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In pathol., an obliquity of a joint without dislo- loxolophodont (lok-so-lof 'o-dont), a. [< Gr. 
/ofof, slanting, oblique, + /.opof, a crest, + 
6rfoi>f (bSovr-) = E. tooth.] In odontog., oblique- 
ly lophodont: applied to a form of dentition, 
a"s in Lnxolophodon' or Uintatherium, in which 
the upper molars have the anterior internal 
tubercle connected by oblique crests with two 
external tubercles, the posterior internal one 
being rudimentary or wanting. 
cation or sprain, as in clubfoot. 
loxia (lok'si-a), M. [NL., < Gr. /oftif, slanting, 
crosswise, oblique, indirect, ambiguous (> L. 
luxtis, dislocated); prob. akin to "Ampujiis, cross- 
wise, and to L. obliquus, slanting: see lux 1 and 
oblique.] 1 . In pathol., a distortion of the head 
toward one side; wryneck; torticollis. 2. 
leap.] A genus of fringilline birds, (at) A group 
containing a great number of Fringittidce whose bills LoxOpS(lok'sops), . [NL..< Gr. /.of Of, slanting, 
are stout, crooked, or otherwise notable, (b) In a re- nnlionp + Ar" eve f apfi 1 1 A eenus of birds 
stricted sense, the crossbills, or those FriwriUiiai whose ( )11( l ue > T "V, eye, lace.J 1. A gen OI Dl] 
peculiar to the Sandwich Islands, belonging to 
the family Dica'idce, having the bill like that of 
a linnet. L. coccinea is called the scarlet creeper. It is 
a small bird, it inches long, of an orange atid rufous colora- 
tion. L. rosea and L. aurea are other species. The bird 
bills are metagnathoiis. In this sense Curoirostra is a 
synonym. The common red crossbill is Loxia curoiros- 
tra; the white-winged crossbill is L. leucoptera; the parrot- 
crossbill of Europe is L. pityopgittaca. There are several 
others, mostly boreal or alpine birds, of North America, 
Asia, and Europe. See cut under crossbill. 
Loxiadae, Loxiidas (lok-si'a-de, -i-de), n. pi. 
[NL., < Loxia + -adte, -idee.] Same as Loxi- 
inee. 
loxian (lok'si-an), a. and n. [< Loxia + -ait.] 
I. a. Of or pertaining to the Loxiitue. Also loxi- 
ine. 
II. n. A crossbill or some other member of 
the Loxiince. 
Loxiinse, Loxianse (lok-si-i'ne, -a'ne), n. pi. 
[NL.., < Loxia + -ince, -ante.] A subfamily of 
Fringtllidce, named from the genus Loxia, con- 
Upon your loyalty to the state and me, 
I do command you, sir, not depart Candy. 
Beau, and Fl., Laws of Candy, ii. 1. 
The conformity of our actions to our engagements, whe- 
ther express or implied, is fidelity. . . . Thus a subject is 
faithful to the engagement which binds him to the sov- 
ereign of the state. If, in such a case, love is added to 
fidelity, it becomes lot/ally. 
Whewett, Elements of Morality, p. 85. 
=Syn. Allegiance, Loyalty, Fealty. See allegiance. 
Loyolist (16-yo'list), n. [< Loyola + -int.] A 
follower of the Spaniard Ignatius of Loyola 
(1491-1556), founder of the order of Jesuits; 
a Jesuit. [Bare.] 
Of late years that super-politick and irrefragable socie- 
ty of the Loyalists have propt up the ivy. 
Ho " 
owell Dodona's Grove p. 60. 
-.1 ^ 077 
of Bow Island, formerly named Loxops inornata, is now 10Z81, ana a. bee lonel. 
known as Pinarotoxias inornatus. J. Cabatus, 1847. lozenge (loz enj), n. and a. [Early mod. E. lo- 
senge; < ME. losange, losenge, losytige; < OF. lo- 
senge, losange, lozenge, a lozenge, a quadrilater- 
al, a window-pane, also a little square cake of 
preserved herbs, flowers, etc., F. losange (> ML. 
losengia, lozengia, > It. loeangm = Sp. losanje, a 
rhombus), < OF. losange, losenge, lozenge, flat- 
tery, guile, deceit (whence, from the notion of 
'flattery,' 'praise,' its use for 'an epitaph, a 
gravestone, square slab,' and finally 'a win- 
dow-pane, flat square cake,' etc.), < los, praise.] 
taming a number of grosbeaks, crossbills, and Loxosoinatidas (lok"so-so-mat'i-de), n. pi. I. n. 1. A plane figure with four equal sides, 
2. A genus of plant-bugs of the family Capsida', 
having the head undilated and the beak extend- 
ing to the hind border of the metapectus. They 
are all European. Ficber, 1858. 
Loxosonia (lok-so-so'ma), . [NL., < Gr. Aofof, 
slanting, oblique, + aufi'a, body.] A remarkable 
genus of entoproctous Polyzoa, species of which, 
as L. neapolitamtnt, are parasitic upon other 
polyzoans and upon sertularians, being fixed 
by the narrow end of the stalked body. 
[NL.,< Loxosoma (Loxosomat-) + -idee.] A fam- 
ily of parasitic entoproctous Polyzoa, of solitary 
habit and long-stalked form, having numerous 
tentacles, a cement-gland in the stalk, and no 
partition between the stalk and the cell. Re- 
production is by gemmation, the buds sepa- 
rating from the parent and no colonies being 
formed. 
other finches agreeing in no definable particu- 
lars. Also LoxiadiK, Loxiidie. See Coccothraiis- 
tince. 
loxiine (lok'si-in), a. Same as loxian. 
loxoclase (lok'so-klaz), n. [< Gr. '/o6c, slant- 
ing, + Maif, fracture.] A variety of ortho- 
clase occurring in grayish-white or yellowish 
crystals at Hammond, St. Lawrence county, 
New York. Named on the supposition that it loy 1 (loi), . [Origin obscure.] In agri., a long 
was peculiar in having orthodiagonal cleav- narrow spade used in stony lands. Farmer's 
age. Encyc. [Prov. Eng.] 
loxocosm (lok'so-kozm), n. [< Gr. Aofof, slant- Ioy 2 t, n. [By apheresis from alloy.] Same as 
to illus- alloy. 
Carato [It.], the touching or refining or loye of gold; a 
weight or degree called a caract. Florio. 
loyal (loi'al), a. [< F. loyal, OF. loial (also leial, 
leal, > E. Ze0 = Sp. Pg. leal = It. lealc, faithful, 
loyal (Sp. Pg. legal = It. legale, legal), < L. lega- 
lis, pertaining to law: see legal, of which loyal 
(with leal) is a doublet. Cf. royal, real?, regal, 
similarly related.] 1. True or faithful in alle- 
giance; keeping faith or troth; constant in ser- 
vice, devotion, or regard ; not false or treacher- 
ous: used especially of allegiance to the sov- 
ereign, government, or law, "but applied to all 
other relations of trust or confidence : as, a loyal 
subject; a%oZfriend; to be loyalto one's cause. 
The citizens on their part shewed themselves stout and 
loyall subiects. Bacon, Hist. Hen. VII., p. 180. 
There Laodamia with Evadne moves, 
Unhappy both ! but loyal in their loves. 
ing, + Koa/io;, world.] An instrument to illus- 
trate the effect of the obliquity of the earth's 
axis in different seasons upon the length of the 
day. 
Loxodon (lok'so-don), n. [NL. : see loxodont.] 
1. A genus of sharks. Miiller and Henle, 1841. 
2. A genus of living and fossil proboscidian 
mammals, of which the African elephant, Ele- 
phas or Loxodon africanus, is the type, distin- 
guished from the Asiatic elephant, Elephas or 
Euelephas indicus, by the shallow and open in- 
tervals between the ridges of the teeth, the 
cement forming merely a thin coat. See Eu- 
elephas, elephant. Falconer, 1857. Also Loxo- 
donta. 
loxodont (lok'so-dont), a. and n. [< Gr. Aofof, 
slanting, + iootf (bSovr-) = E. tooth.] I. a. 
Having teeth like those of elephants of the ge- 
nus Loxodon. 
II. . An elephant with loxodont dentition, 
as the living African species or any fossil one. 
Loxodonta (lok-so-don'tii), . [NL.: see Loxo- 
don.] Same as Loxodon, 2. F. Cuvier. 
Ipxodrome (lok'so-drom), . [< Gr. Zoj6f, slant- 
ing, oblique, + dp6uof, a running, course, < rfpa- 
ftelv, run.] A loxodromic line. 
loxodromic (lok-so-drom'ik), a. [As loxodrome 
+ -ic.] Pertaining to oblique sailing, or --'' 
ing by the rhumb: as, loxodromic tables 
having two acute and two obtuse angles, also 
called a diamond; a rhomb; also, formerly, any 
oblique parallelogram. 
The rhombus or lozenge figure so visible in this order 
was also a remarkable form of battle in the Grecian caval- 
ry. Sir T. Browne, Garden of Cyrus, i. 
2. Something resembling such a figure in form. 
(a) In her. : (1) A common bearing of this form ; it is always 
set with the acute angles above and below. (2) The escutch - 
eon appropriated to women, usually of more or less regu- 
lar lozenge shape. On a hatchment the bearings of a widow 
are so displayed. 
