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SUPPLEMENT.

LABOUR.

L.

Caton commendeth labourage in tyllyeng sowyng lande and settyng of trees. - The Boke of Tulle of Old Age. Carton, 1481. And see in vv. Approve, Loathe-Quotation

from same.

LACERATE.

Closed within

The still-contracting circle, their brute force
Wasting in mutual rage, they perish there,
Or by each other's fury lacerate,

Southey. Joan of Arc, b. viii. v. 354.

A fleshy muscle;

LACERT, s. Fr. Lacerte. tearmed so because it hath (as a Lizard) a long tail. The pipes of his longes gan to swell, And every lacert in his brest adown Is shent with venime and corruptioun.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2755.

LACK, v. See LACHE, and compare.
God in the Gospel grevously repreveth
Alle that lakketh any lif,
And lukkes han hemselue.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 6144. What is fouler than folke wrongfully to ben praised, or by malice of the people giltlesse ben lacked?

Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. ii. Lackyng comith more ofter by the vices and outragyousness of yong age than it comith by the vices of old age. The Boke of Tulle of Old Age. Caxton.

LADY.

Agar, the hand mayden of Saray, whens comyst thow, and whithir gost thow? The which answeride, Fro the face of Saray my ladi (domina) I flee.- Wic. Gen. xvi. 9.

Sores are not to be anguishid with a rustic pressure; but gently stroked with a ladied hand.-Feltham. Resolves, 8.

LAINER.

And Abram answerde to hym, Y reyse myn hondis to the hit Lord God, Lord of Heuene and of erthe, that fro the threde of oof (woof) til to the layner of the hose (E. V. garter, corrigiam), I schal not take of alle thingis that ben thine.- Wic. Gen. xiv. 23.

LAIR.

And for she was her fathers heir
Full well she was ycond the leir

Of mickle courtesy.-Drayton. Pastorals. Eclogue 4. LAIT, s. d. the three first lines, and r.-From Ger. Laden, D. Læden; invitare, or rather from the Lat. Allectare, freq. of Allicere, to allure, to entice. The

LAKE. Sw. Log; Sc. Loch; Ir. Lough. general meaning-anything hollow.

Theuelich Yam hadde awey fro the loond of Hebrew, and here an ynnocent Y am sent into a laak. (L. V. prisoun, in lacum.)- Wic. Gen. xl. 15.

The sacred flowers that crown The lakelet with their roseate beauty.

LAMB.

Southey. Curse of Kehama, xiii. § 6.

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LAMPREY. Wiclif renders the Lat. Murænula, "Golden ourenementis lijk Laumpreis."

LAND. Piers Plouhman has the CompoundsLond, leperis-heremytes, i. e. Hermits who leap or ramble over different Lands. And Land buggeres, i. e. Land buyers.

And Judas seeș, and his bretheren, for yuels ben multiplied, and the oost appliede or londide at the coostis of hem (applicabant).- Wic. 1 Mac. iii. 42.

Arrived ben these Christen folk to londe
In Surrie, with a gret solempne route.

Chaucer. Man of Lawes Tale, v. 4806. He (Perkin Warbeck) had been from his childhood such a wanderer, or, as the king called him, such a landloper, as it was extreme hard to hunt out his nest and parents. Bacon. Henry VII.

LANGUISH.

That al hir lif han lyved Beggeris, In langour and in defaute.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 9149.

And Y. Daniel, languishide (L. V. was astonyed, langu), and was seeke by ful many days.-Wic. Dan. viii. 27. Whanne the sunne wente doun, alle that hadden sike men with diuerse langwischingis (L. V. langours, langoribus) ledden hem to hym; and he, puttinge hondis on eche by him silf, heelid hem.-Id. Luke iv. 40. Thus as an oxe to thy langoring death were thou drawen. Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. ii. These evils-the most important health, That of the mind, destroy; and when the mind They first invade, the conscious body soon In sympathetic languishment declines.

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For who would not refuse
Grief's company, a dull and raw-bon'd spright
That lanks the cheeks, and pales the freshest sight,
Unbosoming the cheerful breast of all delight?

G. Fletcher. Christ's Victory and Triumph. LANTERN. Lanthern Jaws; i. e. Jaws so lank and thin as to serve for a lantern.

Being very lucky in a pair of long lanthorn jaws, he wrung his face into such an hideous grimace, that every feature of it appeared under a different distortion. Addison. Spectator, No. 173. I lent him a lick in his lanthorn jaws, that will him remember, I warrant him.-Foote. Englishman in Paris, acti. sc. 1.

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Therein (ourselves) our inward antagonists, not only like common gladiators, with ordinary weapons and downright blows make at us, but also like retiary and laqueary combatants, with nets, frauds, and entanglements, fall upon us. Browne. Christian Morais, pt. i. § 24.

LARBOARD, s.

He had on his steereboord Denmark, and on his leereboord the maine sea.-Hack. Voyages. Voyage of Octher.

LARGE, v.

And the seruauntis of the kyng goon yn, blessiden to 61

oure Lord Kyng Dauid, seiynge God more large (L. V. make large, amplificet) the name of Salomon up on thi name, and magnifie the trone of him upon thi trone. Wic. 3 Kings i. 47. The enhancing of eten is the larging (L. V. alarging, dilatatio) of the herte.-Id. Prov. xxi. 4.

