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  • live by olden-days time
    phr. to follow old customs: She still does live by olden-days time—she's cook the peas and rice right in the
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  • little sour
    [cf. SOUR; by opposition to BIG SOUR bitter-sweet orange] n. the lime. (San Sal.)
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  • little small
    [also US Black (Keiser 1969:56), Brit. colloq.; cf. US great big ADD] adj. very small: They don't want no little
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  • Little Red Men
    [cf. RED of European com­plexion] n. mythical creatures said to inhabit the
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  • little
    [cf. OED little few, with plurals and col­lective singulars obs. →1660] adj. few (with plurals): Very little gardens are being
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  • liquorice
     See LICORICE.
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  • lipton tea
    [from the brand name] n. commercially sold black tea, especially in bags, as opposed to BUSH TEA: She say she
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  • lion tongue
    [cf. DJE idem "the Sansevieria, from the shape of the leaf" ] n. a plant (sp?). cf. WILD EDDY, SILK
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  • lion seahorse
    [from the mane-like growths around its head] n. a variety of seahorse (sp?).
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  • lion lizard
    [OED idem, the basilisk (different sp.), from the comparison of its crest to a lion's mane] n. a lizard, Ameiva
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