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leaflets lanceolate, very fpreading, with reflex Tides. Co¬ 
rolla : petals five, obovate, hooded, large, extremely 
fpreading, narrowed at the bafe into claws. Nedtary of 
five leaflets, alternating with the petals, converging into 
an acute cone, rather fliorter than the calyx) lanceolate, 
rugofe, awned with a double filament. Stamina: filaments 
numerous, capillary, longer than the nedlary, from fifteen 
to feventeen to each petal ; anthera; incumbent, roundilh. 
Piftillum : germ fubovate, feed-bearing; ltyle filiform, 
upright, the length of the ftamens; ftigtna Ample, ob- 
tufe. Pericarpium : capfule top-fhaped, one-celled,three- 
valved at the tip ; valves femi-ovate, acute, fpreading. 
Seeds: a great many, ovate, fmnll; receptacles three longi¬ 
tudinal lines running from the bottom of the capfule to the 
incifures of the valves. In point of affinity it approaches 
to Mentzelia. In habit, and fituation of the germ and 
feeds, it approaches the cucurbitaceous plants.— EJfential 
Chara&er. Calyx five-leaved, fuperior: corolla five-pe- 
talled ; petals hooded; neftary five-leaved, converging; 
capfule turbinate, one-celled, three-valved, many-feeded. 
Loafa hifpida, a Angle fpecies. It is an elegant annual 
plant, rifing from a fibrous white root, the thicknefs of 
the little finger. It is fubdivided into fpreading branches; 
and is armed all over with ftiff fliining browniffi prickles, 
that Iting like the nettle. Stems round, whitiffi green, 
marked here and there with fhort brown longitudinal 
lines. Leaves pinnatifid, petioled, irregularly alternate, 
rough, blunt; the uppermoft finuate. Flowers elegant, 
but void of fcent. Calycine fegments acuminate, hairy. 
Petals yellow ; ne&aries white variegated with red and 
green dots; thefe are at a little diftance from each other, 
the filaments whilft they remain upright occupying the 
interftices, and the anthers exploding their pollen whilft 
they are clofe to the ftigma. After the fecundation is 
completed, the filaments retire gradually under the arches 
of the petals. Adanfon calls thefe fmall laminae petals, 
and therefore makes the number of the petals ten. Feuil- 
lee fays, that the corolla in his plant is red and deep 
green beneath, and that the leaves are oppofite. Adan¬ 
fon affirms that the capfule is five-valved, and the petals 
connected, which is not the cafe in Jacquin’s plant. Per- 
Ijaps Feuillee’s and Adanfon’s plant may be the fame, and 
different from Jacquin’s. Native of South America, and 
cultivated at Vienna before 1767. 
LO'ATH, or Loth, adj. [la’s, Sax.] Unwilling; diflik- 
ing; not ready ; not inclined.—When ASneas is forced to 
kill Laufus, the poet Ihows him compaflionate, and is loth 
todeftroy fuch a tnafter-piece of nature. Drydeit. 
As fome faint pilgrim, Handing on the Ihore, 
Firft views the torrent he would venture o’er. 
And then his inn upon the farther ground ; 
Loth to wade through, and / other to go round: 
Then, dipping in his ftaff, does trial make 
How deep it is; and, fighing, pulls it back. Dryden. 
I know you ffiy to be oblig’d; 
And ftill more loath to be oblig’d by me. Southerns. 
To LO'ATKE, v. a. To hate j to look on with abhor¬ 
rence : 
How am I caught with an unwary oath. 
Not to reveal the fecret which I loathe! Waller . 
To confider with the difguft of fatiety.— Loathing the ho¬ 
ney’d cakes, I long’d for bread. Cowley. 
To LO'ATHE, v.n. To create difguft; to caufe abhor¬ 
rence. Obfolete. 
Where I was wont to feek the honey-bee. 
The grilly toadltoo! grown there might I fee, 
And loathing paddocks lording on the fame. Spenfer. 
To feel abhorrence or difguft.—The fifb in the river fhall 
die, and the river (link; and the Egyptians fnall loathe to 
drink of the water. Exodus. 
