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  7  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Loco  \Lo"co\,  adv  [It.]  (Mus.) 
  A  direction  in  written  or  printed  music  to  return  to  the 
  proper  pitch  after  having  played  an  octave  higher. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Loco  \Lo"co\,  n.  [Sp.  loco  insane.]  (Bot.) 
  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}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Loco  \Lo"co\,  n. 
  A  locomotive.  [Colloq.]  --Kipling. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Loco  \Lo"co\,  n.  (Bot.) 
  Any  one  of  various  leguminous  plants  or  weeds  besides 
  {Astragalus},  whose  herbage  is  poisonous  to  cattle,  as 
  {Spiesia  Lambertii},  syn.  {Oxytropis  Lambertii}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Loco  \Lo"co\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Locoed};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Locoing}.] 
  To  poison  with  loco;  to  affect  with  the  loco  disease;  hence 
  (Colloq.),  to  render  insane  or  mad.  ``The  locoed  novelist.'' 
  --W.  D.  Howells. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  loco 
  adj  :  informal  or  slang  terms  for  mentally  irregular  [syn:  {balmy}, 
  {barmy},  {bats},  {batty},  {bonkers},  {buggy},  {cracked}, 
  {crackers},  {daft},  {dotty},  {fruity},  {haywire},  {kooky}, 
  {kookie},  {loony},  {loopy},  {nuts},  {nutty},  {wacky}] 
 
  From  U.S.  Gazetteer  (1990)  [gazetteer]: 
 
  Loco,  OK  (town,  FIPS  43450) 
  Location:  34.32953  N,  97.68022  W 
  Population  (1990):  160  (82  housing  units) 
  Area:  0.7  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Zip  code(s):  73442 




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