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(3.) ILIUM NOVUM is thought to be the ILIENSIUM PAGUS of Strabo. New or modern Ilium was a village near the fea, with a temple of Minerva; where Alexander, after the battle of Granicus, offer ed gifts, and called it a city, which he ordered to be enlarged. His orders were executed by Lyfimachus, who encompaffed it with a wall of 40 ftadia. It was afterwards adorned by the Romans, who granted it immunities as to their mother city. From this city the Ilias of Homer takes its name, containing an account of the war carried on between the Greeks and Trojans on account of the rape of Helen: a variety of difafters being the confequence, gave rife to the proverb Ilias Malorum.

ILK. adj. [eale, Saxon.] Eke; alfo. It is fill retained in Scotland, and denotes each: as, ilk are of you, every one of you. It alfo fignifies, the fame; as, Macintosh of that ilk, denotes a gentleman whofe furname and the title of his eftate are the fame; as, Macintosh of Macintosh.

Shepherds, fhould it not yfhend

Your roundless fresh, to hear a doleful verse Of Rofalind. Who knows not Rofalind, That Colin made? ilk can I you rehearse. Spenf. ILKUCH, a ci-devant royal town of Poland, in the palatinate of Cracow, remarkable for its filver and lead mines; feated in a barren and mountainous country, 15 miles NW. of Cracow. Lon. 20. o. E. Lat. 50. 26. N.

(1.) ILL. adj. (contracted from EVIL, and retaining all its fenfes.] 1. Bad in any respect; contrary to good, whether phyfical or moral; evil. See EVIL.

There fome ill planet reigns;

I must be patient, 'till the Heavens look
With an aspect more favourable.

Shak.

Of his own body he was ill, and gave The clergy ill example. Sbak. Hen. VIII. -Neither is it ill air only that maketh an ill feat; but ill ways, ill markets, and ill neighbours. Bacon. -Some, of an ill and melancholy nature, incline the company to be fad and ill-difpofed: others, of a jovial nature, difpofe them to be merry. Bacon. 2. Sick; difordered; not in health. I know not that evil is ever used in this fenfe.

You with me health in very happy season; For I am on the fudden fomething ill. Shak. -I have known two towns of the greateft confe quence loft, by the governors falling ill in the time of the fieges. Temple.

(2.) ILL. adv. 1. Not well; not rightly in any refpect.

Ill at eafe, both fhe and all her train The fcorching fun had borne, and beating rain.

Dryden.

2. Not eafily; with pain; with difficulty.-
Thou defir'ft

The punishment all on thyfelf! alas!
Bear thine own first ; ill able to sustain
His full wrath, whofe thou feel'st as yet leaft part,
And my displeasure bear'ft so ill. Milton.

Ill bears the fex a youthful lover's fate, When juft approaching to the nuptial ftate. Dryd. (3.) ILL. n. f. 1. Wickedness; depravity; Contrariety to holiness.-Ill, to man's nature, as it ftands perverted, hath a natural motion strongest ia continuance. Bacon.

Young men to imitate all ills are prone;

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But are compell'd to avarice alone:

For then in virtue's fhape they follow vice. Dryd. Strong virtue, like ftrong nature, ftruggles ftill, Exerts itself, and then throws off the ill. Dryd. Misfortune; mifery.

Who can all fenfe of others ills efcape, Is but a brute at best in human shape. Tate's Juv. Though plung'd in ills and exercis'd in care, Yet never let the noble mind defpair; When preft by dangers, and befet with foes, The gods their timely fuccour interpofe; And when our virtue finks, o'erwhelm'd with grief,

By unforeseen expedients bring relief. 4. Philips. (4.) * ILL. fubftantive or adverb, is used in compofition to express any bad quality or condition, which may be eafily understood by the following examples.

(5.) ILL. fubftantiveDangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds, Shak. Hamlet.

Shak.

