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  La bonne Lune. The later end of September, and beginning of October; the best time to sow Winter-corne in, and therefore so tearmed by good husbands. Abbayer contre la lune. Seeke Abbayer. Avoir vn quartier de la lune en la teste. To bee halfe franticke, or haue a spice of Lunacie; The like is; Il y a de la lune. He is a foolish, humorous, hare-braind, giddie-headed fellow. Coucher à l'enseigne de la lune. To lie without doores all night. Garder la lune des loups. To wast indeuors vpon subiects that need them not; or spend time in watching of that which of it selfe is safe ynough. Dieu gard la lune des loups. An ironicall answer vnto a bragging foole, that threatens to kill them whom he cannot hurt. Le fourrier de la lune a marqué le logis. Said of a woman that hath her flowers. Prendre la lune aux dents. To doe impossible matters. Tenir de la lune. To be inconstant, fickle, mutable, giddie, vnsetled, wauering. Les biens de fortune passent comme la lune: Pro. What fortune giues vs for a boone, is quickly wasted like the Moone.

Luné: m. ée: f. Round, compasse, rounded, or bowed like a halfe-Moone.

Luner. To round, bow, compasse; and hence; Luner vn arc. To bend a bow.

Lunette: f. The merrie-thought; the forked craw-bone of a bird, which we vse, in sport, to put on our noses.

Lunettes: f. Spectacles. Il n'y a pas bien assis ses lunettes. He hath not obserued the matter so neerely, he hath not looked into it so narrowly, as he might, or should, haue done.

Lupasson. as Loupasson. Lupege: f. The whoope, or dung-hill Cocke.

Lupin: m. The pulse Lupines; also, the Base, or Sea-Wolfe.

Lupoge. as Lupege. Lurré: m. ée: f. Lured; inticed, allured.

Lus: m. A Pike (fish.) Lus marin. A Cod, or Cod-fish; some also, call the Haddocke so.

Luserne: f. A Gloe-worme; also, as Luzerne. Lustre: m. A luster, or glosse; a shining, or glistening; a gracefull bright colour; also, a terme of foure yeares, or fiftie moneths; also, a Censorian ouersight ouer Citizens estates, and behauiour. Donner lustre à. To grace, beautifie, illustrate, adorne; sleeke, burnish, brighten; set a glosse on, giue a luster vnto.

Lustrer. To looke round about, view, or suruey on each side, behold euerie way; to weigh diligently, examine throughly, seriously consider of, prie narrowly into; also, to purge, or cleanse by sacrifice; also, as Donner lustre. Lustreux: m. euse: f. Lusterous, radiant, shining, glistening, glistering, glittering.

Lustrueux. as Lustreux. Lut: m. A Lute; also, clay, mould, loame, durt; also, a kind of barke, or boat.

Luté: m. ée: f. Dawbed, closed, or done ouer, with clay; also, bemired, berayed, besmeared.

Luter. To dawbe, or clay; to close, or doe ouer with loame, or clay; also, to bedawb, defile, bemire, besmeare, beray.

Luth: m. A Lute.

Lutin: m. A Goblin, Robin-good-fellow, Hob-thrush; a spirit which playes reakes in mens houses anights.

Lutiner. To play the Goblin, or night-spirit; to keepe a foule rumbling, or terrible racket vp and down a house in the night.

Lutiz: m. Clay, loame; durt.

Lutre. as Loutre. Lutrin: m. A deske in a Church.

Luxation: f. A luxation, loossenesse, or loossening; a being out of ioynt.

Luxe: m. Excesse, riot, superfluitie.

Luxer. To loosse, or put out of ioynt; also, to be out of ioynt, or out of due place.

Luxure: f. Luxurie, sensualitie, concupiscence, fleshlinesse; any superfluitie, or excesse in carnall delights.

Luxurieux: m. euse: f. Luxurious, voluptuous, fleshlie, lustfull, sensuall; excessiue, riotous.

Luy. He, him, the same man.

Luyton. as Luiton, or Lutin. Luz: m. Lus. Luzerne: f. as Luserne.; Also, Medicke fodder, Spanish Trefoyle, horned Clauer, snaile Clauer.

Luzerner. To glow, glisten, or glimmer. (v.m.) Luzerniere: f. A close, field, or plot sowed with Medicke fodder.

Ly. as Le. ¶Gascon. Lyarre: m. Ivie; Seeke Lierre. Lyasse. as Liasse. Lycanthropie: f. A frenzie, or melancholie, which causeth the patient (who thinkes he is turned Wolfe) to flie all companie, and hide himselfe in dennes, and corners.

Lyce: f. A bitch, &c; as in Lice. Vne fausse lyce. A lewd queane, false trull, vngracious whoore, wicked harlot.

Lychnobien: m. The weeke of a candle; or one who in stead of the day vseth the night, doing all his businesse by candle-light: ¶Rab. Lychnocosomité. The chiefe stlight , or lanterne of the world.

Lychnon: m. A light, candle, or linke; also, the wieke of a candle, or match of a lampe; also, a lanterne: ¶Rab. Lycopse. A kind of the (red-rooted) hearbe Orchanet.

Lycopthalmie: f. A pretious stone of foure sundrie colours: ¶Rab. Lye. as Lie. Lyerre. Ivie; Seeke Lierre. Lymitrophe: com. Bordering vpon, adioyning, or lying neere vnto.

Lymon. as Limon. Lymphatique: com. Allayed, or mixed with water; also, madde, furious, bestraught; giddie, fantasticall.

Lyncée: f. A Linx; a Wolfe resembling beast thats full of spots. Yeux de Lincée. Sharpe, quicke, piercing eyes.

Lyncurie: f. A pretious stone bred of the congealed vrine of a Linx, and preseruing the eyes from charmes.

Lynges. as Liens; Bands, &c: ¶Rab. Lyon. Seeke Lion. Lyonceau: m. A Lyons whelpe, or young Lyon.

Lype. as Lippe; A lip. Faire la lype. To powt, lowt, lowre, hang the lip, as a child thats sullen, or about to crie.

Lypothomie: f. A kind of deadlie swooning.

Lyre: f. A Lyra, or Harpe.