LOGICALLY
LOG'ICALLY, adverb According to the rules of logic; as, to argue logically
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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LOGICIAN
LOGI'CIAN, noun A person skilled in logic, or the art of reasoning.Each fierce logician still expelling Locke.
LOGISTIC
LOGIS'TIC, adjective Relating to sexagesimal fractions.
LOGMAN
LOG'MAN, noun1. A man who carries logs.2. One whose occupation is to cut and convey logs to a mill. [Local.]
LOGOGRAPHIC
LOGOGRAPH'IC,LOGOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to logography.
LOGOGRAPHICAL
LOGOGRAPH'ICAL, a. Pertaining to logography.
LOGOGRAPHY
LOGOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. a word, and to write.]A method of printing, in which a type represents a word, instead of forming a letter.
LOGOGRIPHE
LOG'OGRIPHE, noun [Gr.] A sort of riddle. obsolete
LOGOMACHIST
LOGOM'ACHIST, noun One who contends about words.
LOGOMACHY
LOGOM'ACHY, noun [Gr. word, and contest, altercation.]Contention in words merely, or rather a contention about words; a war of words.
LOGOMETRIC
LOGOMET'RIC, adjective [Gr. ratio, and to measure.]A logometric scale is intended to measure or ascertain chimical equivalents.
LOGWOOD
LOG'WOOD, noun A species of tree and wood, called also Campeachy-wood, from the bay of Campeachy in Spanish America, of the genus Haematoxylon, of which there is one species onl...
LOHOCH
LO'HOCH,LO'HOCK, noun A medicine of a middle consistence between a soft electuary and a syrup. [See Loch.]
LOIN
LOIN, noun [Latin clumis.]The loins are the space on each side of the vertebrae, between the lowest of the false ribs and the upper portion of the os ilium or haunch bone, or th...
LOITER
LOIT'ER, verb intransitiveTo linger; to be slow in moving; to delay; to be dilatory; to spend time idly.If we have loitered, let us quicken our pace.
LOITERER
LOIT'ERER, noun 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...
LOITERING
LOIT'ERING, participle present tense Lingering; delaying; moving slowly.
LOKE
LOKE, noun [Gr. darkness.]1. In the Scandinavian mythology, the evil deity, the author of all calamities; answering to the Arimanes of the Persians.2. A close narrow lane. [Local.]
LOLL
LOLL, verb intransitive [The sense of this word is to throw, to send. Hence it coincides with the Gr..]1. To recline; to lean; properly, to throw one's self down; hence, to lie ...
LOLLARD
LOLL'ARD, nounThe Lollards were a sect of early reformers in Germany and England, the followers of Wickliffe.
LOLLARDY
LOLL'ARDY, noun The doctrines of the Lollards.
LOLLING
LOLL'ING, participle present tense Throwing down or out; reclining at ease; thrusting out the tongue.
LOMBARDIC
LOMBARD'IC, adjective Pertaining to the Lombards; an epithet applied to one of the ancient alphabets derived from the Roman, and relating to the manuscripts of Italy.
LOMENT
LO'MENT, noun [Latin lomentum.] An elongated pericarp, which never bursts. It consists, like the legume, of two valves, with the seeds attached to the under suture, but is divid...
LOMENTACEOUS
LOMENTA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin lomentum, bean meal, a color.]Furnished with a loment. The lomentaceae are a natural order of plants, many of which furnish beautiful tinctures o...
LOMONITE
LOM'ONITE, noun Laumonite, or di-prismatic zeolite.
LOMP
LOMP, noun A kind of roundish fish.