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GLOSSARY

LECTURE, instruction; 2. 1. 64 cattle or horse breeding); cf.
LENTEN, meagre; 2. 2. 320 Temp. 2. 1. 124 'loose her to
LET, hinder; 1.4. 85 an African'5 M.W.W. 2.1. 164.
LETHE, the river of forgetfulnessj 'turn her loose to him' (v.
x note); 2. 2. 162
- 5- 33
LEVEL (adj.), (i) with direct aim, LUXURY, lasciviousness, lustj 1. $,
straight; 4. 1. 42; (ii) plain, 83
straightforward, readily acces-
sible to (cf. 2 Hen. IV, 4. 4. 7 MACHINE, 'applied to the human
'everything lies level to our and animal frame as a combina-
wish'); 4. 5. 151 tion of several parts' (N.E.D.,
LIBERAL, (i) frank, licentious; quoting from 1687 'What
4. 7. 169; (ii) 'liberal conceit,' Nobler Souls the Nobler Machins
elaborate design; 5. 2. 155 Wear'); 2. 2 124
LIE (vb.), in the legal sense, to be MAIN (sb.), (i) the main cause
admissible or sustainable; 3.3.61 (cf. 2 Hen. VI, 1. I. 208 'look
LIGHTNESS, lightheadedness; 2. 2. unto the main'); 2. 2. 56;
149 (ii) the chief or principal part,
LIMED, caught (as with bird-lime) 5 the main body; 4. 4. 15
3- 3- 68 MAINLY, forcibly, very greatly (cf.
LIST (sb.), (i) lit. catalogue of 1 Hen. IV, 2. 4. 222-3 'mainly,
soldiers, hence company, troop; thrust at me'); 4. 7. 9
1. 1. 985 1. 2. 32; (ii) boundary, MALLECHO = Spanish 'malhecho,'
barrier; 4. 5. 99 misdeed, iniquity. N.E.D. as-
LIVERY, (i) badge or cognizance serts that 'there is no evidence
worn by retainer; 1. 4. 325 that the Sp. word was familiar
(ii) clothes or uniform denoting in English,' but Dowden quotes
some rank or calling; 3.4. 164; Shirley, Gentleman of Venice:
4. 7. 78 'Be thou humble, Thou man of
LIVING, enduring, eternal; 5.1.291 mallecho, or thou diest'j 3. 2.
LOBBY, a passage or corridor out- I3S
side a large room, often used as MARGENT, margin, marginal note}
a waiting place or ante-room
(v. N.E.D. 'lobby' 2 and cf. MARKET (sb.), profit, what one
2 Hen. VI, 4. 1. 61 'How in our makes or gets in exchange for
voiding lobby hast thou stood')} something else, or (perhaps)
2. 2. 161 traffic; 4. 4. 34
LOGGATS, a game, rather like nine- MART, traffic, bargaining; 1. I. 74
pins, in which missiles were MATIN, daybreak, lit. the religious
thrown at wooden pins or bones office recited at daybreak} I. 5.
fixed in the ground (v. Sh. Eng. 89
ii. 465-66); 5. 1. 90 MATTER (sb.), (a) subject matter,
LONG PURPLE, early purple orchis, (i) business, affair (v. note);
Orchis mascula\ 4. 7. 168 2. 2. 194; business; 2. 2. 485;
LOOSE (vb.), (a) release (as a dog i love-affair, love-making (v.
from a leash), (6) turn loose (in note); 3. 2. 114.