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lobster-flower

two pairs of antennæ, and two auditory sacs, and the sexes are invariably distinct. General color, dull, pale reddish-yellow, spotted with bluishblack; the spots coalescent on the upper parts. "Lobsters do not stray from their haunts; hence the discovery of a new station is a fortunate circumstance for the fisherman, and each situation is found to impress its own shade of color upon the shell." (Couch: Cornish Fauna.) [NEPHROPS.] 2. Fig.: A ludicrous epithet of a British soldier,

in reference to his scarlet coat.

"The women exclaim against lobsters."-T. Brown: Works, i. 73.

lobster-flower, s.

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such as each county, township, or city, to deterLegislation: The right of each locality of a State, mine for itself whether or not some particular measure of legislation shall be enforced therein, applied more especially as to whether the liquor traffic shall be licensed and carried on.

"Fortunately it has been able to point to the remarkable success of the State aid and local-option law of New Jersey, and to commend it with certain modifications to the consideration of other States. That law proceeds upon the theory that while the country as a whole may be unwilling to embark in road building, those smaller communities which are themselves willing to contribute fairly toward the improvement of their highways may improvements."-Chicago Inter Ocean, Feb. 24, 1894. local-preacher, s.

Botany: Poinciana pulcherrima, the Barbadoes justly demand county and State aid in carrying on such Flower-fence.

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Lobule of the ear:

Anat.: The soft pendulous portion of the ear. lob-u-lus, s. [Lat.] A lobule (q. v.). lōb -йs, s. [Lat.] Alobe (q. v.). lob-worm, s. [Eng. lob, s., and worm.] The same as LUGWORM (q. v.).

lō-cal, *lō -call, a. & s. [Fr. local, from Latin loculis pertaining to a place, local, from locus=a place; Sp. & Port. local; Ital. locale.]

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local-courts, s. pl.

Methodism: A lay preacher who carries on his ordinary business or profession, while devoting a portion of his time to preaching. He remains in the place where his business or profession lies, and does not go on circuit like the "traveling" preachers (9. v.), whose time is entirely devoted to their religious duties.

*local-problem, s.

Math.: A problem capable of an infinite number of solutions.

lo-cale, s. [Fr. local a locality.] A particular spot, place, or locality.

"Lay the locale where you may."

Barham: Ingoldsby Legends; Woman in Gray. lo-cal-Işm, s. [Eng. local; -ism.]

1. The quality or state of being local; affection for a place.

2. A local idiom or phrase; a mode of speaking or expression peculiar to a particular place or locality. "Some of the terms have become localisms."-Fitzedward Hall: Modern English, p. 203.

lō-cal-Ist, s. [Eng. local; -ist.]

Med. Hist. One who holds fever to arise from some local inflammation or lesion, and not to be an essential, primary, or independent disease. "In our opinion, both essentialists and localists have taken a much too limited view of the etiology of fever." -Cycl, of Pract. Med., ii. 163.

10-cǎl-1-ty, *lō-căl-I-tiě, s. [Fr. localité, from local local (q. v.); Lat. localitas; Ital. località; Sp. localidad.]

I. Ordinary Language:

1. Existence in a place, or in a certain portion of space. 2. Limitation to a certain place or locality; as, the locality of a trial.

3. Position, situation, place; geographical posi

tion or situation.

4. A spot, a place. II. Technically:

1. Phren.: The faculty of being able to recognize and remember the distinctive features of a place. 2. Scots Law: The adjustment or apportionment of the aggregate stipend to a minister from the teinds of a parish among the several heritors liable ing the stipend is called a decree of modification." to pay it. The decree of the Teind Court modifyLocality of a widow:

Scots Law: The lands life rented by a widow under her contract of marriage.

lō-cal-i-za-tion, s. [Eng. localiz(e); -ation.] The act of localizing.

lō-cal-ize, v. t. [Eng. local; -ize.]

1. To make local; to fix in or to assign to a particular place or locality. 2. To ascertain or detect the exact place or locality of; as, to localize a fault in a telegraph cable. lō-cal-ly, adv. [Eng. local; -ly.] With respect to place; as regards place or position; in place or position.

lō-cāte, v. t. & i. [Lat. locatus, pa. par. of loco = to place; locus=a place.]

A. Transitive:

1. To set, place, or settle in a particular place or locality. (Frequently used reflexively.)

2. To settle or determine the place of; to determine on the position of; as, to locate a church. 3. To survey, determine, or settle the bounds of, as a tract of land.

B. Intrans.: To reside; to take up one's abode; to live; to locate one's self.

lō-câ -těr, s. [Eng. locate, and er.] One who locates, i. e., who records a claim to a mine, etc. (United States.)

lō-că -tion, s. [Lat. locatio, from locatus, pa. Law: Tribunals of a limited and special jurisdic- par, of loco-to place; Fr. location; Sp. locacion; tion; as the county courts. (Wharton.) Ital. locazione.]

chorus,

boll, boy; pout, jowl; cat, cell, chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this;

lock

I. Ordinary Language:

1. The act of locating, placing, or settling. 2. Situation or position; state with respect to place or position; locality.

this flaming nuisance."-Observer, No. 58. "I confess I was not a little surprised at the location of

3. The marking out, settling, or determining the boundaries of, or identifying a particular place or locality according to the definition given in a map plan, entry, &c. 4. A tract of land marked out or designated in place.

II. Law: A leasing or rent.

Contract of location:

Scots Law: That by which the use of any movable subject is agreed to be given for hire, or by which a person gives his work or services on the same condition.

loc-a-tive, a. & s. [As if from a Lat. locativus, from locutus, pa. par. of loco-to place.]

A. As adj.: Denoting the place where an event or action takes place.

B. As subst.: A word which indicates the place where or wherein.

Mueller: Science of Language, i. 227. "In Sanscrit every substantive has its locative."-M.

locative-case, s.

Gram.: A case denoting locality, formerly existing in all Aryan languages. Traces of it are still to be found in Greek and Latin.

lō-ca-tor, s. [Lat.]

Scots Law: The hirer in a contract of location. lŏ-çěl -lus, (pl. lŏ-çěl'-li), s. [Lat.=a compartment in a locker or chest.]

Botany:

1. Gen.: A secondary cell; a small cell. [LOCULUS.] LoSpec. pl.): The peridia of certain fungals.

loch (1) (ch guttural), s. [Gael. & Ir. loch; cogn. with Wel. llwch; Corn. lo: Manx logh; Bret. louch; Lat. lacus.] A lake, a sheet of fresh water, or bay or arm of the sea.

"They walked round the loch upon the ice."-Scott: Guy Mannering, ch. xxxii.

loch (2), s. [Port. looch, from Arab. la'ok=an electuary, from la'aq to lick.] A medicine or preparation to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lincture.

trict in Inverness-shire. Loch-a-ber (ch guttural), s. [See def.] A dis

landers. Axes of the description named, made with Lochaber-ax, s. The battle-ax of the Higha long curved blade and mounted on a pole ending in a hook, were formerly carried by the Edinburgh City Guard.

loch -age (age as Iġ), s. [Gr. loshagos, from Fr. lochague.] lochos a body of men, a troop, and ago to lead;

a body of men of uncertain number. Gr. antiq.: An officer who commanded a cohort;

loche, s. [LOACH.]

lō-chi-a, s. (Gr. lochia, neut. pl. of lochios= pertaining to childbirth, from lochos=a lying-in, childbirth; Fr. lochies.]

Med. The evacuations from the womb and vagina which follow childbirth.

lō-chi-al, a. [Eng. lochi(a); -al.] Of or pertaining to the lochia.

lock (1), *loke, s. [A. S. loca (pl. locan); cogn. with Icel. loka=a lock, a latch, lok a cover, a lid; Sw. lock=a lid; Ger, loch a dungeon, a hole; A. S. lúcan to inclose; Icel. lúka to shut; M. H. Ger. lúchen to shut; Goth. galukan to shut; Dan. lukke; Dut. linken to shut.]

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2. Firearms: The firing apparatus of a gun, usually consisting of a trigger, sear, hammer, and mainspring. [GUN-LOCK.]

3. Hydraulic Engineering:

(1) An inclosure in a canal between gates, where boats are raised and lowered. It consists of a basin between the levels, having a pair of gates at each end communicating with the respective levels.

(2) An embankment or structure confining the waters of a canal or race; a weir or guard-lock. 4. Locksmith.: A fastening having a bolt moved by a key, and serving to secure a door, lid, or other object. The variety, both in the form and nomenclature of locks, is very great.

