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L.

• LAas Latch, Lace, o. a net, gin or snare.
• Laban, h. white or shining.
• Labarum, g. a banner or ensign, particularly that of Constantine the Emperour, ha∣ving the picture of himself and Children, the two first Greek Capitals of Christs name wrought in gold and precious stones, in honour of his miraculous conversion by the apparition of the Cross.
• Labda, the lame Daughter of Amphion, despised by the rest of the Bacchidae.
• Labdacism, as Lamdacism▪
• Labdanum, Lad-, Laud-, a sweet transparent gum, from the leaves of the shrub Cistus Ledon.
• Labefaction, l. a weakning or loosning.
• Labels, ribbans hanging at Garlands, Mytres, &c. slipps of Parchment hanging at In∣dentures, &c. also the three lines which hang from the file of an Escutcheon, deno∣ting the Elder brother.
• Labeones, l. blabber lipp'd persons.
• Labial, l. pertaining to the lips.
• Labienus, one of Caesars Captains in Gallia, who (in the Civil wars) clave to Pom∣pey.
• Lability, l. instability, a being
• Labile, l. apt to slip or fall.
• Laborarijs, a writ against those that cannot live, and yet refuse to serve; or that re∣fuse to serve in summer, where they served in winter.
• Laboriferous, l. enduring or taking pains.
• Laboriosity, Laboros-, a be∣ing
• Laborious, of great pains and labour.
• Labours, [the Ship] rowles and tumbles very much.
• Labrador, Sp. a Labourer.
• Labrous, l. having a brink or brim, or great lips.
• Labyrinth, a maze, made with so many windings▪ and turnings that one cannot ea∣sily get out, also any intricate business.
• Lacca, a red gum from cer∣tain Arabian trees.
• Lacedaemonians, people of
• ...Lacedaemon, -nia, Sparta,

• Masithrea, Eb••da, Zacnia, the chief City of Laconia.
• Lacerable, l. which one may
• Lacerate, l. tear in pieces.
• Lacert, l. a Lizard, Ewt, Evet, Eft.
• Lacession, l. a provoking to anger.
• Lachanopolist, g. a seller of herbs.
• Lache, f. Lazy.
• Laches, -esse, f. Negli∣gence.
• Lachesis, one of the 3 De∣stinies.
• Lachrymalle, l. to be be∣wailed.
• Lachrymate, l. to weep, also to drop with moisture.
• Lachrymatory, a weeping-place, also a Tear-botle some∣times buried with ancient ur••s.
• Lachrymae Christi, Wine made near the Mountain Ve∣suvius.
• Lack, an East-India gum (gathered by Ants) which makes the best wax.
• Lacken, o. contemned, les∣sened.
• Lacker, a varnish (whose chief ingredient is gum-lack) used in imitation of Gild∣ing.
• Laconick, -cal, belonging to
• Laconia, Zaconia, a Country of Peloponnesus.
• Laconize, to use
• Laconism, the Lacedaemoni∣an (short and pithy) speech, or hard life.
• Lactary, l. a Dairy-house or man.
• Lacte, o. an Offense.
• Lacteal, -eous, l. milky.
• Lactifical, l. breeding milk.
• Lactucina, a Roman God∣dess over Corn, when the ears began to fill.
• Lacunation, l. a making of holes.
• Ladanum, as Labdanum.
• Ladas, Alexanders page, who ran so swiftly that the print of his foot could not be di••cerned in the sand.
• Lad, o. fed.
• Ladde, o. (q. leaded) led.
• Lade, to load, also a pas∣sage of waters.
• Ladenberg, a town in the Palatinate of the Rhine.
• Laden, another.
• Ladies-bedstraw, an herb in dry pastures, with small leaves and yellow flowers.
• Ladies-bower, a plant with abundance of small branches and leaves, fit to make Ar∣bours for Ladies.
• Ladies-mantle, with a neat indented leaf almost like a star.
• Ladies-smocks, a kind of water Cresses.
• Lady traces, a kind of Saty∣rion or Orchis.
• Ladogo, a town (and a large Lake) in Moscovy.
• Ladon, an Arcadian River, where Syri••x was turn'd in∣to a reed.
• Laft, (for left) o. left off, also enclosed.
• Lafordswick, sa. a betray∣ing ones Lord or Master.
• Laga, sa. Law.
• Lagan, See Flotson.
• Lagemen, Lahmen, sa. Good men of the Jury.
• Lage, c. water.
• Lagen, (q. flagon) a mea∣sure of six Sextaries.
• Laghslite, sa a [mulct for] breach of the law.
• Lagophthalmie, g. a sleep∣ing like a hare, with the eyes open.
• Laguibray, a town in Nor∣mandy.
• Lahor, a town and Kingdom under the Mogul.
• Laiazzo, a Town in Ana∣tolia.
• Laick, -cal, belonging to the
• Laity, (opposed to Clergy) the people not in holy Or∣ders.
• Laid-sterne, sc. (q. Lead-star) the pol-star.
• Lain••s, (q. Layings) Courses or ranks of stone or brick in building.
• Lair••, the place where a Deer harbours by day.
• Lairwite, Le••herwite, Le∣ger-geldum, an ancient cu∣stom of punishing Adultery and fornication, by the Lord•• of some Mannors.
• Lais, a Sicilian harlot liv∣ing at Corinth, whose exces∣sive rates made Demosthe•••• say, He would not buy Re∣pentance so dear. By her instigation Alexander burnt Persepolis. She was killed by the women of Thessaly in the Temple of Venus.
• Lait, o. allure.
• Laius, J••casta's husband, after whose death she mar∣ried his son Oedipus.
• Lake, No. to play.
• Lake, a purple-colour paint, see Lacca.
• Lake, (D. Laecken) o. fine cloth, Lawn.
• ...Lamaunt, (f. l'aimant) ••. •• lover.
• Lambdacism, an insisting too much upon
• Lambda, g. the Letter L.
• Lambdoides, Lamd-, La••d-, the hindmost seam of the skull.
• Lambeth▪ -bith, Lomebith, a town in Surrey.
• Lambeth-house, a Palace be∣longing to the Arch-bishops of Canterbury, built by the Arch-bishop Baldwin 1183. where Hardy-C••ute the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 died suddenly in the midst of his excessive luxury.
• Lambert, Sa. Fair lamb, or far famous.
• Lambition, l. a licking or light touching of a thing.
• Lambitive, licking or lap∣ping.
• Lamborne, a town in Berk∣shire.
• Lamech, h. poor or hum∣bled.
• Lamel, l. a little thin plate.
• Lamers, o. thongs.
• Lamia, a harlot to whom the Thebans▪ built a Tem∣ple.
• Lamiae, l. fairies or female Spirits.
• ...

• Lamination, l. a beating in∣to a
• Lamina, l. a thin plate of metal.
• Lammas-day, (q. Lamb-mass or Loaf-mass) the first day of August.
• La Mothe, a town in Lor∣rain.
• Lampass, -preys, a Disease in a horses mouth, cured by burning with a hot Iron.
• Lampadios, a constellati∣on in the head of Tau∣rus.
• Lampetia and Phaëthusa, kept the Sheep of their Fa∣ther Phaebus in Sicily.
• Lampoon, a libel in verse.
• Lamprey, Suck-stone, a fish with holes on the sides like eyes.
• Lamsacus, a town upon the Hellespont.
• Lanarious, Laneous, belong∣ing to wool.
• Lancaster, Lon-, the chief town (upon the River Lone) in Lancashire.
• Lancelot, (a lance-Knight) one of king Arthurs knights.
• ... Lance-pesado, Launce-,
• Lan e-presado, (f. Lance-pessade,) the lowest Officer in a foot-Company, Comman∣der of ten.
• Lancet, a Chirurgeons in∣strument in letting bloud.
• Lanciano, a City of Na∣ples.
• Lanch, to put [a ship] a flote.
• Lanciferous, l. Lance-bear∣ing.
• Landa, Lawnd, an open field without wood.
• Land••oc, a Deed whereby lands are holden.
• Landegandman, One of the inferiour tenants of a Man∣nour.
• Landcheap, a Customary fine to a Town, &c. at every alienation of Land in the same.
• Landaffe (a Church on the River Taff) a City in Wales
• Land, La. Urine.
• Land-cape, an end of Land reaching farther into the sea than other parts of the Con∣tinent.
• Good Land-fall, when we see the Land, according to the day of our own reckon∣ing.
• Landgable, a tax or rent issuing out of land.
• Landgraviate, the Country which belongs to a
• Land-Grave, Lands-, Land-drossard, D. a Count or Earl of a Province, whereof in Germany there are four.
• Landes, a County of Gas∣coigne.
• Landimers, Measurers of Land.
• Land-locked, having the land round about us, and the Sea no where open upon us.
• Landrecy, a town in Hai∣nault.
• Land-loper, D. a Vagabond that runs up and down the Country.
• Landman, Land-tenant, the same as T••rre-tenant.
• Land-mark, whereby the Pilot knows how they bear by the compass.
• Land-mate, Heref. He that reaps with another on the same ridge of ground.
• Land-pirates, High way men.
• Landskip, Lantskip, D. Paï∣sage, f. Parergon, g. By-work, All that in a picture which is not of the Body or Argument, also a description of a fair prospect.
• Landsperg, a City of Bran∣denburgh and of the higher Bavaria.
• Landshut, a City of lower Bavaria.
• Land-to, just so far off at sea, as one may discern the land.
• Land-turn, the same from off the land by night, as a Brieze is off the Sea by day.
• Lanfrank, an Italian Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, 1060.
