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duce many fpikes of flowers; and, although th« ufual 
feafon of flowering is in June and July, yet when rain 
falls in Auguft frefli ftalks arife from the roots, which 
flower at the end of September, or beginning of October. 
The feeds of the fecond fort were formerly ufed in medi¬ 
cine ; and are fometimes eaten in Italy, blit they are bit¬ 
ter, and are accounted hard of digeftion. All the forts of 
lupine make a pretty appearance when they are in flower; 
but the yellow fort is preferred for its fweetnefs, though 
the flowers are of fliort duration, efpecially in warm wea¬ 
ther; therefore the feeds Ihould be fown at feveral times, 
that there may be a fuccefTion of flowers through the fea¬ 
fon; for they will continue flowering till they are flopped 
by hard froft; and thofe which come in the autumn to 
flower will continue in beauty a longer time than the early 
ones. If fome of the feeds are fown in the autumn on a 
warm border, the plants will often live through the win¬ 
ter, and flower early in the fpring. 
LU'PO, a town of Hinder Pomerania, on a river of the 
fame name : fifteen miles eaft of Stolpe. 
LUPOGLA'VO, a town of Iftria : twelve miles weft 
of St. Veit, and twenty-two fouth-eaft of Triefte. 
LUPO'GLA, a mountain of Bofnia : twelve miles eaft 
of Zwornick. 
LUPO'W, a town of Pomerania, on a river of the fame 
name : twenty-eight miles eaft-north-eaft of Polow, and 
fixteen north of Butow. 
LUP'PIAT, Upper and Nether, villages near Stroud in 
Gloucelierfliire. 
LUP'PIT, or Lovepit, a village in Devonfhire, on 
the river that comes from Up-Ottery. 
LUP'PURG, a town of Bavaria, in the principality of 
Neuburg: fixteen miles north-weft of Ratilbon, and ten 
north-ealt of Dietfurt. 
LUP'TE, or Ho'hen Lupte, a town of Germany, in 
the principality of Anhalt Zerbft : three miles weft of 
Zerbft. 
LUP'TON, a village in Devonfhire, in the parifli of 
Brixham.—A village in Weftmoreland, near Kirkby 
Lonfdale. 
LU'PULO SIM'ILIS. See Urtica. 
LUPU'LUS,/ in botany, the diminutive of lupus, a 
wolf, a name applied by the older botanifts to the hop, 
becaufe, as the wolf preys upon other animals, fo this 
plant, by immoderately impoveriftiing the foil in which 
it grows, Itarves its vegetable neighbours. Such at lead; 
is the explanation of Ambrofinus. See Dalecampia, 
Gonania, and Humulus. 
LU'PUS, the Wolf, in aftronomy, a fouthern conftel- 
lation joined to the Centaur, whofe ftars in Ptolemy’s Cata¬ 
logue are nineteen ; in the Britannic Catalogue, with Sharp’s 
Appendix, twenty-four. 
LU'PUS (Servatus), a French abbot, celebrated for his 
learning, eloquence, and piety, was defcended from a con- 
fiderable family in the diocefe of Sens, and born about 
the commencement of the ninth century. After having 
received a learned education, he embraced the ecclefiafti- 
cal life in the abbey of Ferrieres, under Alaric or Aldric, 
who was then abbot, and afterwards archbifhop of Sens. 
About the year'828 he went from his monaftery to the 
abbey of Fulda in Germany, where he ftudied the Scrip¬ 
tures under the celebrated Rabanus: and returned to 
France in the year 836, with a high reputation for his 
proficiency in fcriptural knowledge. In the year 842, 
lie was fixed upon by Charles the Bald to fuperfede Odo 
in the abbacy of Ferrieres, whom that prince was deter¬ 
mined to deprive of his monaftery, on account of his hav¬ 
ing embraced the party of Lotharius. In the year 844, Lu¬ 
pus aflifted at the council of Verneuil, and was feledted to 
draw up the canons of the council. He alfo aflifted at 
cither aflemblies of the French bifhops, particularly at the 
council of Soiffons, in 853. Some time before the year 
835, he was fent ambaffador from Charles the Bald to 
pope Leo IV. and that prince afterwards gave him a com- 
milfion jointly with the celebrated Prudentius, to reform 
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all the monafteries in France. Thefe two illuftrious cha¬ 
racters were zealous defenders of St. Auguftine’s dodfrine 
of Grace. The time of his death is uncertain 5 but he 
was living at the clofe of the year 861, and maintained a 
high reputation, not only for his extenfive acquaintance 
with profane and general literature, but for his know¬ 
ledge of the doftrine and difcipline of the church, of the 
writings of the Latin fathers, and his extraordinary fanc- 
tity of manners. A collection has been made of 130 of 
his Letters, upon different fubjects, relating to difficulties 
in grammar, civil and ecclefiaftical affairs, points of doc¬ 
trine, difcipline, and morals ; which are written with fo- 
lidity, correhtnefs, and elegance, and throw confiderable 
light on the hiftory of the period in which he lived. 
