Locality (n.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.
Localization (n.) Act of localizing, or state of being localized.
Localized (imp. & p. p.) of Localize
Localizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Localize
Localize (v. t.) To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place.
Locally (adv.) With respect to place; in place; as, to be locally separated or distant.
Located (imp. & p. p.) of Locate
Locating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Locate
Locate (v. t.) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
Locate (v. t.) To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as, to locate a public building; to locate a mining claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant.
Locate (v. i.) To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle.
Location (n.) The act or process of locating.
Location (n.) Situation; place; locality.
Location (n.) That which is located; a tract of land designated in place.
Location (n.) A leasing on rent.
Location (n.) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
Location (n.) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc.
Locative (a.) Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein; as, a locative adjective; locative case of a noun.
Locative (n.) The locative case.
Locator (n.) One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim.
Locellate (a.) Divided into secondary compartments or cells, as where one cavity is separated into several smaller ones.
Loch (n.) A lake; a bay or arm of the sea.
Loch (n.) A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture.
Lochaber ax () Alt. of Lochaber axe
Lochaber axe () A weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scotch Highlanders.
Lochage (n.) An officer who commanded a company; a captain.
Lochan (n.) A small lake; a pond.
Loche (n.) See Loach.
Lochia (n. pl.) The discharge from the womb and vagina which follows childbirth.
Lochial (a.) Of or pertaining to the lochia.
Lock (n.) A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
Lock (n.) Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened.
Lock (n.) A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
Lock (n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
Lock (n.) The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.
Lock (n.) An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; -- called also lift lock.
Lock (n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.
Lock (n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
Lock (n.) A grapple in wrestling.
Locked (imp. & p. p.) of Lock
Locking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lock
Lock (v. t.) To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to prevent free movement of; as, to lock a door, a carriage wheel, a river, etc.
Lock (v. t.) To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; -- often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc.
Lock (v. t.) To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast.
Lock (v. t.) To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.
Lock (v. t.) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
Lock (v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
Lock (v. i.) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.
Lockage (n.) Materials for locks in a canal, or the works forming a lock or locks.
Lockage (n.) Toll paid for passing the locks of a canal.
Lockage (n.) Amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal.
Lock-down (n.) A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting; -- used by lumbermen.
Locked-jaw (n.) See Lockjaw.
Locken (obs. p. p.) of Lock.
Locken (n.) The globeflower (Trollius).
Locker (n.) One who, or that which, locks.
Locker (n.) A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock.
Locket (n.) A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament.
Locket (n.) A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain.
Lock hospital () A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases.
Lockjaw (n.) A contraction of the muscles of the jaw by which its motion is suspended; a variety of tetanus.
Lockless (a.) Destitute of a lock.
Lockman (n.) A public executioner.
Lockout (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 (n.) A kind of linen cloth anciently used in England, originally imported from Brittany.
Locksmith (n.) An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend locks.
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.
Lockup (n.) A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.
Lock-weir (n.) A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber.
Locky (a.) Having locks or tufts.
Loco (adv.) A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.
Loco (n.) 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.
Locofoco (n.) A friction match.
Locofoco (n.) A nickname formerly given to a member of the Democratic party.
Locomotion (n.) The act of moving from place to place.
Locomotion (n.) The power of moving from place to place, characteristic of the higher animals and some of the lower forms of plant life.
Locomotive (a.) Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal.
Locomotive (a.) Used in producing motion; as, the locomotive organs of an animal.
Locomotive (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 the wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
Locomotiveness (n.) Alt. of Locomotivity
Locomotivity (n.) The power of changing place.
Locomotor (a.) Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion.
Loculament (n.) The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
Locular (a.) Of or relating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; in composition, having cells; as trilocular.
Loculate (a.) Divided into compartments.
Locule (n.) A little hollow; a loculus.
Loculicidal (a.) Dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell; -- said of capsules.
Loculose (a.) Alt. of Loculous
Loculous (a.) Divided by internal partitions into cells, as the pith of the pokeweed.
Loculi (pl. ) of Loculus
Loculus (n.) One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa.
Loculus (n.) One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament.
Locum tenens () A substitute or deputy; one filling an office for a time.
Loci (pl. ) of Locus
Loca (pl. ) of Locus
Locus (n.) A place; a locality.
Locus (n.) 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 (n.) 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.
Locust (n.) The locust tree. See Locust Tree (definition, note, and phrases).