Low"-necked` (?), a. Cut low in the neck; decollete; -- said of a
woman's dress.
Low"ness, n. The state or quality of being low.
Low"-pres`sure (?), a. Having, employing, or exerting, a low degree of
pressure.
Low-pressure steam engine, a steam engine in which low steam is used;
often applied to a condensing engine even when steam at high pressure
is used. See Steam engine.
Low"ry (?), n. An open box car used on railroads. Compare Lorry.
Low"-spir`it*ed (?), a. Deficient in animation and courage; dejected;
depressed; not sprightly.
-- Low"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.
Low"-stud`ded (?), a. Furnished or built with short studs; as, a
low-studded house or room.
Low"-thought`ed (?), a. Having one's thoughts directed toward mean or
insignificant subjects.
Lox`o*drom"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; slanting, oblique + &?; a running,
course; cf. F. loxodromique.] Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as,
loxodromic tables.
Loxodromic curve or line (Geom.), a line on the surface of a sphere,
which always makes an equal angle with every meridian; the rhumb line.
It is the line on which a ship sails when her course is always in the
direction of one and the same point of the compass.
Lox`o*drom"ics (?), n. The art or method of sailing on the loxodromic
or rhumb line.
Lox*od"ro*mism (?), n. The act or process of tracing a loxodromic
curve; the act of moving as if in a loxodromic curve.
Lox*od"ro*my (?), n. [Cf. F. loxodromic.] The science of loxodromics.
[R.]
Loy (?), n. A long, narrow spade for stony lands.
Loy"al (?), a. [F. loyal, OF. loial, leial, L. legalis, fr. lex, legis,
law. See Legal, and cf. Leal.]
1. Faithful to law; upholding the lawful authority; faithful and true
to the lawful government; faithful to the prince or sovereign to whom
one is subject; unswerving in allegiance.
Welcome, sir John ! But why come you in arms ? - To help King
Edward in his time of storm, As every loyal subject ought to do.
Shak.
2. True to any person or persons to whom one owes fidelity, especially
as a wife to her husband, lovers to each other, and friend to friend;
constant; faithful to a cause or a principle.
Your true and loyal wife.
Shak.
Unhappy both, but loyaltheir loves.
Dryden.
Loy"al*ist, n. A person who adheres to his sovereign or to the lawful
authority; especially, one who maintains his allegiance to his prince
or government, and defends his cause in times of revolt or revolution.
Loy"al*ly, adv. In a loyal manner; faithfully.
Loy"al*ness, n. Loyalty. [R.] Stow.
Loy"al*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. loyauté. See Loyal, and cf. Legality.] The
state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior, or to duty,
love, etc.
He had such loyalty to the king as the law required.
Clarendon.
Not withstanding all the subtle bait With which those Amazons his
love still craved, To his one love his loyalty he saved.
Spenser.
"Loyalty . . . expresses, properly, that fidelity which one owes
according to law, and does not necessarily include that attachment to
the royal person, which, happily, we in England have been able further
to throw into the word." Trench.
Syn. -- Allegiance; fealty. See Allegiance.
Loz"enge (lz"nj), n. [F. lozange, losange; perh. the same as OF.
losengef flattery, praise, the heraldic sense being the oldest (cf. E.
hatchment, blazon). Cf. Losenger, Laudable.] 1. (Her.) (a) A
diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly
acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil. (b) A form of the
escutcheon used by women instead of the shield which is used by men.
2. A figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse
angles; a rhomb.