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Lady Lund | n | Mother Nature; [c.f. Scandinavian 'grove', Ic. 'manner']
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lair | n | the resting place of a corpse; a tomb, grave; a plot in a graveyard, now only in Sc; that whereupon one lies to sleep; bed couch; a place for animals to lie down in, esp. for beasts of chase or prey; nature or kind of soil; den, bed, resting place, haunt [OE]
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lamestream | n | play on mainstream, (with a derogatory sense.); [OE: lame & stream.]
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landfall | n | ship's first landing after a voyage; []
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landfolk | n | People of a country; citizens, nationals, subjects, residents [MW (Archaic), see the origins of land+ folk
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/landfolk]
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last | n | shoemaker or cobbler's block. a wooden block shaped like the human foot, on which boots and shoes are formed.; shoe last, cobbler's block [from OE laestre, track, footprint, trace]
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lastand | n | 100 million; [<OE hlæst + -and (hundred); c.f. proposed High Icelandish word 'lestund'
http://extremeicelandic.blogspot.com/2011/12/neologisms-12122008.html]
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laughtersmith | n | a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts; comedian, comic [neologism, from laughter & smith]
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laughterspeak | n | disgraceful/shameful speech; leighterquid [<OE 'leahtorcwide,' with 'cwide,' meaning speech or speak]
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lawmoot | n | parliament; [forbinding]
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lax | n | a food fish of the kind Salmo salar, which swims upstream to spawn, and known for its pink flesh; salmon [revival, from OE læx]
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'A fall of the leaf is a whisper to the living.' | pvb | remember we all are mortal; let us not forget that all men will die.; [OE]
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leathermonger | n | tanner; [OE leather& monger]
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leather spinster | n | a heterosexual or asexual woman who is happily ummarried and has no desire to seek a mate; ? [neologism from OE lether, leather: toughness & spinster: female spinner of thread; from 1600 generically used for woman still unmarried and beyond usual age for it.]
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lede | n | people, nation, as in “land and lede”; thede [archaism]
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leer | n | the cheek, the face; hence look, countenance; faceside, blee, aspect [archaism OE: hleor]
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leese | vb | to let free from some form of bondage or release from one's misdeeds or sins; redeem, release, lose [archaic revival, ME leese > OE líesan]
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leethertune | n | symphony; [OE leoþ = song lay poem]
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leeway | n | 1. the drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction 2. a varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility; margin, latitude, elbowroom; [lee 'side away from the wind' + way]
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lent | n | season between winter and summer; spring, voar [OE lencten]
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lest | conj | so as to prevent any possibility that; for fear that; []
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letch | n | a stream flowing through boggy land; a muddy ditch or hole; miasma, bog, [archaism OE: leccan]
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lew | n | traitor, betrayer; [OE: læwa]
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lichtheening | n | funeral; (plural) funeral rites; [OE: licþegnung]
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lifelore | n | the study of all life forms and their relations to each other; biology [neologism, life "that which subsists" + -LORE "wealth of learning, study"]
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lifenut | n | nucleus (biology); ['life' + 'nut', influenced by 'truenut' (eukaryote), which is a calque from Ancient Greek: ἐΰς (eǘs, 'true') + κάρυον (káruon, 'nut')]
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(the)life of a leaf | n | the interaction of organisms in the physical world. 2. metaphorically the simplicity of life in its full complexity; the life of the everyday man. 2. simplicity often masks an underlying complexity.; ['life' + 'leaf,]
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liferoom | n | cell (biology); ['life' + 'room', the chambers in which life exists]
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liferoomswell | n | tumor; ['liferoom' (cell) + 'swell' (increase in size), influenced by the etymology of tumor (Latin 'tumor' swelling)]
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liferoomswellsickness | n | (cancer O.E borrowed from Latin) ?; ['liferoomswell' (tumor) + 'sickness' (disease, illness)]
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lifetale | n | biography; biography ['life' + 'tale']
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likething | n | example; ['like' + 'thing']
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lightcaring | n | photosensitive; [compound light (photo) + caring (reacts to)]
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limberhall | n | gymnasium; []
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lins | n | axle; the "linch" of a linchpin; a rod or pole that connects two wheels [Proto-Germanic "luniso", Old Saxon "lunisa", Middle English "lins", corrupted in Modern English to "linch", cognate with Dutch "luns" and German "Lünse"]
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Lithe | n | The season of "Summer"; synonym for "Summer" [OE: Līþa: "Summer"]
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live-ware | n | as opposed to hardware; personnel , as distinct from inanimate or abstract things they work with; specifically computer personnel.; computer personnel, information technology staff, IT. workers. [Live: having life; being alive & Ware: OE articles of merchandise or manufacturer; Ware: people; folk.]
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livewileman | n | animatronic robot; [live + wileman]
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Loamshire | n | name given to an imaginary rural district, county much used in novels and plays; [OED]
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lock-step | n/adj | n = a mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible , in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him. 2. fig. the winnetish copying of one person's actions with another; as political party members act or vote in lockstep with their leadership adj = synchronized; [OED]
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loft | n | The invisible gaseous substance surrounding the earth, a mixture mainly of oxygen and nitrogen.; Air [loft]
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loftlay | n | climate; [calque Icelandic loftslag.]
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London throat | n | a mild infection, similar to a cold, said to be common among people who live in London and caused by pollution.; [O.E. London & throat]
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long goodbye (the long goodbye) | n | dementia - especially Alzheimer's - is often called the long goodbye, or the slow funeral, so powerful is the displacement of the victim from normal life.; [O.E. God be with you (goodbye) and long.]
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loosening | n | solution; [calque from Swe. lösning, Ic. lausn]
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lore | n | the gathering and synthesis of all knowledge in a specific field or in general; study, science [extension of existing word, OE lār]
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lorehouse | n | a place dedicated to the study and learning of a skill or art; school, academy [OE larhus]
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lorestead | n | museum; crafthall; yorehall; crafthouse ['lore' + 'stead']
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lossening | n | auscultation; [OE hlosnian 'listen, be on the lookout for']
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lothood | n | amount; ['lot' (much, many) + 'hood', influenced by Dutch 'hoeveelheid' (how + much + hood)]
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-ly | suffix | the manner in which a noun executes a verb; Example: "The boy ran quickly". 'Quick' is the manner in which the boy ran. [O.E. "lig" Middle to Modern English "ly"]
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