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▪ I. † lib, n.1 Obs.
[OE. lyb(b, libb medicine, drug, potion. Cf. cheeselip.]
A charm.
a700Epinal Gloss. 711 Obligamentum, lybb [Erfurt libb, Corpus lyb, lybsn]. 1577in Pitcairn Crim. Trials I. 77 [In Perthshire] ane commoune usare of sorcerie, libbis, and charmes.
▪ II. † lib, n.2 Cant. Obs.
[f. lib v.3]
Sleep.
1665Head Eng. Rogue i. iv. (1666) 29 Bien Darkmans then, Bouse Mort and Ken The bien Coves bings awast, On Chates to trine by Rome-Coves dine, For his long lib at last.
▪ III. lib, n.3
colloq. abbrev. liberation, freq. preceded by adj. (as gay lib) or a n. in the possessive (as men's lib, women's lib). See the defining words.
1970Atlantic Monthly Mar. 116 The Lib Movement was rich in documentation of the conditioning processes. 1971Daily Tel. 2 Dec. 7/2 Children's lib. notwithstanding, it would be hard to write a children's book without setting up some sort of standard for the child reader to admire. 1973Guardian 3 Feb. 13/1 Lillian Thomas is a member of the Suffrage Fellowship Movement..and is delighted with the Libs. 1973Black World Dec. 12/1 The various ‘lib’ movements, therefore, are white derivatives of the Black movement. 1974Listener 25 Apr. 520/3 With Scots Lib, as with Women's Lib, it's no good the oppressors expecting the past to be forgotten when convenient.
▪ IV. lib, v.1|lɪb|
Also 7–8 libb. Now dial.
[? repr. an OE. *lybban = MDu. lubben to maim, geld, f. Teut. root *luƀ-: see left a.]
trans. To castrate, geld, ‘cut’.
1396[see libbing, below]. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lv. 5 Thair wyffis..baid tham betteis soun abyd At hame, and lib tham of the pockis. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. p. lv, The steirkis..ar..libbit to be oxin. 1597–8Bp. Hall Sat. ii. vii. 19 Who pares his nailes, or libs his swine. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 324 They have used to lib their Horsses and take away their stones. 1618Chapman Hesiod 37 The bellowing Bullock lib, and Gote. 1624Massinger Renegado ii. i, I am libbed in the breech already. 1649Davenant Love & Honour iv. Dram. Wks. 1873 III. 164 Sure he is lib'd; he hath certainly No masculine business about him. a1733Shetland Acc. 28 in Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot. (1892) XXVI. 200 That none libb any beast upon Sunday. 1788Marshall Yorksh. II. 340 To Lib, to geld male lambs and calves (horses and pigs are ‘gelded’). 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Scribb'd and Libb'd, farmers' terms, or rather they are used as one word,—castrated.
b. fig. (Cf. castrate v. 4.)
1577Fulke Two Treat. agst. Papists ii. 250 In the latter end where he libbeth of the conclusion of Origens wordes, he translateth [etc.]..when he hath clipped, shauen, pared, gelded and falsified all that he can [etc.]. 1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 419 Aristotle..wrote cxxvi. Bookes, or thereabout, περὶ πολιτειῶν..and yet none of these were libbed by Abbreuiators.
Hence libbed ppl. a., ˈlibbing vbl. n.
1396Whitby Abbey Rolls (Whitby Gloss.) Pro libbyng porcorum 10d. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lv. 20 Sum..hes forsaekin all sic gammiss, That men callis libbing of the pockis. a1600Hist. Fryer Bacon in Thoms E.E. Prose Rom. (1858) I. 192 When the best libbing is. 1616N. Riding Rec. II. 123 A libbed gilt. 1638Ford Fancies i. ii, What a terrible sight to a libb'd breech is a sow⁓gelder! a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xxxi. 256 Like a libbed Eunuch. 1790Burns ‘Kind Sir, I've read your Paper’, How libbet Italy was singin'.
▪ V. lib, v.2 dial. (Suffolk.)
‘Of a child or young animal: To suck persistently’ (Eng. Dial. Dict.).
1662W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. iii. xii. §1 (1669) 274/1 The growing child that lies libbing oftenest at the Breast.
▪ VI. † lib, v.3 Cant. Obs.
Also 6 lyp.
[Origin unknown.]
intr. To sleep.
1567Harman Caveat (1869) 84 In what lipken has thou lypped in this darkemans, whether in a lybbege or in the strummell? 1611Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girl v. i, Oh I wud lib all the lightmans, Oh I woud lib all the darkemans. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Lib, to Tumble or Lye together. 1859Matsell Vocab. s.v. (F.), The coves lib together, the fellows sleep together.
▪ VII. lib
dial. form of leap n.2
▪ VIII. † lib
abbrev. of L. libræ pounds.
1442Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 8 The sowm of iiijxx of lib. 1528Ibid. 121 Tuenty lib. Scottis. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. vi. 333 Ane hunder libs stirling. 1655in A. Laing Lindores Abb. xx. (1876) 238, 8 lib. of pledge in money. 1705Hearne in Rel. Hearn. (1869) passim. |