Obs. [a. L. lōtūra washing.] Washing: = LOTION sb. 2. Also concr., the water in which any substance has been ‘washed.’
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. XXXIV. xviii. 519. Lead doth yeeld from it selfe a certaine substance by way of loture, which is of right great and manifold vse in physicke.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 100. Rusticks in Summer decoct the Loture of honey-combes.
