Definition of "lauwine" [lauwine]

• See lawine. Byron. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "But the fittest has survived, and Byron's unlovely and misbegotten "lauwine" has died a natural death.] [ni] _But I have seen the virgin Jungfrau rear_."
• "  The thundering lauwine — might be worshipped more;"
• "Now and then we came to rushing mountain - torrents bursting over the road; far away, ever and anon, we heard the roar of a _lauwine_ or avalanche; sometimes I looked out, and could see straight down below me a thousand feet into an abyss or on a headlong stream."