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LOU'ISTOWN, a town of America, in Talfcot comity, 
Maryland, on the weft fide of Tuckahoe Creek: four 
miles north of King’s Town. 
LOU'ISTOWN, a poft tovvn in Lincoln county, Maine, 
on the eaft fide of Androfcoggin-river, and bounded fouth- 
weft by Bowdoin ; containing 948 inhabitants : thirty-fix 
miles north-eaft of Portland. 
LOU'ISTOWN, a poft-tovvn in Suflex county, Dela¬ 
ware, pleafantly fituated on Lewes-creek, three miles 
above its mouth in Delaware-bay; containing a prefbyte- 
rian and inethodift meetings, and about eighty houfes, in 
a ftreet more than three miles in length, extending along 
a creek which feparates the town from the pitch of the 
cape. The court-houfe and gaol are commodious build¬ 
ings. The entrance of the bay is crowded with vefiels 
from all parts of the world ; but during parr of the win¬ 
ter is clofed with ice. The circumjacent country is beau¬ 
tifully diverfified with hills, woods, ftreams, and lakes, 
but much infefted with mofquitoes and fand-flies. This 
town carries on a fmall trade with Philadelphia in the 
productions of the country. A manufacture of marine 
and Glauber falts, and magnefia, has been eltablifhed here. 
It is 113 miles fouth of Philadelphia. Lat. 38 6. N. Ion. 
75. 18. W. 
LOU'ISTOWN, the chief and poft-town of Mifflin- 
county, Pennfylvania, fituated on the north fide of Ju- 
niatta-river, on the weft fide of, and at the mouth of, 
Cifhicoquilis-creek : about twenty-three miles north-eaft 
of Huntingdon; incorporated in 1795, and containing 
about 120 dwelling-houfes, 523 inhabitants, a court-houfe, 
and gaol. It is 150 miles weft-north-weft of Philadelphia. 
iLat. 40. 33. N. Ion. 77. 23. W. 
LOU'ISVILLE, a town of the ftate of Georgia, on the 
Ogechee : forty-five miles fouth-weft of Augufta. Lat. 
32. 55. N. Ion. 82.42. W. 
LOU'ISVILLE, a town of the ftate of Kentucky, on 
the fouth fide of the Ohio: feventy miles weft of Lexing¬ 
ton. Lat. 38.4-. N. Ion. 86. 6. W. 
LOULA'Y, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Charente : fix miles north of St. Jean d’Angely, 
and feventeen fouth of Niort. 
LOULE', a town of Portugal, in the province of Al- 
garva, on a river of the fame name, near the fea; fur- 
rounded with antique walls, and containing a cattle, hof- 
pital, three convents, and about 4400 inhabitants : nine 
miles north of Faro, and fifteen weft of Tavira. Lat. 37. 
S. N. Ion. 7.-54. W. 
LOUL 1 E' (Frangois), a French mufician, who publiflied 
in 1696 an ingenious and ufeful book, entitled “ Elements 
of Mufic,” with a defcription of a chronometer to meafure 
time by a pendulum; and in 1698, another book was 
printed at Amfterdam, called “ A New Syftem of Mufic,” 
by the fame author. In this work, befides the ufual in- 
ftruftions in elementary books, he explains the nature of 
tranfpofition, and propofes a method of reducing a piece 
of mufic into any key different from that in which it was 
originally compofed, by means of imaginary clefs. 
LOUND (Eaft), a village in the ifle of Axholme, Lin- 
oolnfhire. 
LOUND HA'LL, a place in Nottingbamfhire, north of 
Bedford, on the river Idle. 
LOUNG, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of Sehau- 
yumpour: twenty-eight miles fouth of Merat. 
To LOUNGE, v. n. [lunderen, Dut.J To idle ; to live 
lazily. 
LOU'NGER,/. An idler. 
LOU'NGING, f. The aft of living in idlenefs. 
LOUP, a river of France, which runs into the Medi¬ 
terranean in lat. 43. 38. N. Ion. 7.12. E. 
LOUP, a river of Canada, which runs into lake St. 
Pierre in lat.46. 13. N. Ion. 72.47. E. 
