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louk 2 lowk 1 (louk),r. t. [Also look; < ME. lou- loup 3 (lop). . [F., a mask, a particular use of 
ken, loicken, < AS. lucan (= Dan. luge), pull up loup, wolf, < L. liipus, wolf: see lupus.] A light 
(weeds): see lug 1 .'} To pull up (weeds) ; weed, silk mask or 
Iouk 3 t, " 
ace 
louker (lou'ker), n. [Also looker; < ME. longer, 
loicker; < louk 2 + -or 1 .'] One who weeds. 
loun 1 , a. See lawn?. 
loun 2 , n. See loon 1 . 
loun 8 , . t. [Cf. launder.] To beat; thrash 
[North. Eng.] 
lounder (loun'der), n. [Origin obscure.] 
severe, stunning blow. [bCOtcn.J 
Thegoodman, 
Wha lent him on his neck a lounder, 
someVnot believing that those beasts will, or can mingle) 
imagine it rather to be the spotted Linx or Ounce ; or a 
kind thereof." 
loupe (lop), n. [Also Zoo/)/ < F ; loupe, a knob. 
To 
with" slag as taken from the Catalan forge when 
ready to be shingled. Also called masse in French, 
and in the American bloomeries most generally a bloom, 
but also frequently a lump, and sometimes called loupe. 
loup-garou (lo'ga-ro'), [F-, a were-wolf : 
see were-wolf.'] A were-wolf; a lycanthrope. 
louping-ill (lou'ping-il), n. Leaping-evil : a 
disease of sheep which causes them to spring 
up and down in going forward. [Scotch.] 
loup-the-dike (loup'the-dik), a. Giddy ; way- 
lounder (loun'der), v. t. [Cf. lounder, .] 
beat with heavy strokes. [Scotch.] 
lounderer(loun'der-er),. An idler; a loafer. ~^rd""runaway7 [Scotch.] 
Lousengers and lounderers are wrongfully made, and Now I have my finger and my thumb on this Zowp-tfc 
named hermits, and have leave ... to live ... in sloth, j Scott Redgauntlet, ch. 
Bp. Bale, Select Works, p. ] 30. 
lounderin 
lounder 
let, ch. xxiii. 
,. ^^ ? ^ gee lomrl ^ 
srmg (loun'der-mg), n. [Verbal not lour ^i t a . an a m . [Also loord; < ME. lourd, < 
>,r, .] A drubbing ; a beating. [Scotch.] QF. (and F.) lourd, dull, stupid, = Sp. Pg. lerdo, 
stupid, foolish, = It. lordo, lurido, dirty, < L. 
luridiis, pale, yellow, wan, ML. lurdus, dirty: see 
~ 
lout 
thors range with the foregoing in the order Hemiptera, 
but most place in the Pseudoneuroptera. They are known 
as the order or superfamily MalloplMga. They have man- 
dibulate or biting mouth-parts, are wingless, and of very 
variable forms. They are by no means confined to birds, 
but infest mammals as well ; almost every kind of bird 
and beast is infested by these creatures, sometimes several 
species to one host, and in such multitudes as to cause 
disease and death. Of these, such as infest domestic 
quadrupeds and birds belong to the genera Tnchodectes, 
Vocmhorus Nirmus, Goniocotes, Goniodes, Lipeurus, 2rt- 
m.tuin Colpopocephalum, Menopon, and Oyropus. (c) Ihe 
beaver harbors a remarkable louse, Platypgyllm castons, 
a degraded clavicorn beetle, so peculiar as to have been 
made type of an order, Achreioptera. (d) Insects have 
their own lice. Such are the bee-lice, or pupiparous dip- 
terous insects of the family Braulidce, order IXptera; and 
some of the lice of bats are similar dipterous insects, 
though wingless, of the family Ifycteribiidce. Bees, wasps, 
etc., are also infested by certain small parasitic heterome- 
rous beetles in the form of lice, such as the wingless larva 
of Meloidce, a species of which has been named Pediculus 
melittas, and the whole family Stylopidce. Insects affected 
by the latter are said to be stylopized. None of the fore- 
going lice are aquatic, (e) Fishes, marine mammals. 
crustaceans, etc., are infested by a great variety of small 
degraded crustaceans, collectively known as Jish-Kce or 
Ichthyophthira. Most of these belong to a class or order 
Mpizoa or Siphonostoma, or Lernamdea ; & few are cirri - 
peds, as Mhizocephala, Whale-lice are Cyamidce. Carp- 
lice are Argulidte. (/) Wood-lice are the terrestrial isopods 
of the family Oniscidcc, also called slaters, sow-bugs, etc. 
