L

L

• • 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

  • L'envoy

  • the farewell or moral at the end of a tale or
    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

  • Like

  • to please

  • Like

  • to liken, compare

  • Like

  • likely

  • 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