Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LO'CATE, v.t. [L. loco, locatus; It. locare.]

1. To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
2. To select, survey and settle the bounds of a particular tract of land; or to designate a portion of land by limits; as, to locale a tract of a hundred acres in a particular township. – United States.
3. To designate and determine the place of; as, a committee was appointed to locate a church or a court house. – New England.