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Same as Loadstone.

A private path or road; also, the wicket or hatch of a door. [Prov. Eng.]

The state of being unfrequented by human beings; as, the loneliness of a road.

uded from society; not frequented by human beings; solitary. Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread. Coleridge .

gth; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide.

a long parallelogram. Nineveh . . . was of a longilateral figure, ninety-five furlongs broad, and a hundred and fifty long. Sir T. Browne.

One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.

An open box car used on railroads. Compare Lorry.

A laborer who is employed to load or unload vessels when in harbor.

To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.

A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes. J. Stevens.

A camera in which a number of plates can be exposed without reloading.

The loadstone; a species of iron ore (the ferrosoferric or magnetic ore, Fe3O4) which has the property of attracting iron and some of its ores, and, when freely suspended, of pointing to the poles; -- called also natural magnet. Dinocrates began to make the arched roof of the temple of Arsinoë all of magnet, or this lo…

l, as iron, nickel, cobalt, etc., which may receive, by any means, the properties of the loadstone, and which then, when suspended, fixes itself in the direction of a magnetic meridian.

It is readily attracted by a magnet and sometimes possesses polarity, being then called loadstone. It is an important iron ore. Called also magnetic iron.

e head and the lower part of the face, worn by Turkish and Armenian women when they go abroad.

A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel.

carries the mail. -- Mail catcher, an iron rod, or other contrivance, attached to a railroad car for catching a mail bag while the train is in motion. -- Mail guard, an officer whose duty it is to guard the public mails. [Eng.] -- Mail train, a railroad train carrying the mail.

ine; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation.

e. Let's briefly put on manly readiness. Shak. Serene and manly, hardened to sustain The load of life. Dryden.