Who lukes to the lefte syde, whenne his horse launches,
With the lyghte of the sonne men myghte see his lyvere.
Morte Arthure, MS. Lincoln, f. 80.

\textbf{LAUNDE.} A plain place in a wood; an unploughed plain; a park; a lawn. ``Saltus, a lawnd,'' Nominale MS.
Now is Gij to a launde y-go,
Wher the dragoun duelled tho.
Guy of Warwicke, p. 262.
For to hunt at the hartes in thas ye laundes
In Glamorgane with glee, thare gladch was evere.
Morte Arthure, MS. Lincoln, f. 53.

\textbf{LAUNDER.} (1) Any kind of gutter or channel for conveying water. Var. dial.

(2) A washer. Also, to wash. ``Buandiere, launderer.'' Hollyband's Dictionarie, 1593:
Laundring gold, washing it.

\textbf{LAUNDRE.} A laundress. Palsgrave.

\textbf{LAUP.} To leap. Yorksh.

\textbf{LAUREAT.} Crowned with laurel. (Lat.) The laureateship at our universities was a degree in grammar, including poetry and rhetoric, so called because the person who graduated was presented with a wreath of laurel.

\textbf{LAUREOLE.} Spurge-laurel. (A.-N.)

\textbf{LAURER.} A laurel. Chaucer.

\textbf{LAUS.} Loose. (A.-S.)

\textbf{LAUTER.} The laurel. (A.-N.)
That worthy was the lauter to have
Of poetrie, and the palm to atteyne.
Lydgate, MS. Ashmole 39, f. 48.

\textbf{LAUST.} Caught; received. (A.-S.)
Thenne was Marie Joseph bistaught,
And he hir in spousaile laust.
Cursor Mundi, MS. Coll. Trin. Cantab. f. 67.

\textbf{LAVALTOE.} Same as Lavolta, q. v.
For lo! the liveless Jacks lavaltes take
At that sweet musick which themselves do make.
Brome's Songs, ed. 1661, p. 133.

\textbf{LAVANDRE.} A laundress. ``A tretise for lavandres,'' Reliq. Antiq. i. 26.

\textbf{LAVANT.} A land-spring. South.

\textbf{LAVAS.} Lavish. Romeo and Juliet, p. 20.

\textbf{LAVAST.} Uninclosed stubble. Kent.

\textbf{LAVE.} (1) The rest; the remainder. North.

(2) To lade or draw water. Chaucer. Also, to pour, as in \textit{Perceval}, 2250; to wash, \textit{Piers Ploughman}, p. 273.

(3) To gutter, as a candle. Wilts.

(4) To hang, or flap down. Hall.

\textbf{LAVE-EARED.} Long, or flap-eared. See Topsell's \textit{Beasts}, p. 366; Hawkins, iii. 357. Lavelugged, Northumb. Holloway has lap-eared in use in Sussex and Hants.

\textbf{LAVEER.} To work a ship against the wind. An old sea term.

\textbf{LAVELLE.} The flap that covers the top of the windpipe. Still used in Devon.

\textbf{LAVENDER.} To lay in lavender, to pawn. This is a very common phrase in old plays. ``To lay to pawne, as we say to lay in lavander,'' Florio, p. 27.

\textbf{LAVENDERY.} Washing. (A.-N.)

\textbf{LAVER.} (1) The remainder. North.

(2) A cistern, trough, or conduit, to wash in. ``Laver to washe at, lavoyr,'' Palsgrave. Also, a basin. See Florio, p. 89; Cotgrave, in v.

Esquiere; \textit{Leg. Cathol.} p. 154; \textit{Reliq. Antiq.} i. 7; Davies' \textit{Ancient Rites}, 1672, p. 130.
And ful glad, certes, thou shalt bee,
Yf that y wille suffre
To holde me a lavour and bason to my honde.
MS. Cantab. Ff. ii. 38, f. 144.

(3) A dish composed of a kind of sea-weed well washed and boiled. It is also called laver-bread, Kennett, MS. Lansd. 1033.

(4) Laver lip, a hanging lip.

\textbf{LAVERD.} Lord. (A.-S.)
That tay after thaym ne went
To du thayr laverd comandement.
Guy of Warwick, Middlehill MS.

\textbf{LAVEROCK.} The lark. North. See Wright's \textit{Lyric Poetry}, pp. 26, 40; \textit{Reliq. Antiq.} i. 86; Wright's \textit{Purgatory}, p. 55; laverkes, \textit{Beves of Hampton}, p. 138.
Sche made many a wondir soune,
Sumtyme liche unto the cok,
Sumtyme unto the laverok.
Gower, MS. Soc. Antiq. 134, f. 152.
Tyrlety lorlyn, the laverocke songe,
So meryly pypes the sparow;
The cov brake lose, the rop ran home,
Syr, God gyve you good morow.
Bliss's \textit{Bibl. Miscell.} p. 54.

\textbf{LAVISH.} Rank, as grass, \&c. West.

\textbf{LA-VOLTA.} A kind of very active bouncing waltz, formerly much in fashion. The man turned the woman round several times, and then assisted her in making a high spring.
Leave protestations now, and let us hie
To tread lavolta, that is women's walk.
\textit{Soliman and Perseda}, p. 214.

\textbf{LAVY.} Lavish; liberal. North.

\textbf{LAW.} (1) To give a hare good law, i.e. a good start before the hounds. It is in very frequent use by boys at play.

(2) A hill, or eminence. North.

(3) Custom; manner. See Ellis, ii. 335.

(4) Low. North.
He wist not that hym was gode,
But then he putte doune his hode
On knees he fel downe lawe.
MS. Cantab. Ff. v. 48, f. 55.

\textbf{LAWAND.} Bowing; humbling.
Anely lawand thameselfe to the sacramentes of haly kyrke, thot it be swa that thay hafe bene cumbyrd in syne and with synne alle thare lyfe tyme.
MS. Lincoln A. 1. 17, f. 229.

\textbf{LAWE.} (1) To laugh. Nominale MS.

(2) Rough; violent; brutal. West.

\textbf{LAWED.} Ignorant. See Laird.

\textbf{LAWES.} The same as Kairns, q. v.

\textbf{LAWESTE.} The lowest. North.
Lenges all at laysere, and lokes one the walles
Whare they ware the laweste the ledes to assaile.
Morte Arthure, MS. Lincoln, f. 79.

\textbf{LAWFUL-CASE.} An interj. of surprise.

\textbf{LAWGHE.} Low. Hampole.

\textbf{LAWING.} (1) Going to law. Linc.

(2) Lawing of dogs, i.e. cutting out the balls, or three claws of the fore-feet.

\textbf{LAWLESS-MAN.} An outlaw.

\textbf{LAWN.} The same as Launde, q. v.

\textbf{LAWNDER.} The sliding iron in the fore-part of a plough. Var. dial.