lock (1), loke

[A. S. loca (pl. loc an); cogn. with Icel. loka =a lock, a latch, lok =a cover, a lid; Sw.lock =alid; Ger. loch a dungeon, a hole; A. S. lúcan to inclose; Icel. lúka to shut; M. H. Ger. lúchen to shut; Goth. galukan = to shut; Dan. lukke; Dut. linken to shut.] IMG:content-0667.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0668.png:[blocks in formation] one, simply interlocking therewith. [STITCH.] the lower thread is made to pa over the upper B. As adj .: Forming its stitches by the interlock ing of two threads. IMG:content-0669.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To become fast or fastened, as with a lock. 2. To unite by mutual insertion of parts. 1. To lock up : (1) To close or fasten with lock and key. (2) To place or keep in a receptacle under lock and key. locked-jaw, s. [LOCK-JAW.] lock'-ěr, s . [Eng. lock ; -er.] lock (2), *lok, *lokke, s . [A. S. locc , loc ; cogn. with Dut. loka lock, a tre ; Icel. lokkr : Dan. where the lock is fastened. lok ; Sw.lock ; O. H. Ger. loch ; Ger. locke . Cf. Icel. lykkra crook, a bend.] IMG:content-0670.png:[blocks in formation] mill, consisting of a small quantity of meal, vary promise." - Wallace : Kant , p. 142. ing according to the custom of the mill. "The speaker was pulled out of his chair, the mace taken from the table, the room cleared, and the door locked ."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. i. 2. To shut or confine with, or as with, a lock; as, to lock a person in a room. 3. To close fast, to shut up, to seal; to render im pa able; as, The frost locks up the rivers. 4. To entwine, to close fast; to shut fast together, "She locks her lily fingers, one in one." Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis , 228. 5. To embrace closely; to hug; as, to lock a per- son in one's arms. IMG:content-0671.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0672.jpg:[graphic][graphic][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][graphic] Arch.: A course of bond-stones; lock-band. lock-ron, subst . [Etym. doubtful.] A kind of †lō-cō-rěst-ive, adj . [Lat. locus =a place, and Eng. restive , in the sense of being at rest.] Staying Locusts [LOCUST IDE in one place, unwilling to from the place in which one is. "Your locorestive and all your idle propensities of course have given way to the duties of providing for a family."- Correspondence of C. Lamb (1870), p. 10. Bot . ( of dehiscence of fruit ): Dehiscing, or split- ting through the back of the cells. In loculicidal dehiscence, the di epiments form the middle of each valve, as in the lilac. loc-u-lōse, a. [Lat. loculosus full of compart ments or cells.] Bot .: Partitioned (q. v.). It is never applied to fruits, but to pith, . loc-u-lus ( pl . loc-u-li), s. [Latin a little place, a small receptacle with compartments; a coffer or casket.] 1. Botany : (1) Pl .: ( a ) The two theco, coniothecae, or paral- lel pollen cells, constituting the anther of a sta- men. (b) The cells of an ovary. (c) The peridia of certain fungals. [LOCELLUS.] (2) Sing .: The perithecium of certain fungals. 2. Zool. (pl.): Chambers in the shells of Forami nifera, in Corals, . lō'-cum te-něnş, s. [Lat. holding the place (of); locus =a place, and tenens , pr. par. of teneo = to hold.] A deputy or substitute holding a vacant office for a time. IMG:content-0673.png:[blocks in formation] erated by a line moving according to some fixed law. Thus, if a point moves in the same plane in such a manner that the sum of its distances from two fixed points of the plane is constant, the locus of the point is an ellipse. IMG:content-0674.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0675.png:[blocks in formation] son's signature, is to be affixed to a deed or public document. 4. Locus stand i : The right of any person or per- sons to appear and be heard on any matter before a particular tribunal. Ornith.: A name given to some Warblers of the Salicaria. Thus Salicaria luscinoidea locution or meadows. Unhappily Fabric i us, in dividing Linnæus' great genus Gryllus into smaller genera, transferred the term Locusts from the genuine locusts to the insects of which the Great Green Gra hopper is the type; and entomologists in general have followed the injudicious arrangement. The family Locustidæ does not now contain the Locusts. [LOCUST.) The antenne in the modern family Locustidæ are very long, thin, and bristle shaped, the tarsi four-jointed, the ocelli generally wanting. [LOCUSTA.] lo-cu-tion, s . [Latin locutio , from locutus , pa. par. of loquor =to speak.] The act or power of speaking; speech, discourse; mode of speech; phrase. "Should gentle Phœbus fortify my lungs, And give locution from a hundred tongues." Lewis : Statius ; Thebaid , xi. loc-u-tõr-, *loc-u-tor-ye, s. [As if from a Lat. locutorium , from locutus , pa. par. of loquor = to speak.] A room or place for conversation; spec if., in monasteries a room in which the monks were allowed to converse, silence being enjoined elsewhere. *lōd-am, *load-ŭm, s. [Etym. doubtful.] An old game of cards. "She and I will take you at lod am." Woman Killed with Kindne . lod-di-ge-si-a, s . [Named after Mr. George Loddiges.] Ornithology: A genus of Trochili dae (Humming Birds). The sole species is Loddigesia mirabilis , of which only one specimen has been met with.