Loggat Log"gat noun [ Also written
logget .]
1. A small log or piece of wood. [ Obsolete]
B. Jonson. 2. plural An old game in England, played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake set in the ground. [ Obsolete]
Shak.
Logge Logge noun & v. See Lodge . [ Obsolete]
Chaucer.
Logged Logged adjective Made slow and heavy in movement; water-logged. Beaconsfield.
Logger Log"ger noun One engaged in logging. See Log , intransitive verb [ U.S.]
Lowell.
Loggerhead Log"ger·head` noun [
Log +
head .]
1. A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull. Shak. Milton. 2. A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle, used to heat tar. 3. (Nautical) 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. Ham. Nav. Encyc. 4. (Zoology) A very large marine turtle ( Thalassochelys caretta, or caouana ), common in the warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Cape Cod; -- called also logger-headed turtle . 5. (Zoology) An American shrike ( Lanius Ludovicianus ), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike . To be at loggerheads ,
To fall to loggerheads , or
To go to loggerheads ,
to quarrel; to be at strife. L' Estrange.
Loggerheaded Log"ger·head`ed adjective Dull; stupid. Shak. A rabble of loggerheaded physicians.
Urquhart.
Loggerheads Log"ger·heads` noun (Botany) The knapweed.
Loggia Log"gia noun [ Italian See
Lodge .]
(Architecture) 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 Log"ging noun The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.
Logic Log"ic noun [ Middle English
logike , French
logique , Latin
logica ,
logice , Greek
logikh` (sc.
te`chnh ), from
logiko`s belonging to speaking or reason, from
lo`gos speech, reason,
le`gein to say, speak. See
Legend .]
1. 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 is the science of the laws of thought, as thought; that is, of the necessary conditions to which thought, considered in itself, is subject.
Sir W. Hamilton. »
Logic is distinguished as
pure and
applied . "
Pure logic is a science of the form, or of the formal laws, of thinking, and not of the matter.
Applied logic teaches the application of the forms of thinking to those objects about which men do think."
Abp. Thomson. 2. A treatise on logic; as, Mill's Logic .
Logical Log"ic·al (lŏj"ĭ*k
a l)
adjective [ Confer French
logique , Latin
logicus , Greek
logiko`s .]
1. Of or pertaining to logic; used in logic; as, logical subtilties. Bacon. 2. According to the rules of logic; as, a logical argument or inference; the reasoning is logical . Prior. 3. Skilled in logic; versed in the art of thinking and reasoning; as, he is a logical thinker. Addison.
Logicality Log`i·cal"i·ty noun Logicalness.
Logically Log"ic·al·ly adverb In a logical manner; as, to argue logically .
Logicalness Log"ic·al·ness noun The quality of being logical.
Logician Lo·gi"cian noun [ Confer French
logicien .]
A person skilled in logic. Bacon. Each fierce logician still expelling Locke.
Pope.
Logics Log"ics noun See Logic .
Logistic, Logistical Lo·gis"tic, Lo·gis"tic·al adjective [ Greek ... skilled in calculating, ... to calculate, from
lo`gos word, number, reckoning: confer French
logistique .]
1. Logical. [ Obsolete]
Berkeley. 2. (Math.) Sexagesimal, or made on the scale of 60; as, logistic , or sexagesimal , arithmetic. Logistic , or
Proportional ,
logarithms ,
certain logarithmic numbers used to shorten the calculation of the fourth term of a proportion of which one of the terms is a given constant quantity, commonly one hour, while the other terms are expressed in minutes and seconds; -- not now used.
Logistics Lo·gis"tics noun 1. (Mil.) 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 . H. Latin Scott. 2. (Math.) A system of arithmetic, in which numbers are expressed in a scale of 60; logistic arithmetic.
Logman Log"man noun ;
plural Logmen A man who carries logs. Shak.
Logodædaly Log`o·dæd"a·ly noun [ Greek .... See
Logos , and
Dædal .]
Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words. [ R.]
Coleridge.
Logogram Log"o·gram noun [ Greek
lo`gos word +
-gram .]
A word letter; a phonogram, that, for the sake of brevity, represents a word; as, Logographer Lo·gog"ra·pher noun 1. A chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences. 2. One skilled in logography.
Logographic, Logographical Log`o·graph"ic, Log`o·graph"ic·al adjective [ Greek ... of writing speeches: confer French
logographique .]
Of or pertaining to logography.
Logography Lo·gog"ra·phy noun [ Greek ... a writing of speeches;
lo`gos word, speech + ... to write: confer French
logographie .]
1. A method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used. 2. A mode of reporting speeches without using shorthand, -- a number of reporters, each in succession, taking down three or four words. Brande & C.
Logogriph Log"o·griph noun [ Greek
lo`gos word +
gri^fos a fishing net, a dark saying, a riddle: French
logogriphe .]
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. B. Jonson.
Logomachist Lo·gom"a·chist noun [ See
Logomachy .]
