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brutes. Judge Hale. —A feries : This fenfe is improper. 
Addifon has ufed link for chain. —Though. I have here 
only chofen this fingle link of martyrs, I might find out 
others among thofe names which are (till extant, that de¬ 
livered down this account of our Saviour in a fucceffive 
tradition. Addifon on the Chrijlian Religion.— [From Atr^vos, 
Gr.] A torch made of pitch and flax.—Thou art an ever- 
lafting bonfire light; thou halt faved me a thoufand marks 
in links and torches, walking with thee in the night be¬ 
twixt tavern and tavern. Shake/pcare's Henry IV. 
Round as a globe, and liquor’d every chink. 
Goodly and great he fails behind his link. Dryden. 
Perhaps in the following pafiage it may mean lamp-black. 
-—There was no link to colour Peter’s hat. Shakefpeare. 
To LINK, v. a. To complicate; as, the links of a chain: 
Defcending tread us down. 
Thus drooping ; or with linked thunderbolts 
Transfix us to the bottom of this gulph. Milton. 
Notes, with many a winding bout 
Of linked fweetnefs long drawn out. Milton. 
To unite 5 to conjoin in concord ; 
They are fo link'd in friendfhip, 
That young prince Edward marries Warwick’s daughter. 
Skakefptare. 
To join ; to conned : 
So from the firft eternal order ran, 
And creature link'd to creature, man to man. Pope. 
To join by confederacy or contrail.—They make an offer 
of themfelves into the fervice of that enemy, with whofe 
fervants they link themfelves in fo near a bond. Hooker. 
Be advifed for the belt, 
Ere thou thy daughter link in holy band 
Of wedlock, to that new unknowen gueft. Fairy Queen. 
To conned!, as concomitant.—God has linkt our hopes 
and our duty together. Decay of Piety. 
New hope to fpring 
Out of defpair; joy, but with fear yet link'd. Milton. 
To unite or concatenate in a regular feries of confequences. 
■—Thefe things are linked , and, as it were, chained one to 
another: we labour to eat, and we eat to live, and we live to 
do good; and the good w'hich we do is as feed fown, with 
reference unto a future harveft. Hooker. —By which chain 
of ideas thus vifibly linked together in train, i. e. each in¬ 
termediate idea agreeing on each fide with thofe two it is 
immediately placed between, the ideas of men and felf- 
determination appear to be connedled. Locke. 
Tell me, which part it does neceflitate ? 
I’ll c’noofe the other; there I’ll link th’ efFeCt; 
A chain, which fools to catch themfelves projedl! Dryden. 
LINK'-BOY, f. A boy that carries a torch to accom¬ 
modate paflengers with light.—What a ridiculous thing 
It was, that the continued fhadow of the earth fhould be 
broken by fudden miraculous difelufions of light, to pre¬ 
vent the ofHcioufnefs of the link-boy. Moore. 
In the black form of cinder-wench fbe came. 
O may no link-boy interrupt their love ! Gay's Trivia. 
LINK'-MAN, J. A man that plies with a link: 
Though thou art tempted by the link-man's call. 
Yet truft him not along the lonely wall. Gay. 
LINK NESS', a cape of Scotland, on the north-weft 
coaft of the irtand of Stronfa : one mile and a half fouth- 
weft of Huips Nefs. Lat. 59.4,. N. Ion. o. *6. E. 
LINK'ENHAM, a village in Cornwall, fouth-weft of 
Launcefton. 
LIN'KI A, /. in botany. See Tremella. 
LINK'ING, f. The aCt of joining as with links. 
LINKIO'PING, a town of Sweden, in Eaft Gothland, 
fituated on the river Stceng, near lake Roxen ; the fee of 
a bifhop. It contains three churches and a public femi- 
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nary. It defended by a caftle, built in the 15th cen¬ 
tury -. ninety-fix miles fouth-weft of Stockholm. Lat. 58. 
26. N. Ion. 1 j. 8. E. 
LIN'LEY, a townfliip of the weft riding of Yorkfhire, 
connefted with Wakefield. 
