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ce, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local custom. Gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Shak. Local actions (Law), actions such as must be brought in a particular county, where the cause arises; -- distinguished from transitory actions. -- Local affe…

A principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality.

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

ngels 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.

Want of locality or place. [R.] Cudworth.

infectious disease of cattle and man due to the presence of Actinomyces bovis. It causes local suppurating tumors, esp. about the jaw. Called also lumpy jaw or big jaw. -- Ac`ti*no*my*cot"ic (#), a.

s) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species.

To localize. [R.]

A colorless liquid prepared from herring brine and containing amines, used as a local antiseptic.

Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anæsthetic.

An ask; a water newt. [Local Eng.]

The portion of air in any locality, or affected by a special physical or sanitary condition; as, the atmosphere of the room; a moist or noxious atmosphere.

Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as, the local authorities of the States; the military authorities. [Chiefly in the plural.]

Confined to no zone or region; not local.

A weight used in certain parts of the East Indies, varying considerably in different localities, the range being from 223 to 625 pounds.

und at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank. Bank beaver (Zoöl.), the otter. [Local, U.S.] -- Bank swallow, a small American and European swallow (Clivicola riparia) that nests in a hole which it excavates in a bank.

A large omnibus used for excursions. [Local, U.S.]