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The wren goes to’t, and the fmall gilded fly does laker 
in my fight. Shakcfpeare. 
LECHERA'INE, a town of France, in the department 
of Mont Blanc : ten miles north-north-eaft of Chambery. 
LECH'EROLJS, adj. Lewd ; luftful.—The fapphire 
fliould grow foul, and lofe its beautv,‘when worn by one 
that is lecherous ; the emerald fhould fly to pieces, if it 
touch the fkin of any unchafte perfon. Derham. 
LECH'EROUSLY. adv. Lewdly; luitfuliy. 
LECH'EROUSNESS, /. Lewdnefs. 
LECH'ERWITE, Lairivite, or Legerwite, f . [from 
the Saxon, legan, to lie with, and prce, a penalty.] A 
line for adultery or fornication, anciently paid to the lords 
of certain manors. 4 Injl. 2.06. 
LECH'ERY, f. Lewdnefs; luft.—The reft welter with 
as little fhame in open lechery as fvvine do in the common 
mire. AJcham. 
Againft fuch lewdflers, and their lechery , 
Thofe that betray them do no treachery. Shakefpearc. 
LE'CHES, a town of France, in the department of the 
Dordogne: three miles fouth of Miicidan. 
LECHIQUELE'E, a rock or Email ifland, near the fouth 
coaft of the ifland of Jerfey : four miles fouth-eaft of St. 
Helier. 
LECH'LADE. See Leachlade, p. 410. 
LECH'ENICH. See Lechenigh. 
LECHO'NES, a clufter of fmall iflands in the Atlantic, 
near the welt coaft of Portugal : three miles north from 
the mouth of the Duero. Lat. 41.43. N. Ion. 8. 25. E. 
LECH'S-GEMUND, a town of Bavaria, in the princi¬ 
pality of Neuburg, near the Danube : lix miles eait-north- 
eaft of Donawert. 
LECH'WAR, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar : thir¬ 
ty-two miles fouth-eaft of Bahar. 
LECK, a town of Denmark, in the duchy of Slefwick: 
fourteen miles north of Bredftede. 
LECK, a river of Holland, or rather a branch of the 
Rhine which takes that name at Wyck-te-Duerftede, in 
Utrecht, paffes by Culemburg, Viana, Schonhoven, See. 
and lofes itfelf in the Merwe at Krimpe. 
LECK'NESS, a town of Norway : twenty two miles 
weft of Chriltianfand. 
LECLER'C (Gabriel), phyfician in ordinary to Louis 
XIV. author of the following efteemed medical works ; 
1. L’Ecole du Chirurgien ; nrao. 1684. 2. La Chirurgie 
complette, 1694. This has been many times reprinted, 
and is an excellent manual of the art; it contains, in the 
opinion of Boerhaav.e and Haller, the completeft and molt 
corredt anatomy of the bones that had at that time been 
publiflied. 3. Appareil commode dejeunes Chirurgiens ; 
Paris, 1700, avec fig. umo. 4. Catalogue des Drogues, 
a 701, izmo. 5. La Medicine aifee, contenant pluiieurs 
Resnedes faciles et experiments pour toutes Sortes de 
Maladies, 2 vols. 121110. This has alfo been feveral times 
reprinted. 
LECLER'K (Daniel), a celebrated phyfician, and 
learned writer on the hiftory anti practice of medicine, 
•was born at Geneva, Feb. 4, 1652. He was the ion of 
Stephen Leclerk, profeflor in the Greek language, and 
from him received the rudiments of his knowledge, as 
well as his tafte for refearch into antiquity, by which he 
became in time fo famous. Having completed his fchool- 
education, he went in fucceflion to Montpellier, Paris, and 
Valence, where he took his degree of dodtorin medicine in 
1672. He now returned to Geneva, and loon found him- 
felf in coniiderable practice, which lie attended to with 
zeal, until the year 1704, when, being appointed one of 
the members of the council of Hate, he entirely renounced 
pradlice, that he might have leifure to fill the honourable 
poll to which he had been raifed, and to corredt and com¬ 
plete the various works in which he had been engaged, 
and which had given him a diltinguiflied rank among the 
'principal literary characters of his age. He died June 8, 
X728, leaving two Ions; James, who had been educated 
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to medicine; and James-Theodore, who was minifter of 
the gofpel, and profeflor of the oriental languages. He 
had publiflied, in conjundtion with James Mangets, Bi¬ 
bliotheca Anatomica, 2 vols. folio, in 1685; but the 
work for which he is principally celebrated, is his “ Hif- 
toire cie la Medecine, 011 Eon voit l’Origine et ie Progres 
de cette art de Siecle en Siecle ;” a work of immenfe 
erudition, in which are depidted the opinions, or theo¬ 
ries of medicine, which have prevailed from the earlieft 
period to the time of Galen. The firft part, which 
brought the hiftory of medicine only to the time of Hip¬ 
pocrates, was publiflied in 8vo. 1696. Finding this 
approved, he produced the work completed in 4to. 
