vbl. sb. [f. LOUP v. + -ING1.] The action of LOUP v.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 316/1. Lowpynge or skyppynge, saltus.
a. 1584. Montgomerie, Cherrie & Slae, 279. Ay houping, throu louping, To win to liberty.
1824. Scott, Redgauntlet, let. ix. Louping and laughing … would soon make the powder flee out of his wig.
b. Comb.: louping ague, ‘a disease resembling St. Vitus’s dance’ (Jam.); louping ill, ‘a disease of sheep, which causes them to spring up and down when moving forward’ (Jam.); louping-on stone, a mounting-block.
1792. Statist. Acc. Scot., Forfarsh., II. 496. A singular kind of distemper, called the *louping ague, has sometimes made its appearance in this parish.
1816. Scott, Bl. Dwarf, x. The *louping-ill’s been sairer amang his sheep than ony season before.
1902. Dundee Advertiser, 31 May. Professor Hamilton … has … discovered the bacilli of loupin’-ill in sheep.
1728. in A. Laing, Lindores Abbey (1876), xxvi. 400. A petition given in by George Grant … To ye baillies and Councill … for ye liberty of building a *louping on ston at the south side of the house in Newburgh he possesses.
1814. Scott, Wav., xxix. He had … by the assistance of a ‘louping-on-stane,’… elevated his person to the back of … a broken-down blood-horse.
1902. C. G. Harper, Holyhead Road, I. 263. Milestones … resembling ‘louping on’ stones or ‘upping blocks.’
