Definition of "lewth" [lewth]

• Shelter; warmth. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "I warrant that whether we were going with the sun or against the sun, uphill or downhill, in wind or in lewth, that wart of hers was always towards the hedge, and that dimple towards me."
• "I warrent that whether we were going with the sun or against the sun, uphill or downhill, in wind or in lewth, that wart of hers was always toward the hedge, and that dimple toward me."
• "In the lewth of a codlin-tree, bivering wi’ fright,"