loring, instruction. Spenser, F. Q. v. 7. 42. (A rime-word; formed fr. lore.)
lote, in Chapman, tr. of Odyssey, iv. 802, represents Gk. λωτός, some kind of clover or trefoil, see NED. (s.v. Lote, sb.1 2).
lought, loath. Heywood, Fortune by Land and Sea, i. 1 (Old Forrest); vol. vi, p. 364. ‘Loft’ is in prov. use in Oxfordsh. and Kent as a pronunc. of ‘loath’ (EDD.).
loup-garou, a werwolf, a man changed into the form of a wolf. North, tr. of Plutarch, Alcibiades (Story of Timon). F. loup-garou; F. loup, wolf + garou, a werwolf, cp. MHG. werwolf, man-wolf; OE. werewulf, so that in loup-garou there is a tautological repetition of two words for ‘wolf’—one of Latin and the other of Teutonic origin. See Hatzfeld.
lour, lowre, money (Cant); ‘Lour to bouze with’, Fletcher, Beggar’s Bush, ii. 1 (Prigg); Harman, Caveat, p. 85.
lourdain, a general term of opprobrium, a sluggard, vagabond. Puttenham, English Poesie, bk. i, ch. 13; Drayton, Sheph. Garl. (ed. 1593, K 2), see Nares; ‘Let alone makes mony lurdon’, Ray’s English Proverbs (ed. 1678, p. 383). See EDD. (s.v. Lurdane). ME. lordayne (lurdayn), ‘lurco’ (Prompt. EETS. 269 and 272); OF. lourdein, ‘sot, stupide’ (Roquefort), deriv. of lourd, heavy, dull.
loute, to bend, bow, make obeisance. Spenser, F. Q. i. 1. 30; v. 8. 50. In prov. use in Scotland and in various parts of England, see EDD. (s.v. Lout, vb.2 1). ME. loute (Chaucer, Tr. and Cr. iii. 683); OE. lūtan, to stoop.
louver, an aperture with a shutter or flap; ‘He put abrode the louvres of the tente’, Udall, tr. of Apoph., Antigonus, § 10; spelt lover, Spenser, F. Q. vi. 10. 42. A north-country word still in use (EDD.). ME. lovere, ‘lodium’ (Prompt. EETS. 271, see note, no. 1294); OF. lover, lovier (Godefroy).
lover-hole, an opening in a ‘louver’, Shirley, Honoria, iii. 4 (Alamode).
love, to praise, to appraise; ‘I love, as a chapman loveth his ware that he wyll sell’, Palsgrave. ME. loven: ‘lovon and bedyn as chapmen’ (Prompt. EETS. 277); OE. lofian, to praise, to value; cp. G. loben.