• Langate, Languet, f. a long and narrow piece of Land &c.
• Langot, No. Latchet [of the shoe.]
• Lang de beuf (f. Langue de baeuf) a kind of yellow-flo∣wer'd bugloss.
• Langemanni, having So•• and Sac.
• Langrel, a loose-shot going into the piece with a shackle and shortned, but flying out at length with half-bullets at the ends.
• Langporte, a town in Somer∣set.
• Langland, an Island in the Baltick Sea.
• Langres, a City of Cham∣pagne.
• Langu••d, tongued, having the tongue (Gules, Azure, &c.)
• Languedoc, part of France▪ where the Goths continued long, and who say O▪ instead of Ouy.
• Languerth, -goreth, ••. lan∣guisheth.
• Languid, l. weak, faint.
• Languifical, l. causing
• Languor, l. a languishing, decaying drooping.
• Laniation, l. a tearing like a Butcher.
• Laniferous, l. bearing wool or Cotton.
• Lanifical, l. making wool or woollen Cloth, pertaining to such work.
• Lanionious, l. belonging to a Butcher.
• Lanipendious, l. weighing wool, spinning or making yarn.
• Lanis de crescentiâ Walliae, &c. a writ for the passing o∣ver of wool without custom being paid in Wales.
• Lank, o. slender, weak.
• Lanner, -ret, (f. Faulcon Lanier) a kind of hawk.
• Lanniers, small ropes reev∣ed into the Deadmens eyes of all the shrowds, to loosen them or set them taught.
• Lanthong, an Abbey in Monmouthshire, enclosed with

• such high Hills that the Sun is not to be seen there but be∣tween the hours of twelve and three.
• Lantgrave, as Landgrave.
• Lantskip, as Landskip.
• Lanuginous, belonging to, or covered with
• Lanuge, l. soft thin down.
• Laocöon▪ Son of Priam and Priest of Apollo, he disswad∣ed the Trojans from receiving the Horse.
• Laodamia, Daughter of Bel∣lerophon, she brought forth Sarpedon (King of Lycia) to Jupiter, and was shot with her own Arrows by Diana.
• Laodamia, Daughter of Acastus, desiring to see the Ghost of her Husband Pro∣tesilaus (slain by Hector) died in his arms.
• Laodiceans, the people of
• Laodicea, a City in Asia, where was held the
• Laodicean Council, under Pope Silvester, Anno 320.
• Laodochus, Son of Antenor, in his shape Minerva came to perswade Pandarus to break the league by darting at Menelaus.
• Laomedon, Father of Pria∣mus, and King of the Trojans, slain by Hercules for not per∣forming his promise made for his preserving his Daughter Hesione from the Sea-monster, to which he was forced to expose her for defrauding Neptune and Apollo of their wages for building the City-walls.
• Laon, a City of Picardy.
• Lap, c. Pottage.
• Lapicide, l. a Stone-cutter, or hewer of Stone.
• Lapidable, which may be stoned.
• Lapidacy, a Jeweller.
• Lapidarious, -d••ous, stony, like or belonging to stones.
• Lapidation, l. a stoning to death.
• Lapidescence, l. a waxing hard like stone.
• Lapidescent, waxing hard, &c.
• Lapidifical, making or breeding stones.
• Lapidification, a making stony.
• Lapis Calaminaris, as Cad∣mia.
• Lapis Contragerva, a stone good against the biting of Serpents.
• Lapis Haematites, a blood-stone.
• Lapis Infernalis, a stone made of the same lye that blacksoap is.
• Lapis Judaicus, a white stone (found in Judaea) about the bigness of an acorn.
• Lapis Lazuli, as Lazule.
• Lapis Nephriticus, a stone (good against the stone in the Kidneys) coming from new Spain.
• Lapis Opprobrij, the stone of disgrace at Padua, on which whosoever sits (acknowledg∣ing himself Non-solvent) can∣not be imprisoned for debt.
• Lapis Tutiae, as Tutie.
• Lapithae, a people of Thes∣saly, the first inventers of bri∣dles and Saddles.
• Lapland, Laponia, part of Swethland.
• Lappacean, belonging to a bur.
• Lappise, when Grey-hounds open in their course, or hounds spend their mouths in the leam or leash.
• Lapse, l. a slip or fall.
• Lapsed, let slip.
• Lapsed Benefice, to which the Patron neglects the pre∣sentation for six moneths.
• Lap-wing, (q. Clap-wing) a bird well known.
• Laquery, l. the roof of a Chamber vaulted.
• Lar, the chief City of
• Larestan, a Province (bear∣ing the fairest Dates, Oranges and Pomegranats) in Per∣sia.
• Lara, -runda, one of the Naiades, on whom Mercury (instead of carrying her to hell for revealing to Juno the Love of Jupiter to Juturna) begat two twins called
• Lares, Pe••ates, the houshold-Gods.
• Lar-board, Port, the left side of a Ship.
• Larceny, f. theft of perso∣nal goods or Chattels in the owners absence.
• Great Larceny, when the theft exceeds the value of 12 pence.
• Petit Larceny, when it ex∣ceeds not that value.
• Larch-turpentine, a kind of Rosin growing on the
• Larch-tree, it hath leaves like a Pine and bears the drug Agaricum from
• Larissa, a City of Thessaly, and several other places▪
• Larding-money, paid the Marquess of Winchester, for his Tenants hogs feeding in his woods.
• Lareow, sa. a Master.
• Lare, sc. learning.
• Large, (in Musick) eight Sem'briefs.
• Large, with a quarter-wind neither by nor before a wind, but betwixt both.
• Laredo, a Port-Town of Biscay.
• Largesse, f. a boon, bounty or liberality.
• Largifical, l. bestowing bountifully and frankly.
• Largiloquent, l. full of words.
• Largitional, an Officer that oversees the bestowing of gifts.
• Larius, Lago di Como, the greatest lake in Italy, con∣taining (from North to South) sixty miles.
• Larmiro, a Port of Thessaly.
• Laria, a Town of Epirus.
• Lark-spur, a flower (of se∣veral sorts) much regarded of Florists.
• Larons, f. theevs.
• Lar-spel, sa. a lesson or Ser∣mon.
• Larval, belonging to a
• Larva, l. a Ghost or Spi∣rit.
• Larvated, masqued, for the representing a Ghost or Go∣blin.
• Larunda, the same as La·
• ...

• Larus, a ravenous devour∣ing bird.
• Larynx, g. the head of Ar∣teria Aspera, the instrument by which we speak.
• Lasciviate, to give one self to
• Lasciviousness, a being
• Lascivious, l. wanton.
• Lashlite, the Danish com∣mon forfeiture, viz. 12 Ores, (about sixteen pence each Ore.)
• Lask, Laritas, l. Diarrhaea, g. the wherry-go nimble or looseness of the belly.
• Lasking, V••ering, quarter-winds, Large and Roomer, are (in a manner) all one.
• Lassed, o. left.
• Lassitude, l. weariness.
• Last, D. a burden or weight, also (in the Marshes of East Kent) a Court of 24 Jurats.
• Last of unpackt Herrings, 18 barrels.
• Last of Codfish, 12 barrels.
• Last of Wool, 12 sacks.
• Last of Leather, 20 Dickers.
• Last of Osmonds, 4 thou∣sand weight.
• Last of Herrings, ten thou∣sand.
• Last of Pitch, Tar or Ashes, fourteen barrels.
• Last of Hides, twelve dozen.
• Last of Corn or Rapeseed, 10 quarters.
• Lastage, Lestage, Lesting, a Custom challenged in Mar∣kets and Fairs for ones car∣rying of things, or for wares sold by the Last, also the bal∣last of a Ship.
• Last heir, the Lord or King, to whom the Land comes by Escheat, for want of a lawful heir.
• Lase on, the bonnet to the course or drabler to the bon∣net, &c.
• Lash, bind any thing up to the Ship sides or Masts.
• Lashers, the ropes that bind together the tackle and breechings of great Ord∣nance.
• Latch, o. release, let go.
• Latchets, small lines (like loops) sown into the bonnet or drabler (to lase them to∣gether.)
• Latching, No. catching, in∣fecting.
• Late, Cu. to seek.
• Latebrous, full of
• Latebrae, l. dens or hiding-holes.
• Latent, l. lurking, lying hid.
• Lateral, l. belonging to the side.
• Laterality, a being side-wayes.
• Laterane [Palace,] given to the Pope by Constantine, and belonging formerly to
• Lateranus, a Roman Patri∣cian who hid himself from business, and (being designed Consul) was slain by Nero's Command.
• Lateritious, like or made of brick.
• Lathe, Lethe, Sa. a great part of a County, 3 or 4 hun∣dreds, &c.
• Lathe, Li. a barn, also ease or rest.
• Lathing, No. entreaty, in∣vitation.
• Latible, l. a hiding-place.
• Laticlave, [a purple cloak] with broad nails or studs, a badge of the Senatorian Or∣der.
• Latifolious, l. having broad leaves.
• Latimer, (q. Latiner, f. La∣tinier,) an interpreter or Translater [into Latin.]
• Latinism, -ity, a speaking after the Latin Idiom.
• Latinus, an ancient King of Italy, who marryed his Daughter Lavinia to Aene∣as.
• Lation, l. a bearing or car∣rying.
• Latirostrous, having a broad or flat bill.
• Latitancy, -ation, l. a being
• Latitant, lurking or lying hid.
• Latitat, a writ whereby all men in personal actions are called originally to the Kings-bench, upon suppositi∣on that he lurks or lies hid.
