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LA'DAS, a celebrated courier of Alexander, born at 
Sicyon. He was honoured with a brazen ftatue, and ob¬ 
tained a crown at Olympia. Martial. Juvenal. 
I.AD'DER, f. [hlabpe, Sax.] A frame made with 
fteps placed between, two upright pieces.—I faw a ftage 
created about a foot and a half from the ground, capable 
of holding four of the inhabitants, with two or three lad¬ 
ders to mount it. Gulliver's Travels. 
Now ftreets grow throng’d, and bufy as by day; 
Some run for buckets to the hallow'd quire; 
Some cut the pipes, and fome the engines play, 
And fome more bold mount ladders to the fire. Dryden. 
Any thing by which one climbs.—Then took fiie help 
to her of a fervant near about her hufband, whom fhe 
knew to be of a hafty ambition ; and fuch a one, who, 
wanting true fufficiency to raife him, would make a lad¬ 
der of tiny mifchief. Sidney. 
Lowlinefs is young ambition’s ladder , 
Whereto the climber upward turns his face. Shakefpearc. 
A gradual rife.—Endow’d with all thefe accomplifhments, 
we leave him in the full career of fuccefs, mounting fait 
towards the top of the ladder ecclefialtical, which he hath 
a fair probability to reach. Szoift. 
Scaling- Ladders, in the military art, are ufed in efca- 
lade, when a place is to be attempted by furprife. They 
are of various forts : fome are of ropes, and fome of wood ; 
fome are made of feveral joints, fo as to be capable of be¬ 
ing put together, and to form ladders of different length, 
according to the fervice required. There is a fort ufed 
in England, much of the fame make as the common lad¬ 
ders, except that the fteps turn about wooden pegs, fo 
that the poles may be brought near each other, or to (hut 
like a parallel ruler. Thefe are very convenient for car¬ 
riage. 
Ship- Ladders, derive their names from the feveral 
hatchways or other parts where they are fituated. Befides 
thefe, there are fome of a particular conftiudftion, as the 
accommodation-ladder, and the quarter-ladder. The 
accommodation-ladder is a fort of light ftaircafe, occafion- 
ally fixed on the gangway of the admiral, or commander- 
in-chief of a fleet. It is furnifhed with rails and entering- 
ropes, covered with red baize, and the lower end of it is 
kept at a proper diltance from the (hip’s fide by iron-bars 
or braces, to render the palfage more convenient to thofe 
who enter or leave. Quarter-ladders are two ladders of 
rope, depending from the right and left fide of the fhip’s 
Hern, whereby to defcend into the boats which are moored 
aftern, in order to bring them up along-fide of the fliip, or 
to ule them for any other occafion. 
Ladder -Ways, the openings in the decks where the 
ladders are placed. 
LAD'DER to HEAVEN, in botany. See Conval- 
-LARIA. 
LAD'DESS,/. [from lad.] A lafs. 
LADE,/ See Lada. 
To LADE, v. a. prefer, laded ; part, paflive, laded or 
laden: [from hlafcen, Sax.] It is now commonly written 
lead. —To load ; to freight ; to burden.—And they laded 
their afles with corn, and departed thence. Gcnejis. —The 
experiment which flieweth the weights of feveral bodies 
in comparifon with water, is of ufe in lading of fnips, and 
(hewing what burden they will bear. Bacon. —Thus, if the 
cargo with which a fhip is laden is extremely heavy, her 
burden is determined by the weight of the goods; and, if 
it is light, fhe carries as much as fhe can Jlow, to be fit 
for the purpofesof navigation. As a ton in meafure is ge¬ 
nerally eftimated at looolb. in weight, a veffel of 200 tons 
ought accordingly to carry a weight equal to 400,0001b. 
when the matter of which the cargo is compofed is fpe- 
cifically heavier than the water in which fhe floats; or, 
in other words, when the cargo is fo heavy that (he can¬ 
not float high enough with fo great a quantity of it as her 
hold will contain. Ency. Brit. 
