(4) The privilege of turning out cattle on commons. 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 Lower (2).

LOOVED. Praised. Ritson.

LOOVEYNG. Praise; honour.
That was a feyre tokenynge
Of pes and of looveyng.
MS. Cantab. Ff. ii. 38, f. 162.

LOOZE. A pig-stye. West.

LOOȜ. Laughed. "A thyn ful fast thei looȝ,"
MS. Cantab. Ff. v. 48, f. 53.

LOP. (1) A flea. North. (A.-S.)
Ys joy y-now so ye your lygges stryene,
Ye lade longe-sydye 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 unto hym was lope.
MS. Harl. 1701, f. 40.

Tyme goth fast, it is full lyght of lope,
And in abydyng men seyn ther ryghte hope.
MS. Rawl. Poet. 118.

LOP-EARED. Having long pendulous ears like a hound. Var. dial.

LOPEN. Leaped. See the Sevyn Sages, 739.
Whan thy mouthe with shryfte ys opun
Deth and synne are bothe out loupun.
MS. Harl. 1701, f. 79.

The portar set the yatis opyn
And with that Befyse ys owt loupun.
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 lopen on hys stede,
He with hym Hardewe doth lede.
MS. Cantab. Ff. ii. 38, f. 154.

LOPE-STAFF. A leaping-staff. "A lope-staffe wherwith men leape ditches," Cotgrave.

LOPRID. Coagulated. Still in use. See Forby, Brockett, Grose, Kennett, &c.
Thare he fand none other fode,
Bot watsome glette and loprid blode.
MS. Lincoln. A. 1. 17, f. 276.

Thare dwelled a man in a myrke donjowne,
And in a fowle stede of corrupcyowne,
Whare he had no fode,
Bot watsome glette and lopryd 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-SIDE. One-sided. Var. dial.

LOP-START. The stoat. East. It is mentioned in Harrison's England, p. 230.

LOPSTUR. A lobster.

LOPWEBBE. A spider's web. (A.-S.)

As a loppebbe fileth fome and gnattis,
Taken and suffren gret flies 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 Iliake passion, or a paine and wringing in the small guts, which the homelier sort of phisicians 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 lorde yn.
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; Archl. xviii, 313--335; Hawkins's 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. 48, 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 armure alle was blake,
MS. Harl. 2252, f. 104.

LOREL. A bad worthless fellow. (A.-N.)
Lorels den, Holinshed, Chron. Ireland, p. 93.
Cocke Loret was formerly a generic title for a very great rascal. "Lasy lorels," 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 ceder, palme, and of lorere.
Cursor Mundi, MS. Coll. Trin. Cantab. f. 52.