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radiants at the same angle, and this angle is the modulus of the system of logarithms which the particular spiral represents. Its involute and evolute are the same curve with itself.

Logarithmically (log-a-rith'mik-al-li), adv. By the use or aid of logarithms.

Log-board (log'bord), n. Naut. two boards, shutting like a book and divided into columns, in which for all the hours of the day and night are written down the direction of the wind, course of the ship, &c., these entries being afterwards transferred to the log-book. The entries on the log-board are made with chalk and rubbed out every day at noon. A slate is now, however, commonly used instead.

Log-book (log'buk), n. 1. Naut. a book into which are transcribed the contents of the log-board or log-slate with any other particulars relating to the vessel's voyage that are considered worthy of being registered, such as the misconduct of any of the crew, assistance lent to a vessel in distress, or the like. Often simply Log.- -2. A book for memoranda kept by a public teacher. Log-cabin (log'kab-in), n. A house or hut whose walls are composed of logs laid on each other, such as are often constructed in

Log-cabin.

new-settled regions where timber is plentiful. Log-canoe (log'ka-nö), n. A canoe hollowed out of a single log. See CANOE. Log-chip, Log-ship (log'chip, log'ship), n. The board, in the form of a quadrant, attached to the log-line. See LOG. Loge,t n. [Fr.] A lodge; habitation. Chau

cer.

Loggan (logʻan), n. Same as Logan. Loggatt (log'at), n. [Dim. from log.] 1. A small log or piece of wood. B. Jonson.2. pl. The name of an ancient English game, played by fixing a stake in the ground and pitching small pieces of wood at it, the nearest thrower winning. It was prohibited by stat. 33 Henry VIII. ix.

I have seen it (loggats) played in different counties, at their sheep-shearing feasts, where the winner was entitled to a black fleece, which he afterwards presented to the maid to spin, for the purpose of making a petticoat, and on condition that she knelt down on the fleece to be kissed by all the rustics present. Steevens.

Logged,t pp. Lodged. Chaucer. Logged (logd), p. and a. 1. Fastened with logs. [North American.]-2. Naut. waterlogged (which see).

Logger (log'èr), n. In the United States, a person employed to procure logs or timber. Loggerhead (log'èr-hed), n. [Log and head.] 1. A blockhead; a dunce; a dolt; a thickskull.-2. A spherical mass of iron with a long handle, used to heat tar.-3. A species of turtle found in the south seas (the Caounia caretta). It is a large fierce animal, biting furiously when attacked.-4. A timber-head in a whale-boat for veering out lines when fast to a whale.-5. In the West Indies, the name given to two or three species of fly-catchers. To fall to loggerheads or to go to loggerheads, to come to blows. To be at loggerheads, to be engaged in a fight; to be involved in a dispute. Loggerheaded (log'èr-hed-ed), a. Dull; stupid; doltish.

You loggerheaded and unpolished grooms!
What, no attendance?
Shak.

Loggia (loj'a), n. pl. Loggie (loj'e). [It. See LODGE.] In Italian arch. (a) a term applied to a gallery or arcade in a building, sometimes on the level of the ground, at other times at the height of one or more stories, running along the front or part of

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the front of the building and open on one side to the air, on which side are a series of pillars or slender piers. Such galleries af

Loggia, Palace at Montepulciano.

ford an airy and sheltered resting-place or outlook. They are very characteristic of Italian palaces. Among famous loggie are those of the Vatican, decorated by Raffael and his scholars, and the Loggia de' Lanzi at Florence. The name is also given to a belvedere. (b) A large ornamental window in the middle of the chief story of a building, often projecting from the wall, as seen in old Venetian palaces.

Logging,tn. A lodging. Chaucer. Log-glass (log'glas), n. Naut. the sandglass used in heaving the log to obtain the rate of sailing. It is commonly a halfminute or a 28-seconds glass for slow sailing, and 14-seconds for fast sailing. Log-heap (log'hep), n. A pile of logs for burning in clearing land.

Log-house, Log-hut (log'hous, log'hut), n. Same as Log-cabin.

Logic (loj'ik), n. [Fr. logique; L. logica; Gr. logike, from logos, reason.] 1. The science of reasoning; the science of the operations of the understanding subservient to the estimation of evidence, including both the process itself of advancing from known truths or admitted propositions to unknown truths or propositions not previously admitted, and all intellectual operations, such as classifying and judging, subsidiary to this; the science whose chief end is to ascertain the principles on which all valid reasoning depends, and which may be applied as tests of the legitimacy of every conclusion that is drawn from premises.

Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought; that is, of the necessary conditions to which thought, considered in itself, is subject.

Sir W. Hamilton.

By logic has generally been meant a system which teaches us so to arrange our reasonings that their truth or falsehood shall be evident in their form.

Whewell.

Logic... is not the science of belief, but the science of proof or evidence. In so far as belief professes to be founded on proof, the office of logic is to supply a test for ascertaining whether or not the belief is well grounded. F. S. Mill.

2. Reasoning; the practice of reasoning; as, the author is guilty of much bad logic.-Deductive logic, the science which treats of deductive reasoning. See under DEDUCTIVE. -Inductive logic, the science which treats of inductive reasoning. See INDUCTION.Pure logic, the science of logic proper, as distinguished either from applied logic, which is the science of logic as applied to some special branch of inquiry or field of investigation; or from modified logic, which treats of the practice of reasoning as modified by the mental constitution of man generally or particular individuals, or the practice of reasoning in relation to those circumstances which are likely to lead men into error in reasoning.

Logical (loj'ik-al), a. 1. Pertaining to logic; used in logic; taught in logic; as, logical subtleties. 2. According to the rules or principles of logic; as, a logical argument or inference; this reasoning is strictly logical. A process of logical reasoning has been often likened to a chain supporting a weight. Stewart. 3. Skilled in logic; furnished with logic; discriminating; as, a logical mind. Logically (loj'ik-al-li), adv. According to the rules or principles of logic; as, to argue logically.

Logician (lo-ji'shan), n. A person skilled in logic; a teacher or professor of logic; an able arguer.

Each fierce logician still expelling Locke. Pope. Logicise (loj'i-siz), v.i. To exercise one's logical powers.

Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it is seeing and ascertaining. Carlyle.

