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 62 HAMPSHIRE QLOSSART. Lavants payunts], ah, pi, springs which hreak out in wet season-s. — N. HanU, * The land-springs, which we call lavanU, break out much on the downs.' — White, History of Selbome, Letter -* Leap up and Ubs me [leep up und kis mi], sb, Viola tricolor, — HalliwelL— J. B. Lear peer], adj, empty, void. Ex. * The waggon will be coming back leer. Used also of the stomach — * a leer stomach,* i. e. wanting^ food. Hence it signifies faint with hunger. Ex. * I feel quite lear.* C£ Qerman leer. — Cooper; Wise, New Forest^ p. 193. N. H. Learn purn], r. a. to teach, Ex. *He learned him to write.' — N.H. Lease peez], v. n. to glean. ^.S. lesan, to gather. *Ak. Lease, lea, lay, or ley peez], ah. grassy ground; meadow ground, imploughed and kept for cattle. — ^Lisle. Leasing pee*zin], part, gleaning after the reapers. This word i^ found wherever the West-country dialect is spoken. T^at it is u^d in Hants, will be seen from the following anecdote. When Cob- bett lived at Botley, he on one occasion forbad the poor people to come gleaning in his corn-fields. A day or two afterwards, as he rode through the village, he saw written on a wall in huge uncial letters — * We will go o Teaain in spite of old Cob.' Cobbett got off hia horse, and rubbing out the word leasin^ substituted thieving, and so left it *Ak. The word is common in N. H. Leather-jacket pedh*ur-jak*ut], sh. an apple with a thick rind. Per* haps the leather-coats of Shakesp. 2 Hen. IV. v. 3. Leave or Lieve peev], adv. soon ; rather. Ex. ' I'd as leave not do 't.' For Lief, q. v.— N. H. Leg peg], sh. a long narrow meadow ; generally when it runs out of a larger piece. — Wise (note on Cooper). ' A long narrow piece of land* ♦Ak. Lemfeg pem-feg], sh. an Elleme fig. Elleme is in Turkey. *Ak. Lent, Length pent, lenth], sh. the loan of a thing. *Ak. Ex. Let pet], V. and sh. stop or impede the course of a marble, cricket- ball, &c ; a stoppage. In plapng marbles, schoolboys generally guard against an accident of tms sort by crpng out fen leta^ which gives the owner of the taw a right to push it on to the distance it would have probably reached had it not been inadvertently stopped by the foot, &c. of a spectator or player. — F. M. See Pen. Com. in the sense of to hinder. Cf. 2 Thessalonians ii. 7, and Hamlet, L 4. Lewer pevur], sh. a lever. Ex. 'Fetch a lewer to un.' Used also as a V. a. Ex. ' Lewer un up a bit.' Lew poo], sh. to 'get into the lew' means to get into a place sheltered from the wind. AS. hkow, ?Ueo, shelter. *Ak. Ex. * The lew of the hedge.' — Wise. Lew, adj. sheltered from the wind.
 * Thank you for the lent of it.' — Wise.