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LINCOLNVIL'LE, a town of Hancock county, in the 
ftate of Maine, on the weft fide of Penoblcot bay ; twelve 
miles from Belfaft. 
LINCO'NIA, f. [fo called by Linnaeus, but whence 
derived we know not.] In botany, a genus of the clafs 
pentandria, order digynia. The generic characters are— 
Calyx : perianthium inferior, four-leaved : leaflets ovate, 
permanent; the inferior oppofite pair fhorter. Corolla : 
petals five, lanceolate, feffile, upright ; neCtary, a dell 
impreffed on the bottom of the petal, girt beneath by the 
margin. Stamina: filaments five, awl-fliaped, margined, 
upright, middling ; anthers obtufe, fagittated with nu- 
tant gaping auricles. Piftillum : germ half-inferior with 
refpedt to the corolla ; with refpeci to the calyx, fuperior ; 
ftyles two, filiform, ftriated ; ftigmas Ample. Pericarpium : 
capfule two-celled. Seeds two. The perianthium per¬ 
haps might be taken for braCfes ; and then the flower 
would be entirely fuperior .—EJJcntial Charader. Petals, 
five, with a nedareous excavation at the bafe; capfule, 
two-celled. 
Linconia alopecuroidea, the only fpecies of which we 
have a defcription. It is a fhrub with a few vy and like 
branches, irregular from the bale of the falling leaves, as 
in the fir-tree. Leaves fcattered, in a fort of whorl, five 
or fix together, lubpetioled, linear, three-fided, Itiffifh, 
fhining, an inch long, rugged at the angles; the upper- 
mbft ciliate. Flowers at the ends of the branches ; not 
however in bundles, but feparate, lateral, feflile, the length 
of the leaves ; leaflets of the calyx not difpoled in a ring, 
but by pairs alternately oppofite, villofe at the edge ; co¬ 
rollas tenacious, flefn-coloured or white. Native of the 
Cape of Good Hope, in watery places among the mountains. 
There is another fpecies from the fame country in the 
Bankfian Herbarium, with the flowers in bundles and 
heads. 
LINC'TUS,/. [from lingo, Lat.] Medicine licked up 
by the tongue. 
LIN'DA, a finall ifland in the Indian Sea, near the 
coaft of Africa, at the month of the Zambefe. 
LIN'DA, a town of Germany, in Upper Hefle : four 
miles fouth-fouth-weft of Gieflen. 
LIN'DAHL, a town of Norway : 14.0 miles north of 
Chriftiania. 
LIN'DANUS (William), a celebrated catholic divine, 
'ftas born at Dort, in Holland, in the year 1525. He 
purfued his academical ftudies at Louvain, and afterwards 
went to France to perfeft himfelf in the Greek and He¬ 
brew languages. Having returned to Louvain, he was 
ordained a prieft, and admitted a licentiate in divinity. 
This was in the year 1552 ; and in the following year he 
undertook the office of leftureron the facred fcriptures at 
Dillengen, which poll he filled for three years with high 
reputation. He took his degree of D.D. in 1556, after 
which he Was appointed dean of the Hague; counfellor 
to the king; vicar to the bifhop of Utrecht, and inquifi- 
tor of the faith within the fame eccleliaftical jurifdiftion. 
On account of his great zeal in the latter office, the duties 
of which he performed with much feverity, he was nomi¬ 
nated]. by the bigoted Philip II. of Spain, to the bi- 
Ihopric of Ruremond; but the troubles in which the 
country was involved prevented him from taking pol- 
feflion of his fee till feven years afterwards. In 1568, he 
paid a vifit to Rome, where he was received by the pope 
Gregory XIII. and the cardinals with fingular marks of 
efteem. On his return to his flock, he found them re¬ 
duced to a tniferable (late by the ravages of famine and 
the peftilence ; on which occafion he exercifed the func¬ 
tions of a Chriftian bifhop in a very honourable manner, 
applying the revenues of his fee to the relief of the indi¬ 
gent, and vifiting every part of his diocefe, for the pur- 
pole of perfonaliy comforting, inftruCting, and affifting, 
the diftrefled. In 1584., he took a fecond journey to 
Rome; and after his return was tranflated, in 1588, to 
the biffiopric of Ghent. He furvived this promotion, 
however, only three months, and died towards the clofe 
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of the year laft-mentioned, about the age of fixty-three. 
