LAC 
ec?, as the reel or yellow is to be the moll prevalent; and 
for a coarfer lacquer the quantity of fliell-lac may be Lef- 
fened, and the deficiency fupplied by the fame proportion 
of refill. . The lacquer for locks, nails, &c. where very 
little colour is defired, may be either fnell-lac varnilh 
alone, or with a little dragon’s blood ; or a compound 
varnilh of equal parts of Ihell-lac and refin, with or with¬ 
out the dragon’s blood. The manner of laying on the 
lacquer is as follows: The pieces to be lacquered mull fit'll 
be made thoroughly clean ; and, if they be new founded, 
aquafortis mull be ufed for this purpofe. When they are 
afterwards heated by a fmall charcoal fire, the lacquer is 
laid on with a proper bruih, like other varnilhes, and the 
pieces reltored to the heat. After the lacquer is thorough¬ 
ly dry and firm, the fame operation mull be renewed for 
four or five times, or till the work appears of the required 
colour and brightnefs. See Varnish. 
To LACK'ER, v. a. To fmear over with lacker: 
What (hook the llage, and made the people dare ? 
Cato’s long wig, flower’d gown, and lacker'd chair. Pope. 
LACK'ERGAUT, a town of Thibet: forty-live miles 
jfouth of Deuprag. 
LACK EEING, / The abl of varnilhing. 
LACK'EY,y. [ lacquais , Fr.] An attending fervant; a 
footboy— Lacqueys were never (o faucy and pragmatical as 
they are now-a-days. Addijon's Spectator. 
They would fhame to make me 
Wait elfe at door: a fellow-counfellor, 
’Along boys, and grooms, and lackeys! Shakefpeare. 
ToLACK'EY, v. a. To attend lervilely: 
This common body, 
Like to a vagabond flag upon the llream. 
Goes to, and back, lacqueying the varying tide, 
To rot itlelf with motion. Skakefpeare. 
So dear to heav’n is faintly chadity, 
That, when a foul is found lincerely fo, 
A thoufand liveried angels lackey her. 
Driving far oft’ each thing of fin and guile. Milton. 
To LACK'EY, v. «. To aft as a footboy; to pay fer- 
vile attendance.—Our Italian tranllator of the FEneis is a 
foot-poet; he lackeys by the fide of Virgil, but never 
mounts behind him. Dryden. 
Oft have I fervants feen on horfes ride. 
The free and noble lacquey by their fide. Sandys. 
LACK'EYING,y The aft of attending as a lackey. 
LACK'I, a town of Hindoofian, in Bengal: fifty-fix 
miles north of Dacca. 
LACK'IPOLE, a town of Bengal: fixteen miles north- 
ead of Calcutta. 
LACKRICOT'TA, a town of Hindoodan, in the dr¬ 
ear of Cicacole:' twenty-foui 4 miles lbuth-wed of Viziana- 
gram. 
LACKRICOT'TA, a town of Hindoodan, in Coim- 
betore: thirteen miles fouth-wed of Coimbetore. 
LACKRITAPIL'LA, a town of Hindoodan, in the 
circar of Cuddapa : twenty miles fouth-wed Cuddapa. 
LACKWAL'SA, a town of Hindoodan, in the circar 
of Cicacole: fix miles foutli of Tickeley. 
LAC'MUS, or Litmus. See Archil, vol. ii. 
LA'CO, a river of Napies, which runs into the Medi¬ 
terranean in lat. 39. 50. N. Ion. 16. E. 
LACOBE'NA, in ancient geography, a town of Alia, 
fituated between the mountains north of Comagene, on 
a fmall river which ran into the Euphrates fouth-eall of 
this town. 
LACOBRI'GA, a town of Spain, upon the Piforaca, 
fouth of Juliobriga, and north-ead of Pallantia, belonging 
to the Vaccei. 
LACO'LE, a river which falls into Lake Champlain 
from the wed, five miles foutii-fouth-VAeil of Nut-Illand, 
after a fhort courfe. 
Vql. XII. No. 81 x. 
LAC 63 
LACONCEVAN', a town of Upper Siam, on the Me- 
con: eighty miles fouth of Porcelon. 
