Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 55
Lumbosacral (n.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the loins and sacrum; as, the lumbosacral nerve, a branch of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum.
Lumbosacral (a.) Of or relating to or near the small of the back and the back part of the pelvis between the hips.
Lumbric (n.) (Zool.) An earthworm, or a worm resembling an earthworm.
Lumbrical (a.) (Anat.) 蚓狀肌的 Resembling a worm; as, the lumbrical muscles of the hands of the hands and feet.
Lumbrical (n.) 【解】（手足之）蚓狀肌 A lumbrical muscle.
Lumbriciform (a.) (Zool.) Resembling an earthworm; vermiform.
Lumbricoid (a.) (Zool.) Like an earthworm; belonging to the genus Lumbricus, or family Lumbricidae.
Lumbricus (n.) (Zool.) A genus of annelids, belonging to the Oligochaeta, and including the common earthworms. See Earthworm.
Lumen (n.; pl. L. Lumina, E. Lumens. ) (Photom.) (a) A unit of illumination, being the amount of illumination of a unit area of spherical surface, due to a light of unit intensity placed at the center of the sphere.
Lumen (n.) (Photom.) (b) A unit of light flux, being the flux through one square meter of surface the illumination of which is uniform and of unit brightness.
Lumen (n.) (Biol.) An opening, space, or cavity, esp. a tubular cavity; a vacuole.
Lumen (n.) A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions [syn: lumen, lm].
Lumen (n.) A cavity or passage in a tubular organ; "the lumen of the intestine".
Lumen (n.) (Physics)【物】流明（光束的能量單位）；【解】（管狀器官內的）內腔 The SI unit of luminous flux, equal to the amount of light emitted per second in a unit solid angle of one steradian from a uniform source of one candela.
Lumen (n.) (Anatomy) The central cavity of a tubular or other hollow structure in an organism or cell.
‘The stomach empties food into the lumen of the small intestine.’
Luminance (n.) 發光性；【物】明視度 The quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light; "its luminosity is measured relative to that of our sun" [syn: {luminosity}, {brightness}, {brightness level}, {luminance}, {luminousness}, {light}].
Brightness
Luminance
Tone
Value
(Or "tone", "luminance", "value", "luminosity", "lightness") The coordinate in the HSB colour model that determines the total amount of light in the colour. Zero brightness is black and 100% is white, intermediate values are "light" or "dark" colours.
The other coordinates are hue and saturation. (1999-07-05)
Luminant (a.) 發光的 Luminous. [R.]
Compare: Luminous
Luminous (a.) 發光的；夜光的；光輝的；照亮了的；清楚的，明白易懂的 Giving off light; bright or shining.
‘The luminous dial on his watch.’
‘A luminous glow.’
[Figurative] ‘Her eyes were luminous with joy’
Luminous (a.) Very bright in colour; lurid.
‘He wore luminous green socks.’
Luminous (a.) [Physics] Relating to light as it is perceived by the eye, rather than in terms of its actual energy.
‘Luminous intensity.’
Luminaries (n. pl. ) of Luminary.
Luminary (n.) 發光體；發光（或反射光的）天體；傑出人物；才智出眾的人 Any body that gives light, especially one of the heavenly bodies. " Radiant luminary." -- Skelton.
Where the great luminary . . . Dispenses light from far. -- Milton.
Luminary (n.) One who illustrates any subject, or enlightens mankind; as, Newton was a distinguished luminary.
Luminary (n.) A celebrity who is an inspiration to others; "he was host to a large gathering of luminaries" [syn: {luminary}, {leading light}, {guiding light}, {notable}, {notability}].
Luminary (n.) One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.
Luminate (v. t.) To illuminate. [Obs.]
Lumination (n.) Illumination. [Obs.]
Lumine (v. i.) To illumine. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Luminiferous (a.) Producing light; yielding light; transmitting light; as, the luminiferous ether.
Luminosity (n.) 發光，光明；光度；發光體 The quality or state of being luminous; luminousness.
Luminosity (n.) The quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light; "its luminosity is measured relative to that of our sun" [syn: luminosity, brightness, brightness level, luminance, luminousness, light].
Luminous (a.) 發光的；夜光的；光輝的；照亮了的；清楚的，明白易懂的；有見識的 Shining; emitting or reflecting light; brilliant; bright; as, the is a luminous body; a luminous color.
