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bread black ; bill and rump red ; Tides of the body black 
fpotted with white. Inhabits New Holland. 
97. Loxia feptentrionalis, the northern grolbeak: wholly 
black, except a fpot of white on the wing. Inhabits the 
northern parts of Europe. 
98. Loxia minuta, the minute grofoeak. A fmall fpe- 
cies. Bill ftout, thick, (hort, brown ; upper parts of the 
plumage grey brown ; the under parts and the rump fer¬ 
ruginous chefnut; the fourth, fifth, and fixth, quills 
white at the bale; legs brown. Inhabits Surinam and 
Cayenne. This bird is faid to keep paired to its mate the 
whole year; frequents lands which have lain for fome 
time uncultivated; lives both on fruits and feeds; cries 
like a fparrow, but lharper; makes a round!(It nelt, the 
hollow of which is two inches in diameter, compofed of 
areddifh herb, and placed on the trees which it frequents. 
The femal^ lays three or four eggs. 
99. Loxia bicolor, the two-coloured gro(beak. About 
the fize of a wren. Bill fhort, thick, and whitifli; upper 
parts of the body brown, under parts reddifli orange ; 
legs brown. Native of India.—There is a variety of this 
bird found in China, with the upper parts pale brown ; 
under parts white, inclined to ferruginous on the chin ; 
tail rounded ; legs bluifh. 
100. Loxia prafina, the red-rumped grolbeak: olive 
green, beneath yellowilh hoary; rump red ; legs yellow ; 
(male.) Olive brown, beneath yellowifh hoary; rump 
pale red ; legs yellow ; (female.) Male : bill black ; tail- 
feathers black, the two middle ones on the upper furface, 
and eight on the outer edge red. Female bill above 
black, beneath yellowifh; wings with yellowifh white 
bands; quill-feathers cinereous, the eight fecondary on 
the anterior edge whitifli at the tips; tail-feathers black, 
tipt with white. Inhabits Java; length five inches. 
101. Loxia tridaftyla, the three-toed grofbeak: feet 
three-toed. The bill of this fpecies is toothed on the 
edges; the head, throat, and fore part of the neck, of a 
beautiful red, which is prolonged in a narrow band quite 
to the vent; the upper part of the neck, back, and tail, 
black ; the wing-coverts brown edged with white; quills 
brown, with greenilh edges; legs red; the toes three only, 
two before and one behind. This inhabits Abyflinia ; 
frequents the woods ; feeds on the kernels of nuts, which 
it breaks with eafe with its bill; difcovered by Mr. Bruce. 
LOX'IAS, one of the names of Apollo. 
LOX'LEY, a village near Need wood-foreft, in Stafford- 
fnire.—A village in Surrey, fouth-eaft of Godalmin, to¬ 
wards Sulfex.—A village in Warwicklhire, fouth-eaft of 
Stratford-upon-Avon. 
LOXOCARY'A,_/. in botany. See Restio cinerea. 
LOXODROM'IC, or Loxodrom'ical, adj. [from the 
Gr. Ao|o?, oblique, and Sgoptt;, a courfe.] Belonging to 
oblique failing. 
LOXODROM'ICS, f The art of oblique failing, the 
method of failing on the rhomb-line. 
LOXOD'ROMY, /. The line which a (hip defcribes in 
failing on the fame collateral rhomb. The loxodromy, 
called alfouhe loxodromic line, cuts all the meridians in the 
fame angle, called the Icxodronic angle. This line is a 
fpecies of the logarithmic fpiral, defcribed on the furface 
of the fphere, having the meridians for its radii. 
LOX'WOOD CHAP'EL and PAR'K, in Sulfex, on 
the borders of Surrey, towards Awfold. 
L-OY, a river of Pruffia, which runs into the Curifch 
Haff nine miles fouth of Rufs. 
LOY'AL, adj , \_loy, Fr. law.] Obedient; true to the 
prince.— The regard of duty in that molt loyal nation 
overcame all other difficulties. Knolles. 
Loyal (objects often feize their prince, 
x Yet mean his (acred perfon not the lead offence. Drydcn. 
Faithful in love ; true to a lady, or lover : 
Hail, wedded love ! by thee 
Founded in reafon loyal, juft, and pure. Milton. 
