Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 46
Logical (a.) According to the rules of logic; as, a logical argument or inference; the reasoning is logical ; a logical argument; a logical impossibility. -- Prior.
Logical (a.) Skilled in logic; versed in the art of thinking and reasoning; as, he is a logical thinker. -- Addison.
Logical (a.) Capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning; "a logical mind" [ant: illogical, unlogical].
Logical (a.) Based on known statements or events or conditions; "rain was a logical expectation, given the time of year" [syn: legitimate, logical].
Logical (a.) Marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts; "a coherent argument" [syn: coherent, consistent, logical, ordered] [ant: incoherent].
Logical (a.) Capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner; "a lucid thinker"; "she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident" [syn: coherent, logical, lucid].
Logical (a.) [from the technical term logical device, wherein a physical device is referred to by an arbitrary ?logical? name] Having the role of. If a person (say, Les Earnest at SAIL) who had long held a certain post left and were replaced, the replacement would for a while be known as the logical Les Earnest. (This does not imply any judgment on the replacement.) Compare {virtual. At Stanford, ?logical? compass directions denote a coordinate system relative to El Camino Real, in which ?logical north? is always toward San Francisco and ?logical south? is always toward San Jose--in spite of the fact that El Camino Real runs physical north/ south near San Francisco, physical east/ west near San Jose, and along a curve everywhere in between.
(The best rule of thumb here is that, by definition, El Camino Real always runs logical north-south.)
In giving directions, one might say: ?To get to Rincon Tarasco restaurant, get onto El Camino Bignum going logical north.? Using the word ?logical? helps to prevent the recipient from worrying about that the fact that the sun is setting almost directly in front of him. The concept is reinforced by North American highways which are almost, but not quite, consistently labeled with logical rather than physical directions. A similar situation exists at MIT: Route 128 (famous for the electronics industry that grew up along it) wraps roughly 3 quarters around Boston at a radius of 10 miles, terminating near the coastline at each end. It would be most precise to describe the two directions along this highway as ?clockwise? and ?counterclockwise?, but the road signs all say ?north? and ?south?, respectively. A hacker might describe these directions as logical north and logical south, to indicate that they are conventional directions not corresponding to the usual denotation for those words.
Logical, () (From the technical term "logical device", wherein a physical device is referred to by an arbitrary "logical" name) Having the role of. If a person (say, Les Earnest at SAIL) who had long held a certain post left and were replaced, the replacement would for a while be known as the "logical" Les Earnest. (This does not imply any judgment on the replacement).
Compare: Virtual.
At Stanford, "logical" compass directions denote a coordinate system in which "logical north" is toward San Francisco, "logical west" is toward the ocean, etc., even though logical north varies between physical (true) north near San Francisco and physical west near San Jose. (The best rule of thumb here is that, by definition, El Camino Real always runs logical north-and-south.) In giving directions, one might say: "To get to Rincon Tarasco restaurant, get onto El Camino Bignum going logical north." Using the word "logical" helps to prevent the recipient from worrying about that the fact that the sun is setting almost directly in front of him. The concept is reinforced by North American highways which are almost, but not quite, consistently labelled with logical rather than physical directions.
A similar situation exists at MIT: Route 128 (famous for the electronics industry that has grown up along it) is a 3-quarters circle surrounding Boston at a radius of 10 miles, terminating near the coastline at each end. It would be most precise to describe the two directions along this highway as "clockwise" and "counterclockwise", but the road signs all say "north" and "south", respectively. A hacker might describe these directions as "logical north" and "logical south", to indicate that they are conventional directions not corresponding to the usual denotation for those words. (If you went logical south along the entire length of route 128, you would start out going northwest, curve around to the south, and finish headed due east, passing along one infamous stretch of pavement that is simultaneously route 128 south and Interstate 93 north, and is signed as such!)
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Logicality (n.) Logicalness.
Logicality (n.) Correct and valid reasoning [syn: logicality, logicalness] [ant: illogic, illogicality, illogicalness, inconsequence].
Logically (adv.) In a logical manner; as, to argue logically.
Logically (adv.) According to logical reasoning; "logically, you should now do the same to him."
Logically (adv.) In a logical manner; "he acted logically under the circumstances" [ant: illogically].
Logicalness (n.) The quality of being logical.
Logicalness (n.) Correct and valid reasoning [syn: logicality, logicalness] [ant: illogic, illogicality, illogicalness, inconsequence].
