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 Live-lumber, subs. (nautical).—Landsmen on board ship.

1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.

Livener, subs. (common).—A morning dram; a pick-me-up (q.v.). For synonyms see Go.

Liver. See Curl.

Liverpool-button, subs. (nautical).—A kind of toggle used by sailors when they lose a button.

Liverpool blues, subs. phr. (military).—The Seventy-ninth Foot.

Liverpool tailor, subs. phr. (tailors').—A tramping workman; one who sits with his coat and hat on, ready for the road.

Liverpudlian, subs. (colloquial).—A native or inhabitant of Liverpool.

1884. Graphic, 12 April, p. 346, col. 3. Its last match was with Liverpool and it had to accept defeat at the hands of the liverpudlians.

Live-sausage. See Sausage.

Live-stock, subs. (common).—Fleas, bugs and lice,—all body vermin.

1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.

Living fountain, subs. phr. (venery).—The female pudendum.

1648. Herrick, Hesperides, 404. Show me that hill where smiling love doth sit, Having a living fountain under it.

Liza. Outside Liza! phr. (common).—Be off!

Load, subs. (colloquial).—1. An excess of food or drink. Cf. Jag. Loaded = drunk: also loaded for bears, or to the gunwales.

1767. Ray, Proverbs [Bohn (1893), 63]. He has a jag or load, drunk.

Verb. (horse-copers').—1. To introduce well-greased shot into the throat of a 'roaring' or broken-winded horse. This conceals the defect for a few hours, during which a sale is effected.

1890. Answers, 6 July, p. 81, col. 1. The process of loading a horse, as it is called, is one adopted by 'horse-copers'—gentry who make a living by selling patched-up horses.

2. (Stock Exchange).—To buy heavily: to unload = to sell freely.

Load of hay, subs. phr. (rhyming).—A day.

Like a load of bricks. See Like.

To lay on load, verb. phr. (old).—To thrash.

1537. Thersites [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), i. 406]. I will search for them both in bush and shrub, And lay on a load with this lusty club.

c.1550. Inglelend, Disobedient Child (Dodsley, Old Plays (1870), ii. 305]. [Here the wife must lay on load upon her husband]—Stage direction.

b.1553. Wever, Lusty Juventus [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), ii. 87]. But lay load on the flesh, whatsoever befall, You have strength enough to do it with all.

Loaf, subs. (common).—1. A lounge; dawdle; idling: e.g., 'to do a loaf'.

2. See Loaves and Fishes.

Verb. (common).—1. To lounge; to idle; to mike (q.v.). Fr. louper and gouspiner.

French synonyms. Avoir les côtes en long (popular); balocher (thieves'); louper; traîner sa peau (thieves'); n'en pas foutre une