'A cure-peg, a curry-peg,
A lem-feg, a dough-feg.'—Wilts Nursery Jingle.
*Length, Lent. A loan (A.B.). *Lenth (S.).
Let-off. To abuse.—N.W. (Cherhill.)
'Maester let I off at a vine rate.'—Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii. p. 111.
Lew (pronounced Loo). (1) adj. Warm (H.).—N. & S.W. (2) n. Shelter (A.B.C.S.). 'Get in the lew,' i.e. into a place sheltered from the wind. A.S. hleo, hleow.—N. & S.W.
Lewis's Cat. A person suspected of incendiary habits. Many years ago fires are said to have occurred so frequently on the premises of a person of this name (whose cat sometimes had the blame of starting them), that the phrase passed into common use, and a suspected man soon 'got the name of a Lewis's Cat,' now corrupted into 'Blue Cat.'—S.W.
Lewth. Warmth (A.B.C.). Usually restricted to the sun's warmth, but in Cunnington MS. applied to a thin coat, which 'has no lewth in it.'—N.W.
Lew-warm. Luke-warm.—N. & S.W.
Libbet. A fragment (S.). 'All in a libbet,' or 'All in libbets and jibbets,' torn to rags.—N. & S.W. Also Lippet.