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the varied foliage. Over all, the ivied windows and pointed 
turrets lifting thernfelves high above the trees, which half 
difclofe their antique cafements, finifh the picture to the 
left. On the right the fnores are diverfified by wood and 
lawn, and behind opens a deep and thickly-wooded glen, 
through which a ftnall river, called Oon-a-fhad, winds 
into the Blackwater; to the welt, the falmon-w'eirs tra- 
verfe the river for a confiderable way, and form feveral 
agreeable falls, the foft lulling found of which greatly 
heightens the beauty of the whole. In October 1785, the 
late duke of Rutland, then lord lieutenant of Ireland, 
whillt on a tour in Munfter, held a council in, and iffued 
proclamations from, this caftle. Here is a fine bridge over 
the river Blackwater, erected at a very great expenfe by - 
the duke of Devonfhire; this bridge is remarkable for the 
extent of the principal arch, the fpan of it being 190 feet. 
Below the town is a rich fifhery for falmon, which is the 
greateft branch of trade here. Though this place is at 
prefentrrnuch reduced, yet Cambrenfis informs us, that, 
not many years after the conqueft, this was a very rich 
city, and held out fome time againlt the Englilh, who took 
it at laft by ftorm, and gained rich plunder here, enough 
to load fixteen fail of fhips. Lifmore is twenty-fix miles 
north-eaft of Cork, and thirty-one weft-fouth- weft of Wa¬ 
terford. Lat. 52. 8. N. Ion. 7. 57. W. 
LISNAKE'A, a poft-town of Ireland, in the county of 
Fermanagh : feventy miles north-eaft from Dublin. 
LISNE,/ A cavity; a hollow.—In the lifne of a rock 
at Kingfcote in Gloucefteriliire, I found a bnfhel of pe¬ 
trified cockles, each near as big as my firft. Hale. 
LISON'ZO, a river w'hich rifes in Carniola, about a 
mile eaft from Weifienfels, pafles by Goritz, Lucinifla, 
and Gradifca, and runs into the gulf of Triefte. 
To LISP, v. a. [^lip’p, Sax.] To fpeak with too fre¬ 
quent appulfes of the tongue to the teeth, or palate, like 
children.—Appulfe partial, giving fome paflage to breath, 
is made to the upper teeth, and caufes a lifping found, 
the breath being ftrained through the teeth. Holder's Ele¬ 
ments of Speech. —Come, I cannot cog, and fay thou art 
this and that, like a many of thefe lifping hawthorn-buds, 
that come like women in men’s apparel, and fmell like 
Bucklerfbury in fimpling-time. Shakefpefre. 
As yet a child, nor yet a fool to famr', 
I lijp'd in numbers, "for the numbers came. Pope. 
LISP, f. The aft of lifping.—I overheard her anfwer 
with a very pretty lifp, O Strephon, you are a dangerous 
creature. Tatler. 
LIS'PER,/ One who lifps. 
LISTING,/ The a£t of pronouncing with a lifp; a 
broken pronunciation. 
LISS, a town of Holland : eight miles north of Leyden. 
LIS'SA, a fourth fury, lometimes mentioned by the 
poets. 
LISS'A, a town of Silefia, in the principality of Breflaw, 
on the Weiftritz. In the year 1757, a battle was fought 
near this town between the Pruflians under the command 
of the king, and the Auttrians under count Daun, in 
which the latter were defeated ; 6000 Auftrians were kill¬ 
ed, 1 5,000 made prifoners, and an immenfe artillery taken ; 
feven miles weft-north-weft of Breflaw, and twenty-feven 
eaft of Lignitz. Lat. 51. 7. N. Ion. 16. 50. E. 
LISS'A, an ifiand in the Adriatic, about twenty-four 
miles in circumference, near the coaft of Dalmatia, anci¬ 
ently called Iffa, and celebrated for its commerce and its 
marine. It was in alliance with Rome, and warred with 
the kings of Illyrium; at the decline of the Roman em¬ 
pire, this ifiand funk too, and became fucceflively depen¬ 
dant on Narenta, Lefina, and Venice. It abounds in 
mountains, which contain marble, interfered by fertile 
valleys; vines, olives, mulberries, almonds, and figs, flou- 
Tifh ; and the mountains are richly furnifhed with odori¬ 
ferous plants, from which the bees collett an exquifite 
kind of honey; but the principal riches of the ifiand arife 
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from its fifhery, efpecially of fardines; it contains two 
towns, and feveral villages. Lat.43.35. N. Ion. 16. 18.E. 
