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or crooked horn, a kind of fhawm, in imitation of which 
we have a reed-ftop in our old organs, called the cromhorn, 
which has by fome been imagined to be a corruption of 
the word Cremona ; third, gemfen-horn, or wild-goat’s horn ; 
and, fourth, the zincke, or lmall cornet. After thefe we 
have the bag-pipe, trumpet, fackbut, fide-drum, kettle¬ 
drum, French-horn, bugle-horn, and even the Jews-harp, 
and clappers. 
LUS'CIOUS, adj. [from delicious, fay fome ; but more 
probably from luxurious, corruptly pronounced.] Sweet, fo 
as to naufeate.—Sweet in a great degree.—The food that 
to him now is as lufcious as loches, fhall fhortly be as bit¬ 
ter as coloquintida. Shakefpeare. 
Blown rofes hold their fweetnefs to the laft, 
And raifins keep tl\eir lufcious native tafte. Dryden. 
Pleafing; delightful.—He will bait him in with the lufcious 
propofal of fome gainful purpofe. South. 
LUS'CIOUSLY, adv. Sweet to a great degree. 
LUS'CIOUSNESS,y. Immoderate lweetnefs.—Can there 
be a greater indulgence in God, than to embitter fenfua- 
lities whofe lufcioufnefs intoxicates us, and to clip wings 
which carry Us from him ? Decay of Piety. 
LUSCI'TIONjy [ lufcitio , Lat.] A diforder of the eyes; 
a dimnefs of light. Cole. 
LUSEENU'H, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: ten 
miles north of Chittra. 
LUSH, adj. Of a dark deep full colour, oppofite to 
pale and faint; from loufche. Hanmer .—How lujk and lufty 
the grafs looks ! how green ! Shakefpeare. 
LUSH'BURG, or Luxenburgh,/. A bafe fort of fo- 
reign coin, made of the likenefs of Englilh money, and 
brought into England in the reign of king Edward III. 
to deceive the king and his people ; on account of which, 
it was made treafon for any one wittingly to bring any 
fuch money into the realm, knowing it to be falfe. 
25 Edward III. flat. 5. c. 2. 
LUSH'COMB, a village in the parilh of Rattery, Devon. 
LU'SIGNAN, a town of France, and principal place of 
adiftrift, in the department of the Vienne. In 134.6, this 
town was taken by the duke of Lancalter; in 1572, it 
was feized by the Huguenots; and the year following 
taken by the Catholics, under the duke de Montpenfier. 
It is three and half polls fouth-vvell of Poitiers, and 
ninety-three and half fouth-weft of Paris. Lat. 46. 26. N. 
Ion. o. 14. E. 
LU'SIGNY, a town of France, in the department of 
the Aube, and chief place of a canton, in the diltrift of 
Troyes. The place contains 1155, and the canton 7225, 
inhabitants, on a territory of 180 kiliometres, in 14com¬ 
munes. 
LU SION, f. [from the Lat. ludo, to play.] A play ; 
a paltime. Bailey. 
LUSIPA'RA. See Lucipara, p. 746. 
LUSITA'NIA, [from luz, an almond, and tani, a fig, 
on account of its productions; or from los, a tail or end, 
tan, land, and ia, country, on account of its fituation ; 
q. d. Land’s-End Territory.] In ancient geography, one 
of the divifions of Spain, extending to the north of the 
Tagus, quite to the fea of Cantabria, at leall to the Pro- 
montorium Celticuin. But Augutlus, by a new regula¬ 
tion, made the Anas its boundary to the fouth, the Durius 
to the north ; and thus conllituting only a part of the 
modern Portugal. The inhabitants were warlike,and were 
conquered by the Roman army under Dolabella, B.C. 99, 
with great difficulty. They generally lived upon plunder, 
and were rude and unpolilhed in their manners. It was 
ufual among them to expole their fick in the high roads, 
that their dileafes might be cured by the directions and 
advice of travellers. They were very moderate in their 
meals, and never ate but of one difh. Their clothes were 
commonly black ; and they generally warmed themfelves 
by means of Hones heated in the lire. Strabo. 
LU'SITZ, or Mun'chbach, a river of Saxony, which 
pafles through the town of Freyberg. 
