Luath (2 syl.).

Cuthullin’s dog in Ossian’s Fingal; also the name of the poor man’s dog representing the peasantry in The Twa Dogs, by Robert Burns. The gentleman’s dog is called Cæsar. Also Fingal’s dog. (See Dog.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Low Sunday
Low to High
Lower City (The)
Lower Empire
Lower your Sail
Lowlanders of Attica
Lowndean Professor (Cambridge University)
Loy
Loyal
Loys [lo-is]
Luath
Lubber (A)
Lubber’s Hole
Lubberkin or Lubrican. (Irish, Lobaircin or Leprechaun.)
Lubins
Lucasian Professor
Lucasta
Luce
Luce
Lucia di Lammermoor
Lucian