Log`o*met"ric (?), a. [Gr. lo`gos word, ratio + &?; measure.] (Chem.)
Serving to measure or ascertain chemical equivalents; stoichiometric.
[R.]
||Log"os (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; the word or form which expresses a
||thought, also, the thought, fr. &?; to speak.] 1. A word; reason;
||speech. H. Bushell.
||
2. The divine Word; Christ.
Log"o*thete (?), [LL. logotheta, fr. Gr. &?;; lo`gos word, account +
&?; to put.] An accountant; under Constantine, an officer of the
empire; a receiver of revenue; an administrator of a department.
Log"o*type (?), n. [Gr. lo`gos word + -type.] (Print.) A single type,
containing two or more letters; as, æ, Æ, , , , etc.; -- called also
ligature.
Log"roll` (?), v. i. & t. To engage in logrolling; to accomplish by
logrolling. [Political cant, U. S.]
Log"roll`er (?), n. One who engages in logrolling. [Political cant, U.
S.]
The jobbers and logrollers will all be against it.
The. Nation.
Log"roll`ing, n. 1. (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.]
2. 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.]
Log"-ship (?), n. (Naut.) A part of the log. See Log-chip, and 2d Log,
n., 2.
Log"wood` (?) n. [So called from being imported in logs.] The heartwood
of a tree (Hæmatoxylon Campechianum), a native of South America, It is
a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called
hæmatoxylin, and is used largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood
is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called Campeachy wood, and
bloodwood.
-lo*gy (?). [Gr. &?;, fr. lo`gos word, discourse, fr. &?; to speak. See
Logic.] A combining form denoting a discourse, treatise, doctrine,
theory, science; as, theology, geology, biology, mineralogy.
Lo"gy, a. [From D. log.] Heavy or dull in respect to motion or thought;
as, a logy horse. [U.S.]
Porcupines are . . . logy, sluggish creatures.