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 Lienteric. Flux lienteric. as Lienterie. Lienterie: f. A flux wherein meat is voided (raw, and vndisgested) presently after the eating thereof.

Lienterieux: m. euse: f. Troubled with, or sicke of, that flux.

Lienterique: com. The same.

Liepard: m. A Libbard, or Leopard.

Lier: m. The allay of coyne.

Lier. To tye, bind, fasten, knit; halter, fetter; soulder, vnite, combine; oblige, or make beholden to.  On lie bien le sac avant qu'il soit plein: Prov. A sacke before't be full is easily bound vp; there's hope of compassing one that's in want.   Il ne faut pas lier les Asnes avec les chevaux: Pro. We must not mingle bad and good together.

Liernes: f. Slits, Enterlasses, or Entertoises of Timber.

Lierre: m. Juie.  Lierre arboré. Tree Juie, wall Juie; the great, or climing Iuie.  Lierre blanc. The white Juie, or female great Juie, bearing a white berrie.  Lierre clavelé. as Petit Lierre. Lierre Helix. Barren, or creeping Iuie.  Lierre noir. The ordinarie climing, or black-berried Iuie.  Lierre piquant. Rough Bindweed.  Lierre terrestre. Ground Iuie, Alehoofe, Gill creepe by ground, Tunehoofe, Catsfoot.  Lierre trainant. as Lierre terrestre; or creeping, and barren Iuie.  Petit Lierre. Small Iuie, ground Iuie, creeping or barren Iuie.

Liesse: f. Glee, mirth, gladnesse, ioyfullneße, cheerefullnesse, lightneße of heart.

Liet. as Liais. Liet: m. ette: f. Glad, blithe, merrie, iocond, frolicke, pleasant, buxome, cheerefull.

Liette: f. A till, or drawer; also, a casket, or small coffer full of tills, or drawers.

Lieu: m. A place; roome; seat, ranke; stead; also, a qualitie, calling, degree, state; also, credit, esteeme, reckoning, account; also, a house, or dwelling place; and hence; Lieu chevels. A Mannor-house. ¶Norm. Chef lieu. A Lords chiefe House, Place, or Mannor; (and, in the customes of Mons, and Valenciennes each of those Townes is tearmed Chef lieu.) Au lieu, & en lieu de. Jn lieu, in stead, in the roome of. En temps, & lieu. Fitly, conueniently, seasonably, then when it should be. Sur le lieu. There; in that verie place; also, presently, incontinently, forthwith, before he stirred one foot thence. Il n'a feu ne lieu. He hath nor house nor harbour; he hath not a hole to hide his head in. S'il y a lieu de s'arrester à son dire. Jf there be cause to stand on his report, if there be reason to build vpon his tale, if we may safely beleeue him. Bonne parole bon lieu tient, & Meschantes paroles ont meschant lieu: Pro. Seeke Parole.

Lieve: f. as Leve.

Lieuë: f. A League; two miles. La Lieuë de Bourgongne; Containes 50 Portées. Looke Portée. Les grandes lieuës, comme celles d'Allemaigne; containe verie neere foure of our miles. Les moyennes lieuës, comme celles de Dauphiné, ou de Languedoc; are about three of our miles. Les petites lieuës, comme celles d'Italie; are little other then our miles. Lievement. as Levée. Lieur: m. A binder, tyer, fastener, knitter, halterer, fetterer; soulderer; vniter of.

Lieure: f. as Liement; or, as Liaison. Lievre: f. A Hare.  Lievres cuirassez, ou morionnez. So doe some Authors tearme poore Artisans that watch.  Lievre marin. The sea Hare; an ouglie, and venomous fish, whose left side nothing resembles the right.  Bec de lievre. A Hares lip, or mouth; the vpper lip cleft in the middle vp to the nose.  Memoire de lievre. Extreame forgetfullneße.  Oeil de lievre. An eye whose lids keepe open in sleeping; also, one whose vpper lid (by conuulsion, or otherwise) is reuerted, and thereby hindered from couering the white.  Oreille de lievre. Seeke Oreille. Palais au lievre. The smooth Sow-thistle; or the milke Thistle called, Hares Lettuce.  Pied de lievre. Hares-foot, Harefoot Trefoile, base Trefoile, rough Clauer.  Plus coüard qu'un lievre. More heartlesse then a Hare (then which no beast hath leße heart.)  Fuyard en lievre. That runnes when he should resist; or (more properly) that runnes because he cannot resist.. Le lievre est mis au rouët. Looke Rouët. Ie sçay bien ou gist le lievre. J know well which is the verie point, or knot of the matter. Voila ou gist le lievre (to the same purpose.)  Il fait accroire que les lievres pondent, & font des œufs. (Applyable to one that is an extreame prater, and a monstrous lyer to boot;) He would make vs beleeue that Hares lay egges.  Les chiens vous mangeront le lievre. That which you haue gaped, or hunted for will be had, or got, from you.  Prendre le lievre au tabourin. To performe impossibilities; whence the Prouerbe.  L'on ne prend le lievre au son de tambour. Applyable to such, as striue to be obeyed by force; or thinke by lowd, and great words to ouermaister euerie bodie; or presume they can surprise a place whose inhabitants had notice of their comming: And is as much as to tell them, they labour in vaine; for Hares are not to be caught by drumming.  Bon est le lievre dont la peau couste cent sous: Pro. The Hare whose skin costs deere is worth the hauing: we say of a thing bought at a high rate, it had need be daintie it cost him so deere; or, it is a Hare dressed with Venison, or Deere, sauce.  En petit buisson trouve on grand lievre: Prov. A little bush may hold a great Hare; a little bodie a great heart.   Pas à pas le bœuf prend le lievre: Pro. By little and little an Ox may catch a Hare; The like is;  Vne vache prend bien vn lievre: Prov. Patient perseuerance wins ground of hastie vehemence; so may a slow-paced Cow oretake the nimble Hare.

Lieutenant: m. A Lieutenant, Deputie, Substitute, Vicegerent; also, an vnder Iudge, or the deputie of a Bailli'', or of a Lo. high Iusticiers Iudge; whence;'' Lieutenant civil. A Iudge of ordinarie controuersies betweene partie and partie.