L U B 
■with tfie ftyle, of one cell; feeds numerous, attached to 
a central receptacle. 
Lubinia fpatulata, the only known fpecies. T!ie root is 
laid by Ventenat to be biennial, and the flowers to be 
produced in the beginning of fummer. This plant has 
Something of the afpeft of Convolvulus tricolor, but is 
firmer, and quite fmooth. The woody ftem produces a 
few fimple branches, a fpan long, clothed with numerous, 
feattered, fpatulate, obtufe, entire, _ rather-flefliy leaves, 
above an inch long, tapering down into a bordered foot- 
ftalk. Flowers axillary, folitary, on fimple ftalks, half as 
long as the leaves; calyx dark brown, dotted with black, 
white at the edge ; corolla yellow, nearly as broad as that 
of Lyfimachia nemorum. Capfule when prefled burfting 
irregularly, fometimes at the fldes, fometimes, according 
to Ventenat, into two or four apparent valves. Lamarck 
fays it has five valves, but he perhaps judged from the 
notches at the top. Tiie fruit therefore, and the irregu¬ 
lar corolla, mark this genus as fufliciently diftinft from 
Lyfimachia ; to which may be added, on the fcore of habit, 
its alternate, not oppoflte or whorled, leaves. Native of 
the Ifle of Bourbon. 
LU'BIO. See Lubeen. 
LU'BISCHAW, a town of Pruflia, in the province of 
Pomerelia : eighteen miles fouth of Dantzic. 
LU'BISCHMAT, a town of Pruflia, in the palatinate 
of Culm: five miles eaft of Thorn. 
LUBLENIETZ', or Luben'sky, a town of Silefia, in 
the principality of Oppeln : forty-two miles north of 
Eeuthen, and twenty-nine eaft of Oppeln. Lat. 50. 39. N. 
Ion. 18.42. E. 
LUB'LIN, a city of Poland, and capital of a palatinate; 
part of which is annexed to the new country of Galacia. 
It is furrounded with a wall and ditch ; and a place of 
good trade, but not very large. It has a caftle, built on 
a high rock, and ftands on the little river Byflrzna, in a 
very pleafant and fertile country. Here arefeveral churches 
and convents. Great numbers of Jews live in the fuburbs 
of Lublin, and have a fpacious fynagogue there. Three 
annual fairs are held here, and each of them laits a month ; 
which are frequented by great numbers of German, Greek, 
Armenian, Arabian, Rutlian, Turkifli, and other, traders 
and merchants. The chief tribunal for Little Poland was 
held here, befides a provincial diet, and a court of judi¬ 
cature. In the year 1240, Lublin was fet on fire by the 
Tartars 5 and after that continued for a long time in the 
pofleflion of the Ruffians. In 1447, and 1606, this town 
alfo fuffered greatly by fire; and in 1656 it was laid in 
afhes by the Swedes. It is 115 miles eaft-north-eaft of 
Cracow, and eighty-five fouth-eaft of Warlaw. Lat. 51. 
6. N. Ion. 22. 45. E. 
LUBLY'O, a town and citadel of Hungary: four 
miles weft-north-weft of Palotza. Lat. 49. 13. N. Ion. 20. 
44. E. 
LUB'NAIG LOCH, the loweft lake on the river Bal- 
vaig, in Perthfliire. It is above four miles in length ; but 
is extremely narrow, prefenting the fame pifture with molt 
of the highland lakes, of a fheet of water arrefted in a 
deep ravine, and thrown back by obftacles from the lower 
extremity. Such is likewile the character of Loch Doine 
and Loch Voil, which are placed higher up the fame river. 
In the middle of Loch Lubnaig is a tremendous rock, called 
Craig-na-Cohcilg, or the “Rock of the Joint Hunting,” 
from having been the boundary between theeftatesof two 
ancient chieftains, who were wont to meet here on fport- 
ing days, and to hunt round the rock in common, after 
which'they feparated, each turning towards his own pro¬ 
perty, to denote that he was at the utmoft boundary of 
his pofleflion. 
LUBNE'KI, a town of Samogitia: ten miles north of 
Miedniki. 
LUB'NI, a town of Ruflia, in the government of Kiev, 
op. the Sula: eighty miles eait-fouth-ealt of Kiev. Lat. 
