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Lute

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 5

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.

2. A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.

3. A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 5

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 5

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 5

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 5 of 5

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To play on a lute, or as on a lute. Knaves are men That lute and flute fantastic tenderness. Tennyson.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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