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so great a difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for. Hooker.

Leisurely. [Obs.] Hooker.

ory of God and the good of his church . . . ought to be the mark whereat we also level. Hooker. She leveled at our purposes. Shak.

Lightly; cheaply. Hooker.

Gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating. That lightsome affection of joy. Hooker. -- Light"some*ly, adv. -- Light"some*ness, n. Happiness may walk soberly in dark attire, as well as dance lightsomely in a gala dress. Hawthorne.

limitations all principles have in regard of the matter whereunto they are applicable. Hooker.

weth where it listeth. John iii. 8. Them that add to the Word of God what them listeth. Hooker. Let other men think of your devices as they list. Whitgift.

ng of God's wrath were of the Greek church termed litanies, and rogations of the Latin. Hooker.

middle course between the rigor of literal translations and the liberty of paraphrasts. Hooker.

of the Royal Exchange, in London, appropriated to the use of underwriters and insurance brokers; -- called also Lloyd's Rooms.

matter to which its fertility is chiefly due. We wash a wall of loam; we labor in vain. Hooker.

at which the accounts of loans are kept, and the interest paid to the lender. (b) A pawnbroker's shop.

scott. Lombard Street, the principal street in London for banks and the offices of note brokers; hence, the money market and interest of London.

A bank or a pawnbroker's shop.

A pawnbroker. [Obs.] Howell.

Clear; evident; luminous. " Most luculent testimonies." Hooker.

Sportive; ridiculous; wanton. [Obs.] Tooker.

A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [Obs.] They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came. Lady Murray.

re is more cause to fear lest the want there of be a maim than the use of it a blemish. Hooker. A noble author esteems it to be a maim in history that the acts of Parliament should not be recited. Hayward.

e up with, to become reconciled to. [Colloq.] -- To make with, to concur or agree with. Hooker.