2. (l"l) So as to cause loathing. [Obs.]

With dust and blood his locks were loathly dight.

Fairfax.

Loath"ness (?), n. Unwillingness; reluctance.

A general silence and loathness to speak.

Bacon.

Loath"some (?), a. Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust;

disgusting.

The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection.

Macaulay.

-- Loath"some*ly. adv. -- Loath"some*ness, n.

Loath"y (?), a. Loathsome. [Obs.] Spenser.

Loaves (?), n.; pl. of Loaf.

Lob (?), n. [W. llob an unwieldy lump, a dull fellow, a blockhead. Cf.

Looby, Lubber.] 1. A dull, heavy person. " Country lobs." Gauden.

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