loblolly

A mudhole; a mire.

The loblolly pine.

A loutish or foolish person.

Nautical: Water-gruel or spoon-meat.

Medicines collectively. Also written, erroneously, loplolly.

Gruel; porridge; — so called among seamen.

an elegant white-flowered evergreen shrub or small tree, of the genus Gordonia (Gordonia Lasianthus), growing in the maritime parts of the Southern United States. Its bark is sometimes used in tanning. Also, a similar West Indian tree (Laplacea hæmatoxylon).

a surgeon’s attendant on shipboard.

a kind of pitch pine found from Delaware southward along the coast; old field pine (Pinus Tæda). Also, Pinus Bahamensis, of the West Indies.

a name of several West Indian trees, having more or less leathery foliage, but alike in no other respect; as Pisonia subcordata, Cordia alba, and Cupania glabra.