A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 15Dodsley, Robert
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 15
Dodsley, Robert
English drama
Laud, _to praise_, i. 131;
_praise_, i. 54, 397
Laundress, _a woman employed at an Inns-of-Court_, x. 275;
xiii. 231
Lave, _long_, ix. 304
Laverock, _lark_, i. 425
Lavolta, _a dance_, ix. 408.
Lavoltoe, xiv. 111
Lawless, _illegal_, ix. 74
Lay (= waylay), xiii. 253
Layk, _like_, vi. 76
Lay out, "_put out to interest_" xi. 363
Laytell, _little_, vi. 72
Lazars, _lepers_, viii. 70
Lead, _a caldron_, iii. 231
Leady, _heavy_, i. 85
Lease, _a leash_, iii. 355
Leech, _surgeon_, i. 168;
_physician_, x. 115
Lefe, _dear_, xii. 288
Leg, _a bow_, xiv. 443.
Leger wafers, xii. 334
Leman, _a sweetheart_, _concubine_, _mistress_, ii. 20;
iv. 143;
_note_, xiii. 497;
xiv. 296
Leme, _gleam_, i. 64
Lemen, _laymen_, vi. 71
Lenger, _longer_, i. 29, 103
Lenity, _softness_, v. 388
Lese, _to lose_, i. 74, 83, 156;
iv. 194
Lesing, _leasing_, _falsehood_, i. 119;
i. 159
Lest, _list_, i. 247;
_please_, i. 80
Let, _hindrance_, i. 347, 351;
x. 150;
_to hinder_, ii. 7, 387;
iv. 93;
_to refrain_, i. 252
Leteth, _let_ (_imperative_), xii. 286
Leve, _dear_, iii. 208
Lewd, _foolish_, xiii. 442;
_ignorant_, i. 35, 36
Lewdness, _ignorance_, i. 270;
iv. 121
Lewt, _a lout_, i. 255
Libbard, _leopard_, xiv. 325
Libbards, _leopards_, xiii. 282
Liberal, _licentious_, v. 136
Liberally, _licentiously_, xi. 194
Lie, _urine_, x. 340
Lie at ward, _a fencing term_, viii. 149
Lief, _soon_, i. 20
Lieger, vii. 417;
_ledger_, _resident_, xiii. 271
Liever, _sooner_, i. 35
Life-vein, _life's vein_, i. 152
Lift, _a term used in card playing_, x. 186
Lig, _to lie_, xii. 257
Ligg, _lie_, xii. 507
Light, _easy_, i. 25;
"by this light," _an oath_, i. 33;
x. 298
Light-a-love, vii. 296
Light-bolt, _lightning-bolt_, xi. 312
Lighted, _lightened_, i. 126
Light-fingered, ii. 167
Lightly, _easily_, vii. 304
Lightness, _levity_, ii. 318
Light-skirt, _a woman of light reputation_, ix. 127
Like, _to please_, i. 31, 137;
ii. 213;
xi. 225, 499;
_likely_, i. 88
Likelihood, _likeness_, i. 55;
_probability_ xi. 15
Liking, _pleasure_, i. 80, 247, 269;
xii. 378
Lilburn, _a term of abuse_, iii. 103
Limber, _pliant_, x. 363
Lim'd, _snared_, v. 80
Lin, _to cease_, ii. 116;
viii. 447
Lind, _to lend_, i. 255
Lindabrides, _a strumpet_;
_note_, xiv. 478
Lines, _lineages_, xii. 251
Linger, _to prolong_ (?), viii. 440
Linstock, _a stick with a match at the end, used by gunners_, xiv. 141
Lip-clip, _to kiss_, ix. 252
Liripup, _art_, _craft_, iii. 322
List, _pleasure_, i. 24, 29;
_please_, i. 79;
xi. 487;
_pleases_, iv. 15
Lither, _bad_, iii. 250;
vii. 418
Livelihood, _liveliness_ (?), x. 185
Lively, _lifelike_, xi. 514
Livery, _to sue_, _to recover property_, ix. 482
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