Vocabulary : Lockup to Locomotive
Lockup : A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.Lock-weir : A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber.
Locky : Having locks or tufts.
Loco : A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher. ;; A plant (Astragalus Hornii) growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of the same genus. Called also loco weed. ;; Any one of various leguminous plants or weeds besides Astragalus, whose herbage is poisonous to cattle, as Spiesia Lambertii, syn. Oxytropis Lambertii. ;; To poison with loco; to affect with the loco disease; hence (Colloq.), to render insane or mad. ;; A locomotive.
Loco disease : A chronic nervous affection of cattle, horses, and sheep, caused by eating the loco weed and characterized by a slow, measured gait, high step, glassy eyes with defective vision, delirium, and gradual emaciation.
