Locusting Lo"cust·ing p. adjective Swarming and devastating like locusts. [ R.] Tennyson.

Locution Lo·cu"tion (lo*kū"shŭn) noun [ Latin locutio , from loqui to speak: confer French locution . ] Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression. " Stumbling locutions ." G. Eliot.

I hate these figures in locution ,
These about phrases forced by ceremony.

Marston.

Locutory Loc"u·to·ry (lŏk"u*to*rȳ) noun A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.

Lodde Lod"de (lŏd'de) noun (Zoology) The capelin.

Lode Lode noun [ Anglo-Saxon lād way, journey, from līšan to go. See Lead to guide, and confer Load a burden.] 1. A water course or way; a reach of water.

Down that long, dark lode . . . he and his brother skated home in triumph.

C. Kingsley.

2. (Mining) A metallic vein; any regular vein or course, whether metallic or not.

Lode-ship Lode"-ship` noun An old name for a pilot boat.

Lodemanage Lode"man·age noun [ Middle English lodemenage . Chaucer .] Pilotage. [ Obsolete]

Lodesman Lodes"man noun Same as Loadsman . [ Obsolete]

Lodestar Lode"star` noun Same as Loadstar .

Lodestone Lode"stone` noun (Min.) Same as Loadstone .

Lodge Lodge noun [ Middle English loge , logge , French loge , Late Latin laubia porch, gallery, from Old High German louba , German laube , arbor, bower, from lab foliage. See Leaf , and confer Lobby , Loggia .] 1. A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge . Chaucer.

Their lodges and their tentis up they gan bigge [ to build].

Robert of Brunne.

O for a lodge in some vast wilderness!

Cowper.

(b) A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate. Shak. (c) A den or cave. (d) The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge . (c) The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.

2. (Mining) 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 . Raymond.

3. A collection of objects lodged together.

The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands.

De Foe.

4. 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.

Lodge gate , a park gate, or entrance gate, near the lodge. See Lodge , noun , 1 (b) .

Lodge Lodge intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Lodged (lŏjd); present participle & verbal noun Lodging (lŏj"ĭng).] 1. 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. Chaucer.

Stay and lodge by me this night.

Shak.

Something holy lodges in that breast.

Milton.

2. To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind. Mortimer.

3. To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree.

Lodge Lodge transitive verb [ Middle English loggen , Old French logier , French loger . See Lodge , noun ] 1. To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold.

Every house was proud to lodge a knight.

Dryden.

The memory can lodge a greater store of images than all the senses can present at one time.

Cheyne.

2. To drive to shelter; to track to covert.

The deer is lodged ; I have tracked her to her covert.

Addison.

3. To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal.

4. To cause to stop or rest in; to implant.

He lodged an arrow in a tender breast.

Addison.

5. To lay down; to prostrate.

Though bladed corn be lodged , and trees blown down.

Shak.

To lodge an information , to enter a formal complaint.

Lodgeable Lodge"a·ble adjective [ Confer French logeable .] 1. That may be or can be lodged; as, so many persons are not lodgeable in this village.

2. Capable of affording lodging; fit for lodging in. [ R.] " The lodgeable area of the earth." Jeffrey.

Lodged Lodged adjective (Her.) Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.

Lodgement Lodge"ment noun See Lodgment .

Lodger Lodg"er noun One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.

Lodging Lodg"ing noun 1. The act of one who, or that which, lodges.

2. A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning. Gower.

Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow.

Pope.

3. Abiding place; harbor; cover.

Fair bosom . . . the lodging of delight.

Spenser.

Lodging house , a house where lodgings are provided and let. -- Lodging room , a room in which a person lodges, esp. a hired room.

Lodgment Lodg"ment noun [ Written also lodgement .] [ Confer French logement . See Lodge , v. ] 1. The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged.

Any particle which is of size enough to make a lodgment afterwards in the small arteries.

Paley.

2. A lodging place; a room. [ Obsolete]

3. An accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest.

4. (Mil.) 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 Lod"i·cule noun [ Latin lodicula . dim, of lodix , lodicis , a coverlet: confer French lodicule .] (Botany) One of the two or three delicate membranous scales which are next to the stamens in grasses.

Loellingite Loel"ling·ite noun [ So called from Lölling , in Austria.] (Min.) A tin-white arsenide of iron, isomorphous with arsenopyrite.

Loess Loess noun [ German löss .] (Geol.) A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers.

Loeven's larva Loev"en's lar"va [ Named after the Swedish zoölogist, S. French Löven , who discovered it.] (Zoology) The peculiar larva of Polygordius. See Polygordius .

Loffe Loffe intransitive verb To laugh. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Loft Loft noun [ Icelandic lopt air, heaven, loft, upper room; akin to Anglo-Saxon lyft air, German luft , Danish loft loft, Goth. luftus air. Confer Lift , v. & noun ] That which is lifted up; an elevation. Hence, especially: (a) The room or space under a roof and above the ceiling of the uppermost story. (b) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft . (c) A floor or room placed above another; a story.

Eutychus . . . fell down from the third loft .

Acts xx. 9.

On loft , aloft; on high. Confer Onloft . [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Loft Loft adjective Lofty; proud. [ R. & Obsolete] Surrey.

Loft Loft noun (Golf) Pitch or slope of the face of a club (tending to drive the ball upward).

