jogelour (A.N.) 121, 175, _a minstrel, jongleur, one who played mountebank tricks_

jurdan (A.N.) 251, _a pot_. At a later period the word was only applied to a chamber-pot, as in Shakespeare

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juste (A.N.) 251, justes, 351, 352, 370, _a joust, battle, tournament_

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justen, juste (A.N.) 336, 370, 374, _to joust, tilt (in a tournament)_. _pret. s._ justed, 340, justede, 380

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justere (A.N.) 396, _one who goes to jousts, engages in tournaments_

juwise (A.N.) 392, _judgment_, from _judicium_

ladde (A.S.) _pl._ laddes, 398, _a low common person_

+laiche (A.S.) 486, _to catch, obtain_. _see_ lakke

laiken (A.S.) 11, _to play_. The writer of the romance of Kyng Alisaunder, in describing a battle (Weber, p. 159), says,--

_i.e. there was playing with the sword_. Weber, in his Glossary, has very wrongly explained it by _licking_. It is the Anglo-Saxon poetic phrase, sweorda ge-lác, _the play of swords_

lakke (A.S.) 189, _a fault, a lack, or something deficient or wanting_

lakken, lacche (A.S.) 31, 40, 130, 220, 262, 309, 333, _to obtain, catch, take_. _pret. s._ laughte, 357, 388, 434. _part. act._ lacchynge, 21

lakken (A.S.) 85, 130, 185, 189, 208, 214, 234, 263, 307, 309, 329, 411, _to mock, to blame, or reproach_. _pret. pl._ lakkede, 294. _part. pas._ y-lakked, 29

lakken (A.S.) 46, 218, 219, 262, 310, 365, 423, _to lack, to be wanting_. _pret. s._ lakkede, 402, _was wanting_

lambren (A.S.) 307, _lambs_. So Lydgate (Minor Poems, ed. Halliwell), p. 169,--

Takith to his larder at what price he wold, Of gretter _lambren_, j., ij., or thre, In wynter nyghtis frostis bien so colde, The sheppard slepithe, God lete hym never the!

late, lete (A.S.) 76, 386, _to let_. _pres. s._ leet, 305, 384. _pret. s._ leet, 25, 74, 127, 209, 346, _pl._ leten, lete, 294, 393. _subj. s._ late

+lath ( .) 476. Perhaps an error of the old edition for _lay_?

+latun (A.N.) 462, _a mixed metal of the colour of brass_

laughen (A.S.) 439, _to laugh_. _pret. s._ lough, 423. _part. pas._ lowen, 82.

launde (A.N.) 155, 183, 312, _a plain, a level space clear of trees in the midst of a forest, a lawn_

+lavoures (A.N.) 462, _lavers, ewers, basins to receive water_

lechecraft (A.S.) 336, 435, _the art of healing, medicine_

lechen (A.S.) 261, _to cure_. _pret. s._ leched, 337