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eafiona! exigencies of the exporter 5 and the additional ad¬ 
vantage of its facility of adaptation to the purpofes of 
the common calender, when glazing is not required, adds 
to its value and utility. Upon prefling occafions, one of 
thele engines, by being conftantly employed night and 
day, will glaze from 600 to Boo pieces of cloth, of 28 
yards each, weekly. 
As to the dying of linens, fee the article Dying, vol. vi. 
p. 161. The late Dr. Smellie has recommended the fol¬ 
lowing method of marking linen, fo as not to wadi out: 
Take vermilion, as much as will lie on a half-crown piece, 
of the fait of feel a piece about the fize of a fmall nut¬ 
meg ; grind or levigate them well together with linfeed 
oil; the compofition may be diluted or thickened at plea- 
fure. 
Dr. Lewis mentions a manufaflure eftablifhed in Lon¬ 
don for embellifliing linen with flowers and ornaments of 
gold-leaf. The linen, he fays, looks whiter than molt of 
the printed linens; the gold is extremely beautiful, and 
bears wafhing well. The doftor informs us, that he had 
feen a piece which he was credibly informed had been 
wafhed three or four times, with only the fame pre¬ 
cautions which are ufed for the finer printed linens ; 
and on which the gold continued entire, and of great 
beauty. Concerning the procefs ufed in this manufac¬ 
ture, he gives us no particulars. 
LIN'EN, adj. Made of linen.—A linen flock on one 
leg, and a kerfey boot-hofe on the other, gartered with a 
Yed-and-blue lift. Skakefpeare. —Refembling linen: 
Death of thy foul 1 thofe linen cheeks of thine 
Are counfellors to fear. What foldiers, whey-face ? 
Shakefpeare. 
LIN'EN-DRAPER,/. He who deals in linen. 
LIN'EN-MAN, f. One that makes up linen : 
I have in a table 
With curious punctuality fet down 
To a hair’s breadth, how low a new-ftamp’d courtier 
May vail to a country gentleman, and, by 
Gradation, to his merchant, mercer, draper. 
His linen-man and taylor. MaJJinger's Emp. of the Eajl. 
LIN'ENER, f One that makes up linen into drefs.— 
If flie love good clothes or drefling, have your learned 
council about you every morning, your French taylor, 
barber, linener, See. B. Jonfon's Epiccsne. 
LI'NER, or Li'ver, a river in Cornwall, which runs 
into the Tamar oppofite Tovey. 
LIN'FIELD, a village in Suflex, eight miles fouth of 
Ealt Grinftead; with three fairs; May 6, Whit-Tuefday, 
and October 28. 
LIN'DFORD, a village in Norfolk, between Mundford 
and Buckenham-Parva, with a paflage over the river Ick- 
burgh. In 1720, two Roman urns were dug up here, as 
was another near it in 1735, with pieces of bones and 
aflies. The feite of its church, which has been long de- 
molifhed, is enclofed, and planted with Scotch firs. This 
place is aflefied to the land-tax at 189I. 16s. 8d. 
LING, /. [ling, Iflan.] Heath. See Erica, vol. vi. 
p. 894. This fenfe is retained in the northern counties; 
yet Bacon feems to diltinguifh them.—Heath, and ling, 
and fedges. Bacon's Natural Hijlory. 
By 4 and 5 Will. c. 23, no perfon (hall, on any moun¬ 
tains, hills, heaths, moors, forefts or chafes, or other 
waftes, burn, between February 2 and June 24, any grig, 
ling, heath, furze, gofs, or fern, on pain of being com¬ 
mitted to the houfe of correftion, for any time not ex¬ 
ceeding one month, nor lefs than ten days, there to be 
■whipped and kept to hard labour. 
LING, f. [linghe , Dut.]»A kind of fea-fifh. See Ga- 
uus molva, vol. viii. p. 159, 60.—Our Er.giifh bring 
from thence good ftore of fifli, but elpecially our deepeft 
and thickeft ling , which are therefore called ifland lings. 
Abbot. 
When harveft is ended, take (hipping, or ride. 
Ling, fait fifb, and herring, for Lent to provide. Tujfer, 
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LING. The termination notes commonly diminution ; 
as, kit ling-, and is derived from hlein, German, little % 
fometimes a quality ; as, firMing ; in which fenfe Skinner 
deduces it from langen, old Teutonic, to belong. 