Loft Loft transitive verb To make or furnish with a loft; to cause to have loft; as, a lofted house; a lofted golf-club head.

A wooden club with a lofted face.

Encyc. of Sport.

Loft Loft transitive verb & i. [ imperfect & past participle Lofted ; present participle & verbal noun Lofting .] To raise aloft; to send into the air; esp. (Golf) , to strike (the ball) so that it will go over an obstacle.

Lofter Loft"er noun (Golf) An iron club used in lofting the ball; -- called also lofting iron .

Loftily Loft"i·ly adverb [ From Lofty .] In a lofty manner or position; haughtily.

Loftiness Loft"i·ness noun The state or quality of being lofty.

Lofting iron Loft"ing iron (Golf) Same as Lofter .

Lofty Loft"y adjective [ Compar. Loftier ; superl. Loftiest .] [ From Loft .] 1. Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.

See lofty Lebanon his head advance.

Pope.

2. Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty.

The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity.

Is. lvii. 15.

Lofty and sour to them that loved him not

. Shak.

Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.

Milton.

Syn. -- Tall; high; exalted; dignified; stately; majestic; sublime; proud; haughty. See Tall .

Log Log noun [ Hebrew lōg .] A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills. W. H. Ward.

Log Log noun [ Icelandic lāg a felled tree, log; akin to English lie . See Lie to lie prostrate.] 1. A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.

2. [ Prob. the same word as in sense 1; confer LG. log , lock , Danish log , Swedish logg .] (Nautical) An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.

» The common log consists of the log-chip , or logship , often exclusively called the log , and the log line , the former being commonly a thin wooden quadrant of five or six inches radius, loaded with lead on the arc to make it float with the point up. It is attached to the log line by cords from each corner. This line is divided into equal spaces, called knots , each bearing the same proportion to a mile that half a minute does to an hour. The line is wound on a reel which is so held as to let it run off freely. When the log is thrown, the log-chip is kept by the water from being drawn forward, and the speed of the ship is shown by the number of knots run out in half a minute. There are improved logs, consisting of a piece of mechanism which, being towed astern, shows the distance actually gone through by the ship, by means of the revolutions of a fly, which are registered on a dial plate.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. (Mining) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.

Log board (Nautical) , a board consisting of two parts shutting together like a book, with columns in which are entered the direction of the wind, course of the ship, etc., during each hour of the day and night. These entries are transferred to the log book. A folding slate is now used instead. -- Log book , or Logbook (Nautical) , a book in which is entered the daily progress of a ship at sea, as indicated by the log, with notes on the weather and incidents of the voyage; the contents of the log board. Log cabin , Log house , a cabin or house made of logs. -- Log canoe , a canoe made by shaping and hollowing out a single log. -- Log glass (Nautical) , a small sandglass used to time the running out of the log line. -- Log line (Nautical) , a line or cord about a hundred and fifty fathoms long, fastened to the log-chip. See Note under 2d Log , noun , 2. -- Log perch (Zoology) , an ethiostomoid fish, or darter ( Percina caprodes ); -- called also hogfish and rockfish . -- Log reel (Nautical) , the reel on which the log line is wound. -- Log slate . (Nautical) See Log board (above). -- Rough log (Nautical) , a first draught of a record of the cruise or voyage. -- Smooth log (Nautical) , a clean copy of the rough log. In the case of naval vessels this copy is forwarded to the proper officer of the government. -- To heave the log (Nautical) , to cast the log-chip into the water; also, the whole process of ascertaining a vessel's speed by the log.

Log Log transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Logged ; present participle & verbal noun Logging .] (Nautical) , To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run. J. F. Cooper.

Log Log intransitive verb 1. To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs. [ U.S.]

2. To move to and fro; to rock. [ Obsolete]

Log-chip Log"-chip` noun (Nautical) 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 , noun , 2.

Log-ship Log"-ship noun (Nautical) A part of the log. See Log-chip , and 2d Log , noun , 2.

Logaœdic Log`a·œd"ic (lŏg`ȧ*ĕd"ĭk) adjective [ Greek logaoidiko`s ; lo`gos discourse, prose + 'aoidh` song.] (Gr. Pros.) Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement like that of ordinary speech.

Logan Log"an noun A rocking or balanced stone. Gwill.

Logarithm Log"a·rithm (lŏg"ȧ*rĭ&thlig;'m) noun [ Greek lo`gos word, account, proportion + 'ariqmo`s number: confer French logarithme .] (Math.) 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. The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus,

Logarithmetic, Logarithmetical Log`a·rith·met"ic, Log"a·rith·met"ic·al adjective See Logarithmic .

Logarithmetically Log`a·rith·met"ic·al·ly adverb Logarithmically.

Logarithmic, Logarithmical Log`a·rith"mic, Log`a·rith"mic·al adjective [ Confer French logarithmique .] Of or pertaining to logarithms; consisting of logarithms.

Logarithmic curve (Math.) , a curve which, referred to a system of rectangular coördinate axes, is such that the ordinate of any point will be the logarithm of its abscissa. -- Logarithmic spiral , a spiral curve such that radii drawn from its pole or eye at equal angles with each other are in continual proportion. See Spiral .

Logarithmically Log`a·rith"mic·al·ly adverb By the use of logarithms.

Logcock Log"cock` noun The pileated woodpecker.

Loge Loge noun [ French See Lodge .] A lodge; a habitation. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Loggan Log"gan noun See Logan .

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