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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.
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☞ Logic is distinguished as pure and applied. “Pure logic is a science of the form, or of the formal laws, of thinking, and not of the matter. Applied logic teaches the application of the forms of thinking to those objects about which men do think.” Abp. Thomson.
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2. A treatise on logic; as, Mill's Logic.
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3. correct reasoning; as, I can't see any logic in his argument; also, sound judgment; as, the logic of surrender was uncontestable.
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4. The path of reasoning used in any specific argument; as, his logic was irrefutable.
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5. (Electronics, Computers) A function of an electrical circuit (called a gate) that mimics certain elementary binary logical operations on electrical signals, such as AND, OR, or NOT; as, a logic circuit; the arithmetic and logic unit.
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Logical (lŏjĭk�l), a. [Cf. F. logique, L. logicus, Gr. logikos.] 1. Of or pertaining to logic; used in logic; as, logical subtilties. Bacon.
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2. According to the rules of logic; as, a logical argument or inference; the reasoning is logical; a logical argument; a logical impossibility. Prior.
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3. Skilled in logic; versed in the art of thinking and reasoning; as, he is a logical thinker. Addison.
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Logicality (?), n. Logicalness.
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Logically (?), adv. In a logical manner; as, to argue logically.
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Logicalness, n. The quality of being logical.
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Logician (?), n. [Cf. F. logicien.] A person skilled in logic. Bacon.
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Each fierce logician still expelling Locke. Pope.
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Logics (?), n. See .
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log in, log on, v. i. (Computers) To establish communication with a host computer from a terminal or remote computer.
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{ Logistic (?), Logistical (?), } a. [Gr. � skilled in calculating, � to calculate, fr. logos word, number, reckoning: cf. F. logistique.] 1. Logical. [Obs.] Berkeley.
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2. (Math.) Sexagesimal, or made on the scale of 60; as, logistic, or sexagesimal, arithmetic.
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3. Of or pertaining to logistics; as, logistic requirements; logistical problems; a logistical nightmare.
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Coloq. Logistic logarithms , or Coloq. Proportional logarithms , certain logarithmic numbers used to shorten the calculation of the fourth term of a proportion of which one of the terms is a given constant quantity, commonly one hour, while the other terms are expressed in minutes and seconds; -- not now used.
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logistician n. a person skilled at symbolic logic.
Syn. -- logician.
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Logistics (?), n. 1. (Mil.) That branch of the military art which embraces the details of moving and supplying armies. The meaning of the word is by some writers extended to include strategy. H. L. Scott.
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2. By extension: The planning and coordination of the movement of materials, and other details of any large activity, such as a business or a political campaign.
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3. (Math.) A system of arithmetic, in which numbers are expressed in a scale of 60; logistic arithmetic.
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Logman (?), n.; pl. Logmen (�). A man who carries logs. Shak.
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Logodædaly (?), n. [Gr. �. See , and .] Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words. [R.] Coleridge.
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Logogram (?), n. [Gr. logos word + -gram.] A word letter; a phonogram, that, for the sake of brevity, represents a word; as, |, i. e., t, for it. Cf. .
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Logographer (?), n. 1. A chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences.
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2. One skilled in logography.
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{ Logographic (?), Logographical (?), } a. [Gr. � of writing speeches: cf. F. logographique.] Of or pertaining to logography.
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Logography (?), n. [Gr. � a writing of speeches; logos word, speech + � to write: cf. F. logographie.] 1. A method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used.
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2. A mode of reporting speeches without using shorthand, -- a number of reporters, each in succession, taking down three or four words. Brande & C.
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Logogriph (?), n. [Gr. logos word + gri^fos a fishing net, a dark saying, a riddle: F. logogriphe.] A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its letters, which form other words; -- thus, to discover the chosen word chatter form cat, hat, rat, hate, rate, etc. B. Jonson.
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Logomachist (?), n. [See .] One who contends about words.
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Logomachy (?), n. [Gr. �; logos word + � fight, battle, contest: cf. F. logomachie.] 1. Contention in words merely, or a contention about words; a war of words.
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The discussion concerning the meaning of the word “justification” . . . has largely been a mere logomachy. L. Abbott.