And the Lord thi God shal make thee to be plenteuous in alle the werkis of thin hoondis, in the progeny of thi woomb, in the fruyt of thi beestis, in plentenowste of thin erthe, and in largyte of alle thingis. (L. V. largeness, largitate.)-Id. Deut. xxx. 9.

Now wif, he said, and I foryeve it thee,
But by thy be ne no more so large,
Kepe bet my good.-Chaucer. March. Tale, v. 1336.
They slepen, til that it was prime (full prime) large.
Id. The Squieres Tale, v. 10674.
LAS, LAAS, i. e. Lace, qv.
LAS, i. e. Less, qv.

LAST. In Chaucer, Prioresses Prologue, God giue the monk a thousand last, Mr. Tyrwhitt explains-Ever so great a weight.

Als longe as oure lyf lasteth

Lyve we togideres.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 2471. Alle thes weren dwellinge, or lastinge togidere (L. V. lastingli continuynge, perseuerantes) in preier, with wymmen, and Marie, the moder of Jhesu, and with his britheren. Wic. Deeds, i. 14. And thei ben false and traitorous, and lasten noght that they behoten.-Sir John Mandeville. H. Wedgwood.

LATCHE, v. Love that he may not latche.Gower; i. e. Catch, cannot win. Skinner says, that he cannot dismiss-Love inextinguishable.

As Ouid in his boke recordeth
How Polyphemus whilom wrought,
Whan that he Galathe besought
Of loue, whiche he maie not latche.

LATE.

Gower. Conf. Am. b. ii. fo. 27; pt. ii. c. 2.

His goyng out is maad redi at the morevetid, and he schal come as a reyn to us, which is timeful and lateful to the erthe. (E. V. late, serotinus.)

Wic. Hos. vi. 3; also James v. 7. And sith thow (Lord) spak to thi seruaunt, Y am of a more latsum (L. V. lettid, impeditioris), and more slow tonge.-Id. Ex. iv. 10.

LATTEN.

With lavoures of latun

Loveliche y-greithed.-Piers Plouhman's Crede, v. 389. In life-time his picture was made in latyn, the which is still there.-Berners' Froissart, v. ii. p. 70.

LATTICE.

Fro the wyndow of myn hous bi the latijs (per cancellos) I bihelde.- Wic. Prov. vii. 6.

LAUD.

For not al only, thy laude precious
Parfourmed is by men of dignitee,

But by the mouth of children.

Chaucer. The Prioresses Tale, v. 13385. LAUGH, v. Very variously written. See Bale in v. Toy.

And Sara seide, The Lord hath lawing maad to me (L. V. leizynge, risum), and who so euer shal here shal with lawe to me. (L. V. leize with me, corridebit.)

Wic. Gen. xxi. 6. Til thi mouth be fillid with leister (risu; E.V. lazħing), and thi lippis with hertli song.-Id. Job viii. 21. K

LEA

LEE

LER

And with that book he lough away ful fast.

LAUND.

Chaucer. Wif of Bathes Prol. v. 6254. See LAWND.

LAUS, i. e. Loose, qv.

LAVE, v. See Quotation from Piers Plouhman

in v. Latten, supra.

LAW. Used prefixed to giver, maker, &c.
It is a laweles liif

As lordynges usen.-Piers Plouhman's Crede, v. 1213. Vp on what thing I shal smyte you, ferthermor addende lawe breche (prævaricationem), or trespassing azeyns the lawe.- Wic. Is. i. 5.

Ne thou hast herd, ne thou hast knowe, ne sithen opened is thin ere; I wol forsothe, for lawe breking thou shalt law breke (pravaricans prævaricabis), and a trespasere fro the wombe I clepede thee.-Id. Ib. xlviii. 8.

Lo! hete (is) God in his strengthe, and noon to hym lic in lawe piueris. (L. V. yueris of lawe, legislatoribus.) Id. Job xxxvi. 22.

As of the secte of which that he was borne,
He kept his lay (law) to which he was y-sworne.

Chaucer. The Squieres Tale, v. 10332.
Ther comen also ful many subtil flaterers and wise ad-
vocats lerned in the lawe.-Id. The Tale of Melibeus.
If he ne may not liven chast his lif,
Take him a wif with gret devotion,
Because of leful procreation

Of children.-Id. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9322.

It is a perversion of language to assign any law, as the efficient, operative, cause of any thing. A law presupposes an agent; for it is only the mode according to which an agent proceeds; it implies a power, for it is the order according to which that power acts.

LAY, i. e. Law. v. Law, supra.

LAY.

Paley. Natural Philosophy, c. xxiii.

As who so leith lynes Fro to lacche foweles.

See Quotation from Chaucer in

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 3183. (Thou hath) also many craftise men, masouns, and leyers. (L. V. leggeris of stonys, comentarios.) Wic. 1 Par. xxii. 15. And thei eue to heweris of stonus, and to leieris (L. V. liggeris) of stoons.-Id. 1 Esd. iii. 7.

And next was painted Covetise,
That eggeth folk in many a gise
To take and yeve right nought again,
And grete tresours up to laine.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 184.
For it (the robe) full wele
With Orfries laied was every dele.-Id. Ib. v. 1076.

