The Collaborative International Dictionary
Guillotine \Guil"lo*tine`\ (g[i^]l"l[-o]*t[=e]n`), n. [F., from Guillotin, a French physician, who proposed, in the Constituent Assembly of 1789, to abolish decapitation with the ax or sword. The instrument was invented by Dr. Antoine Louis, and was called at first Louison or Louisette. Similar machines, however, were known earlier.]
A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.
Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.
Wikipedia
Louison is both a surname and a French masculine/feminine given name. It may refer to:
- Shemel Louison (born 1990), Grenadian footballer
- Louison Bobet (1923–1983), French cyclist
- Louison Moreau, French opera singer
Usage examples of "louison".
LOUISON The five brothers lived with LOUISON, three miles from Pontiac, and Medallion came to know them first through having sold them, at an auction, a slice of an adjoining farm.
She had been welcomed home the previous afternoon after a leisurely drive from Gap by old Ernestine, the maid who had been in service at the chateau since Alfred's father's day, and the gardener, Louison, a former peasant boy who had married Ernestine when she was still an under housemaid.