452 LEG 
Legitimate Edgar, I muft have your land; 
Our father’s love is to the baftard Edmund. Shakefpeare. 
To LEGITIMATE, v. a. To procure to any the 
rights of legitimate birth.— Legitimate him that was a baf¬ 
tard. Aylijfe .—To make lawful.—It would be impoflible 
for any enterprife to be lawful, if that which fhould legi¬ 
timate it is fubfequent to it, and can have no influence to 
make it good or bad. Decay of Piety. 
LEGITIMATELY, adv. Lawfully. Genuinely: 
By degrees he rofe to Jove’s imperial feat; 
Thus difficulties prove a foul legitimately great. Drydett. 
LEGITIMATING, / The aft of making legal, or of 
giving the right of lawful birth. 
LEGITIMA'TION,_/! Lawful birth.—From whence 
will arife many queftions of legitimation, and what in na¬ 
ture is the difference betwixt a wife and a concubine. 
Locke. 
I have difclaim’d my land ; 
Legitimation , name, and all, is gone: 
Then, good my mother, let me know my father. Shakefp. 
The aft of invefting with the privileges of lawful birth. 
LEGIUNCA'RA, a town of Naples, in the province of 
Bari: twenty-one miles north-well of Matera. 
LEGLANTI'ER, a town of France, in the department 
of the Oile: nine miles north of Clermont. 
LEGNA'NO, a town of Italy, in the Veronefe, on the 
Adige. This is a fortrefs regularly conftrufted, and pro¬ 
vided with a draw-bridge. The eaftern part is called 
Porto, and the weftern Legnano. It has feveral monafte- 
ries, and a play-houfe. This populous town carries on a 
coniiderable trade; and a corn-market is held every Sa¬ 
turday, fuppofed to be one of the mod important in Ita¬ 
ly ; for of the foie article of rice as much is often fold in 
one week as amounts to 50,000 ducats. In order to ren¬ 
der the commerce with the neighbouring places ftill more 
advantageous, a canal, which runs from Legnago to Ofti- 
glia in the territory of Mantua, was formed in 1762, by 
means of the Tartaro, between the Adige and the Po ; 
and, for the better fecurity of the navigation, fluices have 
been conftrufted at both of its ends. In the year 1799, 
the French became mailers of it. It is twenty-two miles 
enlt-fouth-eaft of Verona, and twenty-eight north-north- 
vveft of Ferrara. Lat. 44. jo. N. Ion. 11.18.E. 
LEGNO'TIS,y. [from Atywlo;, Gr. fringed ; tire pe¬ 
tals being fringed.] In botany, a genus of the clafs po- 
lyandria, order monogynia. The generic characters are 
—Calyx : perianthinm one-leafed, bell-fhaped, half four 
or five cleft, permanent; divifions ovate, acute, upright. 
Corolla : petals four or five, longer than the calyx; claws 
{lender, almoff the length of the calyx, inferted into the 
■receptacle ; borders ovate, fringed with a great many vil- 
lofe divifions. Stamina : filaments fixteen, twenty, or 
more, as far as fifty, filiform, equal, length of the calyx, 
inferted into the receptacle ; antheras oblong, upright. 
Piltillum : germ roundiffi ; ttyle cylindric, length of the 
ftamens ; itigma headed. Pericarpium : caplule large, 
three-cornered, three-celled, three-valved, elaltic. Seed: 
folitary, on one fide convex, on the other cornered. The 
number of parts of the fruit is fometimes increafed by a 
fourth.— Efential Cka>a£ler. Calyx five-cleft; petals five, 
jagged, inferted into the receptacle, capftiles three-celled. 
- Species. 1. Legnolis elliptica, or elliptic legnotis : 
leaves elliptic ; flowers pedicelled. Native of Jamaica. 
2. Legnotis Caffipourea, or Guiana legnotis: leaves 
ovate; flowers feffile. This is a middle-fized tree; the 
trunk five feet or more in height, with a grey bark ; the 
wood is white. It has-many branches at top, putting 
forth oppofife fhoots, on which are oppofite almoff-ftflile 
leaves, joined at the bale by a very fhort acute ftipule. 
The leaves are entire, (Lining, pointed. Flowers axillary, 
feveral together, enveloped in two final 1 braftes. Calyx 
hard, coriaceous. Petals white. Native of Guiana, 
where it flowers in January. 
LEGR'AD', a town of Croatia, at the union of the 
L E H 
Muner and the Drave: fifteen miles eaft of Varafdin. 
