Chapter 93

Lobster caterpillar (Zoöl.), the caterpillar of a European bombycid moth (Stauropus fagi); -- so called from its form. Lobster louse (Zoöl.), a copepod crustacean (Nicothoë astaci) parasitic on the gills of the European lobster.

Lob"u*lar, a. [Cf. F. lobulaire.] Like a lobule; pertaining to a lobule or lobules.

{ Lob"u*late (?), Lob"u*la`ted (?), } a. Made up of, or divided into, lobules; as, a lobulated gland.

Lob"ule, n. [Cf. F. lobule, dim. of lobe. See Lobe.] A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.

Lobule of the ear. (Anat.) Same as Lobe of the ear.

Lob`u*lette" (?), n. [Dim. of lobule.] (Anat.) A little lobule, or subdivision of a lobule.

Lob"worm` (?), n. (Zoöl.) The lugworm.

Lo"cal (?), a. [L. localis, fr. locus place: cf. F. local. See Lieu, Locus.] Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local custom.

Gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.

Shak.

Local actions (Law), actions such as must be brought in a particular county, where the cause arises; -- distinguished from transitory actions. -- Local affection (Med.), a disease or ailment confined to a particular part or organ, and not directly affecting the system. -- Local attraction (Magnetism), an attraction near a compass, causing its needle to deviate from its proper direction, especially on shipboard. -- Local battery (Teleg.), the battery which actuates the recording instruments of a telegraphic station, as distinguished from the battery furnishing a current for the line. -- Local circuit (Teleg.), the circuit of the local battery. -- Local color. (a) (Paint.) The color which belongs to an object, and is not caused by accidental influences, as of reflection, shadow, etc. (b) (Literature) Peculiarities of the place and its inhabitants where the scene of an action or story is laid. -- Local option, the right or obligation of determining by popular vote within certain districts, as in each county, city, or town, whether the sale of alcoholic beverages within the district shall be allowed.

Lo"cal, n. 1. (Railroad) A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district. [U.S.]

2. On newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published. [U.S.]

||Lo`cale" (?), n. [F. local.] 1. A place, spot, or location. || 2. A principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality.

Lo"cal*ism (?), n. 1. The state or quality of being local; affection for a particular place.

2. A method of speaking or acting peculiar to a certain district; a local idiom or phrase.

Lo*cal"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Localitiees (&?;). [L. localitas: cf. F. localité.] 1. The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits.

It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality.

Glanvill.

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2. Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.

3. Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial. Blackstone.

4. (Phren.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

Lo`cal*i*za"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. localisation.] Act of localizing, or state of being localized.

Cerebral localization (Physiol.), the localization of the control of special functions, as of sight or of the various movements of the body, in special regions of the brain.

Lo"cal*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Localized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Localizing (?).] [Cf. F. localiser. See Local.] To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place. H. Spencer. Wordsworth.

Lo"cal*ly, adv. With respect to place; in place; as, to be locally separated or distant.

Lo"cate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Located (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Locating.] [L. locatus, p. p. of locare to place, fr. locus place. See Local.] 1. To place; to set in a particular spot or position.

The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter.

B. F. Westcott.

2. To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as, to locate a public building; to locate a mining claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant.

That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located.

H. Spencer.

Lo"cate, v. i. To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle. [Colloq.]

Lo*ca"tion (?), n. [L. locatio, fr. locare.]

1. The act or process of locating.

2. Situation; place; locality. Locke.

3. That which is located; a tract of land designated in place. [U.S.]

4. (Law) (a) (Civil Law) A leasing on rent. (b) (Scots Law) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire. Wharton. (c) (Amer. Law) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc. Burrill. Bouvier.

Loc"a*tive (?), a. (Gram.) Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein; as, a locative adjective; locative case of a noun. -- n. The locative case.

Lo"ca*tor (?), n. One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim. [U.S.]

Lo*cel"late (?), a. [L. locellus a compartment, dim. of locus a place.] (Bot.) Divided into secondary compartments or cells, as where one cavity is separated into several smaller ones.

