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~La-pote~, _n._ French, LA PORTE. _A door._

~La-sanjel~, _n._ French, LA CINGLE. _A girth; a sash; a belt._

~La-see~, _n._ French, LA SCIE. _A saw._

~La-sell'~, _n._ French, LA SELLE. _A saddle._

~La-shal-loo~, or ~La-shal-lee~, _n._ French, LA CHARRUE. _A plough._

~La-shan-del~, _n._ French, LA CHANDELLE. _A candle._

~La-shase~, _n._ French, LA CHAISE. _A chair._

~La-shen'~, _n_ French, LA CHAINE. _A chain._

~Las-siet'~, _n._ French, L'ASSIETTE. _A plate._

~La-sway~, _n., adj._ French, LA SOIE. _Silk; silken._

~La-tahb~, _n._ French, LA TABLE. _A table._

~La-tet'~, _n._ French, LA TETE. _The head._ Pil latet, _red-headed._

~La-tlah'~, _n._ French, TRAIN; as, "ne faites pas de train." (Anderson).
_A noise._ Mamook latlah, _to make a noise._

~La-wen'~, _n._ French, L'AVOINE. _Oats._

~La-west'~, _n._ French, LA VESTE. _A waistcoat._

~Lazy~, _adj._ English, idem. _Lazy._

~Le-bah-do~ (often pronounced lab'-a-do), _n._ French, LE BARDEAU. _A
shingle._

~Le-bal'~, _n._ French, idem. _A ball; bullet._ Tenas lebal, _shot._

~Le-bis'-kwie~, _n._ French, LE BISCUIT. _Biscuit; crackers; hard bread._

~Le-blau'~, _n., adj._ French, LE BLOND. _A sorrel horse; chestnut
colored._

~Le-clem'~, _n., adj._ French, LE CREME. _Cream-colored; a cream-colored
or light dun horse._

~Le-cock'~, _n._ French, LE COQ. _A cock; a fowl._

~Le-doo'~, _n._ French, LE DOIGT. _A finger._

~Le-gley~, _n., adj._ French, LE GRIS, or English GRAY, with French
article. _A gray horse; gray._

~Le-jaub'~. See DIAUB.

~Le-kleh~, _n._ French, LE CLEF. _A key._ Mamook le kleh, _lock the door._

~Le-kloo'~, _n._ French, LE CLOU. _A nail; nails._

~Le-koo'~, _n._ French, LE COU. _The neck._

~Le-ky'e~, _n., adj._ Mr. Anderson derives this from a Canadian word
_caille,_ meaning _a piebald horse._ In its jargon use, it means, also, _a
spot, spotted,_ or _speckled;_ as, lekye salmon, _the spotted or winter
salmon_ (_salmo canis,_ Suckley).

~Le-lo'-ba~, _n._ French, LE RUBAN. _A ribbon._

~Le-loo'~, _n._ French, LE LOUP. _A wolf_ (the large wolf).

~Le-mah~, or ~Leh-ma~, _n._ French, LA MAIN. _The hand; the arm._ Kloshe
lemah, _the right_ (literally, _the good hand_); potlatch lemah, _shake
hands._

~Le-mah-to~, _n._ French, LE MARTEAU. _A hammer._

~Le-mel'~, _n._ French, LE MULET. _A mule._

~Le-mo'-lo~, _n., adj._ French Canadian, LE MORON; undoubtedly a
corruption of MARRON, _a runaway negro._ _Wild;