lunarium 
lunarium (lu-ua'ri-um), .; pi. Innariums, liiim- 
rin (-umz, -a). [XL., < L. lunaris, of the moon : 
see lunar.'] A mechanical representation of the 
moon and its phases. 
What is become of the Lunarium for the King? 
Jefferson, Correspondence, II. 393. 
lunary 1 ! (lu'na-ri), a. [< L. lunaris, of the 
moon : see lunar.'] Same as lunar. 
The Greeks observed the lunary year that is, twelve 
revolutions of the moon, 354 dayea. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iv. 12. 
lunary 2 (lu'na-ri), 7!. ; pi. lu>iaries(-Tiz). [X ME. 
linxirif = OF. luniiire, < ML. lunaria, moonwort 
(in NL. the specific name of the plant), < L. lu- 
naris, of the moon : see lunar.'] 1 . The garden- 
flower Lunaria annua. See honesty, 5, and Lu- 
naria. 2. The moonwort, Botrychium Lunaria. 
This herb was formerly supposed to have the power of 
opening locks and drawing the shoes from the feet of 
horses. (See quotation under lunatic, a., 3.) The name 
was formerly applied to various other real or imaginary 
plants having superstitious associations. 
luna-Silkworm (lu'na-silk' i 'werm), n. The 
caterpillar of the luna-moth, Actias luna. 
Luna-silkworm (Actias lutta], natural size. 
lunata, n. Plural of lu>uitu.m. 
lunate (lu'nat), a. [< L. lunatiis, crescent- 
shaped, pp. of liinare, bend like a crescent, < 
lima, the moon : see luna.'] 1 . Crescent-shaped, 
or like the moon in its first quarter ; having a 
figure formed by a part of a circle cut off by 
the segment of a larger circle. 2. In zool., 
same as lunated, 2. Lunate palpi, in entam., palpi 
having the last joint crescent-shaped. 
lunated (lu'na-ted), a. 1. Formed like a cres- 
cent. 
A sort of cross, which our heralds do not dream of ; 
which is a cross lunated after this manner. 
E. Browne, Travels (1686), p. 64. 
2. In zool., having crescentiform markings: as, 
the lunated broadbill, Serilophus lunatus Lu- 
nated falcon. See/ofcon. 
lunatellus (lu-na-tel'us), j. ; pi. lunatelli (-1). 
[< L. luna, the moon, + tellus, earth. Cf. tellu- 
rian.'] An orrery showing the astronomical 
relations of the earth and the moon. E. H. 
Knight. 
Innately (lu'nat-li), adv. In the form of a 
crescent. 
More or less Innately curved. 
B. C. Wood, Fresh- Water Algffi, p. 109. 
Lunatia (lu-na'ti-a), n. Same as Natica. 
lunatic (lu'na-tik), a. and n. [< ME. lunatilc, 
< OF. htnatique (vernacularly lunage), F. luna- 
tique = Sp. lundtico = Pg. It. lunatico, < LL. 
lunaticus, mad, moonstruck, insane, < L. luna, 
the moon: see luna.] I. a. 1. Moonstruck; 
affected by lunacy; periodically insane, with 
lucid intervals ; crazy. 
Persuade him that he hath been lunatic. 
Shah, T. of the S., Ind., i. 83. 
Itpleased God to restore him againeto life.butsodrunke 
und affrighted that he seemed Lunaticke. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 226. 
2. Indicating lunacy; in the nature of lunacy. 
Sometime with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers 
Shak., Lear, ii. 3. Ii). 
Of a most lunatic conscience and spleen, and affects the 
violence of singularity in all he does. 
B. Joneon, Bartholomew Fair, i. 1. 
3f. Of or like the moon. [An erroneous use.] 
That ferrum equinum [lunary] . . . hath a vertue at- 
:tlve of Iron, a power to break lockes, and draw off the 
snooes of a horse that passeth over it. ... Which stranee 
and magicall conceit seemes unto me to have no deeper 
root in reason then the figure of its seed, for therein in- 
deed it somewhat resembles an horseshooe, which notwith- 
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standing Baptista Porta hath too low a situation, and 
raised the same unto a Lunatic representation. 
Sir T. Broime, Pseud. Epid., ii. (1646, p. 100). 
II. H. 1. A person affected with lunacy ; spe- 
cifically, an insane person who has lucid inter- 
vals, or one whose unsoundness of mind is 
acquired, not congenital, as distinguished from 
an idiot. 
I must convince yon, not only that the unhappy prisoner 
was a lunatic, within my own definition of lunacy, but 
that the act in question was the immediate, unqualified 
offspring of the disease. 
Erskine, Speech for James Hadneld. 