There are alfo ftill extant, by Lupus, 2. A Book of the 
three Queftions, relating to free will, predeftination, and 
the redemption by the blood of Chrift; written againft 
Godefchale. 3. The Life of St. Wigbert, Abbot of Fritz- 
lar. 4. The Life of St. Maximin, Bifhop of Treves, pub- 
lifhed by Bufeeus in 1602. In 1664, M. Baluze printed 
a neat edition of all the works of Lupus, in 8vo. enriched 
with learned and curious notes, and fome additional frag¬ 
ments. Cave's Hift. Lilt. 
LU'PUS (Chriftian), vernacularly Wolf, a learned Fle- 
mifli monk of the order of St. Auguftine, was born at 
Ypres in the year 1612, and embraced the religious life 
at the age of fifteen. As foon as he had completed hit 
courfe of divinity at Louvain, lie was fent to teach philo- 
fophy at Cologne; and in the year 1653, he was one of 
the deputies fent to Rome by the univerfity of Louvain, 
to negotiate fome matters of moment with the papal court, 
and obtained the objeCt of his million. Soon after his re¬ 
turn home, he was appointed profeffor of divinity at Lou¬ 
vain, where he devoted almofl fifteen hours a-day to the 
ftudies appropriate to his department, and was diftin- 
guilhed by extraordinary fuccefs. Afterwards he filled 
the firlt polls belonging to his order in that province. As 
a reward of his merits, pope Clement IX. was defirous of 
creating him a bifhop, and appointing him facriftan of 
the Roman church; but his love of ftudy and repofe in¬ 
duced him to decline both thefe dignities. From pope 
Innocent XI. and the grand duke of Tufcany he alfo re¬ 
ceived marks of efteem, and the latter in vain repeatedly 
offered him a confiderable penfion, that he might attach 
him to his court. He died in 1681, when he was about 
feventy years of age, after having publifhed a number of 
works, in Latin, replete with erudition. They confift of, 
1. Commentaries on the Hiftory and on the Canons of 
Councils, both general and particular, 5 vols. 4to. 166^- 
1673. 2 * A Treatife on Appeals to the Holy See, 4to. in 
which he is the advocate for the molt blind fubmiflion to 
the papal authority. 3. A Colleiflion of Letters and Mo¬ 
numents, relating to the Councils of Ephefus and Cbal- 
cedon, in 2 vols. 4to. 4. A Collection of the Letters of 
St. Thomas of Canterbury, with his life prefixed. 5. A 
Commentary on the Relcriptions of Tertullian. 6. A 
Treatife on Contrition, 121110. and a vail number of Dif- 
fertations, &c. 
LU'RA, a town of South America, in the province of 
St. Martha, on the Madalena : eight miles fouth of Te- 
neriffe. 
LU'RA,/. [Latin.] The mouth of a fack ; the mouth 
of a bottle. Cole. 
LUR'BAH, a town of Bengal: twenty miles fouth- 
fouth-weft of Doefa. Lat. 22.41. N. Ion. 85. E. 
LUR'BOTTLE, a village in Northumberland, fouth- 
weft of Alnwick. 
LURCA'TION,/. [from lurca, Lat.j Gluttony; the 
act of devouring with greedinefs. Cole. 
LURCH, f. [derived by Skinner from I'ourcke, a game 
of draughts, much ufed, as he fays, among the Dutch 5 
ourche he derives from area, fo that thofe that are loft are 
left in lorche, in the lurch, or box.] A forlorn condition ; a 
helplefs ftate. 
To leave in the Lurch, - To leave in a forlorn or deferted 
condition 
