kyth (and kin), home, country, people. See kithe.
kythe, II, 168, 10: be manifest, appear, pret. kythed, I, 117, 10: appeared.
L
laa, law.
lachters, lauchters, IV, 166, 14: locks.
lack, lake, adj.=laigh, low, humble, in lack o luve, II, 376, 24, 27, 30. so lack a knight as bid her ride, II, 97, 10. thought his father lack to sair, II, 408, 1 (lake, V, [235] b, 1; cf. thought father’s service mean, II, 178, 2); V, [272] b, 8, 10: of mean position.
lack, lake, n. (think, hae, lack), reproach, discredit, IV, 15, 16; 518, 8. woman, lack o our kin, IV, 325, 13. had ye nae lack (reproach or fault), IV, 281, 3. what other ladies would think lack, II, 159, 22 (but here lack may=laigh, and mean beneath them, as in II, 97, 10). tooke a lake, III, 419, 2: incurred a reproach or blame? of his friends he had no lack, IV, 11, 18: corrupted from, of him his friends they had no lack (or the like). See lauch.
lad, in surgeon-lad, IV, 484, after 25: man. lad nor lown, IV, 304, 8, 9: should probably read, laird.
lad-bairn, II, 299, 12, 21; III, 392, 7; 395, L 1, 5; IV, 510, V 3: boy.
lad, pret. of lead, III, 75, 388.