Fire burneth wood, making it . . . luminous. -- Bacon.
The mountains lift . . . their lofty and luminous heads. -- Longfellow.
Luminous (a.) Illuminated; full of light; bright; as, many candles made the room luminous.
Up the staircase moved a luminous space in the darkness. -- Longfellow.
Luminous (a.) Enlightened; intelligent; also, clear; intelligible; as, a luminous mind. " Luminous eloquence." -- Macaulay. " A luminous statement." -- Brougham.
Luminous paint, A paint made up with some phosphorescent substance, as sulphide of calcium, which after exposure to a strong light is luminous in the dark for a time.
Syn: Lucid; clear; shining; perspicuous. -- Lu"mi*nous*ly, adv. -- Lu"mi*nous*ness, n.
Luminous (a.) Softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights"; "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars" [syn: aglow(p), lambent, lucent, luminous].
Lummox (n.) A fat, ungainly, stupid person; an awkward bungler. [Low.]
Lummox (n.) An awkward stupid person [syn: lout, clod, stumblebum, goon, oaf, lubber, lummox, lump, gawk].
Lump (n.) 團，塊 [C] [（+of）]；隆起，腫塊 [C] A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore. " A lump of cheese." -- Piers Plowman. " This lump of clay." -- Shak.
Lump (n.) A mass or aggregation of things.
Lump (n.) (Firearms) A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
In the lump,
In a lump, The whole together; in gross.
They may buy them in the lump. -- Addison.
Lump coal, Coal in large lumps; -- the largest size brought from the mine.
Lump sum, (a) A gross sum without a specification of items; as, to award a lump sum in satisfaction of all claims and damages.
Lump sum, (b) A single sum paid once in satisfaction of a claim, as contrasted with the alternate choice of several payments over a period of time; -- sometimes allowed, e.g., as an alternative to periodical pension payments for a lifetime.
Lumped (imp. & p. p.) of Lump.
Lumping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lump
Lump (v. i.) 結塊；起疙瘩；笨重地行走；沉重地坐下 [（+along/ down）] To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars.
The expenses ought to be lumped together. -- Ayliffe.
Lump (v. i.) To take in the gross; to speak of collectively.
Not forgetting all others, . . . whom for brevity, but out of no resentment to you, I lump all together. -- Sterne.
Lump (v. i.) To get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he does n't like it, he can lump it. [Low]
Lump (n.) A compact mass; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder" [syn: {ball}, {clod}, {glob}, {lump}, {clump}, {chunk}].
Lump (n.) An abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement [syn: {swelling}, {puffiness}, {lump}].
Lump (n.) An awkward stupid person [syn: {lout}, {clod}, {stumblebum}, {goon}, {oaf}, {lubber}, {lummox}, {lump}, {gawk}].
Lump (n.) A large piece of something without definite shape; "a hunk of bread"; "a lump of coal" [syn: {hunk}, {lump}].
Lump (v.) Put together indiscriminately; "lump together all the applicants" [syn: {lump}, {chunk}].
Lump (v.) Group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side [syn: {collocate}, {lump}, {chunk}].
Lumpen (n.) (Politics) same as lumpenproletariat.
Lumpen (n.) (Zool.) The European eelpout; -- called also lumper.
Lumper (n.) (Zool.) The European eelpout; -- called also lumpen.
Lumper (n.) One who lumps.
Lumper (n.) A laborer who is employed to load or unload vessels when in harbor.
Lumper (n.) A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port [syn: stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker, dockhand, dock worker, dockworker, dock-walloper, lumper].
Lumper (n.) A taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristics [ant: divider, splitter].
Lumpfish (n.) (Zool.) A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish ({Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl.
Lumpfish (n.) Clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar [syn: lumpfish, Cyclopterus lumpus].
Lumping (a.) Bulky; heavy. -- Arbuthnot.
Lumpish (a.) Like a lump; inert; gross; heavy; dull; spiritless. " Lumpish, heavy, melancholy." -- Shak. -- Lump"ish*ly, adv. -- Lump"ish*ness, n.
Lumpish (a.) Mentally sluggish [syn: lumpish, lumpen, unthinking].
Lumpsucker (n.) (Zool.) The lumprish.
Lumpfish (n.) (Zool.) A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish ({Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales.
The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl.
