Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Lout

Lout (lout) , intransitive verb

[Old English louten, luten, Anglo-Saxon lūtan; akin to Icelandic lūta, Danish lude, Old High German lūzēn to lie hid.]

To bend; to box; to stoop. [Archaic] — Chaucer
He fair the knight saluted, louting low. — Spenser

Lout , noun

[Formerly also written lowt.]

A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin. — Sir P. Sidney

Lout , transitive verb

To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare