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.

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.

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.

A native or inhabitant of London.

A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.

To imitate the manner of the people of London.

Being without a companion; being by one's self; also, sad from lack of companionship; lonely; as, a lone traveler or watcher.

Texas; -- a nickname alluding to the single star on its coat of arms, being the device used on its flag and seal when it was a republic.

The condition of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.

Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell.

Solitude; seclusion.

Secluded from society; not frequented by human beings; solitary.

a disposition toward being alone.

To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for something with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or by for or after.

A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois.

active over a relatively long period of time.

Having long arms; as, the long-armed ape or gibbon.

Having the power of retaining the breath for a long time; long-winded.

of a gilt-edged security: having more than 15 years to run before redemption.

covering long distances; as, a long-distance runner; a long-distance telephone call.

Extended to a great length.

relatively long in duration; as, a long-drawn-out visit from my mother-in-law.

filled with or reflecting gloom.

frequently seen or experienced; as, a long-familiar face.

having long hair; as, long-haired hippies.

Having a long horn or horns; as, a long-horned goat, or cow; having long antenn/, as certain beetles (Longicornia).

Existing or persisting for a long time; as, a long-lasting friendship.

having long legs.

Having a long life; having constitutional peculiarities which make long life probable; lasting long; as, a long-lived tree; they are a long-lived family; long-lived prejudices.

same as long-playing.

playing at a slower speed and for a longer time than earlier records; -- used of phonograph records.

involving an extended span of time; -- of plans, goals, or predictions; as, long-range goals; a long-range weather forecast.

relating to or extending over a relatively long time; as, the long-run significance of the elections.

having long legs.

Long-sightedness.

Able to see objects at a great distance; hence, having great foresight; sagacious; farseeing.

The state or condition of being long-sighted; hence, sagacity; shrewdness.

existing since a time in the distant past; as, long-standing policies.

One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper.

Forbearance to punish or resent.

disposed to bear inconvenience or injury patiently; long patience of offense; as, a long-suffering and uncomplaining wife.

same as long-run; as, the long-term consequences.

The wryneck.

Having a long tongue.

Having a long waist; long from the armpits to the bottom of the waist; -- said of persons.

withstanding long use without deterioration; resistant to damage.

Long-breathed; hence, tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; as, a long-winded talker.

A pulpy fruit related to the litchi, and produced by an evergreen East Indian longanberry (Nephelium Longan).

A tree (Dimocarpus longan) of Southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet translucent-fleshed edible fruit (the longan) resembling litchi nuts; -- it is sometimes placed in genera Euphoria or Nephelium.

Disposition to bear injuries patiently; forbearance; patience.

The American redbellied snipe (Macrorhamphus scolopaceus); -- called also long-billed dowitcher.