Earl of Surrey, The Restless State of a Lover, p. 2 (ed. 1717).
Yet if the polype can get and entangle him [the lobster] once within his long laces, he dies for it.—Holland, Plutarch’s Morals, p. 973.
Landscape. The second syllable in ‘landscape’ or ‘landskip’ is only a Dutch example of an earlier form of the same termination which we meet in ‘friendship,’ ‘lordship,’ ‘fellowship,’ and the like. As these mean the manner or fashion of a friend, of a lord, and so on, so ‘landscape’ the manner or fashion of the land; and in our earlier English this rather as the pictured or otherwise counterfeited model, than in its very self. As this imitation would be necessarily in small, the word acquired the secondary meaning of a compendium or multum in parvo; cf. Skinner, Etymologicon, s. v. Landskip: Tabula chorographica, primario autem terra, provincia, seu topographica, σκιαγραφία; Phillips, New World of Words, s. v.; and Earle, Philology of the English Tongue, § 327, who suggests that the word has been borrowed by us from the Dutch painters, which would account for the termination ‘-scape,’ ‘-skip’ instead of the native suffix ‘-ship.’ See Skeat’s Dictionary.
The sins of other women show in landskip, far off and full of shadow; her in statue, near hand and bigger in the life.—Sir Thomas Overbury, Characters.
London, as you know, is our Ἑλλάδος Ἑλλάς, our England of England, and our landskip and representation of the whole island.—Hacket, Life of Archbishop Williams, part ii. p. 59.
The detestable traitor, that prodigy of nature, that opprobrium of mankind, that landscape of iniquity, that sink of sin, and that compendium of baseness, who now calls himself our Protector.—Address sent by the Anabaptists to the King, 1658, in Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion, b. xv.
Latch. Few things now are ‘latched’ or caught except a door or casement; but the word was formerly of much wider use. It is the O.E. lœccan.
Those that remained threw darts at our men, and latching our darts, sent them again at us.—Golding, Cæsar, p. 60.
Peahens are wont to lay by night, and that from an high place where they perch; and then, unless there be good heed taken that the eggs be latched in some soft bed underneath, they are soon broken.—Holland, Pliny, vol. i. p. 301.
Lecture. Where words like ‘lecture’ and ‘reading’ exist side by side, it is very usual for one after a while to be appropriated to the doing of the thing, the other to the thing which is done. So it has been here; but they were once synonymous.