• Latitude, l. breadth, wide∣ness.
• Latitude of a place, the Arch of the Meridian between the Equinoctial and the Zenith.
• Latitude of a Star, the Arch of a great circle (drawn by the poles of the Ecliptick) between th' Ecliptick and the Star.
• Latitudinarians, the mode∣rate Divines of the Church of England, abusively so cal∣led.
• Latomy, g. a stone-quarry.
• Latonian, belonging to
• Latona, Daughter of Caeus, one of the Titans, on whom Jupiter begat the
• Latonian-lights, Apollo and Diana, the Sun and Moon.
• Laton, -oun, o. for Latte••.
• Lator, l. a bearer or mes∣senger.
• Latration, l. a barking.
• Latred, o. for Loytred.
• Latrie, g. worship or ser∣vice.
• Latrocination, l. a commit∣ting of robbery.
• Latte, o, for led.
• Lat Weather, wet or other∣wise unseasonable. No.
• Lavare, -atory, l. a vessel or place to wash in.
• La Val, a Town of Anjou in France.
• Lavatrine, l. a sink or wash∣ing place in a kitchin.
• Lau, a Town in the Duke∣dom of Mecklenburgh.
• Laubach, the chi••f Town of Carniole in Germany.
• Laudable, l. commendable, praise-worthy.
• Lauds, praises, also part of the Roman service contain∣ing certain Psalms begin∣ning with Laudate Domi∣num.
• Laudanum, as Labdanum.
• Laudative, [belonging to] a commendation.
• Laude••, Lothen, part of South-Scotland.
• Lave, l. to wash or Purge.
• Lavamand••, a Town of Ca∣rinthia in Germany.
• ...

• The Lave, Cu. all the rest.
• Lavedan, an Iron-grey Gennet bred upon
• Lavedan, a Pyrenaean Moun∣tain, breeding the best horses of France.
• Laven, (lave-out) o. draw empty.
• Lavender, Spiknard, a com∣mon plant, also a Laun∣dress, o.
• Lavenham, a town in Suf∣folk.
• Laver, a place or vessel to wash in.
• Laverd, L••verd, Laford, o. Lord.
• Laverna, a Roman Goddess, Patroness of the
• Laverniones, Theeves.
• Laverock, a kind of bird.
• Lavinia, Aenaeas's wife, who gave name to
• Lavinium, a City in Italy.
• Launc••gays▪ Offensive wea∣pons prohibited and disus∣ed.
• Launcelot, Lan-, Launcette (I. Lancetta) a fleam to let bloud, also a mans name.
• Launcepesado, as Lancepesa∣do.
• Laund, Lawn (Sp. Landa) plain untilled ground (in a park.)
• Launston, a town in Corn∣wall:
• Lavolta, I. a kind of dance, also a course held in sail∣ing.
• Laureate, -ted, l. crowned with
• Laurel, Baies, worn by the ancient Roman Triumphers.
• Laurel and Bay-tree are con∣founded in Latin, but with us known to be two distinct trees.
• Laureated letters, sent by the Roman Generals to the Senate (and bound up in Laurel) to give them notice of their victories.
• St. Laurence, a Roman Deacon and famous Martyr, broyled to death for produc∣ing the poor (as the Treasure of the Church) to Valerian the Prefe••••.
• Laurentalia, Feasts in hon∣our of
• Acca Laurentia, Wife to Faustulus, who nursed Ro∣mulus and Remus, when ex∣posed by command of Amu∣lius King of the Latins.
• Laurer, o. for Laurel.
• Lauriferous, l. bearing bays or laurel.
• Laustein, a town of Mentz in Germany.
• Lausus, Son of Numitor, slain by his Uncle Amulius, also the son of Mezentius King of the Hetrurians, slain by Aeneas.
• Lausanna, a City of Swit∣zerland.
• Law, Sc. a hill.
• Law of Arms, Martial law which directs how to proclaim and make war, to make and observe leagues, &c.
• Law of Maneleta (a Corn∣weed) ordained by King K••nneth of Scotland, that if any suffered his land to be over-run with weeds, he should forfeit an Oxe.
• Law of Marque, Mart or Reprisal, whereby men take the goods of them from whom they have suffered wrong (and cannot get ordinary Justice) when ever they catch them within their Marches or li∣mits.
• Law-Merchant, proper to Merchants, and differing from the Common-Law of Eng∣land. If one (of any two Joint-Merchants) die, The Executor shall have the Moie∣ty.
• Law spiritual, the Eccle∣siastical Law allowed by the Laws of the Realm.
• Law of the Staple, as Law-Merchant.
• Law-day, View of Frank-pledge, or Court-Leet, also the County Court.
• Lawenburg, a town in Saxony.
• Lawing of dogs, cutting off three claws of the fore-foot, or as Expeditating.
• Mastiffs must be Lawed e∣very three years.
• Lawingen, a Town in Schwaben on the Danaw.
• Lawland, an Island in the Baltick Sea.
• Lawless-Court, held on Kinshil at Rochford in Essex, the Wednesday after Michael∣mas at Cockcrowing; They whisper and have no Candle, and write with a coal. He that ows suit or service and appears not, forfeits double his rent every hour he is mis∣sing.
• Lawless-man, an Outlaw.
• Lawn, as Laund.
• Lax, a certain fish without bones.
• Laxation, l. a releasing, eas∣ing, or freeing.
• Laxitomne, a town in the Isle of man.
• Laxity, l. loosness, liber∣ty.
• Lay, f. a song, also as Ley.
• Lay branches, bend them down and cover them, that they may take root.
• Lay a land, Sail out of its sight, but if ano••her point of land interpose, it is ••hut into it.
• Layer, Bed, the Channel of a Sea-Creek, wherein Oy∣sters are thrown to breed, and not to be taken till a large shilling may be ratled between the shels.
• Lay-land, which lies until∣led.
• Lay-man, following Secu∣lar Employments, not of the Clergy.
• Laystall, sa. a Dunghill.
• Laystoff, a town in Suf∣folk.
• Lazar, a poor man full of sores, &c.
• Lazaretto, I. an hospital or Pest-house. At Milan is one 1800 yards in Compass with as many Chambers as are daies in the year.
• Lazarus, h. Lords help.
• Lazule, a blewish kind of marble of which they make the colour Azure, and much used in Physick.
• Lazy, No. Naught, bad.
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• Leach, o. a Physician.
• Leaden, Lidden, No. a noise or din.
• Leafdian, Hle-, sa. a La∣dy.
• League, a Covenant or a∣greement, also the space of three miles.
• French League, about two miles and an halfe.
• Spanish League, somewhat more than three miles.
• Leah, h. painfull.
• The ship Leaks, is Leak, springs a Leak, makes (or takes in) water.
• Leam, Liam, Leash, a line to hold a dog or hawk in.
• Leander, a Young man of Abydos, who was wont (in the night) to swim over the Hellespont to Hero (one of Ve∣nus's Nuns) at Sestos, till at length he was drowned.
• Lean nothing, No. Conceal nothing.
• Leap, Lib, Ss. half a bu∣shel.
• Leap-year, as Bissentile.
• Lear, No. to learn.
• Learches, slain by his Fa∣ther Athamas King of Thebes, who (in a raging madness) took him for a Lions whelp.
• Lease, o. praise (l. laus.)
• Lease, f. a demising or let∣ting of lands or any Heredi∣tament to another (for a cer∣tain term of years or l••fe) for a rent therein reserved.
• Lease parole, made by word of mouth.
• Leassee, to whom the lease is made.
• Leassor, he that lets it.
• Leash, as Leam.
• Leash of hares, hounds, &c. Three.
• Leasing, Ss. K. Gleaning.
• Leasings, -sungs, sa. Lies.
• Leaven, a piece of dough salted and sowred, to ferment and relish the whole lump.
• Leaveret, Lev-, f. a young hare.
• Leau••y, o. Loyalty.
• Lecanomanter, he that useth
• Lecanomancy, g. Divination by [water in] a bason.
• Leccator, a riotous debauch∣ed person.
• Lecca, a City of Naples.
• Lech, o. for Like and Leech.
• Lechnus, an Arcadian spring good against abortions.
• Lectern, -orn, (f. Lectrin) a Reading-Desk.
• Leck-on, No. pour on more [liquor.]
• Lectistern, l. the adorning of a bed for a banquet (with the Images of the Gods, &c.)
• Lector, -tour, l. a Reader.
• Lecture, l. a Reading or lesson, also the place and Of∣fice of a
• Lecturer, a publick Rea∣der or Professour, an Extra∣ordinary Preacher.
• Leda, being deceived by Jupiter in the form of a Swan, she brought forth two egges, whereof one produced P••llux and Helena, the other Castor and Clytemnestra.
• Leden, o. to languish, also (for Latin) Language.
• Ledors, o. instead of
• Ledoires, f. reproaches, re∣vilings.
• Ledges, small Timbers com∣ing thwart ships (from the wast-trees to the Roof-trees) to bear up the Nettings.
• Ledge, o. Leg, Li. to lay.
• Lee, opposite to the Wind or Weather-gage.
• A-lee the helme, put it to
• Lee-side (not to the Wea∣ther-side) of the ship.
• Look to the Lee-latch, that the ship go not to lee-ward of her Course.
• Lay her by the Lee, with all her sails flat against the Masts, and the wind on her broad-side.
• Le, Br. a place.
• Lee, Lew, Ss. Calm, under the Wind.
• Lee-fang, a rope reeved in∣to the Creengles of the cour∣ses, to hale in the bottom of a sail
• Lee-ward tide, when the wind and tide go both one way.
