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with Nero. She poifoned Claudius and Britamricus, and 
at laft attempted to deftroy Nero himfelf, for which (lie 
was executed. Tacit. Ann. Suet, in Ner. 
LOCUS'TA , f. in bofany. See Valeriana. 
LOCUS'TZE, f. A term ufed by botanifts for the ten¬ 
der extremities of the branches of trees; fucli as, accord¬ 
ing to the fuppofition of fome, John the Baptift fed on 
in the wildernefs; as to which, fee the article Gryllus, 
vol. ix. p. 56, 57. 
LOCU'TIUS, in mythology, the god of fpeech among 
the Romans, called by Livy Aius Locutius, which fee, 
vol. i. p. 228. 
LO‘CUTO'RIUM, f. A hall or apartment in monafteries 
where the monks and other religious met after dinner to 
converfe together. It was called locutorium, a loquendo-, as 
we call fuch a place in our houfes parlour, from the French 
parler, to fpeak. They had another room, which was called 
locutorium forinfecum, where they might talk with laymen. 
LOD, [Hebrew.] The name of a city; the name of a 
man. 
LO'DAM, /. A game at cards.—She and I will take 
you at lodam. T. Heywood's Woman killed with Kindnefs. 
LO'DAN, a river of England, in the county of Here¬ 
ford, which runs into the Frome about five miles north 
from Hereford. 
LODA'RIA, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar : twenty- 
four miles north-north-eaft of Hajypour. 
LODDIGE'SIA, f. [devoted by Dr. Sims in Curtis’s 
Magazine, to commemorate a fcientific cultivator of plants, 
Mr. Conrad Loddiges, of Hackney.] In botany, a genus of 
the clafs diadelphia, order decandria, natural order papi- 
Jionacete, Linn, (leguminofae, Generic efiential cha¬ 
racters—Standard many times fmaller than the wings or 
keel ; filaments all in one fet, with a dorfal fiffure; le¬ 
gume ftalked, turgid. 
Loddigefia oxalidifolia, or oxalis-leaved loddigefia, the 
only known fpecies; a native of the Cape of Good Hope, 
whence its feeds were firft received by George Hibbert, 
efq. The plant is tolerably hardy in the confervatory, 
readily propagated by cuttings, and flowers freely in May 
and June. Mr. Loddiges himfelf alfo railed it, many years 
ago, from Cape feeds. Curt. Mag. vol. xxiv. t. 965. 
LOD'DON, a town of England, in the county of Nor¬ 
folk; with a weekly market on Friday, and a fair on the 
joth of November. It is 42 miles north of Ipfwich, and 
113 north-north-eaft of London. Lat. 52. 37. N. Ion. 1. 
13. E. 
LOD'DON, a river of England, which runs into the 
Thames about five miles below Reading. 
LODDON-BRID'GE, a village in Berkfhire, between 
Reading and Oakingham. 
LODE, a town of the ifland of Sardinia : fifty-four 
miles eaft of Saffari, and eighty north of Cagliari. 
LODE, f. [an old but correft fpelling, from the Sax. 
Itedan, to lead.] A load, the leading vein in a mine. 
LODEMAN'AGE, f. A fea-term ; the hire of a pilot 
for conducting the fhip into harbour. Bailey. 
LO'DER, f. The loadftar. Chaucer. 
LO'DER, a town of Bavaria, in the territory of Augf- 
burg: eight miles eaft of Kaufbeuren, and twenty-five 
.fouth of Augfburg. 
LO'DER (Robert), a refpeftable bookfeller at Wood- 
bridge in Suffolk ; author of a Hiftory of Framlingham, 
and feveral other antiquarian trafts dilplaying confidera- 
ble induftry and judgment. He died at that place in 
May 1811, aged 61. 
LO'DERBACH, a river of Saxony, which rifes fix 
miles north of Leipfic, and runs into the Mulda two miles 
north of Bitterfeld. 
