[lout] Pronunciation Key | 1. | an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf. |
| 2. | to flout; treat with contempt; scorn. |
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[lout] Pronunciation Key | to bend, stoop, or bow, esp. in respect or courtesy. |
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
| lout 1
(lout) Pronunciation Key
n. An awkward and stupid person; an oaf. See Synonyms at boor. [Possibly from lout2.] |
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| lout 2
(lout) Pronunciation Key
intr.v. lout·ed, lout·ing, louts
[Middle English louten, from Old English lūtan.] |
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lout (n.)
Lout
Lout is a batch text formatting system and an embedded language by Jeffrey H. Kingston
Lout features equation formatting, tables, diagrams, rotation and scaling, sorted indexes, bibliographic databases, running headers and odd-even pages and automatic cross-referencing. Lout is easily extended with definitions which are very much easier to write than troff of TeX macros because Lout is a high-level language, the outcome of an eight-year research project that went back to the beginning.
Version 2.05 includes a translator from Lout to PostScript and documentation. and runs under Unix and on the Amiga.
Author's site, (ftp://ftp.uu.net/tmp/lout.tar.Z). Amiga.
(1993-07-30)
Lout
Lout\, v. i. [OE. louten, luten, AS. l?tan; akin to Icel. l?ta, Dan. lude, OHG. l?z?n to lie hid.] To bend; to box; to stoop. [Archaic] --Chaucer. Longfellow. He fair the knight saluted, louting low. --Spenser.Lout
Lout\, n. [Formerly also written lowt.] A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin. --Sir P. Sidney.Lout
Lout\, v. t. To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint. [Obs.] --Shak.Copyright © 2008, Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.