Lumpsucker (n.) Any of several very small lumpfishes.
Lumpy (a.) 多塊的；波浪起伏的；粗笨的 Full of lumps, or small compact masses; as, a lumpy bed; a lumpy batch of dough.
Lumpy (a.) Like or containing small sticky lumps; "the dumplings were chunky pieces of uncooked dough" [syn: {chunky}, {lumpy}].
Lumpy (a.) Having lumps; not smooth and even in texture; "lumpy gravy".
Luna (n.) The moon.
Luna (n.) (Alchemy) Silver.
Luna cornea (Old Chem.), Horn silver, or fused silver chloride, a tough, brown, translucent mass; -- so called from its resemblance to horn.
Luna moth (Zool.), A very large and beautiful American moth ({Actias luna). Its wings are delicate light green, with a stripe of purple along the front edge of the anterior wings, the other margins being edged with pale yellow. Each wing has a lunate spot surrounded by rings of light yellow, blue, and black. The caterpillar commonly feeds on the hickory, sassafras, and maple.
Luna (n.) (Roman mythology) the goddess of the Moon; counterpart of Greek Selene.
LUNA, () Leuchtendatei fuer UnfallfluchtNAchforschungen (INPOL).
Luna -- U.S. County in New Mexico
Population (2000): 25016
Housing Units (2000): 11291
Land area (2000): 2965.088856 sq. miles (7679.544556 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.188562 sq. miles (0.488373 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2965.277418 sq. miles (7680.032929 sq. km)
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 32.176393 N, 107.712209 W
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Lunacies (n. pl. ) of Lunacy.
Lunacy (n.) 精神失常；愚蠢的行為 Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation. -- Brande. -- Burrill.
Your kindred shuns your house As beaten hence by your strange lunacy. -- Shak.
Lunacy (n.) A morbid suspension of good sense or judgment, as through fanaticism. -- Dr. H. More.
Syn: Derangement; craziness; mania. See Insanity.
Lunacy (n.) Obsolete terms for legal insanity [syn: lunacy, madness, insaneness].
Lunacy (n.) Foolish or senseless behavior [syn: folly, foolery, tomfoolery, craziness, lunacy, indulgence].
Lunacy, () med. jur. A disease of the mind, which is differently defined as it applies to a class of disorders, or only to one species of them. As a general term it includes all the varieties of mental, disorders, not fatuous.
Lunacy, () Lunacy is adopted as a general term, on account of its general use as such in various legislative acts and legal proceedings, as commissions of lunacy, and in this sense it seems to be synonymous with non compos mentis, or of unsound mind.
Lunacy, () In a more restricted sense, lunacy is the state of one who has bad understanding, but by disease, grief, or other accident, has lost the use of reason. 1 Bl. Com. 304.
Lunacy, () The following extract from a late work, Stock on the Law of Non Compotes Mentis, will show the difficulties of discovering what is and what is not lunacy. "If it be difficult to find an appropriate definition or comprehensive name for the various species of lunacy," says this author, page 9, "it is quite as difficult to find anything approximating to a positive evidence of its presence. There are not in lunacy, as in fatuity, external signs not to be mistaken, neither is there that similarity of manner and conduct which enables any one, who has observed instances of idiocy or imbecility, to detect their presence in all subsequent cases, by the feebleness of perception and dullness of sensibility common to them all. The varieties of lunacy are as numerous as the varieties of human nature, its excesses commensurate with the force of human passion, its phantasies coextensive with the range of human intellect. It may exhibit every mood from the most serious to the most gay, and take every tone from the most sublime to the most ridiculous. It may confine itself to any trifling feeling or opinion, or overcast the whole moral and mental conformation. It may surround its victim with unreal persons and events, or merely cause him to regard real persons and events with an irrational favor or dislike, admiration or contempt. It may find satisfaction in the most innocent folly, or draw delight from the most atrocious crime. It may lurk so deeply as to elude the keenest search, or obtrude so openly as to attract the most careless notice. It may be the fancy of an hour, or the distraction of a whole life. Such being the fact, it is not surprising that many scientific and philosophical men have vainly exhausted their observation and ingenuity to find out some special quality, some peculiar mark or characteristic common to all cases of lunacy, which might serve at least as a guide in deciding on its absence or presence in individual instances. Being hopeless of a definition, they would willingly have contented themselves with a test, but even this the obscurity and difficulty of the subject seem to forbid.
