a. Sc. Obs. [a. Gaelic lachdunn = Irish lachtna.] Dull colored, swarthy.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, XIX. 672. A lawchtane [MS. E lauchtane] mantill than hym by Lyand apon the bed he saw.
a. 1568. in Pinkerton, Anc. Sc. Poems (1786), 192. My rubie cheeks, was reid as rone, Ar leyn, and lauchtane as the leid.
