logographically 
logographically (log-o-graf i-kal-i). ttdr. In a 
logographic manner ; by means of logography. 
The Times is usually dated from the 1st of January 
1788, but was really commenced on the 18th January 
1785, under the title of The London Daily Universal Reg- 
ister, printed logayraphicattij. Encyc. Brit., XVII. 417. 
logography (lo-gog'ra-fi), . [=F. logographie, 
< Gr. Myaypafia. a writing of speeches, prose 
or historical writing, < fayoypApoc, a writer of 
speeches, a historian or prose-writer, later a 
secretary or accountant, < /.oyof, a speech, + 
ypa^etv, write.] 1. A method of printing in 
which short words of frequent occurrence, 
roots, prefixes, suffixes, etc., are cast on sin- 
gle types, called logotypes. It was this system (then 
patented) that was originally used (from 1785) in print- 
ing: the newspaper which afterward became the London 
"Times." Logography was soon abandoned, but there 
have been attempts to revive it. 
2. A method of reporting speeches word for 
word without the use of stenography, tried in 
the French National Assembly for two years, 
1790-92. It required the employment of twelve or four- 
teen reporters, each in succession taking down a few words 
on paper so marked as to show the proper sequence. It 
was abandoned as cumbrous and liable to great error. 
logogriph (log'o-grif ), . [Also logogriphe, and 
erroneously log'ogryph; =F. logogriphe = Sp. It. 
logogrifo = Pg. logogripho, < Gr. Uyos, word, + 
yptyof, a fishing-basket, a riddle.] A riddle; 
specifically, a riddle formed by the arbitrary or 
confused mingling of parts or elements, which 
have to be recombined in proper order for the 
answer. 
The charade is of recent birth, and I cannot discover the 
origin of this species of logogriphes. 
I. D 'Israeli, Curios, of Lit., I. 389. 
logomachist (lo-gom'a-kist), . [< logomach-y 
+ -ist.] One who contends about words, or 
who uses words merely as weapons or instru- 
ments of contention. 
Nor . . . was Protagoras a shallow logomachist, asserting 
the difficulties of human knowledge without a profound 
investigation. J. Owen, Evenings with Skeptics, I. 157. 
logomachy (lo-gom'a-ki), . [= F. logomaekie 
= Sp. logomaquia = It. logomachia, < LGr. Aoyo- 
fiaxia, war about words, (. Aoyo/iajof, a fighter 
about words, < Gr. Aoyof, word (see Logos), + 
ftdxeatiai, fight, fiaxi, a fight.] 1. Contention in 
words merely, or a contention about words ; a 
war of words. 
What terrible battles yclep'd logomachies have they oc- 
casioned and perpetuated with so much gall and ink-shed. 
Stern*, Tristram Shandy, ii. 2. 
2. A game played with cards each bearing one 
letter, with which words are formed. 
logomania (log-o-ma'ni-a), n. [NL., < Gr. /to- 
yof, word (see Logos), -4- fiavia, madness: see 
mania.'] Aphasia in its most general sense. 
logqmeter 1 (lo-gom'e-ter), n. [NL., < Gr. /Wyof, 
ratio, proportion (see Logos), + ftc-rpov, mea- 
sure: see meter 2 .] 1. A logarithmic scale. The 
natural numbers, generally from one power of 10 to another, 
are laid down at distances along the scale from a fixed point 
proportional to their logarithms. In Palmer's computing 
scale, made about 1845, there was a circle turning in its 
plane in a fixed circle, and the limbs of both were di- 
vided logarithmically, the numbers from 100 to 1000 occu- 
pying the circumference. It was a very useful instrument. 
Nystrom's calculator had curves engraved upon a metallic 
disk, and an arm with graduations on its edge turned about 
the center of the disk. The " magic square" sold in New 
York about 1883 was a square divided into square com- 
partments, and was equivalent to a long scale cut up into 
many equal pieces placed side by side ; and the measure- 
ment was made by the two edges of a square card or bit of 
paper. It was cheap and useful. 
2. A scale for measuring chemical equivalents. 
logometer 2 (log-om'e-ter), n. [Irreg. < log* + 
Gr. lie rpov, measure: see meter 2 .] A patent log 
for ships. 
logometric (log-6-met'rik), a. [As logometer^ 
+ -ic; cf. metric. J Of or pertaining to a logom- 
eter used in ascertaining or measuring chemical 
equivalents : as, a logometric scale. 
logometrical (log-o-met'ri-kal), a. [< logomet- 
ric + -al.] Same as logometric. 
