loutIsh, lowtIsh

[Eng. lout; -ish.] Like a lout; clownish, awkward, rude. "This loutish clown is such that you never saw so ill favored a visar."- Sidney : Arcadia , bk. i. lout-Ish-ly, adv . [Eng.loutish; -ly.] In a loutish, awkward, or clownish manner; like a lout. lout-Ish-ne , s. [English loutish ; -ne .] The quality or state of being loutish; clownishne , awkwardne , rudene . lôu-ver, *lôuvre, *loô-ver, *lov-er, s . [O. Fr. louvert , for l'ouvert =the open (space), from le (art.) =the, and ouvert , pa. par. of auvrir to open.] Architecture : 1. A turret on a roof for the escape of smoke or steam; a lantern. 2. Sloping boards overlapping each other, with a space between for ventilation; also called lufferboarding, louvre or luffer window or work. "They were soon after found dead in the dove-cote, famished for want of food, and unable to fly up per. pendicularly, and so out at the lover. "-Fuller: Worthies; North amp tons hire. The Louvre, in Paris, is said to have been a royal residence in the reign of Dagobert, 628. It was a prison-tower constructed by Philippe August us in 1204. It afterwards became a library, and Charles VI. made it his palace (about 1364). The new buildings, begun by Francis I. in 1528, were enlarged and adorned by several succe ive kings, more particularly Louis XIV. Napoleon I. turned it into a museum, and deposited in it the finest collection of paintings, statues, and treasures of art known in the world. The chief of those brought from Italy have since been restored to the rightful po e ors. The magnificent buildings of the new Louvre, begun by Napoleon I. and completed by Napoleon III., were inaugurated by the latter in great state, Aug. 14, 1857. The library was destroyed and other buildings much injured by the communists, May, 1871. louvre-boards, luffer-boards, lever-boards, subst. pl. Arch .: Sloping boards or bars placed acro a window to exclude rain, while admitting the pa age of sound; louvres. louvre-window, s . Arch.: A window in a church tower or belfry, partially closed by louvre boards (q. v.). lov-a-ble, a. [English wornglish deserving of being loved; Bot.: Xanthium strumarium . louse-běr-ry, s. [Eng. louse , and berry .] (See amiable. the compound.) louse berry-tree, s. Bot.: A name for Euonymus europœus .