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2. A game of word making.
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Logometric (?), a. [Gr. logos word, ratio + metron measure.] (Chem.) Serving to measure or ascertain chemical equivalents; stoichiometric. [R.]
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Logos (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. logos the word or form which expresses a thought, also, the thought, fr. � to speak.] 1. A word; reason; speech. H. Bushell.
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2. The divine Word; Christ.
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Logothete (?), [LL. logotheta, fr. Gr. �; logos word, account + � to put.] An accountant; under Constantine, an officer of the empire; a receiver of revenue; an administrator of a department.
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Logotype (?), n. [Gr. logos word + -type.] (Print.) A single type, containing two or more letters; as, æ, Æ, fi, fl, ffl, etc.; -- called also ligature.
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Logroll (?), v. i. & t. To engage in logrolling; to accomplish by logrolling. [Political cant, U. S.]
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Logroller (?), n. One who engages in logrolling. [Political cant, U. S.]
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The jobbers and logrollers will all be against it. The. Nation.
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Logrolling, n. 1. (Logging) The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn. Longfellow. [U.S.]
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2. Hence: A combining or mutual agreement in which one politician supports or assists another in consideration of receiving assistance in return; wheeling and dealing; -- sometimes used of a disreputable mode of accomplishing political schemes or ends. [Cant, U.S.]
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Log-ship (?), n. (Naut.) A part of the log. See , and 2d , n., 2.
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Logwood (?) n. [So called from being imported in logs.] The heartwood of a tree (Hæmatoxylon Campechianum), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called hæmatoxylin, and is used largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called Campeachy wood, and bloodwood.
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-logy (?) suff. [Gr. �, fr. logos word, discourse, fr. legein to speak. See .] A combining form denoting a discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science; as, theology, geology, biology, mineralogy.
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Logy, a. [From D. log.] Heavy or dull in respect to motion or thought; as, a logy horse; feeling logy. [U.S.]
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Porcupines are . . . logy, sluggish creatures. C. H. Merriam.
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Lohock (?), n. (Med.) See , a medicine.
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Loimic (?), a. [Gr. �, fr. � plague.] Of or pertaining to the plague or contagious disorders.
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Loin (?), n. [OE. loine, OF. logne, F. longe, from (assumed) LL. lumbea, L. lumbus join. Cf. , , .] 1. That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of .
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2. A cut of meat taken from this part of a food animal, as from cattle or hogs.
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3. pl. The pubic area; the genitalia, especially in women; as, receptive loins.
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loincloth n. A cloth covering for the loins, worn around the hips; -- sometimes worn in tropical areas as the only article of clothing.
Syn. -- breechcloth, breechclout, G-string.
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Loir (?), n. [F., fr. L. glis, gliris.] (Zoöl.) A large European dormouse (Myoxus glis).
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Loire prop. n. a French river which flows into the North Atlantic.
Syn. -- Loire River.
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Loiseleuria prop. n. A genus of plants having only one species, the alpine azalea.
Syn. -- genus Loiseleuria.
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Loiter (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Loitered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Loitering.] [D. leuteren to delay, loiter; cf; Prov. G. lottern to be louse, lotter louse, slack, unsettled, vagrant, OHG. lotar.] 1. To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
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Sir John, you loiter here too long. Shak.
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If we have loitered, let us quicken our pace. Rogers.
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2. To wander as an idle vagrant. [Obs.] Spenser.

Syn. -- To linger; delay; lag; saunter; tarry.
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Loiterer (?), n. 1. One who loiters; an idler.
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2. An idle vagrant; a tramp. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.
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Loiteringly, adv. In a loitering manner.
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{ Lok (lŏk), Loki (lōk), } n. [Icel. Loki, perh. akin to lokka, locka to allure, entice.] (Scandinavian Myth.) The evil deity, the author of all calamities and mischief, answering to the Ahriman of the Persians.
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Lokao (?), n. A green vegetable dye imported from China.
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Loke (lōk), n. [See a fastening.] A private path or road; also, the wicket or hatch of a door. [Prov. Eng.]