Lindanus was well verfed in the fathers, and councils, 
and eccleliaftical antiquities. Pie was alfo a good Greek 
and Hebrew fcholar; well read in divinity; pofleffed a 
vigorous intellect; and was an acute and able reafoner. 
His writings are diftinguillied by energy and purity of 
ftyle, though fometimes too much inflated ; and the au¬ 
thor is efteemed by the catholics as one of their flrft-rafe 
controverfialilts. His molt valued publication is entitled,, 
Panoplia Evangelica, which was publiftied at Cologne in 
1563, in folio, and in the following year at Paris, in nmo. 
It is boafted of as containing a mafterly and unanfwera- 
ble defence of the doftrine and difcipline of the church, 
of Rome, again ft the objections of protellants. Lindanus* 
alfo was the author of a great number of polemical trea¬ 
ties ; paraphrafes on many of the plalms ; and a cor¬ 
rected edition of the Pfalter, illuftrated with the Greek 
and Hebrew texts. 
LIN'DAR, a town of Iftria -. five miles north-eaft 0 ft 
Mitterburg. 
LINDAU', an imperial city of Germany, on an ifland, 
in the lake of Conftance, which communicates with the 
continent by means of a bridge. This ifland is divided 
by an arm of the lake in Inch a manner as to form ano¬ 
ther finaller ifland, which is leparated from the city, and 
confifts of vineyards and gardens, being walled quite 
round. On account of this fitiiation it is, that Lindau 
has been Ityled the Venice of Swabia. The greateft part 
of the burghers here are Lutherans. The parilh-church 
is dedicated to St. Stephen. This town has alfo a well- 
endowed hofpital, and a grammar-fchool confiding of 
four clalfes. The caftle, and the Heyden Maur, or Heathen 
Wall, as it is called, handing near the gate at the bridge 
which leads to the continent, are reckoned Roman works; 
the latter of which is attributed to Tiberius Nero, and 
the former to Conftantius Cblorus, at the time of the 
encampments in this ifland, during their expeditions 
againft the Vindelici and Alemanni. It is alfo fuppofed 
that near this caftle formerly flood a town ; and that the 
little church of St. Peter here was built on the firft intro¬ 
duction of Cllriftianity into this country. By the peace 
of Pr&fburg, in 1805, it was given to Bavaria. Its ter¬ 
ritory comprehends fourteen villages : nineteen miks ealt 
of Conftance, and forty-fix ealt-north-eaft of Zurich, 
Lat. 47. 28. N, Ion. 10. 35. E. 
LINDAU', a town and caftle of Hungary : feventeen 
miles north-north-weft of Clakathurn. 
LINDAU', a town of Weltphalia, in the territory of 
Eichfeld, fituated on the Rhine: twelve miles north-weft 
of Duderftadt. 
LINDAU', a town of Germany, in the principality of 
Anhalt Zerbft : five miles north of Zerbft. 
LINDAU', a town of Germany, in the principality of 
Bayreuth : eight miles north-weft of Bayreuth, 
LINDAU'. See Lindow. 
LIN'DE, or Lindesberg, a town of Sweden, in Weft- 
manland, fituated in a narrow fandy traft between two 
lakes; built in the year 1644, by queen Chriltina. Near 
it is a medicinal fpring. It is thirty-four miles weft-north- 
weft of Stroemftiolm, and eighty-fix weft-north-weft of 
Stockholm. Lat. 59. 33. N. Ion. 14. 56. E. 
LIN'DE, a town of Germany, in the county of Hen- 
neberg : five miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Romhill. 
LIN'DE, a town of Germany, in the principality of 
Querfurt: four miles north-welt of juterbock. 
LIN'DE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Dordogne : ten miles eaft of Bergerac, and feven weft of 
Sarlat. 
LINDEAL', a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Cuddapa : twenty-five miles north of Gandicotta. 
LINDEBEU'F, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Seine : twelve miles fouth-eaft of Cany, and 
fix north-north-weft of Rouen. 
LIN'DECK, a town of the duchy of Stiria 1 eight 
miles north of Ciliey, 
UN'DEN, 
