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Lauchand, ppl. a. Also: lachand, lawchand. [ME. (north.) laghand (a 1300). Cf. Lauching.] Laughing (in amusement, scorn, pleasure, affection, etc.). Also fig.Commonly lauchand chere or luke. 1375 Barb. ii. 35.
He … schawyt him, with lauchand cher, The endentur c1420 Ratis R. 1081.
With blythnes of hie lauchand chere a1568 Gyre-carling 6.
For luve of hir lawchand lippis he walit 1513 Doug. i. ix. 16.
Lyke till ane ȝongker with twa lauchand eyn 1535 Stewart 12179.
Agricola … quhen that he hard that tald, With … lauchand luke, as he had ailit nocht, Rycht litill said Ib. 48073.
[Fortune], Hir lauchand luke with mony fals promit a1568 Bann. MS. 217 a/14.
Than cumis gud hoip with lachand cheirfig. c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus ii. 242.
Be force of men and lauchand destenie
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