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noise, or hlud, boisterous, noisy. This has nothing to do with Jide or lithe, 
mild, whence come the A.S. names for June and July. See WV. GF Q., 6th 
Feb., 1892. 
*Lipe. A pleat or fold in cloth. S.W. (Salisbury.) 
Locks-and-Key 8. Dielytra spectabilis, DC. The usual cottagers’-name 
for it throughout Somerset. 8.W. (Som. bord.) 
Loggers. Lumps of dirt on a ploughboy’s feet. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
Loggered. A boy who is at plough all day often gets so Zoggered, or weighed 
down with loggers, all the time, that he comes home at night quite ex- 
hausted. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
Lollup. (1) To loll out. “Look at he, wi’ he’s tongue a lolluping out o’ 
he’s mouth, vor aal the world like a dog!” N.W. 
(2) To loll about, to idle about. “ What be a-lollupin’ about like that 
vor?” N.W. 
Loppet. Add :—(2) To idle about, to slouch about. “A girt veller, allus 
a loppettin’ about.” N.W. 
Lug. Add :—Wright gives Log as a Wilts form. 
*Lumper. To move heavily, to stumble along. N.W. (Malmesbury.) 
Lumpy. Stout and strong. To say to anyone, “ Why, ye be growed main 
lumpy ! ” is to pay him a high compliment. N.W. 
*Mander. 'o order about in a worrying dictatorial fashion. ‘“ Measter do 
mander I about so.” S.W. 
Mandy (long a). Add :—* (2) Showy. (Cunnington MS.) N.W., obsolete. 
*Mealy. Mild and damp. “’TIwar an oncommon mealy marnin’.” N.W. 
(Bratton.) 
Mid, Med. ». Might or may. , N.W. 
*Midstay. The barn-ftoor between the mows. N.W. (Aldbourne.) 
Compare Middlestead, a threshing-floor: East of England ; also 
“The old and one-eyed cart-horse dun 
The middenstead went hvbbling round, 
Blowing the light straw from the ground.” 
—W. Morris, The Land East of the Sun. 
‘Milkmaids. Add :—s.w. (Hamptworth.) 
Mommick, Mommet. Ascarecrow. of Mummock. N.W.(Malmesb.) 
*Mote, Maute. A morsel of anything, a very minute quantity. 
Mother-of-thousands. Add :—(2) Linaria Cymbalaria, Mill, Ivy- 
leaved Toadflax. S.W. (Salisbury.) 
