LABRAS - lips
LACED-MUTTON - a courtesan
LAG - the lowest of the people
LAG - late, behindhand
LAKIN - ladykin, little lady, an endearing term applied
LAND-DAMN - perhaps to extirpate
LAPSED - taken, apprehended
LARGE - licentious, free
LARGESS - a present
LASS-LORN - deserted by a mistress
LATCH - to smear
LATED - belated
LATTEN - made of brass
LAUND - lawn
LAVOLTA - a dance
LAY - wager
LEAGUE - besieging army
LEASING - lying
LEATHER-COATS - a kind of apple
LEECH - a physician
LEER - countenance, complexion
LEET - a manor court
LEGE - to allege
LEGERITY - lightness
LEIGER - an ambassador resident abroad
LEMAN - a lover or mistress
LENTEN - meagre
L’ENVOY - the moral at the end of a tale
LET - to hinder
- to binder
LET - hindrance
LETHE - death
LEVEL - to aim
LEVEL - that which is aimed at
LEWD - ignorant, foolish
LEWDLY - wickedly
LEWDSTER - a lewd person
LIBBARD - a leopard
LIBERAL - licentious
LIBERTY - libertinism
LICENCE - licentiousness
LIEF - dear
LIFTER - a thief
LIGHT O’ LOVE - a tune so called
LIGHTLY - easily, generally
LIKE - to please
LIKE - to liken, compare
LIKE - likely
LIKELIHOOD - promise, appearance
LIKING - condition
LIMBECK - an alembick, a still
LIMBO - or Limbo patrum, the place where good men under
LIME - bird-lime
LIME - to entangle as with bird-lime
LIMN - to draw
LINE - to cover on the inside
LINSTOCK - a staff with a match at the end
LIST - a margin, hence a bound or enclosure
LITHER - lazy
LITTLE - miniature
LIVELIHOOD - appearance of life
LIVERY - a law phrase, signifying the act of delivering
LIVING - lively, convincing
LOACH - a fish so called
LOB - a looby
LOCKRAM - a sort of coarse linen
LODE-STAR - the leading-star, pole-star
LOFFE - to laugh
LOGGATS - the game called nine-pins
LONGLY - longingly
LOOF - to lull, bring a vessel up to the wind
LOON - a low contemptible fellow
LOT - a prize in a lottery
LOTTERY - that which falls to a man by lot
LOWT - a clown
LOWT - to treat one as a lowt, with contempt
LOZEL - a spendthrift
LUBBER - a leopard
LUCE - n the pike or jack, a fresh-water fish
LUMPISH - duff, dejected
LUNES - fits of lunacy
LURCH - to defeat, to win
LURCH - to shift, to play tricks
LURE - something stuffed to resemble a bird
LUSH - juicy, luxuriant
LUSTIG - lusty, cheerful
LUXURIOUS - lascivious
LUXURY - lust
LYM - a slow hound