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Definition of Looing
1. loo [v] - See also: loo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Looing
Literary usage of Looing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"CHAPTER II Scarcity «f '''ood—An Incident — looing and Bleating—Messrs. Bents —
Trade — Little Arkansas — A Nauseous Meal — A Flood — An Onset — A Hard Ride ..."
2. Travels in the Great Western Prairies: The Anahuac and Rocky Mountains, and by Thomas Jefferson Farnham (1843)
"Scarcity of Food—An Incident—looing and Bleating— Messrs. Bents—Trade—Little
Arkansas—A Nauseous ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"called looing, and a Spanish proverb cited by Tylor (Prim. Cult. 188) shows that
the same mode of representing the sound is familiar in Spain. ..."
4. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"Some fainter ones far off are very like the looing [sic] of cows. This sound,
heard low and far off over meadows when the warmer hours have come, ..."
5. A Winter in the West by Charles Fenno Hoffman (1835)
"... looing me with eleven wolves. Some of these fellows would stand looking at us
within half-gunshot, as we rode by them ; while the grouse would rise ..."
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