Loch (lk), n. [Gael. & Olr. loch. See Lake of water.] A lake; a bay or arm of the sea. [Scot.]

Loch (lk), n. [F. looch, Ar. la'g, an electuary, or any medicine which may be licked or sucked, fr. la'q to lick.] (Med.) A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture.

{ Loch*a"ber ax", Loch*a"ber axe" } (?). [So called from Lochaber, in Scotland.] A weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scotch Highlanders.

Loch"age (?), n. [Gr.&?;.] (Gr. Antiq.) An officer who commanded a company; a captain. Mitford.

Loch"an (?), n. [Gael. See 1st Loch.] A small lake; a pond. [Scot.]

A pond or lochan rather than a lake.

H. Miller.

Loche (?), n. (Zoöl.) See Loach.

||Lo*chi"a (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. &?;, pl., fr. &?; belonging to ||childbirth, &?; a lying in, childbirth.] (Med.) The discharge from ||the womb and vagina which follows childbirth. || Lo"chi*al (?), a. [Cf. F. lochial.] Of or pertaining to the lochia.

Lock (?), n. [AS. locc; akin to D. lok, G. locke, OHG. loc, Icel. lokkr, and perh. to Gr. &?; to bend, twist.] A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.

These gray locks, the pursuivants of death.

Shak.

Lock, n. [AS. loc inclosure, an inclosed place, the fastening of a door, fr. lcan to lock, fasten; akin to OS. lkan (in comp.), D. luiken, OHG. lhhan, Icel. l&?;ka, Goth. lkan (in comp.); cf. Skr. ruj to break. Cf. Locket.] 1. Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened.

2. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.

Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages.

De Quincey.

3. A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock. Dryden.

4. The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.

5. An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; -- called also lift lock.

6. That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.

7. A device for keeping a wheel from turning.

8. A grapple in wrestling. Milton.

Detector lock, a lock containing a contrivance for showing whether it as has been tampered with. -- Lock bay (Canals), the body of water in a lock chamber. -- Lock chamber, the inclosed space between the gates of a canal lock. -- Lock nut. See Check nut, under Check. -- Lock plate, a plate to which the mechanism of a gunlock is attached. -- Lock rail (Arch.), in ordinary paneled doors, the rail nearest the lock. Lock rand (Masonry), a range of bond stone. Knight. -- Mortise lock, a door lock inserted in a mortise. -- Rim lock, a lock fastened to the face of a door, thus differing from a mortise lock.

Lock, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Locked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Locking.] 1. To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to prevent free movement of; as, to lock a door, a carriage wheel, a river, etc.

2. To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; -- often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc.

3. To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast.

4. To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms. " Lock hand in hand." Shak.

5. (Canals) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.

6. (Fencing) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.

Lock (?), v. i. To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.

When it locked none might through it pass.

Spenser.

To lock into, to fit or slide into; as, they lock into each other. Boyle.

Lock"age (?), n. 1. Materials for locks in a canal, or the works forming a lock or locks.

2. Toll paid for passing the locks of a canal.

3. Amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal.

The entire lock will be about fifty feet.

De Witt Clinton.

Lock"-down` (?), n. A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting; -- used by lumbermen. [U.S.]

Locked"-jaw` (?), n. See Lockjaw.

Lock"en (?), obs. p. p. of Lock. Chaucer.

Lock"en, n. (Bot.) The globeflower (Trollius).

Lock"er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, locks.

2. A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock.

Chain locker (Naut.), a compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables. -- Davy Jones's locker, or Davy's locker. See Davy Jones. -- Shot locker, a compartment where shot are deposited. Totten.

Lock"et (?), n. [F. loquet latch, dim. of OF. loc latch, lock; of German origin. See Lock a fastening.]

1. A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament.

2. A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain.

Lock" hos"pi*tal (?). A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases. [Eng.]

