An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

A. S. lafe, Isl. leif, id. from the verbs signifying to leave.

LAGABAG, s. The hindmost, Fife; from E. lag, and aback.

LAGENE, LAGGEN, pron. leiggen, s.
1. The projecting part of the staves at the bottom of a cask, S.
Acts Ja. VI.
2. The angle within, between the side and bottom of a cask, S.
Burns.

Su. G. lagg, id.

Lagen-gird, s. A hoop securing the bottom of a wooden vessel, S.
To cast a lagen-gird, to bear a spurious child, S.
Ramsay.

LAGGERY, adj. Miry, dirty, S. B.

Laggerit, part. pa.
1. Bemired, S.
Doug.
2. Encumbered, from whatever cause, S. B.
Poems Buchan Dial.

Su. G. lag, Isl. laug-ur, water.

LAGMAN, s. The president in the supreme court formerly held in Orkney.
Barry.

Su. G. lagman, judex provincialis.