leak,v., V,242,15: like.leak, II, 193,28; V,224,26;228,28:==lyke, for lyke-wake, watching of a dead body.leak-wake, V,228,13,14,23,24: lyke-wake, watching of a dead body. Seelake-wake,lyke-wake.leal,leel,leil,liel, III, 464,12: loyal, faithful, true. I, 70,24; 73,34,45,46; II, 73,19; III, 437,36; IV, 212,1; 240,13; 283,11; 289,11: virginal, chaste, expers viri; so, lealest, leelest, I, 220,A3; 221,D6. III, 464,3; 465,30: veracious. V,115,5: upright, honest. love me leel, I, 345,9: faithfully.lea-lang, I, 352,7. Seelee,adj.leall, V,248,4: perhaps only faithful; but possibly lief, lee (dear), leman, the final l being caught from leman.leam,leem,v., II, 410,24: gleam.lean,leen, his, him, IV, 345,I5: lane, lone. Seelane.lean,leane,lene,len,v., II, 403,8(seelen); III, 330,19; 420 f.,30,32,34,52; IV, 277,15,17; V,36,B8,9: conceal. II, 164,8,11,14: conceal, or lie. Seelain, to conceal.leap,pret.of leap, loup, V,227,17. Seeleepe.lear, II, 176,C1,2: instruction. IV, 413,2; 414,1; 467,1: learning. III, 473,24: information. Seelair.lear, II, 313,25: apparently meant for lair, bed; but rhymed with white, and the reading should undoubtedly be lyke, that is, lyke-wake, as in II, 117,16.leard, laird. Seelard.lease==leash, II, 265,19: a thong or string (as if for bringing back the deer he should kill?). I, 211,20: a leash (of hounds), pack. III, 216,31: a leash (of bucks), three.leasing(e),leasynge,lesynge,leesin, I, 412,26; III, 28,132,134; 359,86; IV, 465,22: falsehood.leath,laith, III, 162,54; IV, 479,4; V,216,6: loath.leaugh,leugh,lewgh,leiugh,lieugh, III, 465 f.,33,39,42,49; 487,6,14,16(seelaigh): low.leave, gie them a’ thier leave, I, 431,D13,E10: take leave of them all.leave==leeve, dear, II, 414,24. leaver, III, 362,82.leave(to weepe), IV, 140,10: cease.leave, live.lede, III, 74,368: leading, conduct.ledës-man,lodesman, III, 74,369; 88,369: guide.ledyt, I, 242,11,old imperative plural: lead.lee,lea, I, 100,4; III, 171,9; 174,20: untilled ground, grass land, open plain, ground.lee, lie lee, IV, 26,5: untilled. lay lee, V,189b, lay waste.lee,adj., the (this, a) lee-lang, lief-lang day, I, 100,11,12; 440,3; II, 96,I2: (Old Eng. the leevë longë day) livelong, from A. S. léof, used like German lieb in der liebe lange tag, die liebe lange nacht. So lee, le, lei, ley, licht o the moon, I, 389,5; II, 188 f.,4,14,35; 195,37; 233,F1; 374,B3; 413,7, as in die liebe sonne, der liebe mond, regen, wind, and other formulas in great variety. (lee licht o the moon is replaced, II, 103 f.,10,12; 106,10, by hie light, ae light.)lee,v., lie,mentiri.lee, II, 256,K5: live.lee,v., love. Seelea,love.leech, IV, 426,11: meant for leesh, and so spelt in another copy.leed,lied(A. S. lǽden), I, 207,18; 430,5,9; II, 366,19; IV, 379,14: talk.leed(A. S. léod), III, 355,3: man.pl.leeds,6: people.leed, laid.leed,n., II, 366,37: lead.leedginge, II, 58,7: leeching, doctoring.leeft,pret., IV, 220,1: lived.leel, loyal, faithful, etc. love me leel, I, 345,9: faithfully. Seeleal.lee-lang.Seelee.leemin, II, 361,33: gleaming.leems, IV, 460 a, No47: gleams; butlangs, belongs, is the word required; cf. I, 430,6.leen,lean, her, your leen, him leen, IV, 291 b; 345,9; V,171,2,6: lone. Seelane.leepe,leap,pret.of leap, loup, II, 445,76; V,227,17.lees,leeze, me on thee, III, 495 a, after7; IV, 517,15: blessings on, commend me to. (lees me, originally leeve is me, dear is to me, my delight is.)leese, III, 37,75; 189,4; 228,17; 374,3: lose.leesin, IV, 465,22: a lie. Seeleasing(e).leesome, I, 182-3; IV, 432,2; 455,18; V,178,1: lovely, pleasing, leesome blew the wind, IV, 410,10: pleasantly.leeve,leve,leave,lefe,lieve,live,adj., II, 305,13; 414,24; V,227,13: lovely, dear, pleasant;comp.leifer, leuer, I, 328,43; III, 24,35; 189,A9; 297,42; 436 f.,10,25; V,83,51. epithet of London, II, 265,5,12;440,14; III, 276,1; 284,6,7; 330,16; 406,35; V,227,8. So, lovely London, III, 352,1; 355,7. lilly Londeen, IV, 485,19. whether he were loth or lefe, III, 67,225(properly, him were): disagreeable or agreeable; here, unwilling or willing. Forhad leverseeleuer.leeve, III, 105,15: believe.leeve, III, 287,62: grant.leeze.Seelees.lefe, III, 28,128: pleasing, agreeable. III, 67,225: pleased. Seeleefe.leffe(A. S. lǽfan), wolde not leffe beheynde, III, 112,60: remain.leg, V,126f.,1,2,5, etc.: highwayman.legg, V,275,7: league.leguays,lequays, V,217,12,13: likewise.lei,ley, lei light o the moon, II, 188 f.,4,14,35; 195,37. Seelee,adj.leifer,leifar, III, 436 f.,10,25; IV, 196,13: rather. Seeleeve.leil.Seeleal.leiugh, low. Seeleaugh.leman,lemman, Old Eng. leofman, beloved (of both sexes). I, 232,6,7; 314,2-4,6; II, 271,18; 273,24, 400,6; IV, 151,B1,2; 154,2,3; V,283,3: lover, paramour. I, 72,30,32; 117,8; 254,10; II, 73,27,28; 81,40; 289,B2,3; V,248,4;283,12: love, mistress, loose woman.lemanless, III, 434,28: without lovers.lemanry, V,25,4: illicit love.len,v., lean. Seelend.len,lene, III, 420 f.,30,32,34,52; neither lee nor len, IV, 277,15,17: conceal. II, 164,8,11,14: conceal, or lie. that cannot longer len, II, 403,8: remain concealed (but the reading should probably be, I cannot). Seelain,lean.len,lene, III, 79,40,81; V,283,14: lend, give, grant.lend, II, 229,5,8; III, 63 f.,153,165; 82,76; 85,76; V,49,21: grant, give.lend,n., II, 185,38: loan.lend, I, 207,19, lend ye till your pike-staff: we should no doubt read len==lean. lent. I, 223,I4: leaned.lende, III, 75,395: dwell.lene, conceal. Seelen.lenger,lengre, III, 61,105; 73,341; 78,443: longer.lenght, III, 478,17: length.length, this length, IV, 271,A4: for so long.lent,pret., I, 223,I4: leaned.lequays, likewise. Seeleguays.lere(A. S. hléor), III, 57,28: cheek, face.lere, III, 57,16; 77,426: learn.lese,leese, III, 59,56: lose.less(age), IV, 64 a: minor.less o him, I, 332,G1: smaller of him, than him.lesse, III, 296,25: false, falsehood.lest, II, 81,45(reading in earlier MS. for rest): last.lesynge, falsehood. Seeleasing(e).let,lat(A. S. lǽtan), allow, leave. II, 54,48; 265,8,15,24; III, 58,38: