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LOWNDRER, _s._ A lazy wretch.
_Wynt._
Teut. _lunderer_, cunctator, _lunder-en_, cunctari.
LOWRYD, _adj._ Surly.
_Wyntown._
Isl. _luri_, h.o.m.o torvus et deformis.
LOWRIE, LAWRIE, _s_.
1. A designation given to the fox, S.
_Ramsay._
2. A crafty person; one who has the disposition of a fox.
_G.o.dly Sangs._
Arm. _luarn_, vulpes; or Teut. _loer_, one who lays snares.
LOZEN, _s_. A pane of gla.s.s, S. corr. from E. _lozenge_.
LUBBA, _s._ A coa.r.s.e gra.s.s of any kind, Orkn.
_Statist. Acc._
Isl. _lubbe_, hirsutus.
_To_ LUCK, _v. n._ To have good or bad fortune, S.
_Montgomerie._
Teut. _ghe-luck-en_, Isl. _luck-as_, to prosper.
* ~Luck~, _s._ _Upon luck's head_, on chance.
_Rutherford._
LUCKEN, _part. pa._
1. Shut up, contracted, S.
_Lucken-handed_, having the fist contracted, S.
_Gl. Shirr._
_Lucken-taed_, _lucken-footed_, web-footed, S.
_Sibbald._
2. Locked, bolted.
_Ruddiman._
The part. of A. S. _luc-an_, to lock.
_To_ ~Lucken, Luken~, _v. a._
1. To lock, S.
_Chron. S. P._
2. To knit the brows.
_Pop. Ball._
3. To pucker, to gather up in folds.
_Spalding._
~Lucken~ or ~Lukin Gowan~, the globe flower, S.
_Ramsay._
LUCKIE, LUCKY, _s_.
1. A designation given to an elderly woman, S.
_Ross._
2. A grandmother; often _luckie-minnie_, S. B.
_Ramsay._
_Luckie-daddie_, grandfather, S. B.
_Kelly._