5. Ordnance: A cotter or key, as the one which fastens the cap-square over the trunnion of a mounted cannon; a forelock.

6. Plastering: The projection of the plaster or cement behind the lath, which keeps it from falling

or scaling off.

7. Vehicles:

(1) A contrivance for keeping a wheel from turning in descending a hill.

(2) The swerving to the right or left of the fore carriage of a vehicle, deviating from the line of direction of the hind wheels and the trend of the carriage proper. It is called the haw or the gee lock respectively, according as it is to the left or the right of the driver.

lock-bay, s.

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space above it, which is usually occupied by a glazed sash; a transom.

lock-saw, 8. A compass-saw used in cutting seats for locks in doors. It has a fine, taper, flexible blade.

lock-screw, s. The screw which fastens the gunlock to the stock.

lock-sill, s.

Hydraul. Engineering: A piece of timber at the threshold of a canal-lock, with a chamfered edge, lock-spit, s.

Hydraul. Engin.: The pond or space of water against which the gates shut. between the gates of a canal-lock.

lock-bond, s.

Build.: A course of bond stones. lock-chain, 8.

Vehicles: A chain employed to lock the wheels by attaching a part of the rim to some non-rotating part of the vehicle; a skid-chain.

lock-chamber, s.

Hydraulic Engin.: That part of a canal-lock, between the gates, in which a boat rises or sinks to the level above or below.

lock-cramp, s. An implement used to restrain the spring in putting the parts of a gun-lock together.

lock-down, s. A contrivance used by lumberers for fastening logs together in rafting.

lock-file, s. A slitting file, knife-shaped, for cutting out the wards in the bit of a key.

lock-gate, s.

Hydraul. Engin.: A pair of closed doors at one end of a canal-lock, to confine the water in the chamber. The gates at the end of the lock-chamber are respectively the head-gates and the tail-gates.

lock-hatch, s.

Hydraul. Engin.: The sluice-board or sliding-gate in a sluiceway.

lock-hole, s. The recess in a musket-stock to receive the lock.

lock-hospital, s. A name very generally adopted in Great Britain to characterize a charitable institution for the treatment of venereal diseases.

lock-jaw, 8.

Pathol.: Tetanus, persistent, painful contractions or spasms of the voluntary muscles, either idiopathic or, more frequently, traumatic. Five varieties are noted: Trismus, or lock-jaw, limited to the throat and lower jaw; tetanus, affecting the flexor and extensor muscles of the body in general; emprosthotonos, where the body is flexed forward; opisthotonos, backward, and pleurosthotonos, laterally or to one side only. Trismus is the commonest form, and then opisthotonos, accompanied by the risus sardonicus, the body being arched and resting upon the occiput and heels. Treatment with calabar-bean or the hypodermic injection of curare has given good results in some cases, or chloroform inhalation during the paroxysms. lock-keeper, s. A man employed to attend to a canal-lock.

lock-nail, s. One of the pins by which the parts of a gun-lock are secured to the lock-plate. In the old form of lock, they were the tumbler-pin, mainspring-screw, sear-pin, bridle-screw pin, hammernail, hammer-spring screw.

lock-nut, s. A supplementary nut screwed down upon a primary one, to prevent its shaking loose; a jam-nut, check-nut, or pinching-nut.

lock-out, s. The discharge and keeping out of employment of artisans and laborers by the employers.

"All sides of the Agricultural Lock-out of 1874 are conscious of blunders which they wish to avoid on any future occasion."-London Times.

lock-out, v. t. To close the gates or doors of a factory, &c., against, so as to put a stop to all work.

fate, făt, färe,

amidst,

Fort. & Engin.: A small trench opened with a spade or plow to mark out the lines or course of any work.

lock-step, 8.

Milit.: A mode of marching by a body of men arranged in as close file as possible, in which the leg of each man moves at the same time, and follows close on the corresponding leg of the man in front. lock-stitch, s. & a.

A. As subst.: A sewing-machine stitch in which one, simply interlocking therewith. [STITCH.] the lower thread is made to pass over the upper B. As adj.: Forming its stitches by the interlocking of two threads.

lock-tool, s. A cramp used in putting the parts of a gun-lock together.

lock-up, s. & a.