Logos (log'os), n. [< L. logos, < Gr. JWyof, that 
which is said or spoken, a word, saying, speech, 
also the power of the mind manifested in speech, 
reason, account, reference, analogy, proportion, 
ratio, condition, etc., in N. T. 6 Aoyof, the Rea- 
son or Word (as a person) (see def.), < Myeiv, 
speak, say, tell, = L. legere, read: aeelegend, lec- 
ture. Hence Zo<7ic,etc.] 1. In theol., the Divine 
Word; the transcendent Divine Reason as ex- 
pressed in a distinct personality ; the Second 
Person in the Trinity, both before and after the 
incarnation: so called as expressing God both to 
God himself and to his creatures, as language ex- 
presses reason and as reason is expressed by lan- 
guage. The word Logos (Aoyos) is used by Plato of rea- 
son as a manifestation of or emanation from the Supreme 
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Being. Philo Judanis, using ideas and language partly Pla- 
tonic and partly scriptural, derived especially from the Sa- 
piential books, developed these in a form that suggests the 
Christian doctrine of the Logos. St. John, especially in the 
first chapter of his Gospel, first distinctly gives the Chris- 
tian doctrine, assigning distinct personality to the Logos. 
Some early Christian writers distinguish between the Lo- 
gos as immanent (Abyos v6ia0e-ros), or the Divine Reason 
still remaining in the bosom of the Father, and the Logos 
as uttered (Abyof Trpo^opiKo-;), or the Word sent forth to the 
world. 
2. In the philosophy of Heraclitus and the Sto- 
ics, the rational principle that governs and de- 
velops the universe. 
Taken broadly, the doctrine of the Logos may be said to 
have run in two parallel courses the one philosophical, 
the other theological ; the one the development of the Lo- 
gos as reason, the other the development of the Logos as 
word ; the one Hellenic, the other Hebrew. 
Eneyc. Brit., XIV. 803. 
Spermatic logos, in the Stoic philos., a principle of gen- 
eration resident in matter. 
logothete (log'o-thet), n. [< MGr. Xojoflfrw, 
one who audits accounts, < Gr. /oyof, account 
(see Logos), + ftrdf, verbal adj. of TiBtvai, put : 
see thesis.'] 1. Properly.an accountant; hence, 
an officer of the Byzantine empire, who might 
be (a) the public treasurer, (ft) the head of any 
administrative department, or (c) the chancel- 
lor of the empire. 2. In the Gr. Ch., the chan- 
cellor or keeper of the patriarchal seal of the 
Patriarch of Constantinople. 
logotype (log'o-tip), . [< Gr. Myoc,, word (see 
Logos), + TMrof, an impression: see type."] A 
type on which are cast the letters of a word or 
syllable ; a single type used in place of several 
types. See logography, 1. 
log-perch (log'perch), n. A percoid fish, Per- 
cina caprodes, the largest of the fresh-water 
fishes known in the United States as darters 
(Etheostomince). It attains a length of from 6 to 8 
Inches, and is common in the Great Lakes and southwest- 
ern streams. Also called hogfish, hag-molly, and rocltfiih. 
log-reel (log'rel), . Naut., a reel on which the 
log-line is wound. See log 2 . 
logroll (log'rol), v. i. [< log-roller, log-roll-ing .] 
To engage in log-rolling in the political sense. 
In the Greek epic, the gods are partisans, they hold 
caucuses, they lobby and log-roll for their candidates. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser. , p. 98. 
log-roller (Iog'r6"16r), n. 1. In a sawmill, a 
steam-power machine for loading logs upon the 
saw-carriage. 2. One of a number of poli- 
ticians in a legislative body, united by an agree- 
ment, implied or expressed, to further each the 
other's schemes in consideration of a return in 
kind ; a person habitually addicted to political 
log-rolling. [U. S.] 
log-rolling (log ' ro " ling), n. 1. A joining of 
forces for the purpose of handling logs : (a) For 
rolling the logs into heaps for burning after the trees have 
been felled to clear the land. Sometimes many neighbors 
were invited to assist, and a merrymaking followed. (6) In 
lumbering, for rolling logs into a stream, where they are 
bound together and floated down to the mills, (c) For col- 
lecting logs for building purposes. [U. S. and Canada.] 
Other rude pleasures were more truly characteristic of 
their [Kentuckians'] local environments the log-rolling 
and the quilting, the social frolic of the harvesting, the 
merry parties of flax-pullers, and the corn-husking at night- 
fall. Harper's Mag., LXXIX. 554. 
Hence 2. Mutual aid given by persons to one 
another in carrying out their several schemes 
or gaining their individual ends: used espe- 
cially of politicians and legislators. [U. S.] 
As will be seen subsequently, I do not think that cor- 
ruption, in its grosser forms, is rife at Washington. When 
it appears, it appears chiefly in the milder form of recip- 
rocal jobbing or (as it is called) log-rotting. 
J. Bryce, American Commonwealth, I. 156, 
Another general delusion is the belief in log-rotting. The 
topic is well worn and needs few remarks. If by log-rolling 
is meant that reviewers praise people in hopes of being 
praised in turn, then the taunt is empty. Few people are 
quite so very mean or so ignorant of human nature as to 
log-roll in that sense. The American, XVII. 350. 
log-scale (log'skal), n. A table showing the 
quantity of lumber one inch thick, board-mea- 
sure, obtainable from a round log, the length 
and the diameter beneath the bark being given. 
