ; 
Ke unto her a penance did impofe, 
Which was, that through the world’s wyde wildernes 
She wander Ihouki in companie of thofe, 
Till (he had fav’d fo many loves as Ihe did lofe. Fairy Queen. 
Love, in a large fenfe of the word, denotes all thofe af¬ 
fections of the pleafing kind which objects and incidents 
raife in us ; thus vve are faid to love not only intelligent 
agents of morally good difpofitions, but alfo fenlual plea- 
lures, riches, anti honours. But love in its ufual and 
more appropriate fignification, may be defined, “ that af¬ 
fection which, being compounded of animal defire, efteem, 
and benevolence, becomes the bond of attachment and 
union between individuals of the different fexes; and 
makes them feel in the fociety of each other a fpecies of 
happinefs which they experience no-where elfe.” We 
call it an ajfeElion rather than 3.paJJion, becaufe it involves 
a defire of the happinefs of its objeft: and that its con- 
ftifuent parts are thofe which have been juft enumerated, 
welliall firft endeavour to prove,"and then proceed to trace 
its rife and progrefs from a felfilh appetite to a generous 
fentiment. 
Animal defire is the aClual energy of the fenfual appe¬ 
tite : and that it is an effential part of the complex affec¬ 
tion, which is properly called love , is apparent from this 
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