Limitary. A guard or superintendent, placed at the confines or boundaries of any kingdom or state.
Limitation of Time of Prosecution. See Appendix, [Articles of War], [103].
Limites Romani. The name of a continuous series of fortifications, consisting of castles, walls, earthen ramparts, and the like, which the Romans erected along the Rhine and the Danube, to protect their possessions from the attacks of the Germans.
Limits. In a military sense, is that which bounds or confines; as, the limits of a sentinel’s post; the limits of a garrison. An officer in arrest may have his limits extended.
Limoges. A town of France, in the department of the Upper Vienne, on the Vienne. It was besieged and taken by the English in 1370.
Limonite. An [iron ore] (which see).
Lincelles. In Northern France, where the allied English and Dutch armies defeated the French, August 18, 1793.
Linch-pin. A pin through the end of an axle-arm of an artillery carriage to keep the wheel on. A hook attached to the head of the pin and embracing the axle-arm prevents the pin from being jolted out.
Linch-pin Washer. A ring against which the linch pin rubs.
Lincoln (anc. Lindum Colonia). A city of England, the capital of Lincolnshire, on the Witham. It was at the period of the Conquest rich and populous. It was taken several times by Saxons and Danes. Without Newport-gate, upon Lincoln plain, was fought the battle between the partisans of the empress Maud, commanded by the Earl of Gloucester, and the army of Stephen, in which the king was defeated and taken prisoner, February 2, 1141. Lincoln was the scene of important operations during the civil wars in the reign of King John; and here the party of the Dauphin was completely overthrown by the Earl of Pembroke during the minority of Henry III. During the great civil war the royalists obtained possession of the city, but it was stormed by the Parliamentary army under the Earl of Manchester, May 5, 1644.