like, to please; ‘The music likes you not’, Two Gent. iv. 2. 56; esp. in the phrase of courtesy, an’t like your Grace, if it please your Grace, Hen. VIII, i. 1. 100 (for exx. see Schmidt). ME. lyke, to please; it lyketh yow, it pleases you (Chaucer); OE. līcian, to please.
†lilburne, heavy stupid fellow; a term of abuse. Udall, Roister Doister, iii. 3 (Merygreek).
lill, to let the tongue loll out, to thrust forth the tongue. Spenser, F. Q. i. 5. 34; ‘I lylle out the tonge’, Palsgrave. In prov. use in Berks. and Wilts., see EDD. (s.v. Lill, vb.2).
limbeck; see [lembic].
limiter, a friar licensed to beg within certain limits. Spenser, Mother Hubberd, 85. ME. limitour (Chaucer, C. T. A. 209). See Nares.
limmer, a ‘limber’; the shaft of a cart or carriage. North, tr. of Plutarch, Coriolanus, § 14 (in Shak. Plut., p. 26); ‘Timone, the limmer or beam or pole of a wagon’, Torriano, Ital. Dict. (1688). ‘Limmer’ is in prov. use in various parts of England, see EDD. (s.v. Limber).
limmer, a scoundrel, rascal, rogue. B. Jonson, Sad Sheph. ii. 1 (Earine); Dalrymple, tr. Leslie’s Hist. Scot. ix. 219; lymmer, Holinshed Hist. Irel. (Nares). In common prov. use in the north country (EDD.).
limp, a ‘limpet’. Drayton, Pol. xxv. 189. A Cumberland word (EDD.).
lin, a pool. Drayton, Pol. v. 118; vi. 22. In Scotland and the Border country linn is used for the pool at the base of a waterfall, see EDD. (s.v. Linn, sb.1 2). Gael linne; Irish linn; Welsh llyn, a pool.
lin, to cease. Spenser, F. Q. i. 5. 35; Puritan Widow, iii. 5. 110; B. Jonson, Staple of News, iv. 1 (Tat.); Mirror for Mag. 77 (Nares). In prov. use in the north country (EDD.). ME. linne (King Horn, 1004); OE. linnan.