a small village of Hindustan, in the province of Delhi, the scene of a desperate battle fought between the British army and Scindia, in which the former obtained a complete victory.

LATERAN was originally the proper name of a man, from whom it descended to an ancient palace in Rome, and to the buildings since erected in its place, particularly a church called St John of Lateran.

Councils of the Lateran are those which were held in the basilica of the Lateran. Of these there have been five, which were held in 1123, 1139, 1179, 1215, and 1513, respectively.

Canons Regular of the Congregation of the Lateran is a congregation of regular canons, of which that church is the principal place or seat.

It is pretended that there has been an uninterrupted succession of clerks, living in community, from the time of the apostles; and that a number of these were established in the Lateran in the time of Constantine. But the canons were not introduced till the time of Leo I.; and these held the church eight hundred years, till the reign of Boniface, who took it from them, and placed secular canons in their room. A century and a half thereafter, the regulars were reinstated.

A LATERE, a term used to denote the qualifications of the cardinals whom the pope sends as legates into foreign countries. They are called "legates a latere," as being his holiness's assistants and counsellors in ordinary. They are the most considerable of all the legates, being such as the pope commissions to take his place in councils; and they are so called because he never confers this office on any but his favourites and confidants, who are always a latere, at his side. A legate a latere has the power of conferring benefices without a mandate, and of legitimating bastards; and a cross is carried before him as the sign of his authority.

De Latere, legates who are not cardinals, but yet are intrusted with an apostolic legation.

Lateen Salt, a long triangular sail extended by a lateen yard, and frequently used in xebecs, palaces, seotes, and other vessels which navigate in the Mediterranean Sea.