Now dial. Also 6 lothe. [OE. hléowþ, hlýtwð, f. hléow LEW a.1: see -TH.] a. Warmth. b. Shelter (cf. house-lewth, HOUSE 23).
c. 1000. Hexam. St. Basil, xx. (1849), 28. Ðonne him cælð he cepð him hlywðe.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., II. 144. To neste bæron, heora briddum to hleowþe.
a. 1100. Ags. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 336/31. Apricitas, hleowð.
1554. Survey Malling Church, in Sussex Arch. Coll., XXI. 180. Cattell & swyne come daylye in to the churche, in the somer for hette, and now for lothe.
1825. Britton, Beauties Wilts, III. 375. Lewth, warmth.
1887. T. Hardy, Woodlanders, III. xv. 311. With the sun or against the sun, uphill or downhill, in wind or in lewth. Ibid. (1898), Wessex Poems, 204. In the lewth of a codlin-tree.
