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<blockquote>The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were <b>located</b> in the trans-Tiberine quarter. <i>B. F. Westcott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; <as>as, to <ex>locate</ex> a public building; to <ex>locate</ex> a mining claim; to <ex>locate</ex> (the land granted by) a land warrant.</as></def>

<blockquote>That part of the body in which the sense of touch is <b>located</b>. <i>H. Spencer.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Locate</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Lo"cate</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<h1>Location</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Lo*ca"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>locatio</ets>, fr. <ets>locare</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or process of locating.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Situation; place; locality.</def>

<i>Locke.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That which is located; a tract of land designated in place.</def> <mark>[U.S.]</mark>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <fld>(Civil Law)</fld> <def>A leasing on rent.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Scots Law)</fld> <def>A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire</def>. <i>Wharton</i>. <sd>(c)</sd> <fld>(Amer. Law)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<i>Burrill. Bouvier.</i>

<h1>Locative</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Loc"a*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Gram.)</fld> <def>Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein; <as>as, a <ex>locative</ex> adjective; <ex>locative</ex> case of a noun.</as></def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>The locative case.</def></def2>

<h1>Locator</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Lo"ca*tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim.</def> <mark>[U.S.]</mark>

<h1>Locellate</h1> <Xpage=864>

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

<h1>Loch</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Loch</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gael. & Olr. <ets>loch</ets>. See <er>Lake</er> of water.]</ety> <def>A lake; a bay or arm of the sea.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

<h1>Loch</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Loch</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>looch</ets>, Ar. <ets>la'<?/g</ets>, an electuary, or any medicine which may be licked or sucked, fr. <ets>la'<?/g</ets> to lick.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture.</def>

<h1>Lochaber ax, Lochaber axe</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw><hw>Loch*a"ber ax"</hw>, <hw>Loch*a"ber axe"</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[So called from <ets>Lochaber</ets>, in Scotland.]</ety> <def>A weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scotch Highlanders.</def>

<h1>Lochage</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Loch"age</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr.<?/.]</ety> <fld>(Gr. Antiq.)</fld> <def>An officer who commanded a company; a captain.</def>

<i>Mitford.</i>

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