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 Lis d'estang. Water Lillie, water Rose, the yellow and white Nenuphar.  Lis iaulne. Liriconfancie, yellow Lillie.  Lis de mer. The white sea Daffadill, or white sea Onion.  Lis sauvage. Wild Lillie, mountaine Lillie; also, Liririconfancie, or the yellow Lillie.

Lis de vent. A gust, or flaw of wind; also, an opposition of two contrarie winds; or as Rumb. Aller au lis de vent. To goe close by the wind, saile with a scant wind, lay tacke aboord.

Lisable: com. Legible, readable.

Lisard: m. as Lisarde; or Lezard. Lisarde: f. A Lizard; Newt, Aske; (See Lezard;) also, a woman that reads much.  Lisarde verde. The great, greene, and harmelesse Lizard Ramarro; a friend vnto men, on whom she loues to gaze, and whom sleeping she vses to gard from the treacherous assaults of Serpents.

Liser. To list, or border a garment; also, to coast along by a countrey.

Liseron: m. Withiwind, Bindweed, Ropeweed, Hedge-*bells.  Liseron aspre. Rough Bindweed.  Liseron grand. as Grand liset. Liset: m. The Vine-fretter, or diuells Goldring; (a worme;) also, as Liseron; Withiwind; and hence;  Liset petit. Small Withiwind, or Bindweed; also, the blacke purging Bindweed.  Liset picquant. Rough Bindweed.  Grand liset. The great, smooth, white Bindweed, Ropeweed, Withiwind, Hedge-bells.

Lisible: com. Legible, readable.

Lisiére: f. The list of cloth, or of stuffe; th'edge, or hemme of a garment; also, th'end, or th'extreame outward part of any thing; and hence, a frontire, march, border, vtmost bound, or coast of a countrey.

Lisiereux: m. euse: f. Prescribing the limits, appointing or setting out the bounds, of seuerall countries.

Lisisque. as Licisque. Lissant. Sleeking, glazing, polishing.  Lissant de gueulles. Scaled Gules; (a tearme of Blazon.)

Lisse. as Lice; Also, one of the ropes wherwith the main-*yard of a ship is hoised vp; also, a rowler of massiue glasse wherewith Curriers doe sleeke, and glosse their leather.

Lissé: m. ée: f. Sleeked, glossed, glazed, polished; smooth, slipperie, glib.

Lisser. To sleeke, to glosse, to glaze, to polish, to smooth, to make slipperie.

Lisseron: m. Th'hearbe Peruinkle, or Periwinkle.

Lissure: f. A sleeking, glasing, polishing, setting a glosse on, smoothing.

Liste: f. A list, roll, checkroll, or catalogue of names, &c; also, a list, or seluedge; also, a small square out-iutting brow, or member of a piller; also, as Littre. Listeau: m. A little list; roll, catalogue; seluedge.

Litarge. as Litharge. Literaire: com. Of, or belonging to, letters, or learning.

Literal: m. ale: f. Learned, literall, well seene in liberall Artes.

Literature: f. Literature, learning.

Literon: f. as Litron.

Litharge: m. Litargie, white lead; lead mixed with the drosse of siluer and brasse. Litharge d'argent. Siluer foame, or the spume of tried siluer; or rather, the lead wherein siluer oare hath beene melted (that it might be purged, and cleered from the lead, or copper that was in it) which being done by a gentle fire giues it a siluer hew, and thereby this name.  Litharge d'or. Gold foame; the best kind of Litargie; comes of lead wherein siluer hath beene melted by a quick, and great fire, giuing it a golden luster, & thereby this name.   Litharge de plomb. as Plombagine; also, as Escume de plomb. Lithiase: f. The stone in the bladder.

Lithomantie: f. Diuination by the casting of pible stones.

Lithortipon. for Lithontripton; Stone-dissoluing, or stone-breaking: ¶Rab. Liticontester. To protest in a suit; viz. to deliuer, or lay open before a Judge the chiefe points of the declaration, and answer.

Litiere: f. A horselitter; also, litter for cattell; also, old dung, or manure; See Lictiere. Litige. Suit, controuersie, difference, variance, contention, strife, debate: In law, s'entend proprement quand y a Action intentée par adjournement, pour la chose contentieuse, & de qua controversia est. Litiger. To striue, wrangle, contend, maintaine a suit against; to be at variance, hold debate, goe to law with.

Litigieux: m. euse: f. Litigious, debatefull, contentious; in suit; or subiect vnto suit.

Litiscontestation: f. The deliuerie, or laying open of the chiefest points of a case, pro & contra, before a Judge; done after the declaration, and answer bee put in.

Litispendence: f. The hanging of a suit; or the triall, disceptation, or decision thereof.

Litorne: f. A Wing-thrush; or the red spotted Thrush, that seldome, or neuer, appeares in Summer.

Litre. as Littre. Litron: m. A measure (most commonly) of wood, containing somewhat more then our pinte, and vsed by the Retailers of Salt, Pulse, Millet, Rapeseed, &c.

Littée: f. The litter of a Bitch, Lyonesse, &c; also, a bed, or cake of leaues, hay, grasse, &c, to lay, or packe vp things in.

Litteron. as Litron. Littre: f. A funerall girdle; the blacke wherewith the vpper part of a Church is compassed, at the funerall of a great person.

Littron. as Litron. Lituë: m. A certaine crooked staffe vsed by the Roman Augures; also, a Crosier, or Bishops staffe.

Liture: f. A dash, rase, or streake through a word with a penne; also, a dashing, rasing, striking out, a blotting, or blurring with a pen.

Livane: f. The (bird) Pellicane.

Liveau. Seeke Niveau. Livel. d'un livel. Leuell.

Livesche. Lombardie Louage; also, Alexanders.

Livide: com. Wan, lew, bleake, pale, of a leaden, earthie, or dead, colour.

Lividité: f. Liuiditie; lewnesse, wannesse, bleakenesse, palenesse, blewishnesse; the colour appearing vpon a stroake, blacke and blew; a dead, earthie, leaden hew.

Livoy: m. A small vine-hooke, or vine-knife.

Livraison: f. A liuerie, or deliuerie; also, a court-dish; a dish furnished from a plentifull table with some part of all the meat thats on it.

Livre: m. A booke; a composition, or worke, in writing.