L A M 
four miles fouth-fouth-weft of Killarney, and fix north of 
Cod’s Head. Eat. 51.42. N. Ion. 10. 1. W. 
LAMB I'SLAND, a fmall ifland of Scotland, in the 
mouth of the Forth ; one mile north-north-welt from 
North Berwick. 
LAMB’s LET'TUCE, /. .in botany, the name of an 
herb. See Valeriana. 
LAM'B LIKE, adj. Having the difpofition of a lamb ; 
meek; humble. 
Scythian LAMB. See Polypodium. 
L AMB’s TONGUE, f. The name of a plant. 
LAMB’s WEED, f. The name of a plant. 
LAM'B’s WOOL, /, Ale mixed with the pulp of 
roafted apples.—A cup of lamb's wool they drank to him 
there. Song of the King and the Miller. 
LAM'BA, one of the fmaller Shetland Ifiands, between 
Shetland and Yell. Lat. 60. 45. N. Ion. 1. 39. W. 
LAM'BACH, a town in Auftria, where Bonaparte af- 
fembled his forces preparatory to the capture of Vienna 
in November 1805. It is four miles north-ealt of Schvvan- 
naftadt. 
LAMBA'LE, a town of Africa, in the country of the 
Foulis, on the Senegal: feventy-five miles fouth-eaft of 
Goumel. 
LAMBAL'LE, a town of France, and principal place 
of a diftrift, in the department of the North Coafts : two 
polls and a half eall of St. Brieuc, 50$ weft of Paris. 
Lat. 48. 3. N. Ion. a. 26. E. 
LAM'BAN, a town of the country of Guriel, on the 
Black Sea : fifty miles fouth-weft of Cotatis. 
LAMBANESS', a cape on the north-eaft coaft of the 
jflandofUnft. Lat. 61. 10. N. Ion. 1. 4. E. 
LABANLUO'TO, a fmall ifland on the eaft fide of the 
gulf of Bothnia. Lat. 61. 39. N. Ion. 21. 15. E. 
LAMBAS'SA, in ancient geography, a town of Africa, 
in Numidia, which became an epifcopal fee. 
LAM'BATIVE, adj. [from lambo, Lat. to lick.] Taken 
by licking.—In affe&ions both of lungs and weazon, phy- 
ficians make ufe of fyrups and lambative medicines. Brown. 
LAM'BATIVE, f. A medicine taken by licking with 
the tongue.—I Ititch’d up the wound, and let him blood 
in the arm, advifing a lambative , to be taken as necelfity 
Ihould require. Wijem. Surg 
LAMBAY', a fmall ifland in the Irilh Sea, near the 
weft coaft of Ireland. Lat. 53.30. N. Ion. 6.W. 
LAMBAY'A, or Lanibai, a town of Africa, where 
the king of Baol relides. 
LAMBAYE'QUE, a town of Peru, and capital of the 
jurifdidtion of Sana, in the biftiopric of Truxillo ; con¬ 
taining about 1500 houfes, built fome of bricks, fome of 
cane and plafter, others entirely of cane. Some of the 
inhabitants are opulent; but the generality are poor Spa¬ 
niards, Mulattoes, Meftizos, and Indians. The parifli- 
church is of ftone, large and beautiful, and the ornaments 
fplendid. It has four chapels, called ramos, with an equal 
number of priefts, who take care of the fpiritual concerns 
of the Indians, and alfo attend, by turns, on the other in¬ 
habitants. The families which formerly inhabited the 
city of Sana, on its being facked, in 1685, by Edward 
Davis, an Englilh adventurer, removed hither; being un¬ 
der a farther necefiity of changing their dwelling from an 
inundation of the river of the fame name, by which every 
thing that had efcaped the ravages of the Englilh was de- 
Itroyed. It is the refidence of a corregidor; having un¬ 
der his jurifdidtion many other towns. One of the two 
officers of the revenue appointed forTruxillo refides here. 
A river, called Lambaveque, waflies this place, which, 
when the waters are high, is crofted by a wooden bridge; 
but at other times may be forded; and often is quite dry. 
It is ninety-five miles weft-north-weft of Truxillo. Lat. 
6. 40. S. Ion. 79. 56. W. 
LAM'BDA,/. The letter of the Greek alphabet which 
anfwers to our l. 