omit, fail.pret.late, loot, lute, lett.p. p.latten, letten, lotten, looten, loot (?).let,lette(A. S. lettan), I, 334,8; III, 110,22,23; 128,75; 307,2: hinder.letten,p. p.of let, I, 87,43; 452,6: allowed, left.letters,letturs, III, 99,55(the kyng did hit vnfold); III, 297,36: letter.leuch,luke,pret.of laugh, II, 30,K1; 81,33; 366,23; IV, 272,9.leugh,n., lower part. Seelaugh.leugh,pret.of laugh, I, 388,A7; II, 134,21; III, 69,273; 467,60; 490,17.leugh,leaugh,lewgh, etc., IV, 465,34,38; 484 f.,8,10: low.leutye,lewtë, III, 64,154,169: loyalty, faith.leuve, I, 17,14: palm of the hand. Seeloof.leve,lave,m., II, 75,20: rest.leue,v., III, 61,112; 79,76: permit, grant.levedys, I, 334,9: ladies.leven, I, 324,13; 325,12: lawn, glade, open ground in a forest. Seelaunde.leuer,leifer, pleasanter, preferable, rather. had leuer, III, 24,35; 189,A9; 297,42; 436 f.,10,25; V,83,51. Seeleeve.lewde(lye), III, 171,8: base, vile.lewgh, low. Seeleaugh.lewte.Seeleutye.ley,lea,lee, III, 109,4; for a’ his father’s leys, II, 333,11; 334,M4; riding the leys, IV, 137,34: land not under cultivation, simply land, plain, field. lands and ley, V,157,2: arable land and pasture; a common phrase in Scots conveyancing, “all and whole the lands and leas.”ley-land, I, 15,11; 16,B11: land lying lea, not under cultivation. Seelay-land.ley licht.Seelei,lee.leyngger, V,80,37: longer.leyt, V,80,37: lighted.leythe, III, 112,62: light.liag, V,237,5: leg.libertie, lying at, II, 464,11: possessed in one’s own right, unencumbered.liberty,lybertye, place of, II, 443,39; 449,44,52: where one can fight without fear of interruption?liberty-wife, II, 291,2: mistress.licence, V,155,C3, make their licence free: pay the licence of an inn-keeper.licht, I, 146,19,20: alight. lichted, lichtit, II, 92,16; IV, 195,D2; 337 b, g after20.lichter, I, 21 b,8; II, 105,10: delivered. Seelighter.lichtlie,lichtly,lightly, IV, 94,3; 98,8; 100,7; 337 a, g16: make light of, treat, or speak of, with disrespect.lick, II, 470,45: gratuity (of meal from the miller).lick, III, 163,87: take for one’s self; cf. II, 470,45.lidder,lither, III, 464,1: lazy. asadv., 467, b1: excessively. (A. S. lýðre, bad.)lie,ly,lye, I, 103,10; III, 123,5; 432,17; V,191,5: reside, live.lie,lee,lea, love. Seelea.lie, III, 301,E: lea.lie, thou lie, IV, 197,17: for thou liest, ye lie.lied(A. S. lǽden), I, 430,5,9: language, talk. Seeleed.lied,pret., V,220,6: loved.lief-lang.Seelee-lang, underlee.liel, I, 70,24: chaste. Seeleal.lien,p. p., II, 135,32: lain. she’s nouther pin’d nor lien, IV, 484, after25: has not been lying bed-rid, does not look like one who has long been confined to bed.lierachie, III, 319,20: hubbub. “leerach==the bottom of a dung-pit after the dung has been removed, but left in a filthy state. The word is used to signify anything in a disordered state. Hence, confusion, hubbub.” Rev. Walter Gregor.lieugh, low. Seeleaugh.lieve, II, 345,34: dear. Seeleeve.life, leaf.life, man of life, II, 244,10: man alive (Chaucer’s lives man).lift, I, 370,16; 440,18; II, 26,14: air, sky.lift, V,82,37: lifted.lig,ligg,ligge,lygge,imperat., I, 328,36; II, 437,72; 439,4,7; IV, 396,6;inf., III, 212,17: lay.lig,ligge,lygge, I, 328,38-41; II, 244,6,7: lie.light,pret., II, 46,38; 54,49; V,53,93: lighted, alighted. Seelyght.light, III, 156,1: corruption of lith, listen.lighter, of a bairn, I, 86 f.,7,8,16,17,24,25,43; II, 98,35; 108,12; 109,11; 115,23; 117,10,11; 118,13; 123,25,26: delivered. (Icel. verða léttari, Old Eng. to lighten.) lighter a dochter, II, 132,15:ellipsis ofof. Seelichter.lightly,lightlie,lyghtly(e), III, 23 ff.,11,41,45,61, V,82,36: quickly. III, 35,35: easily. V,84,3: for slight reason.lightly,lichtlie,-ly, III, 472,10; IV, 351,2,9: treat with disrespect. IV, 92,2: slight (in love). IV, 94,3; 98,8; 100,7; 103,M1; IV, 337 a, g16: speak disparagingly of.like,liken, like to be dead (dee), II, 58,7; 372,24; III, 386,7; 392,6; 394,J4; 395,M2(cf.L2): in a condition, in a fair way, or likely. liker, II, 97,22: more likely (?). Seelyken.like, III, 355,13; 358,60,80; 360,109,111: please. III, 400 a, (7): be pleased, satisfied.likesome, II, 433,5,6,8; 440,23; 442,4; 446,89: pleasing, lovely.lilt, I, 187 b; IV, 266,16: to sing cheerfully. lilted, IV, 95,3: sang, chanted.lily,lilly,lilye,lillie,liley,lillie, lea, lee, lie, I, 325,B11; III, 299,8,11; 300,25; 301,32,E; 435,2; IV, 454,6; 455,14; 458,7; V,244,16,19; lillie leven, I, 324,13; 325,C12; lilly bank, brae, IV, 220,13,14: explained as “overspread with lilies or flowers,” but clearly from A. S. léoflíc, Old Eng. lefly, etc., lovely, charming. So, lilly feet (i. e. leely), I, 130,E13; lily leesome thing, IV, 432,2. We have lilly Londeen, IV, 485,19==the frequent leeve London, lovely London. Seeleeve,lee-lang.limmer(French limier, a kind of hound), a term of opprobrium, or simply of dislike. II, 322,6; III, 466,47: wretch (m.orf.), rascal. limmer thieves, 439 f.,4,20; 441,34. limmer loon, IV, 146,15,17. of a woman, II, 219,9: jade.lin.Seelinn.Lin,Linn,Linne,Line,Lyne, a stock ballad-locality (like Linkum): I, 78,38; 466,5; 478 f.,5,10,16,34; II, 240,2; 290,19; IV, 379,18; 381,12; 382,15; V,14,1ff.;182f.,2,11,29;219,6; thro Linkum and thro Lin, II, 124,37.lin, III, 105,11; 174,15: stop.lin’d, III, 164,91: beat.ling,lyng, III, 3,6; 7,5; 99,53: a species of rush, or thin long grass, bent grass, Scotland; in England, heath, furze.lingcan, I, 299,5: lichame, body.linger, I, 334,8: longer.Linkem.SeeLinkum.linkin,linken, IV, 332 b; V,124,4;240,1: tripping, walking with a light step. on a horse, II, 285,11. linking ladie, IV, 355 b: light of movement. key gaed linking in, V,18, b23: passing in quickly, slipping in.linkit his armour oer a tree, III, 270,E7, comparingA9;B8;D8, and observing the crooked carle inE8, seems likely to be corrupt, and perhaps we should read leaned his arm out-oer. Otherwise, hung his armor, etc.Linkum, an indefinite ballad-locality. not a bell in merry Linkum, II, 106,21,22. thro Linkum and