Also lawine. [ad. G. lawine, according to Kluge f. lau mild, tepid.] An avalanche.
1818. Byron, Ch. Har., IV. xii. Nations melt … and downward go, Like lauwine loosen’d from the mountain’s belt.
1833. Penny Cycl., I. 389. Generally termed Avalanches, or sometimes lauwines.
1845. Blackw. Mag., LVIII. 34. I see … the cliff-cradled lawine essay its first motion.
1881. J. Nichol, Death Themistocles, etc. 131. Down whose slope the Lauwine thunders.