LOGOGRIPH

Logicst (loj'iks), n. Used for Logic. Logie (lo'gi), n. A bit of hollowed-out pewter polished in various concavities and used as theatrical jewelry. [Theatrical slang.] Logistic, Logistical (lo-jis'tik, lō-jis'tik-al),

a.

1.t Logical. Berkeley. 2. In math. relating to logistics; sexagesimal; as, logistic arithmetic.- Logistic or proportional logarithms, certain logarithms of sexagesimal fractions useful in astronomical calculations. They are constructed for the purpose of simplifying the process of finding a fourth proportional where the first term is always the same. By the ordinary logarithmic tables it would be necessary in such a case first to find the logarithms of the second and third terms and add them together, and then to subtract the logarithm of the first, by which the logarithm of the fourth is determined. But in tables of logistic logarithms the figures given are the excesses of the logarithm of the first term over the logarithms of the numbers that may form the second and third terms; so that the process is reduced to adding the logistic logarithms of the second and third terms, which gives the logistic logarithm of the fourth. Tables of logistic logarithms were formerly used in connection with the old Nautical Almanac for simplifying astronomical calculations at sea; but they are now almost entirely disused, tables being now compiled that make it quite as convenient to use the common logarithms.

Logistics (lo-jis'tiks), n. 1. A name sometimes employed for the arithmetic of sexagesimal fractions, used in astronomical computations. Called also Logistical Arithmetic.-2. Milit. that branch of military science which takes cognizance of the comparative warlike resources and capabilities of countries between which war is likely to arise, as well as of all the conditions under which it is likely to be conducted, as the geographical features, climate, means of transit, food resources, &c., of the probable seat of war.

Log-line (log'lin), n. Naut. a line or cord about 150 fathoms in length, fastened to the log by means of two legs, and wound on a reel, called the log-reel. See LOG. Logman (log'man), n. 1. A man who carries logs. Shak.-2. One whose occupation is to cut and convey logs to a mill. [United States.] Logocracy (lo-gok'ra-si), n. [Gr. logos, a word, and krateo, to rule.] Government by the power of words.

Logodædaly (lo-go-de'da-li), n. [Gr. logos, a word, and daidalos, skilfully or curiously wrought.] Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words, as by passing from one meaning of them to another. [Rare.]

For one instance of mere logomachy, I could bring ten instances of logodadaly or verbal legerdemain. Coleridge. Logogram (logo-gram), n. [Gr. logos, a word, and gramma, a letter, from graphō, to write.] 1. In phonography, a word-letter; a phonogram that, for the sake of brevity,

represents a word; as, , that is, t, for it. 2. A set of verses forming a puzzle. The verses contain words synonymous with certain others formed from the transposition of the letters of an original word, which last it is the object to find out. Thus out of the word curtain many shorter words may be formed, as cur, curt, nut, tin, tarn, &c., of which dog, short, shell-fruit, whitemetal, mountain-lake, &c., may be regarded as synonyms. These latter synonyms then are introduced into the poem, and from these the primary synonyms (cur, curt, &c.) are to be guessed, and from them again curtain itself.

Logographer (lo-gog'ra-fer), n. One skilled in logography.

Logographic, Logographical (lō-gō-graf'ik, lo-go-grafik-al), a. Pertaining to logography.

Logography (lo-gog'ra-fi), n. [Gr. logos, a word, and graphe, a writing.] 1. A method of printing, in which a type represents a word, instead of forming a letter.-2. A system, formerly attempted, of taking down the words of an orator without having recourse to short-hand, a number of reporters acting at once, each of whom in succession took down a few words.

Logogriph,t Logogrypht (lo'gō-grif), n. [Gr. logos, a word, and griphos, a fishing-net, anything intricate.] A sort of riddle.

LOGOMACHIST

Logomachist (lo-gom'a-kist), n. One who contends about words.

Logomachy (lo-gom'a-ki), n. [Gr. logos, word, and mache, contest, altercation. 1 Contention in words merely, or rather a contention about words; a war of words.

How it (genius or originality) disconcerts society, interrupts the tranquil course of its vegetation, perplexes the methodical logomachy of parties. Macmillan's Mag. Logomania (lō-gō-mā'ni-a), n. [Gr. logos, a word, and mania, madness.] A disease of the faculty of language generally associated with organic disease of the nervous structure, as in paralysis. In this disease, while conceptions and ideas remain clear, the power of associating these with the words by which they are expressed is lost, and the patient can either not give any names to his conceptions at all or expresses them erroneously. Sometimes one class of words is lost and others retained. Thus a patient may forget his own name, or nouns only, and remember all other words. Sometimes he forgets only parts of the word, as terminations, and not unfrequently in another form of the disease he inverts his phrases. Logometer (lo-gom'et-ér), n. [Gr. logos, ratio, and metron, a measure.] A scale for measuring chemical equivalents. Logometric, Logometrical (lō-gō-met'rik, lo-go-met'rik-al), a. Used to measure or ascertain chemical equivalents; pertaining to a logometer; as, a logometric scale. Logos (log'os), n. [Gr., word, speech, reason, from lego, to speak.] The Word; the Divine Word; Christ.

Logothete (logo-thet), n. [Gr. logos, a word, account, and tithemi, to place.] Properly, an accountant; hence, an officer of the Byzantine Empire, who might be either (a) the public treasurer; (b) the head of any administrative department; or (c) the chancellor of the empire. Gibbon. Logotype (logo-tip), n. [Gr. logos, a word, and typos, impression.] A name given to two or more letters cast in one piece, as f fl, ce, œe, &c.

Log-reel (log'rěl), n. Naut. a reel on which the log-line is wound. See LOG. Log-roll (log'rōl), v. t. [United States.] 1. To assist in rolling and collecting logs for burning. Hence-2. To give mutual assistance in carrying measures, especially legislative

measures.

Log-ship (log'ship). See LoG-CHIP.
Log-slate. See LOG-BOOK.

Logthing (log ting), n. [Icel. lög, law, and thing, assembly.] The legislative portion of the Norwegian storthing or diet, consisting of one-fourth of the members of the storthing, who sit apart from the other three-fourths constituting the odelsthing or representatives of landed property. The members of the logthing form, together with the highest judicial authorities, the supreme court of the kingdom.

