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LAREN'STS, in ancient geography, an epifcopal- fee of 
Africa, in the proconfular province. 
LAREN'TIA, or Laurentia, a courtezan in the firll 
ages of Rome. See Acca, vol. i. 
LARENTINA'LIA, in antiquity, a feaft held among 
the Romans on the 23d of December, but ordered to be 
obferved twice a-year by Auguflus; by feme fuppoled to 
have been in honour of the Lares, but by others, with 
mare probability, in honour of Acca Laurentiaj and to 
have been the fame with the Laurentalia. 
LA'RES,/: See Lar. 
LA'RES, or La'ris, in ancient geography, a town of 
Africa Propria, according to Ptolemy, who places it in 
the territory of Cirtha. 
LARG, a river of France, which runs into the Ill, be¬ 
tween Altkirck and Mulhaufen, in the department of the 
Upper Rhine. 
LARG, a fmall ifland near the weft coaft of Sumatra. 
Lat. 3. 30. S. Ion. 100. 3. E. 
LARG FELL, a mountain of Scotland, in the county 
of Kirkudbright: thirteen miles weft of New Galloway. 
LARG KIRK, a town of Scotland, in the county of 
Sutherland: eighteen miles north-weft of Dornoch. 
LAR'GA, a fmall ifland in the Spanifli Main, near the 
coaft of South America. Lat. 10. 1. N. Ion. 76. 6. N. 
LAR'GA, a fmall ifland in the Florida Stream. Lat. 
24. 36. N. Ion. 82. 25. W. 
LARGE, adj. [large, Fr. largus , Lat.] Big; bulky.— 
Charles II. afked me, What could be the reafon, that in 
mountainous countries the men were commonly larger, 
and yet the cattle of all forts fmaller ? Temple .—Wide; 
extenfxve ; broad.—Their former large peopling was an 
effeift of the countries impoverifhing. Carew's Survey. — 
Let them dwell in the land and trade therein ; for it is 
large enough for them. Gen. xxxiv. 21.—There he con¬ 
quered a thoufand miles wide and large. Abbot's Defcription, 
of the World. —Liberal; abundant; plentiful.—Thou (halt 
drink of thy filter's cup deep and large. Ezekiel. 
Vernal funs and ftiowers 
Diffufe their warmeft, largejl, influence. Tkomfon. 
Copious ; diffufive.—I might be very large upon the im¬ 
portance and advantages of education, and fay a great 
many things which have been faid before. Felton on the 
Clajftcs. 
At Large. Without reftraint; without confinement. 
.—If you divide a cane into two, and one fpeak at the one 
end, and you lay your ear at the other, it will carry the 
voice farther than in the air at large. Bacon. 
Thus incorporeal fpirits to fmalleft forms 
Reduc’d their fliapes immenfe; and were at large, 
Though without number Hill. ' Milton. 
Diffufely ; in the full extent.—It does not belong to this 
place to have that point debated at large. Watts. 
Difcover more at large what caufe that was, 
For I am ignorant, and cannot guefs. Skaltefpeare. 
LARGE, f. The longeft note in the ancient time-table, 
equal to two longs, four breves, or eight temibreves. Its 
form is an oblong fquare, with a tail on the right fide. 
It is now difufed. See the article Music. 
LARGE, adv. A fea-term applied to the wind when 
it crofi’es the line of a flip’s courfe in a favourable direc¬ 
tion, particularly on the beam or quarter. Thus, if a 
flip fteer weft, then the wdnd in any point of the compafs 
to the eaftward of the fouth or north may be called large, 
unlefs when it is direftly ealt, and then it is laid to be 
nght aft. Sailing large is, therefore, advancing with a 
large wind, fo that the (beets are flackened and. flowing, 
and the bow-lines entirely difufed. This phrafe is gene¬ 
rally oppofed to failing clofe-hauled. 
Large, in the manege. A horl’e is faid to go large, 
or wide, when he gains or takes in more ground in going 
wider from the centre of the volt, and describing a greater 
Yol. XII. No. 826. 
