LOXODROM'ICS, noun The art of oblique sailing by the rhomb, which always makes an equal angle with every meridian; that is, when a ship sails neither directly under the equator, nor under the same meridian, but obliquely.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.