line, the lime or linden. Holland, Pliny, i. 541; line-grove, grove of lime-trees, Tempest, v. 1. 10. OE. lind and linde. See NED. (s.v. Lind).
lingel, a shoemaker’s waxed thread. Beaumont and Fl., Knt. of the B. Pestle, v.3 (Ralph); Fitzherbert, Husbandry, § 142; ‘Lyngell that souters sowe with, chefgros’, Palsgrave. ‘Lingel’ (or ‘lingle’) is the ordinary word for shoemaker’s thread in Scotland (EDD.). F. ligneul (Cotgr.).
linsel, lynsel, a sheet, a winding-sheet. Kyd, Cornelia, iii. 1. 83. F. linceul, a sheet; L. linteolum, dimin. of linteum, a linen cloth.
lint, flax, flaxen cloth; ‘Robes that brooke no lint’, admit of no flax; being of costly material, Warner, Albion’s England, bk. ii, ch. 9, st. 68. In prov. use in Scotland and north of Ireland (EDD.).
lint-staff, a lint-stock or linstock, a staff with a forked head to hold a lighted match. Heywood, Challenge for Beauty, iii. 1 (Valladaura); vol. v, p. 35. See Dict. (s.v. Linstock).
lion-drunk, drunk as a lion. Massinger, Bondman, iii. 3 (Gracculo). The four degrees of drunkenness were to be drunk as a sheep (good-humoured); as a lion (noisy); as an ape (foolish); and as a swine (bestial). See note to Chaucer (C. T. H. 44), in Complete Works.
liquor, to lubricate; to anoint with grease. Bacon, Nat. History, § 117; Butler, Hud. i. 3. 106.
liripoop, chiefly in phrases to know or have (one’s) liripoop, to teach (a person) his liripoop. It means something to be learned and acted or spoken; lyrypoope, Newton, Lemnie’s Complex. vii. 58 (NED.); ‘I will teach thee thy lyrripups’, Stanyhurst, Desc. Irel. in Holinshed, ii. 35; lerripoope, Lyly, Mother Bombie, i. 3 (Prisius); leerypoope, Sapho, i. 3 (Cryticus). Used in the sense of a trick, lerrepoop, Beaumont and Fl., Wit at Several Weapons, i. 1 (Sir Gregory); London Prodigal, iv. 1. 2. Cp. ‘lerry’, Linc. word for a trick (EDD.). See [lerry].
lirrypoope, a silly person, Fletcher, Pilgrim, ii. 1. See Nares (s.v. Liripoop). A Devon word, see EDD. (s.v. Lirripoop).
list, a stripe of colour. Butler, Hud. ii. 3. 306; Sir T. Browne, Vulgar Errors, bk. vi, c. 11. Hence listed, striped, Milton, P. L. xi. 866. In prov. use, see EDD. (s.v. List, sb.1 3). F. liste, a list or selvedge (Cotgr.).