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excellent charaTer, his fweetnefs of temper, and agreeable 
pleafing manners; whence, like the emperor Titus, lie 
was. called “the delight of human kind.” For a confi- 
derable time he prefided over the fee of Toledo, as locum 
tenons for Albert of Auftria, nominated to that archbi¬ 
shopric; and upon the marriage of Albert, pope Clement 
VIII. at the requeftof the king of Spain, appointed Loayfa 
to that dignity. Before, however, his pall arrived from 
"Rome, he was carried off by a fudden diforder, when about 
fixty-five years of age. It is reported that his death was 
owing to a broken heart, occafioned by the ingratitude 
:\nd ill-treatment which he experienced from his pupil 
Philip, after his acceflion to the throne. Our prelate pub- 
lifiied at Madrid, in 1593, ColleElio Conciliorum Hifpania, in 
folio, with learned and valuable prolegomena, diflerta- 
tions, and notes.—The editors of Moreri’s Dictionary, 
and of the Nouveau Dittionnaire Hillorique, have erro- 
rieoufly attributed this work to a prelate of the fame name, 
who was confeffor to the emperor Charles V. prefident of 
the council of the Indies, archbithop of Seville, and a 
meutber of the college of cardinals. 
LOB,/. Any one heavy, clumfy, or fluggifh : 
Farewel. thou lob of fpirits : I’ll be gone; 
Our queen and all her elves come here anon. Shakefp. 
A big worm.—For the trout the dew-worm, which fome 
alfo call the /o£-worm, and the brandling, are the chief. 
Walton's Angler. 
Lob’s Pound. A prifon. Probably a prifon for idlers, 
or Iturdy beggars: 
Crowdero, whom in irons bound, 
Thou bafely threw’ll into lob's pound. Hudibras. 
To LOB, v. a. To let fall in aflovenlyor lazy manner: 
The horfemen fit like fixed candlelticks. 
And their poor jades 
lob down their heads, dropping the hide and hips. Shakefp. 
LOBA'RIA,/. in helminthology, a genus of worms 
of the order mollufca. Generic characters—Body lobate, 
convex above, flat beneath. There is but one fpecies, 
Lobaria quadriloba : tail four-lobed. It inhabits the 
northern fleas, at the bottom, among rocks ; and is there¬ 
fore very rarely met with for examination : hence it has 
been but imperfectly defleribed. The naturalift who firlt 
made it known was Aflcanius, in the ACt. Stock. 1772, by 
the name of Philine quadripartita. Muller defleribes the 
whole animal (not the tail only) as divided into four 
lobes; the under part was divided iftto three flmaller lobes. 
It was white, cartilaginous, and flippery. He could dis¬ 
cover neither foramina nor tentacula ; nor any motion ex¬ 
cept a very flow winding of the extremities of the flmaller 
lobes : he confeffes, however, that he made no very exaCt 
difleCtion. The flpecimen he examined was 18 lines long, 
broad. 
Abildgaard, who edited the third part of Zool. Dan. af¬ 
ter the death of O. F. Muller, gave a more particular de- 
icription of this worm, accompanied with figures, which 
we have copied. The (pecimens he examined did not ex¬ 
ceed 7 lines in length. The covering is roundith, pel¬ 
lucid, very thin, and ftriated longitudinally. The food 
feems to be a teftaceous worm of the genus Bulla. In the 
itomach'was alfo noticed, both by Mullerand Abildgaard, 
a bony flubftance, confifting of three flpindle-fhaped la¬ 
mellae, connected by a floft membrane, and including a 
fiefhy matter terminating in a long inteftine. The upper 
furface, or back, is divided into four lobes, the lower part 
into three. Between the lower and flmaller lobes a longi¬ 
tudinal fiffure appears on the fides; this is the vent, whence 
the excrements are protruded.. On the top of the anterior 
part of the body the mouth opens croffwife ; and above 
the filflure are two large points, or warts. Outer lip en¬ 
tire, (lender ; inner lip flomewhat twilled, firailar to the 
Bulla hydatis and aperta. Fig. 1, on the annexed Plate, 
is a back view of this worm ; a is the pofterior extremity, 
Fig. a, a front view of the flame, the pofterior extremity 
LOB 
uppermoft, at b. Fig. 3, another front view of the fame, 
the fituation of the left lobe being altered, to (how the 
rima, or vent at the pofterior extremity. Fig. 4, another 
front view; c, the fore-part; d, the hind-part. Fig. 5, 
the anterior extremity of the body magnified, to (how the 
tranfverfle opening of the rnouth, and the two marginal 
dots at the apex. 
