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 S4 WEST CORNWALL GLOSSART. surface of the fields. <* Leasing, picking stones.'' Polwhele. Leat, a gutter ; a narrow artificial water; a mill-stream. '* Don't waalk in the leat; thee baist." Leave. " I*m not left to go out in the cold." Zev'forlet. **Zcv' us go." Lemon plant, the verbena. Lent lily, the common yellow dafPodil Lerrick, v, to flap about* Lermpping, a flogging, adj, large. LdimpSy the scrape of meat sold by butchers. LirrupSy Sdlly. Lesteroooky a toy-boat sent out before the wind by fishermen in rough weather wiui a string of hoOKS. Let, V. to stop ; to hinder. " You let my marble." T. Q. Couch. Letterpooohy an old Cornish dance. Lenstre, v. to plan. Level, a gallery of a mine. Levener, Elev«ner, a luncheon. Levers, the marsh iris (pron, layers). Lewth, Lew, a place sheltered from the wind. Liard, a liar. '^You're a g'eat Hardy you are." Libbety-lat, a game for children. They stand before a hassock or step, and put the rijght and left foot alternately on it as feist as they possibly can, keeping time to tiie words, "Who can do tnis and who can do that? And who can do anything better than that ? " Libbings, the webs of a water- fowl* s feet "Wingy, wingy, leggy, legpy, libhings and all; oh, where is my mallard P " Lick, V. to smear lightly. "You've licked your sleeve in the mus- tard." '* Your dress is licking in the mud.*' Lidden, a word ; talk ; a burden of a song or complaint. " The same old lidden,^* A monotonous song. T.Q. Couch. Also "broad," H.E.C. Lie, V. " The wind has gone to he" (subsided). " The com has gone to Zte" fbroken by wind and rain has fallen flat). Lig, Liggan, a kind of seaweed. Liggan, "manure composed of autumnal leaves washed down by a stream and deposited by side eddies." Powey, T, Q. Couch. Liggan. "He's coming home with penny liggan** (lacking, like a bad penny returned). '* I can*t play any more, I'm penny liggan," Likes, adv. probability; likeK- hood. *<Do 'ee think there's likes o'Tom?" Lilly-banger. Until within the last twenty years it was the custom in Penzance on Easter Monday to bring out in the lower parts of the town tables before the doors, on which were placed thick ^ngerbread cakes with raisins m uiem, cups and saucers, &c., to be raffled for with lilly-hangers (cup and dice). The stalls were called "lilly-* banger stalls." Limb. " Your daughter looks well." "No, she's but slight; her face is her best limb" Lime-ash, a composition of sifted ashes and mortar used for floor- ing kitchens. Limner, a painter. " You caan't paint a boat as well as our
 * Libhetyf Itbbetyi Uhbety tat,