A. As subst.: A place which can be secured by a lock; specif., a place where prisoners are temporarily confined.

"End in the lock-up."-Hughes: Tom Brown at Oxford, ch. vi.

B. As adj.: Capable of being fastened by locking. Lock-up safety-valve: A safety-valve which is so inclosed that weight cannot be surreptitiously added to the lever.

lock-weir, s. A weir having a lock-chamber and

gates.

lock (2), *lok, *lokke, s. [A. S. locc, loc; cogn. with Dut. lok a lock, a tress; Icel. lokkr; Dan. lok; Sw. lock; O. H. Ger. loch; Ger. locke. Cf. Icel. lykkr a crook, a bend.]

I. Ordinary Language:

1. A tuft of hair or wool; a tress, a ringlet. "Thus o'er Patroclus while the hero prayed, On his cold hand the sacred lock he laid. Pope: Homer's Iliad, xxiii. 191.

2. A tuft or small bunch of hay or other similar substance.

3. A small quantity of anything; a handful.

II. Scots Law: The perquisite of a servant in a mill, consisting of a small quantity of meal, vary ing according to the custom of the mill. lock, v. t. & i. [LOCK (1), s.]

A. Transitive:

1. To fasten with a lock and key.

"The speaker was pulled out of his chair, the mace taken from the table, the room cleared, and the door locked."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. i.

2. To shut or confine with, or as with, a lock; as, to lock a person in a room.

3. To close fast, to shut up, to seal; to render impassable; as, The frost locks up the rivers. 4. To entwine, to close fast; to shut fast together. "She locks her lily fingers, one in one." Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis, 228.

5. To embrace closely; to hug; as, to lock a person in one's arms.

6. To inclose; to shut up fast; as, to lock a secret in the breast.

7. To seize tightly.

"These in her left hand locked, her right untied The bow, the quiver, and its plumy pride." Pope: Homer's Iliad, xxi. 567.

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Print.: To fix or fasten the types in a metal frame with wedges, so as to be ready for the press. 3. Under lock and key: Locked up.

lock -age (age as ig), s. [Eng. lock (1); -age.] 1. The works which form a lock on a canal; materials for locks in a canal.

2. The amount of rise and fall made by the locks of a canal.

3. A toll paid for passing through the locks of a canal.

locked, pa. par. or a. [Lock, v.]
locked-jaw, s. [LOCK-JAW.]
lock'-er, s. [Eng. lock; -er.]
1. One who locks up.

2. A close receptacle, with lock and key, such as a drawer, a small cupboard; specifically, a compartment in a ship for stowing away things. The chain-lockers are centered around the foot of the mainmast. Shot-lockers are recesses and shelves for shot. Lockers in the cabin are for various articles, answering to closets, and may be fastened by a lock. T (1) Boatswain's locker:

Naut. A chest in which small stuff for rigging and tools are kept.

(2) Davy Jones' locker: The ocean; espec., the ocean regarded as the grave of those who die at sea. locker-up, s. One who locks up; specif., a turnkey, a jailer."

lock -ět, s. [Fr. loquet, dimin. of Old Fr. loc= a lock (q. v.).]

I. Ordinary Language:

1. A small lock, a catch or fastening of a necklace, &c.

2. A small gold or silver case, with a snapping cover, worn as an ornament, and adapted to contain hair or a miniature.

where the lock is fastened. II. Arms: That part of a leathern sword-scabbard

lock -fast, a. [Eng. lock, v., and fast.]

Scots Law: Secured or fastened by a lock and key, as a door, a chest, &c.

Lock-i-an, a. [For etym. see def.] Belonging to, characteristic of, or in any way connected with the teachings of John Locke (1632-1704). His principal work was the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, in which he sought to ascertain the origin of human knowledge, in order to determine the limit and measure of its objective truth.

promise."-Wallace: Kant, p. 142.

"The Lockian theory had been something of a com

lock'-ing, pr. par., a. & s. [Lock, v.]

A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst. The act of fastening with a lock and key.

locking-forceps, s.

Surg. A light forceps, whose arms are automatically locked when closed; used for various purposes, such as for holding a sponge-tent in uterine operations, or for carrying lint.

locking-plate, s.

