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e. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of the same genus. Called also loco weed.

A chronic nervous affection of cattle, horses, and sheep, caused by eating the loco weed and characterized by a slow, measured gait, high step, glassy eyes with defective vision, delirium, and gradual emaciation.

A friction match. [U.S.]

The act of moving from place to place. " Animal locomotion." Milton.

Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal.

The power of changing place.

Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion. Locomotor ataxia, or Progressive locomotor ataxy (Med.), a disease of the spinal cord characterized by peculiar disturbances of gait, and difficulty in coördinating voluntary movements.

Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.

A South American wild cat (Felis colocolo), of the size of the ocelot.

A form of micrococcus in which cocci are united in a binary manner. See Micrococcus.

In the place; in the proper or natural place.

A quince.

The central canal of the spinal cord.

A genus of hymenopterous insects including the carpenter. See Carpenter bee, under Carpenter. -- Xy*loc"o*pine, a.

un the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.

A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.

The state of disorder that characterizes nervous fevers and the nervous condition. Locomotor ataxia. See Locomotor.

truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.

A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks.

The front transverse beam of a locomotive.