• Le••c••, the outside or skirt of a sail from the Earing to the Clew.
• Leech-lines, fasten'd to the leech of the top-sails.
• Lecchyd, o. dressed, season∣ed.
• Leed, Lid, o. March q. Loud [month.] Hence
• L••de-pills, o. Cow-hides.
• Leeds, a Castle in K••nt, also a town in Yorkshire.
• Leek, a town in Staffordshire.
• Leer, the place where a Deer lies to dry himself from the dew.
• Leero-way, Lyra-way, a tun∣ing or playing on the Viol, differing from that of Al∣phonse.
• Lees, o. to release.
• Lees, Dregs [of wine, &c.] also, for Leesing, o. Lying.
• Leeten you, Che. Make your self, pretend to be.
• Leet, a Law-day.
• Court-Leet, a Kings Court of Record (in whose mannor soever it be kept) it En∣quires of all offenses under High Treason, punisheth some and certifies the rest to the Justices of Assise.
• Lefe, o. (q. loveth, answer∣ing the Latin and Greek) is wont, also willing, and as
• Leve, Liefe, o. dear, belov∣ed.
• Leethwake, No. limber, pli∣able.
• Legacy, a particular thing given by a last Will and Testa∣ment.
• Legality, l. lawfulness, keep∣ing the law, the condition of a
• Legalis homo, Rectus in Cu∣ria, Not out-lawed, Excom∣municated or Defamed.
• Legation, l. an Embassy, the office of a
• Legate, l. an Ambassadour, or Oratour.
• Legatee, -tary, -tory, he or she to whom any thing is be∣queathed.
• Leged, o. (q. legged, layed) resident.
• Leggen, o. to allay, asswage.
• Legging, o. lodging.
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• Legend, l. a writing [about the edge of a piece of Coin.]
• Golden Legend, -dary, a Popish book of the lives of Saints, very fabulous.
• Legeolium, Castle-ford in York-shire.
• Leger-book, a register be∣longing to Notaries or mer∣chants.
• Legerdemain, f. slight of hand.
• Legergild, as Lairwit.
• Legiaunce, o. Allegiance.
• Legible, l. which may be readd.
• Legiferous, l. making or giving Laws.
• Legionary, belonging to a
• Legion, l. a Brigade or part of a Roman Army, consisting at first of 3000 Foot, and 300 Horse; encreased by de∣grees to 6000 Foot, and 3000 (or, as some say; 730) Horse, by some it is said to be an Ar∣my of 6666.
• Legislative, belonging to the making of Laws.
• Legislatour, l. a Law-giver.
• Legist, -ter, l. a Lawyer.
• Legitimation, a making
• Legitimate, l. lawfull.
• Leguminous, l. belonging to pulse.
• Legs [of the Martnets,] small ropes (a foot long) put through the bolt-ropes of the main and fore-sail in the Eeech, and (being splised in∣to themselves) have a little eye whereinto the Martnets are made.
• Leicester, Legeocester, Lege∣cestria, Leogora, the cheif Town in Leicester-shire.
• Leid, sc. a Language.
• Leiden, Leyden, an Uni∣versity in Holland, erected by William Prince of Orange, 1575.
• Leigh, Ley, a pasture, or as Le.
• Leighton-Buzzard, a Town in Bedfordshire.
• Leipsick, a Town in Mis∣nia.
• Leinster, Lemster, Leigh∣nigh, a Province in Ireland.
• Leit, o. Light.
• Leith, a Town by Edenburgh in Scotland.
• Lele, o. (q. lawly) lawful.
• Léman, (q. lead-man, or rather L' Aimant-te, f.) a Sweet-heart or Lover (He or She) but vulgarly, the Concubine of a Priest or married man.
• Lemán, -nus, the Lake upon whith Geneva stands.
• Lemes, o. lights, flames.
• Lemnian, belonging to
• Lemnos, an Aegaean Isle into which sell the
• Lemnian God, Vulcan, thrown out of Heaven by Ju∣piter.
• Lemnian Earth, Vermilli∣on or red Earth.
• Lemburgh, a Town in Po∣dolia.
• Lemgow, a free City of Westphalia.
• Lemster ••re, famous wool of
• Lemster, -tir, Leonminster, a Town in Herefordshire.
• Lemures, l. Hobgoblins.
• Lends, o. the loyns.
• Lene, o. to lend.
• Lenitive, Lenient; softening, asswaging, causing
• Lenity, -tude, l. softness, meekness, gentleness.
• Lenham, a Town in Kent.
• Lennox, a County in South-Scotland.
• Lenonian, l. belonging to a bawd.
• Lentiginous, full of freckles or pimples like
• Lentils, small round and flat pulse growing in hot Countries.
• Lent, D. (the Spring) the forty dayes of abstinence next before Easter, appointed here first by Ercombert, King of Kent, An. 641.
• Lentiscine, belonging to the
• Lentisk, the Mastick-tree.
• Lentour, l. stiffness, clam∣miness.
• Lentous, l. pliant, tender, limber, also idle.
• L' envoy, f. the message, also the conclusion of a Po∣em, serving for dedication or short repetition.
• Leonine, belonging to
• Leo, l. a Lion, one of the 12 signs, also the Names of several. Emperours and Popes.
• Leocorion, a Monument e∣rected by the Athenians in honour of
• Leo, the Son of Orpheus, who sacrificed his three Daughters, to appease the Gods and divert a great Plague.
• Leodegar, Leodgard, keeper of the people.
• Leodium, Liege, a City in Germany.
• Leofstan, sa. most beloved, or precious-stone.
• Leofwin, sa. win-love.
• Leoh, sa Light.
• Leon, a Spanish Province and City.
• Leonard, sa. of a Lion-like nature.
• Leonidas; a famous Captain and King of the Lacedemoni∣ans.
• Leopard, Libbard, an Affri∣can spotted beast begotten between a Pard and Lio∣ness.
• Leopold, Leodpold, sa. de∣fender of the people.
• Leopolis, Lewenberg, a town in Russia nigra.
• Leorning-Cnight, sa. a disci∣ple or Scholer.
• Lòpande, o. leaping.
• Lep and lace, four pence paid the Lord of Writtel Mannour in Essex, for every cart (except a Noblemans) that passes over Greenbury (part thereof.)
• Lepanto, Naupactum, a Ci∣ty of Locris.
• Lepid••ty, a being
• Lepid, l. neat or pleasant.
• Leporean, -rine, l. belong∣ing to a hare.
• Leporarius, a Grey-hound.
• Leprosity, a being
• Leprous, full of
• Lepry, -rosie, a white scars all over the body.
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• Leproso amovendo, a writ for the removing of a Leper.
• Leptology, g. a description of minute and sordid things.
• Lere, o. for leather, also (l'air. f.) the air of the face or complexion.
• Lerida, a Town in Cata∣lonia.
• Lernean, belonging to
• Lerna, g. a water-serpent, also the Lake where Hercu∣les slew the Serpent Hydra.
• Lerp••ol, a Town in Lan∣cashire.
• Without Les, o. incessant∣ly.
• Lesbian, belonging to
• Lesbos, an Aegean Isle, very exact in their buildings.
• Lescar, a City of Béarne in France.
• Lesinage, I. thriftiness, good husbandry, from
• Lesina, I. a Coblers awl.
• Lesingour, o. a Lyar.
• Lesion, l. a hurting.
• Lespegend, sa. Young∣men.
• Lessee, to whom the Lease is made.
• Lesser, -sor, who lets the Lease.
• Lesses, the dung of a Bear, or any ravenous beast.
• Lessel, o. a shady bush or hovel.
• Lessian diet, very moderate, prescribed by
• Lessius, a famous modern Physician.
• Lest, o. for lust.
• Lestage, as Lastage.
• Lestrigones, a barbarous and Giant-like people of Italy, whose King Antiphates tore one of Vlysses's Companions in pieces with his Teeth.
• Letchland, a Town in Glo∣cestershire.
• Letany, as Litany.
• Leth, as Lathe.
• Lete, o. to cease or leave.
• Letest fare, o. (lettest go) makest a show.
• Lethality, l. a being
• Lethal, l. deadly, mortal.
• Letherwite▪ corruptly for
• Letherwite, or Lairwite.
• Lethargick, sick of, or be∣longing to the
• Lethargy, g. the Drousie e∣vil, a cold distemper causing excessive sleeping, the loss of sense and memory.
• Lethaean, belonging to
• Leth••, g. [a supposed River of Hell causing] forgetful∣ness.
• Lethiferous, l. deadly.
• Lethy, o. as Lither.
• Letifical, Laet-, l. making glad.
• Letter-missive, an Epistle or letter sent.
• Letter of Atturney, Autho∣rising an Atturney, that is, a man appointed to do a law∣full act in our stead.
• Letters of Marque or Mart, authorising one to take by force of Arms those Goods which are due by the Law of Marque.
• Letters Patent, Open writ∣ings sealed with the broad-seal of England, enabling a man to do or enjoy what o∣therwise of himself he could not.
• Lettice, Lactu••a, a plant breeding Milk.
• Lettice, Laetitia, Joy.
• ... Lettouwe, Littaw, Lituania.
• Lettrure, Literature, book-learning.
• Levament, -ation, a lifting up easing or comforting.
• Levant, f. the East [wind, Countrey, Sea, &c.]
• Levant and Couehant, when Cattel have been so long in another mans ground, that they have lain down, and are risen again to feed.
• Levari facias, a writ di∣recting the Sheriff to levy mony upon the Lands and Te∣nements of him that has for∣feited his Recognisance.
