lurden, a term of reproach, Greene, Friar Bacon, ii. 4. See [lourdain].
lush, luxuriant, succulent. Temp. ii. 1. 52. In prov. use in Lakeland and Glouc., see EDD. (s.v. Lush, adj.1). ME. lusch or slak, ‘laxus’ (Prompt.).
lusk, to lie idle, to indulge in laziness. Warner, Alb. England, bk. vi, ch. 30, st. 15. Cp. ‘lusk’, a Linc. word for an idle worthless fellow (EDD.). Hence luskye, lazy; ‘Thy luskye nest’, Drayton, The Owl, 111; luskishness, sluggishness, Spenser, F. Q. vi. 1. 35.
lustick, lustique, merry, jolly. All’s Well, ii. 3. 47; ‘Rusticke and lusticke’, Dekker, Sir T. Wyatt (Clown), ed. Dyce, p. 193. Du. lustigh, pleasant (Hexham); deriv. of lust, pleasure. See NED.
lustihead, jollity. Spenser, Shep. Kal., Oct., 51.
lustless, listless, feeble. Spenser, F. Q. i. 4. 20; Gascoigne, Jocasta, iii. 4. 2. ME. lustles (Gower, C. A. ii. 2024; iv. 3455).
luxur, an incontinent man. C. Tourneur, Revenger’s Tragedy, i. 1. 9.
luxury, lasciviousness. Middleton, A Game at Chess, ii; A Mad World, iii. 2 (Mis. H.); Hamlet, i. 5. 83. ME. luxurie (Chaucer, C. T. B. 925). Late L. luxuria (in Vulgate = ἀσωτία, Eph. v. 18).
luzern; see [lucern].
lyam; see [liam].