Logician (n.) A person skilled in logic. -- Bacon.
Each fierce logician still expelling Locke. -- Pope.
Logician (n.) A person skilled at symbolic logic [syn: logician, logistician].
Logics (n.) See Logic. log in
Logistic (a.) Alt. of Logistical.
Logistical (a.) Logical. [Obs.] -- Berkeley.
Logistical (a.) (Math.) Sexagesimal, or made on the scale of 60; as, logistic, or sexagesimal, arithmetic.
Logistical (a.) Of or pertaining to logistics; as, logistic requirements; logistical problems; a logistical nightmare.
Logistic logarithms, or Proportional logarithms, Certain logarithmic numbers used to shorten the calculation of the fourth term of a proportion of which one of the terms is a given constant quantity, commonly one hour, while the other terms are expressed in minutes and seconds; -- not now used.
Logistic (a.) Of or relating to logistics; "logistic requirements" [syn: logistic, logistical].
Logistics (n.) (Mil.) That branch of the military art which embraces the details of moving and supplying armies. The meaning of the word is by some writers extended to include strategy. -- H. L. Scott.
Logistics (n.) By extension: The planning and coordination of the movement of materials, and other details of any large activity, such as a business or a political campaign.
Logistics (n.) (Math.) A system of arithmetic, in which numbers are expressed in a scale of 60; logistic arithmetic.
Logistics (n.) Handling an operation that involves providing labor and materials be supplied as needed.
Logmen (n. pl. ) of Logman.
Logman (n.) A man who carries logs. -- Shak.
Logodaedaly (n.) Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words. [R.] -- Coleridge.
Logogram (n.) A word letter; a phonogram, that, for the sake of brevity, represents a word; as, |, i. e., t, for it. Cf. Grammalogue.
Logogram (n.) A single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation; "7 is a logogram that is pronounced `seven' in English and `nanatsu' in Japanese" [syn: logogram, logograph].
Logographer (n.) A chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences.
Logographer (n.) One skilled in logography. Logographic
Logographic (a.) Alt. of Logographical.
Logographical (a.) Of or pertaining to logography.
Logographic (a.) Of or relating to logograms or logographs [syn: logogrammatic, logographic].
Logography (n.) A method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used.
Logography (n.) A mode of reporting speeches without using shorthand, -- a number of reporters, each in succession, taking down three or four words. -- Brande & C.
Logogriph (n.) 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. -- B. Jonson.
Logomachist (n.) One who contends about words.
Logomachist (n.) Someone given to disputes over words [syn: logomach, logomachist].
Logomachy (n.) 對詞義的爭執；字謎遊戲 Contention in words merely, or a contention about words; a war of words.
The discussion concerning the meaning of the word "justification" . . . has largely been a mere logomachy. -- L. Abbott.
Logomachy (n.) A game of word making.
Logomachy (n.) Argument about words or the meaning of words.
Logomachy, (n.) A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem -- a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.
'Tis said by divers of the scholar-men That poor Salmasius died of Milton's pen.
Alas! we cannot know if this is true, For reading Milton's wit we perish too.
Logomachy (n.) [(pl.) {Logomachies}] A dispute over or about words.
Logomachy (n.) A controversy marked by verbiage.
Logometric (a.) (Chem.) Serving to measure or ascertain chemical equivalents; stoichiometric. [R.]
Logos (n.) A word; reason; speech. -- H. Bushell.
Logos (n.) The divine Word; Christ.
Logos (n.) The divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus) [syn: Son, Word, Logos].
Logothete, () An accountant; under Constantine, an officer of the empire; a receiver of revenue; an administrator of a department.
Logotype (n.) (Print.) 【印】連合活體；（路標等用的）標識；商標 A single type, containing two or more letters; as, [ae], \[oe], [AE], [filig], [fllig], [ffllig], etc.; -- called also ligature.
Logotype (n.) A company emblem or device [syn: logo, logotype].
Logroll (v. i. & t.) To engage in logrolling; to accomplish by logrolling. [Political cant, U. S.]
Logroll (v.) Work toward the passage of some legislation by exchanging political favors such as trading votes.
Logroller (n.) One who engages in logrolling. [Political cant, U. S.]
The jobbers and logrollers will all be against it. -- The. Nation.
Logrolling (n.) (Logging) 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. -- Longfellow. [U.S.]