LO'BATE, adj. Having lobes. In botany, applied to 
leaves which are divided to the middle into parts diftant 
from each other, with convex margins. The latter claufe 
feems necefiary to diiiinguifli thefe from the cleft or clo¬ 
ven leaves. Thefe leaves take the names of bilobale, trilo¬ 
bate, &c. or two-lobed, three-lobed. See. from the number of 
lobes into which they are divided. Martyn's Language of- 
Botany. \ 
LOBAU', a town of Pruflia, in the territory of Culm; 
forty-four miles eaft of Culm. 
LOBAU', or Lie'be, or Lobi'je, a town of Upper Lu~ 
flatia. It is one of the raoft ancient towns of the province, 
contains two churches, three chapels, an hoflpital, and a 
Latin fchool. The chief trade is in linen and thread : 
twelve miles eaft-flouth-eaflt of Budiffen, and ten flouth- 
weft of Gorlitz. Lat. 51. 7. N. Ion. 14. 46. E. 
LOBB (Theophilus), a phyfician of confiderable repu¬ 
tation about the middle of the laft century, praftifled his 
profeftion in London, and left fleveral works on medical 
topics. He died on the 19th of May, 1763, in the eighty- 
fifth year of his age. The following are the titles of his 
publications, x. T|:'eatife of the Small-pox, London, 
1731, 1748, ~8vo. vtf^rich was tranfiated into French in 
'f’^491. 2. Rational Method of curing Fevers, deduced 
from the Structure of the Human Body, Lond. 1734, Svo, 
in this work he adopted the doctrines of Boerhaave. 3. 
Medical PraCtice in curing Fevers, 1735, % v0 - 4- A Prac¬ 
tical Treatifle on painful Diftempers, with fome effectual 
Methods of curing them, 1739. 5 - A Treatifle on Sol¬ 
vents of the Stone, and on curing the Stone and the Gout 
by Aliments, 1739. This work paffed through fleveral 
editions, and was tranfiated into Latin and French. The 
author confidered the matter of urinary calculi and of 
gout as of an alkaline nature, and vegetable acids as the 
remedy. See Lithontriptic, p. 821. 6. Letters concern¬ 
ing the Plague and other contagious Diftempers, 1745. 
7. A Compendium of the Practice of Phyfic, 1747. Be¬ 
tides thefe works, he was the author of fleveral papers 
printed in the Gentleman’s Magazine, and of one or more 
trafts on religious fubjefts in the latter part of his life. 
Gent. Mag. 
LOB'BES. See Obbes. 
LOB'BY, / A (mail hall or waiting-room; it is alfo 
an entrance into a principal apartment, where there is a 
confiderable Apace between that and a portico or veftibule, 
and the length or dimenfions will not allow it to be con¬ 
fidered as a veftibule or an anti-room.—Before the duke’s 
rifling from the table, he flood expecting till he (hould 
pafls through a kind of lobby between that room and the 
next, where were divers attending him. Wotton. 
‘ H is lobbies fill with ’tendance. 
Rain flacrificial whiflp’rings in his ear, 
Make facred even his ftirrup. Shakefp. Tim. of Ath. 
Lobby, in a (hip, an apartment clofe before the captain’s 
cabin. 
Lobby, in agriculture, a word lately brought into ufle 
for a fort of narrow confined place, formed either by 
hedges and trees, or other kinds of fencing, near to the 
farm-yard, for the purpofle of confining live-ftock. It is 
obflerved by Mr. Marlhall, in his Minutes of Agriculture 
in the Midland Counties, that “ every farmery ought to 
have a lobby and a croft appending to it, ferving as a 
double fence; thereby preventing (lock from running 
over, poaching, and injuring the farm ; the latter for 
calves, a (addle horfle, and invalids. He found the con- 
veniency of a lobby in Surrey, and the want of one in 
Norfolk, and in this diftritl he can forefee the ufle of that 
which he is forming, with a flereen of planting ; erobo- 
1 doming 
