AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
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-down: a contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting; -- used by lumbermen.
lock-weir: a waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber.
lockage: materials for locks in a canal, or the works forming a lock or locks.-toll paid for passing the locks of a canal.-amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal.
locker: one who, or that which, locks.-a drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock.
locket: a small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament.-a little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain.
lockjaw: a contraction of the muscles of the jaw by which its motion is suspended; a variety of tetanus.
lockout: 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.
lockram: a kind of linen cloth anciently used in england, originally imported from brittany.
loco: a direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.-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.
locomotion: the act of moving from place to place.-the power of moving from place to place, characteristic of the higher animals and some of the lower forms of plant life.
locomotive: moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal.-used in producing motion; as, the locomotive organs of an animal.-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.
locular: of or relating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; in composition, having cells; as trilocular.
loculicidal: dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell; -- said of capsules.
loculous: divided by internal partitions into cells, as the pith of the pokeweed.
loculus: one of the spaces between the septa in the anthozoa.-one of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament.
locus: a place; a locality.-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.
locust: any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family acrididae, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (edipoda, / 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.-the locust tree. see locust tree (definition, note, and phrases).
locust tree: 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.
locustic: pertaining to, or derived from, the locust; -- formerly used to designate a supposed acid.
locutory: a room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.
lode: a water course or way; a reach of water.-a metallic vein; any regular vein or course, whether metallic or not.
lodemanage: pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman.-pilotage.
lodestar: a star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure.-same as loadstar.
lodestone: a piece of magnetic iron ore possessing polarity like a magnetic needle. see magnetite.-same as loadstone.
lodge: a shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) a shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an indian's lodge.-a small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate.-a den or cave.-the meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.-the chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.-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.-a collection of objects lodged together.-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.-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.-to fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.-to come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree.-to give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold.-to drive to shelter; to track to covert.-to deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal.-to cause to stop or rest in; to implant.-to lay down; to prostrate.
lodgeable: that may be or can be lodged; as, so many persons are not lodgeable in this village.-capable of affording lodging; fit for lodging in.
lodged: of lodge-lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.
lodger: one who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.
lodging: of lodge-the act of one who, or that which, lodges.-a place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning.-abiding place; harbor; cover.
lodgment: the act of lodging, or the state of being lodged.-a lodging place; a room.-an accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest.-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.
lodicule: one of the two or three delicate membranous scales which are next to the stamens in grasses.
loellingite: a tin-white arsenide of iron, isomorphous with arsenopyrite.
loess: a quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the rhine and other large rivers.
loeven's larva: the peculiar larva of polygordius. see polygordius.
loft: that which is lifted up; an elevation.-the room or space under a roof and above the ceiling of the uppermost story.-a gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft.-a floor or room placed above another; a story.-lofty; proud.
lofty: lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.-fig.: elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty.
log: a hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills.-a bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.-an apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.-hence: the record of the rate of ship's speed or of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book.-a record and tabulated statement of the work done by an engine, as of a steamship, of the coal consumed, and of other items relating to the performance of machinery during a given time.-a weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.-to enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run.-to engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs.-to move to and fro; to rock.
log-chip: a thin, flat piece of board in the form of a quadrant of a circle attached to the log line; -- called also log-ship. see 2d log, n., 2.
log-ship: a part of the log. see log-chip, and 2d log, n., 2.
logaoedic: composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement like that of ordinary speech.
logarithm: one of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by john napier, of merchiston, scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division.
loggat: a small log or piece of wood.-an old game in england, played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake set in the ground.
loggerhead: a blockhead; a dunce; a numskull.-a spherical mass of iron, with a long handle, used to heat tar.-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.-a very large marine turtle (thalassochelys caretta, / caouana), common in the warmer parts of the atlantic ocean, from brazil to cape cod; -- called also logger-headed turtle.-an american shrike (lanius ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. see shrike.
loggia: 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: of log-the business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.
logic: 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.-a treatise on logic; as, mill's logic.
logical: of or pertaining to logic; used in logic; as, logical subtilties.-according to the rules of logic; as, a logical argument or inference; the reasoning is logical.-skilled in logic; versed in the art of thinking and reasoning; as, he is a logical thinker.
logistical: logical.-sexagesimal, or made on the scale of 60; as, logistic, or sexagesimal, arithmetic.
logistics: 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.-a system of arithmetic, in which numbers are expressed in a scale of 60; logistic arithmetic.
