KNUSE, KNOOSE, vb. to bruise, to press down with the knees, to
    beat, also to knead.  Ramsay, I, 236.  See Jamieson for
    secondary meanings.  O.N. knusa, to bruise, to beat, Norse
    knusa, Dan. knuse, crush, O. Sw. knosa, knusa, crush,
    press tight, beat.  Cp.  Goth. knusian.  O.E. cnysian, shows
    umlaut.

KOW, sb. a fright, terror.  Winyet, I, 107, 12.  O.N. kuga, to
    cow.  See cow, vb.

LACK, vb. to belittle, blame, reproach, despise.  Mont., M.P., 43,
    17; R.R., 3242; 3517; Gau., 17, 25.  O.N. hlakka, to look
    down upon, O. Dan. lakke, to slander, O. Sw. belacka, id. 
    See lak, sb.

LAICHING, sb. sport, play.  R.R., 647.  From Sco. vb. laike, to
    play, O.N. laeika.  See lak.

LAIF, LAVE, sb. the rest.  O.N. laeif, a leaving, pl. laeifar,
    remnants, Norse leiv, id., loyva, to leave.  Cannot come
    from O.E. l[-a]f.  See Sec.20.

LAIGH, adj. low.  Ramsay, II, 20; Mansie Wauch, 106, 23.  Same as
    Eng. low, from O.N. lagr, O. Sw. lagher, O. Dan. lagh,
    lag, low.  In Eng., O.N. ag > [o,]w > ow.  In Scotland
    ag > aw, did not become ow later.  So the regular Sco.
    form is law, or, with guttural, lawch.  In laigh,
    however, a has developed as a would when not before g or
    h.  The form logh also occurs.  In Dunbar occur low,
    law, laich, and loigh.

LAIGH, vb. to bend down, to kneel.  Psalms XCV, 6.  See laigh,
    adj.

LAIKE, sb. the stake for which one plays.  Montg., C., I, 109.  O.N.
    laeikr, a play, Norse leik, O. Dan. legh.  Also means play
    in Sco., but the transferred meaning is common.  It cannot come
    from O.E. l[-a]c.  The e-vowel in Cu., Westm., and S.
    Scotland proves an original aei-diphthong.  See Part I, Sec.16.

LAIRET, adj. bemired.  Psalms LXIX, 2.  Norse laeir, clay.  Dan.
    dial. ler, O. Sw. leer, ler, id., Eng. dial. lair.  See
    Wall.  Jamieson gives lair, vb. to stick in the mire, lair,
    sb. a bog, lairy, adj. boggy.

LAIRING, sb. gutter, deep mud.  Burns, 10, 11.  O.N. laeir, clay. 
    Same as Yorkshire lyring, for which see Wall. Lyring seems
    to show original E. Scan. monophthongation of aei to e.

LAIT, sb. manner, trick.  R.R., 273, 25, 36.  O.N., Ic. lat,
    manners, skipta litum ok latum, change shape and manners. 
    O. Sw. lat, manner, way of proceeding.  Cp.  O.N. lata-laeti,
    dissimulation, latbrageth, gestures, and Dan. lade, to
    dissimulate, pretend.  Norse lata, id.  Probably related to
    O.N. lat.