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 Lapidaire: m. A Lapidarie, or Ieweller.

Lapidation: f. A stoning; a battering, or killing with stones.

Lapidé: m. ée: f. Stoned; beaten, battered, or killed with stones.

Lapidement: m. A stoning.  Vn lapidement de gresle. A violent pattering of hailestones.

Lapider. To stone; to throw stones at; to batter, knocke, or kill with stones; also, to raine stones.

Lapideur: m. A stoner.

Lapifidié: m. ée: f. as Lapifié. Lapifié: m. ée: f. Made or become stonie, turned into a stone.

se Lapifier. To be made stonie, become stone, be turned into a stone.

Lapin: m. A Rabbet.  Il a memoire de lapin. He hath a verie bad memorie; or forgets, by too much hast, wherefore he makes hast.

Lappe: f. A Burre (of what kind soeuer.)  Lappe grande. The Burre Docke, Clote burre, great Burre.

Lappement: m. A lapping, or licking vp.

Lapper. To lap, or licke vp.

Lappeur: m. A lapper, or licker vp of.

Lapreau: m. A young Rabbet.

Laps: m. A slip, slide, fall, faile.  Par laps de temps. In a space; with tract, or by course of time.

Laqs: m. A snare, ginne, or grinne.  Laqs courant. A noose, grinne, snitle, running knot.

Laquais: m. as Laquay. Laquay: m. A Lackey, Footboy, Footman.  Laquay de mer. A kind of verie swift fish.

Laque. as Lacque. Laquefenée. Membre viril. Laquelle chose. Which, the which, that, the very same, thing.

Lar: f. A mans chiefe house; (the right, or inheritance of his eldest sonne;) ¶Bayonnois. Larcin. Theft; whence;  Les larrons s'entrebatent, & les larcins se descouvrent: Prov. When theeues fall out true men come to their owne.

Lard: m. Lard; fat Bakon, the fat of Bakon, or of Porke; also, a Flitch of Bakon; also, the tree of a saddle. Lard espié. The lard of the two vtmost, and fattest peeces of a Flitch of Bakon diuided into three parts, the Legs or Gammons hauing beene formerly cut off. Il y a du lard en luy. There is much substance, or great subtiltie, in him. Crier au lard sur. Publikely to flowt, scoffe at, mocke, disgrace, deride. Tout y estoit du lard. All was set a hoight, the world ran all on wheeles, there. Faire du lard. To liue idly, fare deliciously, fatten with pleasure, and ease. Frotter leur lard ensemble; Looke Frotter. Frotter à quelqu'un son lard. To cudgell him soundly, to thwacke or belabor him throughly. Iecter son lard aux chiens. To spend his substance wastfully, or vnworthily; to squander all away. Il a mangé le lard. He is most guiltie, or he onely is guiltie, of that theft. Faire trembler le lard au charnier. To skare, with his terrible swaggering, euerie peece of lard that heares him. À la fin sçaura on qui a mangé le lard: Prov. A theefe, how cunning soeuer, will at the length be discouered.  Qui a mangé le lard ronge l'os: Prov. Let him that hath eaten the Bakon picke the bones.

Lardasse: f. A sticke, thrust, great pricke.

Lardé: m. ée: f. Larded; interlarded; stucke, seasoned, or drest with lard; also, nipped, quipped, taunted; also, pricked, or pierced into, as with a larding pricke.

Larder. To lard; to sticke, season, or dreße with lard; also, to pricke, or pierce, as with a larding pricke; also, to cut, quip, nip, taunt, breake a ieast on.

Lardier: m. A tub to keepe Lard, or Bakon in; also, a boord to lay it, salted, on; also, a beastlie, or slouenlie (fat) fellow.

Lardier: m. ere: f. Of, or belonging to, Lard.

Lardoire: f. A larding sticke, or pricke.

Lardon: m. The little slice or peece of Lard, wherewith meat is stucke; also, a flowt, cut, gird, nip, ieast broken on.

Lardonnement: m. A quipping, cutting, girding, flowting.

Lardonner. To quip, nip, cut, flowt, gird, breake a ieast vpon.

Lardonneur: m. A quipper, girder, flowter.

Larege: f. The Larch, or Larinx tree.

Lareze. The same.  Resine de Lareze. (Our ordinarie) Turpentine.

Larfondement: m. The disease wherein one voids his fat, or grease in his excrements.

Larfondu: m. uë: f. That voids his fat, or grease in his excrements.

Large: m. (Substant.) Roome, scope, space, width, or wideneße.  Mettre au large. To release, discharge, vnloose, vndoe, vnty; to open, widen, giue roome, or scope vnto.

Large: com. (Adject.) Large, wide, broad, spacious, roomthie; ample, great, big; open; abundant; bounteous, liberall.  Large de bouche, & estroit de ceincture. That promises much, but parts with little; or, that promises much more then he willingly parts with.  Autant despend chiche que large: Prov. The miser matches the vnthrift in expence; (the one often wasting as much by allowing too scant, as the other by giuing too large, a proportion;) it may also be interpreted thus; The liberall doth spend his pelfe, the pennyfather wasts himselfe.

Largement. Largely, widely, broadly; fully, amply, greatly; abundantly, plentifully; bountifully.

Largesse: f. Bountie, liberalitie; also, a largeße, or handfulls of money cast among the people; also, a donatiue bestowed on souldiors.

Larget: m. ette: f. Somewhat large, reasonable wide.

Largeur: f. Largenesse, breadth, widenesse, latitude, spaciousneße; greatneße; amplenesse, bigneße.

Largiteur: m. A liberall giuer, bestower, or spender on.

Largue: f. Roome, scope, spaciousnesse, width, widenesse.  Faire largue. To giue roome, make place, leaue space enough.  Prendre la largue en haute mer. To put out into the maine.  Tenir la largue. To keepe abroad, in the wide fields, or in the open high way.

Larigau. The head of the windpipe, or throat, consisting of three little gristles; the instrument of receiuing, and letting out, breath; also, a Flute or Pipe is called so by