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Loch definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LOCH, n. A lake; a bay or arm of the sea; used in Scotland.
LOCH, n. Loch or lohoch, is an Arabian name for the forms of medicines called eclegmas, lambatives, linctures, and the like.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked)
2: Scottish word for a lake

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English (Scots) louch, from Scottish Gaelic loch; akin to Latin lacus lake — more at lake Date: 14th century 1. Scottish lake 2. Scottish a bay or arm of the sea especially when nearly landlocked

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Sc. 1 a lake. 2 an arm of the sea, esp. when narrow or partially land-locked. Etymology: ME f. Gael.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Loch Loch, n. [Gael. & Olr. loch. See Lake of water.] A lake; a bay or arm of the sea. [Scot.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Loch Loch, n. [F. looch, Ar. la'?g, an electuary, or any medicine which may be licked or sucked, fr. la'?g to lick.] (Med.) A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(lochs) A loch is a large area of water in Scotland that is completely or almost completely surrounded by land. ...twenty miles north of Loch Ness. N-COUNT: oft in names before n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. [Scotch.] 1. Lake, pond, mere. 2. Creek, inlet, bay. 3. (Med.) [Written also Loche, Lohoch, and Looch.] Lambative, lincture, linctus.

Moby Thesaurus

arm, armlet, artificial lake, bay, bayou, bayou lake, belt, bight, boca, cistern, cove, creek, dam, dead water, dike, estuary, etang, euripus, farm pond, fishpond, fjord, freshwater lake, frith, glacial lake, gulf, gut, harbor, inland sea, inlet, kyle, lagoon, laguna, lake, lakelet, landlocked water, linn, lough, mere, millpond, millpool, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, nyanza, oxbow lake, plash, pond, pondlet, pool, puddle, reach, reservoir, road, roads, roadstead, salina, salt pond, sound, stagnant water, standing water, still water, strait, straits, sump, tank, tarn, tidal pond, volcanic lake, water hole, water pocket, well