Sc. ? Obs. Also 6 lonȝe, lounie, 7 leungyie, 9 lunzie, lungie. Var. of LOIN sb.
1508. Dunbar, Flyting w. Kennedie, 121. Lene larbar, loungeour, baith lowsy in lisk and lonȝe. Ibid. (a. 1520), Poems, xxvi. 75. Belliall, with a brydill renyie, Evir lascht thame on the lunyie.
1575. R. B., Apius & Virginia, iiij b. Your fatlings are feding well Sir, the Gods be praised, A goodly lounie of beef on them is all redy raised.
1686. G. Stuart, Joco-Ser. Disc., 13. I saw your Naig, else I’m a Whelp I took his Leungyie sike a Skelp.
1818. Scott, Br. Lamm., xxii. Broad in the shouthers and narrow around the lungies.
1819. W. Tennant, Papistry Storm’d (1827), 14. He gave his lunzie sic a lounder As did the sillie man dumfounder.