• Levari facias damna de Dis∣seisitoribus, a writ directing the Sheriff to levy dammages wherein the Disseisor has been condemned to the Dis∣seised.
• Levari facias quando Vice∣comes returnavit quod non ha∣buit empiores, a writ command∣ing the Sheriff to sell the Goods of the Debtor, which he hath already taken and returned, that he could not sell.
• Levari facias residuum debiti, a writ for the Sheriff to le••y the remnant of a debt that hath been in part satisfi∣ed.
• Levatory, l. an instrument to elevate the depressed Cra∣nium.
• Leucophlegmatick, troubled with a
• Leucophlegmatie, g. a dropsie caused by the abounding of white flegme.
• ... Leucothea, Ino, Matuta, Aurora.
• Leucothoe, turn'd into a Frankincense-tree by Apollo, who had gotten her with Child, for which she was bu∣ried alive by her Father Or∣chamus King of Babylon.
• Leuctra, a Town in Boeotia.
• Leud, Lewit, sc. ignorant.
• Leve, o. for leave.
• Level-Coil, I. (Leva il Culo) hitch-buttock, when one (having lost the game) sits out, and gives another his place.
• Levellers, a factious part of the Parliament-Army (about the year 1649.) who would have had all things common.
• Lever; o. better.
• Levessel, as Lessel.
• Leveth, o. beareth.
• Levi, h. joyned.
• Leviathan, h. a Whale, or (by some) a great water-Ser∣pent, also the Devil.
• Levie, (f. lever) to raise, to gather or exact [money, &c.] to cast up [a ditch] to erect [a mill, &c.]
• Levigation, Laev-, l. a le∣velling, smoothing or making plain.
• Levisomnous, l. watchfull, soon waked.
• Levissa, Lewis, the largest Isle of all the Hebrides.
• Levitical, belonging to the
• ...

• Levites, those of the Tribe of Levi, whose inheritance the Priest-hood was.
• Leviticus, a book describ∣ing the whole Levitical Or∣der.
• Leuwarden, a Town in West-Friezland.
• Levity, l. lightness.
• Lewis, -wes, the chief Town of Sussex.
• Lewis, (f. Louis) Lodowick, Ludwig, sa. the defense of the people.
• Lewlin, Lewellin, Llew-, Br. Lion-like.
• Lex Bretoyse, -oise, Lex Marchiarum, the law of the Britains or Marches of Wales.
• Lexicon, g. a vocabulary or Dictionary.
• Lex talionis, a law return∣ing like for like.
• Lex deraisnia, or rather Deraisina, the proof of a thing which one denies to be done by him, and his Ad∣versary affirms it.
• Ley, f. (l••y) the law.
• Ley-gager, Wager of Law.
• Leyden, as Leiden, built on one and forty Islands.
• Leyes, o. perhaps Libyssa, a City of Bithynia, or else Levissa.
• Legerwit, as Lotherwit.
• Leyton, a Town on the River Ley, about 5 miles from London.
• Lhan, Br. a Church.
• Liam, a leam or leash.
• Liard, o. nimble.
• Liart, o. (q. pliart for pli∣ant) gentle, lithe.
• Libament, -ation, l. a [li∣quid] sacrifice.
• Libanomancy, g. Divination by
• Liban••s, g. Frankincense
• Libb, ••, to geld.
• Lib••ards-bane, Doronicam, a kind of herb.
• Libben, c. a private dwelling house.
• Libbedge, c. a bed.
• Libel, l. (a little book) an original declaration of any action in the civil Law, also
• Infamous Libel, an invective or slanderous Writing.
• Libellatici, some primitive Christians having bought Libels or Testimonies of the Roman Magistrate, falsly declaring that they had been assistant at the Pagan sacri∣fices.
• Liberate, a Chancery writ or Warrant to the Treasu∣rer, Chamberlain and Barons of the Exchequer, to pay out any summe granted under the broad-Seal, or to the She∣riff to deliver possession of Lands and Goods extend∣ed.
• Liberation, l. a freeing or delivering.
• Libera batella, a free boat.
• Libera Chasea habenda, a writ granting a free Chase pro∣ved to belong to the Man∣nour.
• Liber [Pater,] Bacchus.
• Liber taurus, a free Bull.
• Libertas, l. a priviledge (by grant or prescription) to en∣joy some extraordinary bene∣fit, also a Roman Goddess whose Temple was on the hill Aventinus.
• Libertate Probanda, a writ for such as were challenged for slaves, and offerd to prove themselves free.
• Libertatibus allocandis, a writ for a Citizen (impleaded contrary to his liberty) to have his priviledge allow∣ed.
• Libertatibus exigendis in iti∣nere, a writ for the Justices in Eyre to admit of an At∣turney for the defense of ano∣ther mans Liberty before them.
• Libertinage, -inism, -nity, sensuality, licentiousness, the state and condition of a
• Libertine, l. one born or made free, also a loose and dissolute Epicure.
• Libertinism (in Divinity) is defined to be, a false liberty of belief and manners, which will have no other depen∣dance but on particular fan∣cy and Passion.
• Libethrae, a Town on the Mountain Olympus, destroyed ed by a violent flood.
• Libethra, a Fountain of Magnesia, sacred to the
• Libethrides, the Muses.
• Libidinist, a sensualist, one that gives himself up to
• Libidinosity, lasciviousness, a being
• Libidinous, l. lustful, inconti∣nent.
• Libitina, the Goddess or superintendant of Funerals, Sepulchres and funeral Rites.
• Libitinarians, l. bearers.
• Libitude, l. will. pleasure.
• Ad Libitum, at will or plea∣sure.
• Libourne, a Town of Guienne in France.
• Li••ral, belonging to
• Libra, l. a pound weight, also the balance, one of the 12 Signs of the Zodiack.
• Librariaus, belonging to books or to a
• Library, a study or place where books are kept.
• Libration, l. a weighing or balancing.
• Librata terrae, contains four Oxgangs, and every Oxgang hir teen Acres.
• ... Libya, Africa.
• Licanthropy, as Lycan-.
• Licand, o. well-liking.
• Licaon, a King of Arcadia turn'd into a Wolf.
• Licencé to arise, a liberty or space given by the Court to a Tenant in a real action (Essoyned de malo lecti) to a∣rise or appear abroad.
• Licentia transfretandi, a Licence (from the King) of passing over-sea.
• Licentiate, one that hath li∣cense or Authority to pra∣ctice in any Art.
• Licentious, loose, disorder∣ly, unruly.
• Lichas, a boy whom Her∣cules threw into the Sea (where he was turn'd into a Rock) for bringing him the poisoned shirt from Deia∣nira.
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• Liche, o. for like.
• Lichfield, Licidfield, (field of Carcases) a Town in Staffordshire, where many (they say) were martyred in the time of Dioclesian.
• Lich sowles, sa. (carcase-birds) Scrich-Owls, Night-Ravens.
• Licitation, l. a cheapning or prizing, also a setting out to Sale and enhauncing the price.
• Licite, l. lawful.
• Lictorian, belonging to the
• Lictors, l. Sergeants.
• Liddesdale, part of South-Scotland.
• Lidford-law, (in Cornwall) the course whereof is very summary, and is commonly taken for hanging men first and inditing them after∣wards.
• Lief, Leof, sa. rather.
• Lief-bebber, sa. a Lover.
• Lieftenant, Lieut-, f. holding the place or doing the office of another, a Deputy.
• Liege, Luykland, a Bishoprick (in the Netherlands) called the paradise of Priests, where there is Coal (they say) kin∣dled with water and quench∣ed with Oyl or Salt.
• Liege [Lord] Soveraign, own∣ing no Superiour.
• Lieges, Liege people, the Kings Subjects.
• Liege-man, he that oweth
• Liegeancy, (I. Liga, a league or bond) allegiance, fealty, faithful, obedience.
• Ligeance, the same, also the Dominion or territory of the Liege-Lord.
• Lieue, f. a french league.
• In Lieu, f. in place or stead.
• Lientery, g. a flux of the Sto∣mach or belly, presently voiding things undigested.
• Liesse, a Town in Pi••ardy.
• Life-gard, D. Gard du Corps, f. the gard of the body.
• Life-rent, an exhibition re∣ceived for term (or sustenta∣tion) of life.
• Lift haufe, o. left hand.
• Lifts, ropes serving to top the yard-arms or make them hang higher or lower, &c.
• Lift, Nf. a stile to be open∣ed like a gate.
• Lifter, Plyer, c. a crutch.
• Lig, No. to lye.
• Ligament, l. a string or ty∣band, especially that where with the joynts of bones and gristles are fastened toge∣ther.
• Ligature, the same, also as
• Ligation, a tying or bind∣ing.
• Light-horse, lightly arm∣ed.
• Light-mans, c. [break of] day.
• Ligne, f. (corruptly lime) to couple as Dogs with Bit∣ches.
• Lignation, l. a providing or fetching of wood.
• Lignes, o. liketh, yieldeth, or rather pleasure or lik∣ing.
• Lignean, -eous, full or made of Wood, wooden or Woody.
• Lignicide, l. a Wood-cutter.
• Lignum Asphaltum, a kind of Bituminous Wood, supposed to grow by the Dead-sea.
• Lignum Nephriticum, Wood brought from Hispaniola, good for the Stone in the Kid∣neys.
• Lignum Rhodium, Aspala∣thus, a sweet Wood, of which is made the Oyl of Rhodi∣um.
• Lignum vitae, the Wood cal∣led Aloes, by the Arabians Calambuco.
• Ligorne, Livorne, a Port-Town of Tuscany.
