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where the cairn now is. It is eight miles north of Kin¬ 
cardine. 
LUM'PING, adj. Large? heavy 5 great. A low word. 
• —Nick, thou (halt have a lumping pennyworth. Arbuthnot. 
LUM'PING, /. The a 61 of giving or taking in the 
lump ; of giving a lump, or blow. 
LUM'PISH, adj . Heavy; grofs ; dull; unattive; 
bulky.—Out of the earth was formed the flelh of man, 
and therefore heavy and lumpijh. Raleigh. 
How dull and how infenfible a bead 
Is man, who yet wou’d lord it o’er the reft ! 
Philofophers and poets vainly drove 
In every age the lumpijh mafs to move. Dryden. 
LUM'PISHLY, adv. With heavinefs; with ftupidity. 
LUM'PISHNESS,/ Stupid heavinefs. 
LUMPOKOL'SKQI (Niznei), a town Ruflia, in the 
government of Tobolfk, on the Oby : na miles eaft- 
l’outh-eaft of Surgut. Lat. 6i. N. Ion. 76. 54. E. 
LUMPOKOL'SKOI (Verchnei), a town of Ruflia, in 
the government of Tobolfk: 15a miles ealt-fouth-ealt of 
Surgut. Lat. 60. 54. N. Ion. 78.22.E. 
LUM'PY, adj. Full of lumps; full of compa6t maffes. 
—•One of the belt fpades to dig hard lumpy clays, but too 
Irnall for light garden mould. Mortimer. 
LUN, a town of China, of the third rank, in Hou- 
quang : twenty-five miles fouth fouth-eaft of Tcha-lin. 
LUN, or Lune, a river of Germany, which runs into 
the Wefer about lixteen miles from its mouth. 
LU'NA, the Moon, in mythology, was daughter of 
Hyperion and Terra; and was the fame,according to fome 
mythologilts, as Diana. She was worlhipped by the an¬ 
cient inhabitants of the earth with many fuperltirious 
forms and ceremonies. It was fuppofed that magicians 
and enchanters, particularly thofe of Theffaly, had an un- 
controlable power over the moon, and that they could 
draw her down from heaven at pleafure by the mere force 
of their incantations. Her eclipfes, according to their 
opinion,proceeded from thence; and, on that account, it 
was ufual to beat drums and cymbals to eafe her labours, 
and to render the power of magic lefs effe6tual. The Ar¬ 
cadians helieved that they were older than the moon. Dr. 
Bryant obferves, that “ the fame deity was often mafeu- 
line and feminine : what was Dea Luna in one country, 
was Deus Lunus in another. 
LU'NA, in ancient geography, a town fituated on the 
Macra, which had a port in Liguria, called Lunm Portus, 
which, according to Strabo, was a very large and fine har¬ 
bour, containing feveral others. The town was fituated 
to the weft of the mouth of the river Macra, and was af¬ 
terwards called Cariaram ; both names alike fignifying 
Luna, the moon, and referring to its form, which was 
that of a crefcent. Lucan fpeaks of its arufpices ; Ser- 
vius and Martial of its cheele, marble, and wine. Ac¬ 
cording to Strabo, it was deftroyed by Nero 5 and fome of 
its ruins are ftill vifible in a place called Lunigona, and its 
fmall territory is named Lunegiano. M. Gebelin conjec¬ 
tures that the name Luna was derived from the Celtic lun, 
water. 
LU'NA, a foreft of Germany, at no great diftance from 
the Hercynian ; below which were the Boemi; it was 
therefore in Moravia, near the fprings of the Marus, now 
March, which runs into the Danube over againft Carnu- 
tum. 
LU'NA, or Lun'na, a town of Gallia Celtica. Now 
Clugny in Burgundy. 
LU'NA, a decayed town of Liguria: two miles fouth 
of Sarzana. 
LU'NA, a town of Spain, in Arragon, taken and burned 
by the Moors in 985 : twenty miles from SaragoflTa. 
LU'NA, a town of Spain, in Arragon : twenty-two 
miles weft of Huefca. 
LU'NA, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Troki: fixteen miles fouth-eaft of Grodno. 
