An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language - LightNovelsOnl.com
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LATIENCE, _s._ Leisure; S. B. _lees.h.i.+ns_.
_Callender._
LATIOUSE, _adj._ Unrestrained.
_S. P. Repr._
LATRON, _s._ A privy.
_Spalding._
Fr. _latrine_, id.
LATTER, _adj._ Inferior.
_Bar. Courts._
LATTER-MEAT, _s._ Meat brought from the master's to the servants' table, S.
_Ramsay._
LATTYN, _s._ Impediment.
_Wallace._
LATTOUN, _s._
1. A mixed kind of metal.
_Douglas._
2. Electrum.
_Ruddiman._
3. The colour of bra.s.s.
_Douglas._
Isl. _laatun_, Belg. _latoen_, orichalc.u.m.
LAUCH, LAWIN, LAWING, _p.r.o.n._ _lauwin_, _s._ A tavern-bill.
_Peblis Play._
Teut. _ghe-lagh_, club, or shot.
LAUCH, LAUCHT, _s._
1. Law.
_Fordun._
2. Privilege.
_Wyntown._
A. S. _lah_, _laga_, Isl. _laug_, id.
_To_ ~Lauch~, _v. a._ To possess legally.
_Doug._
~Lauchfull~, _adj._ Lawful.
_Wyntown._
LAUCHT, _part. pa._ Clothed.
_Barbour._
~Lauchtane~, _adj._ Belonging to cloth.
V. ~Laik~, _s._ 1.
_Barbour._
LAUCHTANE, _adj._ Pale, livid.
_Maitland Poems._
Perh. corr. from _lattoun_, q. v.
LAUDERY, _s._ Perh. revelling.
_Dunbar._
Belg. _lodderigh_, wanton.
