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■printed ; and it was his dying requeft to his friend ths 
Rev. Owen Manning, that fre would undertake the charge 
of feeing it brought to publication. This was effected in 
1772, when the work appeared with the title of “ Diftio- 
narium Saxonico et Gothico Latinum, auditor# Edwardo 
Lye, A.M.” 2 vols. folio. There are added to it fome 
fragments of the Ulphilian verfion, and other pieces in 
the Anglo-Saxon ; and a grammar of both languages is 
prefixed. Life by Mr. Manning prefixed to the DiB, 
LYE, a village north-well of Cheltenham, Gloucefter- 
ffiire.—A village fouth of the Teme, near VVorcelter.— 
A village near Ryegate in Surry. 
LYE (North and South), villages near Witney in Ox- 
fordlhire. ' 
LY'EHOUSE, a village near Bolney in Suffolk. 
LYEM'MER, or Lev'iner,/. A kind of hound. 
LYF'DEN, a village in Northamptonlhire, fouth-weft 
of Oundle. 
LY'FORD, a village near Wantage, Berks. 
LYGDO'MIUS, a man’s name. 
LY'GE, a town of Norway, near a lake of the fame 
name : fixteen miles north-weft of Chriltianfand. 
LYGE'UM,/! [from Xvyoc, Gr. a rod or twig, in aliu- 
fion to the tough pliant rulhy nature of the plant.] In 
botany, a genus of the clafs triandria, order monogynia, 
natural order gramina, orgrafl’es. The generic characters 
are _Calyx : glume of one ovate convoluted pointed per¬ 
manent valve, at length indexed, leparating at the lower 
fide, and containing two equal oppofite parallel level flo¬ 
rets. Corolla : of two valves, very hairy at the bafe, per¬ 
manent; the outennoft ovate, pointed, convex, awnlefs ; 
inner twice as long, linear, narrow, acute, cloven at the 
fummit, awnlefs. Stamina : filaments (in each floret) 
three, equal, longer than the corolla, flatti(h, very nar¬ 
row ; antheras vertical, linear, cloven at each end. Piftil- 
3um : germen fuperior, oblong, convex at the outfide, flat 
at the inner ; ltyle limple, compreffed, the length of the 
ftamens; ltigma Ample, taper-pointed, incurved. Peri- 
carpium : none, except the hardened hairy bafe of the 
corolla of each floret, united longitudinally to the other. 
Seeds : folitary, linear-oblong, convex at the outfide, fiat- 
tifh, with a longitudinal furrow, at the infide.— Effential 
CkaraBer. Glume of one valve, convoluted, two-flow¬ 
ered; corolla of two valves, the innermolt twice as long 
as the outer, awnlefs; feed folitary, inclofed in the har¬ 
dened combined bafe of each floret. 
Lygeum fpartum, or baltard mat-weed : the only known 
fpecies. Obferved by Loeflingto be very abundant in the 
fouth of Spain, always growing in low places, on a clay 
foil, where the water Hands after much rain. The root 
is creeping and perennial. Stems about a fpan high, ereft, 
Tulhy, round, (lender, fmooth, nearly naked, with one 
joint, above which they are much extended after flower¬ 
ing. Leaves theathing the lower part of the Item, and 
about equal to it in height, narrow, convoluted, taper- 
pointed, rufhy, fmooth; the upper or floral one (horter, 
with a longer (heath. Flower large, terminal, folitary, at 
firft ereft, inclining-as the feeds ripen, with a knot at the 
bafe ; calyx fmooth, delicately ftriped with green, at length 
opening and expofing the long denfe hairs which clothe 
the bate of the permanent corolla, invelting the feed. 
The error of Linnaeus and Loefling, who fuppofed the 
germen to be inferior, and common to two florets, is pro¬ 
perly correfted by Richard, who (hows the fuppofed two- 
celled nut to be formed merely of the hardened combined 
bafes of the corollas of the two florets. This is analogous 
to many other true grades, (as this is,) whofe hardened 
corolla becomes a hulk or (hell to the feed. This 
plant, being far inferior in tenacity, as well as length, 
to the true mat-weed, Stipa tenaciflima of Linnaeus, ferves 
chiefly in Spain for making bafkets and ropes, and alfo for 
ftuffin«-the inferior kinds of mattrefles. It flowers in May 
and June, ripening feed in autumn, and often retaining 
its empty (heath or calyx till the following fummer. The 
Vot.XIII. No. 948. 