Logwood (log'wud), n. [From being imported in logs.] The popular English name of Hematoxylon campechianum, a tree found very commonly in many parts of the West Indies, where it has been introduced from the adjoining continent, especially

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texture and a red colour, and so heavy as to sink in water. It is much used in dyeing, and its colouring matter is derived from a principle called hematine or hematoxyline. Logwood contains, besides, resin, oil, acetic acid, salts of potash, a little sulphate of lime, alumina, peroxide of iron, and manganese. It is employed in calico-printing to give a black or brown colour, and also in the preparation of some lakes. An extract of logwood is used in medicine as an astringent.

Lohoch, Lohock (lo'hok), n. A medicine of a middle consistence between a soft electuary and a syrup. See LOCH. Loimic (loim'ik), a. [Gr. loimos, contagious matter.] Relating to the plague or contagious disorders.

Loin (loin), n. [O. Fr. logne; Fr. longe, a loin, as of veal, lombes, the loins, from L. lumbus, the loin. The O.E. lend, A. Sax. lend, lenden (G. and D. lende, Icel. and Dan. lend), the loin, has disappeared in favour of this word, the more readily probably from a certain similarity of form.] The part of an animal which lies between the lowest of the false ribs and the upper portion of the ossa ilium or haunch bone, or one of the lateral portions of the lumbar region. The loins are also called the Reins.

Loiter (loi'ter), v.i. [Allied to D. leuteren, to vacillate or waver; perhaps to Icel. loddari, a loiterer; it may be connected with late, like Icel. lötra, latra, to loiter or linger, from latr, late; comp. E. linger, from long. Skeat takes it from the same root as lout (which see).] To linger; to be slow in moving; to delay; to be dilatory; to spend time idly.

Where have you been these two days loitering Shak. SYN. To linger, delay, lag, tarry. Loiter (loi'ter), v.t. To consume in trifles; to waste carelessly: used with away; as, he loitered away most of his leisure. Loiterer (loi'tér-ér), n. A lingerer; one that delays or is slow in motion; an idler; one that is sluggish or dilatory.

Ever listless loiterers, that attend

No cause, no trust, no duty, and no friend. Pope. Loiteringly (loi'ter-ing-li), adv. In a loitering manner.

[Icel., signifying originally a deceiver, from lokka, G. locken, to lure, to entice.] In the Scandinavian myth. the evil deity, the author of all calamities. He is said to be the father of Hela, goddess of the lower regions.

Lok, Loki (lok, lo'ki), n.

Loke (lok), n. [Allied to lock, A. Sax. locan, to shut.] [Provincial.] 1. A wicket or hatch. 2. A private road or path. Halliwell.-3. A close narrow lane.

Locked;

Loke,t n. A lock of hair or wool. Drayton. Loke,t v.t. To see; to look upon. Chaucer. Loken,t Loke,t pp. of lock or loke. shut close. Chaucer. Loligida (lo-lij'i-de), n. pl. [See LOLIGO.] Carpenter's name for the family Teuthidæ, comprising the calamaries or squids. See TEUTHIDA. Loligo (lo-li'go), n. [L., a cuttle-fish.] A genus of cuttlefishes. See CALAMARY. Lolium (lō'H-um), n. [L.] A genus of grasses of the tribe Hordes, containing a few species common in many parts of the northern hemisphere. One species (L. perenne) is the common rye-grass of the farmer, one of the most valuable of our pasture grasses; another species is L. temulentum, or darnel, which was long believed to have poisonous narcotic qualities; these, however, are now shown to have no existence in fact. Loll (lol), v.i. [Icel. lulla, to loll, lalla, to toddle as a child temulentum). beginning to walk. Wedg

Darnel (L.

wood thinks the original idea is that of lolling or lilling out the tongue, whence the idea of imperfect speech (as in Bavarian lallen, to speak thick), and lastly of imperfect action.] 1. To lie at ease; to lie in a careless attitude; to recline; to lean.

Void of care, he lolls supine in state.

Dryden.

2. To hang extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or a dog when heated with labour or exertion.

The triple porter of the Stygian seat,
With lolling tongue lay fawning at thy feet.
Dryden.

LOMBARD

3. To suffer the tongue to hang extended from the mouth: said of the animal that does so.

Loll (lol), v.t. To suffer to hang out, as the tongue.

Fierce tigers couched around, and lolled their fawning tongues. Dryden.

Lollard (lol'ärd), n. [Either from loll, and meaning originally a lazy fellow, a sluggard, or from L.G. lollen, lullen, to sing softly, from the practice of the original Lollards of singing dirges at funerals. Others derive the term from an early German reformer of the name of Lollard or Lolhardus, who was burned at Cologne in 1351.] 1. One of a semimonastic society for the care of the sick and the burial of the dead, originating at Antwerp about 1300, and not quite extinct yet. They were blamed for holding heretical opinions, and hence perhaps the application of the term in the following sense.2. One of the followers of Wickliffe in England, who were persecuted in the reigns of Henry IV. and Henry V.

Lewis.

Dr. Wiclif dying at Lutterworth, Dec. 31, 1384, his followers were soon after distinguished, or rather reproached, by the nickname of Lollards. Lollardism, Lollardy (lol'ärd-izm, lol'ärd-i), n. The principles or doctrines of the Lollards.

The spirit of Popery, not Christianity, was to be seen in the zeal of the enemies to Lollardy. Young. Loller,tn. A Lollard. Chaucer. Lollingly (lol'ing-li), adv. In a lolling man

ner.

She (Doorga) has four arms, with one of which she carries the skull of a giant; her tongue protrudes, Buckle. and hangs lollingly from the mouth. Lollipop (lol'i-pop), n. [Explained by Wedgwood as meaning a dainty for sucking, from stem of E. loll, lill, to protrude the tongue, and pap, papa, 'the infantine expression for eating. Comp. L.G. zuckerpopp, sweetmeats. Lolly seems to mean a soft kind of food, as in loblolly, and pop is probably the same as pap, infants' food.] A kind of sugar confectionery which dissolves easily in the mouth.

Lollop (lol'op), v.i. [From loll.] To move heavily; to lounge. [Low.]

Lomaria (lo-ma'ri-a), n. [Gr. loma, a hem, fringe, or border.] A genus of ferns closely allied to the blechnums, from which it is distinguished by having the sori situated along the margin of the fronds, while in the blechnums they are situated within the margin.