I wyll the no thynge layne (i. e. conceal, Dyce) (lay hid).
Skelton. Bouge of Court, v. 311.
Clif. My soul and body on the action, both.
York. A dreadful lay.

Shakespeare. King Henry VI. Pt. II. act v. sc. 2. Can no one judge a picture, but who is himself a layer of colours-Shaftesbury. Miscel. 5, c. ii. v. 3, p. 279.

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And sonys that weren on the heez rocke weren leeders to hem (duces).- Wic. 1 Mac. iv. 2.

And he hadde in his ledyng (L. V. felowschip, comitatu) chares and rydyng men (currus et equitem), and ther was maad the cumpanye not a little.-Id. Gen. 1. 9.

He woll himself suspecious make,
That he his life let covertly

In gile and in ypocrisie.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 6114.

LEAF. LEAVE, v. To bear leaves. G. Fletcher

writes Leavy, usually Leafy.

(Had she) the leef torned

She sholde haue founden (these) words.

Piers Pluhman's Vision, v. 2054. Thei bildiden it, and setten his zate leuis (valvas) and lockis.- Wic. 2 Esd. iii. 14.

The ground no herbs but venomous did bear,
Nor ragged trees did leave, but every where
Dead bones and skulls were cast, and bodies hanged were.
G. Fletcher, Christ's Triumph on Earth.
Shaking at every wind their leavy spears.-Id. Ib.

LEAN.

A feithful frend (is) lechyng (L. V. medicyn, medicamen-
Id. Ib. vi. 16.

He shal lene up on his hous (L.V. ether reste, innitetur), | tum) of lif, and of undeathlynesse (immortalitatis).

and it shal not stonde.-Wic. Job viii. 15.

The outer circuit (of Will Atkins basket-work tent) was covered as a lean-to, all round this inner apartment. Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.

LEAP. This leep or spryngynge was grete that Jhesus Cryst made fro therthe to henene. The Golden Legend, fo. 24, c. 2. With a leperesse, or tumbler (L. V. daunceresse, saltatrice), be thou besy, nor here hir.-Wic. Ecclus. ix. 4. The God of Love deliverly Came lepande to me hastily.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 1928. Yet was he forst alwayes from laws to lope.

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Swich a light ayeins oure leve

Lazar out fette.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 12610.
Bettre it were to many doctours

To leven swiche techyng.-Id. 1b. v. 9749.
There is more pryvè pryde

In Prechoures hertes

Than there lefte in Lucifere,

Or he were lowe fallen.-Id. Creed, v. 745.

Preye ze the Lord, that the thundres of God and the hawle (hail) leeuen of (L. V. ceese, desinant), and I shall leten zou (delyuere), and ze shulen dwelle here no more. Wic. Ex. ix. 28. Lya felyng that she had laft for to bere children, she took to the husboond Zelpha, hir handmayden. İd. Gen. xxx. 9.

Two zeer it ys that hungur began to be in the loond it fyue eers leeuen (L. V. suen, restant), in the whiche it may not be eerid, ne ropun.-Id. Ib. xlv. 6.

And so the Kyng of Sodom and of Gomor turneden backis and fellen there: and tho that laften (remanscrunt) flowen to the hil.-Id. lb. xiv. 10.

But Y wote, that the Kyng of Egipte shal not zyne zow leve that 3egoon, but bi strong hoond. (L. V. delyuere, ne dimittet ut eatis.)-Id. Er. iii. 19.

And thus these foules, void of all malice,
Accordeden to love, and laften vice

Of hate.-Chaucer. Legend of Good Women, Prol. v. 168.
LECHER.

A lecherous thing is wine.

LECTURE.

Chaucer. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 12483.

The seconde lesson Robin redebreste sang;
Hail to the God and Goddes of our lay!
And to the lectorn amorily he sprang,
Hail, quod he, o thou freshe seson of May.
LEDEN, s.

Chaucer. Court of Love, v. 1382.

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LEES. See LEASH.

LEFT. In Spenser, Faerie Queene, b. i. c. viii. v. 10, " He smott off his left arme," left is opposed to right. In st. 18, "In one alone left hand," left is the right, that being the only one left. LEGAL.

Bysshopes y-blessed,

If thei ben as thei sholde, Legistres of bothe lawes.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 4191. But amonge legystres there dare I not come, my doinge they saine maked hem nedie. Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. ii.

LEGATE.

Forsothe he herd that Jewis ben cleepid of Romayns frendis, and felawes, and bretheren, and for thei resceyuyden the legatis of Symount gloriously (legatos).

Wie. 1 Mac. xiv. 40.

In the midst of all my endeavours, there is but one thought that dejects me, that my acquired parts must perish with myself, nor can be legacied among my honoured friends.-Browne. Religio Medici, pt. ii. § 3.

LEGEND, v.

Yet some of these perhaps by others are legended for great saints.-Milton. History of England, b. iii.

&c.

LEGER, ad. From Fr. Legier, léger, light, leight,

It is weakness and dis-esteem of a man's self, to put a man's life upon such ledgier performances.

Bacon. Charge against Duels, fo. London, 1670.

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LEOD.

LEOS, 8. S

See LAD.

Ac so soone so the Samaritan Hadde sighte of this leode, He lighte a-doun of Lyard.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 11497.