thro Lin, II, 124,37. cock crew i the merry Linkem, II, 239,B4. a the squires in merry Linkum, IV, 432,1.linn,lin,lynn(e), water-course, torrent, river, pool in a river (A. S. hlynna, torrens): I, 303,D4; II, 147,9; 153,24; III, 274,1. of a mill-stream, I, 129,D6. o’er the linne, II, 282 f.,9,17,18; IV, 479,10(==in the lynn, IV, 479,5); II, 283,8,9: over the bank into.Linnen, II, 225,D3: Lunnon, London.linsey, linsey-woolsey.lint, IV, 433,32: linen, linen mutch or cap.lippen on me, II, 94,10: depend. to God, III, 269,12; to good==God, V,243,15: trust.lirk, IV, 198,2: crease, hollow.lish, leash.list,n., III, 137,2; 181,16: inclination.list,v., III, 171,9; 179,4; 311,19: desire, be disposed.pret.list, III, 171,11.impersonal, me list, III, 97,9. Seelyste.lith,lyth, I, 135,O15,17; 345,C4; II, 412,1; 413,8: member, joint.lith, I, 334,7: light.lith,lithe,lythe(Icel. hlýða), I, 334,10; III, 22,5; 198,1; 411,1: hearken.lither, II, 54,51; 138 f.,9,13,22,23: bad. Seelidder.Litle Brittaine, I, 284 f.,4,24,33,37: generally understood as French Brittany, but it is inexplicable that Arthur should be reigning there. Perhaps Litle means no more in this piece than in Litle England, II, 440,20,22; III, 278,34; 285,27; Litle London, III, 285,22; Litle Durham, III, 285 f.,29,39,40. All these places, it will be observed, are in the Percy MS.live, leave.live, V,227,13: dear.live best, IV, 146,2: are the best of those living.lively, I, 184,47: alive.liuer,adj., III, 180,10: deliver, agile.liuerance, III, 411,8: payment for delivering.livery-man, I, 419,1; 421,1: servant.liues, II, 59,25: ’lieves, believes.liuor, III, 411 f.,8,9,10,14: deliver, hand over, surrender.load, III, 267,10: loaded (with liquor).loaden,p. p.of load, IV, 395,A b5.loan,lone, a common, any free or uncultivated spot where children can play or people meet, even the free spaces about a house: II, 62 a,14,16; 140,1; V,118,2. (loan-head, IV, 285,11, is toun-head in the original.)locked,lockit, in a glove, II, 461,21; 464,6; 477,D17: fastened.lockerin, comes lockerin to your hand, IV, 213,14; lockren, V,258b,7: curling, closing as if to embrace.loddy, IV, 70 f.,G4,5, etc.: laddy.lodder,loder, V,283,6,16: louder.lodesman.Seeledesman.lodging-maill, III, 474,38: rent for lodging.lodly, I, 285 f.,31,43,56; II, 44,12: loathly, disgusting.lodomy, IV, 398 f.,9,34: laudanum.loe,loie,loy,lou,v., I, 438,10; V,221,9;260,13;272b,3,7,11;277,1,4: love. Seelea.loffe,n.andv., V,79,26,28: love.logie, IV, 175,N11: lodge.loie,loy, love. Seeloe.lome, II, 44,12: lame man.lone,n., II, 333,1; 489,17. Seeloan.long, tall. Long Lankyn, Long Iamie, II, 328,1, etc.; III, 358,63,65, etc.long of, II, 436,53; III, 98,22: owing to, the fault of.loo, love, II, 408,23.pret.lood, II, 417,2; 419,52. Seelea.lood, loud.loof,looff,lufe,luve,leuve, I, 15,15; 16,B16,C16; 17,14; 18,F9; 19,14; III, 374,8: palm of the hand. (Icel. lófi.)looke, IV, 503,12: look up.loon.Seeloun.loord.Seelourd.loose, V,300, No 191: lose.loot, bend. Seelout.loot,pret.of let, I, 68,7; 204,19: allowed.loot,p. p.(?) of let, I, 351,49; III, 436,13; IV, 33,26: allowed, allowed to, come.looten,p. p.of let, II, 168,8: allowed (to come). Seelotten.lope,pret.of loup, II, 59,30; 434 f.,28,47; 436,58; III, 479,39.lord nor loun, III, 301,32: man of high or low rank. In II, 159,26, lord is a wrong reading; rogue nor loun, or the like, is required, as in 160,20.lordane,lurden, III, 25,61: dolt, clodpoll, etc.lore,lorne, III, 59,51; V,79,32: lost.loset, III, 94,52: loosed, delivered.loss, V,200a,65;262, No 223,10;277,6: lose.lotten,p. p.of let, I, 87,38: allowed. Seelooten.loudly, III, 440,12: loud.lough,loughe,pret.of laugh, II, 54,58; 444,48; V,254b,2. Seeleuch,leugh.lought,pret.of laugh, III, 82,74; V,51,55.loukynge, V,283,17: expectation, hope deferred.loun,lown,lowne,loon, IV, 501,36,37: a person of low rank. laird or (nor) loun (lown), I, 69,40,41; 71,32; III, 435,F8; IV, 514,12. lord nor (or) loun (lowne), III, 301,32; 430,13; 435,E5; 436,6,8. IV, 11,2; 519,H2,I2: rogue. often a mere term of general disparagement (as in, English loun): (of a man) II, 118,3,4; 140,25; V,171,4; (woman) I, 100,30; 491,G24,H22. fellow, without disparagement, IV, 258,21. naughty girl, II, 419,37. mistress, concubine, whore, II, 181 b; IV, 14,13; 330 a,3; 332 b; 469,3; 519,9; 520,13. Seelown.loup, I, 102,D3; II, 464,1; IV, 44 f.,14,15,17,23; 47,4,5: leap.pret.lap, leap, leepe, lope, loup, louped.p. p.loupen, luppen. loupin, V,213,3, has been explained as a form of leeping, heating (warming herself over the coal; cf. cowering oer a coal, I, 304,2). We have, however, whisking ore the coal, I, 302,4; reeking (==raiking) oer the coal, 304E3; andacrossagrees better with leaping than with heating.loup,pret.of loup, II, 461,5.loupen,louped,p. p.of loup, III, 465,27; IV, 462,36.lourd,loord,pret.andp. p.of lour==prefer, verb made from lever, rather. I had lourd, IV, 199,18. I wad lourd have, IV, 7,43. loord a had, V,251,36. I rather lourd it had been, II, 275 b.lout,loot, I, 56,B12; 351,36,48; II, 401,C5: bow, bend, lean.pret.louted, looted. louted in, I, 331,D5: bent our heads to enter? louted twafauld, threefauld, V,242b,7: bent double, treble,p. p.louted, lootit, louten.louten,p. p.of lout, II, 168,9: bent.love, I, 476,J4: loaf.love-clapped, II, 165,10; 169,8; 171,13; 370,8; 371,8; IV, 392,8; V,277,8: embraced lovingly, caressed.loverd, I, 243 f.,1,6,17: lord.louesome, III, 431,30: lovely.lov(e)ly,louelie, epithet of London: III, 199,19; 310,61; 352,1; 355,7. Seeleeve.low,lowe, I, 211,35; III, 93,46: hill.low,lowe, III, 435,F5,10; 436 f.,13,20,24,34; IV, 47,5; 514,8: flame.low,lowe,pret.of laugh, III, 110,16; 112,53; V,78,4. Seelowhe.lowe, doggs bite soe, III, 342,66: a phrase for, take mean advantages.lowe, bye lerbord or by lowe, IV, 504,30: loof, luff, the after part of a ship’s bow (Falconer, Marine Dictionary); or perhaps the weather side. Seeleaf.lowhe,low,lowe,pret.of laugh, V,80,44,46-48.lown, IV, 304,8,9: must