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The state or quality of being local; affection for a particular place.

The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits. It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality. Glanvill.

Act of localizing, or state of being localized. Cerebral localization (Physiol.), the localization of the control of special functions, as of sight or of the various movements of the body, in special regions of the brain.

To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place. H. Spencer. Wordsworth.

With respect to place; in place; as, to be locally separated or distant.

n a particular spot or position. The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter. B. F. Westcott.

The act or process of locating.

Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein; as, a locative adjective; locative case of a noun. -- n.

One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim. [U.S.]

Divided into secondary compartments or cells, as where one cavity is separated into several smaller ones.

A lake; a bay or arm of the sea. [Scot.]

A weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scotch Highlanders.

An officer who commanded a company; a captain. Mitford.

A small lake; a pond. [Scot.] A pond or lochan rather than a lake. H. Miller.

See Loach.

The discharge from the womb and vagina which follows childbirth.

Of or pertaining to the lochia.

A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair. These gray locks, the pursuivants of death. Shak.

. A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases. [Eng.]

. A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him.