Obs. Also 3 lotie(n, 4 lotye, ? 5 loyt. [OE. *lotian, f. lut-, ablaut-variant of *lút- in the synonymous OE. lútian = OHG. lûzên (MHG. lûzen); the root is prob. identical with that in the str. vb. OE. lútan to bow down (see LOUT v.).] intr. To lurk, lie concealed.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 217. On þesse fewe litele wored lotieð fele gode wored ȝif hie weren wel ioponed.
c. 1275. Lay., 21509. And dude ȝam alle cleane into þan sipes grunde, and hehte heom lotie [c. 1205 lutie] wel, þat Cheldrich nere noht war.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XVII. 102. For outlawes in the wode and vnder banke lotyeth.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Sec. Nun’s T., 186. He foond this hooly olde Vrban anon Among the Seintes buryeles lotynge.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), IV. 397. Latere a Latyn is lotye. Ibid. (1398), Barth. De P. R., XVII. liii. (Tollem. MS.). Wormes loteþ under þe schadow þerof.
Hence † Loting vbl. sb. (in comb. loting-place).
13[?]. K. Alis., 6203. He say the ekeris wonynge, And the fysches lotynge.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XIV. liii. (Tollem. MS.). A caue is proper lotynge and hidynge place of bestes, þat wonen in dennes and dowers.
