lough, loughe, pret. of laugh, II, 54, 58; 444, 48; V, [254] b, 2. See leuch, leugh.
lought, pret. of laugh, III, 82, 74; V, [51], 55.
loukynge, V, [283], 17: expectation, hope deferred.
loun, lown, lowne, loon, IV, 501, 36, 37: a person of low rank. laird or (nor) loun (lown), I, 69, 40, 41; 71, 32; III, 435, F 8; IV, 514, 12. lord nor (or) loun (lowne), III, 301, 32; 430, 13; 435, E 5; 436, 6, 8. IV, 11, 2; 519, H 2, I 2: rogue. often a mere term of general disparagement (as in, English loun): (of a man) II, 118, 3, 4; 140, 25; V, [171], 4; (woman) I, 100, 30; 491, G 24, H 22. fellow, without disparagement, IV, 258, 21. naughty girl, II, 419, 37. mistress, concubine, whore, II, 181 b; IV, 14, 13; 330 a, 3; 332 b; 469, 3; 519, 9; 520, 13. See lown.
loup, I, 102, D 3; II, 464, 1; IV, 44 f., 14, 15, 17, 23; 47, 4, 5: leap. pret. lap, leap, leepe, lope, loup, louped. p. p. loupen, luppen. loupin, V, [213], 3, has been explained as a form of leeping, heating (warming herself over the coal; cf. cowering oer a coal, I, 304, 2). We have, however, whisking ore the coal, I, 302, 4; reeking (==raiking) oer the coal, 304 E 3; and across agrees better with leaping than with heating.
loup, pret. of loup, II, 461, 5.
loupen, louped, p. p. of loup, III, 465, 27; IV, 462, 36.
lourd, loord, pret. and p. p. of lour==prefer, verb made from lever, rather. I had lourd, IV, 199, 18. I wad lourd have, IV, 7, 43. loord a had, V, [251], 36. I rather lourd it had been, II, 275 b.
lout, loot, I, 56, B 12; 351, 36, 48; II, 401, C 5: bow, bend, lean. pret. louted, looted. louted in, I, 331, D 5: bent our heads to enter? louted twafauld, threefauld, V, [242] b, 7: bent double, treble, p. p. louted, lootit, louten.
louten, p. p. of lout, II, 168, 9: bent.