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LICKING HO'LE CREEK, a river of Virginia, which 
rtins into James River in lat. 37. 42. N. ion. 78. 5. W. 
LICICNE'NA, a town of Spain, in Arragon : eighteen 
miles fouth-fouth-weft of Huefca. 
LICK'Y, a river of Ireland, in the county of Water¬ 
ford, which runs into the Biackwater four miles north of 
Youghall. 
LIC'NON,/. [Greek.] In the Dionyfian folemnities, 
the myftical van of Bacchus; a thing fo effential to all 
the folemnities of this god, that they could not be duly 
celebrated without it. See Dionysia, vol. v. p. 839. 
LICNOPII'ORI, /. in the Dionyfian folemnities, thofe 
>vho carried the licnon. 
LICO'DIA, a town of Sicily, in the valley of Noto : 
eighteen miles fouth-weft of Lentini. 
LiCO'LA, or Lago di Licola, a lake in the kingdom 
of Naples, formerly famous for plenty of excellent fifh ; 
but in the year 1538 an explolion of a volcano changed 
one part of it into a mountain of allies, and the other into 
a morals. It was anciently known by the name of the 
Lucrine Lake 
LICO'N'DA, a town of Africa, in the country of Tri¬ 
poli, on the fea-coaft. Lat. 30. 36. N. Ion. 18. 10. E. 
LICO'RICE. See Liouorice. 
LICOSTA'MO, a town of European Turkey, in Thef- 
faly ; the fee of a bilhop, fuffragan of LariiTa : fixteen 
miles ealt-fouth-eaft of LariiTa. 
LIC'tyUES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Straits of Calais: thirteen miles eaft-north-eaft of 
Boulogne, and ten fouth of Calais. 
LIC'TOR,/. [Latin.] An officer that attended the 
magiftrates of Rome to apprehend and punilh criminals, 
or for date: 
Saucy UElors 
Will catch at us like (trumpets. Shakefpeare. 
Proconfuls to their provinces 
Halting, or on return, in robes of ftate, 
Liflors and rods the enfigns of their power. Milton. 
The liftors were eltablilhed by Romulus. The duty of 
their office conlifted in the three following particulars : 1. 
Submotio, or clearing the way for the magiftrate they at¬ 
tended; this they did by word of mouth; or, if there was 
occafion', by tifing the rods they always carried along with 
them. 2. Animadverjio, or caufing the people to pay the 
ufual refpeft to the magiftrate; as to alight, if on liorfe- 
back, or in a chariot; to rife up, uncover, make way, 
and the like. 3. Praitio, or walking before the magif¬ 
trates : this they did not confufedly or all together, nor by 
two or three abreaft, but lingly, following one another in 
a ftraight line. They alfo preceded the triumphal car in 
public triumphs; and it was alfo part of their office to 
arreft criminals, and to be public executioners in behead¬ 
ing, &c. Their enfigns were the fajces and ftcuris. As 
to the number of littors allowed each magiftrate; a dicta¬ 
tor had twenty-four, a conful twelve, a praetor fix, a 
mafter of the horfe, fix; and each veftal virgin, when the 
appeared abroad, had one. 
LICTO'RIAN, adj. Belonging to the officer who at¬ 
tended the Roman confuls to apprehend or punilh crimi¬ 
nals. 
LICUA'LA, f. [the vernacular name of this palm in 
Macalfar.] In botany, a genus of the clafs hexandria, or¬ 
der monogynia, natural order of palms. The generic 
characters are—Calyx: perianth three-parted, outwardly 
hairy,- permanent. Corolla : three-parted almoft to the 
bafe; divifions ovate, acute, concave, deciduous. Nec¬ 
tary fertiform, truncated, as Ihort again as the corolla. 
Stamina: filaments fix, inferted into the neCtary, upright, 
very Ihort; anthers oblong, twin. Piftillum: germ fiupe- 
rior, convex, three-parted, fu Rated, frnooth ; ftyle iimple; 
fcigmas two. Pericarpium: drupe globole, the fize of a 
pea, one-celled. Seed a hard nut .—EJfential Ckarader. 
Flowers all hermaphrodite 5 calyx and corolla three-part- 
«d 5 neCtary fertiform. 