A lunatic is one who has had understanding, but by dis- 
ease, grief, or other accident has lost the use of his reason, 
which yet the law presumes that he may recover. 
Minor, Inst. (2d ed.), L 86. 
2. More generally (and in law), any person of 
unsound mind. See further under lunacy and 
insanity. 
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet 
Are of imagination all compact ; 
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold 
That is, the madman. Shak., M. N. D., v. 1. 8. 
Tis time to take the monarch's power in hand : 
Authority and force to join the skill, 
And save the lunatics against their will. 
Tote (?), in Dryden's Abs. and Achit., xii. 780. 
Adjudicated lunatic, one whose incompetency to man- 
age his own property and affairs, by reason of mental un- 
soundness, has been judicially established by a commis- 
sion or inquest, and who is thereby interdicted from mak- 
ing contracts and dispositions of property. Criminal 
lunatic, a convict, or one in custody under accusation 
of crime, who has been found to be unfit for trial or for 
punishment by reason of unsoundness of mind : some- 
times used to include also persons not amenable to crimi- 
nal punishment by reason of having been of unsound 
mind at the time of committing the crime. Lunatic 
asylum, a house or hospital established for the reception 
and treatment of lunatics. =Syn. See insanity. 
lunatical (lu-nat'i-kal), a. [< lunatic + -al.] 
Affected by or manifesting madness or lunacy ; 
lunatic. [Rare.] 
At any rate, he was of a most lunatical deportment. 
Hawetts, Venetian Life, vii. 
lunation (lu-na'shqn), 7i. [< ME. lunacioun = 
F. lunaison = Sp. lunacion = Pg. lunacSo = It. 
lunazione, < ML. lunatio(n-), the revolution of 
the moon ; in form as if < L. lunare, pp. lunatus, 
bend like a crescent (see lunate), but in sense 
directly < fawn, the moon: see luna.] The pe- 
riod of a synodic revolution of the moon, or the 
time from one new moon to the next. 
And there is not the Mone seyn in alle the Lunacinun, 
saf only the seconde quarteroun. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 301. 
When it is stated that during four lunations twelve 
series of observations only were secured, some idea of the 
amount of cloudy weather can be formed. 
C. F. Hall, Polar Expedition, p. 323. 
lunatum (lu-na'tum), n. ; pi. lunata (-ta). [L., 
i\eut. of lunatus, crescent-shaped: see lunate.] 
A bone of the proximal row of the carpus of some 
animals, as batrachians, on the radial side of the 
wrist, probably homologous with the radiale. 
lunch (lunch), . [A var. of lump, as bunch of 
bump and hunch of hump. In def. 2 lunch is 
commonly regarded as an abbr. of luncheon, 
which is therefore by some preferred as the 
more correct or "elegant" form; but lunch, 2, 
is derivable as well from lunch, \, directly; cf. 
piece in the sense of ' a slight repast.' See lun- 
cheon.] 1. A large lump or piece, as of bread. 
[Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 
An' cheese and bread, frae women's laps. 
Was dealt about in lunches. Burns, Holy Fair. 
2. A slight repast or meal between breakfast 
and dinner, or, as formerly, between dinner 
and supper, or between dinner or supper and 
bedtime; luncheon. 
As for the lunches, the one is pure Sicilian, of the fruits 
of the orchard and the vine ; the other, pure Briton, 
smacking of the cook and the larder. 
Stedman, Viet Poets, p. 231. 
lunch (lunch), v. i. [< lunch, n.] To take a 
lunch or luncheon. 
I have breakfasted with Bolivar I have lunched with 
Napoleon I have dined with Wellington and now. 
blessed be the stars above, here am I drinking tea with 
North and Tickler. Nodes Amarosianat, Sept 1, 183-2. 
We lunched fairily upon little dishes of rose leaves deli- 
cately preserved. UoweUa, Venetian Life, xiii. 
lunch-counter (lunch'koun"ter), n. A counter 
or long elevated table in an eating-house or 
other house of entertainment, at which per- 
sons sit on high stools or stand while taking a 
lunch: also, colloquially, a standee. [U.S.] 
luncheon (lun'chon), . [Formerly also lun- 
chion, lunshin; a dial. word. prob. for "lunchin, 
'"lunching, < lunch + -ingl. The termination, 
like that of the unrelated nuncheon, simulates 
lunette 
a F. origin.] 1. A large lump or piece, as of 
bread: same as lunch, 1. Cotgrare. 
I sliced the luncheon from the barley-loaf. 
Gay, Shepherd's Week, Tuesday, 1. 70. 
I instantly borrowed the old man's knife, and, taking up 
the loaf, cut myself a hearty luncheon. 
Sterne, Sentimental Journey, p. 115. 
