LIGHT UPON THE HAND. A horse is said to be such, that has a good tractable mouth, and does not rest too heavy on the bit. LIME-HOUND. A name for the carried 8st. 12lb. 4oz. The odds at

a drench, composed of asafoetida, camphor, and opium, about one drachm each is given; and, at the same time, he serves the horse with a clyster of similar medicines, with the addition of a decoction of rue. Should the horse not improve, but appear costive, Mr. W. recommends the purgative and emollient clyster to be repeated, and the opiate to be discontinued, until the purgative has fully operated.

than is suitable to that length. This loach is not unlike the shape of the eel; he has a beard or wattels like the barbel. He has two fins at his sides, four at his belly, and one at his tail; he is dappled with many black or brown spots; his mouth is barbel-like under the nose. This fish is usually full of eggs or spawn, and is by Gesner and other learned physicians commended for great nourishment, and to be very grateful both to the palate and stomach LODGE (To). A buck is said of sick persons. He is to be fished to lodge when he goes to rest. for with a very small red worm at LONG-BOW. See Bow. the bottom, for he very seldom or LOOSENESS. Most animals are never rises above the gravel, on afflicted with this disease more frewhich he usually gets his living. quently than the horse, yet veteriLOCKED JAW. A spasmodic nary surgeons who are in very extenaffection, which prevents the action sive practice know that confirmed of the jaws. This melancholy dis- cases are not unfrequent. It will ease may originate from various be produced from an increased secauses; viz. bungling operations in cretion of bile, or from impaired gelding, nicking, or docking, worms action in the absorbent vessels, (called bots) in the entrails of the which prevents their taking up those horse, over-working, wounds in the fluid particles that enter into comfeet, &c. The principal antidotes bination with the dung. The apat present used in the removal of pearance of the stools is generally this disorder by veterinarians are liquid, and they come from him in camphor and opium, which are in- small quantities at every slight jected into the stomach by clysters, movement that he makes. In the if the medicine cannot be passed cure of this disease apply a fresh down by the mouth; the animal sheepskin over the loins, keeping may also be supplied with nutritious the body of the horse moderately clysters, until the jaws expand suf- warm by covering it with a rug, and ficiently to enable him to swallow exhibiting the following drink twice his food. Wilkinson, who seems to a day until the purging ceases :have effected many successful cures take aniseeds and caraway seeds in locked jaw, proposes the follow-powdered, of each one ounce, preing treatment:-In the first place pared chalk two ounces, fine opium he recommends an emollient clyster half a drachm; mix in a pint of linand a purgative; unless the pulsa-seed gruel, and administer. Should tion be very quick, he does not approve of blood-letting. The jaws and every other part spasmodically affected should be thoroughly well rubbed with liquid ammonia, mustard, olive-oil, and oil of turpentine, mixed up together. Then all the parts so affected should be covered with fresh sheep-skins, the fleshy sides of the skin to be kept inside they must be changed as frequently as is requisite, in order to keep the parts in continual perspiration. When the purgative has operated,

the purging continue three or four days after this drink has been given, it will be necessary to give the following astringent medicine three or four times a day:-Take of powdered ginger, Dover's powder, of each two drachms; prepared chalk in powder, pomegranate shell powdered, of each one ounce; tincture of catechu one drachm and a half. Let these be mixed in one pint of warm gruel, and administer twice a day.

LOW-BELL AND HAND-NET.

LOW-BELLER. One that goes a fowling with a light and a bell. This term is derived from the word low, which, in Saxon and old English, signifies a flame of fire.

