L E B 
L E B 
Let the world rank me in regifter 
A matter -leaver, and a fugitive. ShakcJJicare. 
LEAVES, f. The plural of leaf .—Parts fit for the nou- 
rilhment of man in plants are, feeds, roots, and fruits; 
for leaves they give no nourishment at all. Bacon's Nat. Hijl. 
LEAVING,yi The aft of forfaking, giving up, fuf- 
fering to remain, bequeathing, breaking off, defitting. 
LEAVINGS, f. [from leavc.~\ Remnant; relics; of¬ 
fal ; refufe ; it has no lingular : 
My father has this morning call’d together. 
To this poor hall, his little Roman fenate, 
The leavings of Pharfalia. Addifin's Cato. 
LE'AVY, adj. [from leaf] Full of leaves; covered 
with leaves ; leafy is more ufed : 
Strephon, with leavy twigs of laurel-tree, 
A garland made on temples for to wear. 
For he then chofen was the dignity 
Of village-lord that Whitfontide to bear. Sidney. 
LE'BA, a town of Pomerania : fixteen miles north of 
Lauenburg. 
LE'BACH, a town of France, in the department of the 
Sane, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of Sarre- 
bruck. The place contains 506, and the canton 8392, 
inhabitants, in 66 communes. 
LEBiE'A, a town of Macedonia, anciently the capital 
of this kingdom, the precife fituation of which cannot be 
afcertained. 
LEBADE'A, now Lioadias, a town of Boeotia, neat- 
mount Helicon. It received this name from the mother 
of Afpledon, and became famous for the oracle and cave 
of Trophonius. No moles could live there, according to 
Pliny. 
LE'BAN, a village of Syria, in the pachalic of Damaf- 
cus: near it is a khan for the reception of travellers; 
fuppofed to be the ancient Lebna, mentioned in fcrip- 
ture : twelve miles fouth of Naploufe. 
LE'BAN, f. A milk-diet peculiar to the Arabs and 
Turks. See Yaourt. 
LEBA'NA, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
LEBANON, the fcripture appellation for Libanus, 
which fee. 
LEBANON, a town of Pennfylvania: twenty-two 
miles weft of Reading. 
LEBANON (New), a village in Canaan, New York, 
pleafantly lituated, partly on the declivity of a hill, and 
partly in a vale ; and containing medicinal fprings next in 
celebrity to thofe of Ball-town, Saratoga. 
LEBA'OTH, [Hebrew.] The name of a city. 
LEB'BECK,/'. in botany. See Mimosa. 
LEB'BEUS, [Heb. a man of courage.] See Jude, vol. 
xi. p. 479. Lebbeus, or Jude, was a married man, and 
had children ; for Hegefippus, as Eufebius relates, (Hitt. 
Eccl. lib. iii. cap. 20.) fpeaks of two martyrs, his grand- 
fons. The Mufcovites believe that they received the faith 
from Lebbeus. Calmet. 
LE'BE, a town of Germany, in the lordlhip of Lauen¬ 
burg, on a lake near the Baltic : fifteen miles north-weft 
of Lauenburg. Lat. 54.40.N. Ion. 17.29. E. 
LEBECK'IA,;/. in botany, a genus of the clafs dia- 
delphia, order decandria. Generic efifential characters— 
Calyx five-parted, with acute divifions and rounded ca¬ 
vities : legume cylindrical, many-feeded. 
Species. 1. Lebeckia contaminata: leaves fimple, li¬ 
near-filiform, glabrous: flowers umbelled. <2. Lebeckia 
fepiaria: leaves fimple, filiform, glabrous; flowers ra- 
cemed. 3. Lebeckia pungens-. leaves fimple, obovate ; 
branches and branchlets fpinefcent, downy ; flowers foli- 
tary. 4. Lebeckia armata: leaves ternate; branches 
fpinefcent, round, cinereous; flowers racemed. 5. Le¬ 
beckia den fa : leaves ternate, villous; leaflets convolute, 
oblong; flowers racemed, remote. 6. Lebeckia humilis: 
leaves ternate, villous ; leaflets linear-oblong ; flowers ra¬ 
cemed, reflefted; branches incurved. 7. Lebeckia feri- 
VpL, XII. No. 841, 
4 Iff) 
cea : leaves ternate, filky; leaflets linear; flowers'racemed. 
