Part 799

All old religious jealousies were condemned as low- minded infirmities.

Bancroft.

Low"-mind`ed*ness, n. The quality of being low-minded; meanness; baseness.

Lown (?), n. [See Loon.] A low fellow. [Obs.]

Low"-necked` (?), a. Cut low in the neck; decollete; -- said of a woman's dress.

Low"ness, n. The state or quality of being low.

Low"-pres`sure (?), a. Having, employing, or exerting, a low degree of pressure.

Low-pressure steam engine, a steam engine in which low steam is used; often applied to a condensing engine even when steam at high pressure is used. See Steam engine.

Low"ry (?), n. An open box car used on railroads. Compare Lorry.

Low"-spir`it*ed (?), a. Deficient in animation and courage; dejected; depressed; not sprightly.

-- Low"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.

Low"-stud`ded (?), a. Furnished or built with short studs; as, a low-studded house or room.

Low"-thought`ed (?), a. Having one's thoughts directed toward mean or insignificant subjects.

Lox`o*drom"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; slanting, oblique + &?; a running, course; cf. F. loxodromique.] Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables.

Loxodromic curve or line (Geom.), a line on the surface of a sphere, which always makes an equal angle with every meridian; the rhumb line. It is the line on which a ship sails when her course is always in the direction of one and the same point of the compass.

Lox`o*drom"ics (?), n. The art or method of sailing on the loxodromic or rhumb line.

Lox*od"ro*mism (?), n. The act or process of tracing a loxodromic curve; the act of moving as if in a loxodromic curve.

Lox*od"ro*my (?), n. [Cf. F. loxodromic.] The science of loxodromics. [R.]

Loy (?), n. A long, narrow spade for stony lands.

Loy"al (?), a. [F. loyal, OF. loial, leial, L. legalis, fr. lex, legis, law. See Legal, and cf. Leal.]

1. Faithful to law; upholding the lawful authority; faithful and true to the lawful government; faithful to the prince or sovereign to whom one is subject; unswerving in allegiance.

Welcome, sir John ! But why come you in arms ? - To help King Edward in his time of storm, As every loyal subject ought to do.

Shak.

2. True to any person or persons to whom one owes fidelity, especially as a wife to her husband, lovers to each other, and friend to friend; constant; faithful to a cause or a principle.

Your true and loyal wife.

Shak.

Unhappy both, but loyaltheir loves.

Dryden.