Lat. 46. 30. N. Ion. iS. 54. E. 
LEGREN'ZI (Giovanni), an able mafter and fertile 
Italian compofer of the feventeenth century. He was a 
native of Bergamo ; and produced for the different the¬ 
atres of Venice fifteen operas between the years 1664 and 
1684. He was likewife a favourite compofer of cantatas, 
of which he publiffied at Venice two books ; one of ten, 
in 1674 > anc l a fecond book containing fourteen, in 1679. 
During his youth he was fome time organilt of Santa 
Maria Maggiore, in his native city of Bergamo; then ma- 
eftro di cappella of the church Dello Spirito Santo, in 
Ferrara; and laftly of St. Mark’s at Venice, and mafter 
of the Confervatorio de Mendicant!. He was the mafter 
likewife of the two great muficians, Lotti and Francefco 
Gafparini, both of whom are faid to have refided in his 
lioufe at Venice in the year 1684, in order to receive his 
inftruftions. He was alfo an inftrumental compofer; and, 
among the mo ft early trios for two violins and a bafe, may 
be numbered, Suonate per Chiefa, by Legrenzi, publifhed 
at Venice, 1655 ; Suonate da Chiefa e Camera, 1656 ; Una 
muta di Suonate, 1664; and Suonate a due Violini e Vio- 
lone, 1677. Though Legrenzi has introduced into thefe 
pieces fome of the belt melody of the times, and there is 
confiderable merit in the texture and contrivance of the 
parts, yet, for want of the knowledge of the bow, and 
the particular energies and exprefiions of the violin, thefe 
compofitions have been long fince juftly fuperfeded and 
effaced by fuperior productions of the fame kind. 
LEGRU'ITA,/. in old records, a fine for criminal 
converfation with a woman. AJh. 
LEGUEVIN', a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Garonne : nine miles w ell of Touloufe. 
LEGUI'GNO, a town of the duchy of Parma: eighteen 
miles fouth-fouth-eall of Parma. 
LEG'UME, or Leg'umen’, 7 ; [ legume, Fr. legumen, Lat.] 
Seeds not reaped, but gathered by the hand; as, beans: 
in general, all larger feeds; pulfe.—Some legumens, as 
peale or beans, if newly gathered and diltilled in a retort, 
will afford an acid fpirit. Boyle. —In the fpring fell great 
rains, upon which enfued a moll dellruftive mildew upon 
the corn and legumes. Arbutknot. —In botany, a membran¬ 
ous or coriaceous pod, or feed-veflel, opening longitudi¬ 
nally ; generally oblong, and having the feeds fixed to 
one valve only. \ 
LEGU'MINQUS, adj. Belonging to pulfe ; confining 
of pulfe.—’The propereft food of the vegetable kingdom 
is taken from the farinaceous feeds; as oats, barley, and 
wheat: or of fome of the filiquofe or leguminous ; as peafe 
or beans. Arbutknot. 
LEGUMINO'SAS, f. A natural «rder of plants in Juf- 
fieu’s fyftem, the nth of his 14th clals; which embraces 
the Linnasan Papilionaced and Lomentacea. 
LEH'DEN, a town of Germany, in the county of 
Tecklenbufg: two miles eaft of Tecklenburg. 
LE'HE, a town of the duchy of Bremen: twenty-nine 
miles eaft of Stade, and thirty-two north of Bremen. 
LE'HEIM, a town of Heffe Darmftadt: eight miles well 
of Darmftadt, and five ealt of Oppenheim. 
LE'HENHOFFEN, a town of the duchy of Stiria: fix 
miles weft-north-weft of Hardeburg. 
LE'HI, [Heb. a jaw-bone.] A city of Paleftine, in the 
tribe of Dan, near Eltak or Eltaka. This was a facerdo- 
tal city, given to the fons of Kohath. Here Samfon flew 
a thoufand Phililtines with the jaw-bone of an a Is. 
LEHI'GH, a river of Pcnnlylvania, which runs into 
the Delaware at Eallon. 
LEHMKU'HLEN, a town of the duchy of Holftein: 
eight miles fouth-well of Lutkenborg. 
LEHN'BERG, a town of Germany, in the principality 
of Naflau Weilburg: three miles north of Weilburg. 
LE TINE, a river which rifes about three miles fouth 
of Winterburg, in Weftphalia, pafles by Schmalenberg, 
Billtein, Werdohl, Altenau, &c. and runs into the Roer 
two miles below Schwiert. 
3 LEHOTH'WAN, 
