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lingly embraced the profeflion of my father and grandfa¬ 
ther,” fays he, “my father determined to render me com¬ 
plete mafter of it, by making me pafs through every ftage. I 
had previoufly fludied the languages at college, and was now 
thirteen years of age, when he took me under his own care. 
Though he had plenty of fervants and workmen, he chofe 
that I fhould deep in a liable, that I might become per¬ 
fectly acquainted with horfes, by attending them night 
and day. He made me drefs all his own horfes, as well 
as the difeafed ones that were under his care. No one 
was allowed to aflift me, though I had oftentimes feven or 
eight horfes to attend every morning. In this employ I 
continued more than a year, and became a good groom. 
From the liable T went to the forge, as an apprentice; 
and for two years I applied myfelf to the handling of iron, 
and giving it various forms under the hammer; at inter¬ 
vals during this time I liudied human anatomy, and 
learned to ride a horfe in a proper manner. My father 
thought proper that I Ihould learn alfo the ufe of arms, 
drawing, the Englilh language, geography, mufic, and 
natural hiltory. When my father perceived that I had 
acquired fome knowledge of the fymptoms of the difeafes 
of horfes, and of the treatment of wounds, he took me 
wherever he went, and under his infpeCtion I performed 
every kind of treatment and operation. I now began fe- 
rioully to ftudy comparative anatomy. I frequented the 
layflalls, and the llaughterers of horfes were my fit ft aflift- 
ants. Being previoufly acquainted with the anatomy of 
the human frame, their lefions indeed were not of much 
fervice to me; but I availed myfelf of the flaughtered car- 
cafes, differing different parts of them as my fancy fuited, 
for difcovering the feat of various diforders. Hereby I 
gained a vaft infight into the diforders of the bones and 
of the foot, and collected a number of pieces for demon- 
Itrating the nature of thofe diforders to fuch as I might 
have occalion to inftruCt ; and I could not fail to detelt a 
number of errors that disfigured the hippiatric art.” Such 
5 s the account M. Lafoffe gives of hirnfelf in the Preface 
to his Cours d’Hippiatrique, p. vii. He began at eigh¬ 
teen years to give lectures upon his art. His Guide du 
itlareckal appeared in 1766, in 4to. and in 1771 he publilhed 
his great work, entitled Cours d'Hippiatrique, ou Traite com- 
flel de la Medecine des Chevaux, in folio, with 65 plates. 
This magnificent work has never been tranflated; but the 
fubltance of it, and many of the plates, will be found in 
our article Farriery, vol. vii. 
LAFRESNA'YEi- See Frenaye, vol. viii. 
LAFVENSA'RI, a fmall ifland in the gulf of Finland. 
Lat. 59. 57. N. Ion. 45. 32. E. 
LAG, adj. [lseng, Sax. long; lagg, Swedilh, the end.] 
Coming behind ; falling Ihort.—The flowed footed, who 
come lag, fupply the Ihow of a rearward. Carezv's Survey. 
I am fome twelve or fourteen moonfliines 
lag of a brother. Skakefpeare's King Lear. 
Sluggilh ; flow ; tardy. It is out of ufe, but retained in 
Scotland : 
We know your thoughts of us, that laymen are 
Lag fouls, and rubbilh of remaining clay, 
Which Heav’n, grown weary of more perfect work, 
Set upright with a little puff of breath, 
And bid us pafs for men. Dryden. 
Fall; long delayed •. 
Pack to their old play-fellows ; there I take 
They may, cum privilegio, wear away 
The lag end of their lewdnefs, and be laugh’d at. Shahefp. 
LAG, f. The loweft ciafs; the rump ; the fag end.— 
The reft of your foes, O gods, the fenators of Athens, to¬ 
gether with the common lag of people, what is arnifs in 
them, make fuitable for deft ruCtion. Shakejpeare. —He that 
comes laft, or hangs behind.-—The laft, the lag of all the 
race. Dryden's Virgil. —What makes my ram the lag of all 
the flock ? Pope. 
To LAG, v.n. To loiter: to move flowly; 
She pafs'd, with fear and fury wild ; 
The nurfe went lagging after with the child. Dryden, 
The remnant of his days he fafely pafs’d. 