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pa its of fructification are, on the whole, perhaps larger 
than thofe of any other grafs. 
LYGH, a village in Hampfhire, on the border of Sufi’ex 
toward Ea ft bourn. 
LY'GII, or Lugii, in ancient geography, a people of 
Germany, to the weft of the Vilhda, where it forms a 
bend like a crefcent; called Ligii by Dio, Lugii by Strabo, 
and Logtones by Zofimus. Their name Lugii is conjectured 
to be derived from their mutualiy-clofe confederacy or 
league. The Vittula was their boundary to the north, eaft, 
and Couth, with Mount Afciburgius to the welt. Now the 
whole of that country lies in Poland, on this fide.the Vi (tula. 
LYGIN'IA,yi [Avyifo«,Gr. twiggy, alluding to its hard 
tough rufhy habit.] In botany, a genus of the clafs dioe- 
cia, order monadelphia, natural orderof tripetaloidese, Linn. 
(junci, }ujj\ reftiacese, Drown.) Effential character—Male: 
ipatha of one valve; petals fix; filaments united length- 
wife; antherae three, didymous, cloven at each end. Fe¬ 
male : fpatha of one valve ; petals fix ; (tyle in three deep 
divifions ; capfule three-lobed, three-celled, burfling at 
the prominent angles ; feeds folitary. The root is fcaly, 
creeping, with thick downy fibres. Stems Ample, round, 
leaflefs, with feveral (heathing lcale6, ealily breaking at 
the joints. Spike terminal, of feveral crowded tufts of 
flowers, each accompanied by a common (heathing braftea, 
the female flowers fometimes folitary. 
Species. 1. Lyginia irnberbis, or unarmed lyginia: 
brafteas and fpathas beardlels; male and female tufts 
many-flowered. Native of the Couth part of New Hol¬ 
land. This is Schcenodum tenax, the male plant of La- 
billardiere. Mr. Brown obferves, that this fuppofed fpe¬ 
cies of the French author is made up of two different ge¬ 
nera ; he therefore thinks it fafer to rejeft the generic 
name entirely, than to retain it for either the male or fe¬ 
male plant, which might lead to error. 
2. Lyginia barbata, or bearded lyginia: brafteas and 
fpathas bearded ; male tufts of few flowers ; female ones 
lingle-flowered, nearly folitary. From the lame country. 
Thefe plants have much of the habit of Restio, Elegia, 
&c. See alfo Lepyrodia, vol. xii. p. 523. 
LYGIS'MUS, f. [from Twy^a, Gr. to dirtort.] A dif- 
tortion of the limbs ; fometimes a luxation. 
LYGIS'TUM, f. in botany. See Petesia. 
LYGMOPDES, f. [from Gr. a hiccup, and 
eiJoc, a form.] A fever attended with a hiccup. 
LYG'MUS,/. [Greek.] A hiccup. 
LYGO'DIUM,yi in botany. See Ophioglossum. 
LY'GUM, a town of Denmark, in the duchy of Slef- 
wick : fourteen miles welt of Apenrade. 
LYGUS'TRUM, f. in botany. See Ligustrum, 
vol. xii. p. 700. 
LY'HAM, a village in Northumberland, north-eaft of 
Woller. 
LY'ING, f. [from lie.) The aft of telling untruth.— 
They will have me whipt for fpeaking true, thou wilt 
have me wipt for lying, and fometimes I am whipt for 
holding my peace. Shakefpeare's King Lear. 
LY ING,/ [from to lie.) The aft of placing one’s felf 
in a recumbent pofture.—Many tears and temptations befal 
me by the lying in wait of the Jews. ABs xx. 19. 
Lying to, denotes the fituation of a (hip when (lie is 
retarded in her courfe, by arranging the fails in fuch a 
manner, as to counteraft each other with nearly an equal 
effort, and render the (hip almoft immovable, with refpeft 
to her progreflive motion or head-way. A (hip is ufually 
brought-to by the main or fore-top-lails, one of which is 
laid a-back, whilft the other is full; Co that the latter 
pufhes the (hip forward, whilft the former redds the im~ 
pulie, by forcing her a-ftern. This is particularly prac¬ 
ticed in a general engagement, when the hoftile fleets are 
drawn up in two lines of battle oppofite to each other ; it 
is alfo u(ed to wait for fome other (hip, eithef approach¬ 
ing or expefted ; or to avoid purfuing a dangerous courfe, 
efpecially in dark or foggy weather, See, Falconer. 
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