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alaaive, aleeve, alehv, alehve, alev, alive, lehve, lehvely, live, liveliheid, lively,
live [laev]
adj. Live, not dead.
 
lively
adv. Lively.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
alive [əˈlaev]: Alive.
liveliheid: Livelihood.
liveliness: liveliness.
liver, liverin,
liver [ˈlɪvər]
v. To unload a vessel or goods from a boat, to deliver on shore, to unship, discharge a cargo. To be unloaded. Of a ship: to unload its cargo.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
liverin: Discharge.
liver, liver-drink, liver-head, liver-heid, livery,
liver [ˈlɪvər]
n. The liver.
 
livery
adj. Livery, stuffed with liver.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
groppit livers: Fish-livers which have been crushed between the hands.
liver-drink: I.Sh. A motal blow.
liver-heid: I.Sh. The head of a fish stuffed with fish livers and bolied.
leezie, leissure, leisure, lesew, lesor, lesure, leswa, lezor, lezzur, lisor, lizar, lizir, lizor, lizour, lizure, lizzar, lizzir, lizzure, lyse,
lizour [ˈlɪzər, ˈliːzər]
n. A strip of pasture between two pieces or ridges of arable ground or in a corner or margin of a ploughed field.
v. To pasture or graze cattle.
letch, letchie, loach, loachie, loochie, lorch, lorchie, lotch, lotchie, lutch, lutchie,
loach [lotʃ, lɔtʃ]
n. A loach, usually Barbatula barbatula.
dim. loachie
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
beardie loachie: S. SEC. The stone loach Barbatula barbatula.
bessie loachie: S. The stone loach Barbatula barbatula.
doagerloan, doggerlone, doogerloan, dougerloan, dowgerloan, duggerloan, leynee, loan, loanen, loaney, loanie, loanin, loanin$, loaning, loanings, loanins, lone, lonen, loney, lonin, lonnen, lonnin,
loan [lon]
n. A lane, a track, a milking place, a common green.
dim. loanie
v. To drive or pasture cattle, as on a loan.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
duggerloan: To go to the dogs, to wreck and ruin.
loanin [ˈlonɪn]: A field, paddock, lane, track.
Loanhaid, Loanheed, Loanheid,
Loanheid [ˈlonhid]
pn. Loanhead (Lothian).
loabbie, loabby, loabie, loaby, lobbie, lobby, lobey, lohbee,
lobby [ˈlɔbɪ, ˈlobe]
n. The hall(way) in a home.
lobe,
lobe [lob]
n. A lobe.
locail, local, localitie, locality, locyal,
local [ˈlokəl]
adj. Local.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
locality: arch. The revenue or produce of a certain piece of land.

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