Lent. _s_. Loan; the use of any thing borrowed.
Lew. _adj_. Sheltered; defended from storms, or wind
Lew, Lewth. _s_. Shelter; defence from storm or wind.
Lib'et. _s_. A piece; a tatter.
Lid'den. _s_. A story; a song.
Lie-lip. _s_. A square wooden vessel having holes in its
bottom, to contain wood-ashes for making lie.
Lights. _s. pl_. The lungs.
Lighting-stock. _s_. A horse-block; steps of wood or stone,
made to ascend and descend from a horse.
Lim'bers, Lim'mers. _s. pl_. The shafts of a waggon, cart,
&c.
Linch. _s_. A ledge; a rectangular projection; whence the
term _linch-pin_ (a pin with a linch), which JOHNSON has, but
not linch.
The derivations of this word, _linch-pin_ by our
etymologists, it will be seen, are now inadmissable.
To Line. _v. n._ To lean; to incline towards or against
something.
Lin'ny. _s._ An open shed, attached to barns, outhouses, &c.
Lip, Lip'pen. _s._ A generic term for several containing
vessels, as _bee-lippen_, _lie-lip_, _seed-lip_,
_&c_.
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