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but the difeafe is incurable. Sk.ahefptc.re. —She lingers my 
defires. Shakefpeare. 
Let your brief plagues be mercy, 
And linger not our fure deftruCtions on. Shakefpeare . 
LIN'GERER, f. One who lingers. 
LIN'GERING,/. The act of delaying; of wafting in 
a decline. 
LIN'GERINGLY, adv. With delay; tedioufly.—Of 
poifons, fome kill more gently and lingeringly, other^ more 
violently and fpeedily; yet both kill. Hale. 
LIN'GET, f. [from lavguct ; lingot, Fr.J A fmall mafs 
of metal.—Other matter hath been ufed for money; as 
among the Lacedemonians, iron lingets quenched with 
vinegar, that they may ferve to no other ufe. Camden. 
LING'FIELD, a village in the Weald of Surry, on the 
fouth fide of Crowhurft. Here is a good church, erected 
about the reign of Henry VI. A fchool ftands near it, 
■with a dwelling for the mafter. Here are two inconfider- 
able fairs, on May 12 and June 29; the laft for cows and 
heifers, but no fat cattle, In the common there is a fine 
fpring paled in, of the fame virtue with that at Tunbridge. 
LING'HOLM, a fmall ifland among the Orkneys, near 
the*weft coaft of Stronfa. Lat. 50. 59. N. Ion. o. 27. E. 
LINGICOT'TA, a town of Africa, in Kulla. Lat. 
12. 30. N. Ion. 9. 10. W. 
LINGIE’RA, one of the names of Ifis. 
LINGNIA'NY, a town of Lithuania: thirty-two miles 
eaft of Wilkomierz. 
LIN'GO,/. [Portuguefe.] Language ; tongue; fpeech. 
A low cant word. —I have thoughts to learn fiomewhat of 
your lingo, before I crofs the feas. Congreve. 
LIN'GONES, now Langres, a people of Gallia Belgica, 
made tributary to Rome by Julius Casfar. They palled 
into Italy, where they made fome fettlement near the 
Alps, at the head of the Adriatic. 
LINGO'UM, f. in botany. See Pterocarpus. 
LING'UA,/. [Latin.] A tongue ; a language. 
LIN'GUA, J. in botany. See Ranunculus and Sera- 
pias. 
LIN'GUA CERVI'NA. See Acrostichum, Asple- 
nium, Hemionitis, Polypodium, and Pteris. 
LIN'GUA GROS'SA, a town of Sicily, in the valley 
of Demona : nine miles weft of Taormina. 
LIN'GUA PASSERI'NA, f. in botany. See Stel- 
Lera. 
LINGUA'CIOUS, adj. \_linguax, Lat.] Full of tongue ; 
loquacious; talkative. 
LINGUA'CIOUSNESS, f. Loquacity; talkativenefs. 
Scott. 
LINGUA'CITY, f. Loquacity. Scott. 
LINGUADEN'TAL, adj. [from the Lat. lingua, tongue, 
and dens, tooth.] Uttered by the joint aftion of the tongue 
and teeth.—The linguadcntals,/, v, as alfo the linguadentals, 
th, dh, he will foon learn. Holder's E/cm. of Speech. 
LINGUAT'ULA, f in helminthology, a genus of in- 
teftinal worms. Generic characters—Body deprefled, ob- 
leng; mouth in front, furrounded with four paflages. 
Linguatula ferrata, the only fpecies known. It inha¬ 
bits the lungs of the hare. 
LINGUET'TA, a cape in the Adriatic, on the coaft 
of Epire: twelve miles weft of Valona. 
LIN GUIFORM, adj. Tongue-ftiaped. In botany, ap¬ 
plied to a leaf linear and fielhy, blunt at the end, convex 
underneath, and having ufually a cartilaginous border, as 
.in Mefembryanthemum, Aloe, and Htemanthus coccineus. 
LIN'GUIST, f. [from lingua, Lat.] A man fkilful in 
languages.—Though a linguijl Ihould pride himfelf to 
have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet, 
if he had not ftudied the folid things in them, as well as 
the words and lexicons, he were nothing fo much to be 
efteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradefman com¬ 
petently wile in his mother-dialect only. Milton. 
