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appellations of High , Magdalen, and Little. In the parilh 
of High Laver was Oates, the feat of fir Francis Marfham, 
member of parliament for Eflex from 1690 to 1708. That 
illuftrious philofopher, John Locke, fpent much of his 
time, in the laft ten years of his life, at Oates, where he 
was treated with the utmoft friend Hi ip by fir Francis and 
his lady, who confoled his lad moments by her kind of¬ 
fices. Here he died, in 1704, and was buried on the fouth 
fide of the church-yard, under a black marble graveftone, 
inclofed by iron rails; and on the wall of the church 
above is his epitaph, printed in his works : this tomb and 
monument are now in a decayed date. Oates continued 
in this family till the death of the lad lord Marfham, in 
1776. We are lorry to add, that the manfion of Oates, 
which the author of the c ha rafter of Mr. Locke, publithed 
in 1795, fondly imagined would be famous to poderity 
for the long abode that great man made there, was level¬ 
led with the ground about feven years ago, and the 
ploughman now “plods his weary way” over a fpot once 
the relidence of fo many virtues and accomplilhnients ! 
L A'VER-BRE AD.yi In the county of Glamorgan,and 
fome other parts of Wales, they make a fort of food of 
a fea-plant, which feems to be the oyder-green, or fea li¬ 
ver-wort. 
LAVERC ANIE'RE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lot: feven miles fouth of Gourdon. 
LAVERDIE'RE, a town of France, in the department, 
of the Var: fix miles north of Barjols. 
LAVER'NA, in mythology, the goddefs of thieves and 
difhonelt perfonsat Rome. She did not only prefide over 
robbers, called from her laverniones, but die protected Inch 
as deceived others, or formed their fecret machinations in 
obfeurity and filence. Her worlhip was very popular, and 
the Romans railed her an altar near one of the gates of 
the city, which, from that circumftance, was called the 
gate of Laverna. She was generally reprefented by a head 
without a body. 
LAV'ERNICK, a town of Pruflia, in the territory of 
Culm, on the Drebentz : forty-four miles eaft of Culm. 
LAVER'NIUM, a temple of Laverna, near Formiae. 
LAV'EROCK, or Lavrock,/ [Scotch.] The lark: 
The tuneful lav'rocks cheer the grove, 
And fweetly fwells the fimmer green : 
Now o’er the mead I love to rove 
Wi’ bonny Jem of Aberdeen. Song. 
LAU'EZITZ, a town of Moravia, in Brunn : ten miles 
fouth of Brunn. 
LAUF, a town of Germany, in the territory of Nurem¬ 
berg : eight miles eaft-north-eaft of Nuremberg, and thirty 
fouth-ealt of Bamberg. Lat-49.8.N. Ion. 11. 13. E. 
LAU'FEN, a town of Swifierland, in the canton of 
Zurich : two miles fouth of Schaffhaufen. 
LAUF'FEN, a town of the archbifnopric of Salzburg, 
on the Salza: .eleven miles north-north-weft of Salzburg, 
and twenty-fix north-eaft of Kuffstein. Lat. 47. 54. N. 
Ion. 12. 32. E. 
LAUF'FEN, a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Rhine, on the Barfch : fix miles fouth of Bale, 
and fixteen north of Soleure. Lat. 47. 32. N. Ion. 7. 
20. E. 
LAUF'FEN, a village and caftle of Swifierland, which 
gives name to a bailivvic, in the canton of Zurich, near 
the Rhine, where is a celebrated cataraft : two miles be- 
lo w Schaffhaufen. 
LAUF'FEN, a town of Pruflia, in Natangen : fifteen 
miles fouth of Bartenftein. 
LAUF'FEN, a town of Auftria. In 1147, a diet of - 
the empire was held here under Frederic I. Eighteen miles 
fouth of Gemunden. 
LAUF'FEN am NEC'KAR, a town of Wurtemberg, 
on the Neckar, formerly imperial: fixteen miles north of 
Stuttgart, and four fouth of Heilbron. Lat.49. 5. N. 
Ion. 9. 18. E. 
