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- English Word Logographic Definition Alt. of Logographical
- English Word Logographical Definition Of or pertaining to logography.
- English Word Logography Definition A method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used.
- English Word Logography Definition A mode of reporting speeches without using shorthand, -- a number of reporters, each in succession, taking down three or four words.
- English Word Logogriph Definition A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its letters, which form other words; -- thus, to discover the chosen word chatter form cat, hat, rat, hate, rate, etc.
- English Word Logomachist Definition One who contends about words.
- English Word Logomachy Definition Contention in words merely, or a contention about words; a war of words.
- English Word Logomachy Definition A game of word making.
- English Word Logometric Definition Serving to measure or ascertain chemical equivalents; stoichiometric.
- English Word Logos Definition A word; reason; speech.
- English Word Logos Definition The divine Word; Christ.
- English Word Logothete Definition An accountant; under Constantine, an officer of the empire; a receiver of revenue; an administrator of a department.
- English Word Logotype Definition A single type, containing two or more letters; as, ae, Ae, /, /, /, etc. ; -- called also ligature.
- English Word Logroll Definition To engage in logrolling; to accomplish by logrolling.
- English Word Logroller Definition One who engages in logrolling.
- English Word Logrolling Definition The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn.
- English Word Logrolling Definition Hence: A combining to assist another in consideration of receiving assistance in return; -- sometimes used of a disreputable mode of accomplishing political schemes or ends.
- English Word Logwood Definition The heartwood of a tree (Haematoxylon Campechianum), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called haematoxylin, and is used largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called Campeachy wood, and bloodwood.
- English Word Logy Definition Heavy or dull in respect to motion or thought; as, a logy horse.
- English Word Lohock Definition See Loch, a medicine.