L 1 N 
UM'PACH, a town of Auftria: four miles north- 
north-eaft of Altenmarkt. 
LIM'PET. See Helminthology, vol. ix, p. 454, 
and the article Patella. 
LIM'PID, adj. [limpide, Fr. from limpidus, Lat.] Clear; 
pure ; tranfparent.—The fprings which were clear, freth, 
and limpid, become thick and turbid, and impregnated 
with fulphur as long as the earthquake lafts. Woodward. 
The brook that purls along 
The vocal grove, now fretting o’er a rock, 
Gently diffus’d into a limpid plain. ThorrJ'ori’s Sum. 
LIMPID'ITY,y. Limpidnefs. Bailey. 
LIM'PIDNESS, /. Clearnefs ; purity. 
LIM'PING,y The aft of halting. 
LIM'PINGLY, adv. In a lame halting manner. 
LIM'PITUDE, f. [from limpid.] Purenefs; clearnefs. 
Scott. 
LIM'PNESS, f. [from limp.] Limbernefs ; flexiblenefs. 
LI'MUS, /. Among the Romans, a garment reaching 
to the ground, and worn by the priefts, who on that ac¬ 
count were called limocin&i. 
LI'MY, adj. Vifcous ; glutinous : 
Striving more, the more in laces ftrong 
Himfelf he tied, and wrapt his winges twain 
In limy fnares the fubtil loops among. Spenfer. 
Containing lime.—A human fkull covered with the fkin, 
having been buried in fome limy foil, was tanned, or turn¬ 
ed into a kind of leather. Grew's Mufeeum. 
To LIN, v. n. [abhnnan, Sax.]. To yield ; to give over : 
Unto his foe he came, 
Refolv’d in mind all fuddenly to win, 
Or foon to lofe before he once would lin. Fairy Queen. 
LIN, a town of China, of the third rank, in Ho-nan : 
twenty-five miles weft of Tchang-te. 
LIN, a town of China, of the third rank, in Chan-fi : 
thirty-five miles north of Yung-ning. 
LIN-CHAN', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Ho-nan : fifty-feven miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Ho-nan. 
LIN-CHAN-CHFA, a town of Mexico, in the pro¬ 
vince of Yucatan : twenty-five miles north of Merida. 
LIN-CHAN-OF/I, a fort of China, in Chan-tong: 
twenty-two miles fouth of Kiao. 
LIN-FOU', a town of Corea: twenty miles fouth of 
Hai-men. 
LIN-HING', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Ho-nan : fifteen miles fouth of Hiu. 
LIN-KA'O, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the ifiand of Hainan, on the weft coaft: thirty-feven miles 
foutb-weft of Kiong-tcheou. 
LIN-KE'OU, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Chan-tong, on the Mi-ho river: eleven miles fouth-fouth- 
eaft of Tcin-tcheou. 
LIN-KIANG', a city of China, of the firft rank, in 
Kiang-fi, on the river Yu. The foil is good, and the cli¬ 
mate healthy, yet the city is thinly inhabited ; one of the 
villages in its jurifdiftion is the general mart for all the 
drugs fold in the empire. It is 737 miles fouth of Pekin. 
Lat. 27. 58. N. Ion. 115. E. 
LIN-NGAN', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Tche-kiang : twenty-two miles weft of Hang-tcheou. 
LIN-OU', a town of China, of the third rank, in Ho- 
quang : thirty miles fouth of Koue-yang. 
LIN-PA'O, a town of China, of the third rank, in Ho¬ 
nan, on the river Ho-ang twelve miles weft of Tchen. 
LIN-PF, a town of China, of the third rank, in Ki- 
ang-nan : twentv-feven miles eaft-ibuth-eaft of Sieou. 
LIN-SIANG', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Hou-quang : fifteen miles north-north-eaft of Yo-tcheou. 
LIN-TCHANG', a town of China, of the third rank, 
in Ho-nan : twenty-two- miles north-eaft of Tchang-te. 
LIN-TCIN', a city of China, of the fecond rank, in 
Chan-tong, on the grand canal, much frequented by vef- 
fels, and may properly be called a magazine of all kinds 
LIN 731 
of merchandife. It is 187 miles fouth of Pekin. Lata 
36. 56. N. Ion. 11 5. 31. E. 
