leger, light; ‘A hundred leger wafers’, The London Chanticleers, scene 5 (Welcome). F. léger.
legiaunce, faithful service. Bacon, Henry VII, p. 142. OF. ligeance, legiance, deriv. of lige, liege, entitled to feudal service, also, bound to render feudal service, see Didot (s.v. Lige, Ligence). Cp. O. Prov. litge, ‘liege’; of Germanic origin, OHG. ledig, free; legiaunce was the feudal service of a free man. See NED.
legier; see [ledger].
legier-booke, a ‘ledger-book’, i.e. a book containing records, a cartulary, register. Peacham, Comp. Gentleman, c. 6, p. 51. See Dict. (s.v. Ledger).
legierte, lightness, agility. Caxton, Hist. Troye, leaf 230. 20; thoughtlessness, id., lf. 311, back, 23. F. légèreté, lightness.
leiger; see [ledger].
leke; see [leak].
lelacke, lilac. Bacon, Essay 46. Cp. the Lincoln pronunciation lealock, see EDD. (s.v. Laylock).
lelely; see [leally].
lembic, an ‘alembic’, B. Jonson, Alchem. iii. 2 (Subtle); limbeck, Macbeth, i. 7. 67.