mean here a young man in a low social position, since there can be no question of her kissing a disreputable fellow. There is no propercontrast with lad, and probably we should read, laird nor lown (seeloun).lowse, loose, free.loyed, V,221,9: loved.lucettes, III, 297,46: luces, pikes.Luckenbooths, V,162,C7: a range of buildings which formerly stood in the thoroughfare of the High Street in Edinburgh, parallel to Saint Giles Church.lue,loe,loo,lou,loie,lea,lee,lie,v., love. Seelea.lufe,luve,leuve,loof, I, 16,C16; 17,14; 19,14; III, 374,8: palm of the hand.lugs, I, 302,A10; IV, 53,11; 296,8; V,102,B15; 103 b,15: ears.luid, III, 370,19: loved.luke,pret.of laugh, V,238,28.lum, V,125,3,9: chimney.luppen,p. p.of loup, leap, I, 55,A3,B3; IV, 444,26; 470,30; 518,8.lurden,lordan, III, 35,18: dolt, clodpoll.luscan, a sturdy beggar (and thievish), III, 519 a.lust, V,213a,1: a bundle. (last, a measure, as twelve dozen hides or skins, etc.?)lust, III, 56,6; 85 and 89,446; 332,13: inclination, disposition. thy lustës to full fyll, III, 90 b: wishes. att his owne lust, III, 332,13: pleasure.lute,pret.of lett, IV, 345,8: allowed. V,248,15: let down.luve, palm of the hand. Seeloof.ly,lye, IV, 261,24; V,168f.,1,2,3, etc.: live, dwell.pret.lyed.lyand, lying.lyart, IV, 7,36: grizzled, gray.lybertye, apoint a place of, II, 443,39; 449,44,52: a place where the two can fight freely, without risk of interruption?lye.Seely.lyed, II, 266,28: lay, lived. Seely.lygge,ligge, I, 328,38-41: lie. Seelig.lygge, lay. Seelig.lyghte,lyght, I, 327,21; III, 297,33: alighted. Seelight.lyghtly(e). Seelightly.lyke, I, 327,22; III, 28,121; 64,165; 76,417: please.lyke, I, 506,3,8,9; II, 295,8; IV, 236,30: lyke-wake, watching of a dead body. In II, 117,16: simply, death-scene.lyke-wake, I, 251,B4,5,7; II, 282,14; III, 495 b,21; IV, 516 f.,1,7,18: watch of a dead body. dead lyke-wake, I, 251,B4,5: wake for your death. Seelyke,leak,leak-(lake-)wake.lyken,participle, IV, 511 b,X6: about, at the point. Seelike,liken.lynde,lyne, III, 75,398; 91,2; 92,22; 93,33; 97,10; 98,23; 100,76,78: linden, tree.lyne.Seelynde.lyne.Seelin.lyng, III, 99,53: heath. Seeling.lyon, III, 344,33; 349,33: the royal standard (quite out of place here).lyste,me lyste, III, 78,446: it would please me, I should like. Seelist.lyth,lyth,lithe(Icel. hlýða), III, 56,1; 63,144, 70,282; 71,317: hearken.lyth, member. Seelith.lyuer, III, 362,82: leever, rather.lyueray, III, 59,70: present of clothes. III, 64,161: purveyance of drink.Mma, III, 490,15,27,29: bit, whit.Mable, booke of, III, 422,61: some book of predictions, like Thomas Rymer’s.made, a lie, I, 478,25: told.made, men, III, 406,37: raised. made a bow o bere, V,264a,2: contributed.mae, III, 301,E; 349,46; IV, 490,27: more.maen,mane,meen,n., II, 107,2: moan.magger of, in the, III, 307,1: in spite of, maugre.maick,make, mate.maid,may, used loosely of a young wife: II, 300,6,8; 307,33; V,227,7. So κόρη, παρθένος, in Homer, of a young wife, and puella of married woman often.maidof a place, as, maid of the Cowdenknows, IV, 200,12,13; 202,J2,3; 203,8; 205,14: the eldest daughter of the tenant or proprietor, who is generally called by the name of his farm.maid alone, II, 149,2: solitary, like burd-alone, I, 298,2(which, however, is there used of a man).maiden, IV, 30 a: an instrument for beheading, resembling the guillotine.maigled, IV, 41, note *: mangled.maik.Seemake.mail, rent. lodging-maill, III, 474,38.main.man o the main, is it to a man o the might, or till a man o the main, II, 403,7,8: main can have no sense distinct from might, and man of the might, man of the main, is simple verbiage. InB4,H6, we have, to a man of micht or a man of mean: man of mean cannot be wrenched into man of low degree, and we do not want that sense even if we could legitimately get it, for the antithesis is not between the man of micht and the man of mean degree, but between both these and the robber or robbers of the last half of the stanza. The stall copy, 405,5,6, having only grammar in mind, reads man (one) that’s mean, and but for rhyme might perhaps have gone so far as, a man of means. IV, 146,21, reads, man o mine, to avoid the difficulty. Seemean.main,n., IV, 473,39: moan. Seemane.ma-i-ntn, V,303a: maintain, support.mair, IV, 21,14: more, bigger.mairly, IV, 59 f.,d2;e2,g2: a rhyme used for mair.maist, II, 169,7: almost.maistly, I, 138 b,d5: mostly, almost. Seemostly.make,maik,maicke, I, 127,14; 128,11: 129,D8; 347,23,30; 348,11,17: mate, consort. I, 403,12; II, 46,1; IV, 344,7; V,184,44: match, like; and so in, what is my lineage or what is my make, IV, 341,D8.make, III, 37,67: formade,p. p.making, IV, 208,3: doing, deportment.maks, V,307b: makes.male, III, 63,134; 68,247,255: (O. Fr. male) trunk. male-hors, III, 74,374.mall, with the leaden mall, III, 357,42: mallet, hammer (referring to the weight of his stroke).mallasin, malison.man, V,191,8,12: vassal. V,304b,3: husband.man,mane,maun,mun, I, 16,B8,9,12-16; 146,5,6; V,197,12;219,29;220,4;248,12,13: must.mane,maen,main(e),meane,meen, I, 72,20; 448,A1,3; etc.: moan, complaint, lament; often nothing more than utterance, enunciation, as, I, 253,1; 394,A2; 395,C4; III, 489,1.mane,v., I, 72,23: moan. Seemean.maney, III, 109,4: meny, followers. Seemenë.mang, I, 108,6: among.manhood,manhead,manheed, men (man) o your, men to your, I, 108,14; 109,13; IV, 446 f.,14: a strange way of saying, if you are men (man) of true valor, willing to fight one by one. III, 422,59: manly deed, exploit demanding courage.manie,mennie, V,270,8: maunna, must not.mankie, V,173,3: calamanco, a stuff made in the Low Countries.manratten,manrydden(A. S. manrǽden), III, 359,95; 362,95: homage, vassalage.manrent, IV, 34 b: homage, vassalage. Seemanratten.mansworn, I, 394,3; IV, 442,10: perjured.
leak,v., V,242,15: like.
leak, II, 193,28; V,224,26;228,28:==lyke, for lyke-wake, watching of a dead body.
leak-wake, V,228,13,14,23,24: lyke-wake, watching of a dead body. Seelake-wake,lyke-wake.
