loun

American  

[loon] / lun /

noun

Scot.

1. loon.

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loun

O is your bairn to laird or loun?

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick

Thou shalt not yield to lord nor loun, Nor yet shalt thou yield to me; But yield thee to the braken-bush That grows on yon lily-lee.'

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various

I think," said the ancient patriarch, "I'll just rest whar I am; it's a bonny sunny day, and the den is a' loun and sheltered.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various

I pointed to my faither's ha'— Yon bonnie bield ayont the shaw, Sae loun that there nae blast could blaw:— Wad she no bide in Gowrie?

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

And they have tied him hand and foot, And led him up, thro’ Stirling town; The lads and lasses met him there, Cried, Hughie Graham, thou art a loun.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns