Middle English Dictionary Entry

lō̆s n.(1)
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Note: Cp. loste n.
1.
(a) The act or condition of being dispossessed of property or possessions; failure to keep something; (b) loss of a bodily part or faculty; also, loss of life; (c) loss of a lover or friend; loss by death; also, loss of men in fighting; ~ of deth, loss by death of someone; (d) failure to retain possession of an attribute, worldly station, love; (e) forfeiture of God's love.
2.
(a) Loss in battle or combat, defeat; ~ of the feld; (b) losing in gambling and the like; (c) wasting of material things; (d) ~ of time, waste of time.
3.
(a) Death; destruction; gon (wenden, yede) to ~, to be ruined, be ended, die; (b) perdition, damnation; ~ of soule; sone of ~, Judas; also, Antichrist; prince of ~, the Devil; (c) banishment of Man (from Paradise); (d) the cause of perdition.
4.
(a) ?Failure; without ~, ?successfully; (b) suffering, misfortune; also, a mishap; pl. hardships, afflictions; (c) uncertainty, puzzlement.
5.
(a) That which is lost; also, that which is forfeited as punishment; (b) a person lost by death; also, lost angels, ?lost mankind; (c) ~ of a dai, ?the day believed to be lost in the sun's apparent passage through the sky during a year.