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 the clownes in some parts of France.  Boire à tire larigau. To drinke till his throat cracke withall.

Laringe. The root of the tongue; or, as Larigau. Laringuau. The same.

Larix: f. The Larch, or Larinx tree.

Larme: f. A teare; also, a gumme-drop, the fat moisture that distills from diuers trees; and hence;  La larme du sapin. A cleere, and well-tasting liquid Rosin, that issues from betweene the barke, and inner rinde of a young Firre tree; In our shops it is commonly (but erroniously) tearmed Venice Turpentine, sayes Mathiolus. Larmes. Beads made of the seeds of a certaine plant.  En larmes de fol ne se doit on fier: Prov. A fooles teares are not to be trusted.  Ce que Maistre donne, & vallet pleure ce sont larmes perdues: Prov. Jn vaine doe groomes deplore their maisters bountie.

Larmelette: f. A small teare.

Larmette. as Larmelette. Larmeux: m. euse: f. All-beblubbered, full of teares.

Larmier: m. The eaue of a house; the brow, or coping of a wall, seruing to keepe, or cast off the raine; also, a loope-hole, or small hole in a wall to giue light; also, the eye-veine, or veine thats next to the eye of a horse.

Larmot: m. A kind of Lizard.

Larmoyable: com. Bewaylable, lamentable, wofull, worthie of teares.

Larmoyement: m. A weeping, bewayling, lamenting, shedding of teares.

Larmoyer. To weepe, wayle, whine, lament, shed teares, distill drops of moisture.

Larmoyeux. as Larmeux. Larmuse: f. A little earth-Newte, or Aske. ¶Dauphinois. Larnesse. as Larronnesse; a she theefe. Larre de chats: m. Caterwawling. (vieil mot.) Larrecin: m. Larcenie, theft, robberie, felonie, theeuerie, stealth, pilfering, filching, purloyning.

Larreciner. as Larronner. Larrecineusement. Theeuishly, pilferingly, feloniously, with a felonious intent.

Larrecineux: m. euse: f. Felonious, theeuish, filching, pilfering, nimming, imbeazeling.

Larris: m. Vnhusbanded land, vntilled ground.

Larron: m. A felon, theefe, robber, purloyner, stealer,imbeazeler, pilferer, filcher, nimmer. Larron d'eau. An ißue in a Conduit head for the voiding of superfluous water. Larron d'une plume. The pith of a quill; the feather, or light stuffe that is within it. Pas de larron. A gingerlie tread, soft gate, fearefull stepping, doubtfull pace. Les larrons s'entrebatent, & les larcins se descouvrent: Pro. Theeues brabling helpes true men vnto their owne. D'un larron priué on ne se peut garder: Pro. There is no ward for a familiar theefe. Tel larron tel cordon: Prov. See Cordon. À gros larron grosse corde: Prov. A strong theefe deserues (or needs) a strong halter. Les gros larrons ont tousiours les manches pleins de baillons: Prov. Great theeues haue euer store of gags (viz. of gifts) about them. Les gros larrons pendent les petits; &, les gros larrons meinent pendre les petits: Prov. Applyable to such as being themselues guiltie of great faults, con-*
 * demne, or punish, little ones in others.  Abandon fait larron: Prov. Things left at randon cause true men turne theeues.   Il est cault larron qui desrobbe à vn larron: Prov. He is a cunning theefe that robs a theefe.   Il semble à vn larron que chascun luy resemble: Prov. A theefe imagines euerie one bids, stand.   Ou Marchand, ou larron: Prov. Either a marchant or a theefe; a speech verie ordinarie in the mouthes of Shop-keepers, who thereby pretend, that not comming to their wares so easily, they cannot sell them so cheape, as theeues doe.

Larronceau: m. A pilferer, filcher, little theefe.

Larronneau: m. The same.

Larronner. To steale, imbeazell, purloyne, filch, nimme, pilfer, play the theefe.

Larronnerie: f. Theeuing, stealing, pilfering, filching, purloyning.

Larronnesse: f. A she theefe.

Larronneux: m. euse: f. Felonious, theeuish, full of theeuerie.

Larronniere: f. A denne of theeues, the retreat of theeues, theeues hauen, a place of resort for theeues.

Larval: m. ale: f. Haggish, grislie, ghastlie, ghost-like, dreadfull, wan, pale.

Larve: m. A Hag, Spirit, Goblin, Night-ghost; also, a leane, pale, meagar, withered scrag; one that looks like death, or like a ghost.

Larynx. as Larigau. Las: m. as Laqs; a snare. Las: m. Lasse: f. Wearie, tyred, harried, ouertoyled, or faint with toyling.

Lasanon: m. The panne of a Close-stoole. ¶Rab. Lasanophore: m. The groome of the Close-stoole.

Lasché. A fish that somewhat resembles a little Shad; (caught, and called so, about Montpelier.) Lasche: f. (The vermine called) a Ticke, or Sheepe-*louse.

Lasche: com. Slacke, looße, wide, flagging; weake, faint, vnlustie, languishing, remisse, lither, slow; cold, cowardlie, faint-hearted, vnmanlie, effeminate; lewd, vnworthie, base, trecherous.  Cousture à lasche. An open seame.  Oreilles lasches. Slowching, or hanging eares.

Lasché: m. ée: f. Loossed, tyed; vnbent; released, free, deliuered.

Laschée: f. A loossing, slackening, widening, vnbending; remitting, releasing, freeing, letting goe.

Laschement. Slackly, looßely, flaggingly; remissely, weakly, vnlustily; slowly, litherly, negligently; coldly, faintly, effeminately; wickedly, lewdly; vnworthily.

Lascher. To slacken, wyden, loosse, vnbend, let out; free, release, remit, forgoe, let goe.  Lascher la bride à. To vse more gently, giue more libertie vnto.

Lascheté: f. Slacknesse, dullneße, remißnesse; faintnesse, weakeneße, vnlustinesse; negligence, idlenesse, lithernesse; cowardise, vnmanlinesse, faintheartedneße; trecherie, lewdnesse, vnworthinesse; also, an absurd, sottish, or sencelesse part.

Lasdaller: m. A tyred Jade; also, a dreaming, or lazie draw-latch; also, a kind of bird.

Lasnier. as Lanier.

Lassé: m. ée: f. as Las; Wearied; also, snarled, or insnared; also, laced; bound, or closed vp with laces.

Lasser. To wearie, toyle, tyre; also, to lace; to bind, or close vp with a lace; also, to set ginnes, or grinnes for birds; (& hēce) also, to snarle, or insnare; also, a dog to lyne a bitch.