These are not parasites, but some of the aquatic iso- 
pods are fish-lice, as CymoOundae. (a) Plants are infested 
by multitudes of small plant-sucking hemipters, known 
as plant-lice, and formerly collectively termed Phytoph- 
Ihiria as the aphids, Aphididw, some of which are also 
called gall-lice,' the psyllids, Psyllidce, called flea-lice and 
jumping plant-lice; and the scale-insects or Coccida, 
some of which are also known as bark-lice, (h) Book-hce are 
uriis, pa, y, , . , ^ om - of which we also known as bark-im. w mon-mx are 
lurid. Hence also (from F.)lurdan,q.V.~] I. a. pseudoneuropterous insects of thefamily Psori&n, various 
He had gi'en her a laundering wi' his cane. 
Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, xviii. 
lounge 1 (lounj), v. i.; pret. and pp. lounged, ppr. 
lounging. [Not found before 1671 (in Skinner); 
perhaps < the noun lounger, in plural loungers, 
which is probably a mistaken form, with accom. ^ ^^ u^u-uure - .^..->.=-, 
termination, of *loungis, < lungis, longis, an idle, Iourd 2 t, * [Appar. a dial, contr. of Zimr MfZ gee thecom'pounded words, and also the technical names, 
drowsy, dreaming fellow: see lungis.\ 1. To or u^er would (cf. leeze, contr. of lief is), ex- louse 1 (louz), v. t.; pret. and pp. loused, ppr. 
act, move, or rest in a lazy or listless manner; tended to constructions where it must be taken lousing. [< ME. lousen; < louse 1 , .] To clean 
" as a simple verb, ftad or wowW being again pre- ' 
Dull; stupid. Gower. 
II. n. A dull, stupid fellow ; alow, degraded, 
worthless person ; a drone. 
, 
species of which, as those of the genera Atnpos and Clo- 
thitta in jure books, (i) Certain mites or acarids are some- 
times called lice, as the harvest-ticks, known as red-lice, 
the itch-mite or itch-louse, etc. For further information, 
move about or do anything with negligence or 
indifference. 
Shun such as lounge through afternoons and eves. 
0. W. Holmes, A Rhymed Lesson. 
" Light ! " is the responsive yell from the patriarch of the 
household, who, lounging to the fence, leans his arm upon 
it. W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 195. 
2. To recline in a lazy attitude; loll: as, to 
lounge on a sofa. 
The instant some stirring old hymn was given out, sleepy 
eyes brightened, lounging figures sat erect. 
L. M. Alcott, Hospital Sketches, p. 82. 
fixed.] See etymology. 
I rather lourd it had been my sel 
Than eather him or thee. 
Oil Morriee (Child's Ballads, II. 38). 
Ere he had ta'en the lamb he did, 
I had lourd he had ta'en them a'. 
The Broom of Cowdenknows (Child's Ballads, IV. 48). 
I wad lourd have had a winding-sheet, 
from flee. [Obsolete or rare.] 
Howe handsome [convenient] it is to lye and sleepe, or 
to lowze themselves in the sunshine. 
Spenser, State of Ireland. 
To York House, where the Russia Embassador do lie ; 
and there I saw his people go up and down louseing them- 
selves. Pepys, Diary, II. 5. 
Iouse 2 t, a- and v. A Middle English variant of 
loose. 
VI. 114). louseberry (lous'ber"i), n. The common spin- 
dle-tree of Europe, Euonymus vulgaris. Its pow- 
dered berries were reputed to destroy the lice 
at ease or lolling. 
