Middle English Dictionary Entry
lǒuten v.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | lǒuten v.(2) Also luten, lutten, lutie(n. |
| Etymology | OE lūtian |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To hide, lurk, be concealed; refl. hide oneself; ppl. louting(e, hiding; as noun: the lurker, skulker; (b) to dwell; be (in sth., in a place).
Associated quotations
a
- a1150(c1125) Vsp.D.Hom.Fest.Virg.(Vsp D.14)35/180 : Þa-þa inne hire lutede eall Godes wisedom, and God sylf on hire innoðe timbrede him sylfen mænnisc lichame.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)21509 : Cador..duden heom alle clane into þan scipen grunde & hæhte heom þere lutie wel, þat Childric of heom neore war.
- c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)38/639 : Nis ha [Pride] nawt i claðes..& aa ha luteð i þe heorte.
- a1250 Mon may longe (Mdst A.13)29 : Suich wenþ wel lede long lif and blisse under-uo, þar deth luteth in his swo [vr. scho] to him for-do.
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)373 : Þe hare luteþ aldai, Ac noþeles iso he mai.
- ?a1300 Names Hare (Dgb 86)350/26 : Þe louting, þe westlokere, Þe waldeneie, þe sid-lokere.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.1933 : Love is of himself so derne, It luteth in a mannes herte.
- c1400 *Trev.Higd.(Tbr D.7)44a : Þar vnder grounde luttyng double voute ys yfounde.
- c1425 Chaucer CT.SN.(Petw 7)G.186 : He fonde þis holy Vrban anon Amonge þise seintes buriels lowtynge.
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)p.230 : Thus semeth well in armes a knight to dye, And not in bed to lye, loure, and loute.
b
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)1828 : Crist..fedde hire..as he dude Daniel..i þe liunes leohe, þer he in lutede.
- c1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)933 : I se no bygyng nawhere aboute; I trowe alone ȝe lenge and loute To loke on þe glory of þys gracous gote.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)579 : Soolus, Carpe..& trowt, þey must be takyn of as þey in þe dische lowt.