Lockman
Lock″man (?), n. A public executioner.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Lockout
Lock″out′ (?), n. 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
Lock″ram (?), n. [F. locrenan, locronan; from Locronan, in Brittany, where it is said to have been made.] A kind of linen cloth anciently used in England, originally imported fr...
Locksmith
Lock″smith′ (?), n. An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend locks.
Lockup
Lock″up′ (?), n. A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.
Locky
Lock″y (?), a. Having locks or tufts. Sherwood.
Loco
‖Lo″co (?), adv.(Mus.) A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.
Loco (2)
Lo″co, n. [Sp. loco insane.] (Bot.) A plant (Astragalus Hornii) growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. T...
Loco (3)
Lo″co (?), n.(Bot.) Any one of various leguminous plants or weeds besides Astragalus, whose herbage is poisonous to cattle, as Spiesia Lambertii, syn. Oxytropis Lambertii.
Loco (4)
Lo″co, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Locoed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Locoing.] To poison with loco; to affect with the loco disease; hence (Colloq.), to render insane or mad. “The locoed noveli...
Loco (5)
Lo″co, n. A locomotive. Kipling.
Loco disease
Loco disease. (Veter.) A chronic nervous affection of cattle, horses, and sheep, caused by eating the loco weed and characterized by a slow, measured gait, high step, glassy eye...
Locofoco
Lo′co‐fo″co (?), n. [Of uncertain etymol.; perh. for L. loco foci instead of fire; or, according to Bartlett, it was called so from a self-lighting cigar, with a match compositi...
Locomotion
Lo′co‐mo″tion (?), n. [L. locus place + motio motion: cf. F. locomotion. See Local, and Motion.] 1. The act of moving from place to place. “ Animal locomotion.” Milton.2. The po...
Locomotive
Lo″co‐mo′tive (?), a. [Cf. F. locomotif. See Locomotion.] 1. Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal.2. Used in producing mo...
Locomotive (2)
Lo″co‐mo′tive (?), n. 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 ...
Locomotiveness
{ Lo″co‐mo′tive‐ness (?), Lo′co‐mo‐tiv″i‐ty (?), } n. [Cf. F. locomotivité.] The power of changing place.
Locomotor
Lo′co‐mo″tor (?), a. [See Locomotion.] Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion.Locomotor ataxia, orProgressive locomotor ataxy(Med.), a disease of the spinal cord characteriz...
Loculament
Loc″u‐la‐ment (?), n. [L. loculamentum case, box, fr. loculus a compartment, dim. of locus place.] (Bot.) The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
Locular
Loc″u‐lar (?), a. [L. locularis.] (Bot.) Of or relating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; in composition, having cells; as trilocular. Gray.
Loculate
Loc″u‐late (?), a. [L. loculatus.] (Bot.) Divided into compartments.
Locule
Loc″ule (?), n. [Cf. F. locule. See Loculus.] (Zoöl.) A little hollow; a loculus.
Loculicidal
Loc″u‐li‐ci′dal (?), a. [L. loculus cell + caedere to cut: cf. F. loculicide.] (Bot.) Dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell; — said of capsules.
Loculose
{ Loc″u‐lose′ (?), Loc″u‐lous (?), } a. [L. loculosus. See Loculament.] (Bot.) Divided by internal partitions into cells, as the pith of the pokeweed.
Loculus
Loc″u‐lus (?), n.; pl.Loculi (#). 1. (Zoöl.) One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa.2. (Bot.) One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament.
Locum tenens
‖Lo″cum te″nens (?). [L., holding the place; locus place + tenens, p. pr. of tenere to hold. Cf. Lieutenant.] A substitute or deputy; one filling an office for a time.
Locus
Lo″cus (?), n.; pl.Loci (#), & Loca (#). [L., place. Cf. Allow, Couch, Lieu, Local.] 1. A place; a locality.2. (Math.) The line traced by a point which varies its position accor...