*lough*

n. [ OE. clough, cloghe, clou, clewch, AS. (assumed) clōh, akin to G. klinge ravine. ] 1. A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley. Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Com.) An allowance in weighing. See Cloff. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. fr. D. verlof, fr. a prefix akin to E. for + the root of E. lief, and akin to Dan. forlov, Sw. förlof, G. verlaub permission. See Life, a. ] (Mil.) Leave of absence; especially, leave given to an officer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of absence. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Furloughed p. pr. & vb. n. Furloughing. ] (Mil.) To furnish with a furlough; to grant leave of absence to, as to an officer or soldier.

obs. strong imp. of Laugh. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 1st Loch. ] A loch or lake; -- so spelt in Ireland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. See Plow. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OE. plouh, plou, AS. plōh; akin to D. ploeg, G. pflug, OHG. pfluog, pfluoh, Icel. plōgr, Sw. plog, Dan. ploug, plov, Russ. plug', Lith. plugas. ] 1. A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where fern succeeds ungrateful to the plow. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A carucate of land; a plowland. [ Obs. ] [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five. Tale of Gamelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Bookbinding) An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Astron.) Same as Charles's Wain. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ice plow, a plow used for cutting ice on rivers, ponds, etc., into cakes suitable for storing. [ U. S. ] --
Mackerel plow. See under Mackerel. --
Plow alms, a penny formerly paid by every plowland to the church. Cowell. --
Plow beam, that part of the frame of a plow to which the draught is applied. See Beam, n., 9. --
Plow Monday, the Monday after Twelth Day, or the end of Christmas holidays. --
Plow staff. (a) A kind of long-handled spade or paddle for cleaning the plowshare; a paddle staff. (b) A plow handle. --
Snow plow, a structure, usually Λ-shaped, for removing snow from sidewalks, railroads, etc., -- drawn or driven by a horse or a locomotive. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Plowed r Ploughed; p. pr. & vb. n. Plowing or Ploughing. ] 1. To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let patient Octavia plow thy visage up
With her prepared nails. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

With speed we plow the watery way. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

To plow in, to cover by plowing; as, to plow in wheat. --
To plow up, to turn out of the ground by plowing. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. i. To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow ? Isa. xxviii. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Capable of being plowed; arable. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Eng. Law) Wood or timber allowed to a tenant for the repair of instruments of husbandry. See Bote. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. One who plows; a plowman; a cultivator. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow. Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Same as Plowgate. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The Scotch equivalent of the English word plowland. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not having one plowgate of land. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The clevis or draught iron of a plow. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n.; pl. -men 1. One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman. Chaucer. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Plowman's spikenard (Bot.), a European composite weed (Conyza squarrosa), having fragrant roots. Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A detachable share at the extreme front end of the plow body. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Plowshare bone (Anat.), the pygostyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The hind part or handle of a plow. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. One who makes or repairs plows. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Slow. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. slogh, slough, AS. slōh a hollow place; cf. MHG. slūch an abyss, gullet, G. schlucken to swallow; also Gael. & Ir. sloc a pit, pool. ditch, Ir. slug to swallow. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to hiccough, to sob. ] 1. A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

He's here stuck in a slough. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. def>A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river. [ In this sense local or provincial; also spelt sloo, and slue. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Slough grass (Bot.), a name in the Mississippi valley for grasses of the genus Muhlenbergia; -- called also drop seed, and nimble Will. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. slugh, slouh; cf. MHG. sl&unr_;ch the skin of a serpent, G. schlauch a skin, a leather bag or bottle. ] 1. The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Sloughed p. pr. & vb. n. Sloughing. ] (Med.) To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cast off; to discard as refuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

New tint the plumage of the birds,
And slough decay from grazing herds. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of sloughs, miry. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. An implement operating like a plow, but on a larger scale, for clearing away the snow from roads, railways, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]