leal,leel,leil,liel, III, 464,12: loyal, faithful, true. I, 70,24; 73,34,45,46; II, 73,19; III, 437,36; IV, 212,1; 240,13; 283,11; 289,11: virginal, chaste, expers viri; so, lealest, leelest, I, 220,A3; 221,D6. III, 464,3; 465,30: veracious. V,115,5: upright, honest. love me leel, I, 345,9: faithfully.
lea-lang, I, 352,7. Seelee,adj.
leall, V,248,4: perhaps only faithful; but possibly lief, lee (dear), leman, the final l being caught from leman.
leam,leem,v., II, 410,24: gleam.
lean,leen, his, him, IV, 345,I5: lane, lone. Seelane.
lean,leane,lene,len,v., II, 403,8(seelen); III, 330,19; 420 f.,30,32,34,52; IV, 277,15,17; V,36,B8,9: conceal. II, 164,8,11,14: conceal, or lie. Seelain, to conceal.
leap,pret.of leap, loup, V,227,17. Seeleepe.
lear, II, 176,C1,2: instruction. IV, 413,2; 414,1; 467,1: learning. III, 473,24: information. Seelair.
lear, II, 313,25: apparently meant for lair, bed; but rhymed with white, and the reading should undoubtedly be lyke, that is, lyke-wake, as in II, 117,16.
leard, laird. Seelard.
lease==leash, II, 265,19: a thong or string (as if for bringing back the deer he should kill?). I, 211,20: a leash (of hounds), pack. III, 216,31: a leash (of bucks), three.
leasing(e),leasynge,lesynge,leesin, I, 412,26; III, 28,132,134; 359,86; IV, 465,22: falsehood.
leath,laith, III, 162,54; IV, 479,4; V,216,6: loath.
leaugh,leugh,lewgh,leiugh,lieugh, III, 465 f.,33,39,42,49; 487,6,14,16(seelaigh): low.
leave, gie them a’ thier leave, I, 431,D13,E10: take leave of them all.
leave==leeve, dear, II, 414,24. leaver, III, 362,82.
leave(to weepe), IV, 140,10: cease.
leave, live.
lede, III, 74,368: leading, conduct.
ledës-man,lodesman, III, 74,369; 88,369: guide.
ledyt, I, 242,11,old imperative plural: lead.
lee,lea, I, 100,4; III, 171,9; 174,20: untilled ground, grass land, open plain, ground.
lee, lie lee, IV, 26,5: untilled. lay lee, V,189b, lay waste.
lee,adj., the (this, a) lee-lang, lief-lang day, I, 100,11,12; 440,3; II, 96,I2: (Old Eng. the leevë longë day) livelong, from A. S. léof, used like German lieb in der liebe lange tag, die liebe lange nacht. So lee, le, lei, ley, licht o the moon, I, 389,5; II, 188 f.,4,14,35; 195,37; 233,F1; 374,B3; 413,7, as in die liebe sonne, der liebe mond, regen, wind, and other formulas in great variety. (lee licht o the moon is replaced, II, 103 f.,10,12; 106,10, by hie light, ae light.)
lee,v., lie,mentiri.
lee, II, 256,K5: live.
lee,v., love. Seelea,love.
leech, IV, 426,11: meant for leesh, and so spelt in another copy.
leed,lied(A. S. lǽden), I, 207,18; 430,5,9; II, 366,19; IV, 379,14: talk.
leed(A. S. léod), III, 355,3: man.pl.leeds,6: people.
leed, laid.
leed,n., II, 366,37: lead.
leedginge, II, 58,7: leeching, doctoring.
leeft,pret., IV, 220,1: lived.
leel, loyal, faithful, etc. love me leel, I, 345,9: faithfully. Seeleal.
lee-lang.Seelee.
leemin, II, 361,33: gleaming.
leems, IV, 460 a, No47: gleams; butlangs, belongs, is the word required; cf. I, 430,6.
leen,lean, her, your leen, him leen, IV, 291 b; 345,9; V,171,2,6: lone. Seelane.
leepe,leap,pret.of leap, loup, II, 445,76; V,227,17.
lees,leeze, me on thee, III, 495 a, after7; IV, 517,15: blessings on, commend me to. (lees me, originally leeve is me, dear is to me, my delight is.)
leese, III, 37,75; 189,4; 228,17; 374,3: lose.
leesin, IV, 465,22: a lie. Seeleasing(e).
leesome, I, 182-3; IV, 432,2; 455,18; V,178,1: lovely, pleasing, leesome blew the wind, IV, 410,10: pleasantly.
leeve,leve,leave,lefe,lieve,live,adj., II, 305,13; 414,24; V,227,13: lovely, dear, pleasant;comp.leifer, leuer, I, 328,43; III, 24,35; 189,A9; 297,42; 436 f.,10,25; V,83,51. epithet of London, II, 265,5,12;440,14; III, 276,1; 284,6,7; 330,16; 406,35; V,227,8. So, lovely London, III, 352,1; 355,7. lilly Londeen, IV, 485,19. whether he were loth or lefe, III, 67,225(properly, him were): disagreeable or agreeable; here, unwilling or willing. Forhad leverseeleuer.
leeve, III, 105,15: believe.
leeve, III, 287,62: grant.
leeze.Seelees.
lefe, III, 28,128: pleasing, agreeable. III, 67,225: pleased. Seeleefe.
leffe(A. S. lǽfan), wolde not leffe beheynde, III, 112,60: remain.
leg, V,126f.,1,2,5, etc.: highwayman.
legg, V,275,7: league.
leguays,lequays, V,217,12,13: likewise.
lei,ley, lei light o the moon, II, 188 f.,4,14,35; 195,37. Seelee,adj.
leifer,leifar, III, 436 f.,10,25; IV, 196,13: rather. Seeleeve.
leil.Seeleal.
leiugh, low. Seeleaugh.
leman,lemman, Old Eng. leofman, beloved (of both sexes). I, 232,6,7; 314,2-4,6; II, 271,18; 273,24, 400,6; IV, 151,B1,2; 154,2,3; V,283,3: lover, paramour. I, 72,30,32; 117,8; 254,10; II, 73,27,28; 81,40; 289,B2,3; V,248,4;283,12: love, mistress, loose woman.
lemanless, III, 434,28: without lovers.
lemanry, V,25,4: illicit love.
len,v., lean. Seelend.
len,lene, III, 420 f.,30,32,34,52; neither lee nor len, IV, 277,15,17: conceal. II, 164,8,11,14: conceal, or lie. that cannot longer len, II, 403,8: remain concealed (but the reading should probably be, I cannot). Seelain,lean.
len,lene, III, 79,40,81; V,283,14: lend, give, grant.
lend, II, 229,5,8; III, 63 f.,153,165; 82,76; 85,76; V,49,21: grant, give.
lend,n., II, 185,38: loan.
lend, I, 207,19, lend ye till your pike-staff: we should no doubt read len==lean. lent. I, 223,I4: leaned.
lende, III, 75,395: dwell.
lene, conceal. Seelen.
lenger,lengre, III, 61,105; 73,341; 78,443: longer.
lenght, III, 478,17: length.
length, this length, IV, 271,A4: for so long.
lent,pret., I, 223,I4: leaned.
lequays, likewise. Seeleguays.
lere(A. S. hléor), III, 57,28: cheek, face.
lere, III, 57,16; 77,426: learn.
lese,leese, III, 59,56: lose.
less(age), IV, 64 a: minor.
less o him, I, 332,G1: smaller of him, than him.
lesse, III, 296,25: false, falsehood.
lest, II, 81,45(reading in earlier MS. for rest): last.
lesynge, falsehood. Seeleasing(e).
let,lat(A. S. lǽtan), allow, leave. II, 54,48; 265,8,15,24; III, 58,38: omit, fail.pret.late, loot, lute, lett.p. p.latten, letten, lotten, looten, loot (?).