In the reign of the queen [Anne], 
_it, lourdent, n. See lurdan. 
,^^ v . a * ------- T [F . ;o ; gi n uncertain.] 1. A form aerea oemes were 
lounge 1 (lounj), n. [< lounge 1 ,.] 1. The act ^f^a som ef o: rm erl v used in N orm and v 2 parasitic on man. 
of sauntering 'or strolling; the act of reclining J Bio^dZeeTerformTd to ^^the Susie of the louse-bur (lous'ber), n. The common cockle- 
bagpipe. 3. Music for such a dance or in its " ur > 
rhythm, which is triple, rather slow, and with 
heavy primary accents. 
Its, use, lys), < AS. lus (pi. lys) = D. Ims = UMtr 
MHG. lus, G. laus = Icel. lus = Dan. Sw. lus. 
louse; perhaps lit. 'destroyer' or 'damager,' 
from the root *lus of loose, lose 1 , loss, etc. Cf . Gr. 
Una or Pediculidce. These are the little wingless bugs 
most frequently called lice, infesting man and other ani- 
mals as external parasites, in the hair or fur. They are 
haustellate, or furnished with a sucking-proboscis, which 
can be protruded and fixed in the skin of the host, the 
attachment being secured by little hooks ; there are six 
me into use as an 
_ ises, and the tea- 
tables of the ladies became places for fashionable lounge. ^ r 
S. Dowell, Taxes in England, IV. 112. loUTgulary, n. See lurgulary. 
2. A place frequented by idlers. loury/louM), a. Seelowery. 
She went with Lady Stock to a bookseller's, whose shop 
served as a fashionable lounge. 
Miss Edgeworth, Almeria, p. 278. 
3. A kind of sofa for reclining, having one arm 
only and a low back, or no back, so as to be 
used from either side. 4. A treat; a comfort. 
[Eton College.] C. A. Sristed, English Uni- 
versity, p. 40. 
lounge 2 !, An obsolete spelling of lunge 1 . 
lounger (loun'jjer),}!. [See lounge, v.~\ One who 
lounges; one who loiters away his time; anidler. 
I will roar aloud and spare not, to the terror of, at 
present, a very flourishing society of people, called loun- 
gers. Guardian, No. 124. 
The boulevard loungers or the gens du monde. 
Nineteenth Century, XXI. 344. 
lounging (loun'jing),^>. a. [Ppr. of lounge 1 , .] 
Of, pertaining to, or in the manner of a lounger ; 
sauntering; lolling: as, a lounging gait, 
lounging-room (loun'jing-rom), n. A room for 
the accommodation of idle visitors, or persons 
who are waiting, as in a club-house. 
In the spacious office and general lounging. room, sea- 
coal fires glowed in the wide grates. 
C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 2. 
loup 1 (loup), v.; pret. lap, pp. loupen. [A dial, 
form of leap 1 .] I. intrans. 1. To leap; spring. 
He has loupen on the bonny black, 
He stirr'd him wi' the spur right salrly. 
Annan Water (Child's Ballads, II. 188). 
Every one loups o'er the dike where it is laighest. 
Kelly, Scotch Proverbs, p. 97. (Jamieson.) 
2. To melt ; give way : applied to frost when it 
melts suddenly. [North. Eng. or Scotch in 
both uses.] 
II. trans. To leap over; leap from. 
O Baby, haste, the window loup; 
I'll kep you in my arm. 
Bonny Baby Livingston (Child's Ballads, IV. 43). 
Ioup 2 t, ". An obsolete variant of loojft. Spenser. 
= OHG. 
Strumarium : so named from its 
clinging pod or bur. 
louse-fly (lous'fli), n. Any pupiparous dipter- 
ous insect, as a bee-louse or sheep-tick. 
louse-herb (lous'erb), n. Same as lousewort, 2. 