• Ligue, f. a league, or alli∣ance.
• Ligula, Vvula, a little piece of flesh in the roof of the mouth.
• Liguria, a hilly part of Italy.
• Ligurion, l. a glutton or de∣vo••rer.
• Ligurition, l. a Ravenous or gluttonous devouring▪
• Lily, the ro••e of Juno, a spe∣cious Flower.
• Lilith, a kind of She-Devil, destructive to Children (as the Jews imagined.)
• Lilium Paracelsi, the tin∣cture of Antimony.
• Lilliers, a Town in Artoi•• one of the Netherlands.
• Lillo, a Fortress in Bra∣bant.
• Lilybaeum, a Sicilian Promon∣tory, with a Town of the same name.
• Lima, la Ciudad de los reys, Sp. the City of the, Kings or Twelf-day (because then the first stone was laid by Pizar∣ro, 1553) the Metropolis of Peru in America.
• Limagne, a Province in France.
• Limaceous, belonging to a Snail.
• Limail, o. -aille, f. Filings, steel-dust, &c.
• Limation, l. a filing or po∣lishing.
• Limatura Martis, the filings of Horn, for the making of Crocus Martis.
• Limb, part of a quadrant, &c. also the eclipsed part of the Sun or Moon.
• Limbeck, an Alembick or Still.
• Limbers, Limber-holes, square holes in the bottom of all the ground-timbers to let the wa∣ter pass to the well of the pump.
• Limburgh, a Town and Dukedom in the Nether∣lands.
• Limbus Patrum, a place (on the borders of Hell) where the Holy Fathers were sup∣posed to reside till the com∣ing of our Saviour.
• Limed, o. polished.
• Lime-hound, Limer, bloud-hound, a great Dog to hunt the wild Boar.
• Limenarch, g. the Govern∣our of a Port.
• Limerick, a Town and Coun∣ty in Ireland.
• Liminarie, f. set at the en∣try or beginning of any thing.
• Limitation, a stinting

• or setting of bounds.
• Limitation of Assize, a cer∣tain time set down by Sta∣tute, wherein a man must alledge himself or his An∣cestor to have been seized of Lands sued for by a writ of Assise.
• Limning, a kind of paint∣ing in water-colours.
• Limosin, a Province in France.
• Limosity, a being
• Limous, l. muddy.
• Limpidity, -pitude, a be∣ing
• Limpid, l. pure, bright, transparent.
• Limpin, a muscle [fish.]
• Linage, kindred or stock.
• Linament, l. linnen thread, also a tent or lint for a wound.
• Linarium, a flax-plat.
• Linch, sa. a bank, wall or Causey, to distinguish bounds.
• Linch-pins, Lins-, at the end of the Axle-trees.
• Lincoln, Lindum, Lindecoit, Lindecollina Civitas, the chief Town in Lincolnshire.
• Lincoln Colledge (in Oxford) founded by Richard Fleming Bishop of Lincoln.
• Lincolns-Inne, one of the four Innes of Court, the house (heretofore) of Sir Henry Lacy Earl of Lincoln.
• Lindaw, a City of Schwa∣ben in Germany.
• Lindsey, a third part of Lin∣colnshire.
• Linde, o. the same as
• Line-tree, Tilea, a tall tree with broad leaves and fine Flowers.
• Lineal, -ar, belonging to a line.
• Lineament, a line in painting, also the feature or proporti∣on of any thing drawn out in l••nes.
• Ling, Erix, heath.
• Lingel, a little tongue or thong.
• Linghen, a City of Westpha∣lia.
• Lingot, as Ingot.
• Linguacity, l. talkativeness a being long-tongued.
• Linguist, one skilled in tongues or languages.
• Linigerous, l. bearing flax.
• Liniment, l. a thin Oynt∣ment.
• Linlithquo, Lindum, a town in Scotland.
• Linos••y, l. abundance of flax.
• Linsey-woolsey, cloth mixt of linnen and Woollen.
• Lintearious, l. belonging to Linnen.
• Lintz, a Town in Colenland, and another in higher Au¦stria.
• Lint••l, the head-piece or upper post of a door, also as Lentil.
• Lint-stock, a carved stick (about half a yard) with a cock at on end to hold the Gunners match, and a sharp Pike at the other, to stick it any where.
• Linus, the Son of Apollo and Psammas, hiding himself a∣mong the bushes (for some fault) was torn in pieces by the Dogs, also a famous Mu∣sician who taught Orpheus and Hercules, who knockt him (they say) on the head for laughing at his unhandsom playing.
• Linx, an ounce, a kind of spotted beast.
• Lioncel, f. a little lion.
• Lionel, l. the same.
• Lions paw, Leontopodium, an herb.
• Lipara, a Mediterranean Island.
• Lipothymie, g. a swooning or fainting away by the failing or oppression of the vital Spirits.
• Lippe, a Dukedom of West∣••halia.
• Lippitude, l. waterishness, ••loud-shot or blearedness of the eyes.
• Lippen, Sc. to trust to, to rely on.
• Liquable, l. which may be melted.
• Liquation, Liquefaction, l. a melting, dissolving or making oft.
• Liquefie, l. to melt.
• Liquescency, a melting or growing soft.
• Liquidate, to make
• Liquid, l. soft, moist or clear.
• Liquids, the letters, l, m, n, ••, which are soft and melt (as it were) in pronounc∣ing.
• Lirip••op, Liripipium, Clero∣peplus, a Livery-hood.
• Lisard, as Lizard.
• Liss, o. for less and Release, also for list or border.
• Lissed, o. bounded.
• Lisle, a Town in Flan∣ders.
• Lisbone, a City in Portu∣gal.
• Lisieux, a City of Norman∣dy.
• Litany, g. an humble suppli∣cation or prayer, also a par∣ticular part of the Liturgy, to be used on certain dayes.
• A Lit••, No. a few or little.
• Lite on, No. rely upon.
• Liten, No. a garden.
• Litation, l. a sacrificing, or atoning by sacrifice.
• Literal [meaning] plain, com∣mon, according to the words.
• Literality, the same as
• Literature, l. learning, skill in Letters.
• Lith, o. a limb, also plain or smooth.
• Lithanthrax, g. a stony coal, a kind of Gagate.
• Lithargi••, Litargy, I. the foam that ariseth in the try∣ing of Silver or Lead.
• Lithe the pot, Che. Thicken it.
• Lither, o. lazy, sluggish.
• Lithy, o. humble.
• Lithiasis, g. the stone engen∣dred in Mans body.
• Lithoglyphick, g. a graver or cutter in stones.
• Lithomancy, g. Divination by casting pebble-stones, or by the load-stone.
• Lithentribon, g. a confection ••hat breaks and drives away ••he stone.
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• Lithontriptick, g. wearing or ••reaking the stone.
• Lithontriptica, g. such me∣dicines.
• Lithotomy, g. a cutting of stones, also a place where they are cut or dug.
• Litigation, l. a strife or wrangling, a suit or pleading.
• Litigious, l. contentious, quarrelsome.
• Litispendence, l. the hanging or depending of a suit till it be decided.
• Litletons Tenures, a book of found exquisite learning (saies Lord Coke) comprehending much of the marrow of the Common Law, written by Tho. Littleton (alias Westcote) Justice of the Kings bench in King Edw. 4.
• Litmose bule, a kind of blew paint.
• Lit••ral, -rean, l. belonging to the shore or Se••-side.
• Littlebrough, a Town in Not∣tinghamshire.
• Littleport, a town in Cam∣bridgeshire.
• Litleworth, a Town in Lei∣cestershire.
• Litotes, g. a figure, whereby more is signified than is ex∣pressed.
• Littera, litter or straw.
• Lituania, Lith-, a Province of Poland.
• Liturate, l. to blot out.
• Liturgick, belonging to
• Liturgie, g. a publick office or service, particularly the public form of Divine service
• Liven, o. to believe.
• Livery, a Noble or Gentle∣mans cloth or colours worn by his Servants, with Cogni∣••ance or without, also a writ whereby the Heir did obtain possession of his lands at the Kings hands.
• Livery of Seisin, a delivery of Possession of Lands, Tene∣ments (or other corporeal thing) to one that has right (or probability of right) thereto.
• Livery-stable, where the Horses of Strangers stand it
• Livery (for delivery, or Livr••e, f.) allowance (by week, day, &c.)
• Liverwort, (Lichen, Hepatica, Jecoraria, helps all distempers of the Liver.
• Lividity, l. a being
• Livid, l. black and blew, of a leaden colour.
• Livonia, Liefland, a Pro∣vince in Poland.
• Livor, l. a black and blew mark from a blow or humour, also envy spight and malice.
• Lixiviated, of, like or wash∣ed with
• Lixive, -via, -ium, l. lee or lye made of ashes.
• Lixor, l. a water-bearer.
• Lizard, a little greenish beast (in Italy and other hot Countries) like our e••e••, but bigger and without poison, a lover of men and very medi∣cinal.
• Lizard-point, the utmost South-west point of Corn∣wall.
• Lizen'd Corn, (q. lessened) Sf. lank or shrunk.
• Llys, Br. a place.
• Loach, as Lobe••.
• Loads, trenches to drain fenny places.
• Lobbe, Lobling, a great Nor∣thern Sea-fish.
• Lobby, (ge. Lau••e,) a galle∣ry or walking-place, also a bed-room.
• Local, belonging to a place.
• Locality, the being of a thing in a place.
• Location, l. a placing, also a letting out to hire.
• Lock, a place where Rivers are stopped, also a lake, No.
