\Lox`o*drom"ic\, a. [Gr. ? slanting, oblique + ? a
running, course; cf. F. loxodromique.]
Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables.
{Loxodromic curve} or {line} (Geom.), a line on the surface
   of a sphere, which always makes an equal angle with every
   meridian; the rhumb line. It is the line on which a ship
   sails when her course is always in the direction of one
   and the same point of the compass.