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208 Lide. The month of March. c. Lidden. An oft told tale. " Harping on one string," always telling the same old story, " that old lidden again." Leden, Chaucer. Ledden, Spenser. In the North of England it means noise, din. Lie. "Gone to lie" is said of grass or corn beaten down by rough weather. Also "The wind is gone to lie," i.e., it is become calm. Lifting dome. Tippling, guzzling. Lig, or Liggan. A deposit, as of seaweed, a detritus of dead leaves. Ligge, to lie down. Chaucer, Lig or Liggen, to lie. Spenser, Lig, or Liggan. A kind of sea weed. M.A.C. A manure formed of leaf deposit. c. Liggy. Muddy, mucky, damp. Ligging. Dragging along and smearing with mud; very wet, drizzly, as of the weather. Lights. The lungs. "Eising of the lights" a phrase used of a choking feeling in the throat. Likky pie. Pie of leeks, with bacon, and an egg or two broken over the hot contents. Lilly-bangers. The " cup and dice " were so called at Penzance. M.A.c. Lilly-banger stalls. "Until within the last 20 years it was the custom in Penzance on Easter Monday to bring out tables before the doors, on which were placed thick ginger-bread cakes with