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kleinken, a fmall piece, Teutonic; or from clutch or clunck •] 
As much food as one’s hand can hold : 
When hungry thou Hood’d daring like an oaf, 
I dic’d the Luncheon from the barley loaf. Gay. 
LUND, a fmall town in the ead riding of Yorkfhire ; 
with a fair on the id and ad of November.—A village in 
the north riding, near New Malton. 
LUND, a town of Sweden, in Wed Gothland, on the 
Wenner lake: thirty-fix miles north-north-ead of Udde- 
valla. 
LUND, or Lun'den, the mod ancient town of Swe¬ 
den, the capital of Scania, Schonen, or Skonen, of which 
a proverb is recorded, viz. that, “ when our Saviour was 
born, I.und was in its glory.” Lund contains fcarcely 
more than 800 inhabitants, carries on but little trade, and 
is principally fupported by the univerfity edablifhed by 
Charles XI. and called, from the name of its founder, Aca¬ 
demia Carolina Gothorum. When Mr. Coxe vifited Sweden, 
it had 21 profedors and 300 dudents. The library con¬ 
tains 20,000 volumes. The botanical garden was not in 
a flouridling date, the number of plants not exceeding 
1200. Linnaeus was matriculated at this univerfity. At 
Lund was indituted, in 1776, a Royal Phyfiographical So¬ 
ciety, which was incorporated by the king in 1778. The 
fubjedfs treated of in its a£ls relate only to natural hif- 
tory, chemidry, and agriculture. Lund is an archbi- 
Ihopric. The cathedral is an ancient irregular building, 
railed at different intervals. Lund is twenty-one miles 
ead of Copenhagen. Lat. 55. 44. N. Ion. 13.E. 
LUNfDA, a town of Sweden, in Sudermanland : ten 
miles wed of Nykoping. 
LUND'BY, a town of Norway, in the province of Ag- 
gerhuus, on the Glcmme : fixly miles north-ead cf Chrift- 
iania. 
LUN'DE, a town of Norway, near a lake of the fame 
name : twenty-eight miles wed-north-wed cf Chridian- 
fand.—A town of Norway, feventeen miles north-wed of 
Skeen. 
LUN'Dl^N, a town of the duchy of Holdein: twenty- 
four miles wed of Rendfburg, and fifty-fev.en north-north- 
weft of Hamburg. 
LUN'DIE, a town of Scotland, in the county of An¬ 
gus : eight miles north-wed of Dundee. 
LUN'DO, a town of Sweden, in the government of 
Abo : eight miles north-ead of Abo. 
LUN'DRES, f. A derling fiver penny, which had its 
name from being coined only at London, and not at the 
country mints. Lowndes's EJTay on Coin, p. 17. 
LUND'SEY, a town cf Pegu, on the wed fide of the 
river Ava : fixty miles wed-north-vved of Pegu. Lat. 
iS. 30. N. Ion. 95.43. E. 
LUNDS'JE, a town of Perfia, in the province of Larif- 
tan, on the Perfian gulf: 100 miles weft-fouth-wed of 
Gambron. Lat. 26. 38. N. Ion. 54. 36. E. 
LUNDSKO'RON, a town of Poland: eighteen miles 
fouth of Cracow. 
LUN'DY I'SLAND, in the mouth of the Bridol chan¬ 
nel, nearly four leagues from the coad of Devonshire, 
England. It is rather more than three miles in length, 
and about one in breadth ; contains about 2000 acres ; 
and is environed by high and deep rocks, which render 
it inacceflible, except in one or two places. The only 
fafe landing-place is on the ead fide; where a fmall beach 
admits a fecure approach, and is fheltered by a detached 
portion of rock, called the Ille of Rats, from the great 
number of thofe animals which burrow here. On land¬ 
ing, vifitors are obliged to climb over various craggy 
mades, before they can reach the deep and winding tradf 
that leads to the fummit, which commands views of the 
Englifh and Welfh coads. About 400 acres only of this 
ifland are in cultivation ; of which 300 are arable, and 
the red padure ; wheat is the chief produce. The ele¬ 
vated fituation of the land, in fome places 800 feet above 
the fea, and the violence of the north-ead winds, prevent 
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any trees from growing, though a coniiderable expenfe 
has been incurred in planting. Rabbits and rock-birds 
are numerous ; and in the feafon, lobders, crabs, and other 
fifh, may be obtained in abundance. About four hundred 
head of fheep, and eighty of cattle, are fed here ; but the 
former do not thrive. The inclofures are done fences. 
