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▪ I. † lough1 Obs.
Forms: 4 louh, 4–5 loȝe, 5 logh(e, loughe, 6 lowgh, 4– lough. See also low n.3
[ME. lough, loȝe, perh. repr. ONorthumb. luh (?lúh), rendering L. fretum and stagnum in the Lindisfarne Gospels; the use for fretum suggests that it is a. Irish loch (see loch1), though the vowel perh. agrees better with the British word represented by Welsh llwch (:—*luksu-) lake, pool.]
1. A lake, pool. In ME. alliterative poetry sometimes used for: Water, sea.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1423 Þe grete Lough of Rusticiadan. Ibid. 10197 In þat louh ar sexti iles. 13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 119 Alle þe loȝe lemed of lyȝt. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxi. 95 In þat ile also es a deed see; and it es in maner of a lowgh... Beside þat logh growez redez of a wonderfull lenth. c1420Anturs of Arth. 31 (Ireland MS.) He ladde þat lady so longe by that loghe sydus. Ibid. 83 Thare come a lowe one the loughe..In the lyknes of Lucyfere. 1538Leland Itin. VII. 58 Divers Springes cummeth owt of Borodale, and so make a great Lowgh that we cawle a Poole; and ther yn be iii Isles. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 65 Nymphea..ii sorts..grow both in meres loughes lakes and in still or standyng waters. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 173 About Turwan in Fraunce..you shall finde in Loughes and Rayne Waters..great abundance of Fishe. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) iv. 110 Haerlam Mere, a huge inland lough. 1725De Foe Tour Gt. Brit. II. i. 121 There is a little Lake or Lough of Water in the Middle of it [Litchfield]. [In ed. 7 (1769) II. 416 this passage is altered as follows: There is a kind of slow, sluggish Lough, or Water, which runs, or rather glides heavily through it, and so on for four or five Miles farther into the Trent.] 1829Brockett N. Country Words (ed. 2) Lough, a lake.
b. Sc. |lux| = loch1. ? Obs.
Cf. the Sc. form louch (14–16th c.) under loch1; also the pl. lowis (16th c.): see low n.3
1785Burns Address Deil vii, Wi' you, mysel, I gat a fright Ayont the lough [rimes with sough]. 1786― Tam Samson's Elegy iv, When to the loughs the Curlers flock.
2. attrib.: lough-diver, -plover, names for the female smew; lough-leech = loch-leech (see loch1 2).
1678Ray Willughby's Ornith. 338 The Female is described by Gesner under the title of Mergus glacialis, which Mr. Johnson Englisheth the *Lough-diver. 1829P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 11 A lough diver, or female smew.
1562Turner Herbal ii. 31 Horsleches or *lougheleches. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. ccii. 305 Loughleaches.
▪ II. lough2 Anglo-Irish.|lɒx|
Forms: 4 lowe, 6 logh, 6– lough.
[The written form belongs to lough1, from which this need not have been separated but for the fact that, while the spelling lough survived in Ireland, the spoken word which it represented became obsolete, being superseded by the native Irish loch (lɒx): see loch1.]
A lake or arm of the sea; equivalent to the Scottish loch1.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 349 He wolde sende hir hym to þe Lowe Lacheryn. 1512Galway Arch. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 395 The fishers of the logh bringe to the market thre dais in the wicke. 1567in E. P. Shirley Hist. Monaghan 88 note, That fortification..is in ‘sartin ffreshwater loghes’ in his country. 1600Fairfax Tasso i. xliv. 10 Whom Ireland sent from loughes and forrests hore. 1690Lond. Gaz. No. 2540/2 Several Ships arrived that day in the Lough of Carrickfergus. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 73. 2/1 There is a Lough in the North of Ireland, call'd Neugh. 1882Mrs. J. H. Riddell Pr. of Wales's Garden-Party 230 On the other side of the lough..lay the green hills. 1900Blackw. Mag. Oct. 580/1 Down in Mayo I had ridden out..to fish for white trout in a little lough that lies at the foot of Nephin.
▪ III. † lough3 Obs.
= loch2. Also attrib. in lough-water (see quot.).
1672Flamsteed in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) II. 153 Lough-water... 'Tis found in the midst of a firm stone in the lead mine. 1747Hooson Miner's Dict. E iij, With this..we Chissel the Ore out of Loughs in Pipe Works.
▪ IV. † lough, v. Obs.
[? repr. OE. lóᵹian to place in order, f. lóh place.]
trans. To stack (turf).
c1630Risdon Surv. Devon (1810) 11 Then drying and loughing those turfs into burrows, and so burning them.
▪ V. lough
obs. pa. tense of laugh; obs. var. loor.
▪ VI. lough, louȝ
obs. forms of low a. |