Hypertext Webster Gateway: "lute"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lute \Lute\, v. i.
To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lute \Lute\, v. t.
To play on a lute, or as on a lute.
Knaves are men That lute and flute fantastic
tenderness. --Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lute \Lute\, n. [OF. leut, F. luth; skin to Pr. la['u]t, It.
li['u]to, le['u]to, Sp. la['u]d, 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
lute
n 1: a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface
to make it impervious to gas or liquid [syn: {luting}]
2: chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a
pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted
fingerboard
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