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calleth his defert, wherein he hath built two fine lodges. 
Sidney. —I found him as melancholy as a lodge in a warren. 
Shakefpcare. 
He and his lady both are at the lodge. 
Upon the north fide of this pleafant chafe. Shakcfpeare. 
Any fmall houfe appendant to a greater : as, the porter’s 
lodge, 
LODGE, the name of two villages in Dorfetfhire, two 
in Hertfordfhire, and two in Lancafhire. 
LOD'GEMENT, f. [from lodge j logcment, Fr.] Dif- 
pofition or collocation in a certain place.—The curious 
lodgement and inofculation of the auditory nerves. Derham. 
Accumulation; colleilion.—An oppreffed diaphragm from 
a mere lodgment of extravafated matter. Sharp's Surgery. — 
Poffeffion of the enemy’s work.—The military pedant is 
making lodgments , and fighting battles, from one end of 
the year to the other. Addifon. 
LOD'GERjy. [from lodge.'] One who lives in rooms 
hired in the houfe of another.—Thofe houfes are foonelt 
infetled that are crowded with multiplicity of lodgers, and 
nafty families. Harvey. —One that refides in any place: 
Look in that breaft, moft dirty dear; 
Say, can you find but one fuch lodger there ? Pope, 
LOD'GING, f Temporary habitation ; rooms hired 
in the houfe of another.—Let him change his lodging from 
one end of the town to another, which is a great adamant 
of acquaintance. Bacon, 
I will in Caflio’s lodging lofe this napkin, 
And let him find it. Shakefpcare's Othello. 
Place of refidence.—The neft of love, the lodging of de¬ 
light. Spenfer _Harbour; covert.—The hounds were un¬ 
coupled ; and the flag thought it better to truft to the 
nimblenefs of his feet than to the {lender fortification 
of his lodging. Sidney. —Convenience to deep on.—Their 
feathers ferve to fluff our beds and pillows, yielding us 
foft and warm lodging. Ray on Creation. 
LO'DI, a city of Italy, capital of the department of the 
Adda, late capital of a diftriil, in the duchy of Milan, 
called the Lodefan, fituated on the Adda. An old city of 
this name, in the Pavefe, on the Silaro, being deflroyed 
by the Milanefe, the prefent town was built by the em¬ 
peror Frederic Barbaroffa, three miles from its former 
fituation on the Adda, in the beginning of the twelfth 
century. It is the fee of a bifhop, fuffragan of Milan; 
and contains, befides the cathedral, two collegiate and fe- 
ven parifh churches, and twenty-fix convents. Lodi fuf- 
fered very confiderably in the difputes between the 
Guelphs and the Gibelins, as well as in the wars with the 
French. After the French were driven out of Italy, it 
became fubjeft to Spain ; from whom it came, with the 
reft of the Milanefe, to the houfe of Auftria. It is a place 
of little trade or manufactures, excepting the article of 
cheefe, and a beautiful kind of earthen ware, refembling 
china. It is furrounded with walls, and well built. The 
number of inhabitants is fuppofed to be between eleven 
and twelve thoufand. On the iith of May, 1796, this 
town was taken by the troops of the French republic; 
the paflage of the bridge was difputed by 10,000 Aultri- 
ans, and thirty pieces of artillery. The French were 
commanded by Bonaparte. See the article France, vol. 
vii. p. 820. Lodi is eighteen miles fouth-eaft of Milan, 
anti Seventy-fix eaft-north-eaft of Turin. Lat. 45. 21. N. 
Ion. 9. 30. E. 
LO'DI VEC'CHIO, a town of Italy, in the Lodefan, 
on the Silaro. This town was anciently known under the 
name of Laus Pompeii, or Laus Pompeia; and its ilourifhing 
ft.ite was fuch, that it inftigated the Milanefe to deftroy 
it through jealoufy, and moft of the inhabitants were 
driven away. It was the fee of a bifhop, removed to 
Lodi. It is three miles wefl-fouth-weft of Lodi. 
LO'DITZ, a town of Germany, in the principality of 
Culmbach : three miles north-north-weft of Hof. 
LODOIvIIPv'IA; fee Galicia, in Poland, vol. viii. p* 
L O E 879 
182. King of Lodomiria forms one of the titles of 
the houfe of Auftria. 