LOUP (St.) a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Saone, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Lure*, fix miles north-weft of Luxeuil. The 
place contains 1891, and the diftrift 13,366, inhabitants, 
fourteen communes. 
LOU 
LOUP (St.), a town of France, in the department of 
the Two Sevres, and chief place of a canton,’in the dif- 
trift of Parthenay, near the river Thoue; nine miles 
north-north-eaft of Parthenay. The place contains 1649, 
and the canton 5968, inhabitants, in nine communes. 
LOUP de SAL'LE (St.), a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Saone ana Loire, near the river Heune : 
eleven miles north of Chalons fur Saone. 
LOUPE, f, [French.] A magnifying^glafs. Obfokte. 
LOUPPE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Eure and Loire : twelve miles fouth-weft of Chateauneuf 
en Thimerais, and eighteen weft of Chartres. 
LOUR'BOTTLE, a village in Northumberland, fouth 
of Whittingham. 
LOUPTIE'RE (John Charles de Relongue), was boi*n 
in the diocefe of Sens in 1727 ; he became a member of 
the Academy of the Arcadi at Rome ; and died in the 
year 1788. He is known by a colleftion of poems in two 
volumes i2ino. written with much fpirit and elegance; 
and by fix parts of a Journal for Ladies, printed in 
1761. 
LOURDE, a town of France, and feat of a tribunal, 
in the department of the Higher Pyrenees: fix miles 
north of Argeltez, and eleven lbuth of Tarbe. Lat. 43. 
6. N. Ion. o. 1, E. 
LOURE, f. in French mufic, a kind of dance, of which 
the tune is rather flow, and generally in the meafure of 
or fix crotchets in a bar. Likewife the name of an inftru- 
ment refembling bagpipe, to the mufic of which the tune 
is danced. 
LOURE'ZA, a town of Spain, in the province of Ga¬ 
licia : eight miles weft of Tuy. 
LOURGE, /. [from the Lat, longurio.~\ A tall loofe- 
made fellow ; a gangrel. 
LOURI9AL', a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Eltramadura : twelve miles lbuth of Ivlontemoro Velho, 
and fix north of Levria. 
LOURIN'HA, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Entre Duero e Minho : eight miles fouth-fouth-eaft of 
Peniche. 
LOURISTAN',adiftrift of Perfia, forming thenorthern 
part of the province of Chuliftan. 
LOUSE, / plural lice-, [lup, Sax. luys, Dut.J A fmall 
animal, of which different fpecies live on the bodies of 
men, beafts, and perhaps of all living creatures. See Pe- 
diculus. —There were lice upon man and beaft. Exod. 
viii. 18. 
Frogs, lice, and flies, muft all his palace fill 
With loath’d intrufion. Milton. 
UW-Louse. See Millepedes. 
To LOUSE, v . a. [pronounced louzc.~\ To clean frot* 
lice.—As for all other good women, that love to do but 
little work, how handlome it is to loiife themfelves in the 
funlhine, they that have been but a while in Ireland can 
well witnefs. Spenfer on Ireland. 
LOU'SEWORT, J. in botany. See Delphinium, 
Staphisagria, and Pedicularis. 
LOU'SEWORT, (Yellow.) See Rhinanthus. 
LOU'SILY, adv. In a paltry, mean, and feurvy, way, 
LOU'SINESS, f The ftate of abounding with lice. 
LOU'SY, adj. Swarming with lice; over-run with lice. 
—Sweetbriar and goofeberry are only loufy in dry times, 
or very hot places. Mortimer's Hujbandry. 
Let him be daub’d with lace, live high and whore, 
Sometimes be loufy, but be never poor. Dry den. 
Mean ; low-born ; bred on the dunghill.—I pray you now 
remembrance on the loufy knave mine hoft : a loufy knave, 
to have his gibes and his mockeries. Shakefpeare. 
To LOUT, v. n. [hluUan, to bend, Sax.] To pay obei- 
fance ; to bend ; to bow 5 to ftoop, Obfokte. It was ufed 
in a good fenfe : 
He fair the knight fainted, lonting low, 
Who fair him quitted, as that courteous was. Spenfer. 
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