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 Il a tetté de bon laict. He hath beene well bred; there is much worth, or a great deale of good stuffe, in him.  Yvre de laict caillé. Tipled, or distempered by a small matter; whose weake braines are ouerturned by any weake liquor.  Vache de loing a laict assez: Prov. A forreine commoditie cannot be defectiue; we esteeme that most that comes furthest.  Vin sur laict c'est souhait, laict sur vin c'est venin: Prov. Wash thy milke off thy liuer, (say we.)

Laictages: m. White meates, milke meat.

Laictance: m. The fat, or foame of lime, or chaulke, resembling milke, and therefore thus tearmed; also, as Laicte. Laicte: f. The milt, or soft roe, of fishes.

Laicté: m. ée: f. Milkie.

Laictée: f. A litter of whelpes.

Laictence. as Laictance. Laicterie: f. A Dairie, or milke-house.

Laicteron: m. The Sow-thistle.  Laicteron aspre. The pricklie Sow-thistle.  Laicteron blanc. The white-flowered Sow-thistle.  Laicteron lissé. Hares Lettuce; the smooth (or ordinarie) Sow-thistle.  Laicteron noir. The wild, and pricklie Sow-thistle.

Laictier: m. ere: f. Milkie, full of milke, milke-yeelding, made of milke.  L'herbe laictiere. Tythimal, Spurge, Milke-reed, Wolues-milke.  Vache laictiere. A milch Cow.

Laictifique: com. Milke-making, milke-yeelding.

Laictuë: f. Lettuce.  Laictuë aigre. The bitter wild Endiue, or narrow-leaued Endiue.  Laictuë capusse. Cabbadge Lettuce.  Laictuë de chevres. Lambes Lettuce, Corne sallade.  Laictuë crespe, ou crespuë. Crisped, curled, wrinkled, or crumpled Lettuce.  Laictuë pommée. Cabbadge Lettuce, loafed Lettuce, headed Lettuce.  Laictuë Romaine. The greatest kind of Cabbadge Lettuce.  Laictuë ronde. Loafed, or headed Lettuce, that grows close by the ground.  Laictuë sauvage. Wild Lettuce, greene Endiue; also, the hearbe Hawkeweed; also, the bitter wild Endiue, or narrow-leaued Endiue.

Laid: m. Laide: f. Foule, deformed, mishapen, disfigured, ill-fauoured, ouglie, vncomelie; filthie; loathsome; vile.  Laid comme vn marpaut. See Marpaut. Laide vilenie. as Laidange. Laidange: m. Reproach, reuiling, railing, defamation; iniurious, opprobrious, or outragious language; a hainous imputation: (dequoy celuy qui a iniurié vn autre à tort se doit desdire en iustice, en se prenant par le bout du nez: ¶Ragueau.) Laidanger. To reuile, reproach, defame, discredite, raile on, outrage in words.

Laidangeux: m. euse: f. Reproachfull, reuiling, opprobrious, defamatorie, slaunderous, contumelious.

Laidement. Foully, deformedly, mishapenly, ouglily, ill-fauouredly; loathsomely.

Laideron: m. onne: f. Somewhat ouglie, prettie and foule. Laideur: f. Foulnesse, deformitie, ill-fauourednesse, ouglinesse; filthinesse, vilenesse, loathsomenesse.

Laidoyer. as Laidanger. Laie: f. Wood-ground, by measure, or quantitie of Arpens. Laïer. c'est marquer les lais en vn bois tailils avant la couppe d'iceluy, pour les y laisser. Laiete: f. as Layette. Laignié: f. Wood: ¶Pic. Laignier: m. A wood-yard, or wood-pile.

Laigs: m. Legacies; things bequeathed by will.

Laine: f. Wooll.  Laine de bois. Cotton, bombast, or bombace.  Laine sourge. New-shorne, vnwashed, or greazie wooll.  Laine avec le suin. The same.  Mouton à la grande laine. Seeke Mouton. Batre la laine. To lecher, to haire-beat it.  Demander de la laine à vn Asne. To aske a thing of them which haue it not.  Tirer la laine. (In spinning of wooll) to draw the thread out; also, to twitch a cloake off a mans backe, and runne away with it.  À mol Pasteur le loup chie laine: Prov. A gentle shepheard makes the Wolfe shite wooll.  L'vn a le bruit l'autre lave la laine: Prov. Th' one gets the credit th' other takes the paines.  Qui n'a laine boiue à la fontaine: Prov. Let him that hath no wooll drinke at the well.

Laine-facture: f. Spinning, carding, working of woll; Cloathing; or the labour, or trade, of Clothiers.

Laineux: m. euse: f. Woollie; full of wooll.  Marcher avec les pieds laineux. To goe softly, tread gingerly.

Lairre: m. as Larron; A thiefe. (v.m.) Lais: m. Trees, or bushes, left as markes in a copse-wood; or, as Layes (in the later sence.)

Laisard: m. A Lizard; a Newt, an Aske; See Lezard. Laisarde: f. as Laisard, or Lezard. Laisardin: m. Lizard-like; of, or belonging to, a Lizard.

Laische. as Lesche. Laise: f. The breadth of a peece of cloth, stuffe, ground, &c.

Laisse: f. as Lesse; Also, a lease of hounds, &c.

Laissé: m. ée: f. Left, relinquished, layed apart, put off, giuen ouer, abandoned, forsaken, omitted, forgone; See Laisser. Il a laissé ses houseaux. He hath tipped vp the heels; or is readie to doe it.

Laisser. To leaue, relinquish, lay apart, set aside, put off, let alone, forgoe, let goe, forsake, abandon, giue ouer, omit. Laisser les botes. Looke Botes. Laisser courre. To hound, or let slip, a Dog at Deere. Laisser dire. cela se laisse dire. That is commonly spoken; Ie me suis laissé dire cela. I was told that. Laisser de l'eau en son moulin. To reserue vnto himselfe some worke, or somewhat to doe. Laisser le ieu quand il est beau. To giue ouer a game at the fairest; (Appliable either to a temperate, or an irresolute, humor.) Laisser la lancette dans la veine. Seeke Veine. Laisser le monstier ou il est. Not to change, or alter an auntient custome (especially of the Church.) Laisser le moule du pourpoint. Seeke Moule.