Glossary.
Letter L
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- LABRAS
- lips
- LACED-MUTTON
- a courtesan
- LAG
- the lowest of the people
- LAG
- late, behindhand
- LAKIN
- ladykin, little lady, an endearing term applied to the Virgin Mary in the oath, 'By our lakin.'
- LAND-DAMN
- perhaps to extirpate; Hanmer thinks it means to kill by stopping the urine
- LAPSED
- taken, apprehended
- LARGE
- licentious, free
- LARGESS
- a present
- LASS-LORN
- deserted by a mistress
- LATCH
- to smear
- To catch
- LATED
- belated
- LATTEN
- made of brass
- LAUND
- lawn
- LAVOLTA
- a dance
- LAY
- wager
- LEAGUE
- besieging army
- LEASING
- lying
- LEATHER-COATS
- a kind of apple
- LEECH
- a physician
- LEER
- countenance, complexion
- LEET
- a manor court
- LEGE
- to allege
- LEGERITY
- lightness
- LEIGER
- an ambassador resident abroad
- LEMAN
- a lover or mistress
- LENTEN
- meagre
- That which may be eaten in Lent
- poem
- LET
- to hinder
- to binder
- LET
- hindrance
- LETHE
- death
- LEVEL
- to aim
- LEVEL
- that which is aimed at
- LEWD
- ignorant, foolish
- LEWDLY
- wickedly
- LEWDSTER
- a lewd person
- LIBBARD
- a leopard
- LIBERAL
- licentious
- LIBERTY
- libertinism
- LICENCE
- licentiousness
- LIEF
- dear
- LIFTER
- a thief
- LIGHT
- O' LOVE a tune so called
- LIGHTLY
- easily, generally
- LIKELIHOOD
- promise, appearance
- LIKING
- condition
- LIMBECK
- an alembick, a still
- LIMBO
- or Limbo patrum, the place where good men under the Old Testament were believed to be imprisoned till released by Christ after his crucifixion
- LIME
- bird-lime
- LIME
- to entangle as with bird-lime
- To smear with bird-lime
- To mix lime with beer or other liquor
- LIMN
- to draw
- LINE
- to cover on the inside
- To strengthen by inner works
- LINSTOCK
- a staff with a match at the end of it used by gunners in firing cannon
- LIST
- a margin, hence a bound or enclosure
- LITHER
- lazy
- LITTLE
- miniature
- LIVELIHOOD
- appearance of life
- LIVERY
- a law phrase, signifying the act of delivering a freehold into the possession of the heir or purchaser
- LIVING
- lively, convincing
- LOACH
- a fish so called
- LOB
- a looby
- LOCKRAM
- a sort of coarse linen
- LODE-STAR
- the leading-star, pole-star
- LOFFE
- to laugh
- LOGGATS
- the game called nine-pins
- LONGLY
- longingly
- LOOF
- to lull, bring a vessel up to the wind
- LOON
- a low contemptible fellow
- LOT
- a prize in a lottery
- LOTTERY
- that which falls to a man by lot
- LOWT
- a clown
- LOWT
- to treat one as a lowt, with contempt
- LOZEL
- a spendthrift
- LUBBER
- a leopard
- LUCE
- n. the pike or jack, a fresh-water fish
- LUMPISH
- duff, dejected
- LUNES
- fits of lunacy
- LURCH
- to defeat, to win
- LURCH
- to shift, to play tricks
- LURE
- a thing stuffed to resemble a bird with which the falconer allures a hawk
- LUSH
- juicy, luxuriant
- LUSTIG
- lusty, cheerful
- LUXURIOUS
- lascivious
- LUXURY
- lust
- LYM
- a limer or slow hound