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  • English Word Lockage Definition Materials for locks in a canal, or the works forming a lock or locks.
  • English Word Lockage Definition Toll paid for passing the locks of a canal.
  • English Word Lockage Definition Amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal.
  • English Word Locked Definition of Lock
  • English Word Locked-jaw Definition See Lockjaw.
  • English Word Locken Definition of Lock.
  • English Word Locken Definition The globeflower (Trollius).
  • English Word Locker Definition One who, or that which, locks.
  • English Word Locker Definition A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock.
  • English Word Locket Definition A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament.
  • English Word Locket Definition A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain.
  • English Word Locking Definition of Lock
  • English Word Lockjaw Definition A contraction of the muscles of the jaw by which its motion is suspended; a variety of tetanus.
  • English Word Lockless Definition Destitute of a lock.
  • English Word Lockman Definition A public executioner.
  • English Word Lockout Definition 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.
  • English Word Lockram Definition A kind of linen cloth anciently used in England, originally imported from Brittany.
  • English Word Locksmith Definition An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend locks.
  • English Word Lockup Definition A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.
  • English Word Locky Definition Having locks or tufts.
  • English Word Loco Definition A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.
  • English Word Loco Definition 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.
  • English Word Locofoco Definition A friction match.
  • English Word Locofoco Definition A nickname formerly given to a member of the Democratic party.
  • English Word Locomotion Definition The act of moving from place to place.
  • English Word Locomotion Definition The power of moving from place to place, characteristic of the higher animals and some of the lower forms of plant life.
  • English Word Locomotive Definition Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal.
  • English Word Locomotive Definition Used in producing motion; as, the locomotive organs of an animal.
  • English Word Locomotive Definition 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.
  • English Word Locomotiveness Definition Alt. of Locomotivity