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
Living-giver, _a master_, xi. 465
Loadam (=lodam), _a game at cards_, ix. 101
Loading, _laden_, xiv. 248
Loathful, _hateful_, _distasteful_, i. 111
Loave-ears, _long-ears_, xiv. 321
Lob, _term of contempt_, ii. 221;
_fool_, _lout_, iii. 272;
viii. 448
Lobbish, _blockish_, iii. 268
Lobcock, _a fool_, iv. 75;
_foolish_, ix. 241
Lobcocked, ix. 288
Lob's pound, _a snare_, xv. 32
Lock and hasp, ii. 338
Lode, _leading_, i. 50
Lode star, _leading star_, v. 103
Loggerhead, _a blockhead_, x. 478
Loggerheaded, _blockhead_, vi. 177
Logheaded, _blockhead_, iv. 65
Lombard, _banker_, i. 266
Long, _to belong_, i. 255;
_a long time_, i. 149
Long coat, _a nurse_, xi. 464
Long of, _on account of_, ii. 300
Loose, _purge_, xv. 316
Loover, _opening in the roof_, _sky-light_, viii. 320;
xi. 105
Lope, _to run_, vi. 70
Lore, _learning_, i. 60;
_lost_, i. 413;
_to teach_, xii. 241
Lorn, _lost_, i. 271
Losel, _a loose, worthless fellow_, iii. 128, 218;
_good for nothing_, viii. 341
Loselled, _losel_, _worthless_ (?), ix. 288
Losopher, _a philosopher_, i. 40
Losophy, _philosophy_, i. 42
Lout, iii. 103
Loud and still, _openly and secretly_, i. 269
Lough, _to low_, xii. 507
Lour, _to look sad_, ii. 290
Louse (to), _to pick of lice_, viii. 69
Louser, _a catcher of lice_, iv. 118
Lousious, _luscious_, iv. 73
Loute, _to bow_, xii. 507
Louted, _treated as a loutish stupid_, iii. 97
Loutishness, _stupidity_, iii. 117
Love-longing, i. 247
Love's dance, i. 156
Loving, _love_, iv. 15
Low, _to allow_, iii. 136
Loy, St, ii. 117
Lozel, _a worthless fellow_, vii. 155
Lub, _love_, iii. 67
Lug, _to pull_, _drag by the ear_, i. 231;
ix. 304
Lugs, _the ears_, ix. 215
Luke, _look_, vi. 73
Lull, _to seize by the ear_ (?), ii. 211
Lulling, iv. 120
Lumperdy-clumperdy, iii. 92
Lumpish, _dull_, xii. 212
Lungis, _a lubber_, viii. 53
Lurden, _a term of reproach_, i. 76;
_a lout_, ix. 289
Lusk, _sluggard_, ix. 462
Luskish, _slow_, viii. 370
Lust, _to please,_ i. 292;
iii. 102;
_to desire_, ii. 119
Lusty, _pleasant_, i. 48
Luxur, _a lecher_, x. 8
Lycand, _pleasing_, xii. 254
Lytherly, _bad_, xii. 241
Maculate, _to spot_, _soil_, i. 225
Mad, _to madden_, x. 169
Madding, _mad_, v. 185
Maddle-coddle, _foolish_, vi. 391
Made, "we're made," = _our fortunes are made_, xii. 211
Magnifico, _a grandee_, xi. 453
Maids, _thornbacks_, xii. 113
Mail, _wallet_, vi. 511
Maim'd, _wounded_, v. 13
Maintain, _to encourage_, iii. 155
Maintenance, _servitude_, xi. 468
Make ready, _to dress_, xiii. 489
Make, _mate_, iii. 24
Maked, _matched_, i. 252
Maker, _poet_, ii. 112
Making, _mating_, xi. 144
Malcontent, _discontented_, xiv. 107
Malcontented, _discontented_, x. 162
Malecotoon, _peach_, xii. 236
Malison, _curse_, iii. 181
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