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From hence that gen’ral care and (Indy fprings, - 
That launching and progrefiion of the mind. Davies. 
To LAUNCH, v. a. To puflv to fea.—All art is ufed 
to link epifcopacy, and launch pretbytery, in England. 
King; Charles. 
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With flays and cordage bft he rigg'd the fliip, 
And, roll’d on leavers, launch'd her in the deep. Pope. 
To dart from the hand. This perhaps, for diftinftion 
fake, might better be written lanch or lance. 
The King of Heav’n, obfeure on high, 
Ear’d his red arm, and, launching from the tky 
His writhing bolt, not fliaking empty fmoke, 
Down to the deep abyfs the flaming fellow llrook. Dryd. 
LAUN'CI-IING, f. The aft of throwing off the flocks 
into the water; the aft of throwing from the hand. 
LAUND, f. \_lande, Fr. lawn, Welfh.] Lawn ; a plain 
extended between woods. Hanmer. 
For through this laund anon the deer will come; 
And in this covert will we make our ltand. Skakefpearc. 
LAUN'DER, f. in tin-works, a trench for walking 
ore. Scott. 
LAUN'DERER, /. [from laundry. A man that fol¬ 
lows the bu fin els of waffling.—He is a lauuderer of fouls, 
and tries them, as men do witches, by water. Butler's 
CharaSers. 
LAUN DRESS, f. [lavandiere , Fr. Skinner imagines that 
lavandarejfe may have been the old word.] A woman 
-whole employment is to walk clothes.—The countefs of 
Richmond would often lay, On condition the princes of 
Chriftendom would march againfl the Turks, fhe w'ould 
willingly attend them, and be their laundrefs. Camden. 
To LAUN'DRESS, v.a. [from the Jubjl .] To fupply 
with laundrefles: 
* Did I want 
Ten lealh of courtezans, it would furnilh me; 
Nay, laundrefs three armies. Wtbjhr's White Devil. 
- LAUN'DRY, f. [as if lavanderie. ] The room in which 
clothes are walked.—The affairs of the family ought to be 
confulted, whether they concern the (table, dairy, the 
pantry, or laundry. Swift. —The aft or itate of waffling.— 
Chalky water is too fretting, as appeareth in laundry of 
cloaths, which wear out apace. Bacon. 
Waffling and getting up linen are employments of great 
importance in molt families ; and they have engaged the 
attention of many ingenious mechanics, who have con¬ 
trived various walking-machines for the abridgment of 
labour and expenfe in this department of domeffic eco¬ 
nomy. Molt of the machines hitherto ufed are objection¬ 
able on many accounts, but principally becaufe they ope¬ 
rate by friction, inftead of prejfure. When the linen is 
properly prepared for waffling, it may be thoroughly 
clean fed by prejjure only. Rubbing it with the hands, or 
by any machine that operates by friction, injures it more 
than the wear it fuftains in aCtual ufe. Hence it follows, 
that the belt method of cleanfing foul linen is, firlt, to 
prepare it for the operation by foaping it where necelfary, 
and' putting it to foak for at leak twelve hours. This 
will loofen the filth, and decompofe the greafe and other 
matter with which it is foiled, and it will then be readily 
removed by alternately foaking, and fqueezing or prelf- 
ing. The defideratum, therefore, is, to conffruct a ma¬ 
chine that would by a rotative motion, or an up-and-down 
ftroke, (like pumping,) alternately prefs and faturate the 
linen with the fuds, and laffly with clear water. The 
machine that comes neared to this, of any that has fallen 
Under our notice, is one invented by Mr. Gould. 
In a late publication we have met with a very ample 
defeription of a wafn-houfe and laundry, conftructed upon 
fcientific principles by John Bentley, efq. the prefent pof- 
feff'or of Highbury-houfe, near London 5 which we (hall 
Ip relent entire to,our readers. 
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The wafh-lioufe is twenty-four feet long, nine broad* 
and eight high. It is furniihed with a filtering-machine, 
a cittern for filtered water, two coppers, a copper colan¬ 
der, a jack with pulleys, fix vvathing-tubs, a ltone fink, 
a'table, a wringing-machine, and a pump of hard water. 