Laden in Bulk, the ftate of being freighted with a 
LAD 
cargo which is neither in cafks, boxes, bales, nor cafes, 
but lies loofe in the hold; being defended from the moif- 
ture or wet of the hold by a number of mats and a 
quantity of dunage. Such are ulually the cargoes of corn, 
fait, or fuch materials. 
To LADE, v- a. [from hlaban, Sax. to draw.] To 
heave out; to throw out.—They never let blood; but fay, 
if the pot boils too faff, there is no need of lading out any 
of the water, but only of taking away the fire ; and fo 
they allay all heats of the blood by abfiinence and cool¬ 
ing herbs. Temple. 
He chides the fea that funders him from them, 
Saying he’ll lade it dry to have his way. Shakefpearc. 
LADE, an ifland of the Aigean Sea, on the coaft of 
Afia minor, where was a naval battle between the Perfians 
and Ionians. 
LADEINOEPO'LE, a town of Ruffia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Olonetz: fifty-fix miles fouth of Petrozavodlk. 
Lat. 61. 56. N. Ion. 33. 50. E. 
LAD'ENAW, a town of Auftria : two miles fouth of 
T ulln. 
LA'DENBURG, a town of Weftphalia, in the bifhop- 
ric of Ofnabruck : nine miles fouth-eaft of Ofnabruck. 
LA'DENBURG, a town of the duchy of Baden : fix 
miles eaft of Manheim, and forty foiuh-fouth-eaft of 
Mentz. Lat-49.27. N. Ion. 8. 40. E. 
LADET'SCH, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Czaflau : twelve miles fouth-fouth-weft of Czaflau. 
LAD'JA, in Hindoo mythology, a being produced by 
Brahma, fimilarly with Labha ; a being which Brahma, 
or the creative power of the deity, produced from his lips 
when peopling the world. Labha is a perfonification of 
appetite or paffion, and the word in Sanfcrit has, as in 
many other languages, a labial meaning, indicating the 
fource of the being thus produced. On that occafion 
Kama, a perfonification of love or defire, fprung from his 
heart in the form of a beauteous female ; and Brahma, look¬ 
ing on her with amorous emotions, was informed by the 
Munis that five was his own daughter; he fhrunk back, 
and Ladja, a perfonification of fhanie, a bhtfhing virgin, 
was produced. Brahma, deeming his body defiled by its 
emotions toward Kama, purified it by partially metamor- 
phofing it into ten females, who were refpeftiv.ely efpouled 
by the Munis. See Muni. 
LA'DIES I'SLAND. See Lady’s Island. 
LADIKI'EH, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Caramania, 
anciently Laodicea : twenty miles welt of Cogni. 
LA'DING, / Weight; Burden.—It happened to be 
foul weather, lb that the mariners caft their whole lading 
over-board to fave themfelves. L'Ef range. 
Some we made prize, while others, burnt and rent, 
With their rich lading to the bottom went. Waller . 
Bill (/Lading. See Bill, vol. iii. p. 37. 
LAD'ISLAUS I. king of Hungary, fon of Bela I. was 
born in 1041. He was a very martial prince, and joined 
his brother Geyfa in a war againft Solomon the fon of 
Andrew, whom he was greatly inftrumental in defeating 
at the bloody battle which deprived him of his crown, 
and placed it upon the head of Geyfa. On the death of 
the latter in 1078, Ladiflaus was chofen by the Hates to 
fucceed him, but would not wear the crown till Solomon 
had abdicated the throne. He defeated the rebellious 
Walachians, and annexed to his dominions Dalmatia and 
Croatia, through the gift of his After, who was widow of 
the laft king of Dalmatia. He expelled, with great daugh¬ 
ter, the Chuni, or Huns, who had invaded his kingdom, 
and killed their king with his own hand. He was fuc- 
cefsful againft the Ruffians and Poles, and obliged both 
nations to fue for peace. Having thus rendered his do¬ 
minions fecure on all fides, he ftudied to make them flou- 
rifh by the arts of peace; built churches, encouraged 
commerce, and publifhed an improved code of laws. He 
had made great preparations for joining the firft crufade, 
when, in an expedition into Bohemia, he was attacked 
