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louping, vbl. n.|ˈlaʊpɪŋ|
[f. loup v. + -ing1.]
The action of loup v.
c1440Promp. Parv. 316/1 Lowpynge or skyppynge, saltus. a1584Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 279 Ay houping, throu louping, To win to liberty. 1824Scott Redgauntlet let. ix, Louping and laughing..would soon make the powder flee out of his wig.
b. Comb.: louping ague, ‘a disease resembling St. Vitus's dance’ (Jam.); louping ill, ‘a disease of sheep, which causes them to spring up and down when moving forward’ (Jam.); louping-on stone, a mounting-block.
1792Statist. Acc. Scot., Forfarsh. II. 496 A singular kind of distemper, called the *louping ague, has sometimes made its appearance in this parish.
1816Scott Bl. Dwarf x, The *louping-ill's been sairer amang his sheep than ony season before. 1902Dundee Advertiser 31 May, Professor Hamilton..has..discovered the bacilli of loupin'-ill in sheep.
1728in A. Laing Lindores Abbey (1876) xxvi. 400 A petition given in by George Grant..To ye baillies and Councill..for ye liberty of building a *louping on ston at the south side of the house in Newburgh he possesses. 1814Scott Wav. xxix, He had..by the assistance of a ‘louping-on-stane’,..elevated his person to the back of..a broken-down blood-horse. 1902C. G. Harper Holyhead Road I. 263 Mile⁓stones..resembling ‘louping on’ stones or ‘upping blocks’. |