and lions are
  shewn.  A lion is also a name given by the gownsmen of
  Oxford to an inhabitant or visitor.  It is a standing joke
  among the city wits to send boys and country folks, on
  the first of April, to the Tower-ditch, to see the lions
  washed.

Liquor.  To liquor one’s boots; to drink before a journey: 
  among Roman Catholics, to administer the extreme unction.

Little Barbary.  Wapping.

Little breeches.  A familiar appellation used to a little
  boy.

Little clergyman.  A young chimney-sweeper.

Little ease.  A small dark cell in Guildhall, London,
  where disorderly apprentices are confined by the city
  chamberlain:  it is called Little Ease from its being so low
  that a lad cannot stand upright in it.

Little SNAKESMAN.  A little boy who gets into a house
  through the sink-hole, and then opens the door for his
  accomplices:  he is so called, from writhing and twisting
  like a snake, in order to work himself through the narrow
  passage.

Live lumber.  A term used by sailors, to signify all landsmen
  on board their ships.

Live stock.  Lice or fleas.

Loaf.  To be in bad loaf, to be in a disagreeable situation,
  or in trouble.

Lob.  A till in a tradesman’s shop.  To frisk a lob; to rob
  a till.  See flash panney.

Lob.  Going on the lob; going into a shop to get change
  for gold, and secreting some of the change.

Lob’s pound.  A prison.  Dr. Grey, in his notes on Hudibras,
  explains it to allude to one Doctor Lob, a dissenting
  preacher, who used to hold forth when conventicles were
  prohibited, and had made himself a retreat by means of a
  trap door at the bottom of his pulpit.  Once being pursued
  by the officers of justice, they followed him through
  divers subterraneous passages, till they got into a dark
  cell, from whence they could not find their way out, but
  calling to some of their companions, swore they had got
  into Lob’s Pound.

LOBCOCK.  A large relaxed penis:  also a dull inanimate
  fellow.

LOBKIN.  A house to lie in:  also a lodging.

LOBLOLLEY boy.  A nick name for the surgeon’s servant
  on board a man of war, sometimes for the surgeon himself: 
  from the water gruel prescribed to the sick, which is
  called loblolley.

LOBONIAN society.  A society which met at Lob Hall, at
  the King and Queen, Norton Falgate, by order of Lob the
  great.

Lobscouse.  A dish much eaten at sea, composed of salt
  beef, biscuit and onions, well peppered, and stewed
  together.