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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Lob·lol·ly n.  Gruel; porridge; -- so called among seamen.
 Loblolly bay Bot., 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).
 Loblolly boy, a surgeon's attendant on shipboard. --Smollett.
 Loblolly pine Bot., a kind of pitch pine found from Delaware southward along the coast; old field pine (Pinus Tæda). Also, Pinus Bahamensis, of the West Indies.
 Loblolly tree Bot., 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.
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