The L section of Robert Cawdrey's 1604 dictionary A Table Alphabeticall.
Not content with a mere transcription, I have also translated Cawdrey's 400 year old English into modern E2 English, through a process involving the OED, much research and many educated guesses.
The main entries may appear in as many as five parts :
Original {Corrected} [Repaired] (Modern) <E2>
Original is exactly as it appears in Cawdrey.
Corrected fixes what I believe to be a typo.
Repaired swaps I with J, and U with V, as necessary for current alphabetic usage.
Modern gives the modern American spelling.
E2 removes plurals and verb endings and such, so it links to an existing node.
Each operation is performed on its left-hand neighbor. The results are omitted if nothing
changed. Only the rightmost word is hard-linked.
A leading (f) indicates French origin, a leading (g) indicates Greek origin.
If an entry is marked with clueless, then my search for a modern version of the word has come up empty.
Please msg me with any corrections or suggestions.
See Also
Main Entry,
Introduction,
A,
B,
C,
D,
E,
F,
G,
H,
I/J,
L,
M,
N,
O,
P,
Q,
R,
S,
T,
U/V
- laborinth (labyrinth)
- a place so full of windings and turnings, that a man cannot finde the way out of it
- laborious
- painfull, full of labour
- (f) language
- a tongue, or speech
- languishing
- pining, consuming, wearing away with griefe or sicknes
- lapidarie (lapidary)
- one skilfull in pretious stones or iewells
- (f) largesse, largis (largess)
- liberalitie
- lasciuious [lascivious]
- wanton, lecherous
- lassitude
- wearines
- latitude
- breadth, largnes
- lauacre [lavacre]
- a bath or font
- lauish [lavish]
- to spend extraordinarily
- laud
- praise, or commendation
- laudable
- worthie of praise
- laxatiue [laxative]
- loose, purging
- (f) league
- agreement, or couenant of peace
- leake (leak)
- runne out
- lecherie (lechery)
- vnchastnesse, luxurie, and vnlawfull lust
- (f) leete (leet)
- court
- (f) legacie (legacy)
- a gift by will, or an ambassage
- legate
- ambassadour
- (f) legeiredemaine (legerdemain)
- lighthandednes, craftie slights, and conueiance
- legion
- host, or band of souldiers
- legitimate
- lawfull, according to lawe, and good order
- lenitie (lenity)
- gentlenes, mildnes
- lethall (lethal)
- mortall, deadly
- (g) lethargie (lethargy)
- a kind of a drowsie and forgetfull disease
- leuell [levell] (level)
- right, straight
- leuitie [levitie] (levity)
- lightnes, inconstancie
- libertine
- loose in religion, one that thinks he may doe what he listeth
- libell (libel)
- a writing, or booke
- librarie (library)
- a studie, a great number of bookes
- licentious
- taking libertie to doe euill
- ligate
- bound, tyed
- ligament
- the string tying the bones together
- (f) linage
- stocke, kindred
- limitation
- appointment, how farre any thing shall goe, restraining
- limber
- britle
- limit
- bounds, border, or land marke, also to set such bounds. &c
- liniament (lineament)
- a forme, or proportion by lines that are drawne
- lingell (lingel)
- shoemakers threed
- linguist
- skilfull in tongues
- linguish (languish)
- to leaue or forsake
- lint
- cloth
- liquide (liquid)
- moist, melted
- literature
- learning
- litigious
- quarrelous, full of strife
- (f) lieuetenant (lieutenant)
- deputie in anothers place
- lithernesse (litherness) <lither>
- slouthfulnes, idlenes
- loame (loam)
- earth, or morter
- (g) logicall (logical)
- belonging to reason
- longitude
- length
- lore
- lawe
- (f) lotarie (lottery)
- casting of lots
- (f) lourdin (lurdan)
- rude, clownish
- (f) loyall (loyal)
- obedient, trustie, constant
- lumber
- old stuffe
- lunatick (lunatic)
- wanting his wits, at a certaine time of the age of the moone
- lumpish
- sad or sower countenance
- lustre (luster)
- glistering, shinning
- luxurious
- riotous, and excessiue in pleasure, and wontonnesse
See Also
Main Entry,
Introduction,
A,
B,
C,
D,
E,
F,
G,
H,
I/J,
L,
M,
N,
O,
P,
Q,
R,
S,
T,
U/V