lachesse (A.N.) 153, _negligence_
ladde (A.S.) _pl._ laddes, 398, _a low common person_
+laiche (A.S.) 486, _to catch, obtain_. _see_ lakke
layk (A.S.) 287, _play_
laiken (A.S.) 11, _to play_. The writer of the romance of Kyng Alisaunder,
in describing a battle (Weber, p. 159), says,--
There was _sweord lakkyng_,
_i.e. there was playing with the sword_. Weber, in his Glossary, has very
wrongly explained it by _licking_. It is the Anglo-Saxon poetic phrase,
sweorda ge-lác, _the play of swords_
lakke (A.S.) 189, _a fault, a lack, or something deficient or wanting_
lakken, lacche (A.S.) 31, 40, 130, 220, 262, 309, 333, _to obtain, catch,
take_. _pret. s._ laughte, 357, 388, 434. _part. act._ lacchynge, 21
lakken (A.S.) 85, 130, 185, 189, 208, 214, 234, 263, 307, 309, 329, 411,
_to mock, to blame, or reproach_. _pret. pl._ lakkede, 294. _part. pas._
y-lakked, 29
lakken (A.S.) 46, 218, 219, 262, 310, 365, 423, _to lack, to be wanting_.
_pret. s._ lakkede, 402, _was wanting_
lambren (A.S.) 307, _lambs_. So Lydgate (Minor Poems, ed. Halliwell), p.
169,--
Takith to his larder at what price he wold,
Of gretter _lambren_, j., ij., or thre,
In wynter nyghtis frostis bien so colde,
The sheppard slepithe, God lete hym never the!
lang (A.S.) _long_
lape (A.S.) 426, _to lap, as a dog_
large (A.N.) 398, _largess_ (?)
lasse (A.S.) _less_
late, lete (A.S.) 76, 386, _to let_. _pres. s._ leet, 305, 384. _pret. s._
leet, 25, 74, 127, 209, 346, _pl._ leten, lete, 294, 393. _subj. s._ late
+lath ( .) 476. Perhaps an error of the old edition for _lay_?
+latun (A.N.) 462, _a mixed metal of the colour of brass_
laughen (A.S.) 439, _to laugh_. _pret. s._ lough, 423. _part. pas._ lowen,
82.
launde (A.N.) 155, 183, 312, _a plain, a level space clear of trees in the
midst of a forest, a lawn_
lave (A.N.) 273, _to wash_
lavendrye (A.N.) 306, _washing_
+lavoures (A.N.) 462, _lavers, ewers, basins to receive water_
leauté (A.N.) _loyalty_
leche (A.S.) 443, _a physician_
lechecraft (A.S.) 336, 435, _the art of healing, medicine_
lechen (A.S.) 261, _to cure_. _pret. s._ leched, 337
leden, lede (A.S.) 355, 393, _to lead_. pret. s. ladde, 352. _part. act._
ledynge. _part. pas._ lad, 160, 246
ledene (A.S.) 242, 243, _speech, language_. This is applied, as here, to
birds, by Chaucer, C. T. 10749:--
This faire kynges doughter, Canace,
That on hir fynger bar the queynte ryng,
Thurgh which sche understood wel every thing
That eny foul may _in his lydne_ sayn,
And couthe answer him in _his lydne_ agayn.
ledes (A.S.) 326, _people attached to the land, peasants_
leef (A.S.) _dear, love_. his leef, _his dear_
leef (A.S.) 301, _pl._ leves, _a leaf_
leelly (A.N.) 19, lelly, 45, 146, _loyally, faithfully_. leele, lele,
_loyal_. lelest, 349, _most loyal_
leere, lere (A.S.) 15, 173, _countenance, mien, complexion_
leggen (A.S.) 30, 133, 235, 306, 426, leyen, 374, _to lay, to bet (to lay
down a wager)_. _pret. s._ leide, 352, 372, 432, leyde, 98, 436
legistre (A.N.) 139, _a legist, one skilled in the law._
ley, _pl._ leyes (A.S.) 138, _a lea_ (Lat. _saltus_)
leye (A.S.) 360, 364, _flame_
leme (A.S.) 376, 377, _brightness_
lemman (A.S.) _pl._ lemmannes, 303, _a sweetheart, a mistress_
lene (A.S.) _lean_
lenen, lene (A.S.) _to give_; hence our _lend_. _pret._ lened, 269. _part.
past_, lent, 275
lenen (A.S.) _to lean_. _pret. s._ lened, 369
lenge (A.S.) 27, 421, _to rest, remain, reside long in a place_. _pret. s._
lenged, 151, +_pret. pl._ lengeden, 469, _dwelt, remained_