Lye

She covers her arms and legs with lye every day, burning and itching and thinking "I'm gonna look so good."

Before olives can be eaten, they must be soaked in lye, which must then be rinsed off.

Lye is a key ingredient in the soap-making process.

She had not left the lye in too long so that the hair would fall out in clumps later.

Now negligent of sports I lye, And now as other Fawkners use, I spring a mistresse, sweare, write, sigh and weepe: And the game kill'd, or lost, goe talk, and sleepe.

But when his foe lyes proſtrate on the plain, He ſheaths his paws, uncurls his angry mane; And, pleas'd with bloudleſs honours of the day, Walks over, and diſdains th' inglorious Prey,[…]

Brakevan lye. [same page in the main text] There is also an inclined lye for brakevans at each end of the yard.