Loon [in New England]

Loon [in New England]
a bird like a comorant, that can scarce go, much less fly, and makes a noise like a sow-gelder’s horn.

Definition taken from The Universal Etymological English Dictionary, edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)

Loon * Loˊriot
Gallery Ladder [in a Ship]
Laˊnthorn
Magical Lanthorn [in Opticks]
Lawless Court [so called, because held at an unlawful hour]
Leaˊthersellers
Liberal Arts
Lˊiberalness, or Libera’lity
Liberality
Loaˊdstone
Loon
Loon [in New England]
Loˊriot
Luˊcern
Magick