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tree. 4. A club or billy used by policemen: locust-shrimp (lo'kust-shrimp), H. Same an 
so called because commonly made of locuM- iii/iiiii.i-xhiiin/i. See Xi/m/lnln . Stomatopoda. 
wood. [Local, U. S.] Bastard locust of the West locust-tree (16'kusMre), n. [< locust^ + tm.\ 
'ih ni tinifoKa. Bristly locust, or moss-lo- See lornxt-. 
CUSt, A"<'" Mfl*lo,lteubwlthpiiiktlowerscultiyated, l ocu tion ( lo-klVshon), n. f= F. locution = Pr. 
from the All, -glumi's.- Clammy locust, llubinta vuc/uta, "~" '_ \, i. .......,-,.. _ I, /,. 
a small true with clammy branohleS and taf stalks, and loqucto = Bp. locucton = rg. I0t(,ao _ n. 10 
cH.-toiif, < L. locntio(n-), n speaking, < lor.utux, 
pp. of togwi, speak. Cf. allocution, elocution.] 
1. The act of speaking. 
lodge 
Loadstone to hearts, and loadstar to all eyes. 
SirJ. Itanr*, Immortal, of Soul, Ded. 
What lode-start friendly ray, 
When thine Is hid, shall guide the vessel's way? 
Bryant, The Ascension. 
lnrcr flowers than thu lirisl ly IIH-IIH!, from tile same region. 
(Sri- also linm it /" / :Hlil Ktcltilljt-luCltgt.) 
Locusta (lo-kus'ta), n. [L.: see locusfl.] 1. 
A genus o'f orthdpterous insects founded by 
LinntBiis (1748), made type of the Locustariceol 
Latreillo ( 1807). (a) The Locusta of Latrellle Is charac 
ivyLuuiy. \u) iiio uv^it G. i_'ir*t:tJlilBt , ivjliu 
terized by a slender form with long tegmina not ocellated 8PO loffV a tmrase 
in Hi*, null,, tl... fllulnmnil nf thti mull- cndillir ill two lonflr '* W 6J > f 
Dentition and locution are for the most part contempo- 
raries. Smith, Portraiture of Old Age. 
2. Discourse: form or mode of speaking; phra- 
in the male, the abdomen of thu male ending in two long 
incurved processes, ample wings, and acuminate front. 
Locusta in this sense is strictly an old World genus, (b) The 
Locusta of Leach (1817)corresponds to Latreille's (Edipoda, 
has led 
ological nomenclature prevents the adopt 
I hate these figures in locution, 
These about phrases forc'd by ceremonie. 
Marstan, Sophonisba, 1. 2. 
clones totnefam'ilyXCTi&iida-aclreunistancewhIch Incutorv (lok'u-td-ri), n.: pi. locutories (-riz). 
^ 1 l n,s^^r,;:rv^s t ?L 1 ^op f ti p o^^^s i=*A- . $&&,< M *<*..,. ,. 
use of the generic name Ijociutta, with the result that the 
true locusts are not Locustidte, but Acridiidce. 
2. [1. c.; pi. locusta; (-te).] In bot., the spikelet 
of grasses. 
Locust 36 (lo-kus'te), n. pi. [NL., pi. of L. to- 
custa,tt marine shell-fish, a lobster: see locusft,] 
A division of macrurous decapod crustaceans, 
such as the Paliuuridte, or spiny lobsters. 
Locustariae (16-kus-ta'ri-e), n.pl. In Latreille's 
classification, a group of orthopterous insects; lodamt, See loadum. 
the locustarians, corresponding to the modern lodanuint, See ladanum, laudanum. 
family Locustidte (b). lode 1 (lod), n. [Also less commonly toad; < 
locustarian (16-kus-ta'ri-an), n. [< Locusta + ME. tode, tod, a way, path, course, also^a carry- 
-ariaii.] A locust-like insect; one of the Locus- ing, burden (whence E. toad 2 ), < AS. to:d, a 
for conversation in a monastery, < LL. locator, 
a speaker, < L. loqui, pp. locutus, speak: see 
locution.] A room for conversation ; especial- 
ly, a place in a monastery where the monks 
were allowed to converse with those who were 
not connected with the monastery, when si- 
lence was enjoined elsewhere. 
So came she to the grate that they cal 
(I trowe) loeutorye. Sir T. More, Works, p. 1170. 
carob-tree. See Ceratonia. 
locust-berry (16'kust-ber'i), n. The fruit of 
the West Indian locust, Byrsonima coriacea; 
also, the tree itself. 
(pret. lath) (=OS. lithan = OHG. lidan = Icel. 
lidha = Goth, leithan), go, travel: see lead 1 . 
