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Lodestar

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The leading-star by which mariners are guided; the pole-star.

“Your eyes are lodestars.”—Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dream, i. 1.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Locum Tenens (Latin)
Locus Delicti
Locus in quo (Latin)
Locus Pœnitentiæ. (Latin.)
Locus Sigilli or L. S
Locus Standi (Latin)
Locust Bird
Locusts
Locusta
Lode
Lodestar
Lodestone or Loadstone
Lodona
Loegria or Logres
Log
Log-board
Log-book
Log-line
Log-roller (A)
Log-rolling
Log-rolling Criticism