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Lease-corn. Wheat collected by gleaning. N.W. 
Leaser. A gleaner. N. & S.W. 
Lemfeg. An Elleme fig. (A.B.H.) N. & S.W. 
“‘A cure-peg, a curry-peg, 
A lem-feg, a dough-feg.”— Wilts Nursery Jingle. 
*Length, Lent. A loan. (A.B.) 
Let-off. To abuse. ‘‘ Maester let I off ata vine rate.” (Wilts Arch. Mag., 
vol. xxii., p. 111.) N.W. (Cherhill.) 
Lew. *(!) adj. Warm. (H.) 
(2) m. Shelter. (A.B.) N. & S.W. 
Lew-warm. Lukewarm. N. & S.W. 
Lewis’s Cat. A person suspected of incendiary habits. Many years ago 
fires are said to have occurred so frequently on the premises of a person of 
this name (whose cat sometimes had the blame of starting them), that the 
phrase passed into common use, and a suspected man soon ‘‘ got the name 
of a Lewis’s Cat,” now corrupted into ‘‘ Blue Cat.” S.W. 
Lewth. Warmth. (A.B.) 
Libbet. “Ail in a libbet,” torn to rags. N.W. 
*Liberty. v. To allowanything to run loose. ‘‘It don’t matter how much 
it’s libertied,” the more freedom you can give it the better. N.W. (Cherhill.) 
Licket. “All toa licket,” all to pieces. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
*Lide. The month of March. (A.) Obsolete. 
Lill. To pantasadog. (A.B.H.) N.W. 
Lily, or Lilies. (1) Convolvulus sepium, L., Great Bindweed. S.W, 
(Farley and Charlton.) 
(2) Arwm maculatum, L., Cuckoo-pint. S.W. (Barford.) 
Limb, Limm. (1) 2. A ragged tear. (Village Miners.) N.W. 
(2) v. To tear irregularly, to jag out. (Zbid.) N.W. 
Linch, Linchet, Lynch ; etc. A.S. hline, a bank. 
(1) Certain terraces, a few yards wide, on the escarpment of the downs, 
supposed by some to be the remains of ancient cultivation, are locally known 
as Lynches or Lynchets. N. & S.W. 
(2) The very narrow ledges, running in regular lines along the steep face 
of a down, probably made by sheep feeding there, are also frequently so 
called. S.W. 
(3) A raised turf bank dividing or bounding a field. S.W. 
(4) A strip of greensward dividing two pieces of arable land in a common 
field. (D.) N. & S.W. 
