*Liberty. v. To allow anything to run loose. 'It don't matter how much it's libertied,' the more freedom you can give it the better.—N.W. (Cherhill.)
Licket. 'All to a licket,' all to pieces.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
*Lide. The month of March (A.). A.S. hlýda, hlýdamonath, the stormy month, from hlúd, boisterous, noisy (so Grein). This has nothing to do with lide or lithe, mild, whence come the A.S. names for June and July. See N. & Q. Feb. 6, 1892.
Lieton. See Litton.
Lill. To pant as a dog (A.B.H.).—N.W.
Lily, or Lilies. (1) Convolvulus sepium, L., Great Bindweed.—S.W. (Farley and Charlton.) (2) Arum maculatum, L., Cuckoo-pint.—S.W. (Barford.)
Limb, Limm. (1) n. A ragged tear (Village Miners).—N.W. (2) v. To tear irregularly, to jag out (Ibid.).—N.W.
Limbers. The shafts of a waggon (S.).—N. & S.W.
Linch, Linchet, Lynch, Lanshet (N.W.), Lytchet (S.W.), Linchard, &c. (S.). A.S. hlinc, a bank. For articles on Lynchet, Linchet, or Linch, see Wilts Arch. Mag. xii. 185, and xv. 88. Also articles and letters in Marlborough College Natural History Report and Marlborough Times, 1892, Seebohm's Village Community, and Britten's Old Country Words. In an old MS. schedule of land at Huish, N.W., 'Lanshes and borders,' i.e. turf boundary banks and field margins, are enumerated. (1) Certain terraces, a few yards wide, on the escarpment of the downs, probably the remains of ancient cultivation, are locally known as Lynches or Lynchets.—N. & S.W. (2) The very narrow ledges, running in regular lines along the steep face of a down, probably made by sheep feeding there, are also frequently so called.—S.W. (3) A raised turf bank dividing or bounding a field.—S.W. (4) A strip of greensward dividing two pieces of arable land in a common field (D.).—N. & S.W. (5) An inland cliff, cf. 'The Hawk's Lynch' (Tom Brown at Oxford); occasionally applied to a steep slope or escarpment, as at Bowood and Warminster.