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 Lilac. as Ben (of two sillables.) Limace: f. A Snaile (most properly, the dew Snaile, or Snaile without a shell;) also, as Volute; any thing that winds, or turnes like a Snaile-shell, &c.

Limaceux: m. euse: f. Snailie, Snaile-like; full of Snailes; also, as;

Limacial: m. ale: f. Of a Snaile, resembling a Snaile; winding, twirling, or turning about like the shell of a Snaile.

Limaçon: m. A Snaile (and most properly that which hath a shell.)  Limaçon de mer. A Winkle, or Periwinkle.  Petit Limaçon de mer. as Nerite. Herbe à Limaçon. Medicke fodder, Snaile Clauer.  Pierre de Limaçon. The Snaile stone; found in the heads of some (dew) Snailes; tis white, somewhat transparent, and rugged; it seemes hard, and yet, being pressed betweene the teeth, breaks as small as sand: the vulgar hold it good for a Tertian, or Quartan Ague.  Treffle au limaçon. as Herbe à limaçon. Faire le limaçon. To wind, twirle, or turne round about; souldiers to doe the ring, or to cast themselues into a ring.  Autant chemine vn homme en vn iour comme vn limaçon en cent ans: Prov. A quicke workeman dispatches as much in one day as a slowbacke in twentie.  Contre la nuict s'arment les limaçons: Pro. Snails arme themselues (put out their hornes) towards night.

Limaçonner. To twirle, turne, or wind about, like the shell of a Snaile, or as souldiers that cast themselues into a ring.

Limaille: f. File-dust, pinne-dust.

Limailles: f. as Legumages; Pulse. Limaire. A young Tunnie.

Limande: f. A Burt, or Bret-fish; also, a broad Pipe-*staffe, or boord, prepared, fashioned, and fit, for caske; also, a short cudgell.

Limas. as Limaçon. Limasse: f. as Limace. Limasse à eau. The little water Snaile.

Limasson. as Limaçon. Limature: f. A filing; also file-dust.

Limbe de bouteille. The mouth, or brinke of a bottle.

Limbes. A low, and vnsauorie roome in prisons; also, the Purgatorie of vnbaptized children.

Lime: f. A file; also, as Limaçon. Limes. A wild Boares nether tusks, or tushes.  Lime sourde. A soft, or smooth file, which makes no noise when tis vsed; also, a dreaming, slie, malicious knaue; or, as in;  Faire la lime sourde. To giue no eare vnto; or, to seeme as if he either heard not, or cared not to heare.

Limé: m. ée: f. Filed; smoothed, polished; scraped, or shauen vnto a sleeknesse, or euennesse; also, licked; also, gleeked, or looked askew at.

Limer. To file; smooth, polish; to scrape, or shaue a thing till it be sleeke, or euen; also, to licke, as a Hare doth her young ones; also, to gleeke, or looke askew at.

Limes; &, Lime-sourde. as in Lime. Limestre. The cloth whereof hoods be made is called Drap de limestre; and from hence those that weare them be in contempt called Limestres. Limeur: m. A filer.

Limeure: f. File-dust; also, a filing.

Limier: m. A Bloud-hound, or Lime-hound.

Limignon d'vne chandelle. The wieke of a candle. Liminaire: com. Set before th'entrie, or at the beginning of; dedicatorie; forerunning.

Limitateur: m. A limiter, bounder, stinter, prescriber.

Limitation: f. A limitation, restriction, restraint, prescription, modification.

Limite: f. A limit, bound, stint; border, frontire; prescription; a condition, course, or compasse appointed one.

Limité: m. ée: f. Limited, bounded, stinted, restrained, prescribed a certaine course, or compasse.

Limiter. To limit, bound, stint; prescribe a condition, appoint a course, restraine within a compasse.

Limiteur: m. A limiter, bounder, stinter.

Limitrophe: com. Bordering vpon, adioyning or lying neere vnto.

Limoine: f. Pyrola, Winter-greene, Winter Beets, wild Beets.

Limon: m. Slime; or thicke, and slimie durt, mud, mire, puddle, dregs; also, a slimie soile; also, a Lemmon; also, the Thill of a waine, wagon, &c; In which sence (because a Thill consists of two beames) it is most vsed in the Plurall number.

Limonier. Cerfs limoniers. Stags painted, as Thill-horses, with carts at their heeles.  Cheval limonier. A Thill-horse, or Cop-horse; he that goes next to the waine, &c.

Limonne. as Poncille. Limonneux: m. euse: f. Slimie; muddie, boggie, durtie, mirie, puddle, filthie, full of ordure.

Limpide: com. Cleere, bright, sheene, glazie, transparent.

Limure. File-dust; also, a filing.

Lin: m. Line, flax; flaxen or hempen yarne; linnen cloth.  Lin sauvage. Flax-weed, wild flax, tode-flax, Flaine-*wort.  Lin vif. A kind of Indian line, or linnen, which the fire purifies, but consumes not.  Goutte, ou podagre, de lin. The weed Dodder; (and flax it selfe is said to haue the gowt, when one staulke twines about another as it growes.)  Il a meslé le lin avec la chanure; &;   Il a tissu lin avec estouppe. He hath mingled flax with toe; he hath iumbled good and bad together.

Linage: m. Linage, kindred; See Lignage. Linagier: m. A direct, or neere kinsman.  Linagier sur linagier n'a point de retenuë. One kinsman cannot recouer the land that hath bin bought by another.

Linagier: m. ere: f. as Lignagier; Neere akinne, &c.

Linaire. Flax-weed, Flainewort, wild flax, tode-flax.

Linarole: f. The name of a delicate Italian peare which is ripe in August.

Linceul: m. A sheet (for a bed.)  Le plus riche n'emporte qu'un linceul: Prov. The richest carries but one sheet t'his graue.

se Linder par terre. To creepe, or crawle along the ground.

Line. as Ligne. Lineament: m. A lineament, or feature, of the face, or of any other part.

Lineature: f. A lineature, or feature. Lineature des mains. The lines, or streakes of the hands, wheron Palmisters, and Fortune-tellers ground their coniectures.