LOUT

v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To bend; to box; to stoop. [Archaic] Chaucer. Longfellow. He fair the knight saluted, louting low. Spenser.

2.
n.

A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin. Sir P. Sidney.

3.
v.

To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint. [Obs.] Shak.


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