licentiousness

[Eng. licentious; -ne .] The quality or state of being licentious; want of restraint; license, di olutene , profligacy. "[He] had notoriously tolerated among his soldiers a licentiousne , not only shocking to humanity, but also incompatible with discipline."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xii. IMG:content-0530.png:[blocks in formation] Folk-lore: The screech-owl, probably Strix flam mea . White owls also often scream horribly as they fly along; from this screaming probably arose the common people's imaginary species of screech-owl, which they superstitiously think attends the win dows of dying persons. From the earliest ages the owl has been regarded as uncanny. Ovid speaks of it as announcing coming evil; and in Virgil ( Æn . iv. 462, 463) the owl is one of the evil omens that betoken the sad fate of Dido. Shakespeare, especially in Macbeth , makes use of the common superstition again and again. Water ton gives an amusing account of the protection he extended to owls, and the countle woes which his faithful house keeper declared would inevitably follow such rash conduct. "The shrieking litch - owl that doth never cry, Bat boding death." Drayton: The Owl. *lich-stone, s. The stone in the lich-gate (q.v.), on which the bier or coffin was rested. *lich-wake, *liche-wake, *lyk-wake, s. The act or practice of waking or watching by a dead body. [WAKE, 8.] li-cha-dæ, s. pl. [Gr. lich ( as ) (gen it. lichados ); fem. pl. adj. suff. -adœ.] 2518 The Cup-lichen, or Cup-mo , is Сепотусе pyxidata ; the Dog-lichen, Peltidea can in a ; the Horsehair or Tree hair-lichen, Cornicula ria jubata ; Lungwort-lichen, Sticta pulmonaria ; Stone-lichen, Parmelia parietina ; the Written-lichen, Opegrapha script a . 2. Pathol .: A papular inflammatory eruption of the skin. The varieties are lichen simplex , L. cir cum script us , L. gyratus , . *lichen-islandicus, s . Bot., Pharm., & c.: An old name for Iceland mo (q. v.). See also Cetraria.