LODES AN', a country of Italy, in the Milanefe, bounded 
on the north and weft by the duchy of Milan, on the eaft 
by the Cremafco and the Cremonefe, on the fouth by the 
Piacentin and Pavefe; it now forms the department of 
the Adda. The country is fmall, but populous and fer¬ 
tile, and particularly celebrated for its cheefe, of which 
LOD 
the inhabitants are faid to export annually to the amount 
of 70,0001. fterling. It is well watered by the river Adda, 
and various others. Lodi is the capital, from which it 
receives its name. 
LODE'SE, or Gam'la Lode'se. a town of Sweden, in 
Weft Gothland; which fuffered io much by fire in the 
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, that the inhabitants 
removed to Nylodefe, or New Lodefe. 
LO'DESHIP,/. A fmall filhing-veffel. 
LO'DESMAN, f A coafting pilot. 
LO'DESTAR,Jri [an old but correct fpelling.] The 
loadftar, the poleltar. 
LO'DESTONE, f. [an old but correct fpelling.] The 
loadftone, the magnet. Chaucer. 
LODE'VE, a town of France, and principal place of 
a diftrift, in the department of the Herauit, containing 
about 4200 inhabitants; before the revolution, it was the 
fee of a bifliop: twenty-one miles north of Beziers, and 
twenty-four weft of Montpellier. Lat. 43.44. N. Ion. 3. 
24. E. 
LO'DEWITZ, a river of Saxony, which runs into the 
Elbe five miles above Drefden. 
LO'DEWORKS, f The drafts of a mine. 
To LODGE, v. a. [logian, Sax. loger, Fr.] To place in 
a temporary habitation.—When he was come to the court 
of France, the king ftyled him by the name of the duke 
of York; lodged him, and accommodated him, in great 
date. Bacon's Henry VII.—To afford a temporary dwel¬ 
ling ; to fupply with harbour for a night.—Every houfe 
was proud to lodge a knight. Dryden. —To place; to plant. 
—In viewing again the ideas that are lodged in the me¬ 
mory, the mind is more than paflive. Locke. 
He lodg'd an arrow in a tender bread 
That had fo often to his own been prefs’d. Addifon, 
To fix ; to fettle : 
I can give no reafon. 
More than a lodg'd hate, and a certain loathing 
I bear Antonio. Shakefpeare's Merchant of Venice. 
To place in the memory.—This cunning the king would 
not underftand, though he lodged it, and noted it, in fom® 
particulars. Bacon's Henry VII.—To harbour or cover: 
The deer is lodg’d, I’ve track’d her to her covert; 
Rulh in at once. Addifon's Cato. 
To afford place to.—The memory can lodge a greater ftore 
of images than all the fenfes can prelent at one time. 
Cheyne's Phil. Principles .—-To lay flat: 
Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown down ; 
Though caftles topple on their warders’ heads. Shakefp. 
To LODGE, v.n. To refide ; to keep refidence: 
Care keeps his watch in ev’ry old man’s eye; 
And, where care lodgcth, deep will never lie. Shakefpeare. 
To take a temporary habitation.—I know not where he 
lodges ; and for me, to devife a lodging, and fay, he lies here 
or he lies there, were to lie in mine own throat. Shake¬ 
fpeare. 
Why commands the king, 
That his chief followers lodge in towns about him, 
While he himfelf keepeth in the cold field ? Shakefpeare. 
To take up refidence at night.—Here thou art but a 
Arranger travelling to thy country : it is therefore a huge 
folly to be afflifted, becaufe thou haft a lefs convenient 
inn to lodge in by the way. Taylor. 
My lords 
And foldiers, ftay and lodge by me this night. Shakefpeare. 
To lie flat.—Long-cone wheat they reckon in Oxfordlhire 
beft for rank clays ; and its ftraw makes it not fubjedr to 
lodge , or to be mildewed. Mortimer's Hvjbandry. 
LODGE, f. \logis, Fr.] A fmall houfe in a park or fo- 
reft.'—He brake up his court, and retired himfelf, his 
wife and children, into a certain fore ft thereby, which lie 
ealleth 
