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A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room.

The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.

A treatise on logic; as, Mill's Logic.

Of or pertaining to logic; used in logic; as, logical subtilties. Bacon.

Logicalness.

In a logical manner; as, to argue logically.

The quality of being logical.

A person skilled in logic. Bacon. Each fierce logician still expelling Locke. Pope.

See Logic.

Logical. [Obs.] Berkeley.

A system of arithmetic, in which numbers are expressed in a scale of 60; logistic arithmetic.

A man who carries logs. Shak.

Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words. [R.] Coleridge.

ram, that, for the sake of brevity, represents a word; as, |, i. e., t, for it. Cf. Grammalogue.

One skilled in logography.

Of or pertaining to logography.

A method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used.

A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its letters, which form other words; -- thus, to discover the chosen word chatter form cat, hat, rat, hate, rate, etc. B. Jonson.

One who contends about words.

cussion concerning the meaning of the word " justification" . . . has largely been a mere logomachy. L. Abbott.