LODRO'NE, a town of Italy, in the Trentin, on the 
borders of the Breffan, near a fmall lake, called the Lake 
of Idro. On the 12th of Auguft, 1796, the Auftrians were 
defeated near this town by the French: twenty-five miles 
north-north-eaft of Brefcia, and twenty-five fouth-weft of 
Trent. 
LODO'SA, a town of Spain, in Navarre, on the Ebro:, 
feventeen miles eaft of Eltella. 
LODYPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: eigh¬ 
teen miles fouth of Patna. 
LODZIC'ZE, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Troki: forty-eight miles north-north-weft of Grodno. 
LO'E, a town of Norway : forty-eight miles north- 
eaft of Drontheim. 
LO'E, a river of England, in the county of Cornwall* 
•which runs into the Englifh Channel four miles below 
Hellion. 
LCEB'EGUN, or Lob'echin, a town of the duchy of 
Magdeburg: forty-four miles fouth of Magdeburg. 
LO'ECK, or Levek. See Camboja, vol. iii. p. 641. 
LOEFLIN'GIA, f. [fo named by Linnaeus from Peter 
Loefing, one of his difciples, who travelled in Spain and 
America, and died on his travels in 1756.] In botany, a 
genus of the clafs triandria,- order monos:ynia, natural or¬ 
der of caryophyllei, (caryophyllese, fuff.) The generic 
characters are—Calyx : perianth five-leaved, upright ; 
leaflets lanceolate, marked on each fide at the bale with a 
toothlet, fharp-pointed, permanent. Corolla: petals five, 
very fmall, oblong-ovate, converging into a globe, round. 
Stamina: filaments three; length of the corolla 5 anthers 
roundifh, twin. Germ fuperior, ovate, three-cornered ; 
ftyle filiform, rather wider above; ftigma a little obtufe. 
Pericarpium : capfule ovate, fomewliat three-cornered* 
one-celled, three-valved. Seeds: a great many, ovate, 
oblong.— EJfential CharaEler. Calyx five-leaved ; corolla 
five-petalled, very fmall; capfule one-celled, three-valved. 
Loeflingia Hifpanica, a Angle fpecies. Root annual. 
Leaves oppofite, mucronate. Branches proffrate, alter¬ 
nate, pubelcenf, clammy. It has the appearance of Scle- 
ranthus. Native of Spain, on open hills. Introduced in 
1770, by Monf.Richard. It flowersin June. Cavanilles fays, 
that the ftems are a fpan high, fubdichotomous. Leaves 
very fmall, with ftipulaceous appendages, toothletted be¬ 
low. Flowers folitary, axillary, and in the divifions of 
the branches ; corolla white. 
LOEFLIN'GIA IN'DICA. See Pharnaceu.m de- 
pressum,. 
LO'EN-YU'EN, or Hoen-yuen, a city of China, of 
the fecond rank, in the province of Chan-fi : 132 miles 
weft of Peking. Lat. 39.42. N. Ion. 1 13. 24. E. 
LOE'NEN, a town of Holland; ten miles fouth-weft of 
Naerden. 
LO'ERSDORP, a town of the duchy cf Holftein : five 
miles north-eaft of Oldenburg. 
LO'ESDRECHT, a town of Holland : eight miles fouth 
of Naerden. 
LOESE'LI A, f. [fo named by Linnaeus from John Locfel, 
author of Flora Pru flica, 1654; pubiiflied by Gottfched, with 
additions, in 1703.] In botany, a genus of the clafs didy- 
namia, order angiofpermia, natural order of convolvuli, 
JuJf. The generic characters are—Calyx : perianth one- 
leafed, tubular, four-cleft, (harp, fhort, permanent. Co¬ 
rolla: one-petalled, unequal; tube the length of the calyx ; 
border five-parted; all the divifions deflected to the lower 
fide, ovate-lanceolate, equal. Stamina: filaments four,, 
length of the corolla; of which two are fhorter; all oppo¬ 
fite the divifions of the petal, and reflected in a contrary 
fituation to the corolla; anthers Ample. Piftillum: germ 
ovate; ftyle Ample, fituated as the ftamens ; ftigma thick- 
ifh. Pericarpium: capfule ovate, three-celled. Seeds : fo¬ 
litary or two, obfeurely cornered. Gsertner remarks, that 
the ftamens are five, though one is fhorter than the reft, 
and faftened to the neareft fegment of the corolla.— Effen- 
tiul CharaEler. Calyx four-cleft, (five-toothed, G.) co¬ 
rolla-. 