1. Horol.: A count-wheel (q. v.).

2. Vehicle: A plate on a vehicle to take the wear of the fore wheel when the vehicle is turning short; a rub-plate.

Lock-Ist, s. [See def.] A supporter or adherent of Locke, the philosopher.

lock-less, a. [Eng. lock (1), s.; -less.] Destitute of a lock.

what, fâll, father; wê, wět, here, camel, her, thêre;

marîne; gō, pot,

pine, pit, sïre, sir,

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1. "John Bull"-the first locomotive used on the Pennsylvania Railroad. 2. Modern first-class passenger locomotive (four driving wheels, high- and low-pressure cylinders), used by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad; bullt at the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia. 3. High-speed passenger locomotive, (two driving wheels, high- and low-pressure cylinders), used by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, New York Division.

lockman

lock -man, s. [Eng. lock (1), s., and man.]

*1. An executioner: so called because one of his perquisites was a lock or ladleful of meal from every caskful exposed for sale in the market. (Eng.)

2. An officer in the Isle of Man, corresponding to an under-sheriff in England.

lock-ram, s. [Fr. lockrenan, from Bret. lokronan =St. Ronan's Cell, from lók a cell, and St. Renan in Basse Bretagne, where it is made.] A sort of coarse linen or hempen cloth.

"The kitchen malkin pins Her richest lockram about her reeky neck." Shakesp.: Coriolanus, ii. 1. lock-rand, s. [LOCK (1), s.] Arch.: A course of bond-stones; lock-band. lock -ṛồn, subst. [Etym. doubtful.] A kind of ranunculus.

lock-smith, s. [Eng. lock (1), s., and smith.] A mechanic whose occupation it is to make and repair locks.

+lock-, adj. [Eng. lock (2), s.; -y.] Full of or having locks or tufts.

lō'-cō, adv. [Ital.]

Music: In its proper place; a direction to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.

lo-co, s. [Sp. loco mad, deranged (?).] An unidentified weed found in the western United States. "But the queerest tale of all recorded is that with regard to the poisonous weed loco, eaten by horses. In the normal state, it seems, a healthy horse refuses loco; but, if he once by accident acquires the taste, it grows upon him exactly like opium-eating; he no longer herds with other horses, but wanders about solitary(like Bellerophon) in search of the enticing poison; his eye becomes dull and glassy, and at last he dies of loco intoxication in a miserable, stupid condition."-Pall Mall Gazette.

*lō-co-çes-sion (sion as shon), s. [Lat. loco from a place, ablat. of locus a place, and cessio-a yielding; cedo to yield.] The act of retiring from a place; a giving up or surrender of a place.

*1ō-co-dě scrip-tive, a. [Lat. locus=a place, and Eng, descriptive (q. v.).] Descriptive of a particular place or locality.

lō-cō-fō-cō, s. & a. [Lat. loco=in the place of, and ablat. of focus=a fire.] A. Assubstantive:

1. A lucifer match, a self-lighting match. 2. A name formerly given to a faction of the Democratic party, because at a grand meeting in Tammany Hall, New York, in 1834, when the chairman left his seat, and the lights were suddenly extinguished, in the hope of breaking up the tur: bulent assembly, those who were in favor of extreme measures instantly drew from their pockets their locofocos, relighted the lights, and continued the meeting to the accomplishment of their object.

B. As adj.: Belonging to the locofocos; ultra

radical; as, the locofoco party.

lō-co-mō-tion, s. [Lat. locus a place, and Eng. motion; Fr. locomotion; Sp. locomocion; Ital. locomozione.]

1. The act or process of moving from place to place. "All other circumstances being supposed equal, the inns

will be best where the means of locomotion are worst."Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. iii.

2. The power of passing or moving from place to Plants have 1.fe but not locomotion. place; as, lō-co-mō-tive, a. & s. [Lat. locus a place, and Eng. motive (q. v.); Fr. locomotif; Ital. & Sp. locomotivo.]

A. As adjective:

1. Moving or passing from place to place; having the power of moving or passing from place to place. 2. Having the power of producing locomotion or motion from place to place; as, a locomotive organ. 3. Pertaining or given to moving frequently from place to place; migratory.

B. As subst.: A movable steam-engine used for the traction of carriages or wagons on a railway; a wheeled carriage driven by steam.

