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

~Le-máh-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; untamed._ It applies to
men as well as animals, as, for instance, to the tribes which have had no
intercourse with the settlements.

~Le-moo'-to~, or ~Lam'-mu-to~, _n._ French, LES MOUTONS. _Sheep._