[f. LOLL v.1 + -ING2.] That lolls; reclining lazily; dangling, drooping. Of the tongue: Protruding and hanging down.
1567. Turberv., Ovid’s Epist., P v b. Marke out of order howe my lolling tresses flee.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 263. He would sooner espye him to be an Asse by his lollyng eares, then a Lyon by his pawes.
1587. Turberv., Trag. Tales, etc. 190. None in all the land, long lolling lockes do weare.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Æneid, VIII. 399. The triple Porter of the Stygian Seat, With lolling Tongue, lay fawning at thy Feet.
1711. Shaftesb., Charac., VI. iv. (1737), III. 371. One Hand … serving only to support, with much ado, the lolling lazy Body.
1742. Pope, Dunc., IV. 337. A lazy, lolling sort … Or ever-listless Loit’rers.
1825. L. Hunt, Redi’s Bacchus in Tuscany, 611. And now, Silenus, lend thy lolling ears.
1849. Kingsley, Misc. (1860), II. 243. The silent hounds lying about…, their lolling tongues showing like bright crimson sparkles.
1850. Mrs. Browning, Island, ix. Shut bells, that, dull with rapture, sink, And lolling buds, half shy.
b. Her. Of a hawk: With wings hanging down.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, II. xi. 230/2. When Hawks feed they do generally hang down their Wings, which the Master of such kinds of Birds of Prey term (Lolling), therefore some from thence have blazoned this an Eagle lolling and feeding on his Prey: but that is needless, seeing they feed in this posture.
1894. Parker, Gloss. Her., Lolling, a name rarely used for Preying.