For leos, peple in English is to say.

Chaucer. The Seconde Nonnes Tale, v. 15574.

LEOPARD.

And the beest whom I site was lijk to a parde, or a lipard (pardo).- Wic. Apoc. xiii. 2.

LERE.

He (the Lord) dryed (the Reed See) to the tyme that we weren ouerpassed, that alle the puple of loondis mist leeren (L. V. lurne, discant) the moost strong hoond of the Lord.- Wic. Josh. iv. 25.

LEV

To gidre sprynge in reyn my loore. crescat ut pluvia doctrina mea.)-Id. LESEWE. See LEA. LESS.

(L. V. techyng, conDeut. xxxii. 2.

Term most usually applied to subs.; sometimes to verbs: as, Dauntless, fadeless, quenchless. See Ihre, in v. Los.

And the mesure of tyles that thei before maden je shulen put upon hem, and ze shulen not lassen eny thing. (L. V. abate, minuetis.)- Wic. Ex. v. 8.

And the beestis of hem he lasside not. (L. V. made not lesse, non minoravit.)-Id. Ps. cvi. 38.

Ther is lassing (L. V. makyng lesse, minoratio), and ther is, that fro mecnesse shal rere the hed. Id. Ecclus. xx. 11.

And in the gettyng he hath suche wo,
And in the kepyng drede also,
And sette evermore his besinesse
For to encrese, and not to lesse.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 5598.

So spake domestick Adam in his care
And matrimonial love; but Eve, who thought
Less attributed to her faith sincere (i. e. too little),
Thus her reply with accent sweet renewed.

Milton. Par. L. b. ix. v. 320.

A magnitude is greater than a magnitude, when a part of that is equal, or the same, with the whole of this; lesser, when the whole of that is equal, or the same, with part of this.-Barrow. Mathematical Lectures, lec. xiii. p. 234.

LEST. See LIST.

LET.

(The fader) loked on us with love, And leet his sone dye

Mekely for our misdeedes.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 792. Preye te the Lord, that he do awey frogges fro me, and fro my puple; and Y shal lat the puple (delyuere, dimittam) that thei sacrifye to the Lord." Wic. Ex. viii. 8; also 29. Eftsones he lete out of the arke a culver (dimisit). Id. Gen. viii. 10. Therfor sche let hem doun (demisit) fro the wyndow bi a corde. Id. Josh. ii. 15.

Now lette (leave) we this mayden here.

LET, v.

Gower. Conf. Am. b. viii. fo. 1822.

I may no lenger lette, quod he, And lyard he prikede.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 12067.

It is do forsothe, that the puple of the lond shulde lette (impediret) the hondis of the puple of Jude, and disturben hem in bilding.-Wic. 1 Esd. iv. 4.

He woke, and told his felaw what he met,

And praied him his viage for to let,

As for that day, he prayd him for to abide.

Chaucer. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 15090.

And in she goth withouten longer lette,
And to the markis she her fader fette.

LETHARGY.

Id. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8176.

He so doats, as she had dropt Some philtre in the cup, to lethargize The British blood that came from Owen's veins.

LETHE.

A ful lethi thyng it were,
If that love nere (were not).

LEVEN.

LIG

Who can reherce bright as sonne or leuene,
So ofte sent doun to the fro heuene.

LEVIATHAN.

LIM

ledge, who had but the faculty so to alter the structure of his eyes, that one sense,-as to make it capable of all the several degrees of vision, which the assistance of glasses Lyfe of our Ladye. Carton, b. 6, c. 1. (casually at first lit on) has taught us to conceive. Locke. Essays, b. ii. c. xxiii. § 13.

Whether thou maist drawen out Leuyethan with a hoc, and with a corde shalt thou binde his tongue. Wic. Job xl. 20. Darest thou drawe out Leuyathan with an angle or bind his tonge with a snare.-Bible, 1549.

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It was introduced into Johnson by Todd, without example; nor is there any in the Dictionary. There is now (July 1855) a Bill before the House of Commons" On Limited Liabilities." LIBAMENT.

And thei puttiden there the odour of swetnesse, and sacrifieden her libaciouns (that ben of fletyng things as wiyn, oyle, and siche). (L.V. offriden her moiste sacrifices, libaverunt libationes.- Wic. Ez. xx. 28.

She toucht his eyelashes with libant lip
And breath'd ambrosial odours, o'er his cheek
Celestial warmth diffusing.-W. S. Landor.
LIBIDINOUS.

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LIE, v. Southey. Madoc. pt. i. § i.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 5979. So oft falleth the lethy water on the hard rock till it haue through pearsed.-Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. iii.

An. Pardon me, Julius, heere was't thou bay'd, braue
Hart,

Heere didst thou fall, heere thy Hunters stand
Sign'd in thy spoyle, and crimson'd in thy lethee.

Shakespeare. Julius Cæsar, act iii. sc. 1.
The proudest nation that great Asia nurs'd
Is now extinct in lethe.

Heywood. Iron Age, pt. ii. (1632.) LEVANT. Faire voile en Levant. To sail eastward. To be stolen, filched or purloined away. Cot. From Fr. lever, to lift, qv.; and Shop-lift. A cant term on the race-course.

Levant me, but he got enough last night to purchase a principality.-Foote. The Minor, act i.

