A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language: From the Semi-Saxon Period of A.D. 1250 to 1300Coleridge, Herbert
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A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language: From the Semi-Saxon Period of A.D. 1250 to 1300
Coleridge, Herbert
English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
---- _adj._ == fallow. Pol. S. 152. Probably from AS. liðs, rest
Lithe, _adj._ == gentle. Ps. cvi. 29. AS. líðe
Lither, _v. n._ == do harm. Ps. civ. 15. See Luther
---- == act wickedly. Ps. xxxvi. 9
Litherand, _adj._ == wicked. Ps. xxv. 5
Littene, _part._ == cut up? HD. 2701
Little, _adj._ [lytul], RG. 19; [lute]. RG. 378; [lutel]. RG. 376
---- _v. a._ == make little. Ps. viii. 6; lxxiv. 9; [lutli]. O. and N. 540
---- _v. n._ == become little. Rel. Ant. ii. p. 211
Littleless, == almost. Ps. xciii. 17
Live, _v. n._ RG. 381
Liver, _sb._ (part of the body). Alys. 2156
Liver, _v. a._ == deliver. RG. 39
Liverede, _adj._ == red. RG. 39
Livering, _sb._ == delivering of provisions. Alys. 7171
Liversoon, _sb._ == sustenance. Alys. 1011. Fr. livraison
Lo! 1769 B. AS. lá
Load, _sb._ Body and Soul, 238
Loaf, _sb._ 278 β; pl. ‘loves.’ 293 β; ‘laves.’ Ps. xli. 4
Loath, _adj._ == hateful. RG. 40; [yladh]. O. and N. 1605; [lath], Ps.
xvii. 8
---- _v. n._ == be angry, displeased. RG. 32
Loathly, _adj._ Body and Soul, 56; [lolich]. Pol. S. 203
Loc, _sb._ == gift. M. Ode, 37. AS. lác
Lock, _v. a._ == enclose. O. and N. 56. AS. lúcan
---- == lock, fasten, as a door. RG. 495; pret. ‘lek.’ Body and Soul, 236;
part. ‘iloke.’ 824 B.
---- _sb._ == lock of a door. Ps. cxlvii. 13. O. and N. 1555
Lock, _sb._ == a tress of hair. Wright’s L. P. p. 34. AS. locc
Locket, _sb._ Pol. S. 154
Lodge, _v. a._ Alys. 3132. AS. logian
---- _v. n._ Alys. 4098
---- _sb._ Alys. 4295
Lofe, _sb._ == praise. Ps. xxi. 26; [loof]. Ib. 4
Loft, _sb._ == air. RG. 7; ‘upo lofte’ == aloft. Pol. S. 154
Loftsang, _sb._ == song of praise. Ps. lxiv. 2. Germ. lob-gesang
Logede, == lewd, lay? Fragm. in Warton, H. E. P. vol. i. p. 21
Loin, _sb._ Pol. S. 191
Loke, _v. a._ == decide. RG. 53; part. ‘iloked.’ RG. 534
---- == guard. Pilate, 69; [loki], O. and N. 604
Loking, _sb._ == decision. RG. 506
Loking, _sb._ == care. K. Horn, 350
Lome, _adv._ == frequently. Pol. S. 197
Lome, _sb._ == spade, or mattock. Wright’s L. P. p. 41. AS. lóma, gelóma
---- == instrument, tool. Ps. vii. 14
---- == vessel. Ps. xxxii. 7
Londisse, _adj._ == of the country. K. Horn 648
Lone ? Wright’s L. P. p. 26
Long, _adj._ RG. 376, 410; ‘longer.’ RG. 377
---- _adv._ == for a long time. O. and N. 466
---- _v. n._ == become long. Alys. 139
Long, _v. n._ == desire. RG. 176. AS. langian
Longing, _sb._ Wright’s L. P. p. 29
Look, _v. n._ RG. 14
Loose, _v. a._ [louse]. Pol. S. 239; part. ‘losed.’ Wright’s L. P. p. 99
Lopered, == coagulated, clotted. Ps. cxviii. 70; lxvii. 17. Dan. löbe,
runnet, from löbe, to run, run together, hence to coagulate. Sw. löpa i
hop, to curdle
Lord, _sb._ RG. 432
Lording, _sb._ RG. 431, 524
Lordless, _adj._ RG. 142
Lordswike, == traitor. Pol. S. 220. RG. 313. See ‘laverdswike’ in Laȝ, ii.
506
Lore, _sb._ ‘a lore.’ M. Ode, st. 1, either means ‘in learning,’ or should
be written ‘alore,’ otherwise, in other respects. Fr. allors
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