Obs. Forms: 1 lútian, 3 lutien, 4 lute(n, 5 loute, lowt. [OE. lútian weak vb. = OHG. lûʓên (MHG. lûʓen) f. Teut. root *leut-: laut-: lūt- (see LOUT v.1); cf. OHG. loscên (:—*OTeut. stem *lut-skiæ-) to lurk, LUSK.] intr. To lurk, lie hid, skulk, sneak. Used both in material and immaterial sense.
c. 825. Vesp. Hymns, xiii. 26. Ðu wunda lutiendra god ætstondes lece.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Josh. ii. 16. Farað eow nu … to muntum and lutiað þær þry daʓas.
c. 1205. Lay., 21509. Duden heom alle clane into þan scipen grunde & hæhte heom þere lutie [c. 1275 lotie] wel.
c. 1230. Hali Meid., 43. Ha [sc. prude] luteð iþe heorte.
a. 1250. Owl & Night., 373. Þe hare luteþ al day, Ac noþeles i-seo he may, Ȝif [etc.].
c. 1250. Long Life, 29, in O. E. Misc., 156. Ac deþ luteþ in his scho.
1390. Gower, Conf., I. 107. For love is of himself so derne, It luteth in a mannes herte.
c. 1470. Harding, Chron., CXX. ix. Thus semeth well in armes a knight to dye, And not in bed to lye, loure, and loute, Tyll death hym kyll with paynes cruelly.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 378/2. Valeryan … fonde this holy man urbane lowtyng emonge the buryellys.
b. simply. To lie.
c. 1460. J. Russell, Bk. Nurture, 579. Þey [fish] must be tekyn of as þey in þe dische lowt.
