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7 vols. 4to. Another upon a fimilar plan, alfo well re¬ 
ceived, was his “ Methode pour etudier la Geographic,” 
with a catalogue of the belt maps, and an account of the 
principal geographers. Among the more curious of his 
works are “Traite hiltorique & dogmatique du Secret in¬ 
violable de la Confeflion and “ Hiltoire de la Philofo- 
phie Hermetique.” Moreri. 
LEN'GO SENGAN'DO, a town of Africa, in the 
kingdom of Congo : forty-live miles louth-fouth-weft of 
Bombi. 
LENGTH,/, [from lenj, Sax.] The extent of any¬ 
thing material from end to end 5 the longeft line that can 
be drawn through a body.—There is in Ticinum a church 
that is in length 'one hundred feet, in breadth twenty, and 
in height near fifty; it reporteth the voice twelve or 
thirteen times. Bacon. —Horizontal extenfion : 
Mezen this ruflies on his foes. 
And fir ft unhappy A cron overthrows; 
Stretch’d at his length he fpurns the fwarthy ground. Dryd. 
Comparative extent; a certain portion of fpace or time : 
irt this fenl’e it has a plural: 
Time glides along with undifcover’d hafte, 
The future but a length beyond the palt. Dryd-n. 
Large lengths of feas and Ihores 
Between my father and my mother lay. Skakefpeare. 
Left danger, fears, and foes, behind, 
And beat at leaft three lengths the wind. Hudibras. 
Extent of duration or fpace.—Having thus got the idea 
of duration, the next thing is to get fome mealure 
of this common duration, whereby to judge of its dif¬ 
ferent lengths. Locke. 
What length of lands, what oceans have you pafs’d, 
What ftorms fuftain’d, and on what Ihores been call ? Dryd, 
Long duration or protraction.—In length of time it will 
cover the whole plain, and make one mountain with that 
on which it now Hands. Addifon. 
Such toil requir’d the Roman name. 
Such length of labour for fo vaft a flame. Dryden. 
Reach or expanfion of any thing.—I do not recommend 
t» all a purfuit of fciences to thofe extenfive lengths 
to which the moderns have advanced. Watts. —Full ex¬ 
tent; uncontrafted ftate.—If Laetitia, who fent me this 
account, will acquaint me with the worthy gentleman’s 
name, I will infert it at length in one of my papers. Addi- 
fon's Speftator. —Diftance.—He had marched to the length 
of Exeter, which he had fome thought of befieging. Cla¬ 
rendon. —End; latter part of any affignable time.— 
Churches purged of things burdenfome, all was brought 
at the length unto that wherein now we Hand. Hooker. —A 
crooked flick is not ftraightened, unlefs it be bent as far on 
the clear contrary fide, that fo it may fettle itfelf at the 
length in a middle ftate of evennefs between them both. 
Hooker. 
At Length. [An adverbial mode of fpeech. It was 
formerly written at the length.\ At laft ; in conclufion : 
At length, at length, I have thee in my arms, 
Though our malevolent liars have ftruggled hard, 
And held us long afunder. Dryden's King Arthur. 
To LENG'THEN, v. a. To draw out; to make longer; 
to elongate.—Relaxing the fibres, is making them flexi¬ 
ble, or eafy to be lengthened without rupture. Arbuthnot, 
Falling dews with fpangles deck’d the glade. 
And the low lun had lengthen'd every lhade. Pope. 
To protraft; to continue.—Break off thy fins by righte- 
oufnefs, and thine iniquities by Ihowing mercy to the 
poor 5, if it may be a .lengthening of thy tranquillity. Daniel. 
Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, 
Which bars a thoufand harms, and lengthens life. Shakefp. 
To protract pronunciation.—-The learned languages wers 
lefs conftrained in the quantity of every fyllable, befide 
helps of grammatical figures for the lengthening or abbre¬ 
viation of them. Dryden. 
To Lengthen out. [The particle out is only ern- 
phatical.] To protract; to extend.—It lengthens out every 
aft of W’orlhip, and produces more lalting and permanent 
impreffions in the mind, than thofe which accompany any 
tranfient form of words. Addifon. 
What if I pleafe to lengthen out his date 
A day, and take a pride to cozen fate l Dryden. 
To LENG'THEN, v.n. To grow longer; to increafe 
in length.—One may as well make a yard whofe parrs 
lengthen and Ihrink, as a meafure of trade in materials- 
that have not always a fettled value. Locke. 
Still ’tis farther from its end ; 
Still finds its error lengthen with its way. Prior. 
LENG'THENING,/. The act of extending in length, 
or protracting. 
LENGTII'WISE, adv. According to the length; in a 
longitudinal direftion. 
LENGUE'GLIO, a town of Genoa : five miles fouth 
of Albenga. 
LENGUR', a town of Periia, in the province of Ma- 
zanderan : fifteen miles north-weft of Amol. 
LEN'HAM, a town in the county of Kent, with a mar¬ 
ket on Tuefday, and fairs June 6 and Oft. 23; fituated 
near the fource of the Len, between Maidltone and Can¬ 
terbury. It is nine miles eaft of Maidltone, and forty-eight 
eaft of London. Lat. 51.14. N. lon.o.43.E. In rela¬ 
tion to this place, the continuator of Camden records the 
following extraordinary circumftance: “At Lenhani 
(fays he) is a thing exceeding remarkable, mentioned on 
the tomb of Robert Thomplon, efq. in the church there, 
who was grandchild to that truly religious matron, Mary 
Honywood, wife of Robert Honywood, efq. of Charing. 
She had at her deceafe, lawfully defeended from her, three 
hundred and fixty-feven children; fixteen of her own 
body, one hundred and fourteen grandchildren, two hun¬ 
dred and twenty-eight in the third generation, and nine 
in the fourth. Her renown liveth with her polterity ; her 
body lieth in the church ; and her monument may bo 
feen in Mark’s Hall, Eflex, where (lie died.” 
Five miles fouth of Lenham, by the Medway, is the 
village of Smarden, which has a fair on the 10th of Oc¬ 
tober. 
LENHOF’DA, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Smaland : thirty miles north-weft of Calmar. 
LE'NIENT, adj. [kniens, Lat.] Alfualive ; foftening; 
mitigating : 
In this one paflion man can ftrength enjoy; 
Time, that on all things lays his lenient hand. 
Yet tames not this; it flicks to our laft fand. Pope . 
With of: 
Confolatories writ 
With ftudy’d argument, and much perfuafion fought. 
Lenient of grief and anxious thought. Milton. 
Laxative ; emollient.—Oils relax the fibres, are lenient , 
ballamic, and abate acrimony in the blood. Arbuthnot on- 
Aliments. 
LE'NIENT,/. An emollient, or afluafive application, 
— I drelTed it with lenients. Wifeman's Surgery. 
To LE'NIFY, v.n. [ Unifier , old Fr. lento, Lat.] To af- 
fuage; to mitigate.—Ufed for fquinancies and inflamma¬ 
tions in the throat, it feemeth to have a mollifying and 
Unifying virtue. Bacon. 
All foft’ning fimples, known of fov’reign ufe. 
He prefles out, and pours their noble juice 5 
Thefe firft infus’d, to Unify the pain, 
He tugs with pincers, but he tugs in vain. Dryden. 
LF/NIFYING, /. The act of foftening; the aft of af- 
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