Lode, in a deflected sense and var. spelling, ap- 
pears as load, a burden (see toad*); also in 
locust-bird (16'kust-berd), n. The rose-colored comp. lifelode, now livelihood*, and in dial, form 
starling, Pastor roseus: so called from its de- 
vouring locusts. H. B. Tristram. 
locust-borer (16'kust-bor'er), n. A longicorn 
beetle, Cyllene robinue or C. picta, which bores 
the locust-tree. See cut under Cyllene. 
locust-eater (16'kust-e'ter), n. A book-name 
of birds of Swainson's genus Gryllivora, as G. 
gryllirora, the long-tailed locust-eater; a da- 
yal. See Copsichus, Lalage. 
liocustella (16-kus-tel'a), n. [NL. (Kaup, 1829), 
< F. locuKtelle: see locustelle.] A genus of small 
sylviine birds, the locustelles. 
locustelle (16-kus-tel'), n. [< F. locustelle, so 
called with ref. to its note, which resembles that 
of the grasshopper, dim. of locuste, < L. locusta, 
grasshopper,locust: seelocusft.] A grasshopper- 
warbler; one of , 
several small / i 
sylviine birds | j; , 
of Europe 
which make a 
chirring, sibi- 
lant, or stridu- 
lous noise like 
that made by 
a grasshopper. 
The term is indefi- 
nite, but specially 
applies to the lit- 
tle birds of a mod- 
em genus Locus- 
tella. Including 
Potamodus, Sioi- 
latrix, Lusciniop- 
gis, etc. An early 
If not the original 
locustelle was the 
bird figured by 
Daubenton In "Handles enluminees" (1778X called to lo- 
Grasshopper-warbler ( 
certhiola). 
lf. Away; path. 2. A reach of water: 
an open ditch for carrying off water from a fen. 
It was by a law of sewers decreed that a new drayn or 
lode should be made and maintained from the end of 
chauncelors lode unto Tylney Smethe. 
Dugdale's Imbanking, p. 275. (HalliweU.) 
Down that dark long lode ... he and his brother 
skated home in triumph. Kingsley. 
3. A metalliferous deposit having more or less 
of a vein-like character that is, having a cer- 
tain degree of regularity, and being confined 
within walls. Lode as used by miners is nearly synony- 
mous with the term vein as employed by geologists, etc. 
The word would not be used for a flat or stratified mass. 
See win and ore-deposit. Champion lode, the most pro- 
ductive lode in a mining district. The term is Cornish 
In origin, and is little used in the United States. See 
mother-lode. Also called master-lade. Scovan lode, a 
lode having no gossan on its back or outcrop. See vein. 
lode-t, ". A Middle English form of toad 2 . 
loded. loaded 1 ! (lo'ded), a. [< lode(stone) + 
-ed 2 .] Magnetized by being brought into con- 
tact with lodestone. 
Great Kings to Wars are pointed forth, 
Like loaded Needles to the North. 
Prior, Alma, ii. 
lodemant, loadman 1 ! (lod'man), . [< ME. 
lodeman, < AS. Iddman, a leader, a guide, < lad, 
a way, course, + man, man: see tod* 1 and man.] 
Same as lodesman. 
lodemanage, loadmanaget (16d'man-aj), . [< 
ME. lodeinenage, < OF. lodmanage, usually to- 
manage, tamenage, pilotage, < toman, a pilot, 
from a LG. form cognate with ME. lodeman : 
see lodeman and -age.] Pilotage. Courts of lode- 
manage are held at Dover in England for the appointment 
of the Cinque Port pilots. 
His herbergh and his mone, his lodemenage. 
Chaucer, Qen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 403. 
A small fishing-vessel. 
netic oxid of iron, which possesses polarity and 
has the power of attracting fragments of iron. 
See magnet. 
Renowned Load-stone, which on Iron acts, 
And by the touch the same aloofe attracts. 
Sylvester, tr. of l)u Bartas's Weeks, I. 3. 
They had also another tricke, by a Load-stone placed In 
the Koofe, to draw vp the yron Image of the Sunne, as If 
It did then bid Serapls farewell. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 684. 
2. A leading-stone for drains. Hallitcell. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
lodestuff (lod'stuf), n. In mining, vein-stuff; 
all the material which composes the mass of a 
lode or vein, including both gangue (or vein- 
stone) and the ore which is associated with it. 
See rein. 
lodge (loj), n. [< ME. logge, loge, luge,< OF. loge, 
F7w</e, a lodge, hut, cottage, = It. loggia, a gal- 
lery, < ML. tofcia, l mil, Hi. a gallery, covered way : 
see lobby, from the same ML. source.] 1. A 
hut ; a cottage ; a house affording merely the 
simplest accommodations; a temporary Habi- 
tation ; with reference to the North American 
Indians, a hut constructed of poles and branch- 
es, skins, or rough boards. 
Thar loges & thare tentis vp the! gan blgge. 
flub, of Brunne, p. 07. 
And he saw thamc ga naked, and duello in luges and in 
caves, and thaire wyfesand thaire childre away fra thame. 
MS. Lincoln A. L 17, f. SO. (Hallivcll.) 
The daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, 
as a lnil : f in a garden of cucumbers. Isa. L 8. 
O for a lodge in some vast wilderness. 
Cowpcr, Task, it 1. 
There have been strange moccasins about my camp. 
They have been tracked into my lodges. 
