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- English Word Loch Definition A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture.
- English Word Lochaber ax Definition Alt. of Lochaber axe
- English Word Lochaber axe Definition A weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scotch Highlanders.
- English Word Lochage Definition An officer who commanded a company; a captain.
- English Word Lochan Definition A small lake; a pond.
- English Word Loche Definition See Loach.
- English Word Lochia Definition The discharge from the womb and vagina which follows childbirth.
- English Word Lochial Definition Of or pertaining to the lochia.
- English Word Loci Definition of Locus
- English Word Lock Definition A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
- English Word Lock Definition 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.
- English Word Lock Definition A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
- English Word Lock Definition A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
- English Word Lock Definition The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.
- English Word Lock Definition 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.
- English Word Lock Definition That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.
- English Word Lock Definition A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
- English Word Lock Definition A grapple in wrestling.
- English Word Lock Definition 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.
- English Word Lock Definition 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.
- English Word Lock Definition 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.
- English Word Lock Definition To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.
- English Word Lock Definition To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
- English Word Lock Definition To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
- English Word Lock Definition To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.
- English Word Lock hospital Definition A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases.
- English Word Lock step Definition 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.
- English Word Lock stitch Definition A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch.
- English Word Lock-down Definition A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting; -- used by lumbermen.
- English Word Lock-weir Definition A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber.