loture
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin lotura. See lotion.
Noun
[edit]loture (plural lotures)
- (obsolete) A lotion.
- 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book II.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
- Lead doth yeeld from it selfe a certaine substance by way of loture, which is of right great and manifold vse in physicke.
References
[edit]- “loture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.