I have an ill-divining foul: Methinks 1 fee thee, now thou art below, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. No look, no laft adieu before he went? In an ill-boding hour to slaughter fent. Dryden, I know

The voice ill-boding, and the folemn found.

Philips. The wifeft prince on earth may be deceived by the craft of ill-defigning men. Swift's Examiner. Your ill-meaning politician lords, Under pretence of bridal friends and guests, Appointed to await me thirty spies, Who threat'ning cruel death, constrain'd the

bride

To wring from me and tell to them my secret.
Milton.

A fpy distinguish'd from his airy stand, To bribe whofe vigilance, Ægifthus told A mighty fum of ill-perfuading gold. Pope. (6.) * ILL. adv.-There founded an ill-according cry of the enemies, and a lamentable noise was carried abroad. Wifd. xviii. 10.My colleague,

Being fo ill-affected with the gout,
Will not be able to be there in perfon. Ben Jonf.
The examples

Of every minute's inftance, prefent now,
Have put us in thefe ill-befeeming arms. Shak.
Lead back thy Saxons to their ancient Elbe:
I would restore the fruitful Kent, the gift
Of Vortigern, or Hengift's ill-bought aid, Dryd.
We fimple toasters take delight
To fee our women's teeth look white;
And ev'ry faucy ill-bred fellow
Sueers at a mouth profoundly yellow.
-The ungrateful treason of her ill-chofen husband
overthrows her. Sidney.—Envy, how does it look?
How meagre and ill-complexioned? It preys upon
itself, and exhaufts the fpirits. Collier.-
There grows,

Prior.

In my moft ill-compos'd affection, fuch A ftanchlefs avarice, that, were I king, I fhould cut off the nobles for their lands. Shak. To what end this ill-concerted lie, Palpable and grofs? Dryden's Don Sebaftian. -Our generals at prefent are fuch as are likely to

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make the beft ufe of their numbers, without throwing them away on any ill-concerted projects. Addifon on the War.-The fecond daughter was a peevish, forward, ill-conditioned creature as ever was. Arbuthnot's Hiftory of John Bull.—

No Perfian arras hides his homely walls With antic vefts, which, through their fhady fold, Betray the streaks of ill-diffembled gold. Dryd. You fhall not find me, daughter, After the flander of most step-mothers, Ill-ey'd unto you. Shak. Cymbeline. I fee thy fifter's tears, Thy father's anguish, and thy brother's death, In the pursuit of our ill-fated loves. Addif. Cato. Others ill-fated are condemn'd to toil Their tedious life. Prior. -Plain and rough nature, left to itself, is much better than an artificial ungratefulness, and fuch ftudied ways of being ill-fathioned. Locke.-Much better, when I find virtue in a fair lodging, than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favoured creature, like a pearl in a dunghill. Sidney.-Near to an old ill-favoured cafle they meant to perform their unknightly errand. Sidney.-If a man had but an ill-favoured nofe, the deep-thinkers would contrive to impute the cause to the prejudice of his education. Swift.

I was at her house the hour the appointed.
-And you fped, fir?

Shak.

-Very ill-favouredly. -They would not make bold, as every where they do, to destroy ill-formed and mis-shaped productions. Locke.

The tabled dragon never guarded more The golden fleece, than he his ill-got store. Dryd. Bid him employ his care for thefe my friends, And make good ufe of his ill-gotten power, By fhelt'ring men much better than himself. Addifon's Cato.

Hl-govern'd paffions in a prince's breast, Hazard his private and the public reft. Waller -That knowledge of theirs is very superficial and ill-grounded. Dryden's Dufresnoy

Ill-grounded paffions quickly wear away; What's built upon efteem can ne'er decay. Walsh.

Hither, of ill-join'd fons and daughters born, Firft from the ancient world these giants came. Milton. -Nor has he erred above once by ill-judged fu. perfluity. Garth's Ovid. Did you never tafte delicious drink out of an ill-looked veffel? L'Efr. -The match had been fo ill-made for Plexirtus, that his ill-led life would have tumbled to deftruction, had there not come fifty to his defence. Sid. These are the product

Of those ill-mated marriages thou saw'ft,
Where good with bad were match'd.