Logrolling (n.) 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. [Cant, U.S.]
Logrolling (n.) Act of exchanging favors for mutual gain; especially trading of influence or votes among legislators to gain passage of certain projects.
Logrolling (n.) Rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport) [syn: birling, logrolling].
Compare: Log-chip
Log-chip (n.) (Naut.) A thin, flat piece of board in the form of a quadrant of a circle attached to the log line; -- called also log-ship. See 2d Log, n., 2.
Log-ship (n.) A part of the log. See Log-chip, and 2d Log, n., 2.
Logwood (n.) 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.
Logwood (n.) Very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye.
Logwood (n.) Spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye [syn: logwood, logwood tree, campeachy, bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum].
-logy () A combining form denoting a discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science; as, theology, geology, biology, mineralogy.
Logy (a.) Heavy or dull in respect to motion or thought; as, a logy horse; feeling logy. [U.S.]
Syn: sluggish; dull; lethargic.
Porcupines are . . . logy, sluggish creatures. -- C. H. Merriam.
Logy (a.) Stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) [syn: dazed, foggy, groggy, logy, stuporous].
Lohock (n.) (Med.) See Loch, a medicine.
Loimic (a.) Of or pertaining to the plague or contagious disorders.
Loin (n.) That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of Beef.
Loin (n.) A cut of meat taken from this part of a food animal, as from cattle or hogs.
Loin (n.) (pl.) The pubic area; the genitalia, especially in women; as, receptive loins.
Loin (n.) A cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump.
Loin (n.) Either side of the backbone between the hipbone and the ribs in humans as well as quadrupeds [syn: loin, lumbus].
Loir (n.) (Zool.) A large European dormouse ({Myoxus glis).
Loir (n.) Large European dormouse [syn: loir, Glis glis].
Loitered (imp. & p. p.) of Loiter.
Loitering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loiter.
Loiter (v. i.) 閒逛，遊蕩； 消磨時光 [（+about）] To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
Sir John, you loiter here too long. -- Shak.
If we have loitered, let us quicken our pace. -- Rogers.
Loiter (v. i.) To wander as an idle vagrant. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Syn: To linger; delay; lag; saunter; tarry.
Loiter (v. t.) 消磨（時間），混（日子）[O][（+away/ out） Be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?" [syn: loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around].
Loiterer (n.) 閒蕩的人 One who loiters; an idler.
Loiterer (n.) An idle vagrant; a tramp. [Obs.] -- Bp. Sanderson.
Loiterer (n.) Someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place [syn: loiterer, lingerer].
Loiteringly (adv.) In a loitering manner. Lok
Lok (n.) Alt. of Loki.
Loki (n.) (Scandinavian Myth.) The evil deity, the author of all calamities and mischief, answering to the African of the Persians.
Lokao (n.) A green vegetable dye imported from China.
Loke (n.) A private path or road; also, the wicket or hatch of a door. [Prov. Eng.]
Lokorys (n.) Liquorice. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Loligo (n.) (Zool.) A genus of cephalopods, including numerous species of squids, common on the coasts of America and Europe. They are much used for fish bait.
Lolled (imp. & p. p.) of Loll.
Lolling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loll.
Loll (v. i.) 懶洋洋地倚靠（或躺等）[Q]；懶散地閒蕩 [（+about/ around）]；垂下；（舌頭）伸出在外 To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease; as, to loll around the house on a lazy summer day.
Void of care, he lolls supine in state. -- Dryden.
Loll (v. i.) To hand extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or a log when heated with labor or exertion.
The triple porter of the Stygian seat, With lolling tongue, lay fawning at thy feet. -- Dryden.
Loll (v. i.) To let the tongue hang from the mouth, as an ox, dog, or other animal, when heated by labor; as, the ox stood lolling in the furrow.
Loll (v. t.) 把（舌頭）伸出；把（頭或四肢）懶洋洋地依靠著 To let hang from the mouth, as the tongue.
Fierce tigers couched around and lolled their fawning tongues. -- Dryden.
Loll (v.) Hang loosely or laxly; "His tongue lolled" [syn: droop, loll].
Loll (v.) Be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day" [syn: bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about, fuck off, loaf, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge about].
Lollard (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of early reformers in Germany.
Lollard (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) One of the followers of Wyclif in England. [Called also Loller.]