2. A slight repast: same as lunch, 2. The form 
luncheon is now regarded as more "elegant" than lunch. 
He was introduced to the early dinner, where all the 
children sat in their high chairs, and where the food was 
more wholesome than delicate a meal which was too 
plainly dinner to be disguised under the name of luncheon. 
Mrs. Oliphant, Poor Gentleman, xiv. 
luncheon (lun'chon), r. i. [< luncheon, n.] To 
take lunch or luncheon. [Bare.] 
While ladies are luncheoning on Perigord pie, or cours- 
ing in whirling britskas, performing all the singular cere- 
monies of a London morning in the heart of the season. 
Disraeli. 
luncheon-bar (lun'chon-bar), n. In Great Brit- 
ain, a part of an inn or public house where lun- 
cheon can be had. Compare lunch-counter. 
lunda (lun'da), . [A native name.] 1. The 
common puffin, Fratercula arctica. Montagu. 
2. [cap.] [NL.] A genus of Alcida;, having 
the bill much as in Fratercula, but the head 
adorned with a long curly crest on each side ; 
the tufted puffins. L. cirrata is a common species of 
the North Pacific ocean from California to Kamchatka. 
See Fratercula and puffin. 
lundresst (lun'dres), n. [< F. Londres, London.] 
A sterling silver penny formerly coined in Lon- 
don. Encyc. Diet. 
lune 1 (lun), n. [< F. lune = Sp. Pg. It. luna, < 
L. luna, the moon: see luna.] 1. Anything in 
the shape of a crescent or half-moon. [Rare.] 
Some faithful janizaries strew'd the field, 
Fall'n in just ranks or wedges, lunes or squares, 
Firm as they stood. 
Watts, Lyric Poems, ii. (Enzyc. Diet.) 
2. In geotn., a figure formed on a sphere or on 
a plane by two arcs of circles which inclose a 
space. Hippocrates, probably a contemporary of the 
celebrated physician of that name, squared those plane 
lunes (MTJPIC-KOI) which are contained by two arcs standing 
on the same chord, the central angles of the arcs being to 
one another as 1 : 2 or 1 : 3 or 2 :3. 
The lune of Hippocrates is famous as being the first cur- 
vilinear space whose area was exactly determined. 
Davies. 
3f. A fit of lunacy or madness ; a mad freak or 
tantrum. 
Yea, watch 
His pettish lunes, his ebbs, his flows, as if 
The passage and whole carriage of this action 
Bode on his tide. Shak., T. and C., it 3. 139. 
Iune 2 t (lun), n. [Prob. another form of line".] 
A leash : as, the lune of a hawk. 
The lunes, or small thongs of leather, might be fastened 
to them with two tyrrits, or rings ; and the hmei were 
loosely wound round the little finger. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 91. 
lune 3 (lun), 7). Another spelling of loon 2 . 
Lunel(lu-ner),7i. [F.] A sweet and rich white 
muscat wine, similar to Frontignan, produced 
in the south of France, in the department of 
H^rault. 
lunett (lu'net), n. [< F. lunette, OF. lunete, dim. 
of lune, the moon: see lunel. Cf. lunette.] A 
little moon; a satellite. 
Our predecessors could never have believed that there 
were such lunets about some of the planets as our late per- 
spectives have descryed. Bp. Hall, Peace-Maker, 10. 
lunette (lu-nef), [< F. lunette, dim. of lune, 
the moon: see hrnet.] 1. In fort., a detached 
work with flanks, presenting a sa- 
lient angle to the enemy, intended 
for the protection of avenues, 
bridges, and the curtains of field- 
works. 2. In farriery, a half- 
horseshoe, having only the front. Lunette.dei. i. 
3. A blinder for the eye of a horse. 4. In 
arch. : (a) The aperture formed by the inter- 
section of any vault by a vault of smaller di- 
mensions ; particularly, such an aperture in a 
vaulted ceiling for the admission of light. Of 
this class are the upper lights of the naves of 
St. Peter's at Rome and St. Paul's in London. 
The effigy is placed under a Gothic arch whose lunette 
once contained a fresco by the Sienese painter Pietro Lo- 
renzetti. C. C. Perkins, Italian Sculpture, p. 69. 
(6) A small aperture or window, especially if 
curved or circular, in a roof. 5. In a glass-fur- 
nace, the flue connecting the fire-chamber and 
the pot-chamber. E. H. Knight. 6. A watch- 
crystal flattened in the center ; also, a kind of 
concavo-convex lens for spectacles. 7. In 
nrcha-ol., a crescent ornament made of thin 
gold and intended as a diadem or gorget, found 
in ancient tombs of various epochs. 8. A work 