• Locarne, a Town in Italy be∣longing to the Switzers.
• Lockers, little cup-boards at the Ship-sides for shot, &c.
• Lochen▪ a Town in Zutphen.
• Loco-cession, l. an yeilding or giving place.
• Loco-motion, l. a moving out of the place.
• Locri, -ians, people of
• Locris, a City in Greece.
• Loculament, l. a little place apart by it self.
• Locuplecity, a being
• Locuplete, l. Wealthy.
• Locus partitus, a division be∣tween Towns or Counties.
• Locust, l. a kind of beetle, a winged insect, and another not winged, edible.
• Locution, l. a speaking.
• Loddon, a Town in Nor∣folk.
• Lodemanage, the art or hire of a
• Lodesman, a Pilot, guiding the ship with a
• Lode-stone, (q. Lead-stone, from the colour and use) turning it self to the
• Lode-star, the north-star, a guide to Marriners.
• Lode-ship, a kind of Fish∣ing vessel.
• Lode-works, certain works in the Stannaries of Corn∣wall.
• Lodges, [a buck] goes to rest.
• Loe, No. a little round hill or great heap of stones.
• Log, an hebrew measure of six egg-shels or half a pint.
• Logarithmes, g. numbers, which being fitted to propor∣tional numbers▪ alwaies re∣tain equal differences.
• Logating, an unlawful game disused.
• Log-line, Minute-line, with a piece of board at the end and lead to keep it edg-long in the water, to shew (by the fathoms which this runs out in a minute) how many leagues the ship will run in a watch (14 fathom to a mile.)
• Logician, one skilled in
• Logick, g. the art of Reason∣ing or disputing.
• Logism, a due, judicious and rational understanding a thing.
• Logist, g. one skilled in the
• Logistick Art, the Art of rec∣koning or casting account.
• Logists, ten Athenians who took the accounts of all Ma∣gistrates within thirty dayes after their determining, lookt to the publick Revenue, &c.
• Lond••nb••rgh, a town in

• South Juitland, over against De Strandt an Isle in the Ger∣man Ocean.
• Logographers, g. Lawyers Clerks.
• Logomachy, g. Contention in or about words.
• Log-wood, Block-wood, Com∣p••chio, brought from Com∣peche and other remote parts and used in dying of Black Hats.
• Loire, a principal River of France.
• Lohoc, Lohoch, Loche, A Confection to be melted in the mouth.
• Gualter Lolbard, a German Authour of the
• Lollards, Hereticks abound∣ing here under Edward 3d. and Henry 5th. and (in gene∣ral) those that oppose the setled Religion of the Land.
• Lollardy, Lollery, their Doctrine.
• Lombard, Lombar, Lum-, D. a bank for usury or pawns, also as
• Lombardeer, an Usurer or Broaker, so called from the
• Lombards, Longobards, In∣habiting the hither part of Italy, and much addicted to Usury.
• Lombes, ••. for Lambs.
• Lombarie, belonging to the ••oins.
• Lome, o. Clay, Mortar.
• Londenoys, o, one of
• London, (Br. Lundayn,) Au∣gusta, Nova Troja, Lindonion, Londinum, Longidinium, Lon∣dinium, Lundinium (from Llwyn a wood, Llong a Ship, or Llawn full, populous, and Dinas, Br. a City) the Metropolis and Epitome of England.
• Londles, (q. Landless) o. a banished man.
• London▪Derry, a town in Ir••land.
• Longaevity, l. length of daies or long life.
• Longhbraw, a town in Lei∣cestershire.
• Longen, o. for belong.
• Longanimity, l. Long-suf∣fering, patience, forbear∣ance.
• Longinquity, l. length of place or time.
• Long it hither, Sf. reach it.
• Longitude, l. length.
• Longitude of a place, the distance of it East, numbred in the Equinoctial by Meri∣dians, from the first general and fixed Meridian.
• Longitude of a star, the arch of the Ecliptick, between the beginning of Aries and the Circle of the stars Lati∣tude.
• Long-Meg's Daughters, Seventy seven stones erected round about
• Long-Meg, a stone fifteen foot high, near Salkeld in Cum∣berland.
• Long-primer, one of the Printers Characters.
• Loof-peeces, the Ordnance which lies at the
• Loof of the Ship, that part aloft which lies just before the Ches-trees, as far as the bulk-head of the Castle.
• Loof-up, Keep your Loof, keep the Ship close to the wind.
• Spring your Loof, From go∣ing large, Clap close by the wind.
• Loof-••ook, to succour and secure the Tack.
• Loom, Che. an instrument or tool.
• Loom-Gale, the best fair Gale to sail in.
• She Looms▪ a Great Sail, seems to be a great Ship.
• Loose-strife, Willow-herb, which (they say) parts Cat∣tel fighting.
• Loode, o. led.
• Loos, Lose, o. praise.
• Loot, D. Lead. Hence
• Lootsman, as Lodesman.
• Loover, as Louver.
• Lope, Li. to leap.
• Loppe, o. a Spider, or ra∣ther (as in Lincolnshire) a flea.
• Lopum, a desert in Bactria, where Passengers (they say) are seduced and destroyed by Evil Spirits.
• Loquacity, l. talkative∣ness.
• Loquabre, part of North-Scotland.
• Lorament, l. a bond made of thongs.
• Loray or Lorry-law, where∣by if a Combat be accepted, and after taken up by consent of the Lord of the Fee (in Orleans) each party payes 2 s. 6 d. but if performed, the party vanquished payes 112 shillings.
• Lord ingross, he that is Lord having no Mannor, as the King in respect of his Crown.
• Lordane, as Lourdane.
• Lore, sa. learning, skill.
• Loretto, a Town in Italy.
• Loricated, l. armed with a coat of mail.
• Lorimers, -iners, Lormiers f. a trade and Company in Lon∣don that make Bits, Spurs, and all small Iron-work.
• Lorion, -ot, f. a Witwal, Yellow-peck or Hickway.
• Lorn, part of South-Scot∣land.
• Lorne, o. for Forlorn, lost.
• Lorrel, o. a Devourer.
• Lorrain, a German Dut∣chy.
• L' Orty, a Great and an∣cient family in Somerset∣shire.
• Losel, o. a lout, or as
• Lossel, o. a crafty fellow.
• Loseng, (q. leasing or gloz∣ing) a Nickname of Herbert Bishop of Norwich, and sig∣nifies as
• Losenger, o. a flatterer.
• Lothe••de, sa. a pot contain∣ing the names of those that were to be chosen into Office by Lot.
• Lot, h. wrapped or joyn'd together.
• Lotharius, a German Em∣perour who be took himself to a Monastery.
• Lothebrook, (q. Leather-breech) a Dane, whose Daughters were so skild in Needle-work that the Danes ••••re a Raven of their work∣ing, as an invincible Ensign.
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• Lot or Loth, the thirteenth dish of Lead (in the Darby∣shire mines) which belongs to the King.
• Loth••rwit, as Leyerwit.
• Lotion, l. a washing or cleansing, and (in Physick) a taking away the superfluous quality of a medicament, or the bringing-on a new one.
• Loteby, o. Companion or lo••e.
• Lotis, -tus, the Daughter of Neptune, who flying from Pri••pus (to save her Chasti∣ty) was turn'd into a Lote-tree.
• Lotophagi, Africans feeding much on the Lote-tree, which Vlysses's Companions (having tasted) could hardly be drawn from.
• Love-daies, whereon Ar∣••itrements were made, and con∣troversies (among Neigh∣bours) determined.
• Love-apple, a Spanish root of a Colour near Violet.
• Lovel, De Lupello, an an∣cient family in Northampton∣shire.
• Lour, c. Money.
• Lound, as Laund.
• Loverd, Lav-, o. a Lord.
• Lovingis. sc. (Louanges, f.) praises.
• Lourdan, Lordane, Lurdan, (not from the Danes Lording it here idly while others la∣boured, but from the French Lourd, Lourdant, -din) a Dunce or Block-head.
• Lourdy, Ss. sluggish.
• L••urgulary▪ (f. Lourderie, i••civility) casting any corrupt thing appoisoning the water, is L••u-, and Felony.
• Louvaine, an University of Brabant.
• Louver, Loover, (f. l' Ou∣••••rte) an open place at the top of the house (for air, smoak, &c.)
• Louvre, (f. L' Oeuvre, the Work) the Royal Palace at Paris (answering our White-Field) augmented with a long and stately Gallery by Henry the fourth.
• Lowbellers, such as go with a
• Lowbel, Lough-bel, used in the catching Larks, &c.) with a
• Lough, ••uff, (Da. Loge) Light or flame, also the ves∣sel wherein the light is put (in Lowbelling)
• Low-Countries, see Neather∣lands.
• Lower-Counter, the hollow arch between the lower part of the Ships Gallery and the Transome.
• Louke, o. an Overseer of Accounts.
• Louthe, a town in Lincolnshire.
• Louting, (q. saluting) o. honouring.
• Low-masted or Vnder-mast∣ed [ship,] when the Mast is too small or too short.
• Low, o. fire, heat; also to praise.
• St. Loye, o. St. Lovis.
• Low-land-men, the off∣spring of the English Saxons, in the East part of Scotland.
• Lowk, No. to weed corn.
• Lozenge, f. a little square cake of preserved flovvers, herbs, &c. also (in Heraldry) a quarry of glass, or any thing of that form.
• Lua Mater, the ancient goddess of Lustrations or purg∣ings.
• Lubeck, a town in lower Saxony.
• Lublin, a Town in Poland.
• Lubrefaction, a making slip∣pery or stirring.
