▪ I. † lahter Obs.
Forms: 1 leahter, 2 lehter, 3 leihter.
[OE. leahter, f. OTeut. *lahan (OE. léan) to blame.]
A vice, sin, crime.
| c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. iii. xi. [xiii.] (1890) 190 Ic ma synnum & leahtrum þeowde, þonne Godes bebodum. 971 Blickl. Hom. 163 Ne hie næniᵹ leahter ne drefde. a 1175 Cott. Hom. 243 In þes deofles heriscole fihteð agen us his iferred ᵹewerᵹed gastes, and unþeawes and unwraste lahtres. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 79 Ðe fule lehtres him holden bunden on here þralshipe. a 1225 Ancr. R. 156 Non empti stude iðe heorte to underuongen flesliche leihtren. |
▪ II. lahter
obs. form of laughter.