In the manege, a horfe is faid to be loyal, that freely 
LOT 
bends all his force in. obeying and performing any manege 
he is put to; and does not defend himfelf, or refill, not- 
withftanding his being ill treated. A loyal mouth is an 
excellent mouth, of the nature of fuch as we call mouth* 
with a full reft upon the hand. 
LOY'ALIST, f. One who profeffes uncommon adhe¬ 
rence to his king.—The cedar, by the inltigation of the 
loyalijls, fell out with the homebians. Houiel's Vocal Forejf. 
LOY'ALLY, adv. _ With fidelity; with true adherence 
to a king ; with fidelity to a lover: 
The circling year I wait, with ampler (lores. 
And fitter pomp, to hail my native (hores ; 
Then by my realms due homage would be paid, 
For wealthy kings are loyally obey’d. Pope's Odyjfey. 
LOY'ALNESS, f. The fame as Loyalty. 
LOY ALSOCK. CREE'K, a river of Pennfylvania, 
which runs into the weft branch of the Sufquehanna in 
lat. 41.15. N. Ion. 77.1. W. 
LOY'ALTY, /. Firm and faithful adherence to a 
prince: 
Though loyalty, well held, to fools does make 
Our faith mere folly ; yet he that can endure 
To follow with allegiance a fall’n lord. 
Does conquer him that did his mailer conquer. Shahefpeare 
Fidelity to a lady or lover.—And then end life, when I 
end loyalty. Shakefpeare's Mid. Night Dream. 
It has been remarked by thole who confider language 
in connexion with manners and opinions, that, from the 
(hades of difference which words often acquire in paffing 
from a primary tongue to derivative ones, inferences may 
be deduced concerning the modes of thinking in dif¬ 
ferent countries. Leak , lealta, in Italian ; loyal, loyaulte 
in French ; have the fignification of frank,fincere,faithful, 
honejl ; whereas, in Englilh, loyal and loyalty (evidently 
derived from the above) are, and have long been, entirely 
limited to the fenfe of fidelity and attachment to a king ; 
except that, by a kind of metaphor, our poets have fome- 
tirnes applied them to the fame affections towards a mijlrefs: 
and thefe are the only meanings afiigned by Johnfon. 
Many perfons were much furpriled at the frequent ufe of 
the word loyalty made by the French in their public ad- 
dreffes when they difcarded monarchy; for our newlpaper 
tranflators, not knowing the true meaning of the term, 
long rendered it into the literal Engliffi. But the fenfe 
in which they applied it is by no means modern or repub¬ 
lican. Indeed, it is fo ancient, that it had begun to be 
obfolete ; and the revolutionifts feem to have revived it 
in order to throw an air of antique plainnefs and integrity 
over their proceedings. The motto of one of our old 
noble families fays, Loyaulte n'a honte ; i. e. “ Faithfulnefs, 
honefiy, incurs no lhame.” That fuch is the primitive 
fenfe, cannot be doubted. Moliere, in his Tartuffe, iro¬ 
nically names a Norman ferjeant at mace, Monf. Loyal ; 
upon which one of the characters remarks, Ce Monficur Loyal 
porte un-air bien deloyal ; “This Mr. Honelt looks much 
like a knave.” 
It is eafy to conceive how a word implying fidelity in 
general, lhould come to be exclufively applied to what 
might appear the higheft and molt important exertion of 
it; but who would have thought that England (liould 
have been the country in which every idea ot faithfulneis 
in public concerns (liould be funk in exclufive devotion 
to the interefts of a king ? Does not this leem to confirm 
the doftrine which has been thought lo obnoxious, that 
monarchy is the only effential part of the Englilh confti- 
tution ? For, were it in reality that mixture of different 
fovereign powers, or. Hill more, that radical lovereignty 
of the people which a certain party,, has been fond of re- 
prefenting it, the application of the term loyalty to attach¬ 
ment to the 1 authority .alone would be a high, degree 
of incivifm, it not a fpecies of treafon. In the American 
conteft, though the fupremacy of the Britilh parliament 
was nominally the point at ilfue, yet the lovereignty of 
the king was really the objett in view; and the terms 
loyaliji 
