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LERIDA

Volume 2 · 71 words · 1771 Edition

city and bishop's see of Catalonia in Spain: E. long. 5°, N. lat. 41° 20'.

Lerins, two islands on the coast of Provence, five or six miles south of Antibes, called St. Margaret and St. Honorat.

Lerneia, the Sea-Hare, in zoology, a sea-insect of the order of the gymnarthria, the body of which is of an oblong cylindrical figure, and is perforated in the forehead; the tentacula resemble ears. See Gymnarthria.