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v. t. [ LL. allocatus, p. p. of allocare, fr. L. ad + locare to place. See Allow. ] 1. To distribute or assign; to allot. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To localize. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. allocatio: cf. F. allocation. ] 1. The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company. [ 1913 Webster ]

The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive inhabitants. A. R. Stanley. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; -- a term used in the English exchequer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ LL., it is allowed, fr. allocare to allow. ] (Law) “Allowed.” The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 any plant of the genus Alocasia having large showy basal leaves and boat-shaped spathe and reddish berries.
Syn. -- elephant's ear, elephant ear [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Pref. bi- + location. ] Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Arch.) The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; stem + karpo`s fruit. ] (Bot.) Having stems which bear flowers and fruit year after year, as most trees and shrubs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. collocatus, p. p. of collocare. See Couch. ] Set; placed. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Collocated p. pr. & vb. n. Collocating ] To set or place; to set; to station. [ 1913 Webster ]

To marshal and collocate in order his battalions. E. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. collocatio. ] 1. The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement. [ 1913 Webster ]

The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Linguistics) a combination of related words within a sentence that occurs more frequently than would be predicted in a random arrangement of words; a combination of words that occurs with sufficient frequency to be recongizable as a common combination, especially a pair of words that occur adjacent to each other. Also called stable collocation. Combinations of words having intervening words between them, such as verb and object pairs, may also be collocations. [ PJC ]

n. a small genus of perennial tuberous herbs of the arum family, of tropical Asia and the Pacific islands, including the taro (Colocasia esculente).
Syn. -- genus Colocasia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; double + E. cardiac. ] (Anat.) Having the heart completely divided or double, one side systemic, the other pulmonary. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dislocated p. pr. & vb. n. Dislocating ] [ LL. dislocatus, p. p. of dislocare; dis- + locare to place, fr. locus place. See Locus. ] To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time, was by the hands of his holiness set right again. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. dislocatus, p. p. ] Dislocated. Montgomery. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. separated at the joint; -- used especially of limbs; as, a dislocated knee.
Syn. -- disjointed, separated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. dislocation. ] 1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Surg.) The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. e- + locate. ] 1. A removal from the usual place of residence. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Departure from the usual state; an ecstasy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A genus of dioecious trees or shrubs of New Zealand; similar in habit to Dacrydium.
Syn. -- genus Halocarpus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. holocaustum, Gr. &unr_;, neut. of &unr_;, &unr_;, burnt whole; "o`los whole + kaysto`s burnt, fr. kai`ein to burn (cf. Caustic): cf. F. holocauste.] 1. A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations. Milton. [1913 Webster]

2. Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.] [1913 Webster]

3. Specifically: The mass killing of millions of Jews by the Nazis during the period from 1933 to 1945 in Germany and German-occupied lands; usually referred to as The Holocaust. In Hebrew, the same event is referred to by the word Shoah. [PJC]

n. Lack of locality or place. [ R. ] Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A placing or coming between; interposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. localis, fr. locus place: cf. F. local. See Lieu, Locus. ] Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local custom. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Local actions (Law), actions such as must be brought in a particular county, where the cause arises; -- distinguished from transitory actions. --
Local affection (Med.), a disease or ailment confined to a particular part or organ, and not directly affecting the system. --
Local attraction (Magnetism), an attraction near a compass, causing its needle to deviate from its proper direction, especially on shipboard. --
Local battery (Teleg.), the battery which actuates the recording instruments of a telegraphic station, as distinguished from the battery furnishing a current for the line. --
Local circuit (Teleg.), the circuit of the local battery. --
Local color. (a) (Paint.) The color which belongs to an object, and is not caused by accidental influences, as of reflection, shadow, etc. (b) (Literature) Peculiarities of the place and its inhabitants where the scene of an action or story is laid. --
Local option, the right or obligation of determining by popular vote within certain districts, as in each county, city, or town, whether the sale of alcoholic beverages within the district shall be allowed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Railroad) A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district. [ U.S. ]

2. In newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A train or bus which stops at all stations along a line, as contrasted with an express, which stops only at certain stations designated as express stops. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ F. local. ] 1. A place, spot, or location. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as localization. [ Chiefly Brit. ]
Syn. -- , location, locating, fix. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. Same as localize. [ Chiefly Brit. ]
Syn. -- localize. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The state or quality of being local; affection for a particular place. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A method of speaking or acting peculiar to a certain district; a local idiom or phrase. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Localitiees [ L. localitas: cf. F. localité. ] 1. The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity
and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Phren.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. localisation. ] Act of localizing, or state of being localized. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cerebral localization (Physiol.), the localization of the control of special functions, as of sight or of the various movements of the body, in special regions of the brain. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Localized p. pr. & vb. n. Localizing ] [ Cf. F. localiser. See Local. ] To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place. H. Spencer. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. (Medicine) confined or restricted to a particular location; as, the localized infection formed a definite abscess. Contrasted with disseminated or systemic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. made local or oriented locally; as, a decentralized and localized political authority. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. With respect to place; in place; as, to be locally separated or distant. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Located p. pr. & vb. n. Locating. ] [ L. locatus, p. p. of locare to place, fr. locus place. See Local. ] 1. To place; to set in a particular spot or position. [ 1913 Webster ]

The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter. B. F. Westcott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as, to locate a public building; to locate a mining claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant. [ 1913 Webster ]

That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To discover the location or site of; as, to locate the source of a radio transmission; to locate a leak; to locate the malfunction in a system. [ PJC ]

v. i. To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle; as, to locate in Seattle. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. situated in a particular spot or position; as, valuable centrally located urban land.
Syn. -- placed, set, situated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. situated: often used in combination; as, a well-located business. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. the act of putting something in a certain place or location.
Syn. -- location, placement, position, positioning, emplacement, situating. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a determination of the location of something.
Syn. -- localization, localisation, location, fix. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. locatio, fr. locare. ] 1. The act or process of locating. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Situation; place; locality. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is located; a tract of land designated in place. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) (a) (Civil Law) A leasing on rent. (b) (Scots Law) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire. Wharton. (c) (Amer. Law) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc. Burrill. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Gram.) Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein; as, a locative adjective; locative case of a noun. -- n. The locative case. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Wrong collocation. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A small genus of arborescent cacti of Mexico and Central America.
Syn. -- genus Myrtillocactus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ From NL. Pilocarpus pennatifolius jaborandi; L. pilus hair + Gr. karpo`s fruit: cf. F. pilocarpine. ] (Chem.) An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To locate again. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A second location. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Roman & Scots Law) Renewal of a lease. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. trans- + location. ] removal of things from one place to another; substitution of one thing for another. [ 1913 Webster ]

There happened certain translocations at the deluge. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not located or placed; not fixed in a place. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not surveyed, or designated by marks, limits, or boundaries, as appropriated to some individual, company, or corporation; as, unlocated lands. [ 1913 Webster ]