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ings (in the outermcft wall or rampart) now walled up, 
draped like Gothic church-windows, fharply arched, which 
were formerly very handfome and pleafant. Thefe large 
openings are all on the chamber-floor, (where the rooms of 
fiate feem to have been ;) and from the floor ot thefe cham¬ 
bers you pafs on a level to the chapel, which is but a fmall 
building, and more modern than thecaftie. But the cha¬ 
pel appears to be as ancient as Richard king of the Ro¬ 
mans, who kept his court here. The offices belonging 
to this caflle lay below' in the bafs-court, where flgns of 
many ruins to the north and eaft are Hill apparent, and, 
with" the ruins on either hand as you come towards the 
great gate from the weft, (how that this caftle was of 
great extent. This noble keep ftill holds up the (hell of 
its turretted head. There was formerly a park round it, 
well wooded, and fuitable to the quality of the ancient 
owners ; but with feveral others was difparked by Henry 
VIII. at the inftance of fir Richard Pollard. Britijh Di¬ 
rectory. 
LES'WALT, a town of Scotland, in the county of 
Wigton : four miles north-north-weft of Stranrawer. 
LES'WES, or Lesves,/! A word ufed in Domefday, 
•to fignify paftures, and is ftill ufed in many places of 
England, and often inferted in deeds and conveyances. 
Hence the modern term Leajowes. 
LESZA'ISKO, a town of Auftrian Poland, in Galicia: 
twenty-eight miles north-weft of Przemyfl. 
To LET, v. a. [laeTan, Sax.] To allow ; to fuffer; to 
permit.—Where there is a certainty and an uncertainty, 
let the uncertainty go, and hold to that which is certain. 
Bi/hop Sanderfon.—A. folution of mercury in aqua fortis 
being poured upon iron, copper, tin, or lead, difiolves 
the metal, and lets go the mercury. Newton's Optics. 
On the crowd he call a furious look, 
And wither’d all their (trength before he fpoke; 
Back on your lives, let be, (aid he, my prey, 
And let my vengeance take the deftin’d way. Dryden. 
Remember me; fpeak, Raymond, will you let him ? 
Shall he remember Leonora ? Dryden's Spani/k Fr. 
A fign of the optative mood ufed before the firft, and im¬ 
perative before the third, perfon. Before the firft perfon 
.Angular it fignifies refolution, fixed purpofe, or ardent 
wiffi.— Let me die with t.he Philiftines. Judges. 
Here let me fit. 
And hold high converfe with the mighty dead. Thomfon. 
Before the firft perfon plural, let implies exhortation.— 
Rife; let us go. Mark .— Let us feek out fome defolate 
(hade. Shakefpearc. —Before the third perfon, fingular or 
plural, let implies permiffion.— Let Euclid reft, and Archi¬ 
medes paitfe. Milton. —Or precept.— Let the foldiers feize 
him from one of the affaffinates. Dryden. —Sometimes it 
implies conceffion : 
O’er golden fands let rich Padlolus flow, 
Or trees weep amber on the banks of Po. Pope. 
Before a thing in the paffive voice, let implies command. 
— Let not the objedts which ought to be contiguous be fe- 
parated, and let thole which ought to be feparated be ap¬ 
parently fo to us; but let this be done by a fmall and 
pleafing difference. Dryden. — Let has an infinitive mood 
after it without the particle to, as in the former examples. 
—The feventh year thou (halt let it reft, and lie ftill. Exod. 
■—To leave : in this fenfe it is commonly followed by alone. 
—The public outrages of a deftroying tyranny are but 
childifh appetites, let alone till they are grown ungoverna¬ 
ble. VEJlrange's Fables. 
They did me too much injury. 
That ever faid I hearken’d for your death. 
If it were fo, I might have let alone 
Th’ infulting hand of Douglas over you. S/iakeJpeare. 
Yet nether fpinnes nor cards, ne cares nor frets, 
But to her mother nature all her care (he kits. Spenfer. 
