Legs, see Titivillus.

Leman, "take thee a leman" (M[27],a), mistress, whore: see other volumes of this series.

Lese, "an open lese" (N[108],d), pasture, meadowland, common. "We been his people and scheep of his leese."—Prymer (c. 1400), 17 (1891).

Lesing, "many a lesing" (M[18],b), lie, lying, falsehood.

Let, "not minding you to let" (R[188],b), hinder, obstruct.

Likely, "such a likely man" (M[27],d), in original lygh[t]ly; seemly, becoming, good-looking. "The damoysel beheld the poure knyght, and sawe he was a lykely man"—Malory, Arthur (1470-85), II. ii. 77.

Limit, "a pardon by limit" (M[8],c), in original bely mett. Apparently a pardon sold or bestowed by a friar limiter: see other volumes of this series.

Lion of Cotswold (N[109],c), a sheep: an earlier example than the first of the O.E.D. quotations.

Live, "on live" (IP[300],c), alive: an attributive use.