lute

[lute]

A lute is an old fashioned stringed instrument that looks like a small, pear shaped guitar. The lute appears in many of Shakespeare's plays. You might also see a lute player at a Renaissance Faire.

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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.

Noun
chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard

Noun
a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid

n.
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.

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

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

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

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.

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

v. t.
To play on a lute, or as on a lute.

Lute

Lute , n. [L. lutum mud, clay: cf. OF. lut.] 1. (Chem.) 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. (Brick Making) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.

Lute

Lute, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Luted; p. pr. & vb. n. Luting.] To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.

Lute

Lute, n. [OF. leut, F. luth; skin to Pr. la'a3t, It. li'a3to, le'a3to, Sp. la'a3d, Pg. alaude; all fr. Ar. al'd; al the + 'd wood, timber, trunk or branch of a tree, staff, stick, wood of aloes, lute or harp.] (Mus.) 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.

Lute

Lute, v. i. To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.

Lute

Lute, v. t. To play on a lute, or as on a lute.

Knaves are men That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.

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.

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

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.

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

To play on a lute, or as on a lute.

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