a lake; _e.g._ Loch Broom (the lake of showers, _braon_); Loch Carron (of the winding water); Loch Doine (deep loch); Loch Duich, in Ross-shire (the lake of St. Duthic, the same person from whom the town of Tain took its Gaelic name, _Baile-Duich_, St. Dulhaick’s town); Loch Fyne (the fair lake); Loch Lomond (the lake of the elm-tree river); Loch Nell (of the swan, _eala_); Loch Ness (of the waterfall, _i.e._ of Foyers)--_v._ EAS; Loch Long (ship lake, Scand. _Skipafiord_); Gareloch (short lake, _gearr_), in Ross-shire, and also a branch of the Firth of Clyde; Loch Etive (dreary loch, _eitidh_); Lochlubnaig (the lake of the little bend, _lubnaig_); Lochbuie and Lochbuy (the yellow loch); Lochmuic (of the wild boar); Lochgorm (blue loch); Lochlaggan (of the hollow); Loch Tay (of the R. Tay or _Tamha_, quiet river); Lochgelly (of the fair water); Loch Maree (the lake of St. Malrube); Lochard (high loch); Loch Awe and Loch Linnhe (here duplicate names, _aw_ signifying water and _linne_ a pool); Loch-na-keal (the loch of the cemetery, _cill_); Loch Earn (the west loch, _i.e._ west of Loch Tay); Lochgelly (white lake, _gealich_); Loch Katrine, probably the lake of the Caterans or freebooters; Benderloch, in Argyleshire, _i.e._ _Bendaraloch_ (the hill between the lakes); Lochnagar, _i.e._ _Lochan-na-gabhar_ (the little lake of the goats, at the base of the mountain to which it gives its name); Lochmaben, probably the loch of the bald headland, as in an old charter the castle at the head of the loch is called _Lochmalban_; Lochfad (long loch), in the Island of Bute, five miles long and scarce half a mile broad; Loch Achray, in Perthshire (the loch of the _level_ plain, _reidh_); Leuchars, in Fife, formerly _Lough-yards_, the low grounds of the village used to lie under water for the greater part of the year. In Ireland there are Lough Derg (red lake), originally _Loch Dergderc_ (the lake of the red eye, connected with a legend); Lough Conn (from a personal name Conn); Loch Rea (gray or smooth lake, _reidh_, smooth); as also Loch Ryan, in Kirkcudbright (of the smooth water, _reidhan_); Loch Foyle (the lake of Febhal, the son of Lodan); Loughan, Loughane (little lake); Lochanaskin (the little lake of the eels); Lough Corrib, corrupt. from Lough Orbsen (the lake of Orbsen or Mannanan, over whose grave it is said to have burst forth); Lough Erne, in Ireland, named from the _Ernai_, a tribe; Lough Finn, named after a lady called Finn, who was drowned in its waters; Lough, _i.e._ _Loch-n’-Echach_ (the lake of Eochy, a Munster chief, who, with his family, was overwhelmed in the eruption which gave their origin to its waters); Loch Swilly, probably a Scand. name, meaning the lake of the surges or whirlpool, _swelchie_. The town of Carlow was originally _Cetherloch_ (the quadruple lake, _cether_, four), from a tradition that formerly the R. Barrow formed four lakes at this spot. [Sidenote: LOCUS (Lat.), LOCA (A.S.), LOK, LLE (Cym.-Cel), LIEU (Fr.),]