Let, v. Sax., to leave, to omit, 1319; to leave, to permit, 1325; let thy japes be, 5824; let the Sompnour be, 6871-to caufe, 2978, 5377—to hinder, T. iii. 726.

Lete, pr. n. the river Lethe, F. i. 71.

Letgame, n. Sax. a hinderer of pleasure, T. iii. 528.
Lette, n. delay, hinderance, 8176.

Lettore, pr. n. Lithuania, 54.

Lettred, adj. Fr. learned, R. 7691.

Lettrure, letterure, n. Fr. literature, 14414, 16314.
Lettuarie, n. Fr. an electuary, 428, 9683.

Leve, v. for live, 7114.

Leve, n. Sax. defire, inclination, 13952.

Leve, adj. dear, 3131. See Lefe.

Leve, v. Sax. to believe, 10079-Leveth, imp. m. 2d perf. pl. 3090; leveth me, believe me: in R. 3519, leveth is mifprinted for lefeth;

He lefeth more than ye may doe.

So this verfe should be written;

Plus y pert-il que vous ne faictes.

Orig.

In T. iii. 56, leve is mifprinted for lene, and alfo in T. ii. 1212, and T. v. 1749.

Leveles, adj, Sax. without leave, C. D. 74.

Leven, n. Sax, lightning, 5858.

Lever, comp. d. of lefe, more agreeable; it were me ·lever, 10995; I hadde lever, 10037; hire hadde lever, 5447. See also ver. 16844, 16972.

Levefell. See the n. on ver. 4059, though I am by no means fatisfied with the explanation there given of this word, the interpretation of it in the Prompt. 1 Parv. will not help us much; "Levecel beforn a "windowe or other place, umbraculum." My conjecture with respect to the origin of the proverb Good wine needs no bufo, is certainly wrong; that refers to a very old practice of hanging up a buth or bough

where wine is to be fold; the Italians have the fame proverb, Al buono vino non bifogna frafca.

Lerved, lerude, adj. Sax. ignorant, unlearned, 6928, 12370-lafcivious, 10023.

Leye, v. Sax. as legge, to lay, R. 4143—to lay a wager, 16064.

Leyes, pr. n. Layas in Armenia, 58. See the n. on ver. 51.

Leyte, n. Sax. flame, P. 258. See Leite.

Liard, pr. n. belonged originally to a horfe of a gray colour. See the n. on ver. 7145.

Licenciat, n. Lat. 220, feems to fignify that he was licenfed by the Pope to hear confeffions, &c. in all places, independently of the local ordinaries. See R. 6364-6472.

Liche-wake. See the n. on ver. 2960.

Lide, pr. n. Lydia, 14645.

Lieges, n. pl. Fr. fubjects, 7943.

Lien, pr. t. pl. of lie or ligge, 16247.

Lien, part. pa. of lie or ligge, lain, P. 265, 275.
Lies, n. pl. Fr. lees of wine, &c. F. iii. 1040.
Lieth, R. 4143, is mifprinted for leyeth.

Lifly, adv. Sax. like the life, 2089.

Ligeance, n. Fr. allegiance, 5315.

Ligge, lie, v. neut. Sax. to lie down, 2207, 13839. Ligging, part. pr. lying, 1013.

Light, v. Sax. to enlighten, 15539, 13401-to make light or pleafant, 1071c-v. neut. to defcend, to alight, 5524, 10483.

Ligne, n. Fr. lineage, lineal defcent, T. v. 1480; ligine, C.D. 1517, should probably be lignee, to rhyme to compagnee.

Ligne aloes, T. iv. 1137, lignum aloes, a very bitter drug.

Like, liken, v. Sax. to compare, 5951, 3, 5.

Like, v. Sax. to pleafe, 8382; T. i. 432; if you liketh, 779, if it pleafeth you; it liketh hem, 5679, it pleafeth them.

Likerous, adj. Sax. gluttonous, 12473- -lafcivious, 6048.

Liking, part. pr. pleasing, R. 868.

Liking, n. pleasure, 12389.

Limaile, n. Fr. filings of any metal, 16321.

Lime, v. Sax. to fmear as with birdlime, T. i. 354-
Limed, part, pa, caught as with birdlime, 6516.
Limed, part. pa. Fr. polished as with a file, F. iii. 34.
Limer, n. Fr. limier, a bloodhound, Du. 362, 5.
Lime-rod, 14694, a twig with birdlime.

Limitation, n. Lat. a certain precinct allowed to a limitour, 6459.

Limitour, n. a friar licensed to beg within a certain district, 209, 253, 4.

Limmes, n. pl. Sax. limbs, P. 147.