LURCHER. The usual attendant on the poacher. A dog of smaller size than the greyhound, and stouter

"With these instruments," says the | there are some, who, instead of holdauthor of the Dictionarium Rusti-ing the light to their breast as aforecum, published in 1717, " birds are said, tie the low-bell to their girdle, taken in champaign countries, as also by a string that hangs to their knees, in stubble fields, especially that of and their motion causes the bell to wheat, from the middle of October strike; then they carry the light in to the end of March, and after this their hand, extending their arm bemanner:-About nine at night, in fore them; but the lantern or box a mild air, and moonshine, take the must not be so large as that which low-bell, which should be of a deep you fix to the breast." hollow sound, and of such a reasonable size as may be well carried in one hand, which toll just as a wether sheep uses to do while he is feeding in pasture grounds: you must also have a box much like a lantern, about a foot and a half square, big enough for two or three great lights to be set in; let it be lined with tin, and one side open to send forth the light; this box fix to the breast to carry before you, and the light will cast at a great distance before you very broad; by which means you may see any thing that is on the ground, within the compass of the light, and consequently the birds that roost thereon. For the taking of them you have two men with you, one on each side, but a little after you, to the end they may not be within the reflection of the light that the lantern or box casts forth; and each of them should be provided with a hand-net about three or four feet square, which must be fixed to a long stick to carry in their hands; so that when either of them sees any birds on his side, he is to cast his net over them, and so take them up with as little noise as may be; and let him that carries the light and low-bell, be the foremost to take them up, without over-haste, for fear of raising others.

"The sound of the low-bell causes the birds to lie close, and not to stir while you lay the net over them, and the light is so terrible to them that it amazes them. If you would use this sport by yourself, carry the low-bell in one hand, as before directed, and in the other a hand-net about two feet broad, and three long, with a handle, which is to lay upon them as you espy them: but

in proportion; its hair rough, and commonly of a pale yellowish colour, and the aspect of its visage remarkable for its sullenness. As this dog possesses the advantage of a fine scent, it is most commonly employed in killing hares and rabbits during the night-time. When turned into the warren, it lurks about with the utmost precaution, and darts upon the rabbits while feeding, without barking or making the least noise; and then conveys his booty to his master in silence. A lurcher will often run down a hare at a stretch.

LURE. A device of leather, stuff, or wool, on which a bill, talons, and wings are fixed, baited with a piece of flesh, on which the hawk feeds, to call him back when at a considerable distance.

LURE. To bring a hawk to the lure; to allure or decoy to the line or bait.

M

of.

MADNESS. See Dogs, Diseases | different from that of the male, and

MALANDERS. See MALLEN

DERS.

partakes of none of his beauties except the spot on the wings. All the other parts are plain brown, marked with black. She makes her nest, lays from ten to sixteen greenish-white eggs, and rears her young, generally in the most sequestered mosses or bogs, far from the haunts of man, and hidden from his sight among reeds and rushes.

We have known the wild duck to have bred on dry heaths, and three instances of their nests being found in trees: one in an old magpie's nest, situated in a Scotch fir grow

the crown of willow pollards near the margin of a stream. For richness and harmony of colour, the mallard can vie with any of the British birds. The cock pheasant, though splendid, looks artificial and tawdry when compared with it. The flavour is delicious to the epicure; and to the sportsman the sight of

MALLARD, or COMMON WILD DRAKE. The wild drake weighs from thirty-six to forty ounces, and measures twenty-three inches in length and thirty-five in breadth. The bill is of a yellowish-green colour, not very flat, about an inch broad, and two and a half long, from the corners of the mouth to the tip of the nail: the head and upper half of the neck are of a glossy deep changeable green, terminated in the middle of the neck by a white col-ing on a heath; the two others on lar, with which it is nearly encircled the lower part of the neck, breast, and shoulders are of a deep vinous chestnut: the covering scapular feathers are of a kind of silvery white, those underneath rufous; and both are prettily crossed with small waved threads of brown: wing coverts ash: quills brown, and between those intervenes the beauty-one springing from a reed bed is despot (common in the duck tribe), which crosses the closed wing in a transverse oblique direction; it is of a rich glossy purple, with violet or green reflections, and bordered by a double streak of black and white. The belly is of a pale gray, delicately pencilled, and crossed with numberless narrow waved dusky lines, which, on the sides and long feathers that reach over the thighs, are more strongly and distinctly marked: the upper and under tail coverts, lower part of the back and rump are black; the latter glossed with green: the four middle tail-feathers are also black, with purple reflections, and, like those of the domestic drake, are stiffly curled upwards; the rest are sharp-pointed, and fade off to the exterior sides, from a brown to a dull white: legs, toes, and webs red.