Of the hidory of the ifland but little is known. Rifdon 
relates that one Morifco, who had confpired to kill king 
Henry III. retired hither, and, turning pirate, committed 
great depredations 5 on which the kingarr.eded,and had him 
executed on an elevated part. About the middle of the 
lad century, it was purchafed of government by a noble¬ 
man, who entruded it to the care of a perfon named Ben- 
fon, a notorious fmuggler, who carried on a coniiderable 
illicit traffic. The next proprietor of the ifland was fir 
John Borlafe Warren, who, about the year 1781, fold it 
to John Cleveland, efq. but it appears to have been re¬ 
cently re-purchafed by government. The whole rent is 
70I. per annum ; no taxes are paid ; nor can it maintain 
any revenue-officer, the duties in feven years fcarcely 
amounting to five pounds. The number of houfes is only 
feven; the inhabitants, in the year 1794, were but twenty- 
three. The population of the ifle was probably greater 
at fome didant period, as many human hones have been 
ploughed up ; and Camden fays, “the furrows fhow it to 
have been once cultivated.” The chief antiquities are, 
the ruins of St. Anne’s chapel, and what is termed Mo- 
rifco’s caflie. The latter is near the fouth-ead end, and 
was drongly fortified with large out-works and a ditch ; 
a few old difmounted cannon occupy the battlement, be¬ 
neath which is a curious cavern. In the reign of Charles I. 
lord Say and Seale held the caftle for the king; and in the 
time of William and Mary, the French furprifed it by a 
dratagem, plundered it, and kept pofTeffion for fome time. 
England's Gaz. Beauties of England and Walts. 
LUNE, /. Any thing in the diape of an half-moon : 
A troop of Janizaries drew’d the field, 
Fall’n in jult ranks or wedges, lunes, or fquares, 
Firm as they dood. Watts. 
Fits of lunacy or phrenzy ; mad freaks. The Fench fa^ 
cf a man fantadical or whimlical, II a des lunes. Hanmer. 
Befhrew them, 
Thefe dangerous unfafe lunes i’ th’ king ; 
He mud be told on’t, and he (hall ;■ the office 
Becomes a woman bed. Shakefpeare's Winter'sTale. 
A leafli; as, the lune of a hawk. 
Lune, lunula, in geometry,-is the fpace included be¬ 
tween the arcs of two unequal circles, forming a fort of 
crefccnt, or half-moon, the area of which may in many cafes 
he as accurately determined as that of any reffilineal 
figure. The lune was the nrd curvilineal fpace of which 
the quadrature was afcertaiined ; and this is faid to have 
been fir ft efte&ed by Hippocrates of Chios, though others 
fay it was difcovered by CEncpidas of Chios. However 
this may be, the former geometer has generally had the 
honour of the difcovery attributed to him, and the figure 
dill bears his name, being commonly denominated the 
lune of Hippocrates. 
LUNE, a town of Wedphalia, in the principality of 
Lunenburg Zelle : two miles north of Lunenburg. 
LUNE, a river of England, which rifes in Weitmore- 
land, and runs into the Tees about fix miles above Bar¬ 
nard Cadle. 
LUNE, or Loyne, a river of England, which rifes in 
the county of York, and runs into the Irifii Sea a few 
miles below Lancader, in lat. 53. 57. N. Ion. a. 49. W.. 
LUNE FOR'EST, in the north riding of Yorkfhire, 
near Richmond. . 
LU'NEBURG. See Lunenburg. 
LUNEL' la VIL'LE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Herault : two and half pods ead of Mont¬ 
pellier, and ninety-three fouth of Paris. Lat. 43.40. N. 
ion. 4. i3. E. 
LU'NEN, 
