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To tell or narrate, as a legend. Bp. Hall.

o acts without restraint, or takes a liberty, as if having a license therefor. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

rial place, and where the bier was placed to await clergyman; a corpse gate. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. -- Lich wake, the wake, or watching, held over a corpse before burial. [Prov Eng.] Chaucer. -- Lich wall, the wall of a churchyard or burying ground. -- Lich way, the path by which the dead are carried to the grave.…

ed by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy. "The lickerish palate of the glutton." Bp. Hall.

A thong by which a dog is led; a leash. Halliwell.

that portion of a theater of war which an army passes over in attaining its object. H. W. Halleck. -- Line of sight (Firearms), the line which passes through the front and rear sight, at any elevation, when they are sighted at an object. -- Line tub (Naut.), a tub in which the line carried by a whaleboat is coiled.…

Light; nimble; active. Halliwell. -- Lis"some*ness, n.

A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved.

A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft.

Long-windedness. American longiloquence in oratory. Fitzed. Hall.

Extended in length; tiresome. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. Prior. -- Long"some*ness, n. [Obs.] Fuller.

Detrimental. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

See Louver. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A pike when full grown. Halliwell.

A little moon or satellite. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

s.] For little lust had she to talk of aught. Spenser. My lust to devotion is little. Bp. Hall.

A pimp; also, a bawd. [Obs.] Halliwell.

bject. For had I maiden'd it, as many use. Loath for to grant, but loather to refuse. Bp. Hall.

hawk which mantleth on her perch. Spenser. Or tend his sparhawk mantling in her mew. Bp. Hall. My frail fancy fed with full delight. Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease. Spenser.

An artificer. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.