Locusta (n.) The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses.
Locustella (n.) The European cricket warbler.
Locustic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the locust; -- formerly used to designate a supposed acid.
Locusting (p. a.) Swarming and devastating like locusts.
Locust tree () A large North American tree of the genus Robinia (R. Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree. In England it is called acacia.
Locution (n.) Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression.
Locutory (n.) A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.
Lodde (n.) The capelin.
Lode (n.) A water course or way; a reach of water.
Lode (n.) A metallic vein; any regular vein or course, whether metallic or not.
Lodemanage (n.) Pilotage.
Lode-ship (n.) An old name for a pilot boat.
Lodesman (n.) Same as Loadsman.
Lodestar (n.) Same as Loadstar.
Lodestone (n.) Same as Loadstone.
Lodge (n.) A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge.
Lodge (n.) A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate.
Lodge (n.) A den or cave.
Lodge (n.) The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.
Lodge (n.) The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
Lodge (n.) The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also platt.
Lodge (n.) A collection of objects lodged together.
Lodge (n.) A family of North American Indians, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge, -- as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons; as, the tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals.
Lodged (imp. & p. p.) of Lodge
Lodging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lodge
Lodge (v. i.) To rest or remain a lodge house, or other shelter; to rest; to stay; to abide; esp., to sleep at night; as, to lodge in York Street.
Lodge (v. i.) To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
Lodge (v. i.) To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree.
Lodge (n.) To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold.
Lodge (n.) To drive to shelter; to track to covert.
Lodge (n.) To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal.
Lodge (n.) To cause to stop or rest in; to implant.
Lodge (n.) To lay down; to prostrate.
Lodgeable (a.) That may be or can be lodged; as, so many persons are not lodgeable in this village.
Lodgeable (a.) Capable of affording lodging; fit for lodging in.
Lodged (a.) Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.
Lodgement (n.) See Lodgment.
Lodger (n.) One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.
Lodging (n.) The act of one who, or that which, lodges.
Lodging (n.) A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning.
Lodging (n.) Abiding place; harbor; cover.
Lodgment (v.) The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged.
Lodgment (v.) A lodging place; a room.
Lodgment (v.) An accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest.
Lodgment (v.) The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effect a lodgment.
Lodicule (n.) One of the two or three delicate membranous scales which are next to the stamens in grasses.
Loellingite (n.) A tin-white arsenide of iron, isomorphous with arsenopyrite.
Loess (n.) A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers.
Loeven's larva () The peculiar larva of Polygordius. See Polygordius.
Loffe (v. i.) To laugh.
Loft (n.) That which is lifted up; an elevation.
Loft (n.) The room or space under a roof and above the ceiling of the uppermost story.
Loft (n.) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft.
Loft (n.) A floor or room placed above another; a story.
Loft (a.) Lofty; proud.
Loftily (adv.) In a lofty manner or position; haughtily.
Loftiness (n.) The state or quality of being lofty.
Lofty (superl.) Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.
Lofty (superl.) Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty.
Log (n.) A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills.
Log (n.) A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.
Log (n.) An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.
Log (n.) Hence: The record of the rate of ship's speed or of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book.
Log (n.) A record and tabulated statement of the work done by an engine, as of a steamship, of the coal consumed, and of other items relating to the performance of machinery during a given time.
Log (n.) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
Logged (imp. & p. p.) of Log
Logging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Log
Log (v. t.) To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run.
Log (v. i.) To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs.
Log (v. i.) To move to and fro; to rock.
Logan (n.) A rocking or balanced stone.
Logaoedic (a.) Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement like that of ordinary speech.
Logarithm (n.) 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.
Logarithmetic (a.) Alt. of Logarithmetical
Logarithmetical (a.) See Logarithmic.
Logarithmetically (adv.) Logarithmically.
Logarithmic (a.) Alt. of Logarithmical
Logarithmical (a.) Of or pertaining to logarithms; consisting of logarithms.
Logarithmically (adv.) By the use of logarithms.
Log-chip (n.) 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.
Logcock (n.) The pileated woodpecker.
Loge (n.) A lodge; a habitation.
Loggan (n.) See Logan.
Loggat (n.) A small log or piece of wood.
Loggat (n.) An old game in England, played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake set in the ground.
Logge (n. & v.) See Lodge.
Logged (a.) Made slow and heavy in movement; water-logged.
Logger (n.) One engaged in logging. See Log, v. i.
Loggerhead (n.) A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull.
Loggerhead (n.) A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle, used to heat tar.
Loggerhead (n.) An upright piece of round timber, in a whaleboat, over which a turn of the line is taken when it is running out too fast.
Loggerhead (n.) A very large marine turtle (Thalassochelys caretta, / caouana), common in the warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Cape Cod; -- called also logger-headed turtle.
Loggerhead (n.) An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike.
Loggerheaded (a.) Dull; stupid.
Loggerheads (n.) The knapweed.
Loggia (n.) 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.
Logging (n.) The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.
Logic (n.) 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; correct reasoning.
Logic (n.) A treatise on logic; as, Mill's Logic.
Logical (a.) Of or pertaining to logic; used in logic; as, logical subtilties.