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loch
CIDE DICTIONARY
loch, n. [Gael. & Olr. loch. See Lake of water.].
A lake; a bay or arm of the sea. [1913 Webster]
loch, n. [F. looch, Ar. la', an electuary, or any medicine which may be licked or sucked, fr. la' to lick.].
A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
loch, n. Sc.
1 a lake.
2 an arm of the sea, esp. when narrow or partially land-locked.
1 a lake.
2 an arm of the sea, esp. when narrow or partially land-locked.
Etymology
ME f. Gael.
THESAURUS
loch
arm, armlet, artificial lake, bay, bayou, bayou lake, belt, bight, boca, cistern, cove, creek, dam, dead water, dike, estuary, etang, euripus, farm pond, fishpond, fjord, freshwater lake, frith, glacial lake, gulf, gut, harbor, inland sea, inlet, kyle, lagoon, laguna, lake, lakelet, landlocked water, linn, lough, mere, millpond, millpool, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, nyanza, oxbow lake, plash, pond, pondlet, pool, puddle, reach, reservoir, road, roads, roadstead, salina, salt pond, sound, stagnant water, standing water, still water, strait, straits, sump, tank, tarn, tidal pond, volcanic lake, water hole, water pocket, wellROGET THESAURUS
loch
Lake
N gulf, lake, land covered with water, gulf, gulph, bay, inlet, bight, estuary, arm of the sea, bayou, fiord, armlet, frith, firth, ostiary, mouth, lagune, lagoon, indraught, cove, creek, natural harbor, roads, strait, narrows, Euripus, sound, belt, gut, kyles, continental slope, continental shelf, lake, loch, lough, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin, puddle, slab, well, artesian well, standing water, dead water, sheet of water, fish pond, mill pond, ditch, dike, dyke, dam, reservoir, alberca, barachois, hog wallow, lacustrine.For further exploring for "loch" in Webster Dictionary Online
