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LANN'STROFF, a town of France, lit the department 
of the Mofelle, and chief place of a canton, in the di ft riff 
of Thionville. The place contains 338, and the canton 
13,615, inhabitants, on a territory of 307I kiliometres, in 
forty-four communes. 
LA'NO, a lake of the ifland of Mindanao; from fifteen 
to twenty miles.broad, and about fixty miles round. 
LANO'CLE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Nyevre : twelve' miles fouth-eaft of Decize. 
LA'NON, a village in Carmarthenfhire; with a fair on 
the 10th of December. 
LANOUAI'LLE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Dordogne, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Nontron. The place contains 4.58, and the can¬ 
ton 9581, inhabitants, on a territory of 235 kiliometres, 
in ten communes. 
LANPEN'CKEN, a town of Prufiia, in the palatinate 
of Culm: fourteen miles north of Strafburg. 
LANS, a town of France, in the department of the 
Ifere: feven miles fouth-weft of Grenoble. 
LANS-LE-BOU'RG, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of Mont Blanc, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftricl of St. Jean-de-Maurienne. The place contains 874, 
and the canton 4675, inhabitants, on a territory of 742^ 
kiliometres, in feven communes. 
LAN'SARD, a town of Perfia, in the province of Ma- 
Zanderan, on the coalt of the Cafpian Sea: ten miles weft 
of Fehrabad. 
LANSAR'GUES, a town of France, in the department 
of the Herault: nine miles weft of Montpellier. 
LANSA'WEL, a village in Carmarthenfhire, South 
Wales, fifteen miles north-north-eaft of Carmarthen ; it 
has fairs on the firft Friday after May 12, July 26, and 
Oftober 23. 
LANS'BERG (Philip), a Dutch proteftant divine and 
mathematician, was born in Zealand in the year 1561. 
He officiated as minifter at Antwerp in the year 1586; and 
was afterwards, for feveral years, fettled in the fame ca¬ 
pacity at Goes in Zealand. Towards the end of his days, 
his growing infirmities rendered it necefiary that he fhould 
be difcharged from the exercife of his minifterial func¬ 
tions; when he retired to Middleburg, where he died in 
1632, about the age of feventy-one. He was the author 
of, 1. Chronologiae Sacras, Lib. VI. 1626. 2. Progym- 
nafmata Altronomiae reftitutae, 1629. 3. Uranometriae, 
Lib. III. 1631. 4. Triangulorum Geometricorum, Lib. 
IV. 1631. 5. Commentationes in Motum Terras diurnum 
et annuuni, et in verum Afpeiflabilis Cceli Typum. In 
the work laft-mentioned, he declares himfelf openly for 
Copernicus’s opinion, and even pretends to improve it. 
This work was compofed in Dutch ; but, it was tranflated 
into Latin, and printed in the year 1630. It was attacked 
by Fromond, a doftor of Louvain, whom Lanfberg did 
not live to anfwer. That talk, however, was undertaken 
by a fon of his, a phyfician ; who, in 1635, publifhed a 
defence of his father’s work, under the title of “ Jacobii 
Lanfbergii Medicinas Doftoris Apologia pro Commenta- 
tionibus, &c.” The works of Philip Lanfberg were col¬ 
lected together, and printed in folio, at Middleburg, in 
1663. Bayle. Moreri. 
LANS'DOWN, an extenfive plain of England, in the 
county of Somerfet. A battle was fought here between 
the troops of Charles I. under the marquis of Hertford, 
and the parliament-forces under fir William Waller, in 
1643. A monument was erefted on the fpot by lord 
LanfdoWn, grandfon to fir Bevil Granville, who fell that 
day. The plain is now enclofed : four miles north of 
Bath. 
LAN'SERD, a town of Perfia, in the province of Ma- 
zanderan, on the coaft of the Cafpian Sea: ten miles weft 
of Fehrabad. 
LAN'SINBURGH, a town of the American States, in 
theprovince of New York, formerly called New City, fitu- 
ated on the eaft fide of Hudfon’s River, eppofite the fouth 
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branch of the Mohawk : 126 miles north of New' York. 
