The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . leme, faint, weary,drooping, mild (MHG. luomen, lomen, droop),G. lumen, loose, lax, > D. lummel = G. lilmmel= Dan. lommel = Sw. hjmmel, a loon, lubber(cf. E. lummox). These words are prob. fromthe same ult. source as lame.] A stupid fel-low ; a clown: with various shades of intensityas an opprobrious epithet, like fool, dolt, take it backe with manlike cheere,not like a rusticke Lowne. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. devil damn thee black, thou c
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . leme, faint, weary,drooping, mild (MHG. luomen, lomen, droop),G. lumen, loose, lax, > D. lummel = G. lilmmel= Dan. lommel = Sw. hjmmel, a loon, lubber(cf. E. lummox). These words are prob. fromthe same ult. source as lame.] A stupid fel-low ; a clown: with various shades of intensityas an opprobrious epithet, like fool, dolt, take it backe with manlike cheere,not like a rusticke Lowne. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!Where gofst thou that goose look? Shak., Macbeth, v. off; unhand me, gray-haired loon! Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, loons. See (Ion), n. [A coiTuption of loom^.] Afour-toed diving bird of the genus Cohjmhus orVri)iator. See Colifmhida. There are several spe-cies, all inhabiting the northern hemisphere. The greatnorthern diver, ring-necked loon, or ember-goose, C. tor-quatus or C. glacialis or Urinator imber, is from 30 to 36inches long, and 4^ feet in stretch of wiugs; when adult. Great Northern Diver [LolynUms /?fft/ua^us ot Urinator imber). loon It is ptlossy-black with greenish and purplish metallic re-flections on the heail and necli, whicll, witli the Iiack, aremarlted regularly with white spots. Tlie under parts arewhite, and the bill is black. C. adamsi, the yellow-liilledloon, is somewhat larger. The black-throated loon ordiver, C arcticus, resembles the foregoing, but is smaller,with much of the head clear bluish-gray. The red -throatedloon, C. septetUnonatis, is much like C. arcfuua. but issmaller still, and hasachestnut patch on the throat. Boththe two suuiller loons, the red- and the black-throated, arealso called spei-klcd loons, and a variety of the former,from the western coast of North .\merica, if^ recognizedas C, paci/icug. (See (/trer, 1 (6).) The wild actions of theloon in escaping danger and its dismal cry (se
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