Milton.

The works are weak, the garrison but thin, Difpirited with frequent overthrows, Already wavering on their ill-mann'd walls. Dryd. He will not hear me out?

Was ever criminal forbid to plead ? Curb'd their ill-manner'd zeal. Dryden. -It is impoffible for the most ill-minded, avaritious, or cumming clergyman, to do the least injuf tice to the meaneft cottager, in any bargain for tythes. Swift.

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For Phthia fix'd is my return; Better at home my ill-paid pains to mourn, Than from an equal here fuftain the public fcorn. Dryden.

There motly images her fancy ftrike, Figures ill-pair'd, and fimilies unlike. Pope. Sparta has not to boast of such a woman;' Nor Troy to thank her, for her ill-plac'd love. Dryden.

I fhall direct you, a task for which I take myfelf not to be ill-qualified, because I have had opportunities to obferve the follies of women. Swift.

Actions are pleafing or difpleafing, either in themselves, or confidered as a means to a greater and more defirable end: the eating of a well-feafoned difh, fuited to a man's palate, may move the mind, by the delight itself that accompanies the eating, without reference to any other end; to which the confideration of the pleasure there is in health and strength may add a new guft, able to make us fwallow an ill-relifhed potion. Locke.Blushes, ill-restrain'd, betray

Her thoughts intentive on the bridal day. Pope. Behold the fruit of ill-rewarded pain. Dryd. The god inform'd

This ill-fhap'd body with a daring foul. Dryd. There was plenty enough, but the dishes were ill-forted: whole pyramids of sweetmeats for boys and women; but little of folid meat for men. Dryden. It does not belong to the priest's office to impofe this name in baptifm: he may refufe to pronounce the fame, if the parents give them ludicrous, filthy, or ill-founding names. Ayliffe.

Ill-fpirited Wor'fter, did we not send grace, Pardon and terms of love to all of you? Shak. From thy foolish heart, vain maid, remove An ufelefs forrow, and an ill-ftarr'd love. Prior. Ah, why th' ill-fuiting paftime muft I try? To gloomy care my thoughts alone are free: Ill the gay fports with troubled hearts agree. Pope's Odyffey.

Holding of ill-tafted things in the mouth will make a small falivation. Grew.

The maid, with downcaft eyes, and mute with grief,

For death unfinish'd and ill-tim'd relief, Stood fullen to her fuit. Dryden's Ovid. How should opinions, thus fettled, be given up, if there be any fufpicion of intereft or delign, as there never fails to be, where men find themselves ill treated? Locke.-That boldness and spirit which lads get amongst their play-fellows at school, has ordinarily a mixture of rudeness and ill-turned confidence; fo that these misbecoming and difengenuous ways of fhifting in the world muft be unlearned. Locke.

(7.) ILL, in geography, a river of France, which rifes in the dept. of the Upper Rhine, and falls into the Rhine, near Strasburgh. (8.) ILL,

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By the bold fwimmer in the swift illapfe Of accident difastrous. Thomjon's Summer. *To ILLAQUEATE, v. a. [illaqueo, Lat.] To entangle; to entrap; to enfnare.-I am illaqueated, but not truly captivated into your conclufion. More's Divine Dialogues.

* ILLAQUEATION. n. f. [from illaqueate.] 1. The act of catching or enfnaring. The word in Matthew doth not only fignify fufpenfion, or pendulous illaqueation, but alfo fuffocation. Brown. 2. A fnare: any thing to catch another; a noole.

(1.) ILLASI, a pleasant valley of Italy, in the ci-devant prov. of the Veronefe; included in the department of the Mincio. It extends to the territory of Vicenza, and contains 5 parithes. (2.3.) ILLASI, a town and rivulet in the above valley, among the hills.

