the slope of a hill; _e.g._ Ballater, in Aberdeenshire (the town on the sloping hill); Letterfearn (the alder-tree slope); Letterfourie (the grassy hillside, _feurach_); Findlater (the cold hill-slope, _fionn_), in Scotland. In Ireland: Letterkenny (the hill-slope of the O’Cannons); Letterkeen (beautiful hill-slope); Lettermullen (Meallan’s hill-slope); Letterbrick (the badger’s hill-slope); Letterlickey (the hill-slope of the flagstone); Letherhead, in Surrey (at the head of the slope, Welsh _llethr_), on the declivitous bank of the R. Mole; Machynlleth for Mach-yn-Llethr (the ridge on the slope), a town in Montgomery. [Sidenote: LEOD (A.S.), LEUTE (Ger.),] the people; _e.g._ Leutkirch (the people’s church); Liège, Ger. _Lüttich_, anc. _Leodicus-vicus_ (the people’s town)--the hill on which the citadel stands was called _Publes-mont_ (the people’s hill); Leeds, in Yorkshire, anc. _Loidis_ (the people’s town, according to Bayley); Whittaker, however, makes it the town of Loidi, a personal name); but Leeds, in Kent, is said to have been named after Ledian, the Chancellor of Ethelred II. [Sidenote: LESSO, LESSE (Sclav.),] a wood or thicket; _e.g._ Lessau, Leske, Leskau, Lessen, Lissa (the woody place), towns in Prussia; Leschnitz, in Silesia, and Leizig, in Saxony, with the same meaning; Leschkirch (the church in the wood), in Transylvania; Liezegorike (woody hill). [Sidenote: LEUCUS (Grk.),] white, _e.g._ Leuctra, Leuctron, Leucadia, so named from the white rocks at its extremity; Leucasia (the white river); Leucate (the white promontory in Greece). [Sidenote: LEY, LEA (A.S.), LEG,]