Ligby, subs. (old).—A bedfellow: specifically a concubine. Cf. Ludby
and Loteby.
1632. Brome, Northern Lass. Con. He is wed already, sir. Another
wife would gar him be put down at gallows; and I would not be she
for all the worldly good that e’re I saw with both mine eyen. And
o’ my conscience I’ll be none of his ligby, for twise so mickle.
1684. Lacy, Sauny the Scot, ii. 1. He means to make one of your
lasses his wench—that is, his love and his ligby.
Light, subs. (common).—1. Credit. To get a light = to get credit; To
have one’s light put out = to exhaust one’s credit; to go stony (q.v.).