One who contends about words.
Logomachy Lo·gom"a·chy noun [ Greek ...;
lo`gos word + ... fight, battle, contest: confer French
logomachie .]
1. Contention in words merely, or a contention about words; a war of words. The discussion concerning the meaning of the word " justification" . . . has largely been a mere logomachy .
Latin Abbott. 2. A game of word making.
Logometric Log`o·met"ric adjective [ Greek
lo`gos word, ratio + ... measure.]
(Chemistry) Serving to measure or ascertain chemical equivalents; stoichiometric. [ R.]
Logos Log"os noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... the word or form which expresses a thought, also, the thought, from ... to speak.]
1. A word; reason; speech. H. Bushell. 2. The divine Word; Christ.
Logothete Log"o·thete [ Late Latin logotheta , from Greek ...; lo`gos word, account + ... to put.] An accountant; under Constantine, an officer of the empire; a receiver of revenue; an administrator of a department.
Logotype Log"o·type noun [ Greek
lo`gos word +
-type .]
(Print.) A single type, containing two or more letters; as, æ , Æ , fi , fl , ffl , etc.; -- called also ligature .
Logroll Log"roll` intransitive verb & t. To engage in logrolling; to accomplish by logrolling. [ Political cant, U. S.]
Logroller Log"roll`er noun One who engages in logrolling. [ Political cant, U. S.]
The jobbers and logrollers will all be against it.
The. Nation.
Logrolling Log"roll`ing noun 1. (Logging) 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. Longfellow. [ U.S.]
2. Hence: A combining to assist another in consideration of receiving assistance in return; -- sometimes used of a disreputable mode of accomplishing political schemes or ends. [ Cant, U.S.]
Logwood Log"wood` noun [ So called from being imported in
logs .]
The heartwood of a tree ( Hæmatoxylon Campechianum ), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called hæmatoxylin , and is used largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called Campeachy wood , and bloodwood .
Logy Lo"gy adjective [ From Dutch
log .]
Heavy or dull in respect to motion or thought; as, a logy horse. [ U.S.]
Porcupines are . . . logy , sluggish creatures.
C. H. Merriam.
Lohock Lo"hock noun (Medicine) See Loch , a medicine.
Loimic Loi"mic adjective [ Greek ..., from ... plague.]
Of or pertaining to the plague or contagious disorders.
Loin Loin noun [ Middle English
loine , Old French
logne , French
longe , from (assumed) Late Latin
lumbea , Latin
lumbus join. Confer
Lends ,
Lumbar ,
Nombles .]
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 .
Loir Loir noun [ French, from Latin
glis ,
gliris .]
(Zoology) A large European dormouse ( Myoxus glis ).
Loiter Loi"ter intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Loitered ;
present participle & verbal noun Loitering .] [ Dutch
leuteren to delay, loiter; cf; Prov. German
lottern to be louse,
lotter louse, slack, unsettled, vagrant, Old High German
lotar .]
1. To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind. Sir John, you loiter here too long.
Shak. If we have loitered , let us quicken our pace.
Rogers. 2. To wander as an idle vagrant. [ Obsolete]
Spenser. Syn. -- To linger; delay; lag; saunter; tarry.
Loiterer Loi"ter·er noun 1. One who loiters; an idler. 2. An idle vagrant; a tramp. [ Obsolete]
Bp. Sanderson.
Loiteringly Loi"ter·ing·ly adverb In a loitering manner.
Lok Lok (lŏk),
Lo"ki (lō"k)
noun [ Icelandic
Loki , perhaps akin to
lokka ,
locka to allure, entice.]
(Scandinavian Myth.) The evil deity, the author of all calamities and mischief, answering to the Ahriman of the Persians.
Lokao Lo·ka"o noun A green vegetable dye imported from China.
Loke Loke (lōk)
noun [ See
Lock a fastening.]
A private path or road; also, the wicket or hatch of a door. [ Prov. Eng.]
Lokorys Lok"o·rys noun Liquorice. [ Obsolete]
Chaucer.
Loligo Lo·li"go noun [ Latin , cuttle fish.]
(Zoology) A genus of cephalopods, including numerous species of squids, common on the coasts of America and Europe. They are much used for fish bait.
Loll Loll intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Lolled ;
present participle & verbal noun Lolling .] [ Confer Icelandic
lolla to act lazily,
loll ,
lolla , laziness, OD.
lollen to sit over the fire, and English
lull . Confer
Lill ,
Lull .]
1. To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease. Void of care, he lolls supine in state.
Dryden. 2. To hand extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or a log when heated with labor or exertion. The triple porter of the Stygian seat,
With lolling tongue, lay fawning at thy feet.
Dryden. 3. To let the tongue hang from the mouth, as an ox, dog, or other animal, when heated by labor; as, the ox stood lolling in the furrow.
Loll Loll transitive verb To let hang from the mouth, as the tongue. Fierce tigers couched around and lolled their fawning tongues.
Dryden.
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