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▪ I. ˈlagen Obs. exc. Hist.
Also 6 laggon, 7, 9 lagan.
[ad. L. lagōna, lagēna, flagon, ad. Gr. λάγυνος.]
A liquid measure (see quots.).
1570Levins Manip. 163/44 A Laggon, lagena. 1607Cowell Interpr., Clerk of the market..is an officer..whose dutie is to take charge of the kings measures..: as of elns, yards, lagens. 1676Coles, Lagen..a measure of six Sextaries. 1841Tytler Hist. Scot. (1879) I. 237 With an obligation to sell their ale to the abbott at the rate of a lagen and a half for a penny. 1891J. Tait Two Cent. Border Ch. Life II. 218 The lagan was equal to 7 quarts.
▪ II. lagen
variant of laggin. |