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Licuala Ipinola, a fingle fpecies. The trunk is but a n 
eli in height, and fcarcely fo thick as the human arm, 
jointed, dividing at top into about fix branches, each fix 
ells long, hardly a finger in thicknefs, triangular, grooved 
above, fiat beneath, the lower half lharply ferrate at the 
angles, and the teeth or fpinules clofely joined. Each of 
thefe has a leaf at top, fpreading like a fan, and divided" 
into rays, all leparated to the bale; the lateral ones (fouiv 
teen) are narrow, blunt and jagged at the end, with four 
ftrorig nerves meeting at bottom ; the middle ray is twenty- 
four or even twenty-feven inches long, and a foot wide 
at top; it has thirteen or fourteen ribs, alternately promi¬ 
nent on the upper and lower fide, fo that it may be folded 
up, like a fan. When the plant is mature, the flower- 
ftalk emerges from the middle, as long as the branches 
or leaf-ftalks, involved in Iheaths at the bottom, dividing 
into five fmaller flower-ftalks at top, about a hand in length, 
bearing green heads in three rows expanding into flowers. 
The fruit.is a fleflty, fmall, oval, drupe, retaining the ca¬ 
lyx at fome little diftance; rind membranaceous, very 
thin, blackilh brown; flefli very little, pulpy, fugacious3 
Hi ell bony, thin, brittle, whitilh, elliptic-globular, finilhing 
at top in a very lharp Ihort dagger-point; it is alfo pointed 
at bottom, and ftriated, with a few bony nerves fomewhat 
branching; within it is very frnooth, and one-ce’led. 
Rumphius compares the fruit with thofe of the bay for 
fize and figure, except that it is rounder; he adds, that it 
continues long green, but finally turns brown or blackilh. 
Seed elliptic, afli-coloured, moderately convex on one fide, 
and towards the bafe keeled with a very blunt angle in. 
which the umbilical chord is immerfed; on the other fide 
gibbous, and marked in the middle with a large teat co¬ 
vering the embryo, which is placed in the middle of the 
back. Rumphius fays, that the nut is oblong, very hard, 
and ftriated longitudinally. Native of Macaflar and Ce¬ 
lebes ; where they make much ufe of the narrow leaves, 
for tobacco-pipes, and of the middle broad one for wrap¬ 
ping up fruit, &c. The wood is of little ufe, being noS 
durable. 
LICZ, a town of Auftrian Poland, in Galicia: thirty 
miles weft of Przemyl. 
LID,/ [plib, Sax. lied. Germ.] A cover; anything, 
that fhuts down over a vellel; any ftopple that covers the 
mouth, but not enters it.—Hope, inltead of flying offi 
with the reft, ftuck fo clofe to the lid of the cup, that it 
was Ihut down upon her. Addifon. —The membrane that, 
when we lleep or wink, is drawn over the eye.— Our eyes, 
have lids, our ears ftili ope we keep. Davies. 
That eye dropp’d fenfe diftinft and clear,. 
As any mule’s tongue could ipeak 
When from its lid a pearly tear 
Ran trickling down her beauteous cheek. Prior . 
LID. See Lyi^d. 
LID, or Lyd, a river of England, which runs inti 
the Tamar four miles north-north-welt of Taviftock. 
LPDA, a river of Sweden, which runs into the Wen- 
ner Lake at Lidkioping. 
LI'DA, a town and caftle of Lithuania, in the palati¬ 
nate of Wilna, where a provincial diet is held : 168 miles 
eaft-fouth-eaft of Koniglherg, and forty-eight louth of 
Wilna. Lat. 53. 52. N. Ion. 23. 35. E. 
LIDBECK'IA,/ in botany. See Cotula. 
LID BURY, a village in Shroplhire, near Bifliop’s. 
Caftle ; with a charity-lchool. » 
LID'DEL, a river of Scotland, which rifes in Roxburgh 
Ihire, and joins .the Elk, three miles fouth of Longiiolm, 
in the county of Dumfries. The valley m which it flows 
is called Liddefdale, or Lithdale. 
LID'DEL, a village in Cumberland, at the conflux, of 
the Lid and Elk. Here was formerly a caftle 
LID'DEL (Dr. Duncan), profefl'or of mathematics and 
of medicine in the univerlity of Helmftadt, was born in, 
the year 1561 at Aberdeen, where he received the firft 
part of his education in languages and philofophy. 
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