Labour, _sb._ A. 634; _vb._ A. 504. {Lache, Lachche,} = latch, take, receive, B. 166; _lached_, received, B. 1186; taken, C. 266; reach, C. 322; “_lach_ out,” take away, C. 425. A.S. _læccan_. Lad, led, A. 801. Ladde = lad, man (of inferior station), B. 36; C. 154. O.H.G. _laz_, libertinus. Ger. _lasse_. Du. _laete_, a peasant. Ladde-borde, larboard, C. 106. Laddres, ladders, B. 1777. Lade, led, A. 1146. Ladyly, A. 774. Ladyschyp, A. 578. Lafte, left, B. 1004. Laften, (_3d pers. pl. pret._) left, A. 622; C. 405. {Lake, Llak,} lake, deep, B. 438, 536. Lakke, sin against, abuse, B. 723. Dan. and Sw. _lak_, fault, vice. Dan. _lakke_, decay, decline. {Lalled, Laled,} spoke, B. 153, 913. Dan. _lalle_, to prattle. Bavarian _lallen_, to speak thick, talk. Gr. λαλειν, to talk. Lance, take, C. 350. Langage, language, B. 1556. Langour, sorrow, A. 357. Lansed (? _laused_), uttered, B. 668; C. 489. _Launch_, in the dialect of Worcestershire, signifies to cry out, groan. Lansed, ? quaked, B. 957. Lanteȝ (? _lanceȝ_), lentest, gavest, B. 348. Lantyrne, A. 1047. Lape, lap, taste, B. 1434. _Lape_, lape, taste (Baker’s Northampton Glossary). Lappe, _sb._ A. 201. A.S. _læppa_, border, hem. “_Lappe_, skyrte (_lappe_, barme, K.). Gremium.” (Prompt. Parv.) “The word _lap_, according to many ancient writers, signified the skirt of a garment. Thus G. de Bibelsworth says, ‘Car par deuant avez eskours (_lappes_), Et d’en costé sont vos girouns (sidgoren).’ It denoted, likewise, the hinder skirt.” (Way in Prompt. Parv.) Lapped, folded, clothed, B. 175. See T. B. 236. Lasched, B. 707. ? became hot, lascivious. Lasned = lessened, made smaller, B. 438, 441. Lasse, less, A. 599, 600; B. 1640. Laste, follow, A. 1146; C. 320. A.S. _last_, footstep. Goth, _laistjan_, to follow after. Laste, fault, crime, C. 198. Lastes, becomes faulty, B. 1141. Dan. _last_, vice, fault. O.N. _löstr_. S.Sax. _last_, calumny, blame. Icel. _last_. Ger. _lästerung_, slander. Lat, slow, late, B. 1172. A.S. _læt_, slow, late. Cf. _“lat_-a foot, slow in moving.” (Wilbraham’s Cheshire Glossary.) Laþe, to invite, B. 81. A.S. _lathian_. O.Sax. _lathian_. O.N. _lada_. Prov.E. _lathe_, to invite. A.S. _lathu_, invitation. N.Prov.E. _lathing_, invitation. Lauce, loosen, do away with (?), B. 1589. Laue, law, B. 723. Lauande, pouring, flowing, B. 366. Laue, pour out, A. 607; C. 154. A.S. _lafian_. Launceȝ, branches (of trees), A. 978. Launde, an open space between woods, a park; _lawn_, B. 1000, 1207. “_Saltus_ a lawnd.” (Nominale MS.) Welsh _llan_. “_Lawnde_ of a wode. Saltus.” (Prompt. Parv.) “_Indago_, a parke, a huntynge place, or a _launde_.” (Ortus.) “_Lande_, a _land_ or _launde_, a wild untilled shrubbie or bushy plaine.” (Cotg.) O.Fr. _lande_, saltus. “Sythyne [he] wente into Wales wyth his wyes alle;