view is that peculiar variety of Parliamentary species known as an outsider or a loose fish, but described by itself under the more flattering title of 'an independent member.'
Loose-hung, adj. (common).—Unsteady.
Loose-Kirtle, subs. (old).—A wanton:
cf. Loose-bodied gown.
Loose-legged, adj. (old).—Incontinent.
1598. Marston, Scourge of Villanie . . . 'Twas loose-legged Lais, that same common drab, For whom good Tubias took the mortal stab.
Loot, subs. (common).—Plunder.
See quots. 1798 and 1840.
1788. Stockdale, Ind. Vocab. [Yule], s.v. Loot, plunder, pillage.
1791. Gentlemen's Mag., p. 78, col. 2. They had orders to burn and plunder several large villages . . . this former part of their instructions the looties said they had followed.
1798. Wellington, Sup. Desp., i. 60 (1858). Nine parts in ten of the native armies are looties or bad cavalry.
1840. Fraser, Koordistan, ii. Let. xiv. p. 283. The looties—that is, the rogues and vagabonds of the place.
1842. C. Campbell, in Life of Lord Clive, i. 120. I believe I have already told you that I did not take any loot—the Indian word for plunder.
1875. G. Chesney, Dilemma, xxxvi. It was the Colonel Sahib who carried off the loot.
1893. Kipling, Barrack-room Ballads, 'Loot.' [Title].
Lop, verb. (colloquial).—To lounge;
to flop.
1852. H. B. Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, viii. 'She . . . cried about it, she did, and lopped round, as if she'd lost every friend she had.'
1881. Besant & Rice, Chap. of the Fleet, 1. x. Some debauched, idle fellow who lies and lops about all day, doing no work and earning no money.
1881. Century, xx111. 652. The señora . . . could only lop about in her saddle.
Lope, verb. (old).—1. See quot.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Lope. To leap, to run away. He loped down the dancers, he ran down stairs.
2. (old).—To steal.
Loplolly, subs. (old).—A servant
who makes himself generally useful,
and is always at the beck
and call of his employer. See
Loblolly.
Lord, subs. (common).—1. See quots.:
cf. lady.
French synonyms. Un bombé (= a crump); une bobosse (popular: bosse = hump); porter sa malle; une boulendos (= hunchback); un bosmar (popular); un Mayeux; un moule-à-melon (popular); un amoureux (popular); un porte-balle (popular); un loucheur de l'épaule (= i.e., a person who squints with his shoulder).
German synonyms. Asterwitz; Pienk (Bavarian: Pünk = a bundle or protruberance).
Spanish synonyms. Brijin-*dobio (Sp. gypsy); paldumo (Sp. gypsy); brijibio.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Lord, a very crooked, deformed, or ill-shapen Person.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1751. Smollett, Peregrine Pickle, xxviii. Who . . . was . . . on account of his hump, distinguished by the title of My lord.
