Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LOX-O-DROM'ICS
LOX-O-DROM'ICS, n.
The art of oblique sailing by the rhomb, which always makes an equal angle with every meridian; that is, when a ship sails neither directly under equator, nor under the same meridian, but obliquely. – Harris. Bailey.
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