a place; _e.g._ Netley, Lat. _Laeto-loco_ (at the pleasant, cheerful place), so called from a monastery founded there by Mereward, King of Mercia, in 658; Madley (the good place); Matlock (the meat enclosure or storehouse); Leominster, Lat. _Locus-fanum_ (temple place); Porlock or Portlock, in Somerset (the place of the port); Lok-Maria-Ker (the town of Maria Ker), in Brittany. In France: Richelieu (rich place); Chaalis, anc. _Carolis-locus_ (the place of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders); Beaulieu (beautiful place); Loctudey, at Finisterre, corrupt. from _Loc-Sancti-Tudené_ (the place of St. Tudy); Locdieu and Dilo, _i.e._ _Dei-locus_ (God’s place); Lieusaint (holy place); Baslieu (low place). [Sidenote: LOH, LOO (Ger. and Dutch), LOHE,] a meadow or thicket, and sometimes a marsh; _e.g._ Waterloo (watery meadow); Venloo (the marshy meadow), and perhaps _Louvain_ may have the same meaning; Groenloo (green thicket); Hohenlohe (the high marshy meadow); Tongerloo (the marshy meadow of the Tungri); Schwarzenloh (the black thicket); Anderlues (on the marsh). [Sidenote: LOHN (Ger.), LOON (Dutch),] a path; _e.g._ Iser-lohn (the path by the R. Iser); Forstlohn (the path in the wood); Neerloon and Oberloon (the lower and upper path); Loon-op-Zand (the path on the sand). [Sidenote: LUCUS (Lat.), LLWYN (Welsh), a grove,] a sacred grove; _e.g._ Lugo, in Italy, anc. _Lucus-Dianæ_ (the sacred grove of Diana); Lugo, in Spain, anc. _Lucus-Augusti_ (the sacred grove of Augustus); Les luches, in France, near the remains of an ancient temple; Luc, anc. _Lucus_, in Dauphiny. [Sidenote: LUG, LUKA, or LUZ (Sclav.), LEOIG (Gadhelic), LAUK (Esthonian),] a marsh, cognate with the Lat. _lutum_; _e.g._ Lusatia or Lausatz (the marshy land); Lassahn, Ger. _Laki-burgum_ (the town on the marsh); Lugos or Lugosch, Luko and Leignitz, with the same meaning, in Poland and Silesia; Podlachia (near the marshes), a district in Poland. The towns of Lyons, Laon, and Leyden were formerly named _Lugdunum_ (the fortress in the marshy land); Paris was formerly _Lutetia-Parisiorum_ (the marshy land of the Parisii). In France: Loches, formerly _Luccæ_ and _Lochiæ_ (the marshy land); and Loché, formerly _Locheium_ (the marshy dwelling), in the department of Indre et Loire. [Sidenote: LUND (Scand.),] a sacred grove; _e.g._ Lund, towns in Sweden and in the Shetlands; Lundgarth (the enclosed grove), in Yorkshire; Lundsthing (the place of meeting at the grove), in Shetland; Charlottenlund, Christianslund, and Frederickslund (the grove of Charlotte, Christian, and Frederick), villages in Denmark; and perhaps the island Lundy, in the Bristol Channel. [Sidenote: LUST, LYST (Teut.),]