in ship-carpentry, the operation of cutting a ship down across the middle, and adding a certain portion to her length. It is performed by sawing her planks asunder in different places of her length, on each side of the midship-frame, to prevent her from being too much weakened in one place. The two ends are then drawn apart to a limited distance; which must be equal to the proposed addition of length. An intermediate piece of timber is next added to the keel, upon which a sufficient number of timbers are erected, to fill up the vacancy produced by the separation. The two parts of the keelson are afterwards united by an additional piece which is scored down upon the floor-timbers, and as many beams as may be necessary are fixed across the ship in the new interval. Finally, the planks of the side are prolonged so as to unite with each other; and those of the ceiling refitted in the same manner; by which the whole process is completed.

LENEICIA, a strong town of Poland, and capital of a palatinate of the same name, with a fort seated on a rock. The nobility of the province hold their diet here. It stands in a morass on the banks of the river Bura, in E. Long. 19. 25. N. Lat. 52. 12.