Linage, n. Fr. family, 4270; R. 258.

Linde, n. Sax. the limetree, 9087; R. 1385.

Liffe, n. Sax. remission, abatement, 11550.

Liffe, v. neut. Sax. to grow eafy, R. 3758, 4128. Liffed, part. pa. of liffe, v. Sax. eafed, relieved, 11482. Lifte, v. See Lefte.

Lifieneth, imp. m. 2d perf. pl. of liften, v. Sax. hearken ye, 13642.

Liftes, n. pl. Fr. lifts, a place enclosed for combats, &.. See the n. on ver. 1715.

Litarge, n. Fr. whitelead, 16243.

Lite, adj. Sax. little, 1195; P. 220.

Lith, n. Sax, a limb, 14881.

Lith, for lieth, 3653, 10349.

Lithe, adj. Sax, foft, flexible, Du. 953; F. i. 119.
Lithe, v. Sax. to foften, T. iv. 754.

Lither, adj. Sax. wicked, C. N. 14; [in the editt. it is litby, luther and quede, R. G. 414. See Quade.

Litberly, adv. Sax. very ill, 3299.
Litling, adj. Sax. very little, F. iii. 133.)
Livand, part. pr. Sax. living, C. D. 1628.

Live, n. Sax. life; on live, 3041, 5622, in life, alive; lives creature, 2397, 8779, living creature; lives body, F. ii. 555, living body.

Lodemanage, 405.

See the note on ver. 405, and the

Statute 3 Geo. I. c. 13, where load

Lodefterre, 2061. manage is ufed repeatedly in the
Lfente of pilotage.

Lodefmen, n. pl. Sax. pilots, L.W. 1486.
Loft, adv. Sax. on loft, 4697, on high, aloft.
Loge, n. Fr. a lodge, habitation, 14859.
Logged, part. pa. Fr. lodged, 15004.

Logging, n. lodging, 1500r.

Loke, v. Sax. to fee, to look upon, Bo. iv. pr. 6; v. pr.3. Loken, loke, part. pa. of loke, v. Sax. locked, 14881; R. 2092; fhut close, Conf Am. 29, his one eye anon was loke.

Loller, n. a Lollard. See the n. on ver. 12923, and ver. 12914.

Lollius, pr. n. of a writer from whom Chaucer profefles to have tranflated his poem of Troilus and Crefeide. See the note on P. 277, I. 9: I have not been able to find any further account of him. Londe, n. Sax. land, 4806, 5323.

Londenoys, a Londoner, one born in London, T. L. i. 325.

Lone, n. Sax. a loan, any thing lent, 7443.

Long, v. Sax. to belong, 2280; longing for his art, 3209; belonging to his art, 10353; to defire, L.W. 2275.

Long, 16390. See Along.

Loos, los, n. Fr. praife, 16836; M. 301; lofes, pl. F. iii. 598.

Lord, n. Sax. a title of honour given to monks, as well as to other perfons of fuperiour rank, 172, 13930 -in ver. 830, lordes is ufed in the fenfe of lordings. Lordings, n. pl. firs, masters, 763, 790, a diminutive

of lords.

Lordfbip, n. Sax. fupreme power, 1627.

Lore, n. Sax. knowledge, 8664--doctrine, 529---advice, 3527.

Lorel, n. Sax, a good-for-nothing fellow, 5855, Bo. i. pr. 4, where it is the translation of perditiffimum: Skinner fuppofes it to be derived from the Lat. lurco; and in the Promptorium Parvulorum lofel, or lorel, or lurden, is rendered lurco; but lurco, I apprehend, fignifies only a glutton, which falls very fhort of our idea of a lorel: and befides, I do not believe that the word was ever fufficiently common in Latin to give rife to a derivative in English. One of Skinner's friends deduces it with much more probability from the Belg. [rather Sax.] loren, loft, per

ditus.

Lorne, part. pa. of lefe, v. Sax. loft, 8947, undone, 10943, 13959.

Los, n. Sax. lofs, 16477; T. iv. 27.

Lofed, part. pa. Sax. loofed, R. 4511.

Lofed, part. pa. Fr. praised, T. L. i. 325.

Lofenge, n. Fr. a quadrilateral figure of equal fides but unequal angles, in which the arms of women are ufually painted, R. 893; in F. iii. 227, lofynges feems to fignify small figures of the fame form in the fretwork of a crown.

Lofengeour, n. Fr. a flatterer, 15332. Loteby, n. R. 6339, in the orig. compaigne, a private companion or bedfellow; in P. P.14, the concubines of priests are called their lotebies; perhaps it may be derived from the Sax. loute, to lurk.