logogram: a word letter; a phonogram, that, for the sake of brevity, represents a word; as, |, i. e., t, for it.  cf. grammalogue.
logographer: a chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences.-one skilled in logography.
logography: a method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used.-a mode of reporting speeches without using shorthand, -- a number of reporters, each in succession, taking down three or four words.
logogriph: 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.
logomachy: contention in words merely, or a contention about words; a war of words.-a game of word making.
logothete: an accountant; under constantine, an officer of the empire; a receiver of revenue; an administrator of a department.
logotype: a single type, containing two or more letters; as, ae, ae, /, /, /, etc. ; -- called also ligature.
logrolling: 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.-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.
logwood: 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.
logy: heavy or dull in respect to motion or thought; as, a logy horse.
loin: 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.
loiter: to be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.-to wander as an idle vagrant.
loiterer: one who loiters; an idler.-an idle vagrant; a tramp.
loke: a private path or road; also, the wicket or hatch of a door.
loki: the evil deity, the author of all calamities and mischief, answering to the african of the persians.
loligo: 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: to act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.-to hand extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or a log when heated with labor or exertion.-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.-to let hang from the mouth, as the tongue.
lollard: one of a sect of early reformers in germany.-one of the followers of wyclif in england.
lombar-house: a bank or a pawnbroker's shop.-a public institution for lending money to the poor at a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged; -- called also mont de piete.
lombard: of or pertaining to lombardy, or the inhabitants of lombardy.-a native or inhabitant of lombardy.-a money lender or banker; -- so called because the business of banking was first carried on in london by lombards.-same as lombard-house.-a form of cannon formerly in use.
loment: an elongated pod, consisting, like the legume, of two valves, but divided transversely into small cells, each containing a single seed.
londonize: to impart to (one) a manner or character like that which distinguishes londoners.-to imitate the manner of the people of london.
lone: a lane. see loanin.-being without a companion; being by one's self; also, sad from lack of companionship; lonely; as, a lone traveler or watcher.-single; unmarried, or in widowhood.-being apart from other things of the kind; being by itself; also, apart from human dwellings and resort; as, a lone house.-unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
loneliness: the condition of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.-the state of being unfrequented by human beings; as, the loneliness of a road.-love of retirement; disposition to solitude.-a feeling of depression resulting from being alone.
lonely: sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell.-alone, or in want of company; forsaken.-not frequented by human beings; as, a lonely wood.-having a feeling of depression or sadness resulting from the consciousness of being alone; lonesome.
lonesome: secluded from society; not frequented by human beings; solitary.-conscious of, and somewhat depressed by, solitude; as, to feel lonesome.
long: drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide.-drawn out or extended in time; continued through a considerable tine, or to a great length; as, a long series of events; a long debate; a long drama; a long history; a long book.-slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching.-occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.-extended to any specified measure; of a specified length; as, a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that is, extended to the measure of a mile, etc.-far-reaching; extensive.-prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. see short, a., 13, and guide to pronunciation, // 22, 30.-a note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.-a long sound, syllable, or vowel.-the longest dimension; the greatest extent; -- in the phrase, the long and the short of it, that is, the sum and substance of it.-to a great extent in apace; as, a long drawn out line.-to a great extent in time; during a long time.-at a point of duration far distant, either prior or posterior; as, not long before; not long after; long before the foundation of rome; long after the conquest.-through the whole extent or duration.-through an extent of time, more or less; -- only in question; as, how long will you be gone?-by means of; by the fault of; because of.-to feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for something with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or by after or for.-to belong; -- used with to, unto, or for.
long-breathed: having the power of retaining the breath for a long time; long-winded.
long-horned: having a long horn or horns; as, a long-horned goat, or cow; having long antennae, as certain beetles (longicornia).
long-lived: having a long life; having constitutional peculiarities which make long life probable; lasting long; as, a long-lived tree; they are a longlived family; long-lived prejudices.
long-sighted: able to see objects at a great distance; hence, having great foresight; sagacious; farseeing.-able to see objects distinctly at a distance, but not close at hand; hypermetropic.
long-sightedness: the state or condition of being long-sighted; hence, sagacity; shrewdness.-see hypermetropia.
long-suffering: bearing injuries or provocation for a long time; patient; not easily provoked.-long patience of offense.
long-tongued: having a long tongue.-talkative; babbling; loquacious.