LAUF'FENBURG, a tow'n of Germany, and one of 
the four 'foreft-towns of the late Auftrian Swabia, the 
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head-place of an ancient count}', and a fortified town ; 
fituated on both tides of the river Rhine, over which is a 
bridge ; by means of which both parts of the town are 
joined to each other. This town is a fief of the founda¬ 
tion of Seckingen, which was poflefled by the counts of 
Habfburg, together with the tract called the Seckingen, fo 
early as the days of the Swabian dukes of the houfe of 
Hohenftaufen. The line of HabfDurg-Laufenburg be¬ 
coming exlinft in the year 1409, both counties, together 
with the towns in them, defeended to the houfe of Auftria 
by way of inheritance, though, fo early as the year 1387, 
duke Leopold had purchafed the whole county of Luuf- 
fenburg, of count John the younger of Habtburg, for 
12,000 florins. At this place is a fall in the river Rhine: 
twenty-fix miles weft of Schaffhaufen, and eighteen eaft 
of Bale. Lat. 47.36. N. Ion. 8. 4. E. 
LAUFF'NITZ, a river of Stiria, which runs into the 
river Raab near fouth Gothard in Hungary : ten miles 
fouth-eaft of Furftenfeld. 
LAUF'FON, a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Rhine, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Delemont, feated on the Barfch ; 16 miles north 
of Soleure. The place contains 740, and the canton 7513,- 
inhabitants, on a territory of 172^ kiliometres in 21 com¬ 
munes. Lat. 47. 32. N. Ion. 7. 20. E. 
LAUGEO'N, a town of Meckley : forty-two miles weft 
of Munnypour. 
LAUGE'RIA,yi [named by Jacquin from Robert Lau r 
gier, profeifor of chemittry and botany at Vienna, when a 
botanic garden was firft eftablifhed there.] In botany, a 
genus of the clafs pentandria, order monogynia, natural 
order of rubiacete, JuJf. The generic charafters are— 
Calyx: perianthium one-leafed, tubular, fuperior, with 
unequal mouth, Email, deciduous. Corolla: one-petalied, 
falver-form ; tube very long ; border five-cleft; divifions 
obovate. Stamina: filaments five, very fhort; antherse 
linear, long, beneath the throat. Pillillum : germ fubo- 
vate, inferior; ltyle filiform, rather longer than the tube; 
ftigma headed. Pericarpium: drupe roundilh, umbili- 
cated with a point. Seed: nut two or five-celled, Sw. 
furrowed, Jacqu.—EJJential Charatter. Corolla five-cleft; 
drupe with a five-celled nut. 
Species. 1. Laugeria odorata, or fweet-fmelling lauge- 
ria : leaves fubovate, acute, fmooth ; Item fomewhat fpiny ; 
racemes panicled ; drupes with five-celled nuts. This is 
an upright branching fhrub, ten feet high. Leaves quite 
entire, petioled, oppofite, two inches long. Flowers of a 
dirty red, very fweet during the night. Fruits black, 
larger than peafe, foft, very numerous, falling when ripe 
with every flight motion of the bufh. It comes up both 
unarmed and with long oppofite ftraight fpines from the 
feed of the fame fhrub. Native of America, Carthagena, 
Havannah, &c. 
2. Laugeria lucida, or fhining laugeria : leaves oblong, 
blunt, entire, membranaceous, fhining; racemes dichoto¬ 
mous; drupes with two-celled nuts. Branches round, 
fmooth, covered with an afh-coloured bark, fcarred at top 
with the fallen leaves. Native of the Weft Indies, Ja¬ 
maica, and Santa Cruz. 
3. Laugeria tomentofa, or rough laugeria: leaves ovate, 
acute, entire, tomentofe underneath ; racemes dichoto¬ 
mous; drupes with a two-celled nut. Native of Jamaica. 
To LAUGH, v. n. [hlafan, Sax. lacken, Germ, and 
Dut. lack, Scot.] To make that noife which fudden mer¬ 
riment excites : 
The large Achilles, on his preft-bed lolling. 
From his deep cheft laughs out a loud applaufe. Shakcfp., 
[In poetry.] To appear gay, favourable, pleafant, or fer¬ 
tile.—Then laughs the childifh year with fiowrets crown’d. 
Dry den. 
The plenteous board, liigh-heap’d with cates divine, 
And O’er the foaming bowl the laughing wine. Pope. 
To Laugh at. To treat with contempt; to ridicule.— 
The diffolute and abandoned, before they are aware of it, 
are 