50.N. Ion.32.54. E. 
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LUB'NITZ, a town of Germany, in the principality of 
Culmbach : two miles north-north-weft of Gefres, 
LIJB'NO W. SeeLuBENAU. 
' LU'BOK, commonly called the Baviaan, or Baboon, an 
ifland in the Eaft Indian fea, near the coaft of Java ; not 
large, but extremely populous. Seventy or eighty vefieis 
are continually palling to and fro between this ifland and 
the coafts of Java and Borneo. 
LUJ^O'LO, a province of Angola, on the banks of the 
Coanza. 
LUBOM'LA, a town of Auftrian Poland, in Galicia 
thirty-two miles eaft of Cbelin. 
LU'BOZ, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Novogrodek : fixteen miles north-eaft of Novogrodek. 
LU'BRIC, adj. [ lubricus , Lat.J Slippery ; fmooth oa 
the lurface: 
A throng ’ 
Of fliort thick fobs, whole thund’ring volleys float 
And roul themfelves over her lubric throat 
In panting murmurs. Crajkaw. 
Uncertain; unfteady.—I will deduce him from his cradle 
through the deep and lubric waves of ftate, till he is Aval- 
lowed in the gulf of fatality. lVotton,—\V anton ; levvd ; 
[from lubrique , Fr. ] 
Why were we hurry’d down 
This lubric and adul’rate age ; 
Nay, added fat pollutions of our own, 
T’ encreafe the ftreaming ordures of the ftage ? Dry den. 
To LU'BRICATE, v. a. To make fmooth .on flippery ; 
to fmoothe.—The patient is relieved by the mucilaginous 
and the faponaceous remedies, fome of which lubricate, 
and others both lubricate and ftimulate. Sharp. 
LU'BRICATING, f. The ait of making fmooth and 
flippery. 
LUBRI'CIOUS, adj. See Lubricous. 
LUBRI'CITY, f. Slipperinefs; fmoothnefs of furface. 
Aptnefs to glide over any part, or to facilitate motion.— 
Both the ingredients are of a lubricating nature ; the 
mucilage adds to the lubricity of the oil, and the oil pre- 
ferves the mucilage from infpiflation. Ray on Creation.- — 
Uncertainty; flipperinefs; inftability.—A ftate of tran¬ 
quillity is never to be attained, but by keeping perpetu¬ 
ally in our thoughts the certainty of death, and the lubri¬ 
city of fortune. L'EJlrangc. —Wantonnefs; lewdnefs.—- 
From the letchery of thele fauns, he thinks.that fatyr is 
derived from them, as if wantonnefs and lubricity were 
eflential to that poem, which ought in all to be avoided. 
Dry den. 
LU'BRICOUS, adj. Slippery; fmooth.—The parts of 
water being voluble and lubricous as well as fine, it eafily 
infinuates itfelf into the tubes of vegetables, and by that 
means introduces into them the matter it bears along with 
it. Woodward's Nat. Hijl. —Uncertain.—The judgment being 
the leading power, if it be ftored with lubricous opinions 
inftead of clearly-conceived truths, and peremptorily re- 
folved in them, the practice will be as irregular as the 
conceptions. Glanville's Scepfis. 
LUBRIFAC'TION,/ Theaft of lubricating orfmooth- 
ing.—The caufe is lubrifadion and relaxation, as in medi¬ 
cines emollient; fuch as milk, honey, and mallows. Bacon. 
LUBRIFICA'TION. f. The aft of fmoothing.—A 
twofold liquor is prepared for the inunftion and lubrica¬ 
tion of the heads of the bones ; an oily one, furnilhed by 
the marrow ; a mucilaginous, fupplied by certain glan¬ 
dules leated in the articulations. Ray on Creation. 
To LU'BRIFY, v.a. To fmooth and foften.—Euphor- 
bium fretteth the entrails, therefore muft be tempered 
with fomething that lubrifutk and allayeth its heat and 
Iharpnefs. Culpeper. 
LU'BRIN,a town of Spain, in the province of Grenada.: 
five miles '<elt of Vera. 
LUBRONG', or 'TESHOo-Loo.MBOO, atown of Thibet, 
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