Part 752

That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located.

H. Spencer.

Lo"cate, v. i. To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle. [Colloq.]

Lo*ca"tion (?), n. [L. locatio, fr. locare.]

1. The act or process of locating.

2. Situation; place; locality. Locke.

3. That which is located; a tract of land designated in place. [U.S.]

4. (Law) (a) (Civil Law) A leasing on rent. (b) (Scots Law) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire. Wharton. (c) (Amer. Law) 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. Burrill. Bouvier.

Loc"a*tive (?), a. (Gram.) Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein; as, a locative adjective; locative case of a noun. -- n. The locative case.

Lo"ca*tor (?), n. One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim. [U.S.]

Lo*cel"late (?), a. [L. locellus a compartment, dim. of locus a place.] (Bot.) Divided into secondary compartments or cells, as where one cavity is separated into several smaller ones.

Loch (lk), n. [Gael. & Olr. loch. See Lake of water.] A lake; a bay or arm of the sea. [Scot.]

Loch (lk), n. [F. looch, Ar. la'g, an electuary, or any medicine which may be licked or sucked, fr. la'q to lick.] (Med.) A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture.

{ Loch*a"ber ax", Loch*a"ber axe" } (?). [So called from Lochaber, in Scotland.] A weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scotch Highlanders.

Loch"age (?), n. [Gr.&?;.] (Gr. Antiq.) An officer who commanded a company; a captain. Mitford.

Loch"an (?), n. [Gael. See 1st Loch.] A small lake; a pond. [Scot.]

A pond or lochan rather than a lake.

H. Miller.

Loche (?), n. (Zoöl.) See Loach.

||Lo*chi"a (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. &?;, pl., fr. &?; belonging to ||childbirth, &?; a lying in, childbirth.] (Med.) The discharge from ||the womb and vagina which follows childbirth. || Lo"chi*al (?), a. [Cf. F. lochial.] Of or pertaining to the lochia.

Lock (?), n. [AS. locc; akin to D. lok, G. locke, OHG. loc, Icel. lokkr, and perh. to Gr. &?; to bend, twist.] A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.

These gray locks, the pursuivants of death.

Shak.

Lock, n. [AS. loc inclosure, an inclosed place, the fastening of a door, fr. lcan to lock, fasten; akin to OS. lkan (in comp.), D. luiken, OHG. lhhan, Icel. l&?;ka, Goth. lkan (in comp.); cf. Skr. ruj to break. Cf. Locket.] 1. 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.

2. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.

Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages.

De Quincey.

3. A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock. Dryden.