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 Lice de charpenterie. A frame, or double, and close-*wrought rayle, or barre of timber; such as the foundations of water-worke piles, &c, are compassed with.  De haute lice. Of rich worke, much worth; high stile, excellent stuffe; hence, Tapisserie de haute lice. The best kind of Tapistrie.  Fuir la lice. To shun, or quit the field; to refuse, or abandon, the fight; (any way) to flinch.

Lice: com. Smooth, sleeke; See Lissé. Licence: f. Licence, leaue, libertie; permission, sufferance.

Licencié: m. A Licenciate; a Batcheler of Diuinitie; one that hath his Grace for a Doctorship; In Law, one that hath leaue to plead for clyents; an vtter Barrister.  Licencié sous la cheminée. One that doth his acts in Tenebris; one that steales a Degree, or gets it without desert.

Licencié: m. ée: f. Dismißed, discharged.

Licencier. To dismisse, discharge, giue leaue, graunt licence vnto.

Licencieusement. Licentiously, freely, with full sufferance.

Licharder. To licke daintily, feed quaintly, pick vp morsels curiously.

Liche. A kind of the fish Glaucus.

Liche-casse. A lick-box, a sweet-lips. ¶Rab. Liche-doigt: m. One that lickes his fingers one after the other; also, one that does things leisurely, or by peeces; whence;  À liche-doigt. Peecemeale, by patches or parcels, by degrees, one after another; also, daintily, or sparingly.

Liche-frite: f. A Dripping-panne.

Lichement: m. A licking; lapping, or slapping vp.

Lichene: f. A Ring-worme, or Tettar.

Licher. To licke; lap; slap vp.

Licherie: f. A licking, sawcinesse, lickerousnesse.

Licheron: m. A sawcie companion.

Licheur: m. A licker, lapper, or slapper vp of; a lickerous, or sawcie companion.

Licisque. A dog ingendred betweene a wolfe, and a dog.  Licisque orgoose. A sault bitch.

Licitation: f. A profering, or setting to sale, vnto him that will giue most; also, a prizing, or cheapening.  Licitation & decret. Fine and recouerie.

Licite: com. Lawfull; allowable.

Licol: m. A rope, halter; horse-collar; Looke Chevestre. Gens de sac, & de licol. Rogues, vagabonds; also, begging Friers.

Licorne: f. An Vnicorne; also, Vnicornes horne.

Lict: m. A bed, couch, pallet; also, a course, ranke, bed, or laire of stone, &c, in building. Lict brisé. Mariage broken, a maried couple parted. Lict d'un cerf. The lodge of a Deere. Lict de Iustice. A Iudiciall Seat, or Throne of Iustice; the Kings Seat in a Court, or in Parliament. Lict de matlas. A Matteresse, or Flock-bed. Lict de parement. The bed wherein a woman lyes in; also, a Sparuer; Looke Parement. Licts de parlement. Quilts stuffed with Chestnut leaues; tearmed so in mockage, because being stirred, or stirred on, they make a brabling, or confused noise. Lict d'une Riviere. The channell of a Riuer. Lict verd. A couch, or bed of ease to sit, or loll on in the day time. En lict de chien n'y a point d'oingture: Prov. The kennell of a dog's without sweet ointments. Le Lict est vne belle chose, qui n'y dort on y repose: Pro. A well-made bed's a good, and friendlie neast, for though one sleepe not on't, he takes his rest.

Lictée. Seeke Littée. Lictiere: f. A Litter, or Horse-litter; also, litter for horses, &c; also, old dung, or manure.  Batre la lictiere. A horse to stay or continue in, or not to stirre out of, the stable.  Faire lictiere de. To violate, prophane, abuse; despise, contemne, make vile account, or base vse of; tread vnder foot.  Mettre à la lictiere. To ruine, ouerthrow, pull downe, put vnto most vile or base offices, tread vnder foot.

Lide: f. A kind of woodden, and warlike Engine vsed in old time.

Lie: f. The lees, dregs, grounds, thicke substance that settles in the bottome of liquor.  Tirer vn traict sus la lie. To broach a vessell below, or towards the bottome; to leacher it, or get a licke at.

Lie: com. Cheerefull, pleasant, buxome.  Dire vne chose de chere lie. To say a thing with a merrie countenance, cheerie visage, looke full of glee.  Faire chere lie. To be iocond, merrie, frolicke; to make great sport, or good cheere.

Lié: m. ée: f. Tyed, bound; fastened, fettered; obliged; annexed, or knit vnto; combined, or vnited with; holding, or hanging together.  Potage lié. Broth, or pottage thickened with the yolkes of egges, or crummes of white bread  Lié avec fueilles de pourreaux. Weakely bound God wot; readie, or easie, to be loossed.  Ou la Chevre est liée faut qu'elle broute: Pro. The Goat must brouze where she is bound; where a man is setled let him seeke to liue.

Liege: m. Corke.

Liege. Fief liege. as Fief ample; Seeke Ample. Liegé: m. ée: f. Corked; stopped, or vnderlayed with Corke; whence;  Soulier liegé. A Corke shooe.

Lieger. To corke; to stop, raise, or vnderlay, with Corke.

Liement: m. A binding, tying, fastening, fettering, knitting, annexing vnto; a combining, or vniting with; an vnion, or adherence; a closing, gluing, souldering; a holding, or hanging together.

Liément. Merrily, blithely, iocondly, buxomely, gladsomely, with much glee.

Lien: m. A band, or tye; a line, cord, string; any thing that fasteneth, or fettereth; as a thong, rope, gyue, manacle, shackle, &c; also, a ligament, or ligature; also, the loope of a dart.  Iustice patibulaire à deux piliers, & liens par dedans & par dehors. A Gibbet standing on two pillars; a paire of Gallowes, bound both within and without; belongs vnto, or may be kept by, a Lo high Iusticier. Sainct Pierre aux liens. Lammas day; or the first of August.  Ce n'est que trainer son lien. He does but diuert, for a while, the plagues which will fall vpon him; or, goe whether he will, make what shift he can, he carries his payment with him; hence the Prouerbe; Il n'est pas eschappé qui traine son lien. À meschant chien court lien; &, à petit chien petit lien; &, à rude chien dur lien: Prov. Looke Chien. Rien ne vaut poulain s'il ne rompt son lien: Pro. The colt that's halter breakes not mettall wants.

Liens. as Leans.