Love-an'-idols, or Loving Idols. Viola tricolor, L., Love-in-idleness, usually the wild form, but occasionally applied to the garden pansy also. Nuffin-idols at Clyffe Pypard. Lovenidolds (S.).—N. & S.W.
*Loving-andrews. Geranium pratense, L., Meadow Cranesbill (Village Miners).
*Lowl-eared. Long-eared (A.B.H.Wr.).
Luce. (1) Luke-warm.—S.W. *(2) A sore in sheep.—S.W.
Lug. (1) In land measure, a pole or perch (A.B.G.H.S.). Log (MS. Gough: K.Wr.)—N. & S.W.
'A lug ... is of three lengths in this county: 15, 18, and 16½ feet. The first of these measures is getting out of use, but is still retained in some places, particularly in increasing mason's work. The second is the ancient forest measure, and is still used in many parts of the county for measuring wood-land. But the last, which is the statute perch, is by much the more general.'—Agric. of Wilts, p. 268.
(2) Any rod or pole (D.H.), as a perch for fowls, a clothes pole (A.B.). See Oven-lug.
'Olde Freeman doe weare ruggs [coarse cloth],
And Thomas Lord doe goe to the woods to steal poles and luggs.'
Seventeenth century doggrell rhymes from Wroughton,
quoted in Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii. p. 216.