LINGUO'SE, adj. Full of tongue, talkative. Bailey. 
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LTNGUOS'iTY, f. Loquacity, talkativenefs. Phillips. 
LINGUMPIL'LY, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore ; 
thirty miles fouth-weft of Tademeri. 
LING'WELL-YA'TE, a village in the weft riding of 
Yo.rklhire, between Wakefield Outwood and Thorp on 
the Hill; where, in 1697, were found certain moulds of 
clay, that were invented for counterfeiting the coins of 
fome of the Roman emperors. 
LING'WOOD, a village in Norfolk, weft of Accle. 
LING'WOOD-GRA'NGE, a village in Lincolnfnire, 
between Lincoln and TattCrfljaU-Chace. 
LING'WORT. See Ling. 
LINHA'RES, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Tras os Montes: twelve miles welt-north-vveft of Torre 
de Moncorvo, and nineteen fouth of Mirandela. 
LINHA'RES, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Beita : five miles fouth-well of Celorico. 
LIN'HOPE-SPOUT, a cataraft near Rodham, in Nor¬ 
thumberland, which falls fifty-fix feet perpendicular, and, 
palling over feveral pointed rocks, makes a fine white 
lheet of foam. 
LINIE'RES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Charente •. fifteen miles fouth-weft of Angoulefme, 
LINIG'EROUS, adj. [from the Lat. linum, fiax, and 
gero, to carry.] Bearing flax, producing linen. Scott. 
LIN'IMENT, J. finimentum, Lat. from linire, to anoint 
gently.] In pharmacy, a form of external medicine, made 
of unftuous fubftances, ufed to rub on any diftempered 
part. The liniment is of a mean confiftence between an 
oil and an unguent. The ufe of liniments is to foften 
afperities of the lkin, moiften parts that need humeCtation, 
and relolve the humours that affiift the patient and give 
him pain. 
LI'NING, f. [See To Line.] The inner covering of 
any thing ; the inner double of a garment_The fold i». 
the griftle of the nofe is covered with a lining, which dif¬ 
fers from the facing of the tongue. Grew's Cofmotogia. 
The gown with ftilf embroid’ry lhining. 
Looks charming with a ftighter lining. Prior „ 
That which is within : 
The lining of his coffer lhall make coats 
To deck our foldiers for thefe Irifh wars. Sliakefptare. 
LINITAN', a fmall ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea, 
five miles north from the ifland of Serangan, to which it 
belongs. Lat. 5.36. S. Ion. 125. 21. E. 
LINK, /. \_gelencke, Germ.] Alingle ring of a chain.—• 
The moral of that poetical fiction, that the uppermoft 
link of all the feries of fubordinate caufes, is fattened to 
Jupiter’s chair, fignifies an ufeful truth. Hale. 
The Roman ftate, vvhofe courle will yet go on 
The way it takes, cracking ten thouland curbs 
Of more ftrong links afunder, than can ever 
Appear in your impediment. Shakefpeare's Coriolanus. 
While flie does her upward flight fuftain. 
Touching each link of the continued chain. 
At length Ihe is oblig’d and forc’d to fee 
A firft, a 1 ’ource, a life, a Deity. Prior. 
Any tiling doubled and clofed together.—Make a link of 
horfe-hair very ftrong, and fallen it to the end of a Hick 
that fprings. Mortimer. —A chain ; any thing connecting t 
Nor airlefs dungeon, nor ftrong links of iron, 
Can be retentive to the ftrength of fpirit. Shakefpeare. 
The link of nature draws me; flelh of flefli. 
Bone of my bone, thou art. Milton's Paradife loji. 
Any Angle part of a feries or chain of confequences; a 
gradation in ratiocination ; a proposition joined to a fore¬ 
going and following propofition.—The thread and train 
of confequences in intellective ratiocination is often long, 
and chained together by divers links, which cannot be 
done in imaginative ratiocination, by fome attributed to 
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