* ILLATION. n. f. [illatio, Lat.] Inference; conclufion drawn from premifes.-Herein there feems to be a very erroneous illation from the indulgence of God unto Cain, concluding an immunity unto himself. Brown.-Illation fo orders the intermediate ideas as to difcover what connection there is in each link of the chain, whereby the extremes are held together. Locke.

ILLATIVE. adj. [illatus, Lat.] Relating to lation or conclufion.-In common difcourte or writing fuch casual particles as for, because, manifeft the act of reafoning as well as the illative particles then and therefore. Watts.

ILLAUDABLE. adj. [illaudabilis, Lat.] Unworthy of praife or commendation.

Strength from truth divided, and from juft, Illaudable, nought merits but difpraife. Milton. *ILLAUDABLY. adv. [from illaudable.] Unworthily; without deferving praife. It is natural for all people to form, not illaudably, too favourable a judgment of their own country. Broome. (1.) ILLE, a river of France, which rifes in the dept. of Ille and Vilaine, near Dinge, and joins the Vilaine near Rennes.

(2.) ILLE, a town of France, in the dept. of the Eastern Pyrenees, 10 miles from Perpignan. 3. 5. E. Lat. 42. 35. N.

Lon.

(3.) ILLE AND VILAINE, a department of France, comprehending part of the ci-devant prov. of Bretagne; bounded on the E. by the dep. of Maine; S. by that of Lower Loire; W. by thofe of Morbihan and the North Coafts, and N. by the British Channel, and the dep. of the Channel. ILLECEBRUM, in botany: A genus of the monogynia order, belonging to the pentandria plafs of plants; and in the natural method rank

ing under the 12th order, Holorace. The calyx is pentaphyllous, and cartilaginous; there is no corolla; the ftigma is fimple; the capfule quinquevalved, and monofpermous. There are feveral ' fpecies, of which the most remarkable are

1. ILLECEBRUM CAPITATUM, and) Both have 2. ILLECEBRUM PARONYCHIA. S trailing ftalks near two feet long, which spread on the ground, garnished with fmall leaves like thofe of knot-grafs. The heads of the flowers come out from the joints of the ftalks, having neat filvery bractea furrounding them, which make a pretty appearance. Their flowers appear in June, and there is generally a fucceflion of them for at least two months. When the autumn proves warm, they ripen their feeds in October. The feeds fhould be fown in a bed of light earth in the beginning of April: the plants come up in May, when they fhould be kept clean from weeds till they are fit to remove. Some should be planted in fmall pots, and the reft in a warm border, obferving to water and fade them till they have ta ken new root. These plants are sometimes killed in fevere winters; for which reafon fome of them should be planted in pots, that they may be shel tered.

* ILLEGAL. adj. [in and legalis, Lat.] Contrary to law. No patent can oblige the fubject against law, unless an illegal patent paffed in one kingdom can bind another, and not itself. Swift.

ILLEGALITY. n. f. [from illegal.] Contrariety to law.--He wished them to confider what votes they had paffed, of the illegality of all those commiffions, and of the unjustifiableness of all the proceedings by virtue of them. Clarendon.

ILLEGALLY. adv. [from illegal.] In a manner contrary to law.

* ILLEGIBLE. adj. [in and legibilis, from lego, Lat.] What cannot be read. The fecretary poured the ink-box all over the writings, and fo defaced them, that they were made altogether illegible. Horvel.

* ILLEGITIMACY. n. f. [from [illegitimate.] State of baftardy.

* ILLEGITIMATE. adj. [in and legitimus, Lat.] Unlawfully begotten; not begotten in wedlock.Grieve not at your state;

For all the world is illegitimate. Cleaveland. -Being illegitimate, I was deprived of that endearing tenderness and uncommon fatisfaction, which a good man finds in the love and converfa tion of a parent. Addison's Spectator.

* ILLEGITIMATELY. adv. [from illegiti mate.] Not begotten in wedlock.

