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 Lucarne: f. A garret window, or window in the roofe of a house, &c.

Lucarné: m. ée: f. Hauing windowes in the roofe.

Luce: f. (A womans name) Luce; and the name of a virgine-Saint registred in Kalenders on the 13 of December; Hence the Prouerbe;)  À la Sainte Luce du sault d'une puce; c'est à dire, le jour croist. (Or not so much; for that is held the shortest day of the yeare.)

Lucel, & Lucet. A young Pike, a Pickerell.

Lucheran: m. A Scrich-owle.

Luchet. A spade; or as Louchet: ¶Langued. Lucifugue: f. A kind of Beetle, or light-hating flie.

Lucide: com. Cleere, shining, bright, light.

Lucratif: m. iue: f. Lucratiue, commodious, gaine-bringing, whereof great profit is made.

Lucrative: f. Lucre, gaine, profit, commoditie, commings in; also, the profession of the Law (because it brings in store of Crownes.)

Lucs. as Lus. Luctation: f. A wrastling, strugling, striuing with.

Lucte. as Luicte. Lucté: m. ée: f. Wrastled, strugled, striuen with.

Ludicre: com. Light, childish, toyish, mocking, sportfull, gamesome.

Ludificatoire: com. Mocking, deceiuing, beguiling.

Lueil: m. Ray, Darnell.

Luet. Devoir de luets. A bushell of Rie due by euerie tenant, and housholder that keepes a fire, and tillage within a Parish in Britanie.

Luette: f. The Palate, or Vuula; a little peece of spungious flesh in the root of the roofe of the mouth.  Luettes. Little bundles of peeces of Jvorie cast loosse vpon a table; the play is to take vp one without shaking the rest, or else the taker looseth.

Lueur: f. Light, brightnesse, cleerenesse, luster, splendor, glittering, irradiation, glistering, a casting forth of beames.

Luëux: m. euse: f. Light, bright, splendent, shining, glittering, glistering.

Lugubre: com. Dolefull, mourning, mournefull, sorrowfull, wayling, funerall.

Luicte: f. Wrastling; th'exercise of wrastling; also, a strugling, or strife with.  Vn tour de luicte en procez. A cunning tricke, trip, or passage in pleading, which will goe neere to ouerthrow th'aduerse partie.  Il l'emporta de haute luicte. He carried it cleere, he bore it away by maine force; he imployed his vtmost strength, in the compassing of it.  Au fort bras la luicte: Prov. See Bras. Luictement. m. A wrastling, or strugling with.

Luicter. To wrastle, to struggle, or striue with.  Luicter contre les ombres. To wrastle with shadowes; to be angrie without cause, or purpose; also, to reuile the absent; also, to deuise things and afterwards raile at them.  L'abbatu veut tousjours luicter: Prov. No foile can quell an obstinacie.

Luire. To shine, glitter, glister; to cleere, be bright, giue light, yeeld a radiant luster.  Ce qu'on donne luit, ce qu'on mange puit: Prov. What we giue shines, what we eat smells.

Luisans: m. Sparkles, or fierie and starre-resembling Meteors, in the middle region of the aire.

Luisant. Shining, cleere, bright, beamie, lusterous, ra-* *diant, glittering, glistering.

Luisantement. Brightly, radiantly, shiningly, glisteningly, glitteringly.

Luisarner. To glow, glisten, glimmer.

Luiton: m. A Goblin, Bug, Robin-good-fellow, merrie diuell, that vses to mocke, and deceiue, sillie people.  Luiton de mer. A Triton, or Sea-man; a fish that resembles a man.

Lumbaire: com. Of, or belonging to, the flanke, or loyne.  Arteres lumbaires. Branches of the great Arterie distributed all ouer the loynes, and giuing life to the marrow of the backe.  Muscle lumbaire. One of the two muscles which bow the thighes.  Veine lumbaire. See Veine. Lumbrique. A ground worme: ¶Rab. Lumer. To shine; to giue light, to yeeld or cast a light.  La chandelle lume mal. Burnes dimly, or burnes but ill.

Lumiere: f. Light; brightnesse, cleerenesse, a shining; also, a light, candle, or lampe.  La lumiere d'une haquebute, &c. The touch-hole of an Harquebuse, &c.  Mettre en lumiere. To publish, divulge, set forth, send abroad into the world.  Privé de la lumiere. Depriued both of light, and life.  Qui n'est point venu en lumiere. Abstruse, obscure, vnknowne, that is not yet come abroad.  À l'oeil malade la lumiere nuit: Prov. Light hurts diseased eyes; or, a sicke eye is offended with the light.

Lumignon: m. The weeke or cotton of a candle; the match of a lampe.

Lumillette: f. The hearbe Eye-bright.

Luminaire: m. A light, a candle, a lampe, &c; also, a Booke of the composition of Physicall receits.

Luminette: f. as Lumillette. Lumineux: m. euse: f. Shining, glistering, most bright, full of cleerenesse, yeelding a great light.

Luminier: m. A Vesterer, or Vesterie-keeper; hee that hath the charge of the lights, and ornaments of a Church; also, an Agent, Atturney, or Solicitor for a whole Towneship.

Luminon. as Lumignon. Lunaire: f. Lunarie, Moonewort.  Lunaire majeur; ou grande lunaire. Great Moonewort, Pennie-flower, Money-flower, Pricksong-*wort, Honestie, Sattin, white Sattin; (Alchymists call water Fearne Lunaria major.)  Lunaire mineur; ou petite lunaire. Small Lunarie, small Moonewort.

Lunaire: com. Lunarie; of, or belonging to, the Moone.  Cicle lunaire. The Golden number; Looke Cicle. Lunaison: f. A Moneth, a Moone, or the season continuing a whole Moone; also, the shining of the Moone.

Lunatique: com. Lunaticke, in a Lunacie, franticke, wood, no wiser then he should be.

Lundi: m. Monday.

Lune: f. The Moone; one of the seuen Planets; also, siluer (called so by Alchymists;) also, the Molebut-*fish. Lune de mer. The Molebut; also, a kind of ash-coloured Starre-fish of a hard, and shellie substance.