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Luath (2 syl.)

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Cuthullin’s dog in Ossian’s Fingal; also the name of the poor man’s dog representing the peasantry in The Twa Dogs, by Robert Burns. The gentleman’s dog is called Cæsar. Also Fingal’s dog. (See Dog.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Low to High
Lower City (The)
Lower Empire
Lower your Sail
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Loy
Loyal
Loys [lo-is]
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