• Lubricity, l. slipperiness, a being
• Lubrical, -cious, slippery, uncertain, wanton.
• Luca, a town in Tuscany.
• Luce, Livonia, Leef-land by upper Germany.
• Lucernes, a beast (almost as big as a Wolf) of a very rich fur in Russia.
• Lucia, -cy, l. Lightsome.
• Lucible, l. light of it self or apt to shine.
• Lucida Lancis, a star in Scorpio.
• Lucidity, l. a being
• Lucid, l. shining, bright.
• Lucifer, l. the morning-star, also Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon, and an Arch-Devil.
• Luciferous, l. bringing light.
• Luciferians, Hereticks that followed one
• Lucifer, Bishop of C••laris in Sardinia (Anno 365) who held that the soul vvas propa∣gated out of the substance of the flesh, &c.
• Lucina, Juno, as Patroness of Child-birth.
• Lucker, (q. Luckilyer,) o. more likely or rather.
• Lucius (bright) a Roman name of men.
• Lucrative, l. gainfull or ta∣ken with gain.
• Lucration, a gaining or winning.
• Lucre, l. gain or profit.
• Lucrece, -retia, being ra∣vished by Sextus the son of Tarquinius Superbus, caused the banishment of him (and Kingly Government) from Rome.
• Lucrous, l. gainfull, pro∣fitable.
• Luctation, l. a striving or wrestling.
• Luctatius Catulus, a Roman Commander who with 300 ships beat 600 of the Carthagi∣nians, and put an end to the vvar.
• Luctiferous, l. causing sor∣rovv.
• Luctisonant, l. signifying or expressing sorrovv.
• Lucubration, l. a studying (or vvorking) by Candle-light.
• Lucubratory, belonging there∣to.
• Luculency, l. a being
• Luculent, clear, bright, famous.
• Lucullus, an eloquent Ro∣man, grovvn very rich by the War vvith Mithridates, gave himself up to ease and pleasure, till (grovving mad) he vvas committed to the care of his Brother Marcus.
• Ludgate, q. Fludgate (from the ••iver near it) or Leed∣gate (the peoples gate) and not of any Fabulous King Lud.
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• Ludible, l. sportive, apt to play.
• Ludibrious, l. shameful, re∣proachful.
• Ludicral, -crous, in (or full of) sport, mockery or jest∣ing.
• Ludification, l. a mocking or deceiving.
• Ludlow, a Town in Shrop∣shire, with a fair Castle.
• Ludovicus Pius, he succeed∣ed his Father (Charles the great) in the Empire and the Kingdom of France.
• Lues Venerea, the Vene∣rean murrain or French Pox.
• Luse, sc. love, or the open hand.
• Lugdunum, Lyons in France.
• Lugdunum Batavorum, Ley∣den in Holland.
• Lugent, l. mourning.
• Lugubrous, l. mournful.
• Luition, l. paying a ran∣some, or making satisfaction for any offense.
• Luke, (h. taken,) a Phy∣sician of Antioch and an E∣vangelist, hanged (saies Ni∣cephorus,) on a green Olive-tree.
• Lumbar, as Lombar, also be∣longing to the Loins.
• Luminaries, l. lights, also (in the Western or Latin Church) the Feast of Christs Nativity.
• Luminous, l. full of Light.
• Luneburgum, Lunenburgh in Germany (built by Julius Caesar) where the Image of the Moon remained till the daies of Charles the great.
• Lunar, belonging to
• Luna, l. the Moon.
• Lunatick, troubled with a
• Lunacy, l. [Moon-] madness.
• Lunden, a City in Den∣mark.
• Lunenbourg, a Saxon Dut∣chy.
• Lunes, leashes or long lines to call in Hawks.
• Lungis, (f. Longis,) a slim slowback, dreaming lusk or drowsie gangril.
• Lungwort, an herb good for the distempers of the Lungs.
• Lupa, a she-wolf (or Har∣lot) which nourished Romulus and Remus in the
• Lupercal, a place about Rome, where (upon the 15 of February) were celebrated the
• Lupercalia, Feasts in ho∣nour of Pan (whom they in∣voked to drive away Wolves) performed by the
• Luperci, the Priests of Pan, who ran up and down naked and (with a Goat-skin) strook or stroakt the Women, to cause fruitfulness and easie deliverance.
• Lupines, flat pulse like small beans, bitter and Phy∣sical.
• Lura, l. the mouth of a Sack or botle, hence
• Lurcation, l. a greedy or gluttonous devouring.
• Lurdan, as Lourdan.
• Lure, for allure.
• Hawks Lure, a device of Leather stuck with Feathers and baited with flesh.
• Lurries, c. all manner of cloaths.
• Lurid, l. pale, wan.
• Lusatia, a German Pro∣vince.
• Luscition, l. a being dim-fighted or purblind.
• Lushborow, -burg, a base coyn (counterfeiting the English) brought from be∣yond-sea (perhaps from Luxenburg) and forbidden, in the daies of King Edward the 3d.
• Lusitania, the Kingdom of Portugal.
• Lusion, l. a playing or pa∣stime.
• Lusk, a slug or sloathful fellow.
• Lust of a ship, her inclina∣tion to one side more than another.
• Lustration, a going about in procession, or purging by Sacrifice (every fifth year.)
• Lustrifical, purging or ma∣king holy.
• Lustre, f. shinning, also as
• Lustrum, l. the space of fifty moneths.
• Luted, -eous, l. clayie, muddy.
• Lutheranism, the doctrine of the
• Lutheranes, followers of
• Martin Luther, who (from an Augustin Fryer) forsook the Church of Rome and wrote against the errours of it, Anno 1515.
• Lutherans, (though some∣times confounded with, yet really) differ from Calvinists, in holding predestination from foreseen Faith and good works, &c.
• Luton, a Town in Bedford∣shire.
• Lutulent, l. miry, dirty.
• Lutzelstein, a County in Lorrain.
• Luxenburgh, a Dutchy in the Low-Countries.
• Luxate, l. to loosen or put out of joynt.
• Luxuriate, l. to abound, exceed or grow rank.
• Luxurians, growing to ex∣cess and superfluity, also as
• Luxurious, l. wanton, gi∣ven to
• Luxury, l. riot, riotous∣ness.
• Lying under the Sea, when in a storm the Ship is a-hull, and the helm so fastened a-lee, that the sea breaks up∣on her bow and broad side.
• Lycanthropy, g. a Melancho∣ly frenzy causing a man to think himself a Wolf, and a∣void the company of men.
• Lycaon, a king of Arcadi••, turn'd into a Wolf by Jupi∣ter whom he entertain'd with Mans-flesh.
• Lycaonia, Arcadia, and a∣nother Country near Phry∣gia.
• Lychan, a Town in Nor∣folk.
• Lyceum, a famous School of Aristotles near Athens, and another of Cicero's at his man∣nor of Tusculum.
• Lycium, g. a decoction of bramble or box-thorn.
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• Lycomedes, King of the Is∣land Scyrus, among whose Daughters Achilles lived in womans apparel, to keep himself from the Trojan Wars.
• Lycurgus, King of Sparta, having made them many good Laws, resigned the Crown to his Nephew and kild him∣self, also a King of Thrace who rooted up the vines to keep his people sober.
• Lycus, a King of Baeotia, who married Antiope, and put her away when gotten with Child by Jupiter in form of a Satyr, also a King of Ly∣bia, who used to sacrifice his guests.
• Lydbury, a town in Here∣fordshire.
• Lydia, a womans name from the Country
• Lydia, Maeonia, a King∣dom of Asia the less, so called from
• Lydus, who succeeded his Father Atys in that King∣dom.
• Lyer in a ship, is under the Swabber and keeps clean the beak-head and Chains, is proclaim'd at Main-mast on Monday and holds his place for that week.
• Lydian Musick, dolefull.
• Lydian Spinster, a Spi∣der.
• Lydford-law, see Lidford.
• Lykam, o. (Lichaem, D.) a body.
• Lykerous, o Letcherous.
• Lympha, l. Water.
• Lymphatick, l. Distracted, by seeing (as it were) a Nymph in the water.
• Limbergh, a town in Lin∣clonshire.
• Lyn R••gis, a town in Norfolk.
• Lynchet, a green bulk di∣viding land.
• Lycean, -eous, belonging to
• L••nx, a spotted beast like a Wolf, quick-sighted, made of
• Lyncus, King of Scythia, so changed by Ceres, about to kill his guest Triptolemus.
• Lyncuris, a bright stone congealed of the Lynxes U∣rine.
• Lynceus, a quick-sighted Argonaut, reported to see the new moon at her change, to see through stone walls, &c.
• Lyndus, a City of Rhodes, famous for sacrifices to Her∣cules.
• Lyons, a fair and wealthy City of France.
• Lypothymy, as Lipothymy.
• Lyra, [Arion's] harp, a con∣stellation.
• Lyrick. belonging to an harp.
• Lyrist, he that plaies ••n, or sings to the
• Lyre, l. a harp.
• Lyrick-poets, (as Pindar and Horace) who make
• Lyrick-verses, (not Hero∣ick) composed to the Harp or Lute.
• Lysander, a Laced••monian who beat the Athenians.
• Lysidice, Daughter of Pe∣lops, Mother of Alcmena, and Grandmother of Her∣cules.
• Lysimachus, one of Alex••anders Captains thrown to a Lyon which he kill'd by pul∣ling out his tongue.
• Lysius, a name of Bac∣chus.
• Lyskerd, a town in Corn∣wal..
• Lystwythiel, a town in Corn∣wal.