likerous (A.N.) 133, _nice, voluptuous, lecherous_ likne (A.S.) 175, 190, _to imitate, to mimic, to make a simile_ lyme (A.S.) 436, _limb_ lyme-yerd (A.S.) 170, _limed twig_ lymitour (A.N.) 85, 445, _a limitour, a begging friar_ lynde (A.S.) 24, 155, _the linden tree_ lippe (A.S.) 324, _a slip, portion_ liser (A.N.) 89, _list of cloth_ (?) lisse (A.S.) 160, 383, _joy, happiness, bliss_ liste (A.S.) _to please, list_. _pret._ list, 356, _it pleased_ listre (A.S.) 85, _a deceiver_ lite (A.S.) 262, _little_ litel (A.S.) _little_. litlum and litlum, 329, _by little and little_, the uncorrupted Anglo-Saxon phrase. _See_ note lyth (A.S.) 341, _a body_ lythe, lithen (A.S.) 155, 270, _to listen to_ lyven, lyve (A.S.) _to live_. _pr. pl._ lyveden, 2. _part. act._ lybbynge. _See_ libben lyves (A.S.) _alive_. lyves and lokynge, 405, _alive and looking_. _See_ note on l. 5014 lyveris (A.S.) 235, _livers, people who live_ lobies (A.S.) 4, _loobies, clowns_ loft (A.S.) _high, height_. bi lofte and by grounde, 372, _in height and in ground-plan_. o-lofte, _aloft, on high_ lok (A.S.) 27, _a lock_ loken (A.S.) 388, _to look, to over-see_, 148. _pret. s._ lokede, 276 lollen (A.S.) 240, _to loll_. _part. pas._ lolled, 239. _part. act._ lollynge, 346 lolleris (A.S.) 308, _lollards_. The origin of this word is doubtful, but it seems to mean generally people who go about from place to place with a hypocritical show of praying and devotion. It was certainly in use long before the time of the Wycliffites, in Germany as well as in England. Johannes Hocsemius (quoted by Ducange, v. _Lollardi_) says, in his chronicle on the year 1309, "Eodem anno quidam hypocritæ gyrovagi, qui _Lollardisive Deum laudantes_ vocabantur, per Hannoniam et Brabantiam quasdam mulieres nobiles deceperunt," &c. The term, used in the time of Piers Ploughman as one of reproach, was afterwards contemptuously given to the church reformers. The writer of the Ploughman's Tale, printed in Chaucer, Speght, fol. 86, appears to apply it to wandering friars:-- i-cleped _lollers_ and londlese. lomere (A.S.) 439, _more frequently_ lond-buggere (A.S.) 191, _a buyer of land_ +lone (A.S.) 493, _a loan_ (?) longen (A.S.) _to belong_ loof (A.S.) _a loaf_ loone (A.S.) 442, _a loan_. lenger yeres loone, _a loan of a year longer, a year's extension or renewal of the loan_ loore (A.S.) 79, 244, _teaching, lore, doctrine, science_ loores-man, lores-man (A.S.) 164, 318, _a teacher_ loos (A.S.) 219, _honour, praise_ lorel (A.N.) 147, 294, 351, 369, _a bad man, a good-for-nothing fellow_. Chaucer, in his translation of Boethius, uses it to represent the Latin _perditissimus_. Compare the description of the _lorel_ in the Ploughman's Tale (Speght's Chaucer) fol. 91:-- For thou canst no cattell gete, But livest in lond as a _lorell_, With glosing gettest thou thy mete.