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† lill for loll, phr. Obs.
Also 5 lyl for lal, 6 lill for law.
[Possibly a jingling perversion of some phrase containing the OE. læl bruise; see quot. c 1000. For the jingle cf. tit for tat.]
to give, etc. lill for loll: to retaliate.
[c1000ælfric Exod. xxi. 25 Sylle lif wið life..wunde wið wunde, læl wið læle.] c1425Wyntoun Cron. iii. ii. 263 Thai come onone To bind and led away Sampsone, And to quyt hym lyl for lal [v.r. lill for law]. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (1858) II. 336 Scho murdreist this ilk king: And so that tyme scho plaid him lill for law. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 277 b, Why may not I as well wt the like lavishnes of tongue, geve lill for loll? 1639Smyth Hund. Berkeley (1885) III. 33 Lill for loll. Id est, one for another: as good as hee brought. |