54 HAMPSHIRE GLOSSARY. Lodging [loj'in], adj. continuing the same; this quaint bat express- ive word was made use of by a labouring man, in reply to an inquiry after the health of his child: 'Oh, sir, he's pretty much lodging, neither better nor worse.* — N, and Q, 1st Ser. x. 120. , log [log], V. lit. to lag. Ex. *To hj at school/ to play truant; hgging, i. e. playing truant — ^Wise. heavy, full to repletion. Ex. * I be so loggi/ I-Oggy [log-i], culj, he after yettin* ' [eating]. Lollop [lolnip], V. to lounge in walking. To walk loosely or lazily. —J. Used also of a horse clumsy in his paces. — N. H. Lomper [lomp-ur], v, to walk heavily. — J. Long [long], adv. in consequence of. Ex. * It's all long o* he, that they done it' — N. II. Long-dog [long-dog], sb. a greyhound. — ^Cooper ; N. H.' Longfal [long-fuol], long, tedious. Ex. ' A longful time.' — X. H.
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Long-tailed Capon [long-taild-kai'pun], sb. name of a small bird, whose nest is of an oval form with a hole in the middle. — ^F. i£ Lope, or Loppet [loap, lop'ut], v. n. to idle ; to hang about idlo. — N.H. Lop-grass [lop-graas], sb, Bromus MoUi8.—T>t. Bromfield's MSS. — J. B. Lords-and-ladies [laudz-u'nd-lai*diz], sb. pi. Aram maculatum. — J. B. Louster [lou-stur], sb. noise, confusion, disturbance. Ex. * What a lotuter you are making ! ' — Wise, New Forest. Lout [lout], V. to bend, bow, in making oboisance ; to touch the hat — ^Wise, New Forest, p. 188. Love-in-idle [lav-in-ei-dl], sb. Viola trlcolor.^J. B. The M.E. t» idel commonly means in vain, to no purpose. — J. B. Low Brown [loa broun], interj. < It is held rather as a tradition than a law, that if a swarm of bees flies away the owner cannot claim ' them, unless, at the time, he has made a noise with a kettle or tongs ' to give his neighbours notice. It is on such occasions that the phrase hw brown may he heard, meaning that the bees, or the brownies, as they are callea, are to settle low.' — Wise, New Forest, p 185. Lowle [loal?], adj. said of a pig's ear; 'a Zoz^Ze-eared pig/ a long- eared pig. *Ak. Of: E. loll Lug [lug], sb. (1) A pole on which fowls roost, or on which clothes are hung. *Ak. Common in New Forest Ex. *The lug in the
- roost'— Wise.
^2) A pole in land measure. 5 J yards. *Ak. — ^Lisle. (3) The pot-7u^ on which the ' cotterel ' hangs ; the same as rug"' f^tcAr.— Wise. See Bugstick.
