An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 513

_Ross._

2. Shabby; applied to dress, S.

~Lounrie~, _s._ Villany.

_Dunbar._

LOUN, LOWN, _s._ A boy, S.

_Dunbar._

Isl. _lione_, servus.

~Loun's piece~, the uppermost slice of a loaf of bread, S.

_To_ LOUNDER, _v. a._ To beat with severe strokes, S.

V. ~Loundit~.

_Ramsay._

~Lounder~, _s._ A swinging stroke, S.

_Watson._

LOUNDIT, _part. pa._ Beaten.

_Dunbar._

This seems the origin of _Lounder_, apparently allied to Fenn.

_lyon_, ferio, verbero.

_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 pa.s.s 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 a.s.sisting one to get on horseback, S.

_To c.u.m 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._

LOURDNES, _s._ Surly temper.

V. ~Lowryd~.