Lombard (lom'bärd), n. [L.L. Longobardi, generally translated as Long beards, being regarded as a latinized form of the German words for long and beard. Another etymology is G. lang or L. longus, long, and O.H.G. barte, part, a battle-axe. Comp. halbert, partisan. But see the following extract.

Paulus Diaconus, who was a Lombard by birth, derives their name of Longobardi from their long beards; but modern critics reject this etymology, and suppose the name to have reference to their dwelling on the banks of the Elbe, inasmuch as Börde signifies in Low German a fertile plain on the bank of a river, and there is still a district in Magdeburg called the lange Börde. Smith's Class. Dict.] 1. A native of Lombardy in Italy.-2. A banker or money-lender: so called because this profession was first exercised in London by natives of Lombardy.-3. Milit. a kind of cannon formerly used.-Lombard Street, a street in London where a large number of the principal bankers, moneybrokers, and bullion-dealers have their offices; hence, the money market or the moneyed interest of London.

Lombard,Lombard-house (lom'bärd, lom'bärd-hous), n. A public institution for lending money to the poor at a moderate interest upon articles deposited and pledged. Called also Mont-de-piété. Lombard (lom'bärd), a. Of or pertaining to Lombardy or the Lombards.-Lombard architecture, the form which the Romanesque style of architecture assumed under the hands of the Gothic invaders and colonists of the north of Italy, comprising the buildings erected from about the beginning of the ninth to the beginning of the thirteenth century. It forms a connecting link between the romanized architecture of Italy and the Gothic of more northern countries. The most characteristic feature of the churches built in this style is the general introduction and artistic development of the vault, that feature which afterwards became the formative principle of the whole Gothic style. In the Lombard architecture also pillars consisting of several shafts arranged round

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a central mass, and buttresses of small projection, appear to have been first employed. The tendency to the prevalence of vertical lines throughout the design, instead of the horizontal lines of the classic architecture, is also characteristic, as well as the use of the dome to surmount the intersection of the choir nave and transepts. See also extract below.

Generally speaking the most beautiful part of a Lombard church is its eastern end. The apse with its gallery, the transepts, and, above all, the dome that almost invariably surmounts their intersection with the choir, constitute a group which always has a pleasing effect, and is very often highly artistic and beautiful. J. Fergusson.

Lombardeert (lom'bärd-er), n. A Lombard or pawnbroker. Howell.

Lombardic (lom-bar'dik), a. Pertaining to Lombardy or the Lombards. Lombardic

alphabet, an alphabet derived from the Roman, and employed in the manuscripts of Italy.

Loment, Lomentum (lo'ment, lō-men'tum), n. In bot. an indehiscent

legume which separates spontaneously by a transverse

articulation between each seed.

Lomentaceæ(lõ-men-tā'sē-ē), n. pl. [From lomentum (which see).] A sub-order of Cruciferæ, the siliqua of which resembles a lomentum in having each seed divided from its neighbour by a transverse dissepiment. The common

British plants jointed-charlock (Raphanus Raphanistrum) and purple sea-rocket

Loment of Sainfoin.

(Cakile maritima) belong to this sub-order. Lomentaceous (lo-men-ta'shus), a.

Bear

ing loments; like a loment; pertaining to a loment.

Lomonite (lom'on-it), n. Laumonite or diprismatic zeolite. Lomp (lump), n.

Spenser.

A Londoner; one born in

Roman name

Same as Lumpfish. Lompisht (lomp'ish), a. Lumpish; heavy. 'His lompish head. Londe,t n. Land. Londenoys,t n. London. Chaucer. Londinium (lon-din'i-um). for London. London-clay (lun'dun-klá), n. The most considerable of the eocene tertiary formations of Great Britain is thus designated from its development in the valley of the Thames under and around the metropolis. This formation consists of a bluish or blackish clay lying immediately over the plastic clay and sand, and rests unconformably on the chalk. It contains layers of ovate or flattish masses of argillaceous nodular limestone called septaria limestone or cementstone. The shells of the London-clay mostly belong to genera now inhabiting warmer seas than those of Britain.

Londoner (lun'dun-ér), n. A native or citizen of London.

Londonism (lun'dun-izm), n. A mode of speaking or acting peculiar to London. Londonize (lun'dun-iz), v. t. To invest with some attribute characteristic of London or the people of London.

Londonize (lun'dun-iz), v.i. To imitate the manner or fashions of Londoners. London-pride (lun'dun-prid), n. A British plant of the genus Saxifraga, the S. umbrosa. It is a plant common in every cottage-garden; also known by the name of None-so-pretty.

London-rocket (lun'dun-rok-et), n. Sisymbrium Irio, a plant which grows in waste places throughout Europe, and was formerly common in the neighbourhood of London, first appearing just after the great fire. London-white (lun'dun-whit), n. White

lead.

Lone (lon), a. [Probably a contr. from alone, so that it consists of one preceded by the of O.E. al, Mod. E. all; comp. however, Icel. laun, secrecy (from ljúga, to tell a lie), Dan. lön, secretly, Goth. ga-laugns, concealed. ] 1. Solitary; retired; unfrequented; not often visited by men; having few or no inhabitants.

Sir Boos
Rode to the lonest tract of all the realm.

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Lone (lon), n. A lane. [Local.] See LOAN. Lone, n. A loan; anything lent. Chaucer. Loneliness (lon'li-nes), n. 1. The condition of being lonely; solitude; retirement; seclusion from company; as, he was weary of the loneliness of his habitation.-2. Sadness for want of company or sympathy.

Uphold me, Father, in my loneliness. Tennyson, 3. Love of retirement; disposition to solitude. Now I see

Lonesomeness (lōn'sum-nes), n. The state of being lonesome; solitude. Long (long), a. [A. Sax. lang, long, found in closely similar forms in all the Teutonic languages, into which it may have been borrowed at a very early period from the Latin longus, long, which is the only Indo-European word that can with certainty be connected with it.] 1. Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; opposed to short, and contradistinguished from broad or wide. Long is a relative term; for a thing may be long in respect to one thing, and short with respect to another. We apply long to things greatly extended, and to things which exceed the common measure. We say, a long way, a long distance, a long line, and long hair, long arms. By the latter terms we mean hair and arms exceeding the usual length.-2. Drawn out or extended in time; lasting during a considerable time; as, a long time; a long period of time; a long while; a long sickness or confinement; a long session; a long debate.-3. Extended to any specified measure; as, a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that is, extended to the measure of a mile, &c.-4. Happening or occurring after a protracted interval.