let,lette(A. S. lettan), I, 334,8; III, 110,22,23; 128,75; 307,2: hinder.
letten,p. p.of let, I, 87,43; 452,6: allowed, left.
letters,letturs, III, 99,55(the kyng did hit vnfold); III, 297,36: letter.
leuch,luke,pret.of laugh, II, 30,K1; 81,33; 366,23; IV, 272,9.
leugh,n., lower part. Seelaugh.
leugh,pret.of laugh, I, 388,A7; II, 134,21; III, 69,273; 467,60; 490,17.
leugh,leaugh,lewgh, etc., IV, 465,34,38; 484 f.,8,10: low.
leutye,lewtë, III, 64,154,169: loyalty, faith.
leuve, I, 17,14: palm of the hand. Seeloof.
leve,lave,m., II, 75,20: rest.
leue,v., III, 61,112; 79,76: permit, grant.
levedys, I, 334,9: ladies.
leven, I, 324,13; 325,12: lawn, glade, open ground in a forest. Seelaunde.
leuer,leifer, pleasanter, preferable, rather. had leuer, III, 24,35; 189,A9; 297,42; 436 f.,10,25; V,83,51. Seeleeve.
lewde(lye), III, 171,8: base, vile.
lewgh, low. Seeleaugh.
lewte.Seeleutye.
ley,lea,lee, III, 109,4; for a’ his father’s leys, II, 333,11; 334,M4; riding the leys, IV, 137,34: land not under cultivation, simply land, plain, field. lands and ley, V,157,2: arable land and pasture; a common phrase in Scots conveyancing, “all and whole the lands and leas.”
ley-land, I, 15,11; 16,B11: land lying lea, not under cultivation. Seelay-land.
ley licht.Seelei,lee.
leyngger, V,80,37: longer.
leyt, V,80,37: lighted.
leythe, III, 112,62: light.
liag, V,237,5: leg.
libertie, lying at, II, 464,11: possessed in one’s own right, unencumbered.
liberty,lybertye, place of, II, 443,39; 449,44,52: where one can fight without fear of interruption?
liberty-wife, II, 291,2: mistress.
licence, V,155,C3, make their licence free: pay the licence of an inn-keeper.
licht, I, 146,19,20: alight. lichted, lichtit, II, 92,16; IV, 195,D2; 337 b, g after20.
lichter, I, 21 b,8; II, 105,10: delivered. Seelighter.
lichtlie,lichtly,lightly, IV, 94,3; 98,8; 100,7; 337 a, g16: make light of, treat, or speak of, with disrespect.
lick, II, 470,45: gratuity (of meal from the miller).
lick, III, 163,87: take for one’s self; cf. II, 470,45.
lidder,lither, III, 464,1: lazy. asadv., 467, b1: excessively. (A. S. lýðre, bad.)
lie,ly,lye, I, 103,10; III, 123,5; 432,17; V,191,5: reside, live.
lie,lee,lea, love. Seelea.
lie, III, 301,E: lea.
lie, thou lie, IV, 197,17: for thou liest, ye lie.
lied(A. S. lǽden), I, 430,5,9: language, talk. Seeleed.
lied,pret., V,220,6: loved.
lief-lang.Seelee-lang, underlee.
liel, I, 70,24: chaste. Seeleal.
lien,p. p., II, 135,32: lain. she’s nouther pin’d nor lien, IV, 484, after25: has not been lying bed-rid, does not look like one who has long been confined to bed.
lierachie, III, 319,20: hubbub. “leerach==the bottom of a dung-pit after the dung has been removed, but left in a filthy state. The word is used to signify anything in a disordered state. Hence, confusion, hubbub.” Rev. Walter Gregor.
lieugh, low. Seeleaugh.
lieve, II, 345,34: dear. Seeleeve.
life, leaf.
life, man of life, II, 244,10: man alive (Chaucer’s lives man).
lift, I, 370,16; 440,18; II, 26,14: air, sky.
lift, V,82,37: lifted.
lig,ligg,ligge,lygge,imperat., I, 328,36; II, 437,72; 439,4,7; IV, 396,6;inf., III, 212,17: lay.
lig,ligge,lygge, I, 328,38-41; II, 244,6,7: lie.
light,pret., II, 46,38; 54,49; V,53,93: lighted, alighted. Seelyght.
light, III, 156,1: corruption of lith, listen.
lighter, of a bairn, I, 86 f.,7,8,16,17,24,25,43; II, 98,35; 108,12; 109,11; 115,23; 117,10,11; 118,13; 123,25,26: delivered. (Icel. verða léttari, Old Eng. to lighten.) lighter a dochter, II, 132,15:ellipsis ofof. Seelichter.
lightly,lightlie,lyghtly(e), III, 23 ff.,11,41,45,61, V,82,36: quickly. III, 35,35: easily. V,84,3: for slight reason.
lightly,lichtlie,-ly, III, 472,10; IV, 351,2,9: treat with disrespect. IV, 92,2: slight (in love). IV, 94,3; 98,8; 100,7; 103,M1; IV, 337 a, g16: speak disparagingly of.
like,liken, like to be dead (dee), II, 58,7; 372,24; III, 386,7; 392,6; 394,J4; 395,M2(cf.L2): in a condition, in a fair way, or likely. liker, II, 97,22: more likely (?). Seelyken.
like, III, 355,13; 358,60,80; 360,109,111: please. III, 400 a, (7): be pleased, satisfied.
likesome, II, 433,5,6,8; 440,23; 442,4; 446,89: pleasing, lovely.
lilt, I, 187 b; IV, 266,16: to sing cheerfully. lilted, IV, 95,3: sang, chanted.
lily,lilly,lilye,lillie,liley,lillie, lea, lee, lie, I, 325,B11; III, 299,8,11; 300,25; 301,32,E; 435,2; IV, 454,6; 455,14; 458,7; V,244,16,19; lillie leven, I, 324,13; 325,C12; lilly bank, brae, IV, 220,13,14: explained as “overspread with lilies or flowers,” but clearly from A. S. léoflíc, Old Eng. lefly, etc., lovely, charming. So, lilly feet (i. e. leely), I, 130,E13; lily leesome thing, IV, 432,2. We have lilly Londeen, IV, 485,19==the frequent leeve London, lovely London. Seeleeve,lee-lang.
limmer(French limier, a kind of hound), a term of opprobrium, or simply of dislike. II, 322,6; III, 466,47: wretch (m.orf.), rascal. limmer thieves, 439 f.,4,20; 441,34. limmer loon, IV, 146,15,17. of a woman, II, 219,9: jade.
lin.Seelinn.
Lin,Linn,Linne,Line,Lyne, a stock ballad-locality (like Linkum): I, 78,38; 466,5; 478 f.,5,10,16,34; II, 240,2; 290,19; IV, 379,18; 381,12; 382,15; V,14,1ff.;182f.,2,11,29;219,6; thro Linkum and thro Lin, II, 124,37.
lin, III, 105,11; 174,15: stop.
lin’d, III, 164,91: beat.
ling,lyng, III, 3,6; 7,5; 99,53: a species of rush, or thin long grass, bent grass, Scotland; in England, heath, furze.
lingcan, I, 299,5: lichame, body.
linger, I, 334,8: longer.
Linkem.SeeLinkum.
linkin,linken, IV, 332 b; V,124,4;240,1: tripping, walking with a light step. on a horse, II, 285,11. linking ladie, IV, 355 b: light of movement. key gaed linking in, V,18, b23: passing in quickly, slipping in.
linkit his armour oer a tree, III, 270,E7, comparingA9;B8;D8, and observing the crooked carle inE8, seems likely to be corrupt, and perhaps we should read leaned his arm out-oer. Otherwise, hung his armor, etc.
