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LE'NIOR, a county of America, in Newbern diftrift'. 
North Carolina, furrounded by Glafgow, Craven, Jones, 
and Dauphin ; containing 3898 free inhabitants, and 1457 
flaves. The chief town is Kingfton. 
LE'NIS SPIR'ITUS, in profody. See Spirit. 
LEN'ITIVE, adj. [lenitif, Fr. lenio, Lat.] Afiuafive ; 
emollient.—Some plants have a milk in them ; the caufe 
may be an inception of putrefaction : for thofe milks 
have all an acrimony, though one would think they thould 
be lenitive. Bacon. —There is aliment lenitive, expelling the 
fceces without Simulating the bowels 5 fuch are animal 
oils. Arbuthnot. 
LEN'ITIVE, f. Any thing medicinally applied to eafe 
pain. A palliative.—There are lenitives that friendfhip 
will apply, before it would be brought to decretory ri¬ 
gours. South's Sermons. 
LE-N'ITIVENESS, f. The ftate or quality of being le¬ 
nitive. Scott. 
LEN'ITUDE,/ Lenity. Cole. 
LEN'ITY, f. [lenitas, Lat.] Mildnefs ; mercy ; ten- 
dernels; foftnefs of temper.—Albeit" fo ample a pardon 
was proclaimed touching treafon, yet could not the bold- 
nels be beaten down either with feverity, or with lenity be 
abated. Hayward. 
The old imprifon’d king, 
Whofe.firft pleas’d the gaping crowd : 
But when long try’d, and found fupinely good, 
Like flop’s log, they leapt upon his back. Dryden. 
LE'NIUS, a man’s name ; the name of feveral Romans. 
LENKERAN', a tow ; n of Perfia, in the province Ghi- 
lan, near the Cafpian Sea: no miles north-weft of Refiid, 
and fifteen north of Aftara. Lat. 18.40. N. Ion. 49. E. 
LENNAN', a town of Peru, in the diocefe of La Paz : 
twenty-feven miles north of Potoli. 
LEN'NE, a river of Germany, which rifes near Berle- 
burg, and runs into the Roer two miles weft from Schwi- 
ert, in the county of Mark. 
LEN'NEP, a towm of the grand duchy of Berg. The 
magiftrates and principal part of the inhabitants are Lu¬ 
therans. In 1564, this town was almoft wholly deftroyed 
by fire: twenty miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Duflcjdorf. Lat. 
51. 9. N. Ion. 7. 18. E. 
LEN'NICK St. MAR'TIN, a town of France, in the 
department of the Byle, and chief place of a canton, in 
-the diftrift of Bruftels. The place contains 1559, and 
the canton 10,606, inhabitants, on a territory of no ki- 
liometres, in 12 communes. 
LEN'NOX (Charlotte), a lady long diftinguifhed in the 
literary world, as the protegee of Dr. Johnfon, and the 
friend of Richardfon, was born in the year 1720. Her 
father was a field-officer, lieutenant-governor of New 
York, who fent her over at the age of fifteen to a wealthy 
aunt, who unfortunately, on the arrival of her niece, was 
out of her fenfes, and never recovered them; immediately 
after which the father died, and the daughter from that 
time fupported herfelf by her literary talents, which fhe 
always employed ufefully. Her latter days were clouded 
by penury and licknel’s ; calamities which were in a con- 
'fidetable degree alleviated by the kindnefsof 1'ome friends, 
who revered alike her literary and her moral charafter ; 
but the moft effectual balm to her wounded fpirit arofe 
from the aifiltance (lie received from the Literary Fund 
Society, by whofe timely aid her only lbn was enabled 
to fit himfelf out for an employment in the Anglo-Ame- 
riev.r. Itates; and by whofe bounty the means of decent 
fubfiftence were afforded to the mother till the clofe of 
her long life, which took place in London in the month 
of February, 1804. 
Her works were pretty numerous. She publifhed, in 
the year 1752, The Female Quixote, and Memoirs of 
Harriet Stuart. In the former of thefe novels, the cha- 
ra'fter of Arabella is the counterpart of Don Quixote ; 
and the work was very favourably received. In the fol¬ 
lowing year fhe publifhed Shakefpeare Illuftrated, in 7. 
