[f. LOUT v.1 + -ING2.] Bowing down, deferential.
1602. 2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass., III. iv. 1389. Iustly to esteeme my verses lowting pitch.
1603. Florio, Montaigne, I. xlii. (1632), 141. If he [a king] chance to be jealous or capricious, will our lowting-curtzies … bring him in tune againe?
1886. Stevenson, Kidnapped, xv. (1888), 138. Our lowland beggars … had a louting, flattering way with them.
