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Labourable: com. Labourable, workable, fit to be wrought on; also, nauigable.

Labourage: m. as Labour. Labouré: m. ée: f. Laboured; wrought, trauelled, toiled; striuen, contended, indeuoured, in; also, tilled, aired, ploughed, husbanded.

Labourer. To labour, trauell, worke, toyle, moile, drudge, take pains; to striue, contend, indeuour, be diligent, in. Labourer la terre. To till, aire, plough, breake vp, husband the ground; Labourer à bled la terre; to sow it. Le grand boeuf apprend à labourer au petit: Pro. The great Oxe learnes the little one to worke. Tout ce que le Clerc laboure folle femme devore: Prov. All that the Clerke can scrape his trull consumes.

Labouret: m. Shepheards purse, Shepheards pouch, Toiwort, Caseweed, Pickepurse, poore-mans Parmacetie.

Laboureur: m. A labourer, worker, toyler; a Hind, ploughman, husbandman, labouring man; also, as Courtilliere. Laboureur de nature. A mans yard. Piece de laboureur salé. A peece of powdered beefe.

Labrusque: m. The wild (grape-bearing) vine.

Labyrinthe: m. A laborinth, maze; intricate matter. Faire le tour du labyrinthe. To labour hard and be neuer a whit the neerer; also, to fall againe, after much adoe, into the matter he first handled.

Labyrinthé: m. ée: f. Made as a laborinth, framed like a maze; intricated; full of vnknowne crookes, creeks, turnings, windings.

Labyrinther. To make (or make like) a laborinth, or maze; to intricate; also, to wind, compasse, or turne many times in and out; to be full of many vnknowne crookes, or creekes.

Labyrintheux: m. euse: f. Most intricate; full of turnings, crookes, windings.

Lac: m. A lake; a great poole, or meere; also, a ginne, or snare; as in Laqs. Lacé: m. ée: f. Laced; bound, or tied with a lace; also, snarled, or insnaring.

Lacement: m. A lacing; also, an insnaring; or a setting of snares for.

Lacer. To lace; to bind, or tie vp with a lace; also, to insnare; or to set ginnes, or snares for.

Laceration: f. A laceration, tearing, rending, dismembring, mangling.

Laceré m. ée: f. Lacerated, torne, rent, mangled, dismembred, peecemealed.

Lacerer. To lacerate, rend, peecemeale, teare, mangle, dismember.

Laceron: m. The Sow-thistle, Hares-thistle, Hares Colewort.

Lacert: m. A Lizard; also, the Viuer, or lesse Sea-dragon; tearmed so because it somewhat resembles a Dragon.

Lacerte. A fleshie muscle; tearmed so because it hath (as a Lezard) a long taile.

Lacet: m. The lace of a peticoat, a womans lace, or lacing; also, a snare, or ginne.

Lachrymal: m. ale: f. Weeping, bewailing; teare-like, dropping, moist: ¶Rab.

Laconiquement. Strictly, or sparingly (in life;) shortly, or pithily (in speech.)

Laconiser. To liue strictly, or sparingly; to speake briefely, or pithily.

Lacquay. as Laquay. Lacque: f. Sanguine; rose or rubie, colour; (The true Lacca is an Armenian Gumme vsed in the dying of Crimsons, and afterwards (growne artificiall) imployed by Painters.)

Lacre: m. A confection, or stuffe, made of rosin, brimstone, and white wax mingled, and melted together; which growne cold is as hard as a stone, and cleaues inseperably vnto the thing thats closed with it; Our best hard wax is a kind of it.

Lactifiant: m. ante: f. as Lactifique. Lactifique: com. Milk-breeding, milk-making, milk-yeelding.

Lacunaire: m. The maine beame of a house being somewhat arched; also, an arched seeling, or floore of boords.

Lacune: f. A puddle, pit, or ditch of standing water; also, a fenne, marsh, or waterish ground.

Lacustre: com. Lakie, belonging to a lake.

Ladane: m. The sweet Gumme Ladanum; comes of a fat dew, or liquor, gathered from the leaues of the shrub Cistus Ledon. Ladre: com. Leaprous, lazerous; mezeld, scuruie. Herbe aux ladres. Fluellin, Speed-well, Ground-*heele, Paules Betonie. Riche comme vn ladre. Seeke Riche. Celuy est bien ladre, il ne sent point quand on luy pique la chair. Appliable to a dullard, or a coward; one thats vnsencible and cannot, or fearefull and will not, feele the wrongs done to him.

Ladrerie: f. A Spittle for leapers, a place wherein they abide; also, leaprosie, scuruinesse, meazeldnesse.

Ladrige: f. Leaprosie, leaprousnesse, meazeldnesse, scuruinesse.

Ladronnerie: f. A denne of theeues.

Lagagne. Corne-rose, red Poppie: ¶Langued. Lai: m. Breadth of cloth, &c; Seeke Lé, & Lais. Lai: m. Laïe: f. Lay, secular; of the Layetie, none of the Clergie; temporall, vulgar. Frere lai. A seruant in an Abbey, or Couent.

Laict: m. Milke.
  Laict aigre. Whay; also, a sillibub, or merribowke.
  Laict caillé. Curds, curded milke, fresh cheese.
  Laict clair. Whay.
  Laict esburré. Butter-milke.
  Laict de nostre Dame. The white Thistle.
  Le laict nouveau. Beest, or Beestings.
  Laict Tabian. A milke thats verie healthfull for such as are in a consumption; of Tabia, a place in Italie, the aire whereof is said to haue the same vertue.
  Laict Virginal. A milke compounded of the froth, or spume of gold steeped in vinegar, and salt, infused in waters of Plantaine, Nightshade, and Roses.
  Dent le laict. A coults tooth, or young tooth; also, a priuie grudge.
  Eau de laict. Clarified whay; also, water of milke or drawne by stillitorie from milke.
  Frere de laict. A foster brother.
  Herbe à laict. Spurge, Milke-weed, Wolues-milke.
  Herbe au laict. Sea Milke-wort, blacke Salt-*wort.
  Petit laict. Whay.
  Mouches en laict. A plaine matter, cleere case, euident demonstration.
  Son espée a bien du laict. His sleeping sword (like a seldome-drawne vdder) hath surely store of milke in't.