The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght

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• LVbentia, & libentia, myrthe, pleasant∣nes, moste proprely in wordes.
• Lubido pro libido, sensuall appetite.
• Lubrico, care, to make slypper.
• Lubricus, ca, cum, slypper, waueryng. some¦tyme redy to slyppe or slyde.
• Luca, a citie in Italye, of whiche the inha∣bytantes are called Lucenses.
• Lucae boues, were taken of the olde latines for Elephantes.
• Lucania, a countray belongyng to the roy∣alme of Naples.
• Lucani, people of the countrey of Lucania.
• Lucanica, a pouddynge made of porke, •• sawsage.
• Lucanus, a famous poete, which wrate the battayle betwene Cesar and Pompeye.
• Lucar, money bestowid in woddes, dedicat•• to goddis, called Luci.
• Lucaria festa, feastes, whiche the Romains made in holy woddes.
• Lucellum, a lyttell gayne, a small markette.
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• Lux, lucis, light, sometyme it signifieth day.
• Luci, by daye.
• Lucens, that whiche hath his lyghte of an nother thynge.
• Luceo, luxi, lucere, to shyne.
• Luceres, the thirde parte of the people of Rome, distributed by Catius & Romulus.
• Luceria, a citie of Apulia.
• Lucerius, a kynge of Ardea, whiche holpe Romulus agaynst Tatius.
• Lucerna, a lanterne.
• Lucernarius, the lanterne bearer.
• Lucernula, a sconse.
• Lucesco, scere, to be bryght or clere, as day.
• Lucetius, a name of Iupiter.
• Lucetia, one of the names of Iuno.
• Lucibile, that whiche is light of it selfe.
• Lucido, are, to make clere, or to gyue lyght.
• ...Lucifico, care, idem.
• Lucidus, da, dum, cleere.
• Lucifer, the daye sterre.
• Lucifigus, ga, whyche fleeth frome lyghte, and delyteth in darkenesse.
• Lucilius, the name of an olde poete.
• Lucina, one of the names of the mone, cal∣led also the goddesse of byrthe.
• Lucini, they whiche haue lyttell eyen, and smalle syghte.
• Lucius, a mans name.
• Lucretilis, an hylle in the countreye of the Sabynes.
• Lucrifuga, he that fleeth frō lucre or gaines
• Lucrinus, a mere or great water in Cāpania.
• Lucrio, onis, a couetous manne, an inordy∣nate gayner.
• Lucror, aris, ari, to gayne, or to wynne.
• Lucrum, lucre or gayne.
• Lucta, wrastelynge.
• Luctatius Catulus, a cytesyn of Rome.
• Luctiferum, cause of waylynge.
• ...Luctificus, ca, cum, idem.
• Luctitor, tari, to wrastell ofte.
• Luctor, aris, ari, & lucto, are, to wrastle.
• Luctuosus, a, um, lamentable.
• Luctus, tus, weepynge and waylynge, the habyte of mournynge,
• Lucubro, are, to make any thynge by can∣delle lyghte.
• Luculentus, ta, tum, full of lyght, cleere.
• Lucullus, the name of a noble Romayne.
• Lucus, a hygh and thycke wodde, somtime it signifieth lyght, whan it is of the fourth declination. It is also a citie in Spayne by Compostella, which is now called Lucensis.
• Ludia, a daunsynge wenche.
• Ludibruini, a mocke, or any thynge that is mocked.
• Ludibundus, a, um, playing, or full of playe.
• Ludicrū, any play or pastime, or an enterlude
• Ludicrus, cra, crum, pertaynynge to playe or myrthe.
• Ludifico, are, to mocke.
• Ludii, & ludiones, players in enterludes or stage playes.
• Ludius, & ludio, onis, a player.
• Ludo, si, dere, to playe, to mocke or deceiue in game. Opera luditur, The warke or la∣bour is loste.
• Ludus, play in actes, myrth in wordes: also a schoole or place of exercyse.
• ...Lusus, us, idem.
• Lues, pestilence in men, murrayn in beastis.
• Lugdunum, a citie in Fraunce, callid Lions.
• Lugeo, luxi, lugere, to mourne, to lamente.
• Lugubris, bre, pertaynynge to mournynge. Vestis lugubris, a mournynge garment.
