L O A 
LO-TING', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Chang-tong: twenty-five miles north-weft ot Vou-ting. 
LO-TONG', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Yun-nan : thirty-two miles weft of Yun-nan. 
LO-TSA', a town of China, of the third rank, in Se- 
tchuen : fifty miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Tching-tou. 
LO-TSE', a town of China, of the third rank, in Yun¬ 
nan : twenty-five miles north-weft of Yun-nan. 
LO-TSIN', a town of China, of the third rank, in Tche- 
kiang : twelve miles north-eaft of Ouen-tcheou. 
LO'A, a river of Peru, which runs into the Pacific 
Ocean in lat. 21. 30. S. 
LO'ACH,/. [ loche , Fr.] See Cobitis, vol. iv. p. 716. 
—The loach is a moll dainty fifh ; he breeds and feeds in 
little and clear fwift brooks or rills, and lives there upon 
the gravel, and in the fharpeft ftreams : he grows not to 
be above a finger long, and no thicker than is fuitable to 
that length : he is of the fhape of an eel, and has a beard 
of wattels like a barbel : he has two fins at his fides, four 
at his belly, and one at his tail, dappled with many black 
or brown lpots : his mouth, barbel-like, under his nofe. 
This fifli is ufually full of eggs or fpawn, and is by Gef- 
ner, and other phyficians, commended for great nourilh- 
rnent, and to be very grateful both to the palate and fto- 
mach of fick perfons 5 and is to be filhed for with a finall 
worm at the bottom, for he feldom rifes above the gra¬ 
vel. Walton's Angler. 
LO'AD,/. [hlabe, Sax.] A burthen; a freight; lading: 
Let India boaft her groves, nor envy we 
The weeping amber, and the balmy tree; 
While by our oaks the precious loads are borne, 
And realms commanded which thefe trees adorn. Pope. 
Weight; prefTure ; encumbrance: 
Jove lighten’d of its load 
Th’ enormous mafs, the labour of a god. Pope. 
Weight or violence of blows.—And Mneftheus laid hard 
load upon his helm. Dryden. 
Like lion mov’d, they laid on load. 
And made a cruel fight. Chevy Ckace. 
Any thing that depreffes.—How a man can have a quiet 
and cheerful mind under a great burthen and load of guilt, 
I know not, unlefs he be very ignorant. Ray .— As much 
drink as one can bear.—There are thofe that can never 
fleep without their load, nor enjoy one eafy thought, till 
they have laid all their cares to reft with a bottle. L'EJlr. 
The thund’ring god, 
Ev’n he withdrew to reft, and had his load. Dryden. 
To LO'AD, v. a. [preterite, loaded ; part, loaden or la¬ 
den .] To burden ; to freight.—Your carriages were heavy 
loaden ; they are a burden to the bealt. Ifa. xlvi. 1. 
At laft, laden with honour’s fpoils, 
Returns the good Andronicus to Rome. Shakefpeare. 
Toencumber; to embarrafs.—He that makes no reflexions 
on what he reads, only loads his mind with a rhapfody of 
tales, fit in winter nights for the entertainment of others. 
Locke. —To charge a gun.—A mariner having difcharged 
his gun, and loading it fuddenly again, the powder took 
fire. Wijeman. —To make heavy by fomething appended 
or annexed : 
Thy dreadful vow, loaden with death, ftill founds 
In my ftunn’d ears. Addifon's Cato. 
LO'AD, f. [more properly lode, as it was anciently writ¬ 
ten ; from laeban, Sax. to lead.] The leading-vein in a 
mine.—The tin lay couched at firft in certain ftrakes 
amonglt the rocks, like the veins in a man’s body, from 
the depth whereof the main load fpreadeth out his 
branches, until they approach the open air. Their man¬ 
ner of working in the lead-mines, is to follow the load as 
it lieth. Careen's Surv. of Cor.—In Cornwall and Devon- 
fhire the loads chiefly hold their courfe from eaftward to 
weftward, though in other parts of England they fre¬ 
quently run from north to fouth. Ency. Brit, 
L O A S5l 
Load is alfo ufed for nine difhes of ore, each difh being 
about half a hundred weight. 