LAR 
circumference. To make a horfe go large, you muft give 
him the aid of your inner heel. 
LAR'GE-BONED, adj. Big; bulky in refpefl of bone. 
—Warwick, Leicefter, and Buckingham, bear a large¬ 
boned flieep of the belt (hape and deepeft ftaple. Mortimer. 
LAR'GE-HANDED, adj. Rapacious .• 
Large-handed robbers your grave matters are, 
And pill by law. Shakefpcare's Timon. 
LARGE I'SLAND, one of the largeft iflands on the 
Labrador Coaft, due weft of the mouth of Shecatica-bay. 
LARGE RIV'ER, a river of Louifiania, which runs 
into the Miffiffippi in lat. 38. 25. N. Ion. 95. 7. W. 
LAR'GELY, adv. Widely; extenfively. Copioufty ; 
diifufely; amply.—Where the author treats more largely, 
it will explain the ftiorter hints and brief intimations. 
Watts on the Mind. —Liberally; bounteoufly; 
Thofe, who in wanner climes complain 
From Phoebus’ rays they fuffer pain, 
Muft own, that pain is largely paid 
By gen’rous wines beneath the (hade. Swi/t. 
Abundantly 5 without fparing: 
They their fill of love, and love's difport, 
Took largely ; of their mutual guilt the leal. Miltm. 
LAR'GENESS, f. Bignefs; bulk.—London excels any 
other city in the whole world, either in largenefs, or num¬ 
ber of inhabitants. Spratt. 
Nor muft Bumaltus his old honours lofe, 
In length and largenefs like the dugs of cows. Dryden. 
Greatnefs; comprehenfion.—There will be occafion for 
largenejs of mind and agreeablenefs of temper. Collier of 
Friendship. —Extenfion ; amplitude.—If the largtnefs of a 
man’s heart carry him beyond prudence, we may reckon 
it illuftrious weaknefs. L'EJlrange. 
Shall grief contrail the largenefs of that heart, 
In which nor fear nor anger has a part? Waller. 
Widenefs.—Suppoling that the multitude and largenefs 
of rivers ought to continue as great as now ; we can ea- 
fily prove, that the extent of the ocean could be no iefs. 
Bentley. 
LARGENTIE'RE, a town of France, and feat of a tri¬ 
bunal, in the department of the Ardeche: eighteen miles 
weft of Privas, and four north of Joyeufe. Lat. 44. 32. N. 
Ion. 4. 42. E. 
LARGENTIE'RE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Higher Alps, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftrict of Briangon. The place contains 978, and 
the canton 5871, inhabitants, on a territory of 462^ kilio- 
metres, in 7 communes. 
LAR'GESS, f. [largejfe, Fr.] A prefent; a gift; a 
bounty.—He ailigned two thoufand ducats, for a bounty 
to me and my fellows ; for they give great largejfes where 
they come. Bacon s New Atlantis. 
Our coffers with too great a court. 
And liberal largefs, are grown fomewhat light. Shakefp „ 
LARGET'TO, adv. in mulic, a mode of time fome-. 
thing quicker than largo. 
LARGIF'ICAL, adj. [from the Lat. largus, large, and • 
facio, to make.] Bounteous; bellowing largely. Cole. 
LARGIF'LUOUS, adj. Flowing copioully. Scott. 
LARGILLIE'RE (Nicholas de), an eminent French 
portrait-painter, was born at Paris in 1656. His father, 
whom mercantile concerns induced to lettle at Antwerp, 
complied with the natural turn he difplayed for the arts, 
of defign, by placing him at the age of twelve with Antony 
Gobeau, a Flemilh painter, eminent for landlcapes and. 
fubjefls of common life. Largilliere rofe by his genus 
above the talle of the fchooi in which he was educated ; 
and, going at the age of eighteen to England, was em¬ 
ployed by fir Peter Lely about the pictures at Windfor, 
where he attracted the notice of Charles II. for whom he 
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