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Lokorys (?), n. Liquorice. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Loligo (?), n. [L., cuttle fish.] (Zoöl.) A genus of cephalopods, including numerous species of squids, common on the coasts of America and Europe. They are much used for fish bait.
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Lolium n. A genus of plants including the darnel and ryegrass.
Syn. -- genus Lolium.
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Loll (lŏl), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lolled (lŏld); p. pr. & vb. n. Lolling.] [Cf. Icel. lolla to act lazily, loll, lolla, laziness, OD. lollen to sit over the fire, and E. lull. Cf. , .] 1. To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease; as, to loll around the house on a lazy summer day.
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Void of care, he lolls supine in state. Dryden.
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2. To hand extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or a log when heated with labor or exertion.
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The triple porter of the Stygian seat,
With lolling tongue, lay fawning at thy feet. Dryden.
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3. To let the tongue hang from the mouth, as an ox, dog, or other animal, when heated by labor; as, the ox stood lolling in the furrow.
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Loll, v. t. To let hang from the mouth, as the tongue.
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Fierce tigers couched around and lolled their fawning tongues. Dryden.
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Lollard (?), n. [LL. Lollardi, Lullardi, from Walter Lolhardus, a German; cf. LG. & D. lollen to mumble, to hum, sing in a murmuring strain; hence, OD. lollaerd a mumbler, i. e., of prayers or psalms, which was prob. the origin of the name. See , .] (Eccl. Hist.) (a) One of a sect of early reformers in Germany. (b) One of the followers of Wyclif in England. [Called also Loller.]
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By Lollards all know the Wyclifities are meant, so called from Walter Lollardus, one of their teachers in Germany. Fuller.
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{ Lollardism (?), Lollardy (?), } n. The doctrines or principles of the Lollards.
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Loller (?), n. [See .] 1. One who lolls.
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2. An idle vagabond. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
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3. A Lollard.
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Lollingly, adv. In a lolling manner. Buckle.
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Lollipop (?), n. [Perhaps fr. Prov. E. loll to soothe + pope a mixed liquor.] 1. A kind of sugar confection which dissolves easily in the mouth. [Archaic] Thackeray.
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2. Hence: A piece of hard candy, often of discoid shape, attached to the end of a handle of wood or hard paper by which it is held in the hand while being licked; -- it is popular with small children.
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Lollop (?), v. i. [From .] To move heavily; to lounge or idle; to loll. [Low.] Charles Reade.
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loma (?), n.; pl. lomata (#). [NL., fr. Gr. �, �, a fringe.] (Zoöl.) A lobe; a membranous fringe or flap.
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lomatia n. any of various ornamental evergreens of the genus Lomatia having attractive fragrant flowers.
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lomatinous (?), a. [See .] (Zoöl.) Furnished with lobes or flaps.
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Lombard (?), prop. a. Of or pertaining to Lombardy, or the inhabitants of Lombardy.
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Lombard, prop. n. [F. lombard, fr. the Longobardi or Langobardi, i. e., Longbeards, a people of Northern Germany, west of the Elbe, and afterward in Northern Italy. See , and , and cf. .] 1. A native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
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2. A money lender or banker; -- so called because the business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards.
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3. Same as .
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A Lombard unto this day signifying a bank for usury or pawns. Fuller.
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4. (Mil.) A form of cannon formerly in use. Prescott.
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Coloq. Lombard Street , the principal street in London for banks and the offices of note brokers; hence, the money market and interest of London.
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Lombardeer (?; 277), n. A pawnbroker. [Obs.] Howell.
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{ Lombard-house (?), Lombar-house (?), } [F. or D. lombard. See , n.] 1. A bank or a pawnbroker's shop.
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2. A public institution for lending money to the poor at a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged; -- called also mont de piété.
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Lombardic (?), a. Of or pertaining to Lombardy of the Lombards.
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Coloq. Lombardic alphabet , the ancient alphabet derived from the Roman, and employed in the manuscript of Italy. -- Coloq. Lombardic architecture , the debased Roman style of architecture as found in parts of Northern Italy. F. G. Lee. Coloq. Lombardy poplar . (Bot.) See .
