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  • lion
    cf. DJE lion a "blood" about town, a "hot boy"; beyond its
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  • link vine,
    link weed n. a climbing plant, Vanilla articulate: 1910 (Northrop 148). = WORMWOOD (San Sal.)
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  • lingy
    /linggi/ [cf. Sanskrit linga(m) idem, conceiv­ably brought from India by the British
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  • ling
     [from RING idem by /l, r/ alternation: cf. DJE lxi and US
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  • line off
    v. phr. I. [cf. US dial. South line out idem WES; cf. also Scots liner-out one who prefers the reading
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  • line edge
    n. a style of plaiting STRAW1 together, leavings flattened edge of folds (Bannister display). (Inagua)
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  • lined seahorse
     [from its markings?] n. a variety of seahorse, Hippocampus erectus: 1968 (Böhlke
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  • line: when the sun cross the line
    [cf. OED line a circle of the terrestrial sphere . .. the equi­noctial line, the equator; probably from nautical usage;
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  • line
    [Gul. idem (Turner 1949:267); OED, a circle of the terrestrial sphere; probably from nautical usage] n. the island or place
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  • limpy up
    [cf. LIMBER UP, limp] adj. crippled: 1966 He start to go home now. All limpy up and bleeding (Crowley 55).
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