A small lake; a pond.

See Loach.

The discharge from the womb and vagina which follows childbirth.

Of or pertaining to the lochia.

To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.

A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases.

a supplementary nut that is screwed down on a primary nut to prevent it from loosening; a check nut.

A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him.

A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch.

A washer that is not completely smooth or flat, designed to prevent a nut from loosening, placed under the nut on a screw or bolt.

A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting; -- used by lumbermen.

a gate that can be locked.

A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber.

Materials for locks in a canal, or the works forming a lock or locks.

A box of strong and durable construction, fitted with a lock, used for the purpose of protecting valuable items, such as money or jewelry; a strongbox.

See Lockjaw.

The globeflower (Trollius).

One who, or that which, locks.

A contraction of the muscles of the jaw by which its motion is suspended; a variety of tetanus; trismus.

Destitute of a lock.

A public executioner.

a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal).

The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer, usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a suspension of wages.

A kind of linen cloth anciently used in England, originally imported from Brittany.

A person whose occupation is to make, mend, or install locks, or to make keys for locks.

A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse; a jail.

Having locks or tufts.

A locomotive.

Insane; crazy.

A friction match.

a disease of livestock caused by locoweed poisoning; characterized by weakness and lack of coordination and trembling and partial paralysis.

To change location; move, travel, or proceed.

The act of moving from place to place.

A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage, especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines which communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.

The power of changing place.

Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion.

The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.

Of or relating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; in composition, having cells; as trilocular.

Divided into compartments.

A little hollow; a loculus.

Dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell; -- said of capsules.

Divided by internal partitions into cells, as the pith of the pokeweed.

One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa.

A substitute or deputy; one filling an office for a time.

A place; a locality.

Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acridid/, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda migratoria, syn. Pachytylus migratoria, and Acridium perigrinum, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United States the related species with similar habits are usually called grasshoppers. See Grasshopper.

A large North American tree of the genus Robinia (Robinia Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree. In England it is called acacia.

The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses.

The European cricket warbler.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the locust; -- formerly used to designate a supposed acid.

Swarming and devastating like locusts.

Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression.

A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.

The capelin.

A water course or way; a reach of water.

An old name for a pilot boat.

Pilotage.

Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman.

Same as Loadsman.

A pilot.

A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar, Polaris; also, the constellation containing the pole star, the cynosure (Ursa Minor).

Same as Loadstone.

A piece of magnetite, a magnetic iron ore, possessing polarity like a magnetic needle, having the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically. See Magnetite.

To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold.

That may be or can be lodged; as, so many persons are not lodgeable in this village.

Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.

See Lodgment.

The lodgepole pine..

A tall, narrow 2-needled pine (Pinus contorta) of the coastal Northwestern U. S., having a red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares and bearing egg-shaped cones.

One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.

The act of one who, or that which, lodges.

temporary living quarters.

The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged.

One of the two or three delicate membranous scales which are next to the stamens in grasses.

A tin-white arsenide of iron, isomorphous with arsenopyrite.

A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers.

The peculiar larva of Polygordius. See Polygordius.

To laugh.

To raise aloft; to send into the air; to strike (the ball) so that it will go over an obstacle.

An iron club with a sloped face, used in lofting the ball; -- called also lofting iron.

In a lofty manner or position; haughtily.

The state or quality of being lofty.

Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.

To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs.

To establish communication with a host computer from a terminal or remote computer.

A thin, flat piece of board in the form of a quadrant of a circle attached to the log line; -- called also log-ship. See 2d Log, n., 2.

A part of the log. See Log-chip, and 2d Log, n., 2.

A rocking or balanced stone.

The type genus of the Loganiaceae; Australian and New Zealand shrubs sometimes cultivated for their flowers.

Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement like that of ordinary speech.

One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division.

See Logarithmic.

Logarithmically.

Of or pertaining to logarithms; consisting of logarithms.

By the use of logarithms.

The pileated woodpecker.

A lodge; a habitation.

See Logan.

A small log or piece of wood.

See Lodge.

Made slow and heavy in movement; water-logged.

One engaged in logging. See Log, v. i.

A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull.

Dull; stupid.

The knapweed.

A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room.

The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.

The science or art of exact reasoning, or of pure and formal thought, or of the laws according to which the processes of pure thinking should be conducted; the science of the formation and application of general notions; the science of generalization, judgment, classification, reasoning, and systematic arrangement; the science of correct reasoning.

Of or pertaining to logic; used in logic; as, logical subtilties.

Logicalness.

In a logical manner; as, to argue logically.

The quality of being logical.

A person skilled in logic.

See Logic.

Logical.

a person skilled at symbolic logic.

That branch of the military art which embraces the details of moving and supplying armies. The meaning of the word is by some writers extended to include strategy.

A man who carries logs.

Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words.

A word letter; a phonogram, that, for the sake of brevity, represents a word; as, |, i. e., t, for it. Cf. Grammalogue.