By Lollards all know the Wyclifities are meant, so called from Walter Lollardus, one of their teachers in Germany. -- Fuller. Lollardism
Lollardism (n.) Alt. of Lollardy.
Lollardy (n.) The doctrines or principles of the Lollards.
Loller (n.) One who lolls.
Loller (n.) An idle vagabond. [Obs.] -- Piers Plowman.
Loller (n.) A Lollard.
Compare: Lollard
Lollard (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) (a) One of a sect of early reformers in Germany.
Lollard (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) (b) One of the followers of Wyclif in England. [Called also Loller.]
By Lollards all know the Wyclifities are meant, so called from Walter Lollardus, one of their teachers in Germany. -- Fuller. Lollardism
Lollingly (adv.) In a lolling manner. -- Buckle.
Lollipop (n.) A kind of sugar confection which dissolves easily in the mouth. [Archaic] -- Thackeray.
Lollipop (n.) Hence: A piece of hard candy, often of discoid shape, attached to the end of a handle of wood or hard paper by which it is held in the hand while being licked; -- it is popular with small children.
Lollipop (n.) Ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick; "in England a popsicle is called an ice lolly" [syn: ice lolly, lolly, lollipop, popsicle].
Lollipop (n.) Hard candy on a stick [syn: lollipop, sucker, all-day sucker].
Lollop (v. i.) To move heavily; to lounge or idle; to loll. [Low.] -- Charles Reade.
Lollop (v.) Walk clumsily and with a bounce.
Lollygag (v. i.) 【美】【俚】浪費光陰；無所事事；遊手好閒 Be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?" [syn: {loiter}, {lounge}, {footle}, {lollygag}, {loaf}, {lallygag}, {hang around}, {mess about}, {tarry}, {linger}, {lurk}, {mill about}, {mill around}].
Lollygag (v. i.) To spend time idly, aimlessly, or foolishly : dawdle.
Lollygag (v.) To lollygag is to spend time doing things that are not useful or serious, or in other words, to fool around and waste time.
// Stop lollygagging and get to work!
// The player was kicked off the team for lollygagging during practice.
Lomata (n. pl. ) of Loma.
Loma (n.) (Zool.) A lobe; a membranous fringe or flap.
Loma, MT -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Montana
Population (2000): 92
Housing Units (2000): 47
Land area (2000): 3.453556 sq. miles (8.944669 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.453556 sq. miles (8.944669 sq. km)
FIPS code: 44800
Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location: 47.937358 N, 110.499854 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 59460
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Loma, MT
Loma
Loma, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota
Population (2000): 21
Housing Units (2000): 10
Land area (2000): 26.369040 sq. miles (68.295498 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.427463 sq. miles (1.107125 sq. km)
Total
area (2000): 26.796503 sq. miles (69.402623 sq. km)
FIPS code: 47660
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 48.637896 N, 98.525406 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 58311
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Loma, ND
Loma
Lomatinous (a.) (Zool.) Furnished with lobes or flaps.
Lombard (a.) Of or pertaining to Lombardy, or the inhabitants of Lombardy.
Lombard (n.) A native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
Lombard (n.) A money lender or banker; -- so called because the business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards.
Lombard (n.) Same as Lombard-house.
A Lombard unto this day signifying a bank for usury or pawns. -- Fuller.
Lombard (n.) (Mil.) A form of cannon formerly in use. -- Prescott.
Lombard Street, The principal street in London for banks and the offices of note brokers; hence, the money market and interest of London.
Lombard (n.) A member of a Germanic people who invaded northern Italy in the 6th century [syn: Lombard, Langobard].
Lombard, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 42322
Housing Units (2000): 17019
Land area (2000): 9.685143 sq. miles (25.084403 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.014180 sq. miles (0.036726 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9.699323 sq. miles (25.121129 sq. km)
FIPS code: 44407
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.875979 N, 88.015060 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 60148
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Lombard, IL
Lombard
Lombardeer (n.) A pawnbroker. [Obs.] -- Howell. Lombard-house
Lombard-house (n.) Alt. of Lombar-house.
Lombar-house (n.) A bank or a pawnbroker's shop.
Lombar-house (n.) A public institution for lending money to the poor at a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged; -- called also mont de piete.
Lombardic (a.) Of or pertaining to Lombardy of the Lombards.
Lombardic alphabet, the ancient alphabet derived from the Roman, and employed in the manuscript of Italy.