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And for thi lesynge, Lucifer, That thow leighe til eve Thow shalt abyen it bittre.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 12893.

ze maden leizungli the herte of the iust man for to mourne. (L.V. falsli, mendaciter.)- Wic. Ez. xiii, 22. And thei profecien in my name liendly. (L.V. falsli.) Id. Jer. xxvii. 15.

LIE.

Chaucer. The Persones Tale.

LIGHT.

Wasshe yow wel therinne

And te shal lepe the lightloker

Al your lif tyme.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 3644. And eftsone I seie to you, it is litter or eysier, a camel for to passe thorw; a nedelis eize, than a riche man to enter into the kyngdam of Heuenes.-Wic. Matt. xix. 24.

And thurs listhed (L. V. littnesse, facilitate) of her fornycacioun defoulede the lond.-Id. Jer. iii. 9. Forsoth whanne I wolde this thing, wher I uside liztnesse? (L. V. unstidfastnesse, numquid levitate usus sum!) Id. 2 Cor. i. 17. It is light (easy) to knowe. Chaucer. Assemble of Foules, v. 553. Whiche (Venus), I praie, alwaie saven us, And us aie of our sorowes light.

Id. House of Fame, b. i. v. 467. Written leite (See THUNDER), and

LIGHT. leyte, by Chaucer.

A white wall although it ne brenne not fully with sticking of a candle, yet is the wall black of the leyte. Chaucer. The Persones Tale. LIGHT. For LIGHTER, one who lights or enlightens, see the Quotation from The Golden Legend in v. Illumine.

And the Lord gaf thundres, and hawle, and dyuersly ronnyng leytis (fulgura) upon the erthe.- Wic. Ex. ix. 23.

Y shal keuere the sunne with cloude, and the mone shall not yue his list. Y shall make alle listmakers (L. V. lizt qiueris, luminaria) of heuen for to mowrne upon thee, and Y shall gyue dercnessis upon thi loond, seith the Lord God.-Id. Ez. xxxii. 8.

And he ladde hem thennes in the cloude of the day, and al nyt in the listnyng (illuminatione) of fyr. Id. Ps. lxxvii. 14. By thi risthond, and thin arm, and the listing (L. V. liztnyng) of thi chere, for holli thou toke plesure in hem. Id. Ps. xliii. 4.

A pore man and a creansour, metten togidere: of ether the listnere (illuminator) is the Lord.-Id. Prov. xxix. 13. The ristwisnesse of the Lord (is) euene (recta), gladende hertis; The heste of the Lord (is) liztsum, liztende ezen. Id. Ps. xviii. 9. LIGHTNING, s. See the Quotation from Wic. in v. Inlight, Illumination.

LIKE.

And as ze wolen that men doen to tow, and do to hem in lyk manere (similiter).- Wic. Luke vi. 32.

For if ony mon is herer of the word, and not doer, this shal be comparsound or likned (comparabitur), to a man biholdinge the cheere of his birthe in a myrrour; sotheli he biheld him selfe, and wente, and anoon he forgat what maner he was.-Id. James i. 23.

Forsothe he seid also to hem a liknesse (similitudinem). Id. Luke v. 36. For ellis it wole as likyngli be applied to falsnesse as to treuthe: and it hath disseyued grete men in oure daies, bi ouer greet trist to her fantasies.-Id. Is. Prol. p. 226. For to his lordship none is liche. Chaucer. The Plowman's Tale, v. 3048. Thou likenest it (woman's love) also to wild fire, The more it brenneth, the more it hath desire To consume every thing, that brent will be.

Id. Wif. of Bathes Prol. v. 5955. In grace She stode alway with poor and riche, That at a word was none her liche.

Id. Dreme and Squieres Tale, v. 10375, 6. See And hope the hostilers man shal be, LIKE, v. It liketh me, i. e. it pleaseth me. There the man lith an helyng. Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 11599. Wiclif, in v. Lief, leueful. Madame Mercy, quod I, How long he hath lien in sinne. Me liketh wel youre wordes. Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 546. And a ryuer jede out fro the place of likyng to moyste Gen. ii, 10. Paradis. (E. V. of delice, voluptatis.)- Wic. And if you liketh alle by on assent Now for to stonden at my jugement But ye be mery,-smiteth of my hed.

LIEF.

Lest perauenture God forțete thee in the site of hem, and thur; thi bisynesse gretli maad foul repref thou suffre, and haddest leuere not to be born (maluisses), and the dai of thi birthe thou curse.- Wic. Ecclus. xxiii. 19.

Lo! he (Abram) seith, thin hond-maydyn is in thin hond; use hir as it is leueful. (L. V. it likith, libet.) Id. Gen. xvi. 6. Though I use terms of art, do not injure me so much, as to suspect I am a lawyer; I had as lief be a Scotchman. Junius, i. 312. Woodfall's Edition. LIEU. That is lieutenant to loken it wel, &c.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 10889. LIGHT, v. ALIGHT, v. (The Samaritan) lighte adown of lyard.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 11499. How much would that man exceed all others in know

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Lif that ay shal laste To al his linage after.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 5249. By lynyal cours descendyng as a steyre.

Lyfe of our Ladye, g. 7, c. 1. And of this lorde disended Tydeus By ligne, or elles oldè bokes lie.

Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, b. 5, v. 1481.

All the pictures fairest lin'd
Are but black to Rosalind.

Shakespeare. As You Like It, act ii. sc. 3. LING. Dele, line 13, from "In A. S. &" to line 22,"portion"-And read

It always denotes long-ing or pertaining; and from being applied to progeny or offspring, has the force of a diminutive,-used to designate the added circumstance of pertaining or belonging, of being connected with or dependent upon, derived or deduced from.

And dele in last line-" Also, &c."

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noght for love of our Lord

Sergeants. Unlose hire lippes ones. Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 425. Forsothe the erthe was of oo lip and of the same wordis. (L.V. langage, labii.)-Wic. Gen. xi. 1.

LIQUID. Before lines 15 and 16, readTo Liquidate-Low Lat. and It. Liquidare, Fr. Liquider, Sp. Liquidar. We owe this word (Du Cange) to the Italians;-who were our teachers in keeping mercantile accounts. Generally

To make clear or manifest-sc. any thing doubtful or difficult; e. g. an account-to ascertain its correct amount; and further, to clear it off, to discharge, to settle. And liquidated damages, are damages whose amount is ascertained.

LIQUOR. Wiclif renders Libatio and Libamen, sacrifice of Licour. M. V. drink offering.

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Or wher-by to libbe.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 8986. Lyveris to forn us

Useden to marke.-Id. lb. v. 7683.

Ac who seith religiouses
Rightfulle men sholde fede,

And lawefulle men to lif-holy men
Liflode sholde brynge.-Id. v. 1027-8.

ze weren in that tyme withouten Crist, alyened, or maad straunge fro the lyuynge of Israel (à conversatione.) Wic. Eph. ii. 12.

Alle these of thing that was plenteous to hem casten in to the giftis of God, but this widewe, of that thing that failid (ex defectu) to hir caste al hir lyflode (victum) that sche hadde.-Id. Luke xxi. 4.

Joseph forsothe heryng that lyuelodes (L. V. foodis, alimenta) weren solde in Egipte, seide to his sones, Whi ben ze negligent?-Id. Gen. xlii. 1, and iv. 7, victus.

But and the edder was feller than ony lifers of the erthe. (L. V. lyuynge beestis, animantes.)-Id. Gen. iii. 1.

For thou hast deliuered my soule fro deth and my feet fro sliding; that I plese befor God in the list of liueres. (L. V. hem that lyue, viventium.)-Id. Ps. lv. 13. And here againes (God's will) no creature on live Of no degre availeth for to strive.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 3041. (I) al so fully hire servand As creature or man livand May be to lady or princesse.-Id. Dreame, v. 1630.

LIVE, v. Life-guards, i. e. Leib-guards, or Bodyguards. Ger. Leib-garde. Mr. Trench produces the following early usage.

The Cherethites were a kind of lifegard to King David. Fuller. Pisgah. Light of Palestine, p. 217. (1650.) LIVER, v. Is a various reading of Deliver. Joshua xxiv. 10, liberare.

LIZARD.

Thus y-lik a lusard,
With a lady visage,
Thefliche thow me robbedest.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 12753. A lacert, that is, a serpent that is clepid a lisard. Wic. Lev. xi. 30. LOATHE, v. The A. S. Lath-ian, is also written wlættan (see in Somner); and Wlate, wlating, &c. are common in Wiclif. And see Chaucer in Dictionary, and infra. Luther in Robert of Gloucester and in Piers Plouhman. Lutherhed and Lutherness in Robert of Gloucester seem to be equivalent to the more modern forms, Loathy, Loathness, and (inus.) Loatherhead.

To Loath in Abp. Parker is,-To cause to loathe, to give a dislike. They "loth men from reading by their covert slanderous reproaches of the Scriptures."-Pref. unto the Byble.

(We) hauith avoyded opyn curiouste, leste we schulde be

LOO

seid, not to schewe God as wel to men willinge, as to profite to men aloothing. (L.V. hem that wlaten.)

Wic. Prol. to Luke. So in Prol. to Deedis. Who seith to the vnpitous (impio), thou art ristwis, puples shal cursen to hym, and lynages shal wlaten hym. (L. V. hold hym abhomynable, detestabuntur.)-Id. Prov. xxiv. 24. Ete til it go out bi zoure nosethirlis, and turn into wlatyng. (E. V. foaming, nauseam.)-Id. Num. xi. 20.

And al Yrael braken thi lawe, and bowiden awey, that thei herden not thi voice; and cursse droppide on us, and wlatyngnesse. (L.V.wlatyng, detestatio.)-ld. Dan. ix. 11. Thei schal be abhominable and wlatsum to zou. (E. V. cursid, execrandum.)-ld. Lev. xi. 11.

To worship God, men would wlate
Both on euen, and on morowe.

Chaucer. The Plowman's Tale, v. 3039.
Thou art so lothly, and so olde also,
And therto comen of so low a kind.

Id. Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6682. I demaunde (of you) if the olde age of such as delited them in the labourage of londes semith unto you to be wretched or lothful. The Boke of Tulle of Old Age. Carton. How much more unadvisedly do such as boast themselfe to be either Christ's vicars or be of his Garde-to loth men from reading-by their covert slanderous reproaches of the Scriptures.-Abp. Parker. Pref. into the Byble.

