Forms: 1 hlúde, 2–4 lud(e, 3–4 loude, (4 lhoude, louthe), 4–7 lowd(e, (5 louȝde), 4– loud. [OE. hlúde = OS. hlúdo (Du. luid), OHG. hlûto, lûto (MHG. lûte, G. laut):—OTeut. *hlûdô, f. *hlûdo- LOUD a.]
1. Loudly, with a loud noise or voice; aloud.
971. Blickl. Hom., 149. Hwæt is … þis folc þe her þus hlude singeþ?
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 43. Summe of þan monne … swa deor lude remeð.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 290. Ȝif þe ne cumeð nout sone help, gred luddure mid hote heorte.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, vii. (Jacobus Minor), 208. & prayand fore þame Increly & lovd, þat al hard þis, can cry.
c. 1420. Chron. Vilod., 3793. Þey … knokkede fast & louȝde at þe gate.
c. 1491. Chast. Goddes Chyld., 8. Some crye lowde wyth an hye woys.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. vi. 27. A Lyonesse…, That roaring all with rage did lowd requere Her children deare.
1632. Milton, Penseroso, 126. Kercheft in a comely cloud While rocking winds are piping loud. Ibid. (1671), P. R., XI. 339. While they loudest sing The vices of thir Deities, and thir own.
1771. Goldsm., Hist. Eng., II. 211. The inhabitants clamoured so loud for a surrender.
1819. Hazlitt, Pol. Ess., 148. He asserts a fact the louder, as he suspects it to be without proof.
1894. A. Robertson, Nuggets, etc. 216. I shouted ‘hurrah,’ and laughed loud and long.
† b. Loud and still: under all circumstances. [So MDu. lude en stille.] Obs.
1300–1400. R. Gloucester’s Chron. (Rolls), App. xx. 352. Þat wolde libbe in ryot & habbe al hare wille In robberiȝe & prute boþe loude & stille.
a. 1340. Hampole, Pr. Consc., 103. We suld pray, bathe loud and stille, For al cristen saules.
c. 1430. Syr Gener. (Roxb.), 8368. I must nedes doo his wil In al that I can loude or still.
1636. Heywood, Loves Maistresse, II. i. Wks. 1874, V. 108. Let me hear some music, loud and still.
† c. With to lie: Openly, palpably. (Cf. LOUD a. 2 d.) Obs.
a. 1400. Pistill of Susan, 343 (Vernon MS.). Now þou liest loude, so helpe me vr lord.
1600. Holland, Livy, XXXVIII. lv. 1019. I would rather thinke that the clerke … faulted with his pen in writing the copies, than the authour lied so lowd with his tongue.
2. Of smell: Strongly, offensively. (Cf. LOUD a. 3 and ALOUD adv. 2.)
1871. Joaquin Miller, Songs Italy (1878), 104. Carry … some drug that smells loud.
3. Comb. with pres. and pa. pples. of verbs denoting or implying the production of sound, e.g., loud-acclaiming, -bellowing, -laughing, -ringing, -roaring, -screaming, -singing, -squeaking, -thundering, -ticking, etc.; loud-roared, etc. Also loud-spoken a., given to loud speaking.
1591. Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. ii. 733. The loud-roaring Thunder. Ibid., vi. 905. Loud-thundring Canons.
a. 1631. Donne, Poems (1650), 87. Some lowd squeaking Cryer Well pleas’d with one leane thred-bare groat for hire.
a. 1649. Drumm. of Hawth., Poems, Wks. (1711), 36. The christal-streaming Nid, loud-bellowing Clyde.
1667. G. C., Pref. to H. More’s Div. Dial. (1713), 5. Those two loud-singing Nightingals of Arcadia.
1725. Pope, Odyss., IV. 464. Loud-acclaiming Greeks the victor bless’d.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), I. 596. Intemperate Jest, loud-laughing Mockery, and hood-winked Misrule.
1838. Dickens, O. Twist, xii. A very large and loud-ticking gold watch.
1855. Longf., Hiaw., XV. 117. The loud-speaking thunder helps me.
1859. Geo. Eliot, A. Bede, v. A broad-faced, broad-chested, loud-screaming rascal.
1882. Stevenson, New Arab. Nts., I. 138. Sir Thomas was … loud-spoken, boisterous and domineering.