With corounes wroght ful of logynges. 
Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 1317. 
(b) A small cake of sugar, or confection, often medicated, 
originally in the form of a rhomb, but now variously 
shaped. 
For to make l<sin<j[e]s to comfort the stomack. 
Pathway to Health, hi. 1. (Narei.) 
(c) A pane of glass for window-glazing, either lozenge- 
shaped or square, but intended to be set diagonally ; a 
quarrel, (d) An envelop-blank cut out by a punching- 
machine. (e) In the cutting of brilliants, one of the four 
quoins of the upper surface or crown. See quoin. </t) A 
spangle. Prompt. Pan. , p. 313. Lozenges in cross, in 
her. , a cross usually of four lozenges. When, more rarely, 
five or a larger number of lozenges are used, one lozenge 
forms the center of the cross. 
II. a. In decorative art, divided by diagonal 
lines into diamonds or lozenges: a common dis- 
tribution of decorative design in the fourteenth 
century: as, a losenge pattern. Tapestries of this 
epoch are often so divided, each lozenge being filled with 
some heraldic bearing, and the background of miniatures 
in manuscripts often has the same pattern. 
on it corresponds to a spiral on the sphere which inter- 
sects the meridian at the same constant angle. Common- 
ly called Mercator projection. Loxodromio curve linp 
nr ori^*l *!*.* ,..,*!. ~f ~l.!_ i ' ,7' . . 
Oryden, ineid, vi. lozenge-coach, (loz'enj-kpch), /(. A dowager's 
2. Pertaining to or marked by allegiance or carriage, as bearing a widow's arms on a loz- 
good faith; .manifesting fidelity or devotion: en ge- 
as, loyal professions ; loyal adherence to a, prin- * am retired hither like an old summer dowager : only 
that I have no toad-eater to take the air with me in the 
back part of my lozenge-coach, and be scolded. 
Walpole, To Mann (1746), II. 52. 
lozenged (loz'enjd), a. [< lozenge + -ed 2 .] 1. 
Formed in the shape of a lozenge. 
The lozenged panes of a very small latticed window. 
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xxviii. 
2. In zofil.: (a) Rhombpidal or rhombic, (b) 
Divided by raised lines into rhomboidal or loz- 
enge-shaped spaces. 
ciple. 
Write loyal cantons of contemned love. 
Shak.,T. N.,i. 5. 289. 
The loyal warmth of Florian is not cold. 
Tennyson. Princess, ii. 
=Syn. See allegiance. 
lism; as 
. . 
Loxo- loyalism (loi'al-izm), n. [= F. loyali 
ti0n tO 
cause ; 
e of loyalists. 
The sharpness of the collision with the mother country 
and with domestic 7 J ~" " ' ** -~- _- 
ch is approximately lozenge-shaped. 
loxodromlsm (lok-sod ; r<T-mizm), n. [As loxo- 
drome + -ism.] The tracing of a loxodromip 
curveorline; the act of moving as if in a loxo- 
dromic curve. 
loxodromy (lok'so-dro-mi), n. [As loxodrome 
+ -;/.] Loxodromics. 
IiOXOlophodon (lok-so-lof 'o-don), w. [NL 
see loxolophodont.] A genus of huge extinct 
mammals with loxolophodont dentition, of the 
order Amblypoda (Cope) or IMnocerata (Marsh). 
See Uintatheriidai. 
or confections into thin sheets which 
Loyalty. [Rare.] are cut bv means of stamps into 
,, v ...-L.V, . L< ME. *loialte,< OF. loze nge-shaped cakes or pieces. 
e, loyaute (also lealte, leaute, > E. lealty), lozenge-molding (los'eaj-mSl'ding), 
ii/jroity, F. loyaute =. Pr. leyaltat, leiautat, lealtat " Same as lozenge-J'ret (which see, 
= Sp. lealtad = Pg. lealdade = It. lealta, < ML under fretf). 
legatita(t-)s, loyalty, also legality; < legnlis lozenge-shaped (loz'enj-shapt), a. 
loyal, legal: see loyal. Cf. lealty, legality.] Having the form of a lozenge or 
The state or quality of being loyal; devotion rhomb ; by extension, square but set 
to a sovereign or a superior; fidelity in duty, diagonally. Compare ' 
service, love, etc. ; firm allegiance ; constancy, lozenge-spur (loz'enj-i 
Master, go on, and I will follow thee , as '"-''''.'/''-.'/<"/. 
enj-sper), . Same 
, , , -.-.. 
To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty. lozenge-tool (loz'enj-tol), n. Same as 
Shak., As you Like it, ii. s. 70. lozenge-graver. 
Lozenye- 
mokling. 
