lever le rideau (Fr.), to raise the curtain.
lex non scripta (L.), unwritten law—i.e. the common law.
lex scripta (L.), statute law.
lex talionis (L.), the law of retaliation.
liberavi animum meum (L.), I have cleared my mind.
libraire (Fr.), a bookseller.
licentia vatum (L.), poetical license.
limæ labor (L.), the labour of the file, of polishing.
limbo patrum; limbus infantum (Late L.). See Limbo in Dict.
Lingua Franca (It.), the corrupt Italian once current in the Levant: the mixed language spoken by Europeans in the East.