Lat. 42. 46. N. Ion. 73. 34. W. 
LANS'MANS, a town of Norway: 116 miles north of 
Bergen. 
LAN'SPERG (John), on account of his virtues fur- 
named the JuJI, and an author whofe writings are much 
efteemed by pious catholics, was a native of Lanfperg 
in Bavaria, and flourilhed in the early part of the fix- 
teenth century. He purfued his ftudies at Cologne, 
where he embraced the religious profetlion among the 
Carthufian monks in the year 1509. Afterwards he was 
elected prior of a monaltery in the neighbourhood of 
Juliers. He diftinguilhed himfelf by his zealous endea¬ 
vours to make converts from the proteftant perfuafion to 
the catholic faith, and to confirm the members of the 
church of Rome in a fteady adherence to its doftrine and 
difcipline. He was the author of numerous Paraphrafes, 
Sermons, and devotional treatifes, which were collected 
together, and printed at Cologne, in 1693, in 5 volumes 
4to. He died in that city in 1539. Moreri. 
LAN'SQUENET, f. [lance and knecht, Dut.J A corn* 
moil foot-foldier. A game at cards, which took its name 
from the lanfquenets, ocWght German troops employed by the 
kings of France in the fifteenth century. It may be played 
at by any number of people, though a fingle pack of cards 
is ufed during the deal. The denier, who pofleffes an ad¬ 
vantage, fhuffles the cards, and, after they have been cut 
by another of the party, deals out two cards ^on his left 
liand, turning them up, then one for himfelf, and a fourth 
that he places on the table for the company, which is 
called the rejouijfance. On this card any or all the company, 
the dealer excepted, may put their money, which the 
dealer is compelled to anfwer. The dealer continues 
turning the cards upwards, one by one, till two of a fort 
come up, that is to fay, two aces, two deuces, &c. which, 
to prevent miftakes, or their being confidered as fingle 
cards, he places on each fide of his own card; and as of¬ 
ten as two, three, or the fourth fort, of a card come up, 
he invariably places them, as before mentioned, on each 
fide of his own card. The company has a right to take 
and put money upon any fingle card, unlefs the dealer’s 
card fiiould happen to be double, which is often the cafe, 
by his card being the fame as one of the two hand-cards 
which he firft dealt out on his left hand: thus he conti¬ 
nues dealing till he brings either their cards or his own. 
Whilft the dealer’s own card remains undrawn, he wins; 
and whichever card is turned up firft, lofes. If he deals out 
the two cards on his left hand, which are ftvled the hand- 
cards, before his own, he is entitled to deal again. This 
advantage amounts to no more than his being exempted 
from lofing when he turns up a fimilar card to his own 
immediately after he lias turned up one for himfelf. Lan- 
fquenet is often played without the rejouijfance, the dealer 
giving every one of the party a card to put their money 
upon. It is alfo often played by dealing only two cards, 
one for the company and the other for the dealer. It 
fhould likewife be obferved, that a limitation is generally 
fixed for the fum to be placed upon any card or number 
of cards, either in gold or filver, beyond which the dealer 
is not obliged to anfwer. 
LAN'TA, or Len'ta, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Upper Garonne: nine miles eaft of Touloufe, 
and feventeen weft-north-weft of Revel. 
LAN'TAB-LEP'TEN, a fmall ifland on the coaft of 
China, near the harbour of Macao. 
LANTA'NA, f. [a lentorc, Lat. from the pliahlenefs of 
the branches.] American Viburnum ; in botany, a ge¬ 
nus of the clafs didynamia, order anaiolpermia, natural 
order of perfonatre, (vitices, jfujf.) The generic charac¬ 
ters are—Calyx: perianthium one-leafed, very.fhort, con¬ 
verging, obfcurely four-toolheu, tubular. Corolla: one- 
petalled, nearly equal; tube cylindric, llender, longer than 
the calyx, rather oblique ; border flat, unequally four- 
cleft, obtufe. Stamina: filaments four, very fmall, placed 
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