Obs. exc. Hist. Also 6 laggon, 7, 9 lagan. [ad. L. lagōna, lagēna, flagon, ad. Gr. λάγυνος.] A liquid measure (see quots.).
1570. Levins, Manip., 163/44. A Laggon, lagena.
1607. Cowell, Interpr., Clerk of the market … is an officer … whose dutie is to take charge of the kings measures…: as of elns, yards, lagens.
1676. Coles, Lagen … a measure of six Sextaries.
1841. Tytler, Hist. Scot. (1879), I. 237. With an obligation to sell their ale to the abbott at the rate of a lagen and a half for a penny.
1891. J. Tait, Two Cent. Border Ch. Life, II. 218. The lagan was equal to 7 quarts.
