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A floor or room placed above another; a story. Eutychus . . . fell down from the third loft. Acts xx. 9. On loft, aloft; on high. Cf. Onloft. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn. Longfellow. [U.S.]

An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber. Swift.

A sorry fellow; a worthless person; a rogue.

A dull, stupid fellow; a drone. [Obs.] Spenser.

hing; to shoas, to lop a tree or its branches. "With branches lopped, in wood or mountain felled." Milton. Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts. Pope.

A good for nothing fellow; a vagabond. [Obs.] Chaucer.

, so as not to be able to and; to go astray from; as, to lose one's way. He hath lost his fellows. Shak

To bend; to box; to stoop. [Archaic] Chaucer. Longfellow. He fair the knight saluted, louting low. Spenser.

ife; characteristic or indicative of such breeding; rude; impolite; vulgar; as, a lowbred fellow; a lowbred remark.

A low fellow. [Obs.]

A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown. Lingering lubbers lose many a penny. Tusser. Land lubber, a name given in contempt by sailors to a person who lives on land. -- Lubber grasshopper (Zoöl.), a large, stout, clumsy grasshopper; esp., Brachystola magna, from the Rocky Mountain plains, and Romal…

ng it . . . luminous. Bacon. The mountains lift . . . their lofty and luminous heads. Longfellow.

A lingerer; a dull, drowsy fellow. [Obs.]

A lazy fellow; a lubber. [Obs.] T. Kendall.

A finical fellow, or macaroni. [Obs.]

curse or execration; -- opposed to benediction. No malediction falls from his tongue. Longfellow.

Manito the mighty, The Great Spirit, the creator, Smiled upon his helpless children! Longfellow. Mitche Manito the mighty, He the dreadful Spirit of Evil, As a serpent was depicted. Longfellow.

perennis). The name is often applied also to the ox-eye daisy and to the China aster. Longfellow.