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Layangan, a kite , a plaything made of paper and sent up in the air. 



Layar, a sail for a sliip or boat; a screen hung up about a house to keep away the sun 



or rain. To set sail , to sail ; navigation. 

 Layaran, to set sail, to sail away. Navigation, sailing. 

 Layës, rafters of a roof which support the ataps, or on which the latlis and tiles are put. 



Layip, very poor, very destitute, most miserable. Arabic Llaif , weak, feeble. ( ( sua*«). 



Layur, a long narrow sea fish. Ti-iehiurus haumela. 



Léah, a variety of bambu , striped like Awi Gëdé, but is smaller and of less use. 



Léat, name of a common but very good fish in the mountain streams. 



L e' b , the idiomatic expression for water which overfiows its banks or brim. Zei bai lêhêr , 



full up and overflowing the brim. 

 L ë b a k , a valley , a vale , the low , flat land between two hills. Often enters into the com- 



position of proper names of places. 

 Lëbak, is also a word used in the formation of certain numerals, and appears to mean 



a deduction , something less- It is used in the following expressions , which probably 



applied originally to counting chinese cash or pichis- Leb ah Satus , is 75 , something 



less than 100- Lëbak Satah is 175 and luëbak Samas is 375. (The word Lëbak is used 



on Bali. Lëbalc sépah means 1600 cash, or 8 rupies kopper. Here is a deduction made 



of 10 rupies. Lëbak alone is used in the meaning of 75. Fr.) 

 Lëbar, done, dished, disappointed, not getting what we expected. (Jav. Lëbar finished ; dis- 



appeared, not at hand.) 

 Lëbar, a sort of open account kept with a bujang or paid monthly labourer. 

 L ë b é , a man learned in Mohammedan lore. 

 L é b é r , brimfull , full with a liquid to overflowing. Overflowing the edge. Sometimes you 



hear lébér-labar, or labar-lébér, as indicating running over in all directions. 

 Lëbok, a vulgar expression for eating greedily or voraciously. To glut, to fill the guts. 



Di lëbok maung , he was voraciously eaten by a tiger. Sia maën hana ngalëboh bai , 



all you can do is to guttle- or fill your guts. 

 Lëbu, dust, fine ashes, soot. The word in Malayisaöw, and in Javanese aiou. (Lëbu Jav. 



Mal. idem.) 

 Lëbur, spoiled, destroyed, injured so astobeof no further use. To melt down as metals, 



to smelt, to dissolve. Lmah na lëbur his house is tumbling to pieces. Wang péra/c di 



lëburkën, the silver money was melted down. 

 Léchét, chafed as the skin. The skin worn in sores by friction. 

 Lédat, slipped down or off, slipped from its right position. 

 Lédafkën, to slope off, to cut off with a slope. 

 Lëdis, dished, done for. 

 L é d o g , said of fire which has burnt up clean ; a clean burn. Raraïian di hitru lédog , the 



fallen jungle was burnt clean off. 

 Lëdok, muddy, niiry; Jalan gëdé lëdok nahër , the great road is very mudcly. 



