Lombard, a native of Lombardy; ‘A Lumbarde, longobardus’, Levins, Manip. 30; a Lombard engaged as a money-changer or pawnbroker, Greene, Mourn. Garm. 44 (NED.); also, a money-lender’s office, a pawnshop, Northward Ho, v. 1 (Kate). Norm. F. lombard, lumbart, ‘usurier, prêteur sur gages’ (Moisy). See [lumber].
lome, a bucket. Mirror for Mag., Godwin, st. 55. ‘Loom’ is in use in many parts of Scotland for a vessel of any kind, see EDD. (s.v. 4).
long, to belong. World and Child, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, i. 254. ME. longen, to belong (Chaucer, C. T. A. 2278); OE. langian.
longee, a ‘lunge’, a complimental bow to a lady. Butler, Hud. iii. 1. 159. See Dict. (s.v. Lunge).
longtails; see [Kentish long-tails].
loos, praise, fame. Spenser, F. Q. vi. 12. 12. ME. los, praise (Chaucer, Leg. G. W. 1514); OF. los, loos; O. Prov. laus, praise; L. laudes, pl. of laus, praise.
loose, the act of discharging an arrow. Middleton, Family of Love, iii. 2. 5; Ascham, Toxophilus (ed. Arber, 146).
lope, to run. Middleton, Span. Gipsy, iv. 1 (Sancho’s Song); Greene, James IV, Induction (Bohan); Gascoigne, Fruites Warre, lii (NED.). They say in Essex, ‘He went lopin’ along’, see EDD. (s.v. Loup, vb.1 8). Du. loopen, ‘to runne or to trot’ (Hexham).
lopeman, a runner. Fletcher, Noble Gentleman, iii. 4. 8.
lorel, a worthless person, rogue, blackguard; ‘I am laureate, I am no lorelle’, Skelton, Against Garnesche. See NED. ME. lorel, ‘Lewede lorel!’ (P. Plowman, A. viii. 123). See [Cock Lorel].