LTNG, a city of China, of the fecond rank, in Chen-fi, 
on the river Hoang : five hundred miles weft-fouth-weft 
of Pek'n. Lat. 38. 10. N. Ion. 105. 39. E. 
LING-CHAN', a town of Corea: feventy-fix miles 
eaft-north-eaft of Han-tcheou. 
LING-CHAN', a town of China, of the third rank, in. 
Quang-tong: forty-feven miles north of Lien-tcheou. 
LING-CHE', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Chan-fi, near the river Fuen : twenty-five miles fouth of 
Fuen-tcheou. 
LING-CHOU'I, a town of China, of the third rank, 
in Se-tchuen : fifteen miles fouth-ealt of Youang-gnan. 
LING-CHOU'I, a town of China, of the third rank, 
in the ifland of Hai-nan : twenty-five miles fouth-wefl of 
Houan. 
LING-NAN', a city of China, of the firft rank, in 
Yun-nan : 1217 miles fouth-fouth-weft of Pekin. Lat. 
23. 38. N. Ion. 102.42. E. 
LING-PON', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Chan-fi : feventeen miles weft-north-weft of Kiai. 
LING-QUAN-Y', a town of China, in Chen-fi: fifty- 
miles louth-weft of Si-ngan. 
LING-STA'I, a town of China, of the third rank, ia 
Chen-fi : thirty-feven miles north of Fong-tfiang. 
LING-TA'O, a city of China, of the firft rank, in 
Chen-fi, on the Tie-tfan river, which falls into the 
Hoang-ho, or Yellow river. Great quantities of gold are 
found in the fand of the neighbouring rivers and brooks. 
The country is very mountainous, abounding with wild 
bulls, and a certain kind of animal refembling the tiger, 
whofe fkins are very valuable. The valleys are covered 
with corn, and thofe that are near the rivers with cattle. 
In fliort, the whole territory is very fruitful. It is 672 
miles weft-fouth-welt of Pekin. Lat. 25.22. N. Ion. io6„ 
34. E. 
LING-TCHE'OU, a town of Corea; twenty-eight 
miles fouth-foutn-welt of Koang-tcheou. 
LING-TCHI', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Chan-tong, on the river Tchi: twelve miles north-north- 
weft of Tcin-tcheou. 
LING-TCHING', a town of China, of the third rank, 
in Pe-tche-li : twenty-two miles north of Chun-te. 
LING-TCHU*EN, a town of China, of the third rank, 
in Quan-fi, on the river Kouei; fifteen miles north-north- 
ealt of Kouei-ling. 
LING-TCHU'EN, a town of China, of the third rank, 
in Chan-fi : twenty-five miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Lou- 
ngan. 
LIN'GA, one of the fmaller Shetland Iflands, near the 
north coalt of Mainland. Lat. 60. 44. N. Ion. 1.27. W. 
LIN'GA, one of the fmall Shetland Iflands, near the 
eaft coaft of Mainland. Lat. 60. 34. N. Ion. 1. 6. W. 
LIN'GA, one of the fmall Shetland Iflands, near the 
fouth-wefl coaft of Unfl. Lat. 61. 2. N. Ion. 1. 12. W. 
LIN'GA, one of the fmall Weftern Iflands of Scotland, 
near the fouth coaft of South Uift. Lat. 57. 3. N. Ion. 
7. 19. V 7 . 
LINGA SOU'ND, a bay on the weft coaft of the ifland 
of Stronfa. Lat. 59. N. lon.o. 28.E. 
LIN'GAM, f. in Hindoo mythology, is a fymbol to 
which great veneration is paid, and much myfticifm at¬ 
tached, by the extenfive feft of Hindoos called Saivas, or 
the worfhippers of Siva, the deftruftive, or rather regene¬ 
rative, power of their triad. This type of Siva is repre- 
fented of a conical form, and is feen in almoft all parts 
of India, of various fizes, in (tone, wood, clay, metals. 
See. It may be fuppofed that Siva, being, among his 
other attributes, a perfonification of fire, as the molt de¬ 
ftruftive of elements, was typified by a cone with its apex 
upwards, the form naturally aflumed by flame; and that 
to this form enthufiafts have, in the wildnefs of their ima¬ 
gination. 
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