* ILLEGITIMATION. n. f. [from illegiti mate.] The ftate of one not begotten in wedlock.

Richard III. had a refolution, out of his hatred to both his brethren, to disable their iffues, upon falfe and incompetent pretexts, the one of attainder, the other of illegitimation. Bacon,

ILLENAS, a town of Hifpaniola.
ILLENOIS. See ILLINOIS.

ILLER, a river of Germany, which rifes in the mountains of Tyrol, runs N. through Suabia, and paffing by Kempten, Memmingen, and Kirchberg, falls into the Danube at Ulm.

ILLESCAS, a town of Spain, in New Caftile, between Madrid and Toledo. *ILLEVIABLE.

* ILLEVIABLE. adv. [lever, Fr. What cannot be levied or exacted. He rectified the method of collecting his revenue, and removed obfolete and illeviable parts of charge. Hale. * ILLFAVOURED. adj. Deformed.O, what a world of vile illfavour'd faults Look handsome in three hundred pounds ayear! Shak. * ILLFAVOUREDLY. adv. 1. With Deformity. 2. Roughly; ruggedly in ludicrous language. He fhook him very illfavouredly for the time, raging through the very bowels of his country, and plundering all wherefoever he came.

Howel.

JLLFAVOUREDNESS. #.. Deformity. · * İLLIBERAL. adj. [illiberalis, Lat.] 1. Not noble; not ingenuous.-The charity of most men is grown fo cold, and their religion fo illiberal. King Charles. 2. Not munificent; not generous; fparing. Yet fubfift they did, and well too: an argument that that earth did not deal out their nourifhment with an overfparing or illiberal hand. Woodward's Natural Hiftory.

* ILLIBERALITY. n. f. [illiberalitas, Lat. from illiberal.] 1. Meannefs of mind. 2. Parfimony; niggardlinefs; want of munificence.-The illibe rality of parents, in allowance towards their children, is an harmful error, and acquaints them with thifts. Bacon.

* ILLIBERALLY. adv. [from illiberal.] Dif ingenuously; meanly.-One that had been bountifully only upon surprise and incogitancy, illiberally retracts. Decay of Piety.

ILLIBERIS, a town of Gaul, through which Hannibal paffed as he marched into Italy. It is now called ELVIRA.

ILLICE, an ancient town of Spain, with a bay and harbour, now called Elche. Pliny. *ILLICIT. adj. [illicitus, Lat. illicite, Fr.] Unlawful; as, an illicit trade.

ILLICIUM, in botany: A genus of the pentagynia order, belonging to the dodecandria class of plants; and in the natural method ranking with thofe of which the order is doubtful. The calyx is tetraphyllous, and deciduous; there are 8 petals, and 8 petaloid fubulated nectaria. There are 16 ftamina with bifid antheræ; the capfules are ovate, compressed, and monofpermous. There are two fpecies, viz.

1. ILLICIUM ANISATUM, a native of the woods of China and Japan. It rifes with an erect branched ftem to the height of a cherry tree; and is covered with an afh-coloured bark, under which is another bark that is green, fiefhy, fomewhat mucous, and of an aromatic taste, combined with a fmall degree of aftringency. The wood is hard and brittle; the pitch fmall in quantity, fungous, and of a green herbaceous colour. The leaves refemble thofe of laurel; the flowers thofe of narciffus. Thefe laft generally ftand fingle, are of a pale white, and confift of 16 petals, which differ in their form. The extremity of the flower-ftalk being continued into the germen or feed bud of the flower, forms 8 conjoined capfules, or one deeply divided into 8 parts. Of thefe capfules, fome frequently decay; the reft inclofe each a finge feed, fomewhat refembling that of palma chrifti, and which, when the hardifh corticle

