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  • lickin'
      [US dial. idem 'exceedingly (tasty)' ADD] adj. excellent; first-rate. (Nassau)    
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  • lickerish
    [Car. greedy'; OED, fond of delicious fare] adj. (of infants) inclined to taste every­thing. (Nassau)
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  • lick
    [Car.; also But, dial. EDD] n. a blow. (Gen.) —v. 1. to strike: 1966 He grab one piece of crab
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  • lice root
      [cf. LICE PLANT] n. a woody vine, Rhabdadenia sagraei: 1920 (Britton 337).    
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  • lice plant
    [cf. OED lice-bane, obs. →1755] n. a vine (sp?) with a purplish flower. cf. LICE ROOT (Eleu.)
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  • libary
    [also US dial. ADD, US Black ESEA] n. library: [sign in Hatchet Bay, Eleuthera] LIBARY. (Black)
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  • letter-opener
    [from shape] n. an eel-like fish, Ophidion nocornis: 1968 (Böhlke 168). (San Sal)
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  • let
    [probably a hypercorrection of make let; cf. SA let to cause to do, to make: translation of Afrikaans laat idem (but
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  • less'n, lessen
    conj. 1. [cf. OED less than unless obs. →1772; US dial. idem ADD] unless: 1969 It ain't gon grow lessen he bud
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  • le's
    [W Car.; US Black idem ESEA; Labov (1972: 114 ff.) notes a similar assimilation of /t/ in US Black i's it's,
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