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efiay, ibid. 1763. 8. Recueil des Effets des Haux Mini¬ 
rales de Spa, de l’an 1764 ; avec des Remarques fur le Syf- 
teme de M. Lucas fur les memes Eaux minerales; ibid. 
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LIM'BOURG, in geography. See Limburg. 
LIM'BRA, a town or Rindooftan, inGuzerats thirty- 
five miles weft of Gogo. 
LIM'BRY, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat •. fixty- 
eight miles weft of Amedabad. 
LIM'BURG (late Duchy of), a principality of Ger¬ 
many, and a province of the Netherlands, bounded on the 
north by the duchy of Juliets, on the eaft by the electo¬ 
rate of Cologne and duchy of Jaliers, and on the fouth 
and weft by the biihopric of Liege; about thirty miles in 
length, and twenty-four in breadth. It yields good ara¬ 
ble ground, and abounds in particular in a fine breed of 
cattle. In the neighbourhood of Limburg are found iron, 
lead, and calamine. The origin of the ancient counts of 
Limburg is obfcure. Probably this houfe took its rife 
about the middle of the tenth century. Henry I. count 
ef Limburg, who lived In the year 1071, married Judith, 
only daughter to Frederic of Luxemburg, and duke of the 
Lower Lorraine, with whom he obtained confiderable ef- 
tates on the rivers Ourthe and Ambleve. His fon Hen¬ 
ry II. was defied duke of Lower Lorraine, and bore the 
title thereof inftead of that of a count, and his pofterity 
were ftylcd dukes of Limburg after him. The male branch 
of thefe dukes, however, becoming extinft in Waieran, a 
very bloody war was kindled on account of this country. 
Adolph count of Bergen, who was next heir, in the years 
1182 and 1283 ceded all his right in the duchy of Lim¬ 
burg to John I. duke of Brabant; who upon that became 
involved with Reynald or Reinhold I. count of Guelders, 
who had taken pofteflion of the duchy, in a grievous war, 
■which was concluded with a battle near YVoringen; after 
which the duke of Brabant took pofteflion of Limburg. 
The duchy afterwards, together with the other provinces 
of the Netherlands, devolved to the dukes of Burgundy ; 
and from them to the houfe of Auftria. A part of the 
counties of Fauquemont and Daletn, as alfo of the coun¬ 
try of Rolduc, defeended, as well by virtue of the peace 
of Munfter, as of the ftipulation made in the year 166t at 
the Hague, to the States General. It is now annexed to 
France, and forms part of the department of the Ourthe. 
LIM'BURG, a town of France, in the department of 
the Ourthe, late capital of the duchy fo called, fituated 
near the river YVefe or Weze, in a fertile country, on an 
agreeable mountain. It was heretofore regularly fortified, 
with a caftle, built on a rock, and defended by towers and 
baftions, built of freeltone. Near Limburg are many 
quarries of different kinds of marble ; the precipices, 
mountains, and rocks, round about, are romantic ; tbe air 
is wholefome, and the inhabitants have hardly any dileafe 
except old age. The magiffracy confifts of a mayor, fe- 
ven echevins, and a greffier; who muft be licentiates in 
Jaw of the univerfity of Louvain, and equally {killed in 
the French and Flemifh languages. They have a confi¬ 
derable manufacture of woollen cloth ; and fome excel¬ 
lent chcefe is made in the environs; there are alfo fome 
iron-mines near it: twenty miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Liege, 
and forty-fix north of Luxemburg. Lat. 50. 36. N. Ion. 
53. 3t. E. 
LIM'BURG, a lordfhip and principality of Germany, 
belonging to the circle of Franconia, but lying in Swabia, 
furrounded by Wurtemberg, the provefffttip of ELvangen, 
the principality of Anfpach, and the territory of the im¬ 
perial city of Swabian-Hall; and in its greateft extent 
from fouth to north is altnoft twenty miles, but from welt 
to eaft only eighteen. The lalt count of Limburg dying 
in the year 1713, the king of Pruflia took pofteflion of his 
country; but at length ceded it to the allodial heirs, and 
the emperor fequeftrated the imperial fiefs; but, in 1728, 
conferred the inveftiture of them on king Frederic-.Wil- 
iiam,as imperial fub-valial. In the year 1742, Frederic II. 
