Obs. rare. Also 5 loigne, loyne, 8 lowing. See also LUNE. [a. OF. loigne (also longe):—med.L. longia, longea, f. long-us LONG a.] A length (of cord); a leash for a hawk. Also fig.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 3882. The loigne [F. longce] it is so longe Of Bialacoil, hertis to lure. Ibid., 7050. He shal have of a corde a loigne [F. longe], With whiche men shal him binde and lede.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, III. xxiii. (1869), 148. Yif me a loyne [F. longe], if thou wolt, and a peyre gessis.
1575. Turberv., Faulconrie, 129. Let hir be loose from all hir furniture, that is without either loyne or cryaunce.
1702. J. K., Dict., The Lowings or thongs of an hawk.
