▪ I. ˈlucken, pa. pple. and ppl. a. Sc. and north. dial.
[str. pa. pple. of louk v.1 See also loken.]
Closed, locked, shut up, close-joined; said e.g. of the hand or fist (lit. and fig.); also spec. of web-feet.
| c 1470 Henryson Mor. Fab. xiii. (Frog & Mouse) vi, ‘With my twa feit’, quod scho, ‘lukkin and braid, In steid of airis, I row the streme full still’. 1632 Lithgow Trav. x. 469 Mine armes being broake, my hands lucken and sticking fast to the palmes of both hands, by reason of the shrunke sinewes. 1721 Ramsay Genty Tibby ii, Fresh as the lucken flowers in May. 1790 Fisher Poems 104 Lucken hands, she ne'er had nane To man or beast. |
b. Comb.: lucken-browed a., having the eyebrows close together; lucken-footed a., web-footed.
| 1683 G. Meriton Yorksh. Dial. 73 Thou lucken-brow'd Trull. 1710 Sibbald Hist. Fife (1803) 109 This [Turtur maritimus insulae Bass] is palmipes, that's luckenfooted. |
c. lucken booths, booths which can be closed or locked up; hence, the place or quarter where such booths are permanently erected in a town.
| 1456 in Charters etc. Peebles (1872) 113 Land awest half the Cors and on the North Rau som tym was callet the Lwkyn Bothys. 1625 Ibid. 413 In ane hows at the bak of the Lwikinbuithis. a 1835 J. M. Wilson Tales Borders (1839) V. 10/2 The buildings of the jail and Luckenbooths hid that part of the street. 1896 Crockett Grey Man ii. 13 Buying of trittle-trattles at the lucky-booths. |
▪ II. lucken, v.1 Sc. ? Obs.
[? f. lucken pa. pple.]
trans. To lock, fasten together; to gather up (cloth) in folds; to knit (the brows).
| c 1560 A. Scott Poems, ‘Quha is perfyte’ 35 Baith our hartis ar ane, luknyt in luvis chene. a 1670 Spalding Troub. Chas. I (1851) II. 388 Haddoche prepairit him self noblie for death, and causit mak ane syd Holland cloth sark, luknit at the heid for his winding scheit. 1806 Jamieson Pop. Ball. II. 173 While anger lucken'd his dark brows. |
▪ III. † lucken, v.2 Obs. rare.
[f. luck n. or v. + -en3.]
intr. To happen, chance; = luck v. 1.
| 1674 N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 56 Which shall be likewise set down in somewhat a mingled way, as they may lucken most readily to come into mind. |