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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Veter.) An enzoötic, often fatal, disease of sheep and other domestic animals, of unknown cause. It is characterized by muscular tremors and spasms, followed by more or less complete paralysis. The principal lesion is an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.

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  • Mr. Dyer, in his _Church Lore Gleanings_, mentions the "louping," or

    The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

  • And the leal men of Lothian, are louping on their horse;

    Castle Dangerous 2008

  • Alan, however (overpassing my small savings), has the world to win; and louping and laughing, as you and he were wont to do, would soon make the powder flee out of his wig, and the pence out of his pocket.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • He looked so much like a tramp that Carlitos gave him the nickname of Old Vizcacha * -- but his dedication was not without its * ... a land-louping scapegrace, hung with rags, That lived like a leech in the fens and quags, A gully-raking veteran scamp, Bad-biled as a mangy boar.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • My abiding interest in infectious disease caused me to focus on the tickborne flavivirus, louping-ill virus, which was then regarded as problematic because of concerns about the safety of the vaccine, first developed at the Moredun many years previously.

    Peter C. Doherty - Autobiography 1997

  • Now, rabbit shooting in the winter, with dogs to hunt the bunnies through brushwood, furze, or bracken, so that snap-shots are offered as they dart across open places, is very good fun; but the only way Saurin had of getting at them at this season was by lying in wait in the evening outside the woods and shooting them when they came louping cautiously out.

    Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

  • "Ay," said he, "there will be mackerel there," and he pointed to the sea, all a-louping with the fish, and then he unravelled his knots, and smoothed the strands with hands brown as a bark sail, and hard-looking as an oak.

    The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

  • After all, it was only Isaac, the bethrel, who, when we let him in, said that he had just keppit four ressurrectioners louping over the wall.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909

  • Now, traveling three miles to the soldiers 'one, scampering in wide circles over the fields, swimming burns, scrambling under hedges, chasing whaups into piping cries, barking and louping in pure exuberance of spirits, many eyes looked upon him admiringly, and discontented mouths turned upward at the corners.

    Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

  • To the mile they ran, Bobby went five, scampering in wide circles and barking and louping at butterflies and whaups.

    Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

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