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

Clownish; rude; awkward. "Loutish clown." Sir P. Sidney. -- Lout"ish*ly, adv. -- Lout"*ish*ness, n.

A crested black monkey (Semnopithecus maurus) of Java.

cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag. His garments, nought but many ragged clouts, With thorns together pinned and patched was. Spenser. A clout upon that head where late the diadem stood. Shak.

Clumsy; awkward. [Obs.] Rough-hewn, cloutery verses. E. Phillips.

To divest of a clout. [R.]

A dishcloth. [Obsolescent]

To mock or insult; to treat with contempt. Phillida flouts me. Walton. Three gaudy standarts lout the pale blue sky. Byron.

One who flouts; a mocker.

With flouting; insultingly; as, to treat a lover floutingly.

To lose by sloth or negligence. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To pout; to look sullen. [Obs.] Garth.

Act of ploutering; floundering; act or sound of splashing. [Scot. & Dial.Eng.]

A white sauce or stock made by boiling down ham, veal, beef, fowl, bouillon, etc., then adding soup stock, seasoning, vegetables, and thickening, and again boiling and straining.

To treat as a lout; to talk abusively to. [Obs.] Camden.

A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick. He that a fool doth very wisely hit, Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob. Shak.

the boundaries of the skies. N. Cotton. That bright and tranquil stream, the boundary of Louth and Meath. Macaulay. Sensation and reflection are the boundaries of our thoughts. Locke.

An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout. "Bashful country bumpkins." W. Irving.

The jaw. [Obs.] Spenser. Chaw bacon, a rustic; a bumpkin; a lout. (Law) -- Chaw tooth, a grinder. (Law)

Hence: A blockhead; a lout. Hood.