LIN-TIN', a town of China, of the fecond rank, on 3 
fmall ifiand ofQuang-tong: fifteen miles north-eaft of Macao. 
LIN-TONG', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Chen-fi : fifteen miles eaft-north-eaft of Si-ngan. 
LIN-Tft, a town of China, of the third rank, in Chang- 
tong : thirty-two miles fouth-eaft of Te. 
LIN-ZE'OU, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Chen-fi : twenty miles north-eaft of Fong-tfiang. 
LINACAGAN', one of the iflands called Calamianes, 
in the Eaftern Indian Sea. Lat. 11.40. N. Ion. 120. 10. E. 
LIN'ACRE (Thomas), .phyfician, was born at Canter¬ 
bury about the year 1460, and there educated under the 
learned William Selling; thence he removed to Oxford, 
and in 1484 was chofen fellow of All-Souls’ college. 
Selling, alias Tilly, his former inftruftor, being at this 
time appointed ambalfador from Henry VII. to the court 
of Rome, Linaere accompanied him to Italy, where he 
attained the higheft degree of perfection in the Greek and 
Latin languages. At Rome, he applied himfelf particu¬ 
larly to the ftudy of Ariftotle and Galen, in the original. 
On his return to Oxford, he was incorporated doftor of' 
phyfic, and chofen public profeffor in that faculty. But- 
he had not been long in England, before he was com¬ 
manded to court by king Henry VII. to attend the young 
prince Arthur as his tutor and phyfician. He was after¬ 
wards appointed phyfician to the king, and, after his death, 
to his fucceflor Henry VIII. Dr. Linaere founded two 
medical leftures at Oxford, and one at Cambridge; but 
that which molt effeftually immortalized his name among 
the faculty, is his being the firft founder of the college 
of phyficians in London. He beheld with vexation the 
wretched ftate of phyfic in thofe times; and, by an api 
plication to cardinal Wolfey, obtained a patent in 1518, 
by which the phyficians of London were incorporated. 
The intention of this corporation was to prevent illiterate 
and ignorant medicafters from praftifing the art of healing. 
Dr. Linaere was the firft prefident, and held the office as 
long as he lived. Their meetings were at his own houfe 
in Knight-rider ftreet, which houfe he bequeathed to the 
college. 
Our doftor, when about the age of fifty,, took it into 
his head to ftudy divinity ; entered into orders; and was 
collated, in 1509, to the reftory of Merffiam : in the fame 
year he was inltalled prebendary of Wells, in 1518 pre¬ 
bendary of York, and in the following year was admitted 
precentor of that cathedral. This, we are told, he re- 
figned for other preferments. He died of the ftone in 
the bladder in Oftober 1524, aged 64; and was buried 
in St. Paul’s. Thirty-three years after his-death, Dr. 
John Caius caufed a monument to be erefted to his me¬ 
mory, with a Latin infeription, which contains the out¬ 
lines of his life and charafter. He was a man of great 
natural fagacity, a fkilful phyfician, a profound gramma¬ 
rian, and one of the beft Greek and Latin fcholars of his 
time. Erafmus in his epiftles fpeaks highly of the doc¬ 
tor’s tranflations from Galen, preferring them even to the 
original Greek. His works are, 2. De Emendata Struc- 
tura Latini Sermonis, libri fex ; London, printed by Pyn- 
fon, 1524, 8vo. and by Stephens, 1527, 1532. 2. The 
Rudiments of Grammar, for the ufe of the Princefs Mary, 
printed by Pynfon. Buchanan tranfiated it into Latin j 
Paris, 1536. He likewife tranfiated into very elegant La¬ 
tin feveivil of Galen’s works, which were printed chiefly 
abroad at different times. Alfo Procli Diadachi Sphcera, 
tranfiated from the Greek; Vener. 1499, 1500. 
LINAGROS'TIS,yi in botany. See Eriophorum. 
LIN'AMENT,/ \linamentum, Lat.] A tent fora wound 
made of linen ; lint. Bailey. 
LI'NAN, a river of Wales, which runs into the Irifli 
Sea five miles fouth of Caernarvon. 
LINAN'GE. See Leiningen, p. 463. 
LINA'RES, a town of Spain', in Arragon : twenty- 
four miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Teruel. 
I.INA'RIA, /. in botany. See Antirrhinum, Che- 
kopod.ium, . 