Lombardic architecture, the debased Roman style of architecture as found in parts of Northern Italy. -- F. G. Lee.
Lombardy poplar. (Bot.) See Poplar.
Loment (n.) (Bot.) An elongated pod, consisting, like the legume, of two valves, but divided transversely into small cells, each containing a single seed.
Loment (n.) Seedpods that are constricted between the seeds and that break apart when mature into single-seeded segments.
Lomentaceous (a.) (Bot.) Of the nature of a loment; having fruits like loments.
Lomonite (n.) Same as Laumontite.
Lompish (a.) Lumpish. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Lond (n.) Land. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
London (n.) The capital city of England.
London paste (Med.), A paste made of caustic soda and unslacked lime; -- used as a caustic to destroy tumors and other morbid enlargements.
London pride. (Bot.) (a) A garden name for Saxifraga umbrosa, a hardy perennial herbaceous plant, a native of high lands in Great Britain.
London pride. (Bot.) (b) A name anciently given to the Sweet William. -- Dr. Prior.
London rocket (Bot.), A cruciferous plant ({Sisymbrium Irio) which sprung up in London abundantly on the ruins of the great fire of 1667.
London (n.) The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center [syn: London, Greater London, British capital, capital of the United Kingdom].
London (n.) United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (1876-1916) [syn: London, Jack London, John Griffith Chaney].
London, AR -- U.S. city in Arkansas
Population (2000): 925
Housing Units (2000): 413
Land area (2000): 2.399586 sq. miles (6.214898 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.038662 sq. miles (0.100133 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.438248 sq. miles (6.315031 sq. km)
FIPS code: 41270
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.325802 N, 93.236557 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 72847
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Headwords:
London, AR
London
London, CA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in California
Population (2000): 1848
Housing Units (2000): 424
Land area (2000): 0.627788 sq. miles (1.625963 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.627788 sq. miles (1.625963 sq. km)
FIPS code: 42566
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 36.475995 N, 119.442332 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
London, CA
London
London, OH -- U.S. city in Ohio
Population (2000): 8771
Housing Units (2000): 3848
Land area (2000): 8.507574 sq. miles (22.034515 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.507574 sq. miles (22.034515 sq. km)
FIPS code: 44674
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.887466 N, 83.445041 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 43140
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
London, OH
London
London, KY -- U.S. city in Kentucky
Population (2000): 5692
Housing Units (2000): 2676
Land area (2000): 7.711430 sq. miles (19.972510 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.711430 sq. miles (19.972510 sq. km)
FIPS code: 47476
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 37.127504 N, 84.084181 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
London, KY
London
Londoner (n.) A native or inhabitant of London. -- Shak.
Londoner (n.) A native or resident of London.
Londonism (n.) A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.
Londonize (v. i.) To impart to (one) a manner or character like that which distinguishes Londoners.
Londonize (v. i.) To imitate the manner of the people of London.
Lone (a.) Being without a companion; being by one's self; also, sad from lack of companionship; lonely; as, a lone traveler or watcher.
When I have on those pathless wilds a appeared, And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered. -- Shenstone.
Lone (a.) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood. [Archaic]
Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman. -- Collection of Records (1642).
A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear. -- Shak.
Lone (a.) Being apart from other things of the kind; being by itself; also, apart from human dwellings and resort; as, a lone house. " A lone isle." -- Pope.
By a lone well a lonelier column rears. -- Byron.
Lone (a.) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
Thus vanish scepters, coronets, and balls, And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls. -- Pope.
Lone (n.) A lane. See Loanin. [Prov. Eng.]
Lone (a.) Lacking companions or companionship; "he was alone when we met him"; "she is alone much of the time"; "the lone skier on the mountain"; "a lonely fisherman stood on a tuft of gravel"; "a lonely soul"; "a solitary traveler" [syn: alone(p), lone(a), lonely(a), solitary].
Lone (a.) Characterized by or preferring solitude; "a lone wolf"; "a lonely existence"; "a man of a solitary disposition"; "a solitary walk" [syn: lone(a), lonely(a), solitary].
Lone (a.) Being the only one; single and isolated from others; "the lone doctor in the entire county"; "a lonesome pine"; "an only child"; "the sole heir"; "the sole example"; "a solitary instance of cowardice"; "a solitary speck in the sky" [syn: lone(a), lonesome(a), only(a), sole(a), solitary(a)].