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