Load Water-Line, in a fhip, is the deepeft line of 
floatation, or when all her cargo is taken in. 
LO'ADER, f. He who loads. 
LO'ADING, J. The act of burdening; that with 
which any thing is loaded; the cargo, the lading. 
LO'ADSMAN, or Lodesman, f. He who leads the 
way 5 a pilot. 
LO'ADSTAR, f. [more properly, as it is in Maunde- 
ville, lodefar ; from keban, to lead.] Thepole-ftar; the 
cynofure; the leading or guiding ftar—She was the load- 
far of my life; fhe the blefling of mine eyes ; fhe the 
overthrow of my defires, and yet the recompence of my 
overthrow. Sidney. 
Your eyes are loadfars, and your tongue fweet air ! 
More tuneable than lark to ftiepherd’s ear, 
When wheat isgreen, when hawthorn buds appear. Shake/p. 
She ftandeth fix’d, yet fpreads her heavenly w'orth, 
Lodeltone to hearts, and loadfar to all eyes. Davies 
LO'ADSTONE, f. [properly lodefone, or lading-ftone. 3 
The magnet; the ftone on which the mariners’ compafs- 
needle is touched to give it a direXion north and fouth. 
—The loadfone is a peculiar and rich ore of iron, found 
in large mafles, of a deep iron-grey where frefh broken, 
and often tinged with a brownilh or reddilh colour; it is 
very heavy, and confiderably hard, and its great charac¬ 
ter is that of affeXing iron. This ore of iron is found in 
England, and in molt other places where there are mines 
of that metal. Hill's Materia Medica. —See Magnet and 
Magnetism. 
LO'AF, /. [from hlap or lap. Sax.] A mafs of bread 
as it is formed by the baker : a loaf is thicker than a cake. 
—With equal force you may break a loaf of bread into 
more and lefs parts Than a lumo of lead of the fame bi°-- 
nefs. Digby. ' * 
Eafy it is 
Of a cut loaf to fteal a Ihive, we know. Shakefpeare. 
Any thick mafs into which a body is wrought_Your 
wine becomes fo limpid, that you may bottle it with a. 
piece of loaf-i ugar in each bottle. Mortimer. 
LO'AM, f. [lim, laam, Sax. limus, Lat. from Tup.nj, Gr. 
a fen. Junius.'] Fat, unXuous, tenacious, earth: 
The pureft treafure 
Is fpotlefs reputation ; that away, 
Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. Shakefpeare. 
A kind of mortar made of this earth by tempering it with 
water, ftraw, See. —Alexander returneth to duft: the dult 
is earth ; of earth we make loam ; and why of that loam 
might they not flop a beer-barrel ? Shakefpeare. 
To LO'AM, v. a. To fmear with loam, or mortar made 
of loam.—The joift-ends, and girders which be in the 
walls, muft be loamed all over, to preferve them from the 
corroding of the mortar. Moxon’s Mechanical Exer. 
LO'AMING, f. The aX of fpreading over with loam. 
LO'AMY, adj. Abounding in loam ; coniifting chiefly 
of loam.—The mellow earth is the beft, between the two 
extremes of clay and fand, if it be not loamy and binding. 
Bacon. —Auricula feedlings beft like a loamy fand, or light 
moift earth; yet rich and ftiaded. Evelyn. 
LO'AN, /. [hlten, Sax.] Any thing lent; anything 
given to another, on condition of return or repayment.— 
The better fuch ancient revenues lhall be paid, the lefs 
need her majefty alk lubfidies, fifteens, and loans. Bacon. 
You’re on the fret, 
Becaufe, in fo debauch’d and vile an age, 
Thy friend and old acquaintance dares difown 
The gold you lent him, and forfwear the loan. Dryden. 
LOAN'DA, an illand in the Atlantic, near the coaft of 
Angola, about eighteen miles in length, and one mile 
wide, divided from the continent by a narrow channel, 
which forms a good harbour. The foil is unfruitful for 
grain ; but fruits, fuch as oranges, figs, citrons. See. 
abound. 