Why do I ftay within this hated place, 
Where every object (hocks my loathing eyes ? Rowe. 
LG'ATHER,/ One that loathes. 
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LO'ATHFUL, adj. Abhorring; hating! 
Which he did with loathful eyes behold. 
He would no more endure. Hubberd's Talc 
Abhorred ; hated : 
Above the reach of loathful finful luft, 
Whofe bafe effect, through cowardly diftruft 
Of his weak wings, dare not to heaven flie. Spenfer. 
LO'ATHING,yi Hatred; diflike.—Parthenia had learn¬ 
ed both liking and mifliking, loving and loathing. Sidney. 
—Our appetite is extinguiffied with the fatisfaftion, and 
is fucceeded by loathing and fatiety. Rogers.—Loathing is a 
fymptom known to attend diforders of the ftomach; the 
cure muft have regard to the caufe. Quincy. 
I can give no reafon, 
More than a lodg’d hate, and a certain loathing 
I bear Antonio. Shahefpeare's Merchant of Venice. 
LO'ATHINGLY, adv. In a fattidious manner. 
LO’ATHI.Y, adj. Hateful; abhorred; exciting hatred. 
—Unfather’d heirs,and loathly birthsofnature. Shakejpearc. 
An huge great dragon, horrible in fight. 
Bred in the loathly lakes of Tartary. Fairy Quiet. 
Sour-ey’d difdain and difeord (hall beftow 
The union of your bed with weeds fo loathly , 
That you fhall hate it. Shakefpeare's Tcmpcjt. 
LO'ATHLY, adv. Unwillingly; without liking or in¬ 
clination.—The upper ftreams make fuch hafte to have 
their part of embracing, that the nether, though lothly, 
muft needs give place unto them. Sidney. 
This (hows that you from nature loathly ftray. 
That fuft’er not an artificial day. Bonne. 
LO'ATHNESS, f Unwillingnefs.—After they had fat 
about the fire, there grew a general filence and lothne/s to 
fpeak amongft them ; and immediately one-of the weakelt 
fell down in a fwoon. Bacon. 
Should we be taking leave 
As long a term as yet we have to live, 
The lothnefs to depart would ftill continue. Shakefpcare. 
LO'ATHSOME, adj. Abhorred ; deteftabie.—If we 
confider man in fuch a loathfome and provoking condition, 
was it not love enough that he was permitted to enjoy a 
being? South. 
While they pervert pure nature’s healthful rules 
To loathfome licknefs. Milton's Paradife Lof, 
Caufing fatiety or faftidioufnefs: 
The fweeteft honey 
Is loathfome in its own delicioufnefs, 
And in the tafte confounds the appetite. Shakefpearc. 
LO'ATHSOMENESS, f. Quality of railing hatred, dif¬ 
guft, or abhorrence.—The catacombs muft have been full 
of ftench and loathfomcnefs, if the dead bodies that lay in 
them were left to rot in open nitches. Addifon. 
LO'AVES, plural of loaf. —Democritus, when he lay a- 
dying, caufed loaves of new bread to be opened, poured a 
little wine into them ; and fo kept hitnfelf alive with the 
odour till a feaft was part. Bacon. 
LO'AVES, two rocks or fmall iflands in the Eaftern In¬ 
dian Sea: fifteen miles north-eaft from the rfland of Ma¬ 
dura. 
LOA'YSA (Garcias de), a learned Spanifh prelate, born 
at Talavera,in New Caftile, about the year 1532. He was 
educated at the univerfity of Alcala, and acquired a high 
reputation for his profound acquaintance with philolo- 
phy, divinity, the facred feriptures, hiftory, and antiqui¬ 
ties. He was promoted to a canonry, and alfo to an arch¬ 
deaconry, in the metropolitan church of Toledo, where he 
refided till 1584. In that year he was appointed almoner 
and dean of the chapel to king Philip II. and not long af¬ 
terwards that monarch confided to him the education of 
his fon, prince Philip. For this poft he was admirably 
qualified, not only by his extenfive erudition, but.by fit’s 
H excellent; 
