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logement 248 lotissage
logement, officier de , (Fr. a.) officer in command
of a logement (reports to the c. o. of the
garrison on which the column is marching,
receives instructions, prepares for the arrival
of the troops, and reports back to his own c. o.);
du projectile, (art.) seat of the projectile;
du tenon defermeture, (sm. a.) locking shoulder.
loger, v. a. n. r., to lodge, make a lodgment; to
stable horses; to set in, seat (used when the
part seated projects from the surrounding
surface); (mil.) to quarter, billet; to be quartered
or billeted; to effect a lodgment;
chez I'habilant, (mil.) to be billeted.
logis, m., house, habitation, dwelling;
corps de , main building, detached building;
marechal des v. s. v. marechal.
,
logistique, f., (mil.) logistics.
loi, f . , law . rule , authority ;
des cadres, (mil.) law organizing the
de 'la guerre, law (international) of war; law
(necessity) of war;
marliale, martial law;
s militaires, military laws;
du quart, (top. drawing) principle of spacing
hachures at a quarter of their length,
loin, adv., far; .
au in the distance;
,
faire plus , (art.) to elevate.
lolo, m., (mil. slang) gros s, cuirassiers.
long, m., length;
at length;
au
au
, along,
et au large, in length and in breadth;
de , lengthwise;
en , lengthwise;
en et en large, backward and forward, up and
down;
le de ...., along ....;
sciage de scie de
scier de
, ripping;
. ripsaw;
, to rip;
scicur de , rip sawyer.
long, a., long; much; slow; great; (art.) over;
capitainc au cours, v. s. v. capitaine;
un cane. , a rectangular parallelogram;
cote, (fort.) long face of a work;
coup (art.) an over;
feu, (art.,sm. a.) hang fire;
prendre le plus . to make a detour;
tir , (art.) overshooting;
voyage de cours, v. s. v. voyage;
vuc ue, long-sightedness.
long-a-la-guerre, m., (mil.) detour to avoid a
defile;
faire , (mil.) to remain in the ranks.
long-bois, m., v. long-fi-la-guerre.
long-courrier, a., bailment , vessel engaged
in the foreign trade.
long-cours, m., deep-water sailor.
longe, f., (harn.) tether, strap, thong, lunging
rein;
d'accouple, (art., harn.) coupling rein;
bouclcc, (art., harn.) coupling rein;
de croupiere, (art., harn.) crupper strap, back
strap;
d'unfouet, cracker of a whip;
du garrot, v. s. v. liberte;
plate v. , plale-longe;
poitrail, (Fr. cav.) lunge (so carried as to
actnkeapottrctt);
prise de , (hipp.) halter-cast;
du rognon, v. s. v. liberte;
de trait, (art., harn.) trace-tug;
travail & la , (man.) lunging;
travaillerti la , (man.) to lunge a horse.
longer, v. a., to go, walk, run along (as a wood,
river bank); to skirt (as a path).
longeron, m.. (cons., much., etc.) stringpiece,
sleeper, side piece, sill; (art.) side rail;
sous , under rail.
long(-)leu, (art., sm. a.) hang fire.
longimetrle, f., longimetry, art of measuring
distances.
longis, m., (cord.) yarn not yet twisted up.
longitude, f., longitude;
bureau des s, board of longitude (Naval
Observatory, U. S.; Royal Observatory, England);
difference de , difference of longitude;
estimec, estimated longitude;
observee, observed longitude;
par I'horloge marine, longitude by chronometer;
prendre les to take the , longitude.
long-joints, a., (hipp.) long-pasterned; longjointed.
long-pan, m., (cons.) long side of a roof.
longrlne, f., sleeper, stringing plank, string beam,
stringer, cap; (art.) side rail; platform sleeper
(r. r.) stringer.
longuerine, f., stringer.
longueur, f. .length; slowness; duration;
battue, (art.) distance effectively covered by
fire;
dc cable, cable length (120 fathoms);
de construction, pitch length of a chain;
de couche, v. s. v. couche;
c nipcr de to cut to , proper length;
en , lengthwise; at great length;
equivalence, (ball.) reduced length;
d la flottaison, (not?.) length at the water
lire;
fjeodcsique, (top.) length of the sides of a
triangle reduced to sea level;
-graphique, (top.) length or distance meas-
scale length or distance;
ured on the map,
ft la ligne de flottaison, v. & la jlottaison;
de la ligne de mire, (ball.) sight radius; radius
distance;
mc'lre de , to give the proper length to (a
piece, etc.);
de mire, v. de la ligne de mire;
mise de , operation of giving the proper length
to (a piece, etc.);
entre perpendiculaires, (nav.) length between
perpendiculars;
utile, the considered length (in a test bar).
longue-vue, f. , f.. telescope, spyglass;
de batterie, (Fr. art.) battery- (field, moun-
tain) telescope;
de campagne, field telescope.
lopin, m., piece, bit, share, portion; (met.) bloom
(loupe) transformed into a more or less regular
parallelopipedon; (fan.) bit of iron for horse-
shoed ; (mas.) stone in burnt lime;
bourru, (farr.) old shoes and bits of iron;
bcoquille, (farr.) so-called shelliron;
ft quartiers branlants, (farr.) quarters of
horseshoes (strung on a wire);
simple, (farr.) piece of new iron;
fi vergette, (farr.) bar of new iron (for fer
Charlier).
loquet, m., latch, clasp, pawl, catch; (mach.)
locking pin;
d'arret, (r.f. art.) stop-latch;
de console, (art.) plug-tray latch;
'double, (art.) double-nosed latch;
defermeture, (r.f. art.) locking latch;
mobile, (art.) latch (De Bange fermeture);
de pression, (art.) clamping latch (Pedrazzoli
sight);
a ressort, (art.) spring latch;
de surete, (art.) safety latch.
loqueteau, m., latch, small latch, window latch.
lorgnette, f., opera glass; field glass.
lorgnon, m., eyeglass.
losange, f., lozenge;
en , lozenge-shaped.
lot, m. . lot;
de compagnie, (Fr. a.) collection of effects
kept in each company, battery, and troop
(issued on mobilization when the unit passes
to a war footing);
de corps, (Fr. a.) reserve supply of effects
in excess of those forming the s de compagnie.
lotir, v. a., to divide into lots; (met.) to assay.
lotissage, m., separation into lots; (met.) assaying.