Death will not be long in coming. Ecclns. xiv. 12. That we may us reserve both fresh and strong Against the tournament which is not long. Spenser.

5. Containing a great quantity of verbal matter; as, the book is far too long.

A tale should never be too long.

Prior.

6. Continued in a series to a great extent; as, a long succession of princes; a long line of ancestors.-7. Continued in sound; protracted; as, a long note; a long syllable.8. Lingering and longing.

Praying for him, and casting a long look that way, he saw the galley leave the pursuit. Sir P. Sidney. 9. Extending far in prospect or into futurity; far-seeing.

The perennial existence of bodies corporate and their fortunes are things particularly suited to a man who has long views. Burke.

-Long home, the grave or death. Eccl. xii. 5. -In the long run, the whole course of things taken together; hence, in the ultimate result.-Long cloth, a kind of fine cotton or calico fabric made milled and plain. -Long clothes, a baby's dress, which descends much below the feet.-Long firm. See under FIRM.-Long vacation, in English law courts, the recess extending from the 10th August till the 24th October inclusive. -To have a long head, to be far-seeing. Long (long), n. Anything that is long; specifically: (a) in pros. a long syllable or foot; as, mind your longs and shorts. (b) Formerly, a musical note whose length in common time was equal to four semibreves. -The long and the short, or the short and the long, the sum of a matter in a few words; the whole.

Long (long), adv. 1. To a great extent in

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space; as, a long extended line. -2. To a great extent in time; as, they that tarry long at the wine. Prov. xxiii. 30.

When the trumpet soundeth long. Ex. xix. 13. So in composition we say, long-expected, long-forgot.-3. 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 of Gaul by Julius Cæsar. -4. Through the whole extent or duration of.

The God which fed me all my life long unto this day. Gen. xlviii. 15. The bird of dawning singeth all night long. Spenser. Long+ (long), prep. [Abbrev. from along of; A. Sax. gelang, along of, owing to, in consequence of.] By means of; by the fault of; owing to: with of.

Shak.

Sir W. Scott.

Mistress, all this coil is long of you. And when I lay in dungeon dark Of Naworth Castle, long months three, Till ransom'd for a thousand mark, Dark Musgrave, it was long of thee. Long+ (long), v.t. To belong. Long (long), v. i. [A. Sax. langian, to lengthen, to long, to crave, from lang, long; Icel. langa, G. verlangen, to wish for.] 1. To desire earnestly or eagerly: usually followed by the infinitive, or for or after.

Long-ago (longʻa-gō), n. A time long or far past. [Poetical.]

The old man may weep for his to-morrow

Which is in the long-ago. E. B. Browning. Longan (long'gan), n. 1. An evergreen eastern tree (Nephelium Longanum), yielding one of the most delicious fruits. It is of the same genus with the tree which yields the leechee, but its fruit is reckoned superior. It is much cultivated in China and as far west as Bengal, and has been grown in hothouses in Britain.-2. The fruit itself, which is imported into Britain in a dried state. Longanimity (long-ga-nim'i-ti), n. [L longanimitas-longus, long, and animus, mind.] Forbearance; patience; disposition to endure long under offences.

Christ gave us his spirit to enable us to suffer injuries, and made that the parts of suffering evils should be the matter of three or four Christian graces of patience, of fortitude, of longanimity, and perseverance. Fer. Taylor. Longboat (longʻbōt), n. The largest and strongest boat belonging to a ship. Long-bow (longʻbō), n. A weapon of offence; the favourite national weapon of the English from the time of Edward II. down to the period when firearms were introduced. It was made of yew, ash, &c., and of the height of the archer; the arrow was See usually half the length of the bow. Bow. To draw the long-bow, to exaggerate; to tell improbable stories. Long-breathed (long bretht), a. Having the power of retaining the breath for a long time; having good breath; long-winded. Long-dozen long'du-zn), n. Thirteen. Longe (lunj), n. A pass or thrust with a sword; a lunge. See ALLONGE. Longe (lunj), v.i. rapier; to lunge. Longer (long'ér), n. sires.

To make a pass with a

One who longs or de

Longers (long'gers), n. pl. Naut. the casks stored next the keelson. Longeval (lon-jē'val), a. [L. longus, long, and ævum, age.] Long-lived. Longevity (lon-jev'i-ti), n. [L. longævitaslongus, long, and ærum, age.] Length or duration of life; more generally, great length of life.

The instances of longevity are chiefly amongst the abstemious. Arbuthnot.

Longevous (lon-jē'vus), a. [L. longævus. See LONGEVITY.] Living a long time; of great age.

Long-field-off (long'fëld-of), n. One of the fielders at the game of cricket, standing behind and to the left hand of the bowler. Long-field-on (long'feld-on), n. One of the fielders at the game of cricket, standing behind and to the right hand of the bowler. Longhand (long'hand), n. Ordinary written characters, as contradistinguished from shorthand, phonography, or stenography.

LONG-HEADED

Long-headed (long'hed-ed), a. 1. Having a long head; specifically, a term applied to those races of men having skulls in which the diameter from side to side bears a less proportion to the diameter from back to front than 8 to 10. See DOLICHOCEPHALIC.-2. Shrewd; far-seeing; discerning; as, a longheaded man. Bailey.

Shak.

Long-hid (long hid), a. Long concealed.
But now he throws that shallow habit by,
Wherein deep policy did him disguise;
And arm'd his long-hid wits advisedly,
To check the tears in Collatinus' eyes.
Long-horned (longhornd), a. Having long
horns; as, the long-horned breed of cattle.
Long-hundred (long'hun-dred), n.
hundred and twenty.

One

Longicorn (lon'ji-korn), a. Of or pertaining to the Longicornes.

Longicorn (lon'ji-korn), n. A member of the family Longicornes.

