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.

Same as Loadstar.

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.

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.

A chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences.

Of or pertaining to logography.

A method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used.

A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its letters, which form other words; -- thus, to discover the chosen word chatter form cat, hat, rat, hate, rate, etc.

One who contends about words.

Contention in words merely, or a contention about words; a war of words.

Serving to measure or ascertain chemical equivalents; stoichiometric.

A word; reason; speech.

A single type, containing two or more letters; as, /, \/, /, /, /, /, etc.; -- called also ligature.

To engage in logrolling; to accomplish by logrolling.

One who engages in logrolling.

The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn.

The heartwood of a tree (H/matoxylon Campechianum), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called h/matoxylin, and is used largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called Campeachy wood, and bloodwood.

Heavy or dull in respect to motion or thought; as, a logy horse; feeling logy.

See Loch, a medicine.

Of or pertaining to the plague or contagious disorders.

That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of Beef.

A cloth covering for the loins, worn around the hips; -- sometimes worn in tropical areas as the only article of clothing.

A large European dormouse (Myoxus glis).

a French river which flows into the North Atlantic.

A genus of plants having only one species, the alpine azalea.

To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.

One who loiters; an idler.

In a loitering manner.

A green vegetable dye imported from China.

A private path or road; also, the wicket or hatch of a door.

The evil deity, the author of all calamities and mischief, answering to the Ahriman of the Persians.

Liquorice.

A genus of cephalopods, including numerous species of squids, common on the coasts of America and Europe. They are much used for fish bait.

A genus of plants including the darnel and ryegrass.

To let hang from the mouth, as the tongue.

One of a sect of early reformers in Germany. One of the followers of Wyclif in England.

The doctrines or principles of the Lollards.

One who lolls.

In a lolling manner.

A kind of sugar confection which dissolves easily in the mouth.

To move heavily; to lounge or idle; to loll.

A lobe; a membranous fringe or flap.

any of various ornamental evergreens of the genus Lomatia having attractive fragrant flowers.

Furnished with lobes or flaps.

A bank or a pawnbroker's shop.

A native or inhabitant of Lombardy.

A pawnbroker.

Of or pertaining to Lombardy of the Lombards.

An elongated pod, consisting, like the legume, of two valves, but divided transversely into small cells, each containing a single seed.

Of the nature of a loment; having fruits like loments.

Same as Laumontite.

Lumpish.

A genus of chiefly tropical American shrubs and trees having pinnate leaves and red or white flowers.

Land.

The capital city of England.