J. F. Cooper, Last of Mohicans, ixvilL 
custelle by Montbeillard (1778), the Motacilla ncevia of Bod- lode-shit)t Hod'ship), . 
daert (1783X or Sylvia Inriuitella of Latham (1790% now Lo- cSJTlTlT 
,** Mrii or L. locustetta. It inhabits temperate En- j^,^,^ loadsmant (lodz'man), n. [< ME. 
lodesman, lodesmon, lodysman; (lode's, poss. of 
tode 1 , + man.] A pilot. 
Askyiift hem anon 
If they were broken or aught woo-begon, 
Or hadde nede of lodesmen [var. lodman] or vltayle. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 1488. 
being a pilot for harbour 
Encyc. Brit., XIX. 96. 
[< ME. loile- 
xti-rrf (a'lso lodsterne, ladesterne = Icel. l<-itl- 
harstjarna); < tode 1 + star. Cf. MD. leidesterre 
= MHG. leitsterne, G. leitstern = Dan. MMtfRTM 
= Sw. ledatjerna, lodestar; as toad 1 + star.] A 
star that leads or serves to guide; especially, 
the pole-star: often used figuratively. 
Schipe-mene . . . 
Lukkes to the ladesterne whene the lyghte faillez. 
Hortf Artkure (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 751. 
A lodesman [in Cowell] 
and river duty. 
nperat 
rope and northern Africa. Another locustelle is L. lusci- 
nioidei, or Savi's warbler. Both of these are British. L 
ctrttdola, here figured, is Asiatic. 
Locustidae (lo-kus'ti-do), n. pi. [NL.,< Locusta 
+ -idw.] A family of Or<fto/>iero. (o) First used 
by Stephens in 1829, and applied to the family now called 
AcriAiuio! (which see), (b) Now Identified with the Lo- 
custarice of Latreille. In this sense it contains many 
winged and wingless genera, the former living on tri'i's, 
bushes, and grass, the latter among stones and In dark 
places. The inj;i-il forms are known as green grasshnp- lodestar, loadstar (16d star), n. 
pers and katydids, and the wingless ones as gtone-rrietet*. 
Tne anti<nn:i' :uv very long and thread-like ; the tarsi are 
usually four -jointed. The female has a strong, exserted 
ovipositor, usually more or It-ss curved and saber-shaped. 
The elytra of the male have a stridulating apparatus at 
the base. The species are found all over the world, at- 
taining great size in the tropics. The European species 
usually oviposit in the ground, but in America many lay 
their ejrcs upon leaves and twigs, and sometimes pene- 
trate the crevices of the soft parts and stems of plants for 
this purpose. 
2. A small house in a park, forest, or demesne ; 
a gate-house ; also, a small house or cottage con- 
nected with a larger house : as, a porter's lodge. 
Knight, you have beaten my men, killed my deer, and 
broke open my lodge. Shot., M. W. of W., L 1. 115, 
3. Any covered place of shelter, as a den or 
cave in which wild beasts lurk ; in hunting, the 
shelter of the buck or doe. 4t. The place in 
which a body of workmen were employed; a 
working-place or workshop, especially one of 
masons or builders. 
For the lord that he ys bonde to, 
May facile the prentes whersever he go. 
jef yn the logge he were ytake, 
Muche desese hyt mygth ther make. 
Quoted in English Gilds (E. E. T. S.\ Int., p. cxxxlx., note. 
The lodge [the German word is "Hiitte." It meant as 
well the workshop as the place of meeting, which In those 
days were identical) itself of the architect was very similar 
to our factories ; it consisted of one or more workshops In 
which the workmen worked together. 
English Gilds (E. E. T. 8.), Int, p. cillv. 
5. A place of meeting for members of a secret 
society, as that of the Freemasons or the Odd 
Fellows ; hence, a body of members of such a 
society meeting in one place, in either an indi- 
vidual or a representative capacity, in the latter 
case constituting a district or a grand lodge ; 
also, among the Freemasons, a meeting, ses- 
sion, or convention of such a body. 6t. A col- 
lection of similar objects situated close to one 
another. 
The Maldives, a famous lodge of Islands. Defoe. 
7. In mining, the bottom of a shaft or of any 
other cavity where the water of the mine has 
an opportunity to collect, so that it may be 
pumped out. The word sump is much more 
commonly used in the United States Grand 
lodge, the principal lodge or governing body of Freema- 
sons. It is presided over by the grand master, and has the 
power of granting charters of affiliation, enforcing unifor- 
mity of ceremonial, and settling all disputes that may 
arise between lodges under Its charge. The officers of 
the grand lodge are chiefly delegates from the respective 
lodges. A similar institution exists among the Good Tem- 
plars. 
lodge (loj), v.; pret. and pp. lodged, ppr. lodg- 
ing. [< ME. loggen, logen, lugen, < OF. loger, 
F. loger, lodge, house, < loge, a lodge, hut, cot- 
tage: see lodge, n.] I. trims. 1. To furnish 
with a lodge or habitation, especially a tempo- 
rary one ; provide with a transient or temporary 
place of abode ; harbor. 
Ye may sey to alle hem that yow aske who was loged. 
with yow, that it was the kynge I.ooth and his fonre sonea. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.\ ill. 519. 
