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

To LOUP, v. n.
1. To leap, to spring, S. pret. lap.
Chr. Kirk.

Moes. G. hlaup-an, saltare; Su. G. loep-a, currere.

2. To run, to move with celerity, S. B.
Forbes.
3. To give way; applied to frost, S.
4. Applied to a sore when the skin breaks, S.
5. To cover, S., like Teut. loop-en, catulire.
6. To Loup on, to mount on horseback. S.
Spalding.
7. To Loup out, to run out of doors.
Many.
8. To pass from one possessor to another; used as to property.
Many.

Loup, s. A leap, a spring, S.
Barbour.

Loup, Loupe, s. A cataract, S.
Acts Ja. VI.

Louping Ague, a disease resembling St Vitus's dance, Ang.
Stat. Acc.

Loupin-on-stane, s. A flight of stone-steps, for assisting one to get on horseback, S.
To cum aff at the loupin-on-stane, S. to leave off any business in the same state as when it was begun; also, to terminate a dispute, without the slightest change of mind in either party, S.

LOUP-HUNTING, s. Hae ye been a loup-hunting? a query, addressed to one who has been very early abroad, and contains an evident allusion to the hunting of the wolf in former times, S. B.

Fr. loup, a wolf.

LOURD, rather.
V. [Lever].
Ritson.