Lunacy, () Lord Erskine, who, in his practice at the bar, had his attention drawn this way, from being engaged in some of the most remarkable trials of his time involving questions of lunacy, has given as his test, "a delusive image, the inseparable companion of real insanity," (Ersk. Misc. Speeches) and Dr. Haslam, whose opportunities of observation have surpassed most other persons, has proposed nearly the same, by saying that "false belief is the essence of insanity." (Haslam on Insanity.) Sir John Nicholl, in his admirable judgment in the case of Dew v. Clark, thus expresses himself: "The true criterion is, where there is delusion of mind there is insanity; that is, when persons believe things to exist, which exist only, or at least, in that degree exist only in their own imagination, and of the non-existence of which neither argument nor proof can convince them; they are of unsound mind; or as one of the counsel accurately expressed it, it is only the belief of facts, which no rational person could have believed, that is insane delusion." (Report by Haggard, p. 7.) Useful as these several remarks are, they are not absolutely true. It is indeed beyond all question that the great majority of lunatics indulge in some "delusive image," entertain some "false belief." They assume the existence of things or persons which do not exist, and so yield to a delusive image, or they come to wrong conclusions about persons and things which do exist, and so fall into a false belief. But there is a class of cases where lunacy is the result of exclusive indulgence in particular trains of thought or feeling, where these tests are sometimes wholly wanting, and yet where the entire absorption of the faculties in one predominant idea, the devotion of all the bodily and mental powers to one useless or injurious purpose, prove that the mind has lost its equilibrium. With some passions, indeed, such as self-esteem and fear, what was at first an engrossing sentiment, will often go on to a positive delusion; the self-adoring egotist grows to fancy himself a sovereign or a deity; the timid valetudinarian becomes the prey of imaginary diseases, the victim of unreal persecutions. But with many other passions, such as desire, avarice or revenge, the neglect and forgetfulness of all things save one, the insensibility to all restraints of reason, morality, or prudence, often proceed to such an extent as to justify holding an individual as a lunatic, incapable of all self-restraint, although, strictly speaking, not possessed by any delusive image or false belief. Much less do these tests apply to many cases of irresistible propensity to acts wholly irrational, such as to murder or to steal without the smallest assignable motive, which, rare as they are, certainly occur from time to time, and cannot but be held as an example of at least partial and temporary lunacy. It is to cases where no false belief or image can be detected, that the remark of Lord Erskine is more particularly applicable; "they frequently mock the wisdom of the wisest in judicial trials," (Ersk. Misc. Speeches,) and were not the paramount object of all legal punishment the benefit of the community, which makes it inexpedient to spare offenders against the law, if insanity be the ground of their defence, except upon the clearest proof, lest skillful dissemblers should thereby be led to hope for impunity, very subtle questions might no doubt be raised as to the degree of moral responsibility and mental sanity attaching to the perpetrators of many atrocious acts, seeing that they often commit them tinder temptations quite inadequate to allure men of common prudence, or under passions so violent as to suspend altogether the operations of reason or free will. For as it is impossible to obtain an accurate definition of lunacy, so it is manifestly so, to draw the line correctly between it and its opposite rationality, or, to borrow the words of Chief Justice Hale, (1 Hale's P. C. p. 30,) "Doubtless most persons that are felons, of themselves and others, are under a degree of partial insanity when they commit those offences. It is very difficult to define theindivisible line that divides perfect and partial, insanity; but it must rest on circumstances duly to be weighed and considered both by the judge and jury, lest on one side there be a kind of inhumanity towards the defects of human nature, or on the other side too great an indulgence given to great crimes."
Lunar (a.) 月的；月球上的；按月球的運轉測定的；陰曆的；月亮似的；新月形的；蒼白的，微弱的 Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations.
Lunar (a.) Resembling the moon; orbed. -- Dryden.
Lunar (a.) Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month.
Lunar (a.) Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar herbs. -- Bacon.
Lunar caustic (Med. Chem.), Silver nitrate prepared to be used as a cautery; -- so named because silver was called luna by the ancient alchemists.
Lunar cycle. Same as Metonic cycle. See under Cycle.
Lunar distance, The angular distance of the moon from the sun, a star, or a planet, employed for determining longitude by the lunar method.
