'I never eat but two meals a day—breakfast and supper ... and I'm rather lear (hungry) at supper.'—Gamekeeper at Home, ch. i.
'His bill was zharp, his stomack lear,
Zo up a snapped the caddlin pair.'—Wilts Tales, p. 97.
Learn. To teach. 'I'll learn 'ee to do that again, you young vaggot!' 'Her do want some 'un to learn she, 'stead o' she learnin' we!' In general use in Wilts.—N. & S.W.
Lease, Leaze, &c.: sometimes used with a prefix, as Cow-leaze, Ox-leaze. (1) As much pasture as will keep a cow (B.).—N. & S.W. (2) A large open pasture. Legh, Lease (Aubrey); Leaze (Amateur Poacher, ch. iii).—N. & S.W.
Lease. To glean (A.S.).—N. & S.W.
Lease-bread. Bread made from lease-corn.—N.W.
Lease-corn. Wheat collected by gleaning.—N.W.
Leaser. A gleaner.—N. & S.W.
Ledged. See Lodged.
Lemfeg. An Elleme fig (A.H.Wr.).—N. & S.W.