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205 Lantern fish. The soUa loevis or Amoglossus, so called because it is a very transparent sole. Lap^ or Lop. To throb, as in pain. (Lap, to beat. Garland,) Lap, or Cat-lap. Tasteless, insipid fluid, or drink. Lappy. To lap. Lappior. A dancer. This is a Celtic Cornish word. Larrence. (St. Lawrence). ^^He is as lazy as Larrence." Larrikins. Mischievious young fellows, larkers. ^' Mischievious larrikins who pull the young trees down." The Cornishman. Lashin, or Lasher. A very large thing, a lot or plenty. Lash. To throw anything down violently, as '^he lashed it down." To pour, as of rain. Lash. Bait cut from the tail of a mackerel. c. Lasking. Keeping near the coast, a fisherman's term. B.v. Mousehole, Latteen, Lattin, or Lattice. Names for tin-plate. Lattice. The vegatable lettuce. Lattis. A milk-pail. Penwith, in the Antiquary. Probably from lait, which besides being the French for milk, is also a Celtic Cornish word, and it is " the old orthography of kyth or leih as written in the " Ordinalia." Williams's Cornish Didy,