the clownes in some parts of France. Boire à tire larigau. To drinke till his throat cracke withall.
Laringe. The root of the tongue; or, as Larigau. Laringuau. The same.
Larix: f. The Larch, or Larinx tree.
Larme: f. A teare; also, a gumme-drop, the fat moisture that distills from diuers trees; and hence; La larme du sapin. A cleere, and well-tasting liquid Rosin, that issues from betweene the barke, and inner rinde of a young Firre tree; In our shops it is commonly (but erroniously) tearmed Venice Turpentine, sayes Mathiolus. Larmes. Beads made of the seeds of a certaine plant. En larmes de fol ne se doit on fier: Prov. A fooles teares are not to be trusted. Ce que Maistre donne, & vallet pleure ce sont larmes perdues: Prov. Jn vaine doe groomes deplore their maisters bountie.
Larmelette: f. A small teare.
Larmette. as Larmelette. Larmeux: m. euse: f. All-beblubbered, full of teares.
Larmier: m. The eaue of a house; the brow, or coping of a wall, seruing to keepe, or cast off the raine; also, a loope-hole, or small hole in a wall to giue light; also, the eye-veine, or veine thats next to the eye of a horse.
Larmot: m. A kind of Lizard.
Larmoyable: com. Bewaylable, lamentable, wofull, worthie of teares.
Larmoyement: m. A weeping, bewayling, lamenting, shedding of teares.
Larmoyer. To weepe, wayle, whine, lament, shed teares, distill drops of moisture.
Larmoyeux. as Larmeux. Larmuse: f. A little earth-Newte, or Aske. ¶Dauphinois. Larnesse. as Larronnesse; a she theefe. Larre de chats: m. Caterwawling. (vieil mot.) Larrecin: m. Larcenie, theft, robberie, felonie, theeuerie, stealth, pilfering, filching, purloyning.
Larreciner. as Larronner. Larrecineusement. Theeuishly, pilferingly, feloniously, with a felonious intent.
Larrecineux: m. euse: f. Felonious, theeuish, filching, pilfering, nimming, imbeazeling.
Larris: m. Vnhusbanded land, vntilled ground.
Larron: m. A felon, theefe, robber, purloyner, stealer,imbeazeler, pilferer, filcher, nimmer.
Larron d'eau. An ißue in a Conduit head for the voiding of superfluous water.
Larron d'une plume. The pith of a quill; the feather, or light stuffe that is within it.
Pas de larron. A gingerlie tread, soft gate, fearefull stepping, doubtfull pace.
Les larrons s'entrebatent, & les larcins se descouvrent: Pro. Theeues brabling helpes true men vnto their owne.
D'un larron priué on ne se peut garder: Pro. There is no ward for a familiar theefe.
Tel larron tel cordon: Prov. See Cordon.
À gros larron grosse corde: Prov. A strong theefe deserues (or needs) a strong halter.
Les gros larrons ont tousiours les manches pleins de baillons: Prov. Great theeues haue euer store of gags (viz. of gifts) about them.
Les gros larrons pendent les petits; &, les gros larrons meinent pendre les petits: Prov. Applyable to such as being themselues guiltie of great faults, con-*
- demne, or punish, little ones in others. Abandon fait larron: Prov. Things left at randon cause true men turne theeues. Il est cault larron qui desrobbe à vn larron: Prov. He is a cunning theefe that robs a theefe. Il semble à vn larron que chascun luy resemble: Prov. A theefe imagines euerie one bids, stand. Ou Marchand, ou larron: Prov. Either a marchant or a theefe; a speech verie ordinarie in the mouthes of Shop-keepers, who thereby pretend, that not comming to their wares so easily, they cannot sell them so cheape, as theeues doe.
Larronceau: m. A pilferer, filcher, little theefe.
Larronneau: m. The same.
Larronner. To steale, imbeazell, purloyne, filch, nimme, pilfer, play the theefe.
Larronnerie: f. Theeuing, stealing, pilfering, filching, purloyning.
Larronnesse: f. A she theefe.
Larronneux: m. euse: f. Felonious, theeuish, full of theeuerie.
Larronniere: f. A denne of theeues, the retreat of theeues, theeues hauen, a place of resort for theeues.
Larval: m. ale: f. Haggish, grislie, ghastlie, ghost-like, dreadfull, wan, pale.
Larve: m. A Hag, Spirit, Goblin, Night-ghost; also, a leane, pale, meagar, withered scrag; one that looks like death, or like a ghost.
Larynx. as Larigau. Las: m. as Laqs; a snare. Las: m. Lasse: f. Wearie, tyred, harried, ouertoyled, or faint with toyling.
Lasanon: m. The panne of a Close-stoole. ¶Rab. Lasanophore: m. The groome of the Close-stoole.
Lasché. A fish that somewhat resembles a little Shad; (caught, and called so, about Montpelier.) Lasche: f. (The vermine called) a Ticke, or Sheepe-*louse.
Lasche: com. Slacke, looße, wide, flagging; weake, faint, vnlustie, languishing, remisse, lither, slow; cold, cowardlie, faint-hearted, vnmanlie, effeminate; lewd, vnworthie, base, trecherous. Cousture à lasche. An open seame. Oreilles lasches. Slowching, or hanging eares.
Lasché: m. ée: f. Loossed, tyed; vnbent; released, free, deliuered.
Laschée: f. A loossing, slackening, widening, vnbending; remitting, releasing, freeing, letting goe.
Laschement. Slackly, looßely, flaggingly; remissely, weakly, vnlustily; slowly, litherly, negligently; coldly, faintly, effeminately; wickedly, lewdly; vnworthily.
Lascher. To slacken, wyden, loosse, vnbend, let out; free, release, remit, forgoe, let goe. Lascher la bride à. To vse more gently, giue more libertie vnto.
Lascheté: f. Slacknesse, dullneße, remißnesse; faintnesse, weakeneße, vnlustinesse; negligence, idlenesse, lithernesse; cowardise, vnmanlinesse, faintheartedneße; trecherie, lewdnesse, vnworthinesse; also, an absurd, sottish, or sencelesse part.
Lasdaller: m. A tyred Jade; also, a dreaming, or lazie draw-latch; also, a kind of bird.
Lasnier. as Lanier.
Lassé: m. ée: f. as Las; Wearied; also, snarled, or insnared; also, laced; bound, or closed vp with laces.
Lasser. To wearie, toyle, tyre; also, to lace; to bind, or close vp with a lace; also, to set ginnes, or grinnes for birds; (& hēce) also, to snarle, or insnare; also, a dog to lyne a bitch.
