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Log"roll`er (?), n. One who engages in logrolling. [Political cant, U. S.]

The jobbers and logrollers will all be against it.

The. Nation.

Log"roll`ing, 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.]

2. Hence: A combining to assist another in consideration of receiving assistance in return; -- sometimes used of a disreputable mode of accomplishing political schemes or ends. [Cant, U.S.]

Log"-ship (?), n. (Naut.) A part of the log. See Log-chip, and 2d Log, n., 2.

Log"wood` (?) 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.

-lo*gy (?). [Gr. &?;, fr. lo`gos word, discourse, fr. &?; to speak. See Logic.] A combining form denoting a discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science; as, theology, geology, biology, mineralogy.

Lo"gy, a. [From D. log.] Heavy or dull in respect to motion or thought; as, a logy horse. [U.S.]

Porcupines are . . . logy, sluggish creatures.

C. H. Merriam.

Lo"hock (?), n. (Med.) See Loch, a medicine.

Loi"mic (?), a. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; plague.] Of or pertaining to the plague or contagious disorders.

Loin (?), n. [OE. loine, OF. logne, F. longe, from (assumed) LL. lumbea, L. lumbus join. Cf. Lends, Lumbar, Nombles.] 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 Beef.

||Loir (?), n. [F., fr. L. glis, gliris.] (Zoöl.) A large European ||dormouse (Myoxus glis). || Loi"ter (?), 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.

Sir John, you loiter here too long.

Shak.

If we have loitered, let us quicken our pace.

Rogers.

2. To wander as an idle vagrant. [Obs.] Spenser.

Syn. -- To linger; delay; lag; saunter; tarry.

Loi"ter*er (?), n. 1. One who loiters; an idler.

2. An idle vagrant; a tramp. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

Loi"ter*ing*ly, adv. In a loitering manner.

{ Lok (lk), Lo"ki (l"k), } 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.

||Lo*ka"o (?), n. A green vegetable dye imported from China. || Loke (lk), n. [See Lock a fastening.] A private path or road; also, the wicket or hatch of a door. [Prov. Eng.]

Lok"o*rys (?), n. Liquorice. [Obs.] Chaucer.

||Lo*li"go (?), 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. || Loll (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lolled (?); 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. Lill, Lull.] 1. To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.