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▪ I. lote, n.1 arch.|ləʊt|
Also 6 lot.
[Anglicized form of lotus.]
= lotus in various senses.
1. The Nettle-tree: = lote-tree a.
c1510Barclay Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570) F iij, In hye grounde or hilles reioyseth the Peretree, But the Lote and Planetree where waters often flowe. 1597Gerarde Herbal iii. cxvii. 1308 Of the Lote or Nettle tree. The Lote whereof we write, is a tree as big as a Peare tree. 1665–76Rea Flora (ed. 2) 221 The Lote or Nettle tree.
2. [After Homer's λωτός.] Some kind of clover, trefoil, or melilot: = lotus 3. bird's-foot lote = Lotus corniculatus.
1548Turner Names of Herbes 49 Lotus syluestris... It maye be called in english wylde lote [Melilotus officinalis, Willd.]. 1615Chapman Odyss. iv. 802 Where the broad fields beare Sweet Cypers grasse; where men-fed Lote doth flow. 1676Hobbes Iliad (1677) 33 The horses..upon lote and cinquefoil feeding were. 1713Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 208 These Pods are lightly joynted like the Birds foot Lote.
3. The food of the Lotophagi (usually identified with the berry of Zizyphus Lotus: see lotus 1).
1638Farley Emblems xxxi. E 8, Thus cralling for its food, my soule can fret And tasting Lote, his Country doth forget. 1726Pope Odyss. xxiii. 335 How to the land of Lote unblessed he sails. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 114 The fruit of Zizyphus..is often wholesome and pleasant to eat, as in the case of the Jujube and the Lote, the latter of which is now known to have given their name to the classical Lotophagi. 1855Bailey Mystic 80 That heart-soothing herb, not less renowned Than lote, nepenthes, moly, or tolu.
4. The lotus-lily: see lotus 4.
1561A. Scott New Yeir Gift to Q. Mary 218 Fragrant flour formois, Lantern to lufe, of ladeis lamp and lot. 1650–60Wharton Disc. Soul World Wks. (1683) 657 The Lote (which shutteth its Leaves before Sun Rise, but when he Ascendeth openeth them by degrees).
5. attrib. and Comb., as lote-berry, lote-eater, lote-leaf; lote-bush, Zizyphus Lotus.
1611Cotgr., Micocoules, *Lote berries (be round, and hang by long staulkes like Cherries).
1846Lindley Veg. Kingd. 582 The *Lote-bush, which gave its name to the Ancient Lotophagi, is to this day collected for food by the Arabs of Barbary.
1587Golding tr. Solinus Polyhistor (1590) S iij, In the innermost part of the bigger Syrt..inhabited the *Loteaters. 1638Mayne Lucian (1664) 355 Your example of the Lote-eaters, and instance of the Syrens, carry no resemblance to my case.
1865Swinburne Laus Veneris 185 Softer than the Egyptian *lote-leaf.
▪ II. † lote, n.2
The eel-pout (Lota vulgaris).
1611Cotgr., Marmote,..also, the riuer Lote; a little muddie fish, headed, skinned, and finned, like an Eele.
▪ III. † lote, v.1 Obs.
Also 3 lotie(n, 4 lotye, ? 5 loyt.
[? OE. *lotian, f. *lut-, ablaut-variant of *lūt- in the synonymous OE. lútian = OHG. lûzên (MHG. lûzen); the root is prob. identical with that in the str. vb. OE. lútan to bow down (see lout v.).]
intr. To lurk, lie concealed.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 217 On þesse fewe litele wored lotieð fele gode wored ȝif hie weren wel ioponed. c1275Lay. 21509 And dude ȝam alle cleane into þan sipes grunde, and hehte heom lotie [c 1205 lutie] wel, þat Cheldrich nere noht war. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xvii. 102 For outlawes in the wode and vnder banke lotyeth. c1386Chaucer Sec. Nun's T. 186 He foond this hooly olde Vrban anon Among the Seintes buryeles lotynge. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 397 Latere a Latyn is lotye. 1398― Barth. De P.R. xvii. liii. (Tollem. MS.), Wormes loteþ under þe schadow þerof.
Hence † ˈloting vbl. n. (in comb. loting-place).
13..K. Alis. 6203 He say the ekeris wonynge, And the fysches lotynge. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiv. liii. (Tollem. MS.), A caue is proper lotynge and hidynge place of bestes, þat wonen in dennes and dowers.
▪ IV. † lote, v.2 Obs.
[a. ON. láta = let v.1]
1. trans. To forsake, fail.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 3131 Ne sal ic ȝu noȝ[t] loten Of ðat ic haue ȝu bi-hoten.
2. intr. To take account of.
c1400Laud Troy Bk. 8598 Ther is no man that lengur lotes Off these gay golden cotes.
▪ V. † lote, v.3 Obs.
[f. L. lōt-, ppl. stem of lavāre; or perh. back-formation from lotion.]
trans. To wash with a solution.
1547Boorde Brev. Health cclxxix. 93 Use the water of plantein with Tutty loted, and ever use colde thynges to the eyes.
▪ VI. lote
variant of late n.1 Obs., look, sound.
▪ VII. lote
obs. form of loth n.; variant of lout. |