in 1702. This was reprinted in 1723 ; and again, with 
•additions, and m’uch improved, in 1729. Freind wrote a 
continuation of the hiftory, and in fo excellent a manner, 
as to leave little reafon to regret that it had not been 
finifhed by the original author. Leclerk alfo wrote “ Hif- 
toria naturalis et medica latorum Lumbricorum intra Ho- 
minem et Animalia nafeentium Genevse, 1715, 4to. 
which contains all that is known on the fubjedt of thofe 
pernicious reptiles. A little before he died, lie tranflated, 
Senebier fays, the firft Satyr of Perfitis, into the French 
language; but this has not been printed. Haller Bib. Med. 
Senebier Hifl. Lit. de Geneve. 
L’ECLU'SE (Fort de), or Fort de la Cluse, a fmall 
town of France, in the department of the Ain, twelve 
miles weft of Geneva, on the river Rhone, or rather, near 
the place where the Rhone, lofing itfelf among rocks, 
difappears, as it were, under ground, and re-appears at 
no great diftance. 
L’ECLU'SE. See Ecluse, vol. vi. 
LECOQ' (Anthony), a Parifian phyfician, who gradu¬ 
ated in the faculty of that city, and pradtifed there with 
great reputation until his death, which took place on the 
28th of March, 1550. He was eledted dean of his faculty 
in 1538; and in the following year was called, in conful- 
tation with Fernel, to vifit the French king, Francis I. 
who had contradted the venereal difeafe. Fie fliowed his 
knowledge of the nature of the difeafe, by infilling, in op- 
pofition to Fernel, that mercurial fridlions were neceflary; 
but his mode of propoling it evinced that he was a novice 
in the manners of a court. He obferved to Fernel, fpeak- 
ing of the king, “ C’elt un vilain qui a gagne la verole ; 
frottetur corame un autre, et comme le dernier de fon 
royaume, puifque il s’eil gate de la nieme maniere.” 
This was reported to the king, who laughed, and was 
pleafed with his franknefs. Lecoq left two works: 1. 
De Ligno fandlo non permifeendo in imperitos fucatofque 
medicos; Paris, 1548. 2. Confilia de Arthritide; Frank¬ 
fort, 1540. The latter comprehended alfo fome other 
treatifes on the gout, efpeciaily thofe of Sylvius and Fer¬ 
nel; in conjundtion with whom, Lecoq had been con- 
fulted on the fubjedt by Louis of Flanders, and by Eleo¬ 
nora queen of France. Eloy. Did. Hifl. 
LEC'TERN,/i An old word for the reading-delk in a 
church. Phillips. 
LEC'TI,yi [Latin.] Beds or couches, which were of 
two kinds amonglt the Romans, as being deliined to two 
different ufes ; to lie upon at entertainments, and to re- 
pole upon for nightly reft. The firft were called le£li tri- 
cliniares, the other leEli cubicularii. See Beds, vol. ii.p. 844. 
LEC'TICA,/ [Lat. from le&us, a bed.] A litter, or 
vehicle in which the Romans were carried. Ledtica was 
alfo the name of the funeral bed or bier for carrying out 
the dead. See Litter. 
LECTICA'RIUS, f. Among the Romans, fervants who 
carried the Lectica. Alfo an officer in the Greek church, 
whofe bufinefs it was to bear off the bodies of thofe who 
died, and to bury them. Thefe were otherwife denomi¬ 
nated decani and copiatee. 
LEC'TION, /. [lettio, Lat.] A reading ; a variety in 
copies.— Every critic has his own hypothefis ; if the com¬ 
mon text be not favourable to his opinion, a various' lec¬ 
tion fliall be made authentic. Watts. 
LEC'TIONARY, 
