loss (2 cf. ‘vp peyne of los of lyf’, Chaucer; in Tw.N. V. i. 62 “the tongue of ” =‘the report of the losers’, Wright).
1.
perdition,
ruin, destruction All'sW. III. ii.
44,
Lr. III. vi. 104
“his life, With thine .
. . Stand in assured loss,”
Ant. IV. x. 42 [xii. 29]; probably also
in Wint. II. iii. 191*, H8 II. ii. 31*.
2.
“life's loss,” being put
to death John IV. iii. 106.
3.
failure to make good
use of (time, &c.) Gent. I. iii.
19,
Lucr. 1420
“for loss of Nestor's
golden words.”
4.
default, lack
Meas. II. iv. 91
“in the loss of
question”
*
(=provided there is no dispute).
5.
failure of the scent
Shr. Ind. i. 23
“at the merest
loss”
(=when the scent was quite lost).