8. Lebeckia cytiloides : leaves ternate, villous ; raceme 
long, terminal. They are all natives of the Cape of Good 
Hope. 
LEB'F.DA, an ancient feaport town of Africa, in the 
kingdom of Tripoli, with a pretty good harbour, and an 
old caftle, feated on the Mediterranean fea, in lat. 32. 10. N. 
Ion. 14. 50. E. 
LEBEDIAU', a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Tambov: one hundred miles weft-north-weft of Tambov. 
Lat. 53. 28. N. Ion. 38. 50. E. 
LEB'EDIN, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Charkov : fixty miles north-weft of Charkov. 
LEB'EDUS, or Leb'edos, a town of Ionia, at the 
north of Colophon, where feftivals were yearly obferved 
in honour of Bacchus, and where Trophonius had a cave 
and a temple. Lyfimachus deftroyed it, and carried part 
of the inhabitants to Ephefus. It had been founded by 
an Athenian colony, under one of the fons of Codrus. 
LE'BEN, or Leb'ena, in ancient geography, one of 
the port-towns of the Gortynians, on the fouth-eaft tide 
of Crete ; famous for a temple of Aifculapius, in imita¬ 
tion of that of Cyrenaica. 
LEBENTBOR', a town of the duchy of Stiria: five 
miles north-north-eaft of Fridaw. 
LE'BER, a river of France, which runs into the Ill a 
little below Schlettftat, in the department of the Lower 
Rhine. 
LEBIAL'NA, an illand of Ruflia, in the Cafpian Sea. 
Lat. 45. 55 N. Ion. 53. 30. E. 
LEBIA'R, a foreft of Africa, in the country of Zen- 
haga, in which gum is collected in large quantities: one 
hundred miles eaft-north-eaft of Portendic. 
LEBIA'ZIA, a fortrefs of Ruflia, in the government 
of Caucafus: fixteen miles north-weft of Aftrachan. 
LEBIA'ZIA, a fort of Ruflia, in the government of 
Tobolik : 188 miles fouth-fouth-eaft of ToboJlk. Lat. 
55. 20. N. Ion. 71. 14. E. 
LEB'IDA, or Leb'da, a feaport town of Africa, in the 
country of Tripoli, on the coaft of the Mediterranean : 
thirty miles weit of Mefurata, and thirty eaft-fouth-eaft 
of Tripoli. Lat. 32.40. N. Ion. 13. 56. E. 
LEBIE'DA, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Wilna : ten miles fouth of Lida. 
LEBIED'ZIOW, a town of Lithuania, in the palati¬ 
nate of Wilna : fifty-fix miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Wilna. 
LEBIN'THOS, or Lebyn'thos, in ancient geography, 
an illand in the AEgean fea, near Patmos. 
LEBLAN'C (Marcel), born at Dijon in 1653, entered 
into the order of Jefuits, and was one of the fourteen 
mathematicians whom Louis XIV. fent to the king of 
Siam, the fuppofed convert to Chriftianity, in 1687. Le¬ 
blanc took up his abode with the talapoins or priefts of 
the country, in order to learn the language; but, the re¬ 
volution taking place which deprived that king of his 
crown, and put an end to the hopes of the milfionaries, 
he was fent back to France to carry the intelligence. He 
had the misfortune of being taken prifoner by the Dutch 
near the Cape of Good Hope, and lent into confinement 
at Middleburg in Zealand. He obtained his liberty in 
1690, and returned to Dijon in the capacity of mathema¬ 
tical p'rofeflor in the Jefuits’ college. In 1691 he joined 
a new million for China, and embarked at Lilbon. Dur¬ 
ing the voyage, he received a blow on the head in a ftorm, 
which put an end to his life, at Mozambique, in 1693. 
Father Leblanc had begun at Dijon to draw up memoirs 
concerning the millions into the eaft, which he left im- 
perfeft. He is known by a “Hiftory ol the Revolution 
of the Kingdom of Siam, in 1688, and of the prefent 
State of the Indies,” printed at Lyons, in 2 vols. nrao. 
1692, in French, which gives a faithful and exact narra¬ 
tive of that event, and contains various remarks ufeful to 
navigators. Moreri. 
LEB'NA, a ftrcmg city of Palefiine, in the tribe of Ju¬ 
dah, fituated on a narrow neck of land, which ran north- 
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