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  • English Word Logos Definition The divine Word; Christ.
  • English Word Logothete Definition An accountant; under Constantine, an officer of the empire; a receiver of revenue; an administrator of a department.
  • English Word Logotype Definition A single type, containing two or more letters; as, ae, Ae, /, /, /, etc. ; -- called also ligature.
  • English Word Logroll Definition To engage in logrolling; to accomplish by logrolling.
  • English Word Logroller Definition One who engages in logrolling.
  • English Word Logrolling Definition 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.
  • English Word Logrolling Definition 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.
  • English Word Logwood Definition The heartwood of a tree (Haematoxylon Campechianum), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called haematoxylin, and is used largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called Campeachy wood, and bloodwood.
  • English Word Logy Definition Heavy or dull in respect to motion or thought; as, a logy horse.
  • English Word Lohock Definition See Loch, a medicine.
  • English Word Loimic Definition Of or pertaining to the plague or contagious disorders.
  • English Word Loin Definition 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.
  • English Word Loir Definition A large European dormouse (Myoxus glis).
  • English Word Loiter Definition To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
  • English Word Loiter Definition To wander as an idle vagrant.
  • English Word Loitered Definition of Loiter
  • English Word Loiterer Definition One who loiters; an idler.
  • English Word Loiterer Definition An idle vagrant; a tramp.
  • English Word Loitering Definition of Loiter
  • English Word Loiteringly Definition In a loitering manner.
  • English Word Lok Definition Alt. of Loki
  • English Word Loke Definition A private path or road; also, the wicket or hatch of a door.
  • English Word Loki Definition The evil deity, the author of all calamities and mischief, answering to the African of the Persians.
  • English Word Lokorys Definition Liquorice.
  • English Word Loligo Definition A genus of cephalopods, including numerous species of squids, common on the coasts of America and Europe. They are much used for fish bait.
  • English Word Loll Definition To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.
  • English Word Loll Definition To hand extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or a log when heated with labor or exertion.
  • English Word Loll Definition 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.
  • English Word Loll Definition To let hang from the mouth, as the tongue.
  • English Word Lollard Definition One of a sect of early reformers in Germany.