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 Legendier: m. The golden Legend; a booke of the liues of the Saints.

Leger, & Legerement. as Legier & Legierement. Legeresse: f. Lightnesse, nimblenesse, agilitie, swiftneße, quicknesse, speedinesse, liuelineße.

Legible: com. Legible, readable.

Legier: m. ere: f. Light, swift, speedie, fleet; quicke, nimble, actiue, readie, liuelie; fickle, inconstant, humorous, vnsteadie, flitting, shittle, wauering; also, light, sleight, spungie, of small weight.  Bestes legieres. The red and fallow Deere, the wild Goat, and the Roe.  Legier à la main. See Main. Legierement. Lightly, fleetly, swiftly; nimbly, quickly, readily; vnsteadily, flittingly, inconstantly; also, negligently, sleightly, to no purpose.

Legiereté: f. Lightnesse, fleetneße, swiftnesse; nimblenesse, quicknesse, agilitie, liuelineße; also, leuitie, wauering, inconstancie, ficklenesse; vainneße, want of grauitie; sleightnesse.

Legion: f. A (Romane) Legion; a Band, or Squadron of 6830 souldiors; whereof 730 were horsemen, and 6100 footmen.

Legionnaire: com. Legionarie; of, or belonging to, a (Romane) Legion.

Legislateur: m. A Law-maker.

Legitimation: f. A legitimation, or legitimating; a making lawfull.  Lettres de legitimation. Letters of legitimation, are procured of the King by bastards, that they may be capable of successions, and lawfully dispose of their owne as well as other men.

Legitime: f. A portion, or childs part; a younger brothers portion, or part in the inheritance left by his father; also, the portion of inheritance which a father may giue away from his sonne; his owne free land.  Mettre sa legitime au vent. To make (an vnthriftie) sale of his portion; to squander away his childes part.

Legitime: com. Legitimate, lawfull, orderlie, iust, right; rightly borne, truly begot.

Legitimement. Legitimately, rightly, lawfully, according to the law.

Leguer. To bequeath, to leaue by Will.

Legumage: m. Pulse; as Beanes, Pease, &c; any corne, &c, thats reaped, or gathered, by pulling.

Legume: m. as Legumage. Legumineux: m. euse: f. Of, or belonging to, pulse.

Legz: m. A Legacie; a thing bequeathed, or giuen by Will.

Leiche. as Lesse. Leicher. Seeke Lecher. Lende: f. A nit, or chit; also, as Lande; also, a kind of Scatefish.

Lendemain. The morrow, day following, next day after.  Au Lendemain. Vntill to morrow.

Lendeux: m. euse: f. Nittie, full of nits.

Lendit: m. A great Faire kept (in a field neere to S. Denis) from the second Wednesday of June vnto Mid-*summer Eue; whence;  Lendits. Gate-money, fairings, or yearelie presents bestowed by the schollers of Vniuersities (especially those of Paris) on their Tutors.

Lendole: f. The flying fish.

Lengaïer, & Lengaïeur. See Langayer, & Langayeur.

Leniment: m. An asswaging, appeasing, tempering, miti-* *gation, qualification; a comforting, easing, refreshing.

Lenir. To lenifie, slake, swage, temper, mitigate, sweeten, smooth, qualifie, pacifie, appease, comfort, refresh, ease.

Lenitif: m. A Lenitiue; mitigation; refreshment; an ache-asswaging medicine, greefe-appeasing plaister.

Lenklat: m. A kind of Dogfish.

Lent: m. Lente: f. Slacke, slow, leisurelie, lingering, backward, remisse; lazie, drowsie, dull, heauie, none of the hastings; also, gentle, soft, facile, meeke, patient.

Lente. as Lentille. Lentement. Slowly, leisurely; slackly, lingeringly, backwardly, remißly, negligently; faire and softly, not too fast, by little and little, without hast.

Lenteur: f. Slacknesse, lingering, slownesse; remisnesse; ease, negligence, lithernesse; also, clamminesse, slymineße, gluinesse.

Lenteux: m. euse: f. Nittie, full of nits.

Lentice. as Lentisque. Lenticulaire: m. An instrument wherewith Surgeons plane, and cut away, the broken bones of a wounded skull.

Lentillade: f. The spotted and long-nosed Scate, or Thornebacke. ¶Langued. Lentillat: m. The spotted dog-fish called by our fisher-*men, the Dunne-hound, or Dunne-cow.

Lentille: f. The Lintle, or Lentill (a small pulse;) also, the weight of a Lentill; or, a small weight whereof three make out two graines.  Lentilles. Round speckes, red pimples; wanne, small, and Lentill-resembling freckles, on the face, or hands.  Lentilles d'eau. as Lentilles de marais. Lentilles de marais, ou de mer. Duckes-meat, fenne-Lentills, water Lentills, Graines.

Lentillé: m. ée: f. Freckled, formpeckled, pimpled.

Lentilleux: m. euse: f. Frecklie; full of red pimples, or spots.

Lentisce. as Lentisque. Lentiscine: f. Masticke.

Lentisque: m. The Lentiske, or Masticke tree.

Lentitude: f. as Lenteur. Leonceau: m. A Lyons whelpe, or young Lyon.

Leonin: m. ine: f. Lyonlike; of, or belonging to, a Lyon.

Leontin. as Leonceau. Leopard: m. A Leopard, or Libbard; a beast ingendred betweene a Lyon, and a Panther.  Leopard de mer. The Cod, or Greenefish.

Leopardé. Lion Leop. Libbard-like.

Leporin: m. ine: f. Of, or belonging to, a Hare.

Leppe: f. Sea-grasse, Sea-weed, Reets.

Lepre: f. A leaprosie.  Lepre farineuse. A white scurfe, or leaprosie.

Lepreserie: f. Leaprousnesse; scurfe, scabbinesse.

Lepreux: m. euse: f. Leaprous; scuruie, or scabbed all ouer the bodie.

Leproserie: f. A Spittle for the leaprous.

Lequel: m. elle: f. Which, the which.  Lequel des deux. Whether, the whether, which soeuer, which of the two soeuer.

Lequesat: m. A kind of sauce for Woodcockes.

Lerelot: m. The foot, or downe of a countrey-maidens song.

Lermier. as Larmier. Lerot: m. A Dormouse; also, the great, and pild-eared Nut-mouse, Hasell-mouse, or Filbeard-mouse; called so, because he liueth onely on nuts.

Lerre: m. A theefe.

Lesard: m. A Lizard; See Lezard.