Longicornes (lon-ji-kor'něz), n. pl. [L. longus, long, and cornu, a horn or antenna.] A family belonging to the tetramerous section of the coleoptera or beetles. It includes a vast number of large and beautiful beetles, all remarkable for the length of their antennæ, which, in the males of some of the species, are several times longer than their bodies. They inhabit woods, where the females deposit their eggs beneath the bark of trees by means of a long, tubular, horny ovipositor, with which the abdomen is terminated. The larvae are very destructive to wood, boring it very deeply, and often making their burrows in every direction. Some of them attack the roots of plants. The longicorn beetles are very generally dispersed, but the greatest number of species and the largest forms are found in South America and Western Africa. A certain number of these beetles inhabit Britain, but some of them are supposed not to be really

Longicorn Beetle (Cerambyx heros).

indigenous, but to have been imported with timber in the larval state. Longilateral (lon-ji-lat'èr-al), a. [L. longus, long, and lateralis, from latus, a side.] Having long sides; having the form of a long parallelogram.

Nineveh .. was of a longilateral figure, ninetyfive furlongs broad and a hundred and fifty long. Sir T. Browne.

Longimanous (lon-jim'an-us), a. [L. longus, long, and manus, hand.] Having long hands.

Longimetry (lon-jim'et-ri), n. [L. longus, long, and Gr. metron, measure.] The art or practice of measuring distances or lengths, whether accessible or inaccessible. Longing,t ppr. Belonging.-Longing for, belonging to. Chaucer.

Longing (long'ing), n. An eager desire; a craving or morbid appetite. I have immortal longings in me." Shak. Longingly (long'ing-li), adv. With eager wishes or appetite.

Longinquity (lon-jin'kwi-ti), n. [L. longinquitas, from longinquus, long, extensive, from longus, long.] Greatness of distance. Sir T. Browne.

Longipalp (lon'ji-palp), n. [L. longus, long, and palpus, a feeler.] A longicorn beetle. See LONGICORNES.

Longipennatæ, Longipennes (lon'ji-pennate, lon'ji-pen-nez), n. pl. [L. longus, long, and penna, a wing.] A family of aquatic birds, characterized by well-developed wings, pointed and sometimes hooked bill, and by never having the hallux united with the anterior toes by a membrane. The most important groups are the albatross (Diomedea), the Laridae or gulls and terns, and the Procellarida or petrels. Longipennate (lon-ji-pen'at), a. Having long wings.

Longiroster (lon-ji-ros'tér), n. A member of the Longirostres.

a, Head of Black-tailed Godwit. b, Do. Stilt
Plover. c, Do. Glossy Ibis.

group of wading birds (Grallatores), characterized by the possession of long, slender, soft bills, grooved for the perforations of the nostrils. The legs are sometimes rather short, sometimes of great length; the toes are of moderate length, and the hallux is usually short and sometimes absent. The bill in these birds serves as an organ of touch, being used as a kind of probe to feel for food in mud or marshy soil. To fulfil this purpose the tip of the bill is furnished with numerous filaments of the fifth nerve. They feed mostly upon insects and worms, and are not strictly aquatic in their habits, mostly frequenting marshy districts, moors, fens, the banks of rivers or lakes, or the shores of the sea. This group comprises the snipes, sandpipers, curlews, ruffs, godwits, turnstones, avoset, &c.

Longish (long'ish), a. Somewhat long; moderately long.

Longitude (lon'ji-tud), n. [L. longitudo, from longus, long.] 1. Length; measure along the longest line.

The ancients did determine the longitude of all rooms which were longer than broad by the double of their latitude. Wotton.

2. In geog. distance on the surface of the globe measured on an arc of the equator or a parallel of latitude; or, as more commonly defined, the arc or portion of the equator intercepted between the meridian of a place and some meridian selected as a startingpoint in calculating longitude, and called the first meridian; otherwise, the angle between the meridian plane of one place and the meridian plane of another. In this country longitudes are reckoned from the meridian of the royal observatory at Greenwich, which is that most commonly adopted in the construction of maps, though the meridians of Paris, Ferro, and Washington are also employed. Longitude is either expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds, or in time, for since any point of the earth's surface passes through 360° of longitude in twenty-four hours, 15° are equivalent to one hour. It is reckoned to 180° eastward or westward; thus Vienna is in lon. 16° 23' E. When the latitude and longitude of a place are known, its precise situation on the globe is known, and hence it is of great importance to mariners to be able to determine their latitude and longitude at any time. There are various ways of finding longitude at sea. One of the most common is by means of a chronometer which gives the Greenwich time at any place, while the local time at that place is found by observation of the sun, the difference giving the longitude in time. See LATITUDE.-3. In astron. the distance in degrees, reckoned from the vernal equinox, on the ecliptic, to a circle at right angles to it passing through the heavenly body whose longitude is designated.-Geocentric longitude, in astron. the longitude of a heavenly body as reckoned on or referred to a circle, of which the centre is the same as that of the earth.-Heliocentric longitude, the longitude of a heavenly body as reckoned on or referred to a circle, of which the centre coincides with the sun's centre.

Longitudinal (lon-ji-tüd'in-al), a. Pertaining to longitude or length; as, longitudinal distance; specifically, running lengthwise, as distinguished from transverse or across; as, the longitudinal diameter of a body. Longitudinal (lon-ji-tüd'in-al), n. A rail

LONG-WAISTED

way sleeper lying parallel with the rail. Goodrich.

Longitudinally (lon-ji-tüd'in-al-li), adv. In a longitudinal manner; in the direction of length. Longitudinated (lon-ji-tüd'in-at-ed), a. Extended in length. Goldsmith. [Rare.] Long-leg (long leg), n. One of the fielders at the game of cricket.

Long-legs (long'legz), n. An insect having long legs, such as the Tipula oleracea or crane-fly and its congeners. See DADDY

LONG-LEGS.

Long-lived (longlivd), a. Having a long life or existence; living long; lasting long. Longlyt (long'li), adv. 1. With longing desire; longingly.

Master, you look'd so longly on the maid,

Perhaps you mark'd not what's the pith of all. Shak. 2. For a long time; hence, tediously or wearisomely.

Long-measure (long'mezh-ur), n. Measure of length; lineal measure. Long-necked (long'nekt), a. Having a long

neck.

Longness (long'nes), n. Length. Longnose (long'nōz), n. A common name for the garfish (Esox Belone or Belone vulgaris). See GARFISH. Longprimer (long'prim-ér), n. A printing type of a size between smallpica and bourgeois.

Long-shore-man (long'shōr-man), n. [A man engaged along or about the shore. ] A labourer employed about wharves in loading and unloading vessels.

