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LEDDIE, LEDDY, _s._ lady.
LEE, _adj._ lonely; fallow land.
LEE, _s._ a lie.
LEESOME, _adj._ pleasant.
LEEZE-ME, LEESE-ME, dear is to me--expressive of strong affection or love.
_To_ LEG, _v. n._ to run.
LEG-BAIL, _s._ to run off.
LEGLIN, LAIGLIN, _s._ a milk-pail.
LEID, LEDE, LUID, _s._ a song; a lay.
LEIF, _adj._ willing.
LEIL, LEELE, LELE, _adj._ lawful; right.
LEISCH, _s._ a lash; a thong.
LEISTER, LISTER, _s._ a p.r.o.nged instrument for striking fish, generally used by poachers.
_To_ LEN, _v. a._ to lend.
_To_ LET-BE, _v. n._ to let alone.
LEUCH, LEUGH, _pret_. laughed.
_To_ LEUE, LUVE, _v. n._ to court; to make love.
LEVIN, s. lightning.
LEW-WARME, _adj._ tepid.
LIART, LYART, _adj._ having grey hairs intermixed.
LICHTER, LICHTARE, _part. pa._ delivered of a child.
LICHTS, _s. pl._ the lungs.
_To_ LICK, _v. a._ to strike; to beat.
LIFT, LYFT, _s._ the atmosphere; the sky.
LIGLAD, _s._ a confused noise of tongues; a deal of idle or noisy talk.
LIKAND, _part_ pleasing.
LIKE-WAKE, _s._ the watching of a dead body.
LILT, _s._ a cheerful air.
_To_ LILT, _v. n._ to sing cheerfully and merrily; lively music.
LILT-PYPE, _s._ a musical instrument, the upper part of which was in the form of a flageolet, terminating below in a kind of trumpet-shaped mouth.
LIMMAR, LIMMER, _s._ a scoundrel; a woman of loose manners.
LIN, LYN, _s._ a cataract; a waterfall,
_To_ LINK, _v. a._ to trot or walk smartly.
LINKS, _s. pl_ sandy barren ground.
LINTIE, _s._ the grey linnet.
_To_ LIPPEN, _v. n._ to expect; to place confidence in.
LIPPIE, _s._ the fourth part of a peck.
LISK, LEESK, _s._ the groin.
LISTER, _s._ a fis.h.i.+ng spear.
_To_ LITHE, _v. a._ to thicken; to render mellow; to soften.
LITTLEANE, _s._ a child.
LOAN, LONE, LOANING, _s._ an opening between fields of corn; lane; a narrow enclosed way.
LOCH, LOUCH, _s._ a lake.
LOCK, LOAKE, _s._ a small quant.i.ty.
LOGIE, KILLOGIE, _s._ a vacuity in a kiln for producing a draft of air.
LOME, LOOM, (p.r.o.nounced _Lume_,) _s._ a utensil of any kind.
LOOT, LOUT, LOWT, _v. a._ to bow down the body; to make obeisance.
LOs.h.!.+ _n. a_. an exclamation of wonder.
_To_ LOUE, LOWE, LUVE, _v. a._ to love.
LOUN, LOWN, LOON, _s._ a tricky, worthless person; a boy.
