a town of Kent, in England, near Hithe, and four miles from Romney, was formerly a port, till choked up by the sands; and though it is thereby become a poor town, yet it has the horn and mace and other tokens left of its ancient grandeur, and used to be the place where the lord warden of the cinque ports was sworn at his entrance upon his office. The Roman road from Canterbury, called Stane-street, ended here; and from the brow of its hill may be seen the ruinous Roman walls almost at the bottom of the marshes. Here formerly was a castle, now converted into a farm-house. When or by whom this edifice was erected is not known. It has, however, great marks of antiquity; as has also the adjoining church, on which are several old tombstones with crosses on them.

LINING, the art of painting in water colours, in contradistinction to painting which is done in oil-colours.