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▪ I. † leye Obs.
Forms: α. 1 léᵹ, 2–4 lei, 3 lai, leȝe, leyȝe, 3–4 leiȝe, ley, 3–6 leye, 4 leyhe, 4, 7–8 (dial.) laye. β. 1 líeᵹ líᵹ, lýᵹ, 4 lie, lyȝe, lyghe, 4–5 lye, 5 ly.
[OE. líeᵹ (Anglian léᵹ) str. masc. corresponds to OHG. loug, lauc (MHG. louc, gen. louges), ON. løyg-r:—OTeut. *laugi-z:—pre-Teut. *louk- abl.-var. of *leuk-: see light n.]
Flame, blaze, fire. (on) a leye: on fire.
α Beowulf 3115 (Gr.) Wonna leᵹ. 971Blickl. Hom. xii. 133 Hie onfengon þæm Halᵹan Gaste to heora heortan on fyrenra leᵹa onlic-nesse. c1175Lamb. Hom. 41 He him sceaude an ouen on berninde fure he warp ut of him seofe leies. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 49 Ech cristene oh to habben on honden to-dai in chirche leȝe bernende. a1225Leg. Kath. 1369, I þe reade leie, & i þe leitinde fur. a1240Lofsong in Cott. Hom. 215 Wið þe lai louerd of þe holigost..tend mine heorte. c1330Arth. & Merl. 6796 (Kölbing) Þo seiȝe þai al þe cuntray Stonden brenand on rede leiȝe. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xvii. 207 As wex and weyke and hote fyre togyderes Fostren forth a flaumbe and a feyre leye [C. xx. 172 lye]. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. xxviii. (1495) 562 This stone..Crisalitus..yf it be set by the fyre anone it wexyth on a laye [Helmingham MS. it wexeþ a lie, ed. 1535 on a flame]. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 78 The leye off the flaumyd furnes. 1573Art of Limning 11 You may..blacke over your paper with the leye of a Kandle or of a lynke. 1674–91Ray S. & E.C. Words 104 Laye, as Lowe in the North, the Flame of Fire; tho it be peculiarly used for the steam of Charcoal or any other burnt Coal. [Hence 1787 in Grose Prov. Gloss. Suppl.]
β Beowulf 727 (Gr.) Him of eaᵹum stod liᵹe ᵹelicost leoht unfæᵹer. a1000Cædmon's Gen. 325 (Gr.) Brand & brade liᵹas. c1300St. Brandan 496 The Lie of the fur stod on heȝ as hit a was were. 13..K. Alis. 3458 The fuyr was on so gret lyghe, That Darie hit sone syghe. 1340–70Alex. & Dind. 555 He was..lechourus of kinde Þat in his licamus lust as a lie brente. 1398[see α] 1422Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 229 Tho that haue a brandynge colure like the lye of fyre. 14..Tundale's Vis. 716 Owt of the mowthe the fure brast And fowle stynkyng lye com owt fast.
▪ II. leye
obs. form of lay, lea, lee.
▪ III. leye(n
obs. f. lay v.1; obs. pa. pple. of lie v. |