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LOMB, i. e. Lamb, qv.
LOND, i. e. Land, qv.
LONE, i. e. Loan, qv.
LONG, v. BELONG.

(Thei) arn porters of the posternes,
That to the place longeth.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 3747. It muste ben a rhetor excellent That coude his colours longing for that art, If he shuld hire descriven on part.

Chaucer. The Squieres Tale, v. 10353. And when they that longed unto hym hearde it, they went out to holde him.-Bible, 1549. Mark iii. 21. LONG.

And there we lengeden ful long (i. e. prolonged our stay, dwelt).-Piers Plouhman's Crede, v. 617.

I may no longer lenge thee with.-Id. Vision, v. 878. Thou longedest awei fro me (L. V. madist fer, elongasti) frend and nezhebore.- Wic. Ps. lxxxvii. 19. Thou forsothe, Lord, ne awei longe thou thin helpe fro Id. Ps. xxi. 20.

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Gower. Conf. Am. 1. 5, fo. 872.

What maner wise, the King passeth not befor, that thus is losid? (Diffamatur, in a good sense.) Wic. 3 Esd. iv. 12. Chaucer. House of Fame, b. iii. v. 598.

This favour did he to hir loses.

LOOSE, v. ad. Loose is also written Lewse, Louse, &c. See Lewse in Junius, and Loose in Skinner.

Go. Laus-jan; A. S. Lysan, leosan; D. Lossen, Ver-lossen; Ger. Losen, Ver-losen; Sw. Losa, and its frequentative (Ihre) Lossa; Dan. Loser; solvere, liberari, solvere nexum et vinculum, dimittere. When I had alle this folke beholde, And found me loce and not yholde, I gan forthe romen. LORD.

Chaucer. House of Fame, b. iii. v. 196.

For the Lord oure God he is God of Goddis, and Lord of Lordyngis (Dominus dominantium).- Wic. Deut. x. 17.

Yrael forsothe strongly shal doo, of Jacob shal be that lordship and leese the relykes of the cytee (dominetur et perdat).-Id. Num. xxiv. 19.

(Moyses) seith, Lordshiper (Dominator), Lord God, mercyable, and goodliche, and pacient, and of myche mercye. Id. Er. xxxiv. 6. Thi reume (is) reume of alle worldis, and thi Lordshiping (is) in alle ieneracioun and in to ieneracioun. Id. Ps. cxliv. 13. A lesson. See LERE and LEER.

LORE.

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LORE.

Gower. Conf. Am. b. 5, fo. 873.

When Beryn saw the house ler, that ful was thertofore,
Of riche merchaundise, Alas! thought he, I am lore,
I am, in this world.

Chaucer. The Second Merchantes Tale, v. 1219. LOS. See Loos. LOSE, v. Go. Liusan; A. S. Losian, for-leosan, for-lysan; D. Liesen, Verliesen; Ger. Lieren, Verlieren; (aut. liesen, ver-liesen ;) Sw. Forlisa; Dan. The Goth. For-liser, perdere, perire, amittere. Laus-jan, to loose, and Liusan, to lose, are the same word, differently applied, and in every application, they and their progenys always signify, separation, either intended or casual, whether by unbinding, dispossessing, or other means.

The sonne for sorwe therof
Lees light of a tyme,
About myd-day whan moost light is.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 3479.

Heuen and erthe shuln be witnessis on us that uniustly Je leesen us (perditis).- Wic. 1 Mac. ii. 37.

And he sente a paddok (frog), and it loste hem. (E. V. destroyede, disperdidit.)-Id. Ps. lxxvii. 45.

And sodeynly he felle (Antiochus) yn on the citee, and smote it with grete wound and lost miche peple of Yrael. Id. 1 Mac. i. 32.

The kynge a stronge poyson hym dight

And bad hym go

Streight unto Tyre, and for no coste
Ne spare, 'till he had lost
The prynce, which he would spille.

Gower. Conf. Am. 1. 8, fo. 1763.

LOSEL. See LOREL.
LOSENGE.

In lecherie and losengerie

Ye lyven.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 4082.

LOTEBY. Skinner says, Companion, or love: Mr. Tyrwhitt-the concubines of priests were so called.

She (Mede) preestes maynteneth,

To have lemmans and lotebies

Alle hire lif daies.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 1659.
And with me followeth my loteby
To don me solace and company.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 6342.

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LOUSE.

A lous couthe

LUC

Han lopen the bettre.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 2867.
Ful of lys crepyng.-Id. lb. v. 2866.
A lousy hat aboue.-Id. Ib. v. 2862.
LOVE.

Nyl thou worschipe an alien God; the Lord-a gelous louyere is his Name (Dominus zelotes): God is a feruent louyere (emulator).-Wic. Er. xxxiv. 14.

The Lord hateth al cursing (L. V. cursidnesse) of errour, and it shal not ben looueful (L. V. amyable, amabile) to men dredende hym.-Id. Ecclus. xv. 13.

Forsothe she was ful semeli, and with untrouable (incredible) fairnesse, and to the eten of all men gracious and loouesum was seen (amabilis videbatur).—Id. Esth. ii. 15.

