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To well in the London markets as the other, nor are fo ge¬ 
nerally efteemed. Indeed of late years, fince the white 
Cos was commonly cultivated, it obtained the preference 
of all the other forts, until the Egyptian green Cos was 
introduced, which is fo much fweeter and tenderer, that 
it is by all good judges efteemed the bell fort of lettuce 
yet known. This fort will endure the cold of our ordi¬ 
nary winters full as well as the white Cos : but at the fea- 
fon of its cabbaging, if there happen to be much wet, this, 
being very tender, -is very fubjeft to rot. 
The brown Dutch and green capuchin lettuces are very 
hardy, and may be fown at the fame feafons as was di- 
refted for the common cabbage-lettuce ; and are very pro¬ 
per to plant under a wall or hedge, to hand the winter, 
where many times thefe will abide when molt of the other 
forts are dellroyed, and therefore they will prove very ac¬ 
ceptable at a time when few other forts are to be had 5 
they will alfo endure more heat and drought than mod: 
other forts, which renders them very proper for late fow- 
ing; for it often happens, in very hot' weather, that 
the other forts will run up to feed in a few days after they 
are cabbaged, whereas thefe w ill abide near a fortnight in 
good order, efpecially if care be taken to cut the forwarded 
fird, leaving thofe that are not fo hard cabbaged to be lad. 
If fome plants of thefe two lad forts are planted under 
frames, on a moderate hot-bed in October, they will be fit 
for ufe in April, which will prove acceptable to thofe who 
are lovers of lettuce; and being covered by glades will 
render them tender. In faving thefe feeds, the fame care 
fhould be taken to preferve only fuch as are very large 
and well cabbaged, otherwife the feeds will degenerate, 
and be good for little. 
The red capuchin, Roman, and prince, lettuces, are 
pretty varieties, and cabbage very early; for which rea- 
fon a few of them may be preferved, as may alfo fome of 
the Aleppo, for the beauty of its fpotted leaves; though 
very few people care for any of thefe forts at table, when 
the other more valuable ones are to be obtained; but in 
a fcarcity thefe may fupply the place pretty well, and thefe 
forts are very proper for foups. The feeds of thefe mud 
alfo be faved from fuch as cabbage bed, otherwife they 
•will degenerate, and be good for little. In faving feeds 
of all thefe forts of lettuce, you diould obferve never to 
let two forts ftand near each other; for, by their farina 
mixing, they will both vary from their original, and par¬ 
take of each other. There diould be a dake fixed down 
by the fide of each, to which the dem diould be fadened, 
to prevent their being broken, or blown out of the ground 
by wind, to which the Cilicia, Cos, and the other large- 
growing, lettuces, are very fubject when they are in 
dower. You mud alfo obferve to cut fuch branches of 
the large-growing lettuce as ripen fird, and not wait to 
have the feed of the whole plant ripe together, which ne¬ 
ver happens; but, on the contrary, fome branches will be 
ripe a fortnight or three weeks before others; and, when 
you cut them, they mult be fpread upon a coarfe cloth in 
a dry place, that the feeds may dry, after which you 
fhould beat them out, and dry them again, and then pre¬ 
ferve them for ufe, being careful to hang them up where 
mice and other vermin cannot come at them; for, if they 
do, they will foon eat them up. 
The wild forts are eafily raifed from feed. Perennial 
lettuce fpreads at the roots, and may be increafed by fuck¬ 
ers. SeeCHONDRiLLA, Prenanthes,Sonchus, and Ulva. 
LACTU'CA AGNI'NA. See Valeriana Locusta. 
LACTUCIM'INA, f. With phyficians, the aphthce; 
fmall ulcers in the mouth. Phillips. 
LACTUCI'NA, f. In heathen mythology, the goddefs 
who was fuppofed to prefide over the corn while loft and 
milky in the ear. 
LACTU'MIA, f. With furgeons, the achor; a crufted 
kind of ulcer on the head. 
LACTU'MINA, J. The thrulh ; fmall ulcers in the 
mouth. 