Lunar method, The method of finding a ship's longitude by comparing the local time of taking (by means of a sextant or circle) a given lunar distance, with the Greenwich time corresponding to the same distance as ascertained from a nautical almanac, the difference of these times being the longitude.
Lunar month. See Month.
Lunar observation, An observation of a lunar distance by means of a sextant or circle, with the altitudes of the bodies, and the time, for the purpose of computing the longitude.
Lunar tables. (a) (Astron.) Tables of the moon's motions, arranged for computing the moon's true place at any time past or future.
Lunar tables. (b) (Navigation) Tables for correcting an observed lunar distance on account of refraction and parallax.
Lunar year, The period of twelve lunar months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, and 34.38 seconds.
Lunar (n.) (Astron.) A lunar distance.
Lunar (n.) (Anat.) The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus; -- called also semilunar, and intermedium.
Lunar (a.) Of or relating to or associated with the moon; "lunar surface"; "lunar module".
Lunar. () That which belongs to the moon; relating to the moon as a lunar month. See Month.
Lunarian (n.) （假想中的）月球上居住者；研究月球的人 An inhabitant of the moon.
Lunarian, (n.) An inhabitant of the moon, as distinguished from Lunatic, one whom the moon inhabits. The Lunarians have been described by Lucian, Locke and other observers, but without much agreement. For example, Bragellos avers their anatomical identity with Man, but Professor Newcomb says they are more like the hill tribes of Vermont.
Lunary (a.) Lunar. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Lunary (n.) (Bot.) The herb moonwort or "honesty".
Lunary (n.) (Bot.) A low fleshy fern ({Botrychium Lunaria) with lunate segments of the leaf or frond. Lunate
Lunaria (prop. n.) A small genus of European herbs of the mustard family, honesty+({Lunaria+annua">including the herb honesty ({Lunaria annua), which is also called moonwort and lunary.
Syn: genus Lunaria.
Lunate (a.) 新月形的 Alt. of Lunated.
Lunated (a.) Crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross.
Lunatic (a.) 瘋的，精神錯亂的；愚妄的，瘋狂的 Affected by lunacy; insane; mad.
Lunatic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, an insane person; evincing lunacy; as, lunatic gibberish; a lunatic asylum.
Lunatic (n.) 瘋子，瘋傻的人 [C] A person affected by lunacy; an insane person, esp. one who has lucid intervals; a madman; a person of unsound mind.
Lunation (n.) 太陰月 The period of a synodic revolution of the moon, or the time from one new moon to the next; varying in length, at different times, from about 291/4 to 295/6 days, the average length being 29 d., 12h., 44m., 2.9s.
Lunation (n.) The period between successive new moons (29.531 days) [syn: lunar month, moon, lunation, synodic month].
Lunch (n.) 午餐；【美】便餐；便當 [U] [C]；午餐（或便餐）的食品 [C] A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner, most commonly about noontime.
Lunched (imp. & p. p.) of Lunch
Lunching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lunch
Lunch (v. i.) 吃午餐 To take luncheon. -- Smart.
Lunch (n.) A midday meal [syn: lunch, luncheon, tiffin, dejeuner].
Lunch (v.) Take the midday meal; "At what time are you lunching?"
Lunch (v.) Provide a midday meal for; "She lunched us well".
Luncheon (n.) 午餐，（正式的）午餐會 [U] [C] A lump of food. [Prov. Eng.]
Luncheon (n.) A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal. [obsolescnet]
Luncheon (n.) A lunch, especially one organized by a group as a formal social gathering.
Luncheon (v. i.) To take luncheon. -- Beaconsfield.
Lune (n.) 弓形，半月形 Anything in the shape of a half moon. [R.]
Lune (n.) (Geom.) A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles.
Lune (n.) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak. [Obs.]
These dangerous, unsafe lunes i' the king. -- Shak.
Lunet (n.) A little moon or satellite. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Lunette (n.) (Fort.) A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.
Lunette (n.) (Far.) A half horseshoe, which wants the sponge.
Lunette (n.) A kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles.
Lunette (n.) A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
Lunette (n.) (Arch.) Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line.
Lunette (n.) An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.
Lunette window (Arch.), A window which fills or partly fills a lunette.
Lunette (n.) Temporary fortification like a detached bastion
Lunette (n.) Oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault [syn: lunette, fenestella].
Lung (n.) (Anat.) An organ for aerial respiration; -- commonly in the plural.
