lousewort

[Eng. louse, and wort. ] Bot.: The genus Pedicular is (q. v.). The Marsh Lousewort is Pedicular is palustris ; the Pasture Lousewort P. sylvatic a . louse, v. t. [LOUSE, s.] To clean or clear from lice. IMG:content-0736.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Over-run with lice; abounding or infested with "Sweetbriar and gooseberry are only lousy in dry times or very hot places."-Mortimer: Husbandry. 2. Extremely low, mean, or contemptible. lounge (2), s. [LUNGE.] loun-ger, s . [Eng. lounge, v.; -er.] One who lounges or idles about; an idler, a lazy fellow. "They naturally became beggars and loungers ."- Ma caulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xiv. loung-ing, a. [LOUNGE, v.] 1. Idling or dawdling about. 2. Pertaining to or characteristic of a lounger. "[He] threw himself on a sofa in the lounging manner of a man perfectly at home."- Irving : Goldsmith , ch. xxx. 16up, v . i . [LEAP, LOPE, 8. ] 1. To leap. "I pray you now, remembrance to-morrow on the lousy knave, mine host."- Shakesp .: Merry Wives of Windsor, lout, *lowt, s . [LOUT, v.] An awkward fellow, a clown, a bumpkin. "This lout , as he exceeds our lords, the odds Is, that we scarce are men, and you are gods." Shakesp.: Cymbeline, v. 2. lout, *lowt, *lowte, v . i. & t. [A. S. lútan =to stoop; cogn. with Icel. lúta =to bow down; lútr = bent, stooping; Sw. luta =to lean; Dan. lude =to stoop.] A. In trans.: To bend, to bow, to stoop. "True Thomas, he pulled off his cap, And louted low down to his knee." Scott: Thomas the Rhymer, i. *B. Trans. To treat as a lout; to make a fool of. "I am lowted by a traitor villain, And cannot help the noble chevalier." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt . I. , iv. 3. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; "And whiche been hool and sooth and chast & rightwys, and lovable to yhe."-Wycliffe: Laodisensis , p. 100.