LACON'DY ISLES, two fmall iflands among the Lac¬ 
cadives, about three miles apart. Lat. 10. 33. N. Ion. 71, 
'40. E. 
LACO'NIA, in ancient geography. See Lacedaemon. 
LACO'NIA, in modern geography, the name of a large 
trac'd of land in the Iroquois country. North America. -See 
Iroquois. When Lake Champlain and Lake George 
were fird difeovered, they were known by no other name 
than that of the Iroquois'Lakes; the Indians aifo that 
were then called the Iroquois, are fince known by the 
name of the Mohawk Nations, and the Mohawks of,Ca¬ 
nada. In the war between England and France, the 
former fought on the fide of the Englilh ; the latter joined 
the French. A vail trail of land, that lies between the 
two above-mentioned lakes and Lake Ontario, was grant¬ 
ed, in 1629, by the Plymouth Company, under a patent 
they had received from king James I. to fir Ferdinando 
Gorges, and captain John Mafon, the head of that family 
afterwards didinguilhed from others of the fame name as 
the Mafons of Conneflicut. The countries fpecified in 
this grant are faid to begin ten miles from the heads of 
the livers that run from the ead and fouth into Lake 
George and Lake Champlain, and, continuing from thefe 
in a direbt line wedward, extend to the middle of Lake 
Ontario; thence, being bounded by the Cataraqui, or the 
River of Iroquois, they take their courfe through Mont¬ 
real, to the junblion of this river with the Richiieu; and 
from that point are inclofed by the lad-mentioned river, 
till it returns back to the two lakes. This immenfe 
fpace was granted by the name of the Province of La¬ 
conia. 
LACON'IC, or Laconical, adj \_laconicus, Lat. laco- 
nique, Fr.] Short, brief; from Lacones, the Spartans, who 
ufed few words.— I grow laconic even beyond laconicifm ; 
for fometimes I return only yes, or no, to quedionary or 
petitionary epillles of half a yard long. Pope. —The learned 
Plutarch, in his laconical apothegms, tells of a fophider, 
that made a long and tedious oration in.praife of Hercules. 
Harrington's Apologie of Poetrie. 
LACONICALLY, adv. [from laconic.'] Briefly; con- 
cifely.—Alexander Nequam, a man of great learning, and 
defirous to enter into religion there, writ to the abbot la~ 
conically. Camden's Remains. 
LACON'ICISM, or LAC'oNiSM,yi [ laconifme , Fr. laco- 
nijmus, Lat.] A concife flyle.—I grow laconic even be¬ 
yond laconicifm ; for fometimes I return only yes, or no, to 
quedionary or petitionary epillles of half a yard long. Pope. 
—As the language of the face is univei'fal, fo it is very com- 
prtdieufive: no laconifm can reach it. It is the lliort-hand 
of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room. Col~ 
Her of the AfpcEl. 
LACON'ICUM, f. [from Laconia.] A dry dove to 
fweat in ; a flew ; a hot-houfe. 
To LAC'ONISE, v. n. [from Laconia .] To make ufe 
of laconifms ; to acl the part of the Lacedemonians. Not 
much ufed. Cole. 
LACO'VIA, a town of the ifland of Jamaica: fifty-five 
miles wed of Kingdom 
LAC'QUER. See Lacker. 
LACRIMO'SO, adv. [Italian.] A mufical term, fel- 
dom ufed now, which implies a plaintive movement, in a 
dyle of weeping. 
LAC'SUR, a town of Perfia, in the province of Cho- 
rafan : fifty miles north-eall of Herat. 
LAC'TA, f. [law Lat.] A defeat in the.weight of mo¬ 
ney; whence is derived the word lack. Du Frefne. 
LAC'TANT, [from the Lat. latto, to fuck.] Suck¬ 
ing ; giving milk. Scott. 
LACTAN'TIUS (Lucius Caelius or Caeciliuj Fir- 
mianus), the mod eloquent of the Latin Chridian fathers, 
flourilhed in the early part of the fourth century. We 
are not acquainted with any circumdances concerning his 
family; and of the date of his birth, any more than of 
T his 
