Anglish wordbook/L
From The Anglish Moot
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| lair | n | the action or fact of lying; 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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| 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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| laughtersmith | n | a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts; comedian, comic [neologism, from laughter & smith]
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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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| 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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| leer | n | the cheek, the face; hence look, countenance; faceside, blee, aspect [archaism OE: hleor]
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| leese | v | 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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| letch | n | a stream flowing through boggy land; a muddy ditch or hole; miasma, bog, [archaism OE: leccan]
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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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| 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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