• Luma, a brembyll.
• Lumbago, ginis, feblenes of the loynes.
• Lumbare, breeches of hosen.
• Lumbrici, wormes callyd easts.
• Lumbi, the loynes.
• Lumen, luminis, lyghte.
• Luminare, that whiche gyueth lyght.
• Luna, the Moone.
• Lunaris, re, pertaynynge to the moone.
• Lunaticus, he that is madde or sycke at a certayne tyme of the moone.
• Lunatus, ta, tum, lyke the moone.
• Luo, ere, to suffre punyshement or dethe.
• Luere capite, to haue the heed stryken of.
• Lupa, a female wolfe. also an harlotte.
• Lupanar, a brothell howse.
• Lupanaris, re, pertaining to a brothel hous.
• Lupanarium, a brothell howse.
• Lupari, to meddell with cōmon harlottes.
• Luparius, a hunter of wolfes.
• Lupatum, a harde bytte.
• Lupercal, a place dedicate to Pan, the god of shepeherdes.
• Lupercalia, sacrifices & plays made to Pan.
• Luperci, minysters of that solemnitie.
• Lupinus, na, num, of a wolfe.
• Lupinus, a kynde of poulse.
• Lupus, a wolfe. Also a bytte for a hors. al∣so a hoke to drawe vp thinges our of a pyt. Also a kynde of spyders.
• Lupus est in fabula, a prouerbe, whan he co∣meth, whiche is spoken of.
• Lupum auribus tenere, a prouerbe in thyn∣ges that be daungerous, eyther to retaine, or to lette goo.
• Lura, the mouthe of a bottelle.
• Luridus, da, dum, pale of colour.
• Lurco, are, to eate rauenously.
• Lurco, onis, a deuourer of his own substāce
• Luscinia, a nyghtyngale.
• Lusciosus, poreblynd. Luscio is the disease.
• Luscitus, he that seeth playnely by nyghte.
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• Luscus, porblynde. sommetyme a man ha∣uynge but one eye.
• Lusitania, the realme called Portugall.
• Lusito, tare, to playe often.
• Lusorius, a, um, pertaynynge to playe.
• Lustralis, le, pertayning to riot and lechery. sometyme a thynge done euery fyfte yere.
• Lustrici dies, the day whan a chylde is fyrst named, whiche in men chylderne was the nynth day, in womenne childern it was the viii. day. It may nowe be vsed for the daye of christenynge of chylderne.
• Lustro, are, to go aboute in circute, to make satisfaction by sacrifice, to consyder in the mynde, to shadowe, to beholde aboute.
• Lustror, aris, ari, to serche out.
• Lustrum, a denne or caue of wylde beastes in woddes, an hidde place and vyle, a hous where gluttonye and lecherie is haunted, also the hauntynge of the same vices: some¦tyme it sygnifyeth the space of fiue yeres. Also the generall purgation of the citie by sacrifice euery fyfte yere.
• Luter, eris, a cuppe, wherin wine is delayde with water
• Lutesco, scere, to be claye.
• Luteus color, the colour of yelowe, appro∣chinge towarde redde, of the colour of the yolke of an egge, or of waxe newe made.
• Luteola, a lytell floure of the colour of ye∣lowe, in greatnes and sauour, not moch vn∣lyke a vyolette.
• Luteum oui, the yolke of an egge.
• Luto, are, to claye.
• Lutia, siue lytra, a beuar, or a beast moche lyke to it, whiche gnaweth trees asonder. and dothe haunte greatte waters, and ly∣ueth lyke an Ottar.
• Lutum, claye.
• Lux, lucis, lyght.
• Luxo, are, to lowse or make loose.
• Luxatus, whose bones are out of ioynte.
• Luxurio, ire, to excede, to abunde more than is necessarie in the body or personage.
• Luxurior, aris, ari, to abounde excessiuely in thynges concernynge the mynde or goo∣des: Also to be wanton with to moch welth or prosperitie.
• Luxuriosus, to prosperouse, or lyuynge in to moche pleasure.
• Luxuriosus, a, um, excedynge in abundance.
• Luxus, luxuria, & luxuries, all superfluitie or excesse, as well in carnalle pleasure, as in sumptuous fare, apparayle, or buyldyng.