long-waisted: having a long waist; long from the armpits to the armpits to the bottom of the waist; -- said of persons.-long from the part about the neck or shoulder, or from the armpits, to the bottom of the weist, or to the skirt; -- said of garments; as, a long-waisted coat.
long-winded: long-breathed; hence, tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; as, a long-winded talker.
longan: a pulpy fruit related to the litchi, and produced by an evergreen east indian tree (nephelium longan).
longbeak: the american redbellied snipe (macrorhamphus scolopaceus); -- called also long-billed dowitcher.
longboat: formerly, the largest boat carried by a merchant vessel, corresponding to the launch of a naval vessel.
longbow: the ordinary bow, not mounted on a stock; -- so called in distinction from the crossbow when both were used as weapons of war. also, sometimes, such a bow of about the height of a man, as distinguished from a much shorter one.
longe: a thrust. see lunge.-the training ground for a horse.-same as 4th lunge.
longhorn: a long-horned animal, as a cow, goat, or beetle. see long-horned.
longicorn: long-horned; pertaining to the longicornia.-one of the longicornia.
longicornia: a division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennae are very long.  most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. see apple borer, under apple, and locust beetle, under locust.
longing: of long-an eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.
longipennes: a group of longwinged sea birds, including the gulls, petrels, etc.
longirostral: having a long bill; of or pertaining to the longirostres.
longirostres: of longiroster-a group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. it is now regarded as an artificial division.
longitude: length; measure or distance along the longest line; -- distinguished from breadth or thickness; as, the longitude of a room; rare now, except in a humorous sense.-the arc or portion of the equator intersected between the meridian of a given place and the meridian of some other place from which longitude is reckoned, as from greenwich, england, or sometimes from the capital of a country, as from washington or paris. the longitude of a place is expressed either in degrees or in time; as, that of new york is 74¡ or 4 h. 56 min. west of greenwich.-the distance in degrees, reckoned from the vernal equinox, on the ecliptic, to a circle at right angles to the ecliptic passing through the heavenly body whose longitude is designated; as, the longitude of capella is 79¡.
longitudinal: of or pertaining to longitude or length; as, longitudinal distance.-extending in length; in the direction of the length; running lengthwise, as distinguished from transverse; as, the longitudinal diameter of a body.-a railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.
longly: with longing desire.-for a long time; hence, wearisomely.
longmynd rocks: the sparingly fossiliferous conglomerates, grits, schists, and states of great britain, which lie at the base of the cambrian system; -- so called, because typically developed in the longmynd hills, shropshire.
longshore: belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore.
longshoreman: one of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.
longspun: spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious.
longspur: any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genus calcarius (or plectrophanes), and allied genera. the lapland longspur (c. lapponicus), the chestnut-colored longspur (c. ornatus), and other species, inhabit the united states.
longtail: an animal, particularly a log, having an uncut tail.  cf. curtail. dog.
lonis quatorze: of, pertaining to, or resembling, the art or style of the times of louis xiv. of france; as, louis quatorze architecture.
loo: an old game played with five, or three, cards dealt to each player from a full pack. when five cards are used the highest card is the knave of clubs or (if so agreed upon) the knave of trumps; -- formerly called lanterloo.-a modification of the game of "all fours" in which the players replenish their hands after each round by drawing each a card from the pack.-to beat in the game of loo by winning every trick.
loof: the spongelike fibers of the fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (luffa aegyptiaca); called also vegetable sponge.-formerly, some appurtenance of a vessel which was used in changing her course; -- probably a large paddle put over the lee bow to help bring her head nearer to the wind.-the part of a ship's side where the planking begins to curve toward bow and stern.-see luff.
look: to direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. see phrases below.-to direct the attention (to something); to consider; to examine; as, to look at an action.-to seem; to appear; to have a particular appearance; as, the patient looks better; the clouds look rainy.-to have a particular direction or situation; to face; to front.-in the imperative: see; behold; take notice; take care; observe; -- used to call attention.-to show one's self in looking, as by leaning out of a window; as, look out of the window while i speak to you. sometimes used figuratively.-to await the appearance of anything; to expect; to anticipate.-to look at; to turn the eyes toward.-to seek; to search for.-to expect.-to influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence as, to look down opposition.-to express or manifest by a look.-the act of looking; a glance; a sight; a view; -- often in certain phrases; as, to have, get, take, throw, or cast, a look.-expression of the eyes and face; manner; as, a proud or defiant look.-hence; appearance; aspect; as, the house has a gloomy look; the affair has a bad look.