To more than permit; to give.—Horatio, as I am let to 
LET 
know it is. Shahefpeare. —To put to hire; to grant to a 
tenant.—Solomon liad a vineyard at Baal Hamon ; he let 
the vineyard unto keepers. Cant. viii. 11.—Nothing deaden* 
fo much the compofttion of a pidlure, as figures which 
appertain not to the fubjedt: we may call them figures to 
be let. Dryden. —To fuller any -thing to take a courfe 
which requires no impulfive violence. In this fenfe it is 
commonly joined with a particle.—She let them down by a 
cord through the window. JoJhua —You mult let it down, 
that is, make it fofter by tempering it. Moxon's Mechanical 
Exercijes. —As terebration doth meliorate fruit, fo doth 
pricking vines or trees after they be of fome growth, and 
thereby letting forth gum or tears. Bacon. —From this point 
of the ltory, the poet is let down to his traditional poverty. 
Pope. 
And, if I knew which u'ay to do’t, 
Your honour fafe. I’d let you cut. Hudibras. 
To permit to take any ftate or courfe.—Finding an eafe 
in not underftanding, he let loole his thoughts wholly to 
pleafure. Sidney. 
To Let blood, is elliptical for to let out blood. To free it 
from confinement; to fuffer it to ftream out of the vein. 
—Hippocrates let great quantities of blood, and opened fe¬ 
veral veins at a time. Arbuthnot on Coins. 
Be rul’d by me ; 
Let’s purge this choler without letting blood. Shakefpearc. 
With a dative of the perfon whofe blood is let.—As te¬ 
rebration doth meliorate fruits, fo doth letting plants blood, 
as pricking vines, thereby letting forth tears. Bacon. 
To Let in. To admit.—The more tender our fpirits 
are made by religion, the more eafy we are to let in grief, 
if the caufe be innocent. Taylor. 
They but preferve the allies, thou the flame. 
True to his fenfe, but truer to his fame ; 
Fording his current, where thou find’ft it low, 
Let'f in thine own to make it rife and flow. Denham. 
If a noun follows, for let in, let into is required.—Moft 
liiftorians have fpoken of ill fuccefs, and terrible events, 
as if they had been let into the fecrets of Providence, and 
made acquainted with that private condudt by which the 
world is governed. Addifon. —To procure admiftion.— 
They fliould fpeak properly and corredlly, whereby they 
may let their thoughts into other men’s minds the more 
eafily. Locke .—As foon as they have hewn down any quan¬ 
tity of the rocks, they let in their fprings and refervoirs 
among their works. Addifon. 
To Let off. To difcharge. Originally ufed of an ar¬ 
row difmifted from the gripe, and therefore fuffered to fly 
off the firing: now applied to guns.—Charging my piftol 
with powder, I cautioned the emperor not to be afraid, 
and then let it offm the air. Swift. 
To Let out. To leafe out; to give to hire or farm. 
To LET, v.a. [lettan, Sax.] To hinder; to obftrudt ; 
to oppefe.—Their fenfes are not letted from enjoying their 
objedfs : we have the impediments of honour, and the 
torments of confidence. Sidney. —To glorify him in all 
things, is to do nothing whereby the name of God may 
be blafphemed ; nothing whereby the falvation of Jew or 
Grecian, or any in the church of Chrilt, may be let or 
hindered. Hooker. 
Leave, ah, leave off, whatever wight thou be. 
To let a weary wretch from her due reft. Spenfer. 
To Let, when it fignifies to permit or leave, has let in 
the preterite and part, paffive; but, when it fignifies t» 
hinder, it has letted-, as, Multa me impedierunt, Many things 
have letted me. Introduction to Grammar. 
To LET, v. n. To forbear; to withhold himfelf.—Af¬ 
ter king Ferdinando had taken upon him the perfon of a 
fraternal ally to the king, he would not let to counfel the 
king. Bacon. 
LET, f. Hindrance; obftacle; obftruclion; impedi¬ 
ment.—The fecret lets and difficulties in public proceed¬ 
ings are innumerable and inevitable. Hooker. —Solyman 
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