L.

_Labour_, thrash.

_Laddie_, diminutive of lad.

_Laggen_, the angle between the side and the bottom of a wooden dish.

_Laigh_, low.

_Lairing, lairie_, wading, and sinking in snow, mud &c., miry.

_Laith_, loath, impure.

_Laithfu_', bashful, sheepish, abstemious.

_Lallans_, Scottish dialect, Lowlands.

_Lambie_, diminutive of lamb.

_Lammas moon_, harvest-moon.

_Lampit_, kind of shell-fish, a limpet.

_Lan_', land, estate.

_Lan'-afore_, foremost horse in the plough.

_Lan'-ahin_, hindmost horse in the plough.

_Lane_, lone; _my lane, thy tune, &c._, myself alone.

_Lanely_, lonely.

_Lang_, long; to _think lang_, to long, to weary.

_Lap_, did leap.

_Late and air_, late and early.

_Lave_, the rest, the remainder, the others.

_Laverock_, the lark.

_Lawlan'_, lowland.

_Lay my dead_, attribute my death.

_Leal_, loyal, true, faithful.

_Lear_, learning, lore.

_Lee-lang_, live-long.

_Leesome luve_, happy, gladsome love.

_Leeze me_, a phrase of congratulatory endearment; I am happy in thee or proud of thee.

_Leister_, a three-pronged and barbed dart for striking fish.

_Leugh_, did laugh.

_Leuk_, a look, to look.

_Libbet_, castrated.

_Lick, licket_, beat, thrashen.

_Lift_, sky, firmament.

_Lightly_, sneeringly, to sneer at, to undervalue.

_Lilt_, a ballad, a tune, to sing.

_Limmer_, a kept mistress, a strumpet.

_Limp't_, limped, hobbled.

_Link_, to trip along; _linkin_, tripping along.

_Linn_, a waterfall, a cascade.

_Lint_, flax; _lint i' the bell_, flax in flower.

_Lint-white_, a linnet, flaxen.

_Loan_, the place of milking.

_Loaning_, lane.

_Loof_, the palm of the hand.

_Loot_, did let.

_Looves_, the plural of loof.

_Losh man_! rustic exclamation modified from Lord man.

_Loun_, a follow, a ragamuffin, a woman of easy virtue.

_Loup_, leap, startled with pain.

_Louper-like_, lan-louper, a stranger of a suspected character.

_Lowe_, a flame.

_Lowin_', flaming; _lowin-drouth_, burning desire for drink.

_Lowrie_, abbreviation of Lawrence.

_Lowse_, to loose.

_Lowsed_, unbound, loosed.

_Lug_, the ear.

_Lug of the law_, at the judgment-seat.

_Lugget_, having a handle.

_Luggie_, a small wooden dish with a handle.

_Lum_, the chimney; _lum-head_, chimney-top.

_Lunch_, a large piece of cheese, flesh, &c.

_Lunt_, a column of smoke, to smoke, to walk quickly.

_Lyart_, of a mixed colour, gray.