Aller long. To shite ouer nine hedges; to haue the squirt, or a laske. Avoir les dents bien longues. To haue a terrible appetite, or extreame stomacke, to be continually, or cruelly, sharpe set. La faire longue. Il ne la fera longue en ce monde. He cannot liue any time, hee will not be long aliue. Longues paroles font les iours courts: Prov. Long discourses make short dayes.
Longale: f. A loyne.
Longard: m. A delayer, lingerer, protracter, prolonger.
Longe: f. The loyne; or flanke; (some name so the fleshie part of the necke, backe, and reines, cut along the back; others, more commonly, the peece that extends from the kidney to the end of the rumpe; and others call both these parts together, la longe;) also, a hawkes lune, or leash; and hence, any long string, or line of leather, &c.
Longeastre: com. Longish, or somewhat long.
Long encollé: m. ée: f. Long-necked, necked like a Crane.
Longiere: f. A long narrow towell.
Longis: m. A lungis; a slimme, slow-backe, dreaming luske, drowsie gangrill; a tall and dull slangam, that hath no making to his height, nor wit to his making; also, one that being sent on an errand is long in returning.
Longitude: f. Longitude, length, longnesse, extension, continuance.
Longue: f. The loyne; See Longe. Longuement. Longly, tediously, at length, long time, lastingly, of much continuance, a great while. Longuement proceder est à l'advocat vendenger: Prov. Long pleading is the Lawyers haruest.
Longuerie. as Longueur. Long-uestu. as Obole de Gueldres. Longuet: m. uette: f. Longish, or somewhat long. Quarré longuet. A square that is more long then broad.
Longueur: f. Length, longnesse; extension, tallnesse, height.
Lonze: f. A match to keepe fire with.
Loo. The loofe of a ship. Bouter de loo. To goe by a wind, to sayle neere the wind, to lay tacke aboord.
Looh; ou, Loot. as Loch. Lopin: m. A peece, gobbit, luncheon, lumpe, cantle, nuncheon, big morsell, or parcell of. Lopin de laine. A locke of wooll. Qui suit les lopins. A parasite, smell-feast, trencher friend. Qui bons lopins mange bons lopins le suivent: Prov. Prouision followes them that loue to fare well.
Lopiné: m. ée: f. Cut into gobbits, parted into cantles, diuided into lumps.
Lopiner. To cut into gobbits, part into cantles, diuide into lumps; also, to munch, or nunche on it, to eat greedily in a corner.
Lopinet: m. A bit, mammocke, small gobbit, little peece, or parcell of.
Loppe. as Lopin; or, A lumpe of mettall rugged and vnwrought, as it comes out of the mine; also, the drosse of any mettall.
Loquacité: f. Loquacitie, talkatiuenesse, prating, pratling, babling.
Loque: f. A rag, or tatter: ¶Pic.
Loquence: f. Speech, talking.
Loquet d'vne huis. The latch, or snecket of a doore.
Loqueteux: m. euse: f. Ragged, tattered; poore, needie, beggerlie in array: ¶Pic. Loquette: f A little rag, or tatter.
Lordault. as Lourdault. Lorderie: f. Seeke Lourderie. Lorgnant. Leering, looking askaunce, or askew at.
Lorgne. tique, toque, lorgne. (Words expressing a liberall, and free dole of blowes) thwicke thwacke; also, here and there, at randome, without discretion. Torche lorgne. The same.
Lorgner. (Sowerly) to leere, looke askaunce, or askew, at; also, to knocke, or thumpe soundly, to lay vpon.
Loricard: m. A luske, lowt, lorell, slow-backe; an vnhandsome, or mishapen fellow.
Loricarder. To luske, lowt, or lubber it; to loyter about like a maisterlesse man.
Lorion: m. The bird called a Witwall, Yellow-peake, Hickway.
Loriot. as Lorion. Lormerie: f. Small yron-Worke, as nayles, spurres, &c; or, a Spurriers trade.
Lormier: m. A worker in small yron, a maker of small yron trinkets, as nayles, spurres, &c; a word most vsed for a Spurrier; who is also tearmed Lormier sellier, because hee may retaile Sadlers ware as well as spurres.
Lorry. An auntient towne within the Jurisdiction of Orleans. Il est de le Lorry ou le batu paye l'amende. He gets the blowes, and yet payes for the bloudwipe.
Lors. Then, whilome, the whilest that, in that time, in that season; Lors que cela se fit; then when that thing was done. Lors de l'enfantement. At the time of childbirth, or when she lay in.
Los: m. Laud, praise, commendation; &c as Loz; also, willingnesse, consent, agreement, good will. Tel a bon los qui l'a à tort; tel l'a mauvais qui n'en peut mais: Prov. Some are vniustly praisd, some blam'd vnworthily.
Losenge: f. A Losenge; the forme, or a thing of the forme, of an ordinarie quarrell of glasse, &c; as in Lozenge. Losengier: m. A flatterer, cogger, foister, picke-*thanke, prater; cousener, guller, beguiler, deceiuer.
Lossec m. The sinke, or well, of the pumpe of a ship.
Lot: m. A lot, portion, part, share, allowance; also, a pot, or vessell containing (about) our pottle.
Lote: f. The Lote, or Nettle tree; also, a fish; whence; Lote d'eau douce. Th'Eele powt; or a little muddie fish thats headed, skinned, and finned like an Eele. Lote de mer. A small-scaled fish, that hath one wattle in the end of her lower chap, and two on her vpper lip; otherwise resembling in some parts a Cod, in others the Lamprey, but tasting more like that then this; and seldome caught, or seene on our coast.
Loti. as Loty. Lotie: f. A diuision, partition, sharing.
Lotir. To cast lots for; also, to diuide, part, apportion, share.
Lotizé: m. ée: f. Diuided, parted, apportioned, shared.
Lots. Fines of alienation; Seeke Lods.
Lotte: f. A Powt, or Eele powt; See Lote.