LUN 
LU'NA, f. in the ancient chemiftry,dignifies filver-, fo 
called from the fuppofed influence of the moon there¬ 
upon. 
Luna Cornea, in chemiftry, is the combination of 
marine acid with filver, or the white curdy precipitate of 
muriat of iilver, which takes place, when the nitrat, acetat, 
or any other l’oluble fait, of filver, comes in contatt with 
muriatic acid, either Angle or in any foluble combina¬ 
tion. See the article Chemistry, vol. iv. p. 312.—. 
Luna cornea mixed with fea-falt and tartar, rubbed on 
brafs, gives a filver-like appearance ; and is the fubftance 
employed for the filvering of the dial-plates for clocks. 
A more fubftantial filvering may be given by the above 
mixture, if the piece of brafs to be filvered be previoufly 
heated confiderably, and cleaned with a fcratch-brufh ; 
and if the operation be repeated till the filver leems to be 
fufliciently thick. The brafs, having a ftronger difpofi- 
tion to unite with the marine acid than the iilver has, 
feparates this acid from the filver, which is then precipi¬ 
tated upon the furface of the brafs plate. Luna cornea 
will alfo ferve in examination of mineral waters, or of any 
other liquor, to difeover if they contain marine acid in 
whatever bale it be engaged, except metallic bafes ; for, if 
thefe waters contain the fmalleft quantities of marine acid, 
luna cornea will be precipitated by them from a folution 
of filver in nitrous acid, and this luna cornea is known 
by its acid-like appearance. Macquer. 
LU'NA (Miguel de), a Granadan of Moorilh extrac¬ 
tion, and royal interpreter of Arabic in Spain. He pub- 
liflied, as a tranflation from Abucacim, La tlijloria del Rey 
D. Rodrigoy Perdida de Efpana, and alfo Segunda Parte de la 
Perdida de Efpana 5 Vida del Rey Jacob Almanzor. Thefe 
works, which have been tranflated, and are ftill fometimes 
quoted as true hiftory, are now known to have been his 
own; and Miguel de Luna muft be ranked among lite¬ 
rary impoftors. R. S. in Gen. Biog. 
LUNA'CHI, a town of Chili; forty-two miles eaft- 
north-eaft of Valparayfo. 
LU'NACY, y. [from luna, the moon.] A kind of mad- 
nefs fuppofed to be influenced by the moon ; madnefs in 
general.—There is difference of lunacy-. I had rather be 
mad with him, that, when he had nothing, thought all 
the fhips that came into the haven his, than with you, 
u-ho, when you have fo much coming in, think you have 
nothing. Suckling. 
Your kindred flrun your houfe. 
As beaten hence by your ftrange lunacy. Shakefpeare. 
LU'NFE MON'S, in ancient geography, a promontory 
of Lufitania. Now the Rock of Litbon. Lat. 38.50. N. 
Ion. 10. W.—Another in Ethiopia, from which the Nile 
was fuppofed to take its rife. 
LU'NFE POR'TUS, a very extenfive port, or more 
truly a bay, of Liguria, between Portus Veneris and Por¬ 
tus Ericis, twenty miles in compafs. Now the Golfo della 
Spezia, on the ealt coalt of the territory of Genoa. 
LUNAHO'LM, a lmall ifland among the Shetlands. 
Lat. 60. 44. N. Ion. 1.16. W. 
LUNAGUA'NA, a town of Peru, in the audience of 
Lima: eighty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Lima. 
LU'NAN BAY, a bay on the eaft coalt of Scotland, 
celebrated as a place of fatety againft all but eafterly winds; 
four miles fouth of Montrofe. Lat. 56. 37.N. Ion.4.27. W. 
LUNAN NESS', a cape on the eaft coalt of Shetland. 
Lat. 60.43. N. Ion. 1.17. W. 
LU'NAR, or Lunary, adj. Relating to the moon.— 
They that have refolved that thefe years were but lunary 
years, viz. of a month, or Egyptian years, are ealily con¬ 
futed. Raleigh. 
Then we upon our globe’s laft verge (hall go, 
And view the ocean leaning on the Iky; 
From thence our rolling neighbours we lhall know, 
And on the lunar world fecurely pry. Dryden. 
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