LUTE
\lˈuːt], \lˈuːt], \l_ˈuː_t]\
Definitions of LUTE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
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A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.
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To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.
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A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.
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To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.
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To play on a lute, or as on a lute.
By Oddity Software
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A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
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A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.
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To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.
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A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.
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To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.
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To play on a lute, or as on a lute.
By Noah Webster.
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A stringed musical instrument of the guitar family; a composition of clay, etc., used for making the joints of vessels air-tight, or protecting them from the action of fire.
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To close up the cracks of with a composition of clay, etc.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A composition employed either for closing apertures in a pharmaceutical instrument, or for covering the surface of retorts, tubes, etc., which have to support a great degree of heat. Lutes are composed differently, according to the object to be accomplished. Commonly, they are made of linseed meal and starch. The fat lute is formed of clay and drying oil. Sometimes, the white of egg and lime are used; and that which is employed for covering vessels, intended to be strongly heated, is made of clay, sifted sand, and water.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [French] A stringed instrument resembling a guitar, formerly much in use. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops ore pressed.
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n. [Latin] A composition of clay or other tenacious substance, or other tenacious substance, used for making joints airtight.
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V.t. To close or to coat with lute;— imp. & pp. luted; ppr. luting.
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