Hypertext Webster Gateway: "lune"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lune \Lune\, n. [L. luna moon: cf. F. lune. See {Luna}.]
1. Anything in the shape of a half moon. [R.]
2. (Geom.) A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two
intersecting arcs of circles.
3. A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or
unreasonable freak. [Obs.]
These dangerous, unsafe lunes i' the king. --Shak.
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