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learned bodies. A great fobriety of regimen preferred 
him in health and vigour till the illnefs which brought 
his life to a clofe, in January 1710, in his fixty-fixthyear. 
This phyfician w-as of a lively and cheerful^difpofition, 
humane, and prompt to perform kind offices; able and 
prudent in the management of bufinefs; polite, affabie, 
and pleafing in convention; eloquent and zealous in 
promoting the interefts of fcience. He collefted a great 
library, which, during his life-time, he prei'ented to the 
Hofpital of the Holy Gboft, for the public ufe, and efpe- 
cially for that of the young phyficians' and i'urgeons_ at¬ 
tending the houfe. Lancili was the author ol_ a variety 
of works, feveral of them valuable. The nioft important 
are, 1. De fubitaneis Mortibus, lib. ii. 1707, 4to. written 
on occafion of the frequent fudden deaths which had for 
fbrne time before taken place at Rome. 2. De nativis 
deque adventitiis Romani cceli qualitatibus, cui accedit 
Hiltoria Epidemiae Rheumaticse, 1711, 4to. 3. De noxiis 
Paludum effluviis eorumque remediis, 2 vols. 4to. 1717 ; 
a work containing many ufeful obfervations on the infa- 
iubrity of marlhy fituations, and the means of rendering 
them more healthy. 4. Quinque Epidemiae perniciofarum 
et caftrenfium Febrium, printed with the preceding. He 
alfo attended to the epidemics affecting domeftic animals, 
and wrote two pieces in Italian concerning a dil'eafe pre¬ 
valent among cows and horfes. In anatomy he wrote fe¬ 
veral detached differtations, and performed a very ufeful 
fervice to the fcience in general, by difcovering the loll 
copper-plates of Euftachius, and cauling a fet of tables 
from them to be publifhed at Rome, 1714, folio. After 
his death appeared his large an# valuable work, De Motu 
Cordis et Aneurifmatibus, Rom. 1728, fol. and 1745, 4to. 
A colleftion of the works of Lancifi, hitherto publilhed, 
was printed at Rome, in 4 vols. 4to. 1745, and his Con¬ 
cilia XLIX Polthuma, were printed at Venice in 1747, 4to. 
Fabroni. Vit. Italor. 
LANCIS'IA,/ in botany, a genus of plants inftituted 
by Pontedra, and fo named in honour of the fubjeft of 
the preceding article. See Cotula ftrifta, vol.v. p.270. 
LANCKAW', a town of Pruflia, in the palatinate of 
Culm : ten miles eaft-north-eaft of Thorn. 
LAN'CKE, a town of Prulfia, in Pomerelia, on the 
borders of Pomerania : thirty-two miles north-north-well 
of Fredeland. 
LANCK'HEIM, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg : 
five miles north-eall of Kitzingen. 
LANCK'OWITZ, a town of the duchy of Stiria: feven 
miles well-north-welt of Voitzberg. 
LANCPOU', a lake of Thibet, about thirty miles long 
and nine ivide. Lat. 32. 36. N. Ion. 84. 32. E. 
LANCPOU', a mountain of Thibet. Lat. 32. 55. N. 
Ion. 84. 34. E. 
LANCTAN', a mountain of Thibet. Lat. 31. 52. N. 
Ion. 85. 54. E. 
LAND,/. [Gothic, Saxon, &c.] A country ; a region 
diffinft from other countries.—The chief men of the land 
had great authority; though the government was monar¬ 
chical, it was not delpotic. Broome's Notes on theOdyjfey. 
Thy ambition, 
Thou fcarlet fin, robb’d this bewailing land 
Of noble Buckingham. Shakefpeare. 
Earth, diltinft from water.—By land they found that huge 
and mighty country. Abbot. 
They turn their heads to fea, their Herns to land. 
And greet with greedy joy th’ Italian itrand. Dryden. 
It is often ufed in compofition, as oppofed to fea. -—The 
princes delighting their conceits with confirming their 
knowledge, feeing wherein the lea-difctpline differed from 
the landfervice, they had pleafing entertainment. Sidney .— 
Necefiity makes men ingenious and hardy ; and, if they 
have but land-room or lea-room, they find fupplies for their 
hunger. Hale's Origin of Mankind. —Ground; furface of the 
place. Unujual: 
LAN 
Beneath his fteely cafque he felt the blow, 
And roll’d, with limbs relax’d, along the land. Pope. 
