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 On ne doit pas laisser bonne terre pour mauvais Seigneur: Prov. Rich land must not be left for a rigorous Landlord; nor a good countrey quit because tis gouerned by a bad Prince.

Laisses: m. The lesses (or dung) of a wild Boare, Wolfe, or Beare.

Laist: f. as Lé; or Lez. Laitage: m. as Laittage. Laite: f. The milt, or soft roe of a fish.

Laitisse. A kind of whitish grey furre.

Laiton: m. Lattin (mettall.)

Laittage: m. The ballast of a ship.

Laitterie: f. as Laicterie. Laive: f. A kind of tile.

Laiz: m. A Legacie; also, the increase that a riuer yeelds to a Lord (by an Island, or Hoult growing within it;) also, rews of shrubs, or bushes marked out in a Copse, or Vnderwood.

Laize: f. as Laise; Breadth. Laize de cuir. A scourge, or thong of leather.  À la grande laize. Amply, fully, or in full measure; also, at th' old rent.

Lamaneur: m. The Pilot of a ship.

Lambdoïde. Commissure Lamb. A certaine ioynt, or seame in the hinder part of the scull.

Lambeau: m. A shread, rag, or small peece of stuffe, or of a garment readie to fall from, or holding but little to, the whole; also, a Labell.  Lambeaux. Rags, or shreads; also, the ragged haire, or ragged (old) coat of a Deere.  Lambeaux de feu. Streakes, or flakes of fire.  Mis par lambeaux. Rent, or torne in peeces; ouer-*throwne, ruined, spoiled.  Cela ne se trouve point es lambeaux des Iurisconsultes. There is no law for that opinion; or, the ragged, and beggerlie interpreters of the law haue no such thing among them.

Lambel: m. A Labell of three points; or a File with three Labells pendant; (The mark of an eldest sonne, in Blazon.)

Lambeliner. To gull, deceiue, delude, besot, bring into a fooles Paradice.

Lambin: m. The great partie-coloured, and stinging Bumble, or Humble-bee; also, a great cokes, doult, hoydon, lout, loobie, foolish lubber.

Lambiqué: m. ée: f. Distilled by Limbeck.

Lambiquer. To distill by a Limbeck.

Lambourde: f. A Summer-tree, full of mortaises for th' ends of Joysts to lie in.

Lambrequin: m. The point of a Labell, or Labell of a File, in Blazon.

se Lambriquer le cerveau. To beat, puzzle, or toyle the head about.

Lambris: m. Wainscot, seeling; also, a frettized, or embowed seeling.

Lambrissage: m. A wainscotting, or seeling; also, an embowing, or frettizing in wainscot.

Lambrissé: m. ée: f. Seeled, wainscotted; fretted, embowed.

Lambrissement. as Lambrissage. Lambrisser. To wainscot, seele; fret, embow.

Lambruche. as Lambrunche. Lambrum: m. Wainscot, seeling.

Lambrunche: f. The wild grape-bearing vine.

Lambrunchement: m. Wainscot, or, a wainscotting.

Lambrusque. as Lambrunche.

Lame: f. A thinne plate of any mettall; (hence) also, a blade; also, a tombe, or tombe-stone; also, a great surge, or waue of the sea, after a tempest; also, the reed, or slay of a Weauers loome.  N'admirons le fourreau pour mespriser la lame. let not an outside be admired to the neglect of th' inside.

Lamen: m. as Lamentation. Lamentable: com. Lamentable, wailefull, monefull, dolefull, wofull, drierie, pitifull.

Lamentation: f. A lamentation, wailing, bewailing, waymenting, moaning; a pitifull complaint.

Lamenter. To lament, wayment, waile, weepe, complaine pitifully, make moane.

Lames: f. (The Plurall of Lame; also) th' earthie dregs, or drosse of mettall after the first washing thereof.

Lamibaudichon. A tale of a tub, or of a roasted horse; also, a word vsed among boyes in a play (much like our Fox) wherein he to whom tis vsed must runne, and the rest indeuor to catch him.

Lamie: f. A Breake-net; the greatest, and most rauenous kind of Dog-fish.

Lamine: f. A thinne plate of mettall; a sword blade; a shingle, or slate; a thinne planke, or boord; also, a brason tombe, or tombe-plate; also, a Corslet made all of rib-like ioynts to moue with, or be the more pliant vnto, the bodie.

Lampas: m. The Lampasse (or swelling) in a horses mouth. Lampassé de gueules. Langued, or, whose tongue is red; (a tearme of Blazon.)

Lampast. as Lampas. Lampe: f. A Lampe; also, the sharpe-pointed Docke; (whence;)  Lampe de marais. The water Docke, water Sorrell, horse Sorrell.  Cul de lampe. The bottome of an out-iutting roome, fashioned like the foot of a Lampe.  De main en main vous est la lampe baillée. Atlength your turne is come; yonr course is now to speake, &c.

Lampereau: m. The name of a black vine which yeelds very good wine.

Lamperon: m. A little Lampe.

Lampeux: m. euse: f. Full of Lampes; of, or belonging to, a Lampe.

Lampier: m. A candlesticke, or branch, for a Lampe.

Lampiride: f. A Gloe-worme, or Glow-bird that shines by night.

Lamponner. as Lanterner. Lamponnier: m. A vaine goose, a fond or idle companion.

Lampourde: f. The Cloat, or great Burre: ¶Langued. Lamprillon: m. A Lamprill, or little Lamprey.

Lamproye: f. A Lamprey.

Lamproyon: m. A Lamprill, or small Lamprey.

Lampsane: f. as Lampsans. Lampsans: m. Docke-cresses; (a wild pot-hearbe.)

Lampugos. A kind of Lobsters, which in cold weather hide themselues in hollow places, and cannot be taken.

Lampugue: f. A kind of delicate small mouthed fish (in the Italian, or Adriatick sea) which hath prickles both on her backe and bellie, and in stead of each rib seuen small bones: ¶Marseillois. Lanage: m. Wollage; the trade of wooll, or gaine thats made thereof.

Lanc: m. A stroke in swimming; also, a space, pause, interval, intermedium.

Lançade: f. A launch, hurle, throw, fling, darting.

Lance: f. A Launce; a (horse-mans) speare, or staffe; also (the horseman that beares it,) a Lanceere, or man of