The floor is rough Yorkfhire-ftone, laid upon a (harp 
current. Over two-thirds of the roof is a lead ciftern 
containing forty hoglheads of rain-water, fupplied from 
the adjoining buildings. The other third of the roof is 
conical, funnounted with a cylinder for a fteam-venr, 
which opens and (huts at pleafure. When open, befides 
emitting the fleam, it admits both light and air. The 
ciftern for filtered water holds 200 gallons; and fupplies, 
by pipes and cocks, the copper, tubs, and fink. The firft 
copper is fixed fo that the top of it is level with the bot¬ 
tom of the ciftern, and the bottom of it is level with the 
top of the other copper, and the tops of the tubs and fink, 
all which it fupplies with hot water. The tubs, coppers, 
and link, are fupplied with cold water from the ciltern. 
Each of the tubs has a brafs plug at bottom, to difeharge 
the foul water. A nine-inch board runs along the front 
of the tubs and fink on the ground, to prevent the fplalh- 
ing of the water when difcharg’ed. Each tub is furniihed 
with a fmall wooden ltrainer for foap. The fecond cop¬ 
per is for boiling the linen, and has a copper colander to 
hold the linen, which is drawn up by the jack and pul¬ 
leys. The jack has a paid and ratchet-wheel to keep the 
colander fufpended over the copper till the water is drained 
from the linen into the copper, which can then be turned 
out all together into the rinfing-tub. By this contrivance, 
the ul'ual mode of poking the linen out with a (tick (which 
frequently damages it) is avoided. At the bottom of this 
copper is a large brafs cock for difeharging the fuds when 
they are done w ith. Though the fix tubs are fupplied with 
both hot and cold water, there are only fix cocks to the 
whole, one cock fupplying two tubs, by means of a ferew- 
joint in the nozzle, which turns at pleafure to either tub. 
There is alfo a ferew-joint between the key and pipe in 
each cock, by which means it can at any time be repaired 
without the affiftance of the plumber. 
The filtering-machine performs its operation by afeenf. 
It has three cocks in one pipe. The uppennofi: is for re¬ 
gulating the quantity of water to be filtered, which can 
be varied at pleafure from fifty to five hundred gallons in 
a day. The other is for cleanfing the machine when fa- 
turated with filth, which is accompliftied by only turning 
the cock, and will, in a few minutes, be as clean as it 
was at firfl, the mud, See. being difeharged at the third 
or middle cock, which alfo (erves to draw unfiltered 
water when required. Under the ciftern is a receptacle 
for coals, and under the filtering-machine a place for pails 
and mops. Both cifterns have a furplus water-pipe to 
prevent running over, and in which are alfo plugs to dif¬ 
eharge all the water when needful. 
The table hangs to the wall, and may be put up and 
down at pleafure. It is for forting and foaping the foul 
linen, See. 
The laundry adjoining the wafh-houfe is eighteen feefc 
fquare, and eleven feet in height. It has two windows in 
front. The floor is level, of rubbed Yorkfhire-ftone, laid 
upon brick piers, to keep it perfectly free from damp. It 
is furnifhed with one of Baker’s large mangles; an iron¬ 
ing-board twelve feet by three, with four large drawers 
for the ironing-cloth, iron-holders, See. with room for 
the clothes-bafkets underneath ; a ltove or drying-clofet, 
eight feet by fix; a furnace for heating the clofet and the 
irons; and a place for coals under the floor, clofe by the fur¬ 
nace. The clofet contains four wooden horfes, each with 
five rails or bars. Each horfe runs in and out of the clofet 
upon two fmall iron wheels, upon an iron rail-way. One 
horfe holds fix ffiirts, or a proportionable quantity of 
other linen ; and the whole will dry off as much and as 
fpeedily as fix women can wadi in fuccellion. It hardens 
the linen after being ironed ; and is alfo ufeful for airing, 
feather beds, See. The linen, whillt drying, is kept free 
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