LOW, v. Also-to low or lower; to bend, to
LowT, v. bow (in obeisance, worship).
Loweth is used in Bible, 1549, Rom. viii. as a
substantive.

And lordes sones lowly

To the losels aloute.-Piers Plouhman's Crede, v. 1494. I shal brynge hem out to 3ow, that ze lowen hem (L. V. make lowe, humilietis) and poure lust je fulfil. Wic. Judges xix. 24. (I wenede) toure hondfullis stonden al about to loute myn hondful. (L. V. worschipiden, adorare.) Id. Gen. xxxvii. 7; also ix. 10, et aliter. Sixty cubites long, and seven in brede; To which image, bothe yonge and old Commanded he to loute.

Chaucer. The Monkes Tale, v. 14468. Neither heyght, neither loweth (M. V. depth), neither any other creature shall be able to depart us from the loue of God.-Bible, 1549. Rom. viii.

LOW. See LEW.

LOW, v.

Loude outher stille.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 5380. Therfor lo! dazes comen, seith the Lord, and Y shal visite up on the gravun thingus of Babiloyne, and in al his lond loowen (mugiet) shal the woundid.-Wic. Jer. li. 52.

For heeld out zee ben (effusi estis) as calues upon gres (grass), and see loweden (mugistis) as boolis.-Id. Ib. 1. 11.

LOW-BELL, s. A (low sounding) bell used in bird-catching, which makes the birds lie close, so that they dare not stir while the net is pitching; then by the lighting of a fire they are driven into See in Nares, Gentleman's Recreation, the net. Fowling, p. 39.

Now commonly he who desires to be a minister, looks not at the work but at the wages; and by that lure or lowbell, may be toll'd from parish to parish all the town over. Milton. Hirelings out, &c. Works, v. i. fo. 579. To be thus lowbelled with panick frights, to be thus tremblingly dismayed where there is no place of fear, is a mighty disproportion of men's faculties. Hammond, iv. 579, in Todd. The fowler's low-bell robs the lark of sleep. Dr. King. Art of Love, pt. i. v. 47. LOWE, v. Tyrwhitt interprets this word in Chaucer-To praise; to allow, to approve. (Fr. Louer, to laud, to praise. Cot. See LAUD and Los.) Wiclif renders the Lat. Accepit, "he loowede hem." The Later Version reads, "He took," and a various reading is "Alouwid."

As gold in furneis he prouede hem, and as bred sacrifice of ost he loowede them.-Wic. Wisdom iii. 6.

A foles worde is nought to trowe,
Ne worthe an apple for to lowe.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 4532.
But ye shall lowe my good wyll and take such as ther is,
And of yeur gentil paciens suffer that is amyss.
Id. The Merchantes Second Tale, v. 920.

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LUCENT.

Id. Ode. Ann Killigrew.

O Pulchrior, sole in beautie, and full ylucident. Chaucer. The Nine Ladies Worthie, v. 22. This is just as if one should say, that there is indeed a brightness or lucidity in the sun, but yet notwithstanding the light which is in the air is not derived from that light which is in the body of the sun, but springs immediately out of the power of the dark air.

Cudworth. Mor. b. iv. c. iv. § 13. Thy (Night's) power the Pixies own, When round thy raven brow Heav'ns lucent roses glow.

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A maner man bente a boowe, and bi hap he smoot the Kyng of Irael betwixe the lunge and the stomak (pulmonem).- Wic. 8 Kings xxxii. 34.

LURCH, v. To devour or eat greedily. LURCHER. Lurcher, A gulligut, a devourer of his own substance; Baret, who derives from Lat. See Voss. Lurcor, v. Lurco. So also Minsheu.

We have also Lurch, a game at dice. Fr. Ourche, L'Ourche. See Men.

Lurcher, a dog used by poachers, that lurks in watch for game.

To Lurch, as a ship, when she rolls and lowers on one side.

But and (also) of Gaddi ouerflowen (fledden) to Dauid whanne he lurkide in desert (L. V. was hid, lateret) most stronge men, and best fitters, holdyng target and spere. Wic. 1 Paralipomenon xii. 8. Too farre off from great cities, which may hinder businesse; or too near them, which turcheth all provisions and maketh every thing deare (victui necessaria absorbet). Bacon. Essay on Building. Load. Lurch me at four, but I was mark'd at the top of your trick by the Baron, my dear. Foote. The Minor, act i. LUST, s. Though now used in a bad sense only, was formerly used in a good.

I am not so lustsum (wilful?) and dul, that I shulde bihote thes thingis me to know, but, &c. Wic. Bible, Preface, p. 73. Knowe God thy father, and serue hym with a pure herte, and lust of soule (M. V. willing mind). Bible, 1549. 1 Chron. xxviii. 9.

LUTE.

Truthe trumpede tho'

And song Te Deum laudamus;
And thanne lutede

In a loud note.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 12944.
LUX, s.
Fr. Luxe, excess, riot, super-
LUXIVE, adj. (fluity. Cot. See LUXURY.
These (letters) often bath'd she in her lurive eyes,
And often kiss'd, and often 'gan to tear.

Shakespeare. A Lover's Complaint.
I commun'd thus; the power of wealth I try'd,
And all the various lure of costly pride;
Artists and plans reliev'd my solemn hours;
I founded palaces and planted bowers.

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