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transferred thefe Limburg imperial fiefs to the houfe of 
Brandenburg-Anfpach. The whole lordlhip contributed 
to one Roman month 64 florins, and to each chamber 
term 43 rix-dollars, 19 kruitzers, 
LIM'BURG, a town of France, in the department of 
the Roer: two miles north-weft of Sittart. 
LIM'BURG, a town of Germany, fituated on the Lahn, 
formerly governed by its particular counts, who became 
extinct in the beginning of the fifth century : twenty-fix 
miles north of Mentz, and feventy-fix eaft-north-eaft of 
Treves. Lat. 50. 20. N. Ion. 8.3. E. 
LIM'BURG, or Hohen Limburg, a town and citadel 
of Germany, which gives name to a county, a fief of the 
county of Mark, in which it is infulated. After the de¬ 
molition of the caftle of Ifenburg, the brother-in-law of 
the laft count, who was executed as an aflaflin in 1225, 
erected for the children of this unhappy man a caftle 
which he called Limburg, which name they adopted. 
The territory annexed is about fifteen miles long and 
twelve broad. It was lately under the protection of the 
king of Pruflia, who received from it every year 3056 rix- 
dollars: four miles north-north-weft of Altena, and thirty 
eaft of DutTeldorp. 
LIM'BUS, a term in the Roman theology, ufed for that 
place where the patriarchs are fuppofed to have waited 
for the redemption of mankind, and where they imagine 
our Saviour continued from the time of his death to that 
of his refurre&ion. Du-Cange fays, the fathers call this 
place limbus , as being the margin or frontier of the other 
world. 
Limbus is alfo ufed by catholics for the place deflined 
to receive the fouls of infants who die without baptifm ; 
who have not deferved hell, as dying in innocence; nor 
yet are worthy of heaven, becaule of the imputation of 
original fin. 
LIMBUYAN', a town on the fouth coaft of the ifiand 
of Mafbate. Lat. 12. 8. N. Ion. 123. 36, E. 
LIME, /. [lxm, gelyman, Sax. to glue.] A vifeous fub- 
ftance drawn over twigs, which catches and entangles the 
wings of birds that light upon it.— A thrulh was taken 
with a bufh of lime- twigs. L'Ef range. 
Poor bird! thou’dlt never fear the net or lime , 
The pitfall, nor the gin. Shakefpeare's Macbeth. 
Matter of which mortar is made: fo called becaufe ufed 
in cement.—The lime we have in London is ulually made 
of chalk, which is weaker than that made of ftone. Hill's 
Materia Medica. —They were now, like fand without lime, 
ill bound together, efpecially as many as were Englifh, 
who were at a gaze, looking ftrange one upon another, 
not knowing who was faithful to their fide. Bacon. 
As when a lofty pile is rais’d, 
We never hear the workmen prais’d, 
Who bring the lime, or place the ftones, 
But all admire Inigo Jones. Swift. 
Of the chemical properties of lime, we have already 
treated under Chemistry; and of its ufe as manure, un¬ 
der Husbandry. See the Indexes to thofe articles ; alfo 
Creta under the article Mineralogy. 
LIME, f. [lime, Fr.] A fpecies of lemon. See Citrus 4 
vo!. iv. p. 626. 
Bear me, Pomona! to thy citron groves ; 
To where the lemon and the piercing lime, 
With the deep orange glowing through the green, 
Their lighter glories blend. Tkomfon's Summer. 
LIME, a town of the ftate of Connecticut; feven miles 
weft of New London. 
To LIME, v. a. To entangle ; to enfnare.—Example, 
that fo terribly (hows in the wreck of maidenhood, can¬ 
not, for all that, diffuade fucceffion, but that they are limed 
with the twigs that threaten them. Shakefpeare. 
Oh bolom, black as death ! - 
Oh limed foul, that, ftruggling to be free. 
Art more engag’d I Shakefpearc's Hamlet. 
