LOVAGE, an umbelliferous plant of the genus Levisticum, native to the south of Europe, sometimes cultivated in gardens, and notwithstanding its strong and peculiar odor, used as a salad plant. Its roots and seeds are aromatic, acrid and stimulant, and a liquor called govage is made from them. The Scot tish lovage is a native of the sea-coasts and has become naturalized in maritime New Eng land. It is eaten, both raw and boiled, by the Shetlanders. The flavor is aromatic, but acrid and very nauseous to those unaccustomed to it.
LOVAT, 1O'vat, Simon Fraser, 12th Baron, Scottish chieftain: b. 1667; d. London, 9 April 1747. He was educated at King's College, Aberdeen, and in 1699, on the death of his father, assumed the title of Lord Lovat, to which on the death of the 10th Lord Lovat his father had acquired a disputed claim. In con sequence of proceedings taken in 1698 against him and his clan, in which he was declared guilty of treason, he went to France. He afterward obtained a pardon and returned to Scotland. Being summoned before the High Court of Justiciary in 1701 for an outrage done to the Dowager Lady Lovat, whom he married by violence, he failed to appear, and was out lawed. In 1715 he was asked by the Jacobites
of his clan to espouse the cause of the Pre tender, but inducing them to support the gov ernment he received in reward the estate and title of Lovat, the other claimant of which had been involved in the rebellion. In 1740 he was the first to sign the association for the sup port of the Pretender, and on the breaking-out of the rebellion, in 1745, sent his eldest son with a body of his clan to join the Pretender, while he remaining at home asserted his loyalty to the house of Brunswick. It was only after the prince's success at Prestonpans that he al lowed his real sympathies to be shown. He was arrested after Culloden, found guilty of treason and was executed on Tower Hill, in the 80th year of his age. Consult Burton,