My lungs began to crow like chanticleer. -- Shak.
Note: In all air-breathing vertebrates the lungs are developed from the ventral wall of the esophagus as a pouch which divides into two sacs. In amphibians and many reptiles the lungs retain very nearly this primitive saclike character, but in the higher forms the connection with the esophagus becomes elongated into the windpipe and the inner walls of the sacs become more and more divided, until, in the mammals, the air spaces become minutely divided into tubes ending in small air cells, in the walls of which the blood circulates in a fine network of capillaries. In mammals the lungs are more or less divided into lobes, and each lung occupies a separate cavity in the thorax. See Respiration.
Lung fever (Med.), Pneumonia.
Lung flower (Bot.), A species of gentian ({Gentian Pneumonanthe).
Lung lichen (Bot.), Tree lungwort. See under Lungwort.
Lung sac (Zool.), One of the breathing organs of spiders and snails.
Lung (n.) Either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood.
Lunge (n.) A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.
Lunged (imp. & p. p.) of Lunge
Lunging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lunge
Lunge (v. i.) To make a lunge.
Lunge (v. t.) To cause to go round in a ring, as a horse, while holding his halter. -- Thackeray.
Lunge (n.) (Zool.) Same as Namaycush.
Lunge (n.) The act of moving forward suddenly [syn: lurch, lunge].
Lunge (n.) (Fencing) An attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward [syn: lunge, straight thrust, passado].
Lunge (v.) Make a thrusting forward movement [syn: lunge, hurl, hurtle, thrust].
Lunged (a.) Having lungs, or breathing organs similar to lungs.
Lungfish (n.) (Zool.) Any fish belonging to the Dipnoi; -- so called because they have both lungs and gills.
Lungfish (n.) Air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud coverings in which to survive drought.
Lung-grown (a.) (Med.) Having lungs that adhere to the pleura.
Lungie (n.) (Zool.) A guillemot. [Written also longie.] [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Lungis (n.) A lingerer; a dull, drowsy fellow. [Obs.]
Lungless (a.) Being without lungs.
Lungoor (n.) (Zool.) A long-tailed monkey ({Semnopithecus schislaceus), from the mountainous districts of India.
Lungworm (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of parasitic nematoid worms which infest the lungs and air passages of cattle, sheep, and other animals, often proving fatal. The lungworm of cattle ({Strongylus micrurus) and that of sheep ({S. filaria) are the best known.
Lungwort (n.) (Bot.) An herb of the genus Pulmonaria ({P. officinalis), of Europe; -- so called because the spotted appearance of the leaves resembles that of a diseased lung.
Lungwort (n.) (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Mertensia (esp. M. Virginica and M. Sibirica) plants nearly related to Pulmonaria. The American lungwort is Mertensia Virginica, Virginia cowslip. -- Gray.
Cow's lungwort, Mullein.
Sea lungwort, Mertensia maritima, Found on the seacoast of Northern Europe and America.
Tree+lungwort,+A+lichen+({Sticta+pulmonacea">Tree lungwort, a lichen ({Sticta pulmonacea) growing on trees and rocks. The thallus is lacunose, and in appearance somewhat resembles the lungs, for diseases of which it was once thought a remedy.
Lunicurrent (a.) Having relation to changes in currents that depend on the moon's phases. -- Bache.
Luniform (a.) Resembling the moon in shape.
Lunisolar (a.) Resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon.
Lunisolar precession (Astron.), That portion of the annual precession of the equinoxes which depends on the joint action of the sun and moon.
Lunisolar year, A period of time, at the end of which, in the Julian calendar, the new and full moons and the eclipses recur on the same days of the week and month and year as in the previous period. It consists of 532 common years, being the least common multiple of the numbers of years in the cycle of the sun and the cycle of the moon.
Lunisolar (a.) Relating to or attributed to the moon and the sun or their mutual relations.
Lunistice (n.) (Astron.) The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution. [Obs.]
Lunitidal (a.) Pertaining to tidal movements dependent on the moon. -- Bache.
Lunitidal interval. See Retard, n.
Lunt (n.) The match cord formerly used in firing cannon.
Lunt (n.) A puff of smoke. [Scotch.] -- Burns. Lunulae
Lunulae (n. pl. ) of Lunula.
Lunula (n.) (Anat. & Zool.) Same as Lunule.