What in this country is known as a locomotive engine is called a steam-engine in England. locomotive-boiler, s.

Steam-eng.: A boiler with numerous tubes connecting the fire-box with the smoke-box. locomotive-chair, s. A wheeled chair for an

invalid.

locomotive-furnace, s.

Steam-eng.: The fire-box of a locomotive. locomotive-pump, s.

Steam-eng.: The feed-pump by which a locomotive-boiler is supplied with water. [INJECTOR.] pout, jowl; cat,

boll, boy;

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lō-co-mō'-tive-ness, s. [Eng. locomotive; -ness.] The same as LOCOMOTIVITY (q. v.). lō-co-mō-tiv-I-ty, s. [Eng. locomotiv(e); -ity.] The power of locomotion or of moving from place to place. lo-co-mo-tor ǎt-ǎx-I-a, lō-co-mo-tor ǎtǎx, s. [Lat. locus a place, and motor=a mover; with Gr. ataxia=disorder.] Pathol.: A peculiar form of apparent paralysis, with more or less wasting, but always unsteady and disorderly muscular movements, though muscular power is entire, and loss of coordinating movement. It is generally associated with degeneration of the posterior columns of the spinal cord and posterior roots of the spinal nerves. Sometimes known as Charcot's disease. According to Sir James Paget and Prof. Humphrey, it is probably a compound of two things, rheumatic gout and chronic rheumatic arthritis, not definitely so, but a method of rheumatic arthritis altered from its ordinary fashion by the intervention of the locomotor ataxy. Mr. Hutchinson considers it a sort of tumultuous old age, an with loss of sensation, and considerable alteration old age of premature senility of the nervous system, in the heads of the bones.

flo-co-rest-Ive, adj. [Lat. locus a place, and Eng. restive, in the sense of being at rest. Staying in one place, unwilling to stir from the place in which one is.

"Your locorestive and all your idle propensities of course have given way to the duties of providing for a family."-Correspondence of C. Lamb (1870), p. 10. Ŏc ́-u-la-měnt, 8. [Lat. loculamentum a case, a box, a receptacle.]

Bot. (pl.): Partitions or cells of a seed-vessel. loc ́-u-lar, a. [Lat. locularis=kept in boxes.] Botany: Divided into cells; having cells. Used specially of seed-vessels. A fruit having one cell is called unilocular; one having two, bilocular; three, trilocular, &c.

loc -u-lāte, a. [Lat. loculatus = furnished with compartments or divisions.]

Bot.: The same as LOCULAR (q. v.). loc-u-11-çid -al, adj. [Lat. loculi, pl. of loculus (q. v.), and cado (in compos. cido) = to cut.]

Bot. (of dehiscence of fruit): Dehiscing, or splitting through the back of the cells. In loculicidal dehiscence, the dissepiments form the middle of each valve, as in the lilac.

loc-u-lose, a. [Lat. loculosus full of compartments or cells.]

Bot.: Partitioned (q. v.). It is never applied to fruits, but to pith, &c.

loc-u-lus (pl. loc-u-li), s. [Latin a little place, a small receptacle with compartments; a coffer or casket.]

1. Botany:

(1) Pl.: (a) The two theca, coniothecæ, or parallel pollen cells, constituting the anther of a stamen. (b) The cells of an ovary. of certain fungals. [LOCELLUS. (c) The peridia (2) Sing. The perithecium of certain fungals. nifera, in Corals, &c. 2. Zool. (pl.); Chambers in the shells of Forami

lō'-cùm tê-něnş, s. [Lat.-holding the place (of); locus a place, and tenens, pr. par. of teneo= to hold.] A deputy or substitute holding a vacant office for a time.

*loc-u-pleat-1y, adv. [Latin locuples (genit. locupletis) = rich.] Richly.

lō'-cus (pl. lō -çi), s. [Lat.=a place, a spot.]

Geom. The locus of a point is the line generated by the point when moving according to some determinate law. The locus of a line is the surface gen erated by a line moving according to some fixed law. Thus, if a point moves in the same plane in such a manner that the sum of its distances from two fixed points of the plane is constant, the locus of the point is an ellipse.

cell, chorus,

1. Locus delicti:

Scots Law: The place where an offense is committed.

2. Locus pænitentiæ: Law: Time or opportunity for repentance before aprobative writing is executed.

place where the seal, usually appended to a per3. Locus sigilli (usually abbreviated L. S.): The son's signature, is to be affixed to a deed or public

locustidæ

Europe. The females excavate holes in the earth and deposit their eggs in a long mass enveloped in a glutinous secretion. The larvae commence their destructive career almost as soon as they are hatched. The migrations of locusts are probably in search of food, and extraordinary accounts are on record of the vast swarms that from time to time invade particular districts. They clear every thing off the surface of the ground, and have on several occasions caused disastrous famines. Their range in the Old World stretches from Spain and the south of France, through Russia to China; south of this boundary line they are equally destructive. The Rocky Mountain Locust is Calop tenus spretus. There seems to be no special perío dicity in the appearance of swarms of locusts, but in this country keen observers have noted that the years in which such visitations take place are nearly multiples of eleven. Locusts are by preference vegetable-feeders; but they will attack dry animal substances, and even become cannibals when other food fails. Next to man, their chief enemies are insectivorous birds, parasitic beetles of the ily Bombyliida. family Cantharida, and dipterous flies of the fam

2. Plural:

(1) A rendering of the name Locustida, applied to a family which does not contain the genuine Locusts. [LOCUSTIDE.] (2) The family Acridiidae, to which the true Locusts belong.

II. Scripture:

(1) Arbeh, a word which occurs about twenty times in the Hebrew Bible. It is from rabhah= to be numerous; and is probably Edipoda migra toria. [I. 1.] It was allowed to be eaten (Lev. xi. 22.). Its ravages are graphically described in Joel ii.

(2) Chhaghab (2 Chron. vii. 13) is probably another species of locust smaller than the first. (3) Tselatsal (Deut. xxviii. 42), not identified. (4) [BALD Locust.] locust-berry, s.

Bot.: Malpighia coriacea. locust-eater, s.

Ornithology: Gryllivora, a genus of Saxicolinæ. (Swainson.)

locust-shrimp, s.

Zool.: Squilla mantis. Nicholson considers this crustacean a good example of the order Stomapoda (q. v.). The carapace is small, and does not cover the posterior half of the thorax. Several of the anterior appendages are developed into powerfully prehensile and hooked feet. The branchiæ are attached to the first five pairs of abdominal feet. The three posterior thoracic and the abdominal appendages are in the form of swimmerets, and the tail is expanded into a powerful fin. locust-tree, s.

1. Robinia pseudacacia, or Pseudo-acacia. The

2. Ceratonia siliqua. [CAROB.] It is called the Locust-tree because it is by some supposed to have been the food of John the Baptist in the wilderness (Matt. iii. 4). Hence it is called also St. John's Bread.

wood is hard and durable.

3. (In the West Indies): (1) Hymenca courbaril, and the genus Hymenea (q. v.); (2) Byrsonima

coriacea and B. cinerea.

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II. Bot. The spikelet of the inflorescence of grasses. [SPIKELET.]

lō-cus-tělle, lō-cus-těl -la, s. [From Latin locustella, dimin. of locusta. So named because the species feed on Grasshoppers, &c.]

Ornith.: A name given to some Warblers of the called the Willow Locustella, and the scientific genus Salicaria. Thus Salicaria luscinoidea is name of the Grasshopper Warbler is S. locustella. 4. Locus standi: The right of any person or peric, -ical.] Of or pertaining to locusts; locust-like. 10-custic, lō-cus-tic-al, a. [Eng. locust; sons to appear and be heard on any matter before a particular tribunal.

document.

lo-cust, s. [Lat. locusta a locust; Fr. locuste; Ital. locusto.]

1. Zoology:

1. Sing. Any migratory species of the Orthopterous family Acridiidae, specially Edipoda migratoria, the Migratory Locust. An allied species, E. cinerascens, is found in the southeast of

10-cùs -ti-dæ, s. pl. [Lat. locust(a); fem. pl. adj. suff. -idæ.]

Entom.: A family of Orthoptera, tribe Saltatoria. The term Locustida ought to have been the scientific designation of the family whose type is the Migratory Locust, placed in the sub-genus Locusta by Linnæus, with which should have been included its close allies, the small so-called grasshoppers, which sometimes leap forth when one crosses fields

çhin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; sin, aş; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f.

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