Sc. [Gael. lochan, dim. of loch.] A small loch or lake.
1789. D. Davidson, Seasons, 36. The rumour spreading round the lochan, The cause could not be told for laughin.
1811. Mrs. Anne Grant, Superstit. Highlanders, I. 266. In the depth of the valley, there is a lochan (the diminutive of loch) of superlative beauty.
1854. H. Miller, Sch. & Schm., x. (1857), 205. A little irregular lochan, fringed round with flags and rushes.
1865. J. Brown, Enterkin, 31. Still there sleep unnumber’d lochans Craig-begirt ’mid deserts dumb.
