Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete form of laugh.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb obsolete To laugh.

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Examples

  • From there, you get on the Akademik loffe, a research vessel turned tourist taxi, and head across the Drake Passage to King George Island for 10 nights on the world's roughest seas.

    Travel: Trips That Take Your Breath Away 2007

  • To the crew of RV Akademik loffe for taking me into Ilulissat icefjord in Greenland, a truly unforgettable experience, and to Parks Canada for opening the LAnse aux Meadows site.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • To the crew of RV Akademik loffe for taking me into Ilulissat icefjord in Greenland, a truly unforgettable experience, and to Parks Canada for opening the LAnse aux Meadows site.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • Is it possible that you northern people understand loffe?

    Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904

  • That was boyt corteys and fre; for the loffe of owrier ladey,

    Robin Hood and the Potter 1898

  • * Tis but a kingdom thou canft win or loffe. yVnd why mull: murder'd myriads lofe their all J

    The Lady's Poetical Magazine, Or, Beauties of British Poetry 1781

  • And therewithal! he was brought to that nc - ccflitie with Abimdech, that: he muft needcs redccme his life with cen. che loffe of his vvife, while many yeares long he watidred vncertainc - i ». ly hither and thither, he was compelled by the continuall brawlinges of his feruantes to put away his nephew, whome he loued as his ownefonne.

    The institution of christian religion 1578

  • "holie loffe," "holy cake," etc. -- appears in churchwardens 'account books as late as the beginning of the seventeenth century.

    The Parish Clerk 1892

  • J Thirdly w "the like obedyence unto our dread Soveraigne, Wee anfwere that the eredlinge and buildinge of Stores and the Bringeinge of every man's tobaccoe unto them would bee very chargeable and burthenfome to the whole Colony w '=' 'at prefent wee are very unable to undergoe, befides much hazard & the damadge and loffe in fpoyl - inge greate parte of our Tobaccoes.

    Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia 1619

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