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<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>An old game in England, played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake set in the ground.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Logge</h1> <Xpage=865>

<hw>Logge</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. & v.</tt> <def>See <er>Lodge</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Logged</h1> <Xpage=865>

<hw>Logged</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Made slow and heavy in movement; water-logged.</def>

<i>Beaconsfield.</i>

<h1>Logger</h1> <Xpage=865>

<hw>Log"ger</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One engaged in logging. See <er>Log</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt></def> <mark>[U.S.]</mark>

<i>Lowell.</i>

<h1>Loggerhead</h1> <Xpage=865>

<hw>Log"ger*head`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Log</ets> + <ets>head</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull.</def>

<i>Shak. Milton.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle, used to heat tar.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<i>Ham. Nav. Encyc.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A very large marine turtle (<spn>Thalassochelys caretta, &or; caouana</spn>), common in the warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Cape Cod; -- called also <altname>logger-headed turtle</altname>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>An American shrike (<spn>Lanius Ludovicianus</spn>), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See <er>Shrike</er>.</def>

<cs><mcol><col>To be at loggerheads</col>, <col>To fall to loggerheads</col>, &or; <col>To go to loggerheads</col></mcol>, <cd>to quarrel; to be at strife.</cd></cs>

<i>L' Estrange.</i>

<h1>Loggerheaded</h1> <Xpage=865>

<hw>Log"ger*head`ed</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Dull; stupid.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>A rabble of <b>loggerheaded</b> physicians. <i>Urquhart.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Loggerheads</h1> <Xpage=865>

<hw>Log"ger*heads`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The knapweed.</def>

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