Lock"jaw` (?), n. (Med.) A contraction of the muscles of the jaw by which its motion is suspended; a variety of tetanus.

Lock"less, a. Destitute of a lock.

Lock"man (?), n. A public executioner. [Scot.]

Lock"out` (?), n. The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer, usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a suspension of wages.

Lock"ram (?), n. [F. locrenan, locronan; from Locronan, in Brittany, where it is said to have been made.] A kind of linen cloth anciently used in England, originally imported from Brittany. Shak.

Lock"smith` (?), n. An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend locks.

Lock" step` (?). A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him.

Lock" stitch` (?). A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch.

Lock"up` (?), n. A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.

Lock"-weir` (?), n. A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber.

Lock"y (?), a. Having locks or tufts. [R.] Sherwood.

||Lo"co (?), adv. [It.] (Mus.) A direction in written or printed music ||to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher. || Lo"co, n. [Sp. loco insane.] (Bot.) A plant (Astragalus Hornii) growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of the same genus. Called also loco weed.

Lo`co*fo"co (?), n. [Of uncertain etymol.; perh. for L. loco foci instead of fire; or, according to Bartlett, it was called so from a self-lighting cigar, with a match composition at the end, invented in 1834 by John Marck of New York, and called by him locofoco cigar, in imitation of the word locomotive, which by the uneducated was supposed to mean, self-moving.] 1. A friction match. [U.S.]

2. A nickname formerly given to a member of the Democratic party. [U.S.]

The name was first applied, in 1834, to a portion of the Democratic party, because, at a meeting in Tammany Hall, New York, in which there was great diversity of sentiment, the chairman left his seat, and the lights were extinguished, for the purpose of dissolving the meeting; when those who were opposed to an adjournment produced locofoco matches, rekindled the lights, continued the meeting, and accomplished their object.

Lo`co*mo"tion (?), n. [L. locus place + motio motion: cf. F. locomotion. See Local, and Motion.] 1. The act of moving from place to place. " Animal locomotion." Milton.

2. The power of moving from place to place, characteristic of the higher animals and some of the lower forms of plant life.

Lo"co*mo`tive (?), a. [Cf. F. locomotif. See Locomotion.] 1. Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal.

2. Used in producing motion; as, the locomotive organs of an animal.

Lo"co*mo`tive (?), n. A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage, especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines which communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.

Consolidation locomotive, a locomotive having four pairs of connected drivers. -- Locomotive car, a locomotive and a car combined in one vehicle; a dummy engine. [U.S.] -- Locomotive engine. Same as Locomotive, above. -- Mogul locomotive. See Mogul.

{ Lo"co*mo`tive*ness (?), Lo`co*mo*tiv"i*ty (?), } n. [Cf. F. locomotivité.] The power of changing place.

Lo`co*mo"tor (?), a. [See Locomotion.] Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion.

Locomotor ataxia, or Progressive locomotor ataxy (Med.), a disease of the spinal cord characterized by peculiar disturbances of gait, and difficulty in coördinating voluntary movements.

Loc"u*la*ment (?), n. [L. loculamentum case, box, fr. loculus a compartment, dim. of locus place.] (Bot.) The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.

Loc"u*lar (?), a. [L. locularis.] (Bot.) Of or relating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; in composition, having cells; as trilocular. Gray.

Loc"u*late (?), a. [L. loculatus.] (Bot.) Divided into compartments.

Loc"ule (?), n. [Cf. F. locule. See Loculus.] (Zoöl.) A little hollow; a loculus.

Loc"u*li*ci`dal (?), a. [L. loculus cell + caedere to cut: cf. F. loculicide.] (Bot.) Dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell; -- said of capsules.

{ Loc"u*lose` (?), Loc"u*lous (?), } a. [L. loculosus. See Loculament.] (Bot.) Divided by internal partitions into cells, as the pith of the pokeweed.

Loc"u*lus (?), n.; pl. Loculi (#). [L., little place, a compartment.] 1. (Zoöl.) One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa.

