212 LoobS. A Celtic Cornish mining term. The tin slime or sludge of the after leavings in washing tin. The slime *' leavings." Looby weather. Muggy weather. From the Celtic Cornish looh, slime, sludge. Looch^ or Loach. See Lauch. Looch, filth, refuse. Hayle, T.c. Lootal. A tawdry gadabout. T.c. Loppard, or Lopper. A lame person. Loppety lop. A hopping, or lame-like movement, moving like a rabbit is to go " loppety lop. Lopping. Throbbing with pain. ^^Its lopping very bad ; " also walking lame, " lopping along." Lop-lolly^ Lob-lolly, or Lobba. A fag, a fac- totum j a lazy fellow. Lords and Ladies. The common Arum or Cuckow pint. Arum maculatum. Lost-slovan. From the Celtic Cornish lost, a tail, a rump. Commonly low-doYsm. The beginning of an adit through the tail or end; that part which lies open like a trench before they drive underground. Pryce. Louggy. Tired. G. E. in the ^' Cornishwmi.^^ Louning. Long, lank, thin. C. LoUSter, or Loustry. To work hard. "He who can't scheme must louster."
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