LIN'LEY (John), an eminent mufic-profeflor and or- 
ganilt, long relident at Bath, where he had ferved an ap- 
prenticefhip under Chilcot, the organift of that city. 
Having a large family of children, in whom he found the 
feeds of genius had been planted by nature, he pointed 
his ftudies to finging, and became the belt finging-mafter 
of his time, if we may judge by the fpecimens of his fuc- 
cefs in hisov.'n family. He was not only a mafterly player 
on the organ and harpfichord, but a good compofer, as his 
elegies and feveral compofitions for Drury-lane theatre- 
evinced. The hiftory of Mr. Lindley mult include that 
of his children. His foil Thomas, who was placed under 
Nardini at Florence, the celebrated difciple of Tartini, 
was a fine performer on the violin, with a talent for com- 
pofition, which, if he had lived to develope, would hav& 
given longevity to his fame. Being at Grimfthorpe, in 
Lincolnfliire, at the feat of the duke of Ancalter, where 
he often amufed himfelf in rowing, fifliing, and failing, 
by fome accident the boat was overfet, ar.d this amiable 
and promifing youth was drowned at an early age, to the 
great affliction of his family and friends, particularly his 
marchlefs After, Mrs. Sheridan, w hom this calamity ren¬ 
dered miferable for a long time; during which, her affec¬ 
tion and grief were diftilled in verfes of the moft fweet 
and affecting kind on the forrowful event. The beauty, 
talents, and mental endowments, of this Sanbla Cacilia re - 
diviva, will be remembered to the laft hour of all who 
heard, or even faw and converfed with, her. The tone 
of her voice and exprefflve manner of finging were as en¬ 
chanting as her countenance and converfation. In her fing¬ 
ing, with a mellifluous-toned voice, a perfeCt (hake and 
intonation, fbe .was pofTefled of the double power of de¬ 
lighting an audience equally in pathetic ftrains and fongs 
of brilliant execution, which is allowed to very few fing¬ 
ers. Mrs. Sheridan died at Briftol in 1792. Mrs. Tic- 
kel, her filter, was but little inferior to her in beauty and 
talents; and Mr. Linley’s other daughters continued to 
excite the admiration cf all who knew them, in a manner 
worthy of the family from which they fprung. Mr. Lin- 
ley, the father of this neft of nightingales, from being af- 
fiftant manager of Drury-lane theatre, lived to become 
joint patentee, and, for fome time, l’ole aCting manager; itx 
which capacity, he gave more fatisfaCtion, and el’caped 
cenfure, public and private, by his probity and fteady 
conduCt, more than is often allowed to the governor of 
fuch a numerous and froward family. This worthy and 
ingenious man died in November 1795. 
LIN'LITHGOW, a town of Scotland, a royal burgh, 
and capital of the county to which it gives name. It con- 
fifts principally of one ftreet, three quarters of a mile in 
length, with feveral lanes; and a range of gardens to the 
north and fouth. Oppofite the town-houle is a vacant 
fpace, where a crofs formerly ftood, and the principal well 
now is. The chief trade is making fhoes. There are 
two tambour-faCtories, and near the town a houfe for 
printing calicoes. It is governed by a provoft and bai¬ 
lies; and, united with Lanerk, Peebles, and Selkirk, fends 
one member to parliament. There is a weekly market 
on Friday. It was formerly a place of confiderable trade 
and opulence, but its greatnefs fell from the time of the 
union. King Edward I. built a caftle here, on the fide 
of a loch, in which he refided one whole winter; but in 
1307 it was taken and demolilhed by Binny, a Scotch¬ 
man. In the reign of Edward III. it came again into the 
hands of the Englilh. At this place was born the beau¬ 
tiful and unfortunate queen Mary, in 1542. Her father 
James V. then dying at Falkland of a broken heart, for 
the mifearriage at Solway-mofs, foretold the miferies that 
hung over her and his country : “It came,” faid he, 
“ with a lafs, and will be loft by one.” The water of a 
lake 