Long-sighted (long'sit-ed), a. 1. Able to see at a great distance; hence, having foresight; of acute intellect; sagacious; farseeing.-2. Able to see objects distinctly at a distance, but not close at hand. Long-sightedness (long'sit-ed-nes), n. 1. The faculty of seeing objects at a great distance.-2. In med. a defect of sight by which objects near at hand are seen confusedly, but at remoter distances distinctly; presbyopia.

Long-slip (long'slip), n. A fielder in the game of cricket, standing behind and to the left of the batter's wicket. Longsome (long'sum), a. Tiresome on account of length; tedious: applied to persons and things.

They have had so little mercy on him as to put him to the penance of their long some volume. Bp. Hall. Poetry is, or should be, clarified prose-prose with all its superfluous matter got rid of-a golden residuum, the essence, soul, and spirit of thought and feeling. A poet who is longsome sins against his vocation. Temple Bar. Longsomeness (long'sum-nes), n. State of being longsome; tediousness. Longspun (long'spun), a. Spun or extended to a great length; tedious. Long-stop (long'stop), n. One of the fielders at the game of cricket, who stands behind the wicket-keeper and stops balls which escape him.

Longstop (long'stop), v.i. To act as longstop at cricket. Long-sufferance (long'suf-fér-ans), n. Forbearance to punish; clemency; patience. Long-suffering (long'suf-fer-ing), a. ing injuries or provocation for a long time; patient; not easily provoked.

Bear

The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness. Ex. xxxiv. 6.

Long-suffering (long'suf-fer-ing), n. Long endurance; patience of offence.

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Despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering! Rom. ii. 4. Long-tail (long'tal), n. An animal, particularly a dog, having an uncut tail. long-tail was a gentleman's dog, or one qualified to hunt, other dogs being required to have their tails cut. Hence the phrase Come cut and long-tail was used to signify gentle-folks and others as they might come. Long-tail (long'tal), a. Having the tail uncut, as a dog. Long-tailed (long'tāld), a. Having a long tail.

Long-tom (long'tom), n. A long gun on the deck of vessels, used by chasers, &c., for throwing a ball a great distance. Long-tongue (long'tung), n. A local name for the wryneck, derived from the long extensile tongue of that bird. Long-tongued (long'tungd), a. Prating; babbling; loquacious. Long-waisted (long'wast-ed), a. 1. Having a long waist: said of persons.-2. Long from the armpits to the waist or narrowest part:

Addison.

A vast mole which lies longways. Long-winded (long' wind-ed), a. 1. Longbreathed. 2. Tedious in speaking, argument, or narration; wearisome from length; as, a long-winded advocate; a long-winded discourse.

Longwise (long'wiz), adv. In the direction of length; lengthwise. [Rare.] Long-yearnedt (long'yern-ed), a. Troubled for a long time. 'His long-yearned life.' B. Jonson.

Lonicera (lō-ni-sē'ra), n. [Named after Adam Lonicer, a German botanist, who died in 1586.] A genus of exogenous plants, of the nat. order Caprifoliacea, many species of which are called honeysuckle. (See HONEYSUCKLE.) They are erect or climbing shrubs, with opposite sessile or petiolate leaves, and often large flowers in cymes or pedunculate heads, the corolla limb being irregular or two-lipped; the fruit is a berry. They are natives of temperate and warmer regions of the northern hemisphere, and are rare in the tropics.

Lonisht (lōn'ish), a. solitary.

Somewhat lone or

Loo (lö), n. [The terminating syllable of Lanterloo (which see). The game is sometimes called lant.] A game at cards, formerly played with five cards, but now commonly played with three. A full pack of fifty-two cards is used, and as many as seventeen persons may play. The cards rank as at whist.

Loo (lö), v.t. To beat in the game of loo by winning every trick.

Loo (10), n. Love. [Scotch.] Loobily (lo'bi-li), adv. [See LOOBY.] Like a looby; in an awkward, clumsy manner. Loobily (lo'bi-li), a. Looby-like; lubberly; awkward; clumsy. A loobily fellow. L'Estrange.

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Loobs (löbz), n. In mining, tin slime or sludge containing ore.

Looby (lo'bi), n. [Allied to lob, lubber; W. llabi, a looby, a lubber, a clumsy fellow; llob, a blockhead, an unwieldy lump.] An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber.

Shak.

Loof (lof), v.i. [See LUFF.] Naut. to luff. She once being loof'd, The noble ruin of her magic, Antony, Claps on his sea-wing. Loof, Lufe (luf), n. [Icel. lófi, Goth. lofa, the palm of the hand.] The palm of the hand. [Scotch.]

Loof-hook (luf'hök), n. Same as Luff-hook. Look (luk), v.i. [A. Sax. locian; Prov. G. lugen, luegen, O.H.G. luogên, luoken, to look. Akin to G. loch, a hole, Icel. gluggr, a window.] 1. To direct the eye toward an object with the intention of seeing it; to gaze with the prepositions to, at, on, after, for, and toward before the object.-To look on implies more of dignity or deliberation in the act of looking than to look at or to look to. To look after or for implies that the object is not present to the eye, but is to be sought for. To look toward is rather to look in the direction of an object than at the object itself.-2. To direct the intellectual eye; to apply the mind or understanding; to consider; to examine.

We are not only to look at the bare action, but at the reason of it. Stilling fleet.

3. To have expectation or anticipation of something; to expect.

He must look to fight another battle before he could reach Oxford. Clarendon.

4. To take heed or care; to watch; to mind. Shak. Look that you bind them fast.

5. To be directed; to have a particular direction or situation; to face; to front.

The door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north. Ezek. viii. 3. Prov. iv. 25.

Let thine eyes look right on.

6. To seem; to appear; to have a particular appearance; to give certain indications; as, the patient looks better than he did; the clouds look rainy.

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I am afraid it would look more like vanity than gratitude. Addison. Observe how such a practice looks in another person. Watts.

7. To have or assume any air, mien, or manner, with the purpose of impressing a beholder.

Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret; I will be master of what is mine own. Shak.

To look about, to look on all sides or in different directions.-To look about one, to be on the watch; to be vigilant; to be circumspect or guarded.-To look after, (a) to attend; to take care of; as, to look after children. (b) To expect; to be in a state of expectation.

Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth. Luke xxi. 26.

(c) To seek; to search for.

My subject does not oblige me to look after the water, or point forth the place whereunto it has now retreated. Woodward.