L U S 
LUSK, a village of Ireland, in the county of Dublin. 
Here was an abbey founded in the earlieft ages of Chri C- 
tianity, which in 1135* together with the town, was- 
burned down by Donald M'Murragh O’Melaghlin, for 
the murder of his brother Connor prince of Meath. The 
church is a very curious and uncommon ftrufture: "it con- 
filts of two' long aides, divided by a range of feven 
arches : the eaft end is the parifh-church ; at the weft end 
is a handfome fquare fteeple, three angles of which are 
Supported by round towers 5 and near to the fourth angle 
is an infulated round tower, in good prefervation, which 
rifes leveral feet above the battlements of the fteeple. 
Lulk is twelve miles north of Dublin. r 
LUSK, adj. [hifche , Fr.] Idle; lazy; worthlefs. 
LUSK, f. A lazy worthlefs fellow.—Up, you lulk. 
Brewer's Lingua. J 
LUS'KISH, adj. Somewhat inclinable to lazinefs or in¬ 
dolence. 
LUS'KISHLY, adv. Lazily ; indolently. 
LUS'KISHNESS, f. A dilpofition to lazinefs : 
He fhooke off lujkifmefs ; and courage chill 
Kindling afrell), gan battell to renew. Spenfer. 
LU'SO, a river which rifes in the duchy of Urbino, and 
runs into the Adriatic a little to the north of Rimini; by 
fome fuppofed to be the ancient Rubicon. 
LUSO'RIOUS, adj. fuforius, Lat.] Uled in play 5 
fportive.—Things more open to exception, yet unjuftly 
condemned as unlawful; fuch as the lujorious lots, dancing, 
and (tage-plays. Bifiop Sanderfon. 
LU'SORY, adj. \luforius, Lat.] Ufed to play.—There 
might be many entertaining contrivances for the inftruc- 
tion of children in geometry and geography, in fuch al¬ 
luring and lufory methods, which would make a molt 
agreeable and lalting impreflion. Watts on the Mind. 
_ LUS'PA, a town of Sweden, in Eaft Bothnia: twenty- 
eight miles eaft of Chriftineftadt. 
LUSS, a village of Scotland, in the county of Dum¬ 
barton, on the weft coaft of Loch Lomond: thirteen 
miles north-north-weft of Dumbarton. 
In the immediate vicinity of this village, Rofedoe, the 
manfion-houfe of fir James Colquhoun of Lufs, is placed 
on a rich peninfula, projecting fo far into the lake as to 
appear infulated. The ground is finely wooded ; and a 
tower of the ancient caltle, or habitation of the family, 
forms an excellent contralt to the modern houfe. Some 
very bold and rugged mountains compofe the back ground 
of this charming lcenery. Between Lufs and Tarbet the 
road diminiffies in breadth very rapidly. Palling the wa¬ 
ter of Uglas, which difcharges itfelf into the lake, it af- 
cends a lofty promontory, projecting confiderably in the 
lake, which is called the Point of Firkin. The afcent to 
the fummit of this eminence is abrupt, difficult, and te¬ 
dious ; but the view which difplays itfelf from it amply, 
repays the admirer of nature for the labour attending it. 
Nearly oppofite to this point Benlomond rears his lofty 
head on the eaftern fide. 
LUSSAC', a town of France, in the department of the 
Gironde : fix miles eaft-north-eaft of Libourne. 
LUSSAC les CHATEAU'X, a town of France, in the 
department of the Vienne : eighteen miles fouth-eaft of 
Poitiers, and fix weft of Montmorillon. Lat. 46.25. N. 
Ion. 0.48. E. 
LUSSAC les EGLI'SES, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Upper Vienne : thirty-three miles nortlr 
of Limoges. 
LUSSAN', a town of France, in the department of the 
Gard ; nine miles north of Uzes. 
LUSSAN' (Margaret de), a copious French novelift, 
was born at Paris in 1682. Her parents were a celebrated 
fortune-teller named Fleury, and a coachman; but ffie re¬ 
ceived an education beyond what might be expeCted from 
her birth. It is faid that the learned Huet, becoming ac¬ 
quainted with the vivacity of her parts, encouraged her 
to write romances. She likewife derived great advantage 