An eftate real and immoveable.—He kept himfelf within 
the bounds of loyalty, and enjoyed certain lands and towns 
in the borders of Polonia. Knolles. 
This man is freed from fervile hands. 
Of hope to rife or fe3r to fall: 
Lord of himfelf, though not of lands ; 
And, having nothing, yet hath all. Wotton. 
Nation ; people ; the inhabitants of the land : 
Thefe anfwers, in the filent night receiv’d, 
The king himfelf divulg’d, the land believ’d. Dryden . 
Urine; [hlonb, Sax.]—Probably land-damn was a coarfc 
exprelfion in the cant (train, formerly in common ufe, but 
fince laid afide and forgotten, which meant the taking 
away of a man’s life. For land or lant is an old word for 
urine; and to Hop the common paffages and functions of 
nature is to kill. Hanmer. 
You are abus’d, and by fome putter-on 
That will be damn’d for’t. Would I knew the villain ; 
I would land-damn him. Shakefpeare. 
Land, in law, fignifies generally not only arable ground, 
meadow, pallure, woods, moors, waters, See. but alfo mef- 
fuages and houfes; for, in conveying the land, the build- 
jugs pafs with it. Co. Lit. 4,19. In amore reftrained fenfe 
it is arable ground ; and the land of every man is faid in 
the law to be incloled from that of others, though it lie 
in the open field ; lo that, for any trefpafs therein, he (ball 
have the writ quare claufum fregit, (Sc. In a grant, land 
may extend to meadow, or pallure, See. but, in writs 
and pleadings, it fignifies arable only. 1 Vent. 260. Land, 
or earth, hath in law a great extent upwards; for, cujm 
tjl folum, ejus ejl ufque ad caelum. Co. 9 Rep, 
To LAND, v. a. To fet on fliore : 
He who rules the raging wind. 
To thee, O facred (hip, be kind. 
Thy committed pledge reftore. 
And land him fafely on the Ihore. Dryden . 
To LAND, v.n. To come to fhore.— Land ye not, none 
of you ; and provide to be gone from this coall within 
iixteen days. Bacon. 
I land, with hicklefs omens: then adore 
Their gods. Dryden's ALneid, 
LAND'-BOC, f. [Saxon.] The deed or charter by 
which lands were held. Obfolete. 
LAND'-BRED, adj. Born in a certain country, bred 
in a certain country. Spenfer. 
LAND'-CAPE,/ A promontory, a headland. 
LAND'- CHEAP, J. A fine paid in fome places on the 
alienation of lands. 
LAND'-CRAB, f. A kind of crab common in the 
illand of Barbadoes. See Cancer ruricola, vol. iii. p. 706. 
To LAND'-DAM, v. a. [from lanb, Sax. urine, and 
dam.'] To Hop the courfeof the urine; to kill. Shakefpeare. 
LAND’S EN'D, the weftern extremity of England and 
the county of Cornwall, called by Ptolemy Bolerium, and 
by Diodorus Bderivm ; perhaps, fays Camden, from the 
Britilh word pell, which fignifies “ molt remote.” The 
Britilh bards called it Penrighuaed, or the Promontory of 
Blood ; and their hiftorians Penwith, or Promontory to the 
Left. By the Saxons it was named Penwiihfeort ; and by 
the inhabitants Pen von Las, or the Land’s End. There 
is a tradition that this point ran farther out into the fea, 
and that the ground now covered by the water was called 
Lionefs. On the outermofl rocks at low water are to be 
feen veins of lead and copper; and the neighbouring in¬ 
habitants fay a light-houfe flood on it formerly : ten miles 
fouth-iveft of Penzance. Lat. 50. 4. N. Ion. 5.42. W. 
LAND’S EN'D, a cape of England, on the north-eaft 
coaft of the illand of Sheppey ; four miles north of Sheer- 
nefs. 
LAND'-FALL* 
