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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Lox·o·drom·ic a.  Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables.
 Loxodromic curve or  Loxodromic 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.