that clofely covers and involves it is broken, er hibits a kernel that is white, flefhy, soft, and of a vapid tafte. The bonzes, or priefts of China and Japan, perfuade the inhabitants that the gods are delighted with this tree. Hence they generally place before their idols garlands and bundles made of the branches. The bark of the anife-tree, reduced to powder, and equally burnt, the public watchmen in Japan, by a very curious contrivance defcribed by Kempfer, render ufeful in the mea furing of time during the darkness of the night. The fame powder is frequently burnt in brazen veffels on the Japanese altars, as incenfe is in other countries, from a belief that the idols in whofe honour the ceremony is performed are greatly refreshed with the agreeable fragrancy of its odour. A branch of this tree added to the decoction of the poifonous fish, termed by the Dutch de opblafer (a fish the moft delicate for eating, if the poisonous matter be firft properly expelled), increases its noxious quality, and exafperates the poifon to an astonishing degree of activity.

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2. ILLICIUM FLORIDANUM, with red flowers, and very odorous fruit. It is a native of China. ILLIERS, a town of France, in the dep. of Eure and Loire; 12 miles SW. of Chartres.

* To ILLIGHTEN. v. n. [in and lighten.] To enlighten; to illuminate. A word, I believe, only in Raleigh.-Corporeal light cannot be, becaufe then it would not pierce the air, nor diaphonous bodies; and yet every day we see the air illightened. Raleigh.

* ILLIMITABLE. adj. [in and limes, Latin.] That which cannot be bounded or limited.-Although in adoration of idols, unto the fubtiler heads, the worship perhaps might be symbolical; yet was the idolatry direct in the people, whofe credulity is illimitable, and who may be made be lieve that any thing is God. Brown

With what an awful world revolving power, Were first th' unwieldy planets launch'd along The illimitable void! Thomfon. * ILLIMITABLY. adv. [from illimitable.] Without fufceptibility of bounds.

* ILLIMITED. adj. [in and limes, Latin; illimité, Fr.] Unbounded; interminable.

* ILLIMITEDNESS. n. f. [from illimited.] Exemption from all bounds.-The abfoluteness and illimitedness of his commiffion was generally much fpoken of. Clarendon.

ILLINISSA, a mountain of the ANDES. ILLINOIA, one of the 10 New States of N. America, into which the North Western Terri tory is proposed to be divided.

(1.) ILLINOIS, a people of N. America, inhabiting a country lying near a large lake of the fame name. (See N° 3.) The country is fertile; and the people plant Indian corn, on which they chiefly fubfift. They are civil, active, lively, and robuft; and are much lefs cruel in their difpofitions than the other Indian nations. They are, however, faid to be great libertines, and to marry a number of wives; but the inhabitants of fome of their villages have embraced Chriftianity.

(2.) ILLINOIS, a large navigable river of the United States in the North Western Territory, formed by the conflux of the Plein and Theakiki,

in Lon. 88° 42′ W. and Lat. 41° 47' N. After run. ning a ferpentine courfe through an extenfive country, where it receives the waters of many rivers for 280 miles, it approaches within 5 miles of the Miffifippi; then turning E. about 12 miles it falls into that river, by a month 400 yds. wide; in Lon. 90° 12' W. and Lat. 38° 40′ N. Its whole length, from the fource of the THEAKIKI, is 480 miles.

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(3.) ILLINOIS, a lake of the United States, formed by a dilatation of the above river, about 240 miles below the fource of the Theakiki. It communicates with lake Michigan by the Chicago. It is 20 miles long, and 5 broad in the middle. ILLIPULA MAJOR, two ancient towns of ILLIPULA MINOR, Spain.

ILLITERATE. adj. illiteratus, Lat.] Unlettered; untaught; unlearned; unenlightened by fcience. The duke was illiterate, yet had learned at court to fupply his own defects, by the drawing unto him of the beft inftruments of experience. Wotton.

Th' illiterate writer, empirick like, applies,
To minds difeas'd unfafe chance remedies:
The learn'd in fchools, where knowledge firft
began,

Studies with care th' anatomy of man;
Sees virtue, vice, and paffions in their caufe,
And fame from science, not from fortune draws.

