Lilac. as Ben (of two sillables.) Limace: f. A Snaile (most properly, the dew Snaile, or Snaile without a shell;) also, as Volute; any thing that winds, or turnes like a Snaile-shell, &c.
Limaceux: m. euse: f. Snailie, Snaile-like; full of Snailes; also, as;
Limacial: m. ale: f. Of a Snaile, resembling a Snaile; winding, twirling, or turning about like the shell of a Snaile.
Limaçon: m. A Snaile (and most properly that which hath a shell.) Limaçon de mer. A Winkle, or Periwinkle. Petit Limaçon de mer. as Nerite. Herbe à Limaçon. Medicke fodder, Snaile Clauer. Pierre de Limaçon. The Snaile stone; found in the heads of some (dew) Snailes; tis white, somewhat transparent, and rugged; it seemes hard, and yet, being pressed betweene the teeth, breaks as small as sand: the vulgar hold it good for a Tertian, or Quartan Ague. Treffle au limaçon. as Herbe à limaçon. Faire le limaçon. To wind, twirle, or turne round about; souldiers to doe the ring, or to cast themselues into a ring. Autant chemine vn homme en vn iour comme vn limaçon en cent ans: Prov. A quicke workeman dispatches as much in one day as a slowbacke in twentie. Contre la nuict s'arment les limaçons: Pro. Snails arme themselues (put out their hornes) towards night.
Limaçonner. To twirle, turne, or wind about, like the shell of a Snaile, or as souldiers that cast themselues into a ring.
Limaille: f. File-dust, pinne-dust.
Limailles: f. as Legumages; Pulse. Limaire. A young Tunnie.
Limande: f. A Burt, or Bret-fish; also, a broad Pipe-*staffe, or boord, prepared, fashioned, and fit, for caske; also, a short cudgell.
Limas. as Limaçon. Limasse: f. as Limace. Limasse à eau. The little water Snaile.
Limasson. as Limaçon. Limature: f. A filing; also file-dust.
Limbe de bouteille. The mouth, or brinke of a bottle.
Limbes. A low, and vnsauorie roome in prisons; also, the Purgatorie of vnbaptized children.
Lime: f. A file; also, as Limaçon. Limes. A wild Boares nether tusks, or tushes. Lime sourde. A soft, or smooth file, which makes no noise when tis vsed; also, a dreaming, slie, malicious knaue; or, as in; Faire la lime sourde. To giue no eare vnto; or, to seeme as if he either heard not, or cared not to heare.
Limé: m. ée: f. Filed; smoothed, polished; scraped, or shauen vnto a sleeknesse, or euennesse; also, licked; also, gleeked, or looked askew at.
Limer. To file; smooth, polish; to scrape, or shaue a thing till it be sleeke, or euen; also, to licke, as a Hare doth her young ones; also, to gleeke, or looke askew at.
Limes; &, Lime-sourde. as in Lime. Limestre. The cloth whereof hoods be made is called Drap de limestre; and from hence those that weare them be in contempt called Limestres. Limeur: m. A filer.
Limeure: f. File-dust; also, a filing.
Limier: m. A Bloud-hound, or Lime-hound.
Limignon d'vne chandelle. The wieke of a candle.
Liminaire: com. Set before th'entrie, or at the beginning of; dedicatorie; forerunning.
Limitateur: m. A limiter, bounder, stinter, prescriber.
Limitation: f. A limitation, restriction, restraint, prescription, modification.
Limite: f. A limit, bound, stint; border, frontire; prescription; a condition, course, or compasse appointed one.
Limité: m. ée: f. Limited, bounded, stinted, restrained, prescribed a certaine course, or compasse.
Limiter. To limit, bound, stint; prescribe a condition, appoint a course, restraine within a compasse.
Limiteur: m. A limiter, bounder, stinter.
Limitrophe: com. Bordering vpon, adioyning or lying neere vnto.
Limoine: f. Pyrola, Winter-greene, Winter Beets, wild Beets.
Limon: m. Slime; or thicke, and slimie durt, mud, mire, puddle, dregs; also, a slimie soile; also, a Lemmon; also, the Thill of a waine, wagon, &c; In which sence (because a Thill consists of two beames) it is most vsed in the Plurall number.
Limonier. Cerfs limoniers. Stags painted, as Thill-horses, with carts at their heeles. Cheval limonier. A Thill-horse, or Cop-horse; he that goes next to the waine, &c.
Limonne. as Poncille. Limonneux: m. euse: f. Slimie; muddie, boggie, durtie, mirie, puddle, filthie, full of ordure.
Limpide: com. Cleere, bright, sheene, glazie, transparent.
Limure. File-dust; also, a filing.
Lin: m. Line, flax; flaxen or hempen yarne; linnen cloth. Lin sauvage. Flax-weed, wild flax, tode-flax, Flaine-*wort. Lin vif. A kind of Indian line, or linnen, which the fire purifies, but consumes not. Goutte, ou podagre, de lin. The weed Dodder; (and flax it selfe is said to haue the gowt, when one staulke twines about another as it growes.) Il a meslé le lin avec la chanure; &; Il a tissu lin avec estouppe. He hath mingled flax with toe; he hath iumbled good and bad together.
Linage: m. Linage, kindred; See Lignage. Linagier: m. A direct, or neere kinsman. Linagier sur linagier n'a point de retenuë. One kinsman cannot recouer the land that hath bin bought by another.
Linagier: m. ere: f. as Lignagier; Neere akinne, &c.
Linaire. Flax-weed, Flainewort, wild flax, tode-flax.
Linarole: f. The name of a delicate Italian peare which is ripe in August.
Linceul: m. A sheet (for a bed.) Le plus riche n'emporte qu'un linceul: Prov. The richest carries but one sheet t'his graue.
se Linder par terre. To creepe, or crawle along the ground.
Line. as Ligne. Lineament: m. A lineament, or feature, of the face, or of any other part.
Lineature: f. A lineature, or feature.
Lineature des mains. The lines, or streakes of the hands, wheron Palmisters, and Fortune-tellers ground their coniectures.
