(4) The privilege of turning out cattle on common. North.
LOOT. A thin oblong square board fixed to a staff or handle, used in boiling brine to remove the scum. Staff.
LOOTH. The same as Loo, q. v.
LOOVER. An opening at the top of a dove-cote. North. See Lover (2).
LOOVEYD. Praised. Ritson.
LOOVEYNG. Praise; honour. That was a feyre tokenynge Of pees and of looveyng. MS. Cantab. Ff. ii. 33, f. 162.
LOOZE. A pig-stye. West.
LOO3. Laughed. "At hym ful fast thei loo3," MS. Cantab. Ff. v. 48, f. 53.
LOP. (1) A flea. North. (A.-S.) Ys joy y-now so ye your lyggys streyne, Ye lade longe-sydyde as a loppe. MS. Fairfax 16.
(2) To lollop or lounge about. Kent.
(3) To hang loosely; to hang down, or droop. Var. dial.
(4) The faggot wood of a tree.
LOPE. Leapt. Also, to leap. It seems to be a subst. in the second example.
As sone as the chylde had spoke, The fende ynto hym was lope.
MS. Harl. 1701, f. 40.
Tyme goth fast, it is full lyght of lope, And in abydyng men seyn ther lyghte hope.
MS. Rawl. Poet. 118.
LOP-EARED. Having long pendulous ears like a hound. Var. dial.
LOPEN. Leapt. See the Sevyn Sages, 739.
Whan thy mouthe with shryfte ys opun Deth and synne are bothe oute lopun.
MS. Harl. 1701, f. 79.
The portar set the yatys opon, And with that Befyse ys owt lopun.
MS. Cantab. Ff. ii. 38, f. 108.
Anoon was al that feire gederynge Lopen undir oure lordes wynge.
Cursor Mundi, MS. Coll. Trin. Cantab. f. 111.
Sythen he ys lopen on hys stede, He with hym Harrawde dud lede.
MS. Cantab. Ff. ii. 38, f. 154.
LOPE-STAFF. A leaping-staff. "A lope-staffe wherewith men leape ditches," Cotgrave.
LOPIRD. Coagulated. Still in use. See Forby, Brockett, Grose, Kennett, &c.
Thare he fande none other fode, Bot wlatesome glete and lopird blode
MS. Lincoln A. l. 17, f. 276.
Thare dwelled a man in a myrke donjowne, And in a fowle stede of corrupcyowne,
Whare he had no fode, Bot wlatesome glette and lopyrd blode.
Hampole, MS. Bowes, p. 25.
LOP-LOACH. The leech used by surgeons for drawing blood. North.
LOPLOLLY. A lazy fellow. West.
LOPPING. Lame. Dorset.
LOP-SIDED. One-sided. Var. dial.
LOP-START. The stoat. East. It is mentioned in Harrison's England, p. 230.
LOPUSTER. A lobster.
LOPWEBBE. A spider's web. (A.-S.)
As a lopwebbe fileth fome and gnattis, Taken and suffren gret files go.
Occleve, MS. Soc. Antiq. 134, f. 267.
LOQUINTUE. Eloquent. Weber.
LORD. (1) A title of honour given to monks and persons of superior rank. (A.-S.)
(2) Lord have mercy upon us was formerly the inscription on houses infected with the plague. Lord have mercy upon me, a disease thus mentioned in the Nomenclator, "the Illiake passion, or a paine and wringing in the small guts, which the homelier sort of physicians doe call, Lorde have mercy upon me."
LORDEYN. See Fever-Lurden. "The lurgy-fever, idleness," Craven Glossary, p. 304.
I trow he was infecte certeyn With the faitour, or the fever lordeyn,
MS. Rawl. C. 86, xv. Cent.
LORD-FEST. Excessively lordly. (A.-S.)
LORDINGS. Sirs; masters. (A.-S.) It is often used by later writers in contempt.
LORD-OF-MISRULE. The person who presided over the Christmas revels, by no means an unimportant personage in the olden times. He began his rule on All-hallow eve and continued it till Candlemas day. See a list of expenses, dated in 1552, in Kempe's Loseley Manuscripts, pp. 44-54. For further information on the subject, see Brand, i. 272; Arch. xviii, 313-335; Hawkins' Engl. Dram. iii. 156; Strutt, ii. 200; Lilly's Sixe Court Comedies, 12mo. 1632, sig. F.
LORDS-AND-LADIES. See Bulls-and-Cows.
LORDSHIP. Supreme power. (A.-S.)
LORD-SIZE. The judge at the assizes.
LORD'S-ROOM. The stage-box in a theatre was formerly so called. Jonson.
LORDSWYK. A traitor. Ritson.
LORE. (1) Knowledge; doctrine; advice. (A.-S.)
(2) Lost. Still in use in Somerset.
The kyng seid, Take me thy tayle, For my hors I wolde not the fayle,
A peny that thou lore.
MS. Cantab. Ff. v. 49, f. 51.
LOREFADYR. A teacher. Loremastir, Dial. Creat. Moral. p. 243.
Of al men they do most evyl, Here lorefadyr ys the devyl. MS. Harl. 1701, f 24.
LOREINE. A rein. See Launfal, 888.
Hys loreine lemyd alle with pride, Stede and armle alle was blake.
MS. Harl. 2252, f. 104.
LOREL. A bad worthless fellow. (A.-N.)
Lorels den, Holinshed, Chron. Ireland, p. 93. Cocke Lorel was formerly a generic title for a very great rascal. "Lasy lorrels," Harman, 1567.
LOREMAR. A bit-maker. Palsgrave. "Lorimers or bit-makers," Harrison, p. 97.
LORENGE. Iron. (A.-N.)
LORER. The laurel-tree. Chaucer.
This Daphne into a lorer tre Was turnid, whiche is ever grene.
Gower, MS. Soc. Antiq. 134, f. 95.
And plaunted trees that were to preise, Of cidre, palme, and of loreere.
Cursor Mundi, MS. Coll. Trin. Cantab. f. 52.