LIS'SA, or Lechno, a town of the duchy of Warfaw. 
Lifia was formerly only a village ; but, when great num¬ 
bers of proteftants from Silefia, Bohemia, Moravia, and 
Auftria, removed to this place, and obtained the free ex- 
ercife of their religion, it conliderably irtcreafed, and was 
railed to a town. The inhabitants carry on a good trade. 
Here is a Lutheran church, a feminafy, and a Calvinift 
church. In the year 1656, the inhabitants quitted the 
town for fear of the Polifh troops, who plundered it and 
laid it in allies. In 1707, it was alfo laid wafte by the 
Ruffians; but afterwards it was rebuilt with great improve¬ 
ment: forty-four miles fouth-fouth-weft of Pofen, and 
fifty-five weft of Kalifch. Lat. 51. 55. N. Ion. 16. 35. E. 
LISSABAT'TA, a town on the north-coaft of the 
ifiand of Ceram, inhabited by a mixture of different peo¬ 
ple, fufficientiy troublefome to the Dutch. Lat. ?.. 55. S. 
Ion. 128. 44. E. 
LIS'SAN GHA'IB, [Arab, the language of myftery.] 
An epithet given by many Mahometans to the works of the 
poet Shemfeddin, commonly known by the name of Ha¬ 
fez. 
LISSAN'THE,/. [fo named by Mr. R. Brown, from 
Aic-cros, fmooth, and a flower; becaufe of the naked 
and beardlefs limb of the corolla.] In botany, a genus of the 
clafs pentandria, order monogynia, natural order epacridese. 
Brown. The generic characters are—Calyx : perianth in¬ 
ferior, of five equal, concave, permanent leaves, fometimes 
accompanied by two rather linaller ones at the bafe. Co¬ 
rolla of one petal, funnel-fliaped ; tube nearly cylindrical, 
generally hairy within; limb in five lanceolate, equal, 
fpreading, beardlefs fegments. NeCtary a five-lobed gland, 
at the bafe of the germen. Stamina: filaments five, fhort, 
within the tube ; anthers roundifh, of two cells, burfting 
lengthwife. Piltillum : germen fuperior, globular, with 
five flight angles; ftyle pentagonal, rigid, fhorter than 
the tube ; ftigma obtufe. Pericarpium: drupe fucculent; 
nut hard, of five cells.— Effential Charadtr. Calyx of five 
or feven leaves; corolla f unnel-fhaped; limb beardlefs; 
ftamens inferted into the tube, very fhort; drupe fuccu¬ 
lent; nut hard, of five cells. Mr. Brown defines fix fpe- 
cies of this genus, feparated by him from theStyphelia of 
preceding botanifts. See his Prodr. N. Holl. i. 540. 
1. Calyx of only five leaves ; clufters axillary, of few 
flowers, their partial ftalks furnifhed with a pair of brafteas 
at the bafe ; tube of the corolla hairy within, j. Liflanthe 
fapida: clufters of two or three flowers, recurved; leaves 
oblong-linear, fharp-pointed, revolute; white and ftriated 
beneath. Gathered by Mr. Brown near Port Jackfon, New 
South Wales. By the name, we prefume the fruit is eat¬ 
able. 
2. Liflanthe fubulata: clufters of four or five flowers, 
eretl; leaves half aninchlong, linear-awl-fhaped; branches 
fmooth ; fruit with ten furrows. Gathered by Mr, Brown 
in the fame country. 
3. Liflanthe ftrigofa: clufters collected towards the ends 
of the branches, ereff, of few flowers ; leaves linear-awl- 
fhaped; branches downy; drupe with five flight angles. 
Sent from Port Jackfon by Dr. White in 1793. Found 
there alfo, as well as in Van Diemen’s Land, by Mr. Brown. 
II. Calyx of feven leaves; corolla fhort, its tube and 
mouth without hairs; fpikes axillary, of few flowers. 4. 
Liflanthe montana : leaves oblong-linear, obtufe, point- 
lefs; glaucous beneath. Gathered by Mr. Brown at Van 
Diemen’s Land. 
III. Calyx of feven leaves; corolla elongated, its month 
befet with deflexed hairs within the tube; flowersaxillary, 
folitary. 5. Liflanthe daphnoides : leaves elliptic-lanceo¬ 
late, flightly concave, with a blunt callous point; their 
edges naked, roughifh. Sent from Port Jackfon by Dr* 
White, in 1792. Mr. Brown found it both in the tropi¬ 
cal part of New Holland, and in Van Diemen’s Land. 
The ftem is much branched, leafy, and finely downy. 
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