Linkum, an indefinite ballad-locality. not a bell in merry Linkum, II, 106,21,22. thro Linkum and thro Lin, II, 124,37. cock crew i the merry Linkem, II, 239,B4. a the squires in merry Linkum, IV, 432,1.
linn,lin,lynn(e), water-course, torrent, river, pool in a river (A. S. hlynna, torrens): I, 303,D4; II, 147,9; 153,24; III, 274,1. of a mill-stream, I, 129,D6. o’er the linne, II, 282 f.,9,17,18; IV, 479,10(==in the lynn, IV, 479,5); II, 283,8,9: over the bank into.
Linnen, II, 225,D3: Lunnon, London.
linsey, linsey-woolsey.
lint, IV, 433,32: linen, linen mutch or cap.
lippen on me, II, 94,10: depend. to God, III, 269,12; to good==God, V,243,15: trust.
lirk, IV, 198,2: crease, hollow.
lish, leash.
list,n., III, 137,2; 181,16: inclination.
list,v., III, 171,9; 179,4; 311,19: desire, be disposed.pret.list, III, 171,11.impersonal, me list, III, 97,9. Seelyste.
lith,lyth, I, 135,O15,17; 345,C4; II, 412,1; 413,8: member, joint.
lith, I, 334,7: light.
lith,lithe,lythe(Icel. hlýða), I, 334,10; III, 22,5; 198,1; 411,1: hearken.
lither, II, 54,51; 138 f.,9,13,22,23: bad. Seelidder.
Litle Brittaine, I, 284 f.,4,24,33,37: generally understood as French Brittany, but it is inexplicable that Arthur should be reigning there. Perhaps Litle means no more in this piece than in Litle England, II, 440,20,22; III, 278,34; 285,27; Litle London, III, 285,22; Litle Durham, III, 285 f.,29,39,40. All these places, it will be observed, are in the Percy MS.
live, leave.
live, V,227,13: dear.
live best, IV, 146,2: are the best of those living.
lively, I, 184,47: alive.
liuer,adj., III, 180,10: deliver, agile.
liuerance, III, 411,8: payment for delivering.
livery-man, I, 419,1; 421,1: servant.
liues, II, 59,25: ’lieves, believes.
liuor, III, 411 f.,8,9,10,14: deliver, hand over, surrender.
load, III, 267,10: loaded (with liquor).
loaden,p. p.of load, IV, 395,A b5.
loan,lone, a common, any free or uncultivated spot where children can play or people meet, even the free spaces about a house: II, 62 a,14,16; 140,1; V,118,2. (loan-head, IV, 285,11, is toun-head in the original.)
locked,lockit, in a glove, II, 461,21; 464,6; 477,D17: fastened.
lockerin, comes lockerin to your hand, IV, 213,14; lockren, V,258b,7: curling, closing as if to embrace.
loddy, IV, 70 f.,G4,5, etc.: laddy.
lodder,loder, V,283,6,16: louder.
lodesman.Seeledesman.
lodging-maill, III, 474,38: rent for lodging.
lodly, I, 285 f.,31,43,56; II, 44,12: loathly, disgusting.
lodomy, IV, 398 f.,9,34: laudanum.
loe,loie,loy,lou,v., I, 438,10; V,221,9;260,13;272b,3,7,11;277,1,4: love. Seelea.
loffe,n.andv., V,79,26,28: love.
logie, IV, 175,N11: lodge.
loie,loy, love. Seeloe.
lome, II, 44,12: lame man.
lone,n., II, 333,1; 489,17. Seeloan.
long, tall. Long Lankyn, Long Iamie, II, 328,1, etc.; III, 358,63,65, etc.
long of, II, 436,53; III, 98,22: owing to, the fault of.
loo, love, II, 408,23.pret.lood, II, 417,2; 419,52. Seelea.
lood, loud.
loof,looff,lufe,luve,leuve, I, 15,15; 16,B16,C16; 17,14; 18,F9; 19,14; III, 374,8: palm of the hand. (Icel. lófi.)
looke, IV, 503,12: look up.
loon.Seeloun.
loord.Seelourd.
loose, V,300, No 191: lose.
loot, bend. Seelout.
loot,pret.of let, I, 68,7; 204,19: allowed.
loot,p. p.(?) of let, I, 351,49; III, 436,13; IV, 33,26: allowed, allowed to, come.
looten,p. p.of let, II, 168,8: allowed (to come). Seelotten.
lope,pret.of loup, II, 59,30; 434 f.,28,47; 436,58; III, 479,39.
lord nor loun, III, 301,32: man of high or low rank. In II, 159,26, lord is a wrong reading; rogue nor loun, or the like, is required, as in 160,20.
lordane,lurden, III, 25,61: dolt, clodpoll, etc.
lore,lorne, III, 59,51; V,79,32: lost.
loset, III, 94,52: loosed, delivered.
loss, V,200a,65;262, No 223,10;277,6: lose.
lotten,p. p.of let, I, 87,38: allowed. Seelooten.
loudly, III, 440,12: loud.
lough,loughe,pret.of laugh, II, 54,58; 444,48; V,254b,2. Seeleuch,leugh.
lought,pret.of laugh, III, 82,74; V,51,55.
loukynge, V,283,17: expectation, hope deferred.
loun,lown,lowne,loon, IV, 501,36,37: a person of low rank. laird or (nor) loun (lown), I, 69,40,41; 71,32; III, 435,F8; IV, 514,12. lord nor (or) loun (lowne), III, 301,32; 430,13; 435,E5; 436,6,8. IV, 11,2; 519,H2,I2: rogue. often a mere term of general disparagement (as in, English loun): (of a man) II, 118,3,4; 140,25; V,171,4; (woman) I, 100,30; 491,G24,H22. fellow, without disparagement, IV, 258,21. naughty girl, II, 419,37. mistress, concubine, whore, II, 181 b; IV, 14,13; 330 a,3; 332 b; 469,3; 519,9; 520,13. Seelown.
loup, I, 102,D3; II, 464,1; IV, 44 f.,14,15,17,23; 47,4,5: leap.pret.lap, leap, leepe, lope, loup, louped.p. p.loupen, luppen. loupin, V,213,3, has been explained as a form of leeping, heating (warming herself over the coal; cf. cowering oer a coal, I, 304,2). We have, however, whisking ore the coal, I, 302,4; reeking (==raiking) oer the coal, 304E3; andacrossagrees better with leaping than with heating.
loup,pret.of loup, II, 461,5.
loupen,louped,p. p.of loup, III, 465,27; IV, 462,36.
lourd,loord,pret.andp. p.of lour==prefer, verb made from lever, rather. I had lourd, IV, 199,18. I wad lourd have, IV, 7,43. loord a had, V,251,36. I rather lourd it had been, II, 275 b.
lout,loot, I, 56,B12; 351,36,48; II, 401,C5: bow, bend, lean.pret.louted, looted. louted in, I, 331,D5: bent our heads to enter? louted twafauld, threefauld, V,242b,7: bent double, treble,p. p.louted, lootit, louten.
louten,p. p.of lout, II, 168,9: bent.
love, I, 476,J4: loaf.
love-clapped, II, 165,10; 169,8; 171,13; 370,8; 371,8; IV, 392,8; V,277,8: embraced lovingly, caressed.
loverd, I, 243 f.,1,6,17: lord.
louesome, III, 431,30: lovely.
lov(e)ly,louelie, epithet of London: III, 199,19; 310,61; 352,1; 355,7. Seeleeve.
low,lowe, I, 211,35; III, 93,46: hill.
low,lowe, III, 435,F5,10; 436 f.,13,20,24,34; IV, 47,5; 514,8: flame.
low,lowe,pret.of laugh, III, 110,16; 112,53; V,78,4. Seelowhe.
lowe, doggs bite soe, III, 342,66: a phrase for, take mean advantages.
lowe, bye lerbord or by lowe, IV, 504,30: loof, luff, the after part of a ship’s bow (Falconer, Marine Dictionary); or perhaps the weather side. Seeleaf.
lowhe,low,lowe,pret.of laugh, V,80,44,46-48.
lown, IV, 304,8,9: must mean here a young man in a low social position, since there can be no question of her kissing a disreputable fellow. There is no propercontrast with lad, and probably we should read, laird nor lown (seeloun).
lowse, loose, free.
loyed, V,221,9: loved.
lucettes, III, 297,46: luces, pikes.
