_Litter_, any thing clatter’d up, out of Place or Order, _What a litter here is?_ What a toss and tumble? Also _a Litter of Cubbs_, young Foxes; _of Whelps, Puppies_, young Doggs. _Little Barbary_, Wapping. _Little Fellow or Action_, Contemptible, Base, Sneaking, Ungentleman-like. _Loblolly_, any ill-cookt Mess. _Lob-cock_, a heavy, dull Fellow. _In Lob’s Pound_, Laid by the Heels, or clap’d up in Jail. _Lobster_, a Red Coat Soldier. _Lock all fast_, c. one that Buys and Conceals Stolen Goods. _The Lock_, c. the Magazine or Ware-house whither, the Thieves carry Stolen Goods to be secur’d; also an Hospital for Pockey Folks in _Kent-street_. _Lockram-jaw’d_, Thin, Lean, Sharp-visag’d. _Loge_, c. a Watch. I suppose from the French _Horloge_, a Clock or Watch. _Filed a Cly of a Loge, or Scout_, c. Pickt a Pocket of a Watch. _Biting a Loge, or Scout_, c. the same. _Loggerhead_, a heavy, dull Fellow. _To go to Loggerheads_, to go to Fisticuffs. _Lolpoop_, a Lazy, Idle Drone. _To Loll_, to Lean on the Elbows; also to put out the Tongue in derision. _Long-headed_, Wise, of great reach and foresight. _Long-meg_, a very tall Woman. _Long-shanks_, Long-legged. _Long-winded Pay-master_, one that very slowly, heavily, or late Paies. _Looby_, a lazy dull Fellow. _Looking-glass_, a Chamber-pot. _Loon-slatt_, c. a Thirteen Pence half Penny. _A Loon_, see _Lout_. _A False Loon_, a true _Scotch_ Man, or Knave of any Nation. _Lord_, a very crooked, deformed, or ill-shapen Person. _Lore_, Learning or Skill in any Thing. _Louse-land_, Scotland. _A Scotch Louse-trap_, a Comb. _Lout_, an heavy, idle Fellow. _To Lout_, to Low like a Cow, or Bellow like a Bull. _Loure_, c. Money. _Low Tide_, when there’s no Money in a Man’s Pocket. _Low-pad_, c. a Foot-Pad. _Lubber_, _Lubberly_, a heavy, dull Fellow. _Lud’s-bulwark_, c. Ludgate Prison. _Luggage_, Lumber. _Luggs_, Ears: Hence to Lug by the Ears. _Ye can he make a Silk-Purse of a Sowe’s Luggs_, a Scotch Proverb. _To Lug out_, to draw a Sword. _Lullaby-cheat_, c. a Child. _Lumber_, Rubbish, Trash, Trumpery. _Lumpish_, heavy dull, drowsy. _Lurched_, Beaten at any Game. _Left in the Lurch_, Pawn’d for the Reckoning, or left at Stake to Smart for any Plot. _Lure_, c. an idle Pamphlet; also a Bait. _Throw out a Lure_, to lay Bait. _Lurries_, c. Money, Watches, Rings, or other Moveables. _Lyome_, the String wherewith a Hound is Led. M _Mab_, a Slattern. _Mab’d up_, Drest carelessly, like a Slattern, of such a one it is said. _Her Cloths fit on her, like a Saddle on a Sow’s Back._ _Queen Mab_, Queen of the Fairies. _Mackarel_, c. a Bawd. _Mackarel-back_, a very tall, lank Person. _Machiavilian_, one wickedly or knavishly Politic. _Machines_, Vessels full of Carcasses and Bombs, under Shelter or Covert of the _Smokers_, to come close up under Walls, Forts, Fortifications, _&c._ being fixt to Blow up the same. Also Engines or Instruments of divers Arts, and Movements upon the Stage.