lewth Now dial.
(luːθ)
Also 6 lothe.
[OE. hléowþ, hl{yacu}wð, f. hléow lew a.1: see -th1.]
a. Warmth. b. Shelter (cf. house-lewth, house 24).
| c 1000 Hexam. St. Basil xx. (1849) 28 Ðonne him cælð he cepð him hlywðe. c 1000 ælfric Hom. II. 144 To neste bæron, heora briddum to hleowþe. a 1100 Ags. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 336/31 Apricitas, hleowð. 1554 Survey Malling Church in Sussex Arch. Coll. XXI. 180 Cattell & swyne come daylye in to the churche, in the somer for hette, and now for lothe. 1825 Britton Beauties Wilts III. 375 Lewth, warmth. 1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders III. xv. 311 With the sun or against the sun, uphill or downhill, in wind or in lewth. 1898 ― Wessex Poems 204 In the lewth of a codlin-tree. |