LAM'BDACISM, /. The too frequent repetition of 
the letter l. 
LAM 95 
LAMBDOI'DAL, adj. [from lamfcloidcs.'] Belonging 
to the lambdoides ; having the form of the letter A. 
LAMBDOI'DES,yi in anatomy, one of the futures of 
the fkull. 
LAMB EAUX, f. in heraldry, a kind of crofs patee. 
LAMBE'CIUS (Peter), a man of diftinguiftied erudi¬ 
tion, was born at Hamburg in 1628. He received the- 
early part of his education in his native place, and after¬ 
wards, at the expence of his maternal uncle, Luke Hol- 
ftein, vifited the univerfities of Holland and France, where 
he made a great progrefs in polite literature and law. At 
the age of nineteen he became advantageoufly known to 
the learned world by a work upon Aulus Gellius. He 
pnfled eight months with the archbilhop of Touloufe, in 
which city he was made a licentiate in law. He then 
fpent two years at Rome with cardinal Barberini. On re¬ 
turning to Hamburgh, he was appointed to the profeffor- 
fhip of hiftory in 1652; and, in 1660, was made refior of 
the college in that city. He underwent many uneafinefles 
in confequence of criticifms on his writings, and charges 
brought again(t him in matters of faith ; and thefe were 
not alleviated by his marriage with a rich, but old and 
covetous, wife, who kept her money to herfelf. Difgufted 
with his fituation, he abandoned his family and country 
in 1662, and went firft to Vienna, and then to Rome,, 
where he was very favourably received by queen Chriltina 
of Sweden, and pope Alexander VII. In the fame year 
he abjured Lutheranifm, and publicly declared himfelf a 
Catholic, to which religion he had been fecretly converted 
in France many years before, by father Sirmond. Re¬ 
turning to Vienna, he was appointed in 1663 librarian to 
the emperor, in which poft he died in 1680. Befides the 
work on A. Gellius already mentioned, Lambecius pub- 
lifhed, 2. Origines Hambtirgenfes, in two parts, 410- 
1652, 1661. 3. Codini et alterius Anonymi excerpta de 
Antiquitatibus Conftantinopol. Gr. with a Latin verfion. 
and remarks, Paris, fol. 1655. 4. Prodromus Hiftoriae 
Litterariae, Hamb. fol. 1659. 5. A Collection of Latin 
Difcourfes on various Occafions, 4to. 1660. The molt 
laborious of his performances was entitled, 6. Com- 
mentariorum de augufta Bibliotheca Ctefaria Vindobo- 
nenfi, lib. viii. fol. 8 vols. 1665-1679: this great work 
contains a hiftory of the imperial library at Vienna, with 
a defcriptive catalogue of its numerous manufcripts, upon 
a critical and liiftorical plan, which renders it much fu- 
perior to all preceding catalogues of the kind. He did 
not live to complete his labour; but the fucceeding libra¬ 
rian, Dan Neflelins, gave a fupplement, together with an 
abridgment of the eight volumes of Lambecius, in one 
volume folio. Our author publiftied fome other works, 
one of which may be regarded as that kind of penitential 
talk which feems to have been enjoined on feveral learned 
converts to a fuperftitious faith; it is a Latin diary of the 
pilgrimage made by the emperor Leopold, in 1665, to a 
famous monaltery, on account of a victory over the Turks, 
Bayle. 
LAM'BENT, adj. \_lambens, Lat.] Playing about; 
gliding over without harm 
From young lulus head 
A lambent flame arofe, which gently fpread 
Around his brows, and on his temples fed. Dryden. 
His brows thick fogs, inftead of glories, grace, 
And lambent dulnefs play’d around his face. Dryden. 
LAM'BERHURST, a village of England, in the county 
of Kent, formerly celebrated for its iron forges and fur¬ 
naces ; the rails round St. Paul’s church-yard were call 
at this place; ten miles fouth-eaft of Tunbridge, and- 
forty-one fouth-eaft of London. 
LAM'BERT, [Saxon.] A man’s name. 
LAM'BERT of ASCHAFFENBURG, a Benedictine 
monk, in the eleventh century, wrote feveral works ; 
among which is a Hiftory of Germany from the year 1050 
to 1077. 
LAM'BERT (Francis), one of the firft French monks 
who 
