Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Lout \Lout\, v. i. [OE. louten, luten, AS. l?tan; akin to Icel.
   l?ta, Dan. lude, OHG. l?z?n to lie hid.]
   To bend; to box; to stoop. [Archaic] --Chaucer. Longfellow.

         He fair the knight saluted, louting low. --Spenser.

Lout \Lout\, n. [Formerly also written lowt.]
   A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin. --Sir P. Sidney.

Lout \Lout\, v. t.
   To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint. [Obs.]
   --Shak.

Source : WordNet®

lout
     n : an awkward stupid person [syn: {clod}, {stumblebum}, {goon},
          {oaf}, {lubber}, {lummox}, {lump}, {gawk}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Lout
     
        Lout is a batch text formatting system and an embedded
        language by Jeffrey H. Kingston .  The
        language is procedural, with {Scribe}-like {syntax}.
     
        Lout features equation formatting, tables, diagrams, rotation
        and scaling, sorted indexes, bibliographic databases, running
        headers and odd-even pages and automatic cross-referencing.
        Lout is easily extended with definitions which are very much
        easier to write than {troff} of {TeX} {macro}s because Lout is
        a {high-level language}, the outcome of an eight-year research
        project that went back to the beginning.
     
        Version 2.05 includes a translator from Lout to {PostScript}
        and documentation. and runs under {Unix} and on the {Amiga}.
     
        {Author's site (ftp://ftp.cs.su.oz.au/jeff/lout.2.03.tar.Z)},
        {(ftp://ftp.uu.net/tmp/lout.tar.Z)}.  {Amiga
        (ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/text/dtp/loutBin203.lha)}.
     
        (1993-07-30)