Luckenbooths, V,162,C7: a range of buildings which formerly stood in the thoroughfare of the High Street in Edinburgh, parallel to Saint Giles Church.
lue,loe,loo,lou,loie,lea,lee,lie,v., love. Seelea.
lufe,luve,leuve,loof, I, 16,C16; 17,14; 19,14; III, 374,8: palm of the hand.
lugs, I, 302,A10; IV, 53,11; 296,8; V,102,B15; 103 b,15: ears.
luid, III, 370,19: loved.
luke,pret.of laugh, V,238,28.
lum, V,125,3,9: chimney.
luppen,p. p.of loup, leap, I, 55,A3,B3; IV, 444,26; 470,30; 518,8.
lurden,lordan, III, 35,18: dolt, clodpoll.
luscan, a sturdy beggar (and thievish), III, 519 a.
lust, V,213a,1: a bundle. (last, a measure, as twelve dozen hides or skins, etc.?)
lust, III, 56,6; 85 and 89,446; 332,13: inclination, disposition. thy lustës to full fyll, III, 90 b: wishes. att his owne lust, III, 332,13: pleasure.
lute,pret.of lett, IV, 345,8: allowed. V,248,15: let down.
luve, palm of the hand. Seeloof.
ly,lye, IV, 261,24; V,168f.,1,2,3, etc.: live, dwell.pret.lyed.
lyand, lying.
lyart, IV, 7,36: grizzled, gray.
lybertye, apoint a place of, II, 443,39; 449,44,52: a place where the two can fight freely, without risk of interruption?
lye.Seely.
lyed, II, 266,28: lay, lived. Seely.
lygge,ligge, I, 328,38-41: lie. Seelig.
lygge, lay. Seelig.
lyghte,lyght, I, 327,21; III, 297,33: alighted. Seelight.
lyghtly(e). Seelightly.
lyke, I, 327,22; III, 28,121; 64,165; 76,417: please.
lyke, I, 506,3,8,9; II, 295,8; IV, 236,30: lyke-wake, watching of a dead body. In II, 117,16: simply, death-scene.
lyke-wake, I, 251,B4,5,7; II, 282,14; III, 495 b,21; IV, 516 f.,1,7,18: watch of a dead body. dead lyke-wake, I, 251,B4,5: wake for your death. Seelyke,leak,leak-(lake-)wake.
lyken,participle, IV, 511 b,X6: about, at the point. Seelike,liken.
lynde,lyne, III, 75,398; 91,2; 92,22; 93,33; 97,10; 98,23; 100,76,78: linden, tree.
lyne.Seelynde.
lyne.Seelin.
lyng, III, 99,53: heath. Seeling.
lyon, III, 344,33; 349,33: the royal standard (quite out of place here).
lyste,me lyste, III, 78,446: it would please me, I should like. Seelist.
lyth,lyth,lithe(Icel. hlýða), III, 56,1; 63,144, 70,282; 71,317: hearken.
lyth, member. Seelith.
lyuer, III, 362,82: leever, rather.
lyueray, III, 59,70: present of clothes. III, 64,161: purveyance of drink.
ma, III, 490,15,27,29: bit, whit.
Mable, booke of, III, 422,61: some book of predictions, like Thomas Rymer’s.
made, a lie, I, 478,25: told.
made, men, III, 406,37: raised. made a bow o bere, V,264a,2: contributed.
mae, III, 301,E; 349,46; IV, 490,27: more.
maen,mane,meen,n., II, 107,2: moan.
magger of, in the, III, 307,1: in spite of, maugre.
maick,make, mate.
maid,may, used loosely of a young wife: II, 300,6,8; 307,33; V,227,7. So κόρη, παρθένος, in Homer, of a young wife, and puella of married woman often.
maidof a place, as, maid of the Cowdenknows, IV, 200,12,13; 202,J2,3; 203,8; 205,14: the eldest daughter of the tenant or proprietor, who is generally called by the name of his farm.
maid alone, II, 149,2: solitary, like burd-alone, I, 298,2(which, however, is there used of a man).
maiden, IV, 30 a: an instrument for beheading, resembling the guillotine.
maigled, IV, 41, note *: mangled.
maik.Seemake.
mail, rent. lodging-maill, III, 474,38.
main.man o the main, is it to a man o the might, or till a man o the main, II, 403,7,8: main can have no sense distinct from might, and man of the might, man of the main, is simple verbiage. InB4,H6, we have, to a man of micht or a man of mean: man of mean cannot be wrenched into man of low degree, and we do not want that sense even if we could legitimately get it, for the antithesis is not between the man of micht and the man of mean degree, but between both these and the robber or robbers of the last half of the stanza. The stall copy, 405,5,6, having only grammar in mind, reads man (one) that’s mean, and but for rhyme might perhaps have gone so far as, a man of means. IV, 146,21, reads, man o mine, to avoid the difficulty. Seemean.
main,n., IV, 473,39: moan. Seemane.
ma-i-ntn, V,303a: maintain, support.
mair, IV, 21,14: more, bigger.
mairly, IV, 59 f.,d2;e2,g2: a rhyme used for mair.
maist, II, 169,7: almost.
maistly, I, 138 b,d5: mostly, almost. Seemostly.
make,maik,maicke, I, 127,14; 128,11: 129,D8; 347,23,30; 348,11,17: mate, consort. I, 403,12; II, 46,1; IV, 344,7; V,184,44: match, like; and so in, what is my lineage or what is my make, IV, 341,D8.
make, III, 37,67: formade,p. p.
making, IV, 208,3: doing, deportment.
maks, V,307b: makes.
male, III, 63,134; 68,247,255: (O. Fr. male) trunk. male-hors, III, 74,374.
mall, with the leaden mall, III, 357,42: mallet, hammer (referring to the weight of his stroke).
mallasin, malison.
man, V,191,8,12: vassal. V,304b,3: husband.
man,mane,maun,mun, I, 16,B8,9,12-16; 146,5,6; V,197,12;219,29;220,4;248,12,13: must.
mane,maen,main(e),meane,meen, I, 72,20; 448,A1,3; etc.: moan, complaint, lament; often nothing more than utterance, enunciation, as, I, 253,1; 394,A2; 395,C4; III, 489,1.
mane,v., I, 72,23: moan. Seemean.
maney, III, 109,4: meny, followers. Seemenë.
mang, I, 108,6: among.
manhood,manhead,manheed, men (man) o your, men to your, I, 108,14; 109,13; IV, 446 f.,14: a strange way of saying, if you are men (man) of true valor, willing to fight one by one. III, 422,59: manly deed, exploit demanding courage.
manie,mennie, V,270,8: maunna, must not.
mankie, V,173,3: calamanco, a stuff made in the Low Countries.
manratten,manrydden(A. S. manrǽden), III, 359,95; 362,95: homage, vassalage.
manrent, IV, 34 b: homage, vassalage. Seemanratten.
mansworn, I, 394,3; IV, 442,10: perjured.