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vols. i2ino. to which fire afterwards added a third. This 
work confifts of the novels and hiftories on which the 
plays of Shakefpeare are founded, collected and tranflated 
from the original authors : to which are added critical 
notes, intended to prove that Shakefpeare has generally 
fpoilt every ftory on which his plays are founded, by tor¬ 
turing them into low' contrivances, abfurd intrigues, and 
improbable incidents. In 1756 fhe publifhed, The Me¬ 
moirs of the Countefs of Berci, taken from the French, 
2 vols. i2mo. and Sully’s Memoirs, tranflated, 3 vols. 
4to. which have fince been frequently reprinted in 8vo. 
and are executed with no fmall ability. In 1758 fhe pro¬ 
duced Philander, a Dramatic Paftoral, and Henrietta, a 
novel of confiderable merit, 2 vols. 12010. and, in 1760, 
w'ith the affiftance of the earl of Cork and Orrery, and 
Dr. Johnfon, fhe publifhed a tranflation of Father Bru* 
moy’s Greek Theatre, 3 vols. 4to. the merit of which 
varies materially in different parts of the work. Two 
years after, fhe publifhed Sophia, a Novel, 2 vols, 12010. 
which is inferior to her earlier performances; and, after 
an interval of feven years, fhe brought out, at Covent- 
garden theatre. The Sifters, a Comedy, taken from her 
novel of Henrietta, which was condemned on the firft 
night of its appearance. In 1773, (lie furnifhed Drury- 
lane theatre w’ith a comedy, intitled, Old City Manners. 
Her laft publication was Euphemia, a Novel, 1790, 4 
vols. 12010. a performance which by no means deviates 
from the creditable line in which fhe always moved. 
LE'NO, a harbour on the weft coalt of the iftand of 
Mindanao. Lat. 6.38. N. Ion. 124. 21. E. 
LE'NO, or Le'non,_/ 1 in anatomy, the torcular; apart 
of the brain. 
LE'NOS,yi in Hippocrates, denotes an old machine for 
reducing fra ft u res and diflocations. 
LENONCOU'RT, a town of France, in the department 
of the Mearte: four miles eaft-louth-eaft of Nancy, and 
feven north-weft of Luneville. 
LENO'NIAN, adj. \_leno, Lat. a bawd.] Belonging to 
a bawd. Cole. 
LEN'OX, or Dumbartonshire, a county of Scotland. 
See Dumbarton, vol. vi. The title of Lenox, with the 
property of great part of the Hiire, was heretofore vetted 
in a branch of the royal family of Stuart, with which it 
was reunited in the perfon of James VI. whofe father, 
Henry lord Darnley, was fon of the duke of Lenox. This 
prince conferred the title upon his kinfman Efme Stuart, 
Ion of John lord d’Aubigny in France; but, his race fail¬ 
ing at the death of Charles dtike of Lenox and Richmond, 
and the eftate devolving to the crown^ Charles II. con¬ 
ferred both titles on his own natural fon by the duchefs 
of Portfmouth; and they are (till enjoyed by his pofterity. 
LEN'OX, an illand in the Mergui Archipelago, about 
five miles in circumference. Lat. 9.2. N 
LEN'OX, the (hire-town of Berklhire county, Mafia- 
chufetts: it is a pleafant and thriving town, and has a 
court-houfe and a goal. The river Houfatonick traverfes 
the town. It is 145 miles north of Bolton. The number 
of inhabitants is 1041. 
LEN'OX CAS'TLE, a poft-town of Buckingham coun¬ 
ty, North Carolina ; 390 miles from Walhington. 
LENS,y. [from its refemblance to the feed of a lentil.] 
A glafs fpherically convex on both fides, fuch as is a burn- 
ing-glafs, or fpeftacle-glafis, or an objeft-giafs of a tele- 
fcope. See the article Optics. —According to the dif¬ 
ference of the lenjes, I ufed various diltances. Newton's 
Optics —In botany, fee Ervum, Glycine, Hedysarum, 
Lemna, Marsilea, Medicago, Mimosa, and Riccia. 
LENS, a town of France, in the department of the 
Straits of Calais; built in 1028, by Baldwin count of 
Flanders and Artois: it was formerly fortified, but is now 
open.. In 1553, it was taken and burned by the French; 
in 1582, it was taken and pillaged by the garrifon of 
Cambray, and eight days afterwards retaken by the prince 
of Epinoi, governor of Artois. In 1647, marlhal Gaftion, 
who befieged it, was mortally wounded by a mulket-lhot, 
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