LITTER.—To "litter down " is to lay down straw for horses to sleep on for the night, this straw bedding being called "litter," and this word is also applied to all sorts of things lying confusedly about.
LITTOCKS.—Rags and tatters.
LIVE-UNDER.—To hold a farm from; to be tenant to.
LOCK.—A small quantity of hay not so dry as the remainder of the crop.
LODGED.—Corn beaten down by storms is spoken of as "lodged."
LOGGERYEADS.—To be "at loggeryeads" with another is to have a feud with him, to have quarrelled.
LOLL.—To lean lazily.
LOLLOP.—To slouch. The meaning is analogous to that of "Loll." "Lollopin" is "slouching."
LONG.—Great or large. A "long figure" means a great price; "long-headed" is applied to one far-seeing or calculating (common).
LONGVUL.—Wearisome.
LONG-TAAILE'UN.—A cock pheasant.
LONG-TAWL.—A game at marbles where each takes aim at the other in turn, a marble being paid in forfeit to whichever of the players may make a hit.
LOOBY.—A stupid looking youth.
LOP.—Branches cut from the main stem of a tree by a bill-hook; the expression "top, lop, an' vaggot," includes all of the tree except the timber.
LOPE.—To idle about.
LOPPETTIN'.—Walking with an ungainly movement and heavy tread.
LOP ZIDED.— Standing out of the perpendicular. With weight not equally distributed.