Dryden, -In the firft ages of Chriftianity not only the learned and the wife, but the ignorant and illiterate, embraced torments and death. Tillotson.

ILLITERATENESS. n. f. from illiterate.] Want of learning; ignorance of science. -Many, acquainted with chymiftry but by report, have, from the illiterateness and impoftures of thofe that pretend skill in it, entertained an ill opinion of the art. Boyle.

* ILLITERATURE. n.. [in and literature.] Want of learning, a word not much used.-The more ufual caufes of this deprivation are want of holy orders, illiterature, or inability for the dif charge of that facred function, and irreligion. Ayliffe.

ILLITURGIS, ILITURGIS, OF ILIRGIA, a city of ancient Spain, on the Bætis, deftroyed by Scipio, for having revolted to the Carthaginians. (Lity. 1. 23. c. 49.) It flood near the fite of Andujar.

ILLNATURE. n. f. [ill and nature.] Habi tual malevolence; want of humanity.-Illnature inclines a man to thofe actions that thwart and four and difturb the converfation, and confifts of a pronenefs to do it turns, attended with a fecret joy upon the fight of any mifchief that befals an other, and of an utter infenfibility of any kindness done him. South.

* ILLNATURED. adj. [from illnature.] 1. Habitually malevolent; wanting kindness or good will; mifchievous; defirous of another's evil.Thefe ill qualities denominate a perfon illnatured, they being fuch as make him grievous and uneafy to all whom he deals and affociates, himself with. Soutb.

Stay, filly bird, th' illnatur'd task refufe; Nor be the bearer of unwelcome news.

Addifon.

It might be one of those illnatured beings who are at enmity with mankind, and do therefore take pleasure in filling them with groundlef's terrors. Atterbury. 2. Philips applies it to land. Untractable; not yielding to culture.

The fondly ftudious of increase, Rich foreign mold on their illnatured land Induce.

Philips. *ILLNATUREDLY. adv. [from illnatured.] In a peevish, forward manner.

ILLNATUREDNESS. n. [from illnatured.] Want of a kindly difpofition.

ILLNESS. n.. [from ill.] 1. Badnefs or inconvenience of any kind, natural or moral.-He that has his chains knocked off, and the prifon doors fet open, is perfectly at liberty, though his preference be determined to ftay, by the illnefs of the weather. Locke. 2. Sickness; malady; diforder of health.-On the Lord's day which immediately preceded his illness, he had received the facrament. Atterbury.-Since the account her ma jefty received of the infolent faction, during her late illness at Windfor, the hath been willing to fee them deprived of power to do mifchief. Swift. 3, Wickednefs

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Thou would be great; Art not without ambition; but without The illnels fhould attend it. ILLOCK, a town of Sclavonia. ILLOGAN, ST, a town of Cornwall, N. of Redruth.

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ILLOGICAL. adj. [in and logical.] 1. Ignorant or negligent of the rules of reafoning.-One of the diffenters appeared to Dr Sanderfon fo bold and illogical in the difpute, as forced him to fay, he had never met with a man of more pertinacious confidence, and lefs abilities. Walton. 2. Contrary to the rules of reafon.-Reafon cannot dif pute and make an inference fo utterly illogical, Decay of Piety.

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ILLOGICALLY. adv. [from illogical.] In a manner contrary to the laws of argument, * To ILLUDE. v. a, [illudo, Latin.] To de čeive; to mock; to impofe on; to play upon; to torment by fome contemptuous artifice or mockery.

Sometimes athwart, fometimes he ftrook him ftrait,

And falfed oft his blow, t' illude him with fuch bait. Fairy Queen, In vain we measure this amazing fphere, While its circumference, fcorning to be brought Ev'n into fancy'd space, illudes our vanquish'd thought. Prior. *To ILLUME. v. a. [illuminer, Fr. 1. To enlighten to illuminate.

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