Lamentatória, to be lamented, wailefull.
Lamentéuole, lamentable, dolefull, wailefull, dreary, mornefull.
Lamenteuolménte, lamentably.
Laménto, a lamenting, or bewayling.
Lamentóso, full of wayling and lamenting.
La mercè Dío, by Gods mercy.
Lamétta, as Lamína.
La mi, to me it, or she to me, or she me.
La mía pássera ẻ nel nído, my Sparrow is in the nest, it is the name of a kinde of Christmasse game vsed in Italy.
Lámia, a beast that hath a face like a man, and feete like a horse. Also a sea-dogge or dogfish. Also a kinde of fish with so great a iaw, and is so rauenous, that it will deuoure an armed man. Also women that were thought to have such eyes as they could at their pleasure pull out and put in againe, or as some describe them, certaine Diuels in a counterfeit shape that with flatterings allured faire yoong springals or boyes, and taking vpon them the likenesse and fashion of women were thought to deuoure them and bring them to destruction. Some thought them to be Ladies of the Fairies, or such as make children affraid, or such witches as sucke childrens blood and kill them. Vsed also for any kind of hag, witch or sorceresse. Vsed also for an impudent whore or shame-lesse strumpet. Vsed also for an high arched vault or such hollow place in roofed buildings.