LAYKING, sb. jousting, a tournament.  Wyntoun, VIII, 35.  See
    laik.

LAK, sb. a plaything.  Wallace, VIII, 1410.  Norse leik, a game,
    leiker (pl.), games, toys.  Sw. dial. leika, a doll, a play
    sister.  Cp.  Cu. lakin, a child’s toy.

LAK, sb. contempt, reproach, disgrace.  Rolland, I, 455; Rosw. and
    Lill., 784; R.R., 3092.  O.N. lakr, defective, O. Dan. lak,
    fault, deficiency.  Sw. lack, fault, slander.  O. Sw.
    lakkare, a slanderer.  Cp.  Dan. lakkeskrift, a satirical
    piece.  See lack, vb.

LEISTER, sb. a three-pronged salmon spear.  Burns, 16, 1.  Dumfries
    and Ayr., any spear for striking or spearing fish with.  O.N.
    ljostr, a salmon spear.  Norse ljoster, ljoster, Dan.
    lyster, Sw. ljuster, vb. Ljostra, vb. in Norse, to spear
    fish.  Cu. lister, leester.  See also Worsaae, p. 260.  Vb.
    leister in Sco., to strike fish with a spear or leister.

LINK, vb. to walk briskly, smartly.  Burns, 1291, 6, 5, 2.  Norse
    linke, to hurry along, cp.  Sw., Dan. linke, to limp along. 
    Stevenson in Ille Terrarum 6, 3, uses link in the sense of
    “walking along leisurely,” which is nearer the Dan. meaning of
    the word.

LIRK, vb. to crease, to rumple, shrivel.  Ramsay, I, 307.  O.N.
    lerka, to lace tight, lirk, sb. a crease, a fold.

LIPIN, LIPPEN, vb. to trust.  R.R., 3501; Psalms, XVIII, 30, etc. 
    O.N. litna (?), very doubtful.  See B-S.

LITE, vb. to dye, to stain.  Dalr., I, 48, 24; Douglas, IV, 190,
    32.  O.N. lita, to dye, Shetland, to litt.  See Wall.

LITLING, sb. dyeing.  Sat.  P., 48, 1.  See lit.

LOFT, sb. upper room, gallery.  O.N. lopt, Norse loft, Aberdeen
    laft.  See Skeat.

LOFT, vb. to equip with a loft.  C.S., 96.  See loft, sb.

LOKMEN, sb. pl. executioners.  Wallace, 134.  O. Dan., O. Sw.
    lagman.  O.N. loegmaethr, literally “the law-man,” was the
    speaker of the law.  In Iceland, particularly, the loegmaethr
    was the law-speaker.  In Norway a loegman seems also to have
    meant a country sheriff or officer, which comes closer to the
    use in Wallace.  A little doubtful.

LOPPRIT, pp. clotted.  Douglas, II, 157, 28; III, 306, 4.  O.N.
    hlaupa (of milk), to curdle (of blood), to coagulate.  So
    Norse lopen, lopen (from laeupa, loypa), thick,
    coagulated.  Dan. at loebe sammen, to curdle, loebe, make
    curdle, loebe, sb. curdled milk.  O.N. hloeypa mjolk, id.,
    literally “to make milk leap together.”  O. Sw. loepa.  In Cu.
    milk is said to be loppert when curdled.