An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

To LIPPIN, LYPPYN, LIPPEN, v. n.
1. To expect, S.
Wyntown.
2. To lippen in, to put confidence in.
Douglas.
3. To lyppyn off, the same.
Barbour.
4. To lippen till, to entrust to one's charge.
Houlate.
5. To lippen to, to trust to, S.
6. To lippen upon, to depend on for.
Abp. Hamiltoun.

Moes. G. laub-jan, credere; ga-lau-beins. fides.

Lypnyng, s. Expectation.
Wyntown.

LIRE, LYR, LYRE, s.
1. The flesh or muscles, as distinguished from the bones, S. O.
Wallace.
2. Flesh, as distinguished from the skin that covers it.
Sir Egeir.

A. S. lire, the fleshy parts of the body.

LYRE, LYIRE, s. That part of the skin which is colourless.
Chr. Kirk.

A. S. hleor, hlear, the countenance.

LYRE, LAYER, LYAR, s. The Shearwater.
Pennant.

Liere, id. Feroe Islands.

To LIRK, v. a. To rumple, S.