or lybbeg, subs. (old cant).—See quots. [Gael. leabadh or leabaidh.]
1573. HARMAN, A Caveat or Warening for Common Cursetors (1814), 65. LYB BEGE, a bed.
1610. ROWLANDS, Martin Mark-all, p. 39 [Hunterian Club’s Reprint, 1874]. LYBBEG, a bedde.
1665. R. HEAD, The English Rogue, Pt. I. ch. v. p. 50 (1874). LIBEDGE, a Bed.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v.
1725. A New Canting Dictionary, s.v.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1859. G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.