Nor found they lagg'd too flow, nor flow’d too faft. Prior. 
To flay behind ; not to come in.—Behind her far away a 
dwarf did lag. Fairy Queen. 
The knight hirnfelf did after ride. 
Leading Crowdero by his fide. 
And tow’d him, if he lagg'd behind. 
Like boat againlt the tide and wind. Hudibras. 
LAG'-MAN, f. One that lags behind ; a loiterer ; one - 
who falls fliort of the virtue of his anceftors. Ajh's Did. 
LA'GA, f. An old word for the law. 
LA'GA, a river of Sweden, which runs into the North 
Sea four miles weft of Laholm. 
LAG'AMAN, a town of Candahar: fixty miles north- 
of Cabul. 
LA'GAN. See Flotsam, and Wreck. 
LAG'AN-WA'TER, a river of Ireland, which runs 
into Belfaft Lough at Belfaft. 
LAGA'RES, a town of Portugal, in the province of' 
Beira: fourteen miles fouth-fouth-weft of Vifeu, and thirty 
eaft-north-eaft of Coimbra. 
LAGAIP, a town of Brandenburg, in the New Mark : 
five miles eall of Sternberg, and twenty-five fouth-eaft 
of Cuftrin. Laf. 52. 28. N. Ion. 15.26. E. 
LAG'BEN, a town of Germany, in the county of Feld- 
kirch : three miles fouth of Feldkirch. 
LA'GE, a town of Weftphalia, in the county of Lippe 5 
three miles fouth-weft of Lemgo. 
LA'GE, a town of Mecklenburg: nine miles fouth^- 
weft of Roftock. 
LA'GE-DAY,yi [a Saxon law-term.] A day of open, 
court; the day of the county court. 
LA'GE-MAN,y; [a Saxon law-term.] A man qualified' 
to ferve on the jury ; a juror. 
LA'GEN, f. \_lagena, Lat.] In ancient time, was a mea- 
fure of wine containing fix lextarii: whence probably is 
derived our Jlagon. The lieutenant of the tower has the - 
privilege to take unam lagenam vini ante malum et retro, of 
all wine-fhips that come upon the Thames; and fir Peter 
Leicefter, in his Antiquities of Cheftiire, interprets lagcna 
vini, “a bottle of wine.” 
LA'GEN BAY, a bay on the weft coaft of the ifland 
of Ila, fouth of Lagen Point. 
LA'GENS, a town of the ifland of Flores, one of the 
Azores, containing near 1400 inhabitants. 
LAGEN'ULA,y’. [from lagena, Lat. a bottle, becaufe 
the form of the fruit is like that of a little bottle or flagon.] 
In botany, a genus of the ciafs tetrandria, order mono- 
gynia. The generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium 
inferior, of four ovate-oblong, reflexed, permanent, leaves. 
Corolla : petals none; neCtary fleftiy, with four ere<ft s . 
fomewhat-approximated, lobes. Stamina : filaments four, 
awl-fliaped, equal to the calyx; antherse ovate, incum¬ 
bent. Piftilium : germen concealed by the neCtarj'; ftyle 
thick, fhorter than the flamens 5 ftigma Ample. Pericar- 
pium : berry fmall, bottle-fliaped, with a narrow neck, of 
two cells, and containing two feeds. Seeds : folitary, con¬ 
vex on one fide, angular on the other.— EJJential Charadcr. 
Calyx of four leaves, inferior ; petals none ; neCtary four- 
lobed ; berry of two cells; feeds folitary. 
Lagenula pedata, called by the Cochin-chinefe cay rat 
nho la ; a lingle fpecies. It is a moderate-fized flirub, 
found on the hills of Cochin-china. The Item climbs by ‘ 
means of tendrils, and is branched, deftitute of prickles. 
Leaves pedate, of five ovate, crenate, downy, leaflets. 
Flowers whitilh green, in terminal, fpreading, iubdivided^ 
clufters. Loureiro. 
LAGERSTRCE'MIA,/. [fo named by Linnaeus from 
Magnus Lagerjlrccm, of Gotienburgh, director of the Eaft- 
India Company, who procured many curiofities from 
China, and gave them to the public.] In botany, a ge- 
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