LACU'NA,yi [Latin,] In old records, a ditch in which 
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water ftands; a dike; a furrow fora drain; a blank in a 
writing. 
LACU'NYE, f. fin anatomy, fmall pores or paffages in 
the urethra. 
LACU'NAR, f. in architecture, an arched roof or ciel- 
ing ; the cieling of a portico. 
LACUNA'TION, f. A perforation; the a£t of making 
holes. Cole. 
LACUN'OSE, adj. in natural hiftory, having many 
fmall pits or dents in the furface. 
LA'CUS, f. [Latin.] A Handing pool of water. 
LACY'DES, a Greek philofopher of the middle acade¬ 
my, was a native of Cyrene, and the difciple of Arcefi- 
laus, whom iie alfo fucceeded in the academic chair. He 
was very poor in his youth ; but, notwithstanding his 
humble circumftances, he acquired great reputation by 
his intenfe application to his Itudies, his graceful manner 
of fpeaking, and entertaining converfation. At the death" 
of Arcefilaus, in the fourth year of the hundred and 
thirty-fourth Olympiad, he fucceeded to his office, and 
adhered to his doftrines without making any innovation 
in them. He taught in a new fchool, which however was 
within the limits of the academic grove. This was a gar¬ 
den which Attalus king of Pergamus had cauled to be 
made, and prelented to him, which was afterwards known 
by the name of the Lacvdean garden. That prince, who 
was a lover of philofophy, entertained a high efteem for 
Lacydes, and fent him an invitation to come to his court; 
to which he anfwered, that the portraits of kings fhould 
be viewed at a diftance. After teaching philofophy 
twenty-fix years, he refigned the employment to his dif- 
ciples Telecles and Evander, in the fecond year of the 
hundred and forty-firit Olympiad. He had a goofe, which 
was fo much attached to him, that it followed him wher¬ 
ever he went, by night as well as by day 5 and, when the 
animal died, our philofopher, not greatly to the credit of 
his wifdom, folemnifed its funeral obfequies with as much 
magnificence as if it had been his fon or brother. The 
caufe of his death, which may be attributed to himfelf, 
was ltill more unworthy of him ; for he fell the viftim oF 
a paralytic attack, which was brought on him by an in¬ 
dulgence in exceflive drinking, about the year 215 B.C. 
Diog. Laert. Enfield's Hijl. Phil. 
LAD, f. [leobe, Sax. which commonly fignifies peo¬ 
ple ; but fomelimes, fays Mr. Lye, a boy.] A boy ; a 
{tripling, in familiar language.—Too far from the ancient 
forms of teaching leveral good grammarians have depart¬ 
ed, to the great detriment of fuch lads as have been re¬ 
moved to other fchools. Watts. 
We were 
Two lads, that thought there was no more behind. 
But fuch a day to-morrow as to-day, 
And to be boy eternal. Shakcfptare „ 
A boy ; a young man, in paftoral language : 
For grief whereof the lad would after joy, 
But pin’d away in anguilh, and felf-will’d annoy. Spenf:' 
LAD, old preterite of to lead. — And by her in a line 
a milk-white lamb fhe lad. Spenfer. 
LAD, a town of Moldavia, on the Reut: thirty-fix- 
miles eaft-north-eaft of Stephanowze. 
LA'DA, or Lade,/! Hath divers fignifications, in old 
law-writings: ift. From the Saxon latiuan,to convene or 
alfemble, it is taken for a lathe, or inferior court of juf- 
tice. adly, It is ufed for purgation by trial, from ladian; 
and hence the lada Jimplex, and lada triplex, or lada plena , 
among the Saxons, mentioned in the laws of Ethelred and 
Henry I. 3dly, Lada is applied to a lade, or courfe of 
water; Camden ufes water-lade, or water-courfe; and 
Spelman fays, that lada is a canal to carry water from wet 
grounds ; fometimes lada fignifies a broad way. qthly. 
The mouth of a river; from ladian, becaufe the water is 
there clearer; hence Cricklade, Lechlade, See. 
LAD'ANUM,/ in botany. See Cistus, Galeopsis, 
and Lamium.. 
LA'DASj 