The plumage of the female is very

lightful. It requires both caution
and skill to approach their haunts
to get a successful shot, as the mal-
lard is one of the most wary of birds,
and delights in lonely and seques-
tered places; consequently awake
to every sound of intrusion on its
retirement. In the autumn these
birds pass from north to south, and
in spring again seek their northern
abode. Franklin, in his “Narrative
of an Overland Journey from Hud-
son's Bay, to discover a north-west
passage," says, "In the spring vast
flocks of wild ducks, &c. made their
appearance in this northern latitude
for the purpose of incubation."
Many breed with us, and about
March may be found in pairs,
"Calm on the bosom of some little lake,
Too closely screened for ruffian winds to
shake."

To the unsophisticated sportsman
the pursuit of wild-fowl yields infi-

nite delight; to the clamorous bat- | exclusive of those of his owner, at tue abortive; to the skilful decoy-ten guineas. Mambrino was again man it is profitable; and to a man trained for the Craven stakes at seated in a punt, firing his swivel Newmarket, 1779, but broke down guns, it is cloying drudgery-profit in running. He covered at the same there may be. place and price until 1781, when the charge was five guineas only. In 1784, he was advanced to fifteen guineas; in 1785, to twenty-five guineas; in 1786, the fee was fifteen guineas; in 1787 and 1788, ten guiMambrino was sire of Carlo

The last Game Act has a clause to prevent wild-fowl from being killed from the last day of March to the first of October: this will prevent those squabs called flappers being destroyed in a very unsport-neas. ing-like sort of sport. The penalty Khan, Grantham, Marcella, Rosawill save the birds until they arrive line, Amadis, Egbert, Gray Gawkey, at maturity. Tatharantangtang, Chambooe, Messenger, Camel, Nutmeg, Eve, Dimple, Primrose, Forester, Guildford, and Fordham. Mambrino was likewise sire of a great many excellent hunters and strong useful road horses.

MALLENDERS. This is a scurfy eruption at the back part of the knee, or bending of the joint. The affection, if allowed to remain, degenerates into a disagreeable discharge. By washing the parts with soap and water, and drying them with a soft cloth or sponge, and then anointing with the following ointment once a day, the disease will be removed :—take of mercurial ointment an ounce, sulphate of zinc a scruple; mix.

MALT WORM. A cankerous eruption about the hoof of a horse, just upon the coronet. If taken early, it may be cured by an application of snails and burdock-root, once every twenty-four hours.

MANE. The hair that hangs down on a horse's neck, which should be long, thin, and fine.

MANEGE. A riding school. The term manège is also used for the exercise itself, or the art of riding, which teaches at once how to form the horseman and the horse.

MANGE. This is a well known disease, highly contagious. It, however, as frequently arises from debility as from contagion. The horse first begins to rub and scratch; the hair, then, at various parts, falls off, leaving bare patches; and, if the disease be suffered to continue, the animal pines away amazingly. The cure of mange is simple; common sulphur ointment rubbed well in, all over the animal, once a day, will cure it in a week. The following remedies are also effectual :—

MAMBRINO. A gray horse, foaled in 1768 (bred by John Atkinson, Esq. of Scholes, near Leeds, at whose death he became the property of Lord Grosvenor), was got by Engineer out of the Cade mare, the dam of Dulcinea; grandam by the Duke of Bolton's Little John, out of Mr. Durham's Favourite. Mambrino did not start until the Newmarket second spring meeting, 1773; during his career he won 5,600 gs. and the Jockey Club plate; he was beat four times only, viz. by Pyrrhus, Paymaster, Pumpkin, and Wood-this every day. pecker; he paid forfeit, however, to Florizel, Pumpkin, Pulpé, Firetail, and Shark. In the spring of 1777 he was advertised as a stallion at Oxcroft Farm, near Balsham, Cambridgeshire, to cover thirty mares,

Lotion. Take of tobacco and white hellebore, three ounces; and boil in two quarts of water to three pints; then add an equal portion of limewater. Wash the horse all over with

Ointment. Arsenic, one drachm; sulphur, eight ounces; lard, a pound; train-oil, sufficient to improve its consistence. In curing the mange, the horse should have a purging ball first, and then in a day or two a dose