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year, for the lawing or expectation of maftiffs; which if 
done by cutting off the claws of the fore feet, to prevent 
them from running after deer. Blackjlone. 
LAW'INGEN. See Lauingen, p. 297, 
LA'WIS. See Lugani. 
LAWLESS, adj. Unreftrained by any law; not fub- 
je£l to law.—The neceflity of war, which among human 
actions is the moft lazulefs, hath fome kind of affinity with 
the neceffity of law. Raleigh's EJfays. 
The lawlefs tyrant, who denies 
To know their God, or mefiage to regard. 
Mu ft be compeli’d. Milton. 
Contrary to law; illegal: 
Take not the quarrel from his powerful arms: 
He needs no indirect nor lawlefs courfe 
To cut off thofe that have offended him. ShakefpeaYe. 
Lawless Court, a court held on King’s Hill at 
Rochford in Effex, on Wednefday morning next after 
Michaelmas-day yearly, at cock-crowing; at which court 
they whifper, and have no candle, nor any pen and ink, 
but a coal; and he that owes fuit or fervice there, and 
appears not, forfeits double his rent. This court is men¬ 
tioned by Camden, who fays, that this fervile attendance 
was impofed on the tenants, for confpiring at the like 
unfeafonable time to raife a commotion. Camd. Britan. It 
belongs to the honour of Raleigh, and is called lawlefs, 
becaufe held at an unlawful hour; or quia diEla fine lege. 
The title of it is in rhyme, and in the Court-rolls runs 
thus : 
King’s Hill in 7 Curia de Domino Rege, 
Rochford. 3 * ‘ DiEla fine lege, 
Tenta cjl ibidem 
Per ejufdem confuetudinem f 
Ante ortum foils 
Luceat nifi polus, 
Senefcal/us folus 
Nilfcribit nifi colls 
To ties voluerit 
Gallus at cantaverit, 
Per cujus foil fonitus 
Curia ejl fummonitus: 
Clamat clam pro rege 
In curia fine lege , 
El nifi cito venerint 
Citius pcenituerint, 
Et nifi clam accedant 
Curia non attendat, 
Qui venerit cum lumine erat in regimine 
Et dum funt fine lumine , captifunt in crimlne, 
Curia fine cura. 
Jurat a de injuria. 
Tenta ibidem die Mercurii (ante diem) proximi pojl fefium SanEli 
Michaelis anno regni regis, &c. 
LAW'LESS, f. Illegality; the ftate of an out-law. 
Scott. 
LAW'LESSLY, adv. In a manner contrary to law : 
Fear not; he bears an honourable mind, 
And will not ule a woman lawlefsly. Shakefpeare. 
LAWLESSNESS, f. Diforder: 
Gluttony, malice, pride, and covetife. 
And lawlejfnefs reigning with riotife. Spenfer. 
LAWMAKER,/ Legiflator; one who makes law's; a 
lawgiver.—Their judgment is, that the church of Chrift 
Ihould admit no lawmakers but the evangelifts. Hooker. 
LAWN,/, [land, Dan. lawn, Wei fit; landc, Fr.] Plain 
untilled ground covered with herbage.—His mountains 
were ffiaded with young trees, that gradually ffiot up into 
groves, woods, and forefts, intermixed with walks, and 
lawns, and gardens. Addifon. 
Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks 
Grazing the tender herb, were interpos’d. Milton. 
t A W 
[ Linon , Fr.] Fine linen, remarkable for being ufed in the 
fleeves of bifliops : 
From high life high characters are drawn : 
A faint in crape is twice a faint in lawn. Pope. 
Should’!! thou bleed, 
To flop the wounds my finelt lawn I’d tear, 
Wafli them with tears and wipe them with my hair. Prior. 
LAWN, adj. Made of fine linen ; made of lawn 
LAWN'-ROBED, adj. Dreffed in lawn : 
What awe did the flow folemn knell infpire; 
The duties by the lawn-rob'd prelate pay’d, 
And the laft words, that dull to dull convey’d ! Tickell. 
LAWNY, adj. Confiding of lawn; refembling a lawn. 
■—Through forefts, mountains, or the lawny grounds. IV. 
Browne. 
That from the fun-redoubling valley lift, 
Cool to the middle air, their lawny tops. Thomf. Summer. 
LAWOR'OW, a town of Auftrian Poland, in Galicia: 
twenty-four miles weft of Lemberg. 
LAW'RENCE, in geography. See Laurence, p. 305. 
LAW'RENCE (Peter Jofeph), an engineer, was born 
in Flanders in 1715. He diliinguiflied himfelf, when he 
was only eight years old, by a confiderable turn for me¬ 
chanics. Cardinal Polignac, being fliown a machine that 
he had at that early age conftruCted, predicted that he 
would one day arrive at eminence in the fcience of prac¬ 
tical mathematics. Before he had attained to manhood, 
he had executed drains in different parts of Flanders and 
Hainault, which till that time had been deemed impracti¬ 
cable. He conftruCted many curious and very ingenious 
fluices and locks for rivers and canals; and he invented 
machines that were found of great utility in fortification, 
and a carriage on which the coloffal ftatue of Lewis XV. 
was brought to Paris with great eafe. He contrived en¬ 
gines, which at once cleared mines of their water, and, 
at the fame time, raifed the metallic ores. He formed a 
junction of the Scheldt and the Somme, which he effected 
by a fubterraneous canal, three leagues in length, the le¬ 
vel of which was forty-five feet above the fource of tire 
Scheldt, and fifteen feet below the bed of the Somme. 
The various mechanical inventions and undertakings of 
M. Lawrence have been celebrated in a poem by Delille, 
intitled, the Treafury of Parnaffus. 
LAWSO'NIA, f. [from IJ’aac Lawfon, M. D. author of 
a New Voyage to Carolina, Lond. 1709. 4to.] In botany, 
a genus of the clafs oCiandria, order monogynia, natural 
order of falicariae, Juff. The generic characters are—Ca¬ 
lyx; perianthium four-cleft, frnall, permanent. Corolla: 
petals four, ovate-lanceolate, flat, Spreading. Stamina : 
filaments eight, filiform, length of the corolla, in twin 
pairs between the petals; antherse roundifh. Piftillum : 
germ roundifh ; ftyle Ample, length of the ftamens, per¬ 
manent; ftigma headed. Pericarpium: capfule (or berry) 
glo’oofe with a point, four-celled. Seeds many, cornered, 
pointed.— EJfential Charadler. Calyx : four-cleft; petals 
four; ftamina in four pairs; caplule four-celled, many- 
feeded. 
Species. 1. Lawfonia inermis, or frnooth Iawfonia : 
branches unarmed ; leaves fubfeflile, ovate, {harp at both 
ends. This rifes with a fhrubby ftalk eight or ten feet high. 
The branches come out by pairs oppofite ; they are (len¬ 
der, and covered with a whitifh or yellow dark-grey bark. 
Leaves frnall, oppofite, oblong, ending in acute points, 
pale green. Flowers in loofe terminating bunches, grey. 
Petals frnall, turning back at the top. 
This is the henna, or al-henna, of the Scriptures, tranf- 
lated campkire in Solomon’s Song, i. 14. and in other 
places it is rendered cyprefs and myrrh. We ffiall there¬ 
fore give a more particular description of it. The henna 
is a tall fhrub, endlefsly multiplied in Egypt. The 
leaves are of a lengthened oval form, oppofed to each other, 
and of a faint-green colour; the flowers grow at the ex¬ 
tremity 
