terminately, bit is prefixed, as, "She's nobbut a bit lass."

LAST, a. Durability. Jam.

LAST-BAT, n. When boys leaving school separate for the night, each is desirous of having the last-bat, that is, of touching his comrades and running away. See Tig (3) in Will.

LAT, n. Lath. Car., H., Wilb.
LATE (pronounced l'yat), a. Late.
LATE, v. To search. IcE. leita.

"The grete Godde for to layte,

Finde him whenne he may."

Thornton Romances (Camd. Soc. Pub.)

Sir Perceval, 1. 255. See Will. v. Leat.

The other meanings given by Willan are unknown in this district.

LATHE (pronounced l'yathe), a. Loath. See Jam. v. Laith, Car. v. Laithe.

LAVE, v. To throw out any liquid. The meaning is much the same as that of "lade."

66 'A fourth with labour laves

Th' intruding seas, and waves ejects on waves."

LAY, v. To bet. "I'll lay thee sixpence."

Dryden.

LAY-AWAY, v. To convert arable into grass land. See Car. v. Lay-down.

LEAD, v. To carry, as, "He's leading stanes." It is used, however, more frequently in a neutral sense for the operation of carrying corn from the harvest field. "They're leading to-day." Car.

"A thousand more mischances than this one
Have learn'd me how to brook this patiently."

Shaks., Two Gen. of Ver., v, 3.

LEATHER, v. To beat. Jam., Car. (1.), Her., W. and C. LEAZES, n. pl. A designation generally applied to gently sloping fields. "Leswes or lesues is a Saxon word, and signifieth pastures." Co. Lit. 4 b.

LEEM, v. To separate easily from the husk. Jam.
LEEMER, n. A nut, perfectly ripe.

LEET, v. To leet on, to light on, to meet with.

"Light

on" is used by Sp., Shak., Bacon, Dryden, &c. “A weaker man may sometimes light on notions which have escaped a wiser."-Watts on the Mind. Car. LEETNIN, n. Lightning: also, dawn of day. W. and C. LEETS, n. pl. Lights, the lungs of animals. Car.

LEETSOME, a. Lightsome, luminous, cheerful. Car.

LEN, v. To lend. A. S. lænan.

LENNET, n. A linnet.

LENTH, n. Length. Car.

LENTHEN, v. To lengthen.

Jam., Car.

LET WI'T, v. To make known. "Ye mun nivver let wi't."

LIB, v. To emasculate. DUT. lubben.

"The bellowing bullock lib and goat."

Chapman, Hesiod (1618).

Jam., Car.

LICK, n. a blow. Car.

LICK, v. (1), To beat;

LICKIN, n. A beating. Car., Lanc.

LICKS, n. pl. Personal chastisement. Jam., Car.

(2), to overcome. Jam., Car., H.

LIESTER, n. A pronged and barbed instrument for striking fish. See Will. v. Lister. Jam., Car.

LIESTER, v. To strike fish with a liester. Jam.
LIEVE, adv. Willingly. "Action is death to some sort
of people, and they would as lieve hang as work.".
L'Estrange.

Car.

LIEVER, adv. Rather, more willingly. Seldom used in the comparative degree. LIGNY, n. A knor made of lignum vitæ, for the game of spell and knor. The surface is not smooth, but carved, the lines crossing each other at right angles. LIKE, a. Denoting obligation, as, "I's like to gan," i. e. I must go. Car., Wilb.

LIKLY, a. Likely, promising well, as, "a likly foal. Car. LIKLY, adv. Likely.

LICKLIER, More likely. Car.

LICKLIEST, Most likely.

LIKNESS, n. Likeness.

Car.

Car.

LIMMERS, n. pl. The shafts of a cart. ICE. lim, pl.

LING, n. The common heath plant. ICE. ling. DAN. lyng. "Heath and ling and sedges."-Bacon. H., W. and C., Lanc.

LINK-PIN, n. Linch-pin. For., Car. v. Lin-pin.

LISK, a. Active. Car., W. and C.

LISK, n. The groin, or flank. DAN., SU. liusche.

LISTIN, n. The coloured edge of a woollen web. A. S. list. Car.

LITHE, v. To lithe the pot-to mix the broth, when boiling, with oatmeal or flour, so as to thicken it. No whole grain is used, but a flour of corn, rice, &c., which is called lithing. See Jam. v. Lithe (2), Car., Wilb.

"Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear."

Car.

LIVER, v. To deliver.

Car.

Shak., Hamlet, iii, 2.

LOCK, n. “A lock of meal," a small quantity of meal.

See Jam., W. and C.

LOFT, n. A granary, a hayloft.

LONNIN, n. Lane. "It's a lang lonnin that has nivver a turn." The Scotch form is "loaning."

"But now they are moaning on ilka green loaning."

LOPE, v. To leap. H. See Car. v. Loup.

LOUND, a. Calm, sheltered, as, “a lound day," "a lound

seat." See Jam. v. Loun (1) and (2), also Lound. W. and C.

LOUZE, v. n. To loose, to cease from work.

schule we louze at 3 o'clock o' Thursdays."

LOW, n. Flame. Will.

LOW, v. An abreviation of "allow."

"At our

LOW, v. To blaze up. Car.

Seldom used as a verb.

This term occurs in a Scotch proverb, often used by

economical housewives.

"There's little wisdom in his pow,

Wha lights a candle at the low."

Mayne's Siller Gun., p. 73.

LOW,
LOBBY-LOW,

n. A flame or blaze. This is a term now

addressed only to children.

ICE. loge.

GER. lohe.

"I would set that castle in a low."

Min. S. B. Scott's P. W., ii, 54.

Low used by Wicliffe. Car.

LOWANCE, n. Allowance, a term for refreshment given

to labourers in hay-time and harvest.

LOWND, a. Sheltered.

LUG, v. To draw forcibly, to pull the hair.

Car., Lanc.

LUG, n. The ear. Car., H., W. and C. Sc. lug.

LUGE, v. To lodge.

LUGING-HOUSE, n. Lodging-house. See Car. v. Ludging.

LUIK, v. To look. W. and C.

"The Queen luikt owre the castle wa',

LUIK, n. A look.

P. Rel., ii, 227. Young Waters, 1. 5.

LUIKS, n. pl. Countenance. "I dinnot like his luiks."

See Leuk in Jam.

LUME, n. Loom. W. and C.

LUSTY, a. A term applied to a person who is fat.

L'YAM, Lame.

Car. v. Laam.

L'YANELY, a. Lonely.

ACK, n. Sort, kind, fashion. "All macks," all sorts.

MACKB

Car., W. und C., Will.

MACK, v. To make. GER. machen. Car., H.

MACK NOR MELL.

I'll not interfere.

"I'll neither mack nor mell," i. e.

Shaks. Tro. and Cr. i, 1. Car.

MACK-SHIFT, n. A substitute in lieu of something better.

Car.