An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 476

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 476

2. A fondling term, applied to a young man, S.


_Ritson._


LADE, LAID, _s._ A load, S.


_Ross._


A. S. _hlad_, id.


LADE, LEAD, MILL-LADE, _s._ The ca.n.a.l which carries water to a mill, S.


_Chalm. Air._


A. S. _lade_, Teut. _leyde_, aquaeductus.


LADENIN TIME, the time of laying in winter provisions, S.


Su. G. _lad-a_, to heap together.


LADE-STERNE, LEIDE-STERNE, _s._ The polestar, E.


_Douglas._


Teut. _leyd-sterre_, Isl. _leidar-stiarna_, cynosura, polus.


LADNAIRE, LARDNER, _s._ A larder, S., _laidner_.


_Barbour._


Fr. _lardier_, id., from _lard_, fat.


LADRY, _s._ The rabble.


_Priests Peblis._


A. S. _leod-wera_, incola, _leod-weras_, common people, Isl.


_lydur_, plebs.


LADRONE, LAYDRON, _s._ A lazy knave, a sloven; _laithron_, S.


V. ~Lidder~.


Su. G. _lat_, lazy.


_Lyndsay._


LAFE, LAIFF, LAVE, LAW, _s._ The remainder; _laive_, S.


_Wallace._


A. S. _lafe_, Isl. _leif_, id. from the verbs signifying to _leave_.


LAGABAG, _s._ The hindmost, Fife; from E. _lag_, and _aback_.


LAGENE, LAGGEN, p.r.o.n. _leiggen_, _s._


1. The projecting part of the staves at the bottom of a cask, S.


_Acts Ja. VI._


2. The angle within, between the side and bottom of a cask, S.


_Burns._


Su. G. _lagg_, id.


~Lagen-gird~, _s._ A hoop securing the bottom of a wooden vessel, S.


_To cast a lagen-gird_, to bear a spurious child, S.


_Ramsay._


LAGGERY, _adj._ Miry, dirty, S. B.


~Laggerit~, _part. pa._


1. Bemired, S.


_Doug._


2. Enc.u.mbered, from whatever cause, S. B.


_Poems Buchan Dial._


Su. G. _lag_, Isl. _laug-ur_, water.