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Loment (?), n. [L. lomentum a mixture of bean meal and rice, used as a cosmetic wash, bean meal, fr. lavare, lotum, to wash.] (Bot.) An elongated pod, consisting, like the legume, of two valves, but divided transversely into small cells, each containing a single seed.
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Lomentaceous (?), a. [From .] (Bot.) Of the nature of a loment; having fruits like loments.
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Lomonite (?), n. Same as .
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Lompish (?), a. Lumpish. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Lonchocarpus prop. n. A genus of chiefly tropical American shrubs and trees having pinnate leaves and red or white flowers.
Syn. -- genus Lonchocarpus.
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Lond (?), n. Land. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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London (?), n. The capital city of England.
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Coloq. London paste (Med.), a paste made of caustic soda and unslacked lime; -- used as a caustic to destroy tumors and other morbid enlargements. -- Coloq. London pride . (Bot.) (a) A garden name for Saxifraga umbrosa, a hardy perennial herbaceous plant, a native of high lands in Great Britain. (b) A name anciently given to the Sweet William. Dr. Prior. -- Coloq. London rocket (Bot.), a cruciferous plant (Sisymbrium Irio) which sprung up in London abundantly on the ruins of the great fire of 1667.
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Londoner (-ẽr), n. A native or inhabitant of London. Shak.
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Londonism (?), n. A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.
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Londonize (?), v. i. To impart to (one) a manner or character like that which distinguishes Londoners.
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Londonize, v. i. To imitate the manner of the people of London.
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London smoke. A neutral tint given to spectacles, shade glasses for optical instruments, etc., which reduces the intensity without materially changing the color of the transmitted light.
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London tuft. (Bot.) The Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus).
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Lone (?), n. A lane. See . [Prov. Eng.]
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Lone, a. [Abbrev. fr. alone.] 1. Being without a companion; being by one's self; also, sad from lack of companionship; lonely; as, a lone traveler or watcher.
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When I have on those pathless wilds a appeared,
And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered. Shenstone.
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2. Single; unmarried, or in widowhood. [Archaic]
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Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman. Collection of Records (1642).
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A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear. Shak.
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3. Being apart from other things of the kind; being by itself; also, apart from human dwellings and resort; as, a lone house. “ A lone isle.” Pope.
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By a lone well a lonelier column rears. Byron.
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4. Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
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Thus vanish scepters, coronets, and balls,
And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls. Pope.
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Loneliness (?), n. 1. The condition of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.
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2. The state of being unfrequented by human beings; as, the loneliness of a road.
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3. Love of retirement; disposition to solitude.
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I see
The mystery of your loneliness. Shak.
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4. A feeling of depression resulting from being alone.
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Syn. -- Solitude; seclusion. See .
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Lonely, a. [Compar. Lonelier (?); superl. Loneliest.] [Shortened fr. alonely.] 1. Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell.
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2. Alone, or in want of company; forsaken.
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To the misled and lonely traveler. Milton.
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3. Not frequented by human beings; as, a lonely wood.
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4. Having a feeling of depression or sadness resulting from the consciousness of being alone; lonesome.
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I am very often alone. I don't mean I am lonely. H. James.

Syn. -- Solitary; lone; lonesome; retired; unfrequented; sequestered; secluded.
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Loneness, n. Solitude; seclusion. [Obs.] Donne.
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Lonesome (?), a. [Compar. Lonesomer (?); superl. Lonesomest.] 1. Secluded from society; not frequented by human beings; solitary.
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Like one that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread. Coleridge.
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2. Conscious of, and somewhat depressed by, solitude; as, to feel lonesome.
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-- Lonesomely, adv. -- Lonesomeness, n.
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lonesomeness n. 1. a disposition toward being alone.
Syn. -- aloneness, loneliness, solitude.
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2. The condition of being alone; the feeling of sadness resulting from being alone.
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Lone-Star State prop. n. Texas; -- a nickname alluding to the single star on its coat of arms, being the device used on its flag and seal when it was a republic.
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Long (?), a. [Compar. Longer (?); superl. Longest (?).] [AS. long, lang; akin to OS, OFries., D., & G. lang, Icel. langr, Sw. lång, Dan. lang, Goth. laggs, L. longus. √125. Cf. , a fish, , , .] 1. Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide.
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