To lick.  To beat; also to wash, or to paint slightly over. 
  I’ll give you a good lick o’ the chops; I’ll give you a good
  stroke or blow on the face.  Jack tumbled into a cow
  t—­d, and nastied his best clothes, for which his father stept
  up, and licked him neatly.—­I’ll lick you! the dovetail to
  which is, If you lick me all over, you won’t miss—.

Lickspittle.  A parasite, or talebearer.

Lift.  To give one a lift; to assist.  A good hand at a
  dead lift; a good hand upon an emergency.  To lift
  one’s hand to one’s head; to drink to excess, or to drink
  drams.  To lift or raise one’s elbow; the same.

Lift.  See shoplifter, &c.

Lifter.  A crutch.

LIG.  A bed.  See Lib.

Light bob.  A soldier of the light infantry company.

Light-fingered. Thievish, apt to pilfer.

Light-heeled. Swift in running.  A light-heeled wench;
  one who is apt, by the flying up of her heels, to fall flat on
  her back, a willing wench.

Light house.  A man with a red fiery nose.

Light troops.  Lice; the light troops are in full march;
  the lice are crawling about.

LTGHTMANS.  The day.  Cant.

Lightning.  Gin.  A flash of lightning; a glass of gin.

Likeness.  A phrase used by thieves when the officers
  or turnkeys are examining their countenance.  As the
  traps are taking our likeness; the officers are attentively
  observing us.

LILIPUTIAN.  A diminutive man or woman:  from Gulliver’s
  Travels, written by Dean Swift, where an imaginary
  kingdom of dwarfs of that name is described.

Lily white.  A chimney-sweeper.

Lily shallow. (Whip slang) A white driving hat.

Limbs.  Duke of limbs; a tall awkward fellow.

Limb of the law.  An inferior or pettyfogging attorney.

Limbo.  A prison, confinement.

To line.  A term for the act of coition between dog and
  bitch.

Line of the old author.  A dram of brandy.

Line.  To get a man into a line, i.e. to divert his attention
  by a ridiculous or absurd story.  To humbug.

Lingo.  Language.  An outlandish lingo; a foreign tongue. 
  The parlezvous lingo; the French language.

Linen armourers.  Taylors.

Lion.  To tip the lion; to squeeze the nose of the party
  tipped, flat to his face with the thumb.  To shew the
  lions and tombs; to point out the particular curiosities of
  any place, to act the ciceroni:  an allusion to Westminster
  Abbey, and the Tower, where the tombs