Lieutenant criminel. (Son office est de s'informer des crimes, & faire le procez aux criminels, par interrogatoires, recolemens, & confrontations; & en apres les iuger: cognoist des delicts non punis par le Iuge du lieu: cognoist de remissions, rappels de ban, & pardons: peut faire armer le peuple: ne doit assister au iugement des procez civils:) There be two sorts of them; viz. de robbe longue, & de robbe courte, somewhat inferiour to th' others, as being receiued, and instituted by them. On n'y peut mettre Lieutenant. This must be done in person, or cannot be done by Atturney.
Lieutrin. as Letrin. Liëux: m. euse: f. Full of lees, dregs, or grounds; thick in the bottome after standing.
Lifrelofre: m. A huffesnuffe, swag-bellie, puffe-bag; (a word coined in derision of the Germanes, and Swissers.)
Ligament: m. A ligament, or ligature; a tie, band, or string; especially, th' insencible string thats seated either within, or neere vnto, a ioynt, and is tearmed by our Anatomists, a Ligament.
Ligamenteux: m. euse: f. Full of ligaments, strings, ligatures.
Ligature: f. A ligature, tie, band; also, a binding, tying, fastening.
Lige: m. Allegiance, or liegemanship; whence; Fiefs tenus à plein lige. Fiefs held by full homage, or allegiance.
Lige: com. Liege, leall, or loyall; subiect, vassall; naturall, ones owne. Garde lige. The gard, or defence of a Lord, or of his castle or principall house, due from the vassall (sufficiently, and for certaine dayes armed) when there is need, or when he is required thereto. Hommage lige. Seeke Hommage; Where though (in Hommage plein) it be saied, that is, and Lige be all one (because the customes of most places confound them) yet by some Plein is held more absolute then Lige. Prince lige. A liege Lord; the Prince to whom one is by birth, and fortune subiect. Seigneur lige. The same; also, a direct, immediate, or next Lord. Tenuë lige. as Tenuë à ligence. Ligeaulté: f. Loyaltie, or the fidelitie due by a subiect vnto his naturall Prince.
Ligement. Loyally, by allegiance; also, directly, immediately, next vnto.
Ligence: f. Liegemanship, allegiance, faith, loyaltie. Devoir de ligence. The garding of a Lords castle, or house, due by his vassall (armed, and on horsebacke) certaine dayes, and nights in the yeare; or when he is required thereto; or otherwise, as the custome of the place, or qualitie of his Tenure binds him. Tenuë à ligence. A Tenure in chiefe; a direct, or immediate Tenure (subiect vnto the Devoir aforesaid.)
Ligier. as Leger. Lignade: f. Wooddage; prouision of wood. Faire lignade. A ship to take in, or to furnish a ship with, fuell, or fire-wood.
Lignage: m. A linage, progenie, stocke, race, kindred, familie, parentage; also, wooddage; and hence; Devoir de lignage. A certaine toll taken for euerie load of wood thats brought into Rennes in Britaine.
Lignager: m. A direct kinsman; See Linagier.
Lignagier: m. ere: f. Directly akinne, of neere kindred; of the same stocke, line, house, race, familie; belong-*
- ing to that linage. Retraict lignagier. Seeke Retraict. Ligne: f. A line; any streake, small draught, or lineament; also, a thread, or long string; a verse, or line in writing; a stocke, or branch in a pedegree, a degree of kindred; also, the third part of a barlie corne, or the twelfth part of an inch in measuring (and the last, and least of that kind of measure.) Ligne blanche. The lower part of the bellie whereat the muscles thereof doe meet; the white line, the vmbelicall veine. Ligne de compte. The line made (in an accompt) from the subiect to the summe; also, a ranke, or file of counters in casting. Mettre en ligne de compte. To reckon, esteeme, account, allow of; to register in the Kalender of account; to remember, or mention in discourse, as a thing of some importance. Ligne estainte. as Droict de Desherance. Ligne feincte. A supposed line in Geometrie; vsed often as a Demet*ient, when a line is supposed to runne from one point (without latitude, or thicknesse) to another. Ligne de perles. A thread of pearle. Bois de ligne. Timber squared out by line and leuell; wrought timber; also an angle-rod. Cotte & ligne. (which should rather be, costé & ligne;) Signifies peculiar kindred; or a particular branch of a familie, or kindred; and so when a man giues his wife a thing, à cotte & ligne, he meanes it absolutely vnto her, and her owne kinsfolke. Tenir cotte & ligne. To haue the law in his owne hands, to doe what he list. Biens meubles ne tiennent costé ne ligne; asçavoir, ne suivent estoc, costé, ny ligne. Tirer hors ligne. To summe vp; from the custome of Auditors, &c, who set the summe of euerie parcell at th' end, or outside of the subiect.
Lignear: m. are: f. Linear, by line, in a direct course, or line; also, belonging to a line.
Lignée: f. as Lignage. Ligner. To line, as a dog (or dog-Wolfe) a bitch.
Ligneraye: f. A line-yard, or flax-yard.
Ligneul: m. Shoomakers thread; or, a tatching end.
Ligneux: m. euse: f. Wooddie, full of wood; also, full of lines, or small and long threads.
Lignier: m. A pile of wood.
Lignoul. as Ligneul. Ligombeau: m. A sea Creuice, or little Lobster.
Ligoter. To prune a vine; to take from about it the stones, clods, or hearbes that hinder the budding thereof.
Ligue: f. A league, or confederacie; a complot, or combination of sides, or parties which haue beene diuided; an agreement made, or alliance contracted; also, mutuall intercourse of kindnesses; also, an excellent Soulder, eight parts whereof be fine gold, three siluer, and three copper.
Ligué: m. ée: f. Leagued, in league with; confederate, combined, allied with.
se Liguer l'vn à l'autre. To make a league, to cōtract alliance, to enter into confederacie one with another.
Ligule: f. A little tongue, lingell, tenon; a spoone, slice, or small ladle, vsed by Apothecaries; also, a small (Romane) measure containing about a spoonefull; and in weight three drammes, and a scruple.
Ligumbault. as Ligombeau.
Ligustic: m. The hearbe Louage.
