Glossary : L
Laddie: dim of lad
Lade: a load
Lag: backward
Laggen: the bottom angle of a wooden dish
Laigh: low
Laik: lack
Lair: lore: learning
Laird: landowner
Lairing: sticking or sinking in moss or mud
Laith: loath
Laithfu': loathful: sheepish
Lallan: lowland
Lallans: Scots Lowland vernacular
Lammie: dim of lamb
Lan': land
Lan'-afore: the foremost horse on the unplowed land
side
Lan'-ahin: the hindmost horse on the unplowed land
side
Lane: lone
Lang: long
Lang syne: long since: long ago
Lap: leapt
Lave: the rest
Laverock: lav'rock: the lark
Lawin: the reckoning
Lea: grass: untilled land
Lear: lore: learning
Leddy: lady
Lee-lang: live-long
Leesome: lawful
Leeze me on: dear is to me; blessings on; commend
me to
Leister: a fish-spear
Len': to lend
Leugh: laugh'd
Leuk: look
Ley-crap: lea-crop
Libbet: castrated
Licks: a beating
Lien: lain
Lieve: lief
Lift: the sky
Lift: a load
Lightly: to disparage: to scorn
Lilt: to sing
Limmer: to jade; mistress
Lin: v linn
Linn: a waterfall
Lint: flax
Lint-white: flax-colored
Lintwhite: the linnet
Lippen'd: trusted
Lippie: dim of lip
Loan: a lane:
Loanin: the private road leading to a farm
Lo'ed: loved
Lon'on: London
Loof (pl looves): the palm of the hand
Loon: loun: lown: a fellow:
a varlet
Loosome: lovable
Loot: let
Loove: love
Looves: v loof
Losh: a minced oath
Lough: a pond: a lake
Loup: lowp: to leap
Low: lowe: a flame
Lowin: lowing: flaming: burning
Lown: v loon
Lowp: v loup
Lowse: louse: to untie: let
loose
Lucky: a grandmother: an old woman; an
ale wife
Lug: the ear
Lugget: having ears
Luggie: a porringer
Lum: the chimney
Lume: a loom
Lunardi: a balloon bonnet
Lunches: full portions
Lunt: a column of smoke or steam
Luntin: smoking
Luve: love
Lyart: gray in general; discolored by decay or old
age
Lynin: lining
