From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lout \Lout\ (lout), verb (used without an object) [OE. louten, luten, AS. l[=u]tan; akin to Icel. l[=u]ta, Dan. lude, OHG. l[=u]z[=e]n to lie hid.] To bend; to box; to stoop. [Archaic] --Chaucer. --Longfellow.
He fair the knight saluted, louting low. --Spenser.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lout \Lout\, noun [Formerly also written lowt.] A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin. --Sir P. Sidney.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lout \Lout\, verb (used with an object) To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint. [Obs.] --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: an awkward stupid person [syn: {clod}, {stumblebum}, {goon}, {oaf}, {lubber}, {lummox}, {lump}, {gawk}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
84 Moby Thesaurus words for "lout": Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, babe, blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, boor, botcher, bounder, bourgeois, bucolic, bumbler, bumpkin, bungler, cad, child, child of nature, churl, clod, clodhopper, clodknocker, clot, clown, country bumpkin, deride, dolt, dove, dupe, epicier, farmer, fumbler, gawk, gawky, gowk, groundling, guttersnipe, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, infant, ingenue, innocent, klutz, lamb, lobster, looby, low fellow, lubber, lummox, lump, mere child, mock, mucker, noble savage, nouveau riche, oaf, ox, palooka, parvenu, peasant, quiz, rally, razz, ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rube, ruffian, rustic, scout, simple soul, slouch, slubberer, taunt, twit, unsophisticate, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yokel
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Lout Lout is a batch text formatting system and an embedded language by Jeffrey H. Kingston . The language is procedural, with {Scribe}-like {syntax}. 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} {macro}s 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.cs.su.oz.au/jeff/lout.2.03.tar.Z)}, {(ftp://ftp.uu.net/tmp/lout.tar.Z)}. {Amiga (ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/text/dtp/loutBin203.lha)}. (1993-07-30)
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