Sc. ? Obs. [? f. LUCKEN pa. pple.] trans. To lock, fasten together; to gather up (cloth) in folds; to knit (the brows).
c. 1560. A. Scott, Poems, ‘Quha is perfyte,’ 35. Baith our hartis ar ane, luknyt in luvis chene.
a. 1670. Spalding, Troub. Chas. I. (1851), II. 388. Haddoche prepairit him self noblie for death, and causit mak ane syd Holland cloth sark, luknit at the heid for his winding scheit.
1806. Jamieson, Pop. Ballads, II. 173. While anger lucken’d his dark brows.