E. H. Knight. 
log-Slate (log'slat), n. Naut., a double slate, 
marked and ruled on its inner side, like a log- 
book, on which the log is first recorded. The 
entries are daily copied froni the slate Into the log-book 
In the United States navy the slate has been replaced by 
a paper book, so as to preserve the original record. 
log-turner (log'ter"ner), n. In a sawmill, a 
machine for moving a log sidewise upon the 
saw-carriage. It consists of a steam-cylinder with a 
long piston-rod, the end of which engages and turns the 
logs. 
logwood (log 'wud), n. [< log'i + wooffl-: so 
call eil because imported in logs. Cf . barwood. ] 
1. A tree, Hcematoxylon Campechiatmm, found 
loin-cloth 
in many parts of the West Indies, where it has 
been introduced from the adjoining continent, 
especially from Honduras, on which account it 
has been called Campeachy wood. It belongs to the 
natural order Leguminosce, suborder C&salpinieoi. This 
Branch with Fruits of Logwood (Hetmatoxylon Campcchianum}. 
a, inflorescence ; *. flower. 
tree has a crooked, deformed stem, growing to the height 
of from 20 to 40 feet, with crooked, irregular branches 
armed with strong thorns. 
2. The wood of this tree. It is of a firm texture and 
a red color, whence the name blood-wood, and so heavy as 
to sink in water. It is much used in dyeing, and its color- 
ing matter is derived from a principle called hewatoxylin. 
Logwood contains, besides resin, oil, acetic acid, salts of 
potash, a little sulphate of lime, alumina, peroxid of iron, 
and manganese. It is employed in calico-printing to give 
a black or brown color, and also in the preparation of some 
lakes. An extract of logwood is used in medicine as an 
astringent. 
3. The bluewood, Conflalia obovata. [Texas.] 
Bastard logwood, Acacia Berteriana, & tree of Jamaica. 
Campeachy logwood. See def. i. Logwood-black. 
See Mack. Logwood-blue, a color produced by logwood- 
extract on wool mordanted with alum and cream of tar- 
tar. It is similar in tone to indigo-blue. The same color 
is produced on cotton mordanted with acetate of copper, 
but isnow seldom used, on account of its fugitive character. 
logy (16'gi), a. [Prob. < D. log, heavy, unwieldy, 
slow, stupid, akin to E. log 1 . Cf. equiv. log 
Heavy; slow; stupid. Bartlett. [Local, T 
lohoch (16'hok), n. Same as loch 2 . 
loignet, . [OF., var. of ligne, line : see line' 2 .] 
A line, cord, or tether; specifically, in falconry, 
a strip of leather attached to the foot of a bird 
-of prey when not secure in its perch. 
The loigne it is so longe 
Of Bialacoil hertes to lure. 
Mam. of the Hose, 1. 3885. 
loimic (loi'mik), a. [Prop. "Icemic, < Gr. ).OI/JIKOC, 
pestilential, < /to</i?, plague.] Pertaining to the 
plague or to pestilential diseases. Thomas. 
loimography (loi-mog'ra-fi), n. [Prop. Icemog- 
rapliy, < Gr. %oi[i6c., plague, 4- -ypaijiia, < ypdtpeiv, 
write.] A description or history of the plague 
or of pestilential diseases. Dunglison; Thomas. 
loimology (loi-mol'o-ji), n. [Prop. Icemology, < 
Gr. Ao(//<if, plague, -f -l.oyia, < /Wyra>, speak : see 
-ology.] The sum of human knowledge con- 
cerning the pjague or concerning plagues or 
pestilential diseases. Dimglison; Thomas. 
loin (loin), . [Early mod. E. also loyne, Sc. 
lungie, lunyie; < ME. loine, < OF. logne, longe, 
loin, F. longe, a loin, as of veal, < LL. *lumbea, 
fern, (or neut. pi. ?) of "Inmbevs, adj., < L. lum- 
bits (> It. lombo = Sp. lomo = Pg. lombo = F. 
lombes, pi.), loin; perhaps = AS. lenden, etc., 
loin : see Zewde 1 .] The part of an animal which 
lies between the lowest of the false ribs on each 
side and the upper part of the ilium or haunch- 
bone; one of the lateral parts of the lumbar 
region: commonly used in the plural (often 
figuratively, with reference to this part of the 
body being the seat of the generative faculty 
and a symbol of strength), except as the name 
of a piece of meat from the lumbar region of 
an animal, as a loin of veal. 
My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins. 
... My father chastised you with whips, but I will chas- 
tise you with scorpions. 1 Ki. xii. 10, 11. 
Brave son, derived from honourable loins.' 
Shak., J. C., ii. 1. 322. 
loin-cloth (loin'kloth), . A piece of stuff, 
skin, or other material worn as clothing about 
the loins, or more exactly about the hips. 
