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 Vn livre à personnages. A Dialogue.  Il veut tousiours tenir le livre. He talkes continually, no bodie can get a word for him, he will suffer no bodie to speake.

Livre: f. A pound weight.  La livre d'Anvers. The ordinarie pound, containing 16 ounces.  La livre des Apothecaries. Containing (in many places) but 12 ounces, which we call Troy weight, and was th'auntient Romane weight: (Our Apothecaries vse the sixteene-ounce pound.)  La livre d'Espaigne. Containes 14 ounces.  La livre des Espiciers, Grossiers, &c. Containes but 12 ounces; (whereas our Grocers pound containeth 16.)  La livre de Florence, & de Gennes. Is 12 ounces.  La livre de grosserie. Containes 24 ounces.  La livre de Lyon. Is 15 ounces.  La livre marchande. Containes in some places 14, in others 18, but in the most 16, ounces; which be diuided into 32 halfe ounces, they into 64 Sezains, those into 128 Treseaux, they into 256 Gros, and they into 512 Demi gros. La livre des Mareschaux. The Farriers pound; containes 12 ounces, diuided into 90 drammes, they into 270 scruples, and they into 540 Oboles, or halfe pence. La livre Medecinale. The Physitians pound; contains also 12 ounces; but they be diuided into 96 drammes, they into 288 scruples, those into 576 Oboles, they into 1728 Siliques, and they into 6912 graines.  La livre de Milan, ou de la Soye. Is but 12 ounces.  La livre du gros poids. Consists of 26 ounces.  La livre du petit poids. Is but 12 ounces.  La livre Royale. The Kings pound, Aver du poids pound, most ordinarie pound, containeth 16 ounces.  Reduicts de livres en quarterons. (Somewhat like our) brought from a noble to nine-pence.

Livre: f. A pound in money.  Livre Barrois. Is worth but 14 s. Tournois, one short of 18 d. sterl. Livre Bourdelois. Is but 12 Solz and a halfe; or the halfe of the Parisian pound.  Livre Mansais. Is 4 s. sterl. or double the worth of the Tournois. Livre Parisis. Is worth 20 s. of Paris, or 25 s. Tourn. which come to 2 s. 6 d. sterl. Livre Tournois. The pound Tournois; the most ordinarie French pound; amounts but to 2 s. sterl. Livré: m. ée: f. Deliuered, giuen, or distributed vnto.

Livrée: f. A deliuerie of a thing thats giuen; and (but lesse properly) the thing so giuen; hence, a Liuerie; Ones cloth, colours, or deuice in colours worn by his seruants, or others.  La Livrée des Chanoines. Their liuerie, or corrodie; their stipend, exhibition, dailie allowance in victualls, or money.

Livrement: m. A liuerie, or deliuerie; and hence;  Livrement de fust, & terre. Liuerie, and seisin.

Livrer. To giue; to deliuer, or distribute vnto; to bestow, or conferre on; to passe, or yeeld ouer; to put into the hands of.

Livresque: com. Bookish; of, or belonging to, a booke.

Livret: m. A Pamphlet, or little booke.

Lixive. as Lexive. Lizant. Bordering; setting a list or border on; also, coasting along by the borders of.

Lize: com. Glib, smooth, sleeke: ¶Rab.

Lizeron: m. Withiwind, Bindweed, Hedge-bells. Lizet. as Liset. Lizette: f. A little grayish vermine (which gnawes, and does much hurt vnto the young buds of grafts) held to work the same effects in the yard that the Cantharides doe.

Liziere: f. as Lisiere. Lizieux: m. Woollen clothes made at a Normand towne so called.

Loage. Seeke Loüage. Lobe: m. The lap, or lowest part of the eare; also, a lobe, or lappet of the liuer, &c; also, as Loupe; (also, a lie, fib, ieast, gullerie, mockerie; In old French.)

Lobeau: m. A little lobe, lap, or lappie peece of.

Lober. To gull, cousen, deceiue, beguile.

Local: m. ale: f. Locall; belonging to, or contained in, a place.

Localement: m. Locally, in a place.

Locar. bled locar. A kind of wall Barlie, called S. Peters corne.

Locataire: com. A Lessee, or hirer of a house, or lodging; also, a hireling, one which is, or may be hired; also, as Locateur. Locateur: m. A letter, or hirer out of.

Locatif. A tenant, inmate, soiourner; one that hireth a lodging or two to lie in.

Location: f. A hiring, or letting out of; also, a placing; a setting, or bestowing, in a place.

Loch: m. A Loche, or Loboche; a liquid confection, or soft medecine, thats not to be swallowed, but held in the mouth vntill it haue melted, and so past by degrees downe the throat; See Lohoc. Loche: f. The Loach, a small fish; also, the dew snayle, or snayle without a shell.  Loche franche. Is somewhat lesse, and daintier then th'ordinarie Loach, which is commonly tearmed;  Loche grasse; and liues much in the mud.   Loche de mer. A little fish bred of, but neuer so big as, the sea Gudgeon; some call it a sea Groundling.

Locher. To shog, shake, shocke, wag, make a noise like a thing thats loosse.

Lochette: f. A Groundling, or small-bearded Loach.

Locquet. as Loquet. Locule: m. A little bag, pouch, or purse.

Locupleter. To inrich, or make wealthie.

Locution: f. A locution, saying, speech, manner of speaking.

Lodier: m. A quilt, or quilted counterpoint for a bed.

Lodes. as Lods: ¶Breton. Lods. Fines of Alienation due to a Lord vpon the purchase of a Censuel inheritance held of him; Seeke Ventes; or, Droict de ventes. Loe: f. A quantitie of fish taken, as a custome, by some few Normand Lords, of euerie fisher-boat that comes into, and moores within, their hauens, creekes or harbors; especially if the boat belong vnto any of their tenants, or any inhabitant of their territories.

Loere: f. as Plongeon de Riviere. Lof. Seeke Loo. Loge. vn loge qui peut. A lodging at randome, a lodging where one can get it, or a scambling for lodgings; from souldiers incamping, or entring of a towne, when commonly euerie one takes the first lodging hee lights on.

Loge: f. A lodge, cote, shed, or small house; a cabine in a ship; a booth in a Market, or Faire, &c. Droict de loges. Looke Droict. Il n'est pas mercier qui ne sçait faire sa loge: Pro.