-To look down upon, to regard as an inferior; to regard with contempt; to despise. -To look for, (a) to expect; as, to look for news by the arrival of a ship.

Milton.

Look now for no enchanting voice. (b) To seek; to search; as, to look for lost money or lost cattle. To look into, to inspect closely; to observe narrowly; to examine; as, to look into the works of nature; to look into the conduct of another; to look into one's affairs.--To look on, (a) to regard; to esteem.

Her friends would look on her the worse. Prior. (b) To consider; to view; to conceive of; to think.

I looked on Virgil as a succinct, majestic writer. Dryden. (c) To be a mere spectator.

Look well to thy herds.

Prov. xxvii. 23. (b) To resort to with confidence or expectation of receiving something; to expect to receive from; as, the creditor may look to the surety for payment.

Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth. Is. xlv. 22.

To look through, (a) to see through; to penetrate with the eye or with the understand ing; to see or understand perfectly. (b) To take a view of the contents of; as, to look through a book of engravings or a museum. Look (luk), v. t. 1. To seek; to search for. Looking my love, I go from place to place. Spenser. 2. To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.

A spirit fit to start into an empire, And look the world to law. Dryden. -To look down, to quell by an exhibition of superior force or power; to cause to quail by a formidable appearance; to frown down.

Most of them recommended that he should go in such force as to look down opposition, and crush the rebellion in its birth. Prescott.

3. To express or manifest by a look. Soft eyes looked love to eyes that spake again. Byron. -To look out, to search for and discover; to choose; to select; as, look out associates of good reputation.-To look in the face, to face or meet with boldness; hence, sometimes, to meet for combat. 2 Ki. xiv. 8.-To look up: (a), to search for till found; as, I do not know where the book is, I must look it up. (b) To pay a visit to; as, I must look you up some of these nights. [Colloq.] Look (luk), n. 1. Cast of countenance; air of the face; aspect; as, a high look is an index of pride; a downcast look indicates modesty, bashfulness, or depression of mind. Pain, disgrace, and poverty have frightful looks. Locke. 2. The act of looking or seeing; as, every look filled him with anguish.

Sweet is the smile of home, the mutual look,
When hearts are of each other sure. Keble.

SYN. Sight, glance, aspect, appearance, air, mien, manner. Looker (luk'ėr), n. One who looks. - A looker on, a mere spectator. Looking (luk'ing), n.

Search or searching.

- Looking-for, anticipation; expectation. 'A certain fearful looking-for of judgment." Heb. x. 27. Looking-glass (luk'ing-glas), n.

A glass

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silvered on the back and intended to show by reflection the person looking on it; a mirror.

South

There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. Look-out (luk'out), n. 1. A careful looking or watching for any object or event.-2. A place from which such observation is made. 3. The person or party engaged in watching. Lookout-man (luk'out-man), n. A man engaged in keeping watch.

Lool (lol), n. [Perhaps from L. loculus, a coffer, a receptacle, through the French.] In metal. a vessel used to receive the washings of ores of metals.

Loom (lom), n. [A. Sax. lóma, O. E. lome, tool, utensil, vessel. The weaving-machine being one of the most important pieces of furniture in old English houses, the word loom received the special meaning which it now has.' Dr. R. Morris. In Scotland the word still to some extent retains the old meaning of article, implement.] 1. A utensil; a tool; an article in general: used in composition, as in heirloom, work-loom, &c. See HEIRLOOM. 2. A frame or machine of wood or other material in which a weaver works thread into cloth. Looms are of various constructions, accommodated to the various kinds of materials to be woven and the modes of weaving them. They are divided into the two great classes of hand-looms and powerlooms, the former driven by the person weaving, the latter driven and worked by steam or other motive-power.

Hector, when he sees Andromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff. Rambler.

3. That part of an oar which is within the rowlock.

Loom (löm), v.i. [Icel. ljóma, to shine; A.
Sax. leomian, from leóna, a ray of light, later
form leme or leam.] 1. To appear above the
surface either of sea or land, or to appear
larger than the real dimensions and indis-
tinctly: said of distant objects; as, the ship
looms large, or the land looms high.
The peak

Haze-hidden, and thereon a phantom king,
Now looming and now lost. Tennyson.

2. To be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense; to rise.

On no occasion does he (Paul) loom so high and shine so gloriously, as in the context. F. M. Mason. 3. To appear to the mind's eye faintly or obscurely, or, as it were, in the distance; as, the truth begins to loom before me. The indistinct appearance Loom (löm), n.

of anything, as land, seen at a distance or through a fog. Loom (lom), n. In ornith. same as Loon. Loomed (lömd), a. That is woven in a loom. Or with loomed wool the native robe supplies. Savage. Loom-gale (löm'gäl), n. A gentle gale of wind.

Looming (lömʼing), n. The indistinct and magnified appearance of objects seen in particular states of the atmosphere. See MIRAGE.

Loon (lon), n. [Perhaps same word as O.D. loen, a stupid man. Comp. Ir. liun, sluggish, slothful.] A sorry fellow; a rogue; a rascal; a worthless person.

See

The devil damn thee black, thou cream-fac'd loon! Shak. Where got'st thou that goose look? Loon (lön), n. [Corrupted from O. E. loom, Dan. loom, Icel. lómr, G. lohme, lomme, à loon.] A name given to the great northern diver or ember-goose (Columbus glacialis), from its awkwardness in walking. DIVER, EMBER-GOOSE. Loop (lop), n. [Probably from Ir. lup or Gael. lub, luib, loop, noose, thong, &c.] 1. A folding or doubling of a string, rope, chain, &c.; a noose; a doubled cord or the like through which a lace or cord may be run for fastening; a bight.-2. Anything resembling a loop; as, the bend of a river; a link; a crook.-3. In gun. a small iron ring in the barrel of a gun.-4. A hinge of a door. [Provincial.]-5. A length of paling. [Provincial.]

Loop (lop), v.t. To form into a loop or loops; to fasten or secure with a loop or loops; to furnish with a loop or loops.

Loop (löp), n. [D. luipen, to peep.] In ancient castles, a small aperture to spy the enemy or to fire arrows or ordnance from, or to admit light; a loophole; an aperture in general.

Some at the loops durst scarce out peep. Fairfax. Loop (löp), n. [G. luppe, a bloom, a loop, a bundle of hay; lupp, lab, rennet; allied to