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Lunȝe, Lonȝe, n. Also: lunȝie, luingie, leungyie; lonȝie, loynye, loing; louné; and Lown. [OF. loigne, loingne, logne, longe, also luingne, luine, (mod. F. longe): cf. e.m.E. lounie (1575), loigne (1589). Cf. also Loyn and Lundy.]

1. The loin of a person or living animal. Also attrib. in luingie-bone, hip-bone.(a) c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxvi. 75.
Belliall … Evir lascht thame on the lunȝie 1540 Lynd. Sat. 407 (B).
Sollace, that salbe na sunȝie, Beir thow that bag vpoun thy lunȝie 1597 Crim. Trials II. 28.
Quhilk cure scho practizit vpoun Marioune Wallace … and diuerse vtheris for a dolour in thair lunȝe Ib.
Scho maid a saw … and laid it to the patientis lunȝie … , lyke as, scho causit to bath hir lunȝie with scheippis doung 1686 G. Stuart Joco-Ser. Disc. 13.
I saw your naig, … I took his leungyie sike a skelpattrib. 1670 Red Bk. Grandtully II. 193.
I fell over the stair … and hurt my luingie bone(b) c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 121.
Lene larbar, loungeour, baith lowsy in lisk and lonȝe [M. lunȝe] 1595 Duncan App. Etym.
Lumbus, the lonȝie or hanche(c) 1584 Waus Corr. 283.
M^r. Ro^t. is vexit with ane sairnes in his louneis and bak

b. In the Biblical phrase, (to belt one's) loins. rendering Ephes. vi. 14.fig. 1551 Hamilton Cat. 267.
Belt our loynyeis with verite

2. A loin (of veal, etc.), the joint of meat. 1548 Stirling B. Rec. I. 52.
The yong vale vj s., ane doissoun of loingis viij s.