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loch

noun

  1. Scottish Gaelic and Irish word for a lake or a sea inlet
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /lɔx/ / /lɒk/ / /lɒx/

name

Etymology: Two main origins: * Borrowed from German Loch, a topographic surname for someone who lived by a hollow or valley. * From Scottish Gaelic loch (“loch, lake”), a Scottish topographic surname.

  1. A surname.
  2. A town in Bass Coast Shire and South Gippsland Shire, southern Victoria, Australia.

noun

Etymology: See lohoch.

  1. Alternative form of lohoch (“medicine taken by licking”).

    “We may obtain, then, a just idea of the constitution of this liquid [milk], if we look upon it as a soft, liquid substance, a kind of loch,^* in which caseine, sugar, &c., are dissolved, and in which the fatty or oily substance is distributed in small, rounded atoms. [Footnote *: Loch, or lohoch, is an Arabian name for a medicine of a consistence between an electuary and a sirup, and usually taken by licking.[…]]”

    “Uncle James had caught a cold too, so I went with Grissel; and found a chemist who'd been in France, and knew what a loch was and made one for me; […]”