A pond or lochan rather than a lake.
H. Miller.
Loche (?), n. (Zoöl.) See Loach.
||Lo*chi"a (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. &?;, pl., fr. &?; belonging to
||childbirth, &?; a lying in, childbirth.] (Med.) The discharge from
||the womb and vagina which follows childbirth.
||
Lo"chi*al (?), a. [Cf. F. lochial.] Of or pertaining to the lochia.
Lock (?), n. [AS. locc; akin to D. lok, G. locke, OHG. loc, Icel.
lokkr, and perh. to Gr. &?; to bend, twist.] A tuft of hair; a flock or
small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or
ringlet of hair.
These gray locks, the pursuivants of death.
Shak.
Lock, n. [AS. loc inclosure, an inclosed place, the fastening of a
door, fr. lcan to lock, fasten; akin to OS. lkan (in comp.), D. luiken,
OHG. lhhan, Icel. l&?;ka, Goth. lkan (in comp.); cf. Skr. ruj to break.
Cf. Locket.] 1. Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as
for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is
moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened.
2. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon
another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages.
De Quincey.