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An open box car used on railroads. Compare Lorry.

Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables. Loxodromic curve or line (Geom.), a line on the surface of a sphere, which always makes an equal angle with every meridian; the rhumb line. It is the line on which a ship sails when her course is always in the direction of one and the same point of the compas…

The art or method of sailing on the loxodromic or rhumb line.

The act or process of tracing a loxodromic curve; the act of moving as if in a loxodromic curve.

The science of loxodromics. [R.]

A long, narrow spade for stony lands.

, sir John ! But why come you in arms -To help King Edward in his time of storm, As every loyal subject ought to do. Shak.

A person who adheres to his sovereign or to the lawful authority; especially, one who maintains his allegiance to his prince or government, and defends his cause in times of revolt or revolution.

In a loyal manner; faithfully.

Loyalty. [R.] Stow.

The state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior, or to duty, love, etc. He had such loyalty to the king as the law required. Clarendon. Not withstanding all the subtle bait With which those Amazons his love still craved, To his one love his loyalty he saved. Spenser.

A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil.

Having the form of a lozenge or rhomb. The lozenged panes of a very small latticed window. C. Bronté.

Divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, as the field or a bearing, by lines drawn in the direction of the bend sinister.

poses; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.

Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.

In or into bloom; in a blooming state. Masson.

ies, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.

Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala.