Defn: 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
Log"-ship, n. (Naut.)
Defn: A part of the log. See Log-chip, and 2d Log, n., 2.
LOGWOOD
Log"wood` n. Etym: [So called from being imported in logs.]
Defn: 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.
-LOGY -lo*gy. Etym: [Gr. Logic.]
Defn: A combining form denoting a discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science; as, theology, geology, biology, mineralogy.
LOGY
Lo"gy, a. Etym: [From D. log.]
Defn: Heavy or dull in respect to motion or thought; as, a logy
horse. [U.S.]
Porcupines are . . . logy, sluggish creatures. C. H. Merriam.