A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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(Lows-,) Lous-leivand, Louse-leiving, a. [Lows a. (adv.) 3: cf. e.m.E. loose-living (1607).] Living lawlessly or immorally; lawless, wanton. —a1578 Pitsc. (1814) 342.
Johne Armstrange, … albeit he was ane lous leivand man, … nevir molested no Scottis man 1637 Edinb. B. Rec. VII. 196.
Wemen's … weiring of thair gounes and pittiecottis about thair heeds and faices … [results in] matrones not being abill to be discerned frome strumpettis and louse leiving wemen
