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Log"gat (?), n. [Also written logget.] 1. A small log or piece of wood. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

2. pl. An old game in England, played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake set in the ground. [Obs.] Shak.

Logge (?), n. & v. See Lodge. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Logged (?), a. Made slow and heavy in movement; water-logged. Beaconsfield.

Log"ger (?), n. One engaged in logging. See Log, v. i. [U.S.] Lowell.

Log"ger*head` (?), n. [Log + head.] 1. A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull. Shak. Milton.

2. A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle, used to heat tar.

3. (Naut.) An upright piece of round timber, in a whaleboat, over which a turn of the line is taken when it is running out too fast. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

4. (Zoöl.) A very large marine turtle (Thalassochelys caretta, or caouana), common in the warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Cape Cod; -- called also logger-headed turtle.

5. (Zoöl.) An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike.

To be at loggerheads, To fall to loggerheads, or To go to loggerheads, to quarrel; to be at strife. L' Estrange.

Log"ger*head`ed, a. Dull; stupid. Shak.

A rabble of loggerheaded physicians.

Urquhart.

Log"ger*heads` (?), n. (Bot.) The knapweed.

||Log"gia (?), n. [It. See Lodge.] (Arch.) A roofed open gallery. It ||differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming ||more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; ||from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an ||out-of-door sitting-room. || Log"ging (?), n. The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.

Log"ic (?), n. [OE. logike, F. logique, L. logica, logice, Gr. logikh` (sc. te`chnh), fr. logiko`s belonging to speaking or reason, fr. lo`gos speech, reason, le`gein to say, speak. See Legend.] 1. The science or art of exact reasoning, or of pure and formal thought, or of the laws according to which the processes of pure thinking should be conducted; the science of the formation and application of general notions; the science of generalization, judgment, classification, reasoning, and systematic arrangement; correct reasoning.

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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.

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.

2. A treatise on logic; as, Mill's Logic.

Log"ic*al (lj"*kal), a. [Cf. F. logique, L. logicus, Gr. logiko`s.] 1. Of or pertaining to logic; used in logic; as, logical subtilties. Bacon.

2. According to the rules of logic; as, a logical argument or inference; the reasoning is logical. Prior.

3. Skilled in logic; versed in the art of thinking and reasoning; as, he is a logical thinker. Addison.

Log`i*cal"i*ty (?), n. Logicalness.

Log"ic*al*ly (?), adv. In a logical manner; as, to argue logically.

Log"ic*al*ness, n. The quality of being logical.