2. (Bot.) One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament.

||Lo"cum te"nens (?). [L., holding the place; locus place + tenens, p. ||pr. of tenere to hold. Cf. Lieutenant.] A substitute or deputy; one ||filling an office for a time. || Lo"cus (?), n.; pl. Loci (#), & Loca (#). [L., place. Cf. Allow, Couch, Lieu, Local.] 1. A place; a locality.

2. (Math.) The line traced by a point which varies its position according to some determinate law; the surface described by a point or line that moves according to a given law.

Plane locus, a locus that is a straight line, or a circle. -- Solid locus, a locus that is one of the conic sections.

Lo"cust (?), n. [L. locusta locust, grasshopper. Cf. Lobster.] 1. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididæ, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda, or Pachytylus, migratoria, and Acridium perigrinum, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United States the related species with similar habits are usually called grasshoppers. See Grasshopper.

These insects are at times so numerous in Africa and the south of Asia as to devour every green thing; and when they migrate, they fly in an immense cloud. In the United States the harvest flies are improperly called locusts. See Cicada.

Locust beetle (Zoöl.), a longicorn beetle (Cyllene robiniæ), which, in the larval state, bores holes in the wood of the locust tree. Its color is brownish black, barred with yellow. Called also locust borer. -- Locust bird (Zoöl.) the rose-colored starling or pastor of India. See Pastor. -- Locust hunter (Zoöl.), an African bird; the beefeater.

2. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) The locust tree. See Locust Tree (definition, note, and phrases).

Locust bean (Bot.), a commercial name for the sweet pod of the carob tree.

Lo*cus"ta (?), n. [NL.: cf. locuste.] (Bot.) The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses. Gray.

Lo`cus*tel"la (?), n. [NL., fr. L. locusta a locust.] (Zoöl.) The European cricket warbler.

Lo*cus"tic (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the locust; -- formerly used to designate a supposed acid.

Lo"cust*ing (?), p. a. Swarming and devastating like locusts. [R.] Tennyson.

Lo"cust tree` (?). [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) 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.

The name is also applied to other trees of different genera, especially to those of the genus Hymenæa, of which H. Courbaril is a lofty, spreading tree of South America; also to the carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua), a tree growing in the Mediterranean region.

Honey locust tree (Bot.), a tree of the genus Gleditschia ) G. triacanthus), having pinnate leaves and strong branching thorns; -- so called from a sweet pulp found between the seeds in the pods. Called also simply honey locust. -- Water locust tree (Bot.), a small swamp tree (Gleditschia monosperma), of the Southern United States.

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Lo*cu"tion (l*k"shn), n. [L. locutio, fr. loqui to speak: cf. F. 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.

Loc"u*to*ry (lk"*t*r), n. A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.

Lod"de (ld'd), n. (Zoöl.) The capelin.

Lode (?), n. [AS. ld way, journey, fr. lðan to go. See Lead to guide, and cf. 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"man*age (?), n. [OE. lodemenage. Chaucer.] Pilotage. [Obs.]

Lode"-ship` (?), n. An old name for a pilot boat.

Lodes"man (?), n. Same as Loadsman. [Obs.]

Lode"star` (?), n. Same as Loadstar.

Lode"stone` (?), n. (Min.) Same as Loadstone.

Lodge (?), n. [OE. loge, logge, F. loge, LL. laubia porch, gallery, fr. OHG. louba, G. laube, arbor, bower, fr. lab foliage. See Leaf, and cf. 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, n., 1 (b).

Lodge, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lodged (ljd); p. pr. & vb. n. Lodging (lj"ng).] 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, v. t. [OE. loggen, OF. logier, F. loger. See Lodge, n. ] 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.

Lodge"a*ble (?), a. [Cf. F. 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 (?), a. (Her.) Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.

Lodge"ment (?), n. See Lodgment.

Lodg"er (?), n. One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.

Lodg"ing, n. 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.

Lodg"ment (?), n. [Written also lodgement.] [Cf. F. 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. [Obs.]

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.