Armes; also, the Masculine line in a Pedegree. Lance à boëte. A lance with a burre, or blunt head; a tilting staffe. Lance à bout d'or. A mans yard. Lance de carriere. A staffe to run at the Ring with. Lance courtoise. as Lance à boëte. Lance de S. Crespin. A Shoomakers nawle. Lance fournie. A man of Armes furnished at all points; viz. with fiue great horses; two for himselfe; one for his Armour-bearer; and two for two Archers to serue on; (besides two others of lesse value for his prouision, and baggage.) Courir la lance. To tilt, or to runne at tilt. Hà la bonne lance; &, o la hardie lance. (Phrases commonly vsed in reproach, and to the disgrace, of a Coward.) Hardie langue coüarde lance: Pro. Couragious language a cowardlie lance.
Lancé: m. ée: f. Throwne, hurled, flung, darted; also, pierced, pricked, or thrust through; also, rowsed, or thrust vp, as a Deere; also, thinne, lanke, meagar, leane, starueling.
Lancelée: f. Ribwort Plantaine, Lambes-tongue.
Lanceman: m. A Compatriote, or Countreyman; (a word which the Frenchman borrowes of the Dutch to mocke him withall.)
Lancement: m. The same; also, a throwing, hurling, flinging, darting; also, a rowsing, or thrusting vp of a Deere.
Lanceole, & Lanceolette. as Lancelée. Lance-pessade: m. A Lancepesado; the meanest officer in a foot-companie.
Lancer. (Violently) to throw, fling, hurle, dart; also, to pricke, pierce, hit, or strike, as with the point of a lance; also, to rowse, or thrust vp, a Deere. Se Lancer dedans. To runne headlong, or cast himselfe hastily, into. Se Lancer sur. To runne fiercely, rush furiously, giue a violent, or hot charge, vpon.
Lanceron: m. A Ieg, or Iacke; a Pickerell thats about a foot long.
Lancette: f. A Surgeons Launcet; also, a little lance. Laisser la lancette dans la veine. Seeke Veine. Lanceur: m. A hurler, darter, thrower.
Lanci: m. The Squinancie; also, a kind of stitch, or paine like a stitch.
Lancier: m. A Lance, Lanceere, Speareman; a horse-*man that serues with a Lance; also, as Lanciere. Lanciere: f. C'est vn sommier mis à vn cheminée passant à travers le mur mitoyen d'un voisin; also, as Abbée. Lancinant. Pricking, striking, or thrusting through; also, rending, or tearing with the teeth; also, wasting, or consuming.
Lanciner. To pricke, strike, open, or thrust into (as with the point of a lance;) also, to rend, or teare with the teeth; also, to wast, or consume.
Lancy. as Lanci. Lande: f. A Land, or Laund; a wild, vntilled, shrubbie, or bushie Plaine.
Landgrave: m. A Lantgraue; the Earle of a Prouince.
Landie: f. The deaw-lap in a womans Priuities (as in Landies;) whence; Landie deschiquetée. An ouglie nickname for an ouerridden Hackney (or Harlot.)
Landier: m. An Andiron.
Landies: f. The two Pterigones, or great wings within the lips of a womans Priuities.
Landits. as Lendits. Landore: m. A rude clowne, gazing hoydon, staring lowt; also, a leaden fellow, poore sneakeshie, man of dowgh. ¶Normand. Landrivel: m. The Lanterne of a Ship.
Landyer. To cloy, wearie, trouble, be tedious vnto.
Laneret: m. The Hawke so called.
Lanfrelucher. To lecher. ¶Rab. Langage: m. Language, talke, speech; discourse; also, a Language, or Tongue. C'est vn langage du temps des hauts bonnets. This is an old wiues tale; or a fashion of speech cleane out of fashion.
Langager: m. as Langageur, or Langagier. Langager. To chat, pratle, bable, tattle, vse many words.
Langageur: m. A prater, pratler, tattler, babler.
Langagier: m. ere: f. Prating, babling, tattling, full of tongue.
Langart. as Languard. Langayer. To reason, discourse, hold chat with; also, to worme, or search the root of the tongue of a Hog, &c.
Langayerie: f. The worming of Hogs, &c.
Langayeur: m. A great talker; also, an Officer that searches the tongues of Market-Hogs, thereby to discerne whether they be sound or no.
Lange: m. A kind of sea-bird, which diuing into the bellie of a Whall, feeds on his heart.
Langeots: m. Little Swath-bands, or clouts of wooll for little children.
Langes: m. Woollen Swath-bands, or clouts for little children.
Langoureusement. Languishingly, faintingly, droopingly, as one thats wholly decayed.
Langoureux: m. euse: f. Languishing, drooping, pining, faint, failing in strength, drayned of (naturall) moisture, depriued of vigor.
Langouste: f. A Locust, or Grashopper; also, a kind of Lobster that hath vndiuided cleyes, a long beake (or beard) and prickles on her backe.
Langoustin: m. A great (or the greatest) Prawne. ¶Langued. Langoyer. To languish, or pine away.
Langrole: f. The Newte, Aske, or small Lizard that haunteth old, and ill-kept houses. ¶Langued. Langroust: m. The sea-Creuice; or, as Langouste. Language. as Langage. Languagier. as Langagier, or Languard. Languard: m. A blab, long-tongue, prating companion.
Languarde: f. A babling gossip, tattling houswife, chatting dame; a tittle-tattle, or twattle-basket; a wench whose tongue neuer lyes.
Languayeur. as Langayeur.
Langue: f. A Tongue (the instrument of speech;) also, a Language, Tongue, Speech; a phrase, or forme of speech; also, a particular Nation, or People vsing a peculiar speech; whence, Ceux de la langue de France, d'Angleterre, d'Espagne; the French, English, or Spanish Nation; also, the hearbe Adders tongue.
Langue de bœuf. Lang de beuf, Ox-tongue, rough or small Bugloße; also, a kind of weapon vsed in old time.
Langue de bouc. Wild Buglosse, wall Bugloße, Vipers Buglosse, Vipers hearbe.
Langue de cerf. Harts-tongue, stone Harts-tongue; mistaken, in many shops, for Scolopendria, Spleenwort, or stone-Fearne.
Langue de chien. Dogs tongue, Hounds tongue, Hounds pisse.