ME. lous (pi. lousewort (lous'wert), . 1. A scrophularia- 
- ceous plant of the genus Pedicularis. The com- 
mon lousewort in the United States is P. Canadensis, other- 
wise called wood-betony or head-Many. The common louse- 
wort of England is P. syhatica. 
ui/iio i-uuii K*O "j. HH/OD, n/oo-, woo, civ,, ^i.^i. 2. The stavesacre, Delphinium Staphisagria, the 
<t>Veip, a louse, < (jideipeiv, destroy.] An insect or powdered seeds of which have been used from 
other small arthropod (as a crustacean) that ancient times to destroy lice. Also louse-hero. 
infests other animals or plants, or an animal [Bare.] 
resembling such parasites: a name for a great lousily (lou'zi-li), adv. In a lousy manner; in 
variety of small creatures. Specifically (a) One of a mean or degraded manner ; scurvily. 
a class of small degraded parasitic hemipterous insects of lousiness (lou'zi-nes), n. The state of being 
the order Hemiptera and suborder Parasita; the Pedicu- lougy OJ . infested witt lice . 
Hunger and Lousiness are the two Distempers that Af- 
flict him ; and Idleness and Scratching the two Medicines 
that Palliate his Miseries. 
Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, 
[11.200. 
legswith hooks for crawling and grappling; the general i nil _ v / lm /:\ r< Jntiir 1 + tA 1 1 Infested 
form is elliptical, mostof the body consisting of the large lOUSy UOU zi;, a. ^ 10 
jointed abdomen; the skin is so tough that when the Witt LC6. 
louse is crushed it can be heard to crack. Such lice are 
oviparous p.nd extremely prolific; their eggs, which mature 
very rapidly, ai'e glued to hairs, and are known as nits. At 
least three kinds infest man. The headJouse, Pediculus 
capitis, living chiefly in the hair of the head, is the slender- 
est one of the three. The body-louse, Pediculus vestimenti, 
living in the hair of the body at large, and in the seams of 
the clothing, is less transparent than the former, with a 
grayish tint, and hence called grayback; myriads of these 
creatures are generated where people are crowded in un- 
clean or unwholesome conditions, as in camps, jails, etc. 
The last kind, the crab-louse, Phthirim pubis or inguinalis, 
That all liuing things which haue soules go thither [to 
the heavens], euen Fleas and Lice. And these lousie hea- 
uens are allotted to all secular persons which enter not into 
their rule and habit of Religion. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 460. 
Hence 2. Degraded; mean; contemptible. 
A lousy knave to have his gibes and his mockeries ! 
Shak., M. W. of W., iii. 3. 259. 
A tiick, a lousy trick ; so ho, a trick, boys ! 
Fletcher, Loyal Subject, it 1. 
chiefly affects the hair of the pubis and perineeum, but may lousybill (lou'zi-bil) n 
range all over the body; its shape is peculiar, as shown in ] pw Tv tlmKn i,, a innnirrt^ 
The long-billed eur- 
theHgureundereraWM^. Most mammals, if not all, have Numenius longirotstris. G. Trumoull. See 
lice peculiar to themselves. Hamatopinui is an extensive cut under curlew. [.Local, JNew Jersey.] 
genus of such lice : H. vituli is found on cattle. Aspecies lout 1 (lout), V. [< ME. lotltcn, < AS. Ifltan ( = 
of Hamatomyzux affects elephants. Bats have a peculiar I ce l. luta = Dan. lude = Sw. Into), stoop, bow, 
set of lice, constituting the family Polyctemdce. - - -' 
A lous is a worme with many fete, & it commeth out of 
the fllthi and onclene skynne. ... To withdryue them. 
The best is for to wasshe the oftentimes, and to channge 
oftentymes dene lynen. 
Quoted in Book of Quinte Essence (ed. Furnivall), p. 19. 
(6) Bird-lice are parasitic insects, of several hundred spe- 
cies, various genera, and several families, which some au- 
akinto lutian, >ME. lutien, loten, lurk(see lote 1 ), 
aiidperhapstofyte?, little: seelittle."] 1. intrans. 
1 . To bend, stoop, or crouch ; bow ; courtesy ; 
make humble obeisance. 
Doun I loutede for to see 
The clere water in the stoon. 
Itmn. of the Rose, 1. 1554. 
