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Mediaeval Tatar tribes, some of whom had conscientious 
scruples against bathing, have found passing through flre 
or between two fires a sufficient purification, and the 
household stuff of the dead was Imtrated in this latter 
way. E. B, Tylor, Prim. Culture, II. 893. 
Iustrate 2 t (lus'trat), v, i. [< L. lustratus, pp. 
of lustrare, review, survey, go around, wander, 
deflected use of lustrare, purify by means of a 
propitiatory offering: see lustrate\ luster*.] To 
go about ; wander. 
Thrice through Aventines mount he doth lustrate. 
Vicars, tr. of Virgil (1632). (Nares.) 
Iustrate 3 t (lus'trat), v. t. [< ML. lustratus, pp. 
of lustrare, illustrate, adorn, < "lustrum, splen- 
dor: see faster 2 , Zosire 1 . CLittustrate.'] To luster. 
Making, dressing, and lustrating of plain black ala- 
modes, renforcez, and lustrings. 
Act of Parliament (1698X quoted in Drapers' Diet., p. 210. 
lustration (lus-tra'shon), . [= P. lustration 
= Sp. lustration Pg. lustrapSo = It. lustra- 
stone, < L. lustratio(n-), an expiation, < lustrare, 
pp. lustratus, purify: see litstrate 1 .'] Ceremonial 
purification ; especially, a religious act of pur- 
gation or cleansing by the use of water or cer- 
tain sacrifices or ceremonies, or both, perform- 
ed among the ancients upon persons, armies, 
cities, localities, animals, etc. The ceremony was 
practised by the Greeks chiefly to free its subjects from 
the pollution of crime, but by the Romans as a general 
means of securing a divine blessing, and in some cases at 
regular fixed intervals, as of the whole people every five 
years. 
This was the sense of the old world in their lustrations, 
and of the Jews in their preparatory baptisms. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835X I. 633. 
Let his baptismal drops for us atone ; 
Lustrations for offences not his own. 
Dryden, Britannia Rediviva, 1. 189. 
lustre 1 , lustred, etc. See luster 2 , etc. 
lustre 2 , n. See luster^. 
lustrical (lus'tri-kal), a. [< L. lustricus, of or 
belonging to purification, < lustrum, a purifica- 
tory sacrifice : see lustrum.'] Pertaining to 
purification by lustration : said of the day on 
which a Roman infant was purified and named. 
This name was properly personal, equivalent to that of 
baptism with us, and imposed with ceremonies somewhat 
analogous to it on the ninth day, called the lustrical, or 
day of purification. Middleton, Cicero, I. 1. 
lustrine (lus'trin), n. [< F. lustrine, < It. lus- 
trino, a shining silk tinsel, < lustra, luster : see 
luster^,"] Same as lustring^. 
lustring 1 , . See lustering. 
lustring 2 (lus'tring), n. [A corruption (still fur- 
ther corrupted in lutestring^), simulating string, 
of lustrine: see lustrine.] A species of glossy 
silk fabric: a term more used in the seven- 
teenth and eighteenth centuries than now, and 
denoting generally plain solid silk, neither fig- 
ured nor corded, nor having a satin surface. 
The fraudulent importation of foreign alamodes and lus- 
trings. 
Act of Parliament (1698), quoted in Drapers' Diet., p. 209. 
lustrous (lus'trus), a. [< OF. lustreux = Sp. 
Pg. It. lustroso, lustrous, < ML. "lustrum, luster: 
see faster 2 .] 1. Giving out or shedding light, 
as the sun or a fire; bright; brilliant; lumi- 
nous : chiefly used figuratively. 
The more lustrousthe imagination is, it filleth and flxeth 
the better. Bacon, Nat. Hist., 956. 
Some sparks of a lustrous spirit will shine through the 
disguisements. Lamb, Decay of Beggars. 
2. Reflecting light ; having a brilliant surface. 
My sword and yours are kin. Good sparks and lustrous. 
Shale., All's Well, ii. 1. 41. 
A lustrous surface reflects the light of the surrounding 
objects, and gives rise to the play of a thin radiance, as 
of a slight film or gauze, softening without obscuring the 
colour beneath. A. Bain, Emotions and Will, p. 227. 
Lustrous glaze. See glaze. =Syn. Radiant, brilliant 
lustrously (lus'trus-li), adv. In a lustrous 
manner; brilliantly; luminously. 
lustrum (lus'trum), n. ; pi. lustrums or lustra 
(-trumz, -tra). [= P. lustre = Sp. Pg. It. lustra, 
< L. lustrum, a purificatory sacrifice, a period 
of five years: see luster^.] 1. A lustration or 
purification ; particularly, the ceremonial puri- 
fication of the whole Roman people, performed 
at the end of every five years. Hence 2. A 
space of five years. 
lustwort (lust'wert), n. The sundew, a plant 
of the genus Drosera, especially the common D. 
rotundifolia. 
lusty (lus'ti), a. [< ME. lusty (= D. G. Sw. 
lustig = Dan. tystig), pleasant, merry; < lust + 
-i/ 1 .] 1. Exciting desire ; pleasant; agreeable; 
attractive; handsome. 
That was or might be lusty to his herte. Lydaate. 
So lovedst thou the lusty Hyacinct ; 
So lovedst thou the faire Coronis deare. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. xi. 37. 
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2. Full of or characterized by life, spirit, vigor, 
or health; stout; vigorous; robust; healthy; 
strong; lively. 
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things, making 
thee young and lusty as an eagle. 
Book of Common Prayer, Psalter, Ps. cm. 5. 
Give me a bowl of lusty wine. B. Jonson, Volpone, v. L 
Our two boys are histy travellers. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 417. 
3f. Impudent; saucy. 
Cassius's soldiers did shew themselves verie stubborne 
andJusKeinthecamp. North, tr. of Plutarch. (Latham.) 
4. Bulky ; large ; of great size. 
A thriving gamester, that doth chance to win 
A lusty sum, while the good hand doth ply him. 
Ford, Fancies, Prol. 
5. Full-bodied or stout from pregnancy. [Col- 
loq.] gf. Lustful; hot-blooded. 
Before the flood thou with thy lusty crew, 
False titled sons of God, roaming the earth, 
Cast wanton eyes on the daughters of men. 
Hilton, P. R., ii. 178. 
Lutetia 
permanently satisfactory. Great care was often expended, 
however, upon the wood and the decoration of lutes, so that 
many of them were very beautiful in appearance. Music 
for the lute was written in a peculiar system of letters or 
numerals called tablature. Historically the lute is con- 
and the banjo. 
lute 1 (lut), v. ; pret. and pp. luted, ppr. luting. 
[< ME. luten; < fate 1 , n.~\ I. trans. To play on 
or as on a lute. 
Knaves are men 
That lute and flute fantastic tenderness. 
Tennyson, Princess, iv. 
II. intrans. 1. To play the lute. 
Treuthe trompede tho, and song "Te deum laudamus"; 
And then lutede Loue in a lowd note. 
Piers Plowman (C), xxi. 470. 
2. To sound sweetly, like a lute. [Poetical.] 
And in the air, her new voice luting soft, 
Cried, " Lycius ! gentle Lycius ! " Keats, Lamia, i. 
lute 2 (lut), n. [< OF. lut, clay, mold, loam, 
dirt, F. lut, lute (in chem. sense), = It. luto, 
=Syn. 2. Strong, Sturdy, etc. Seerobwt. ~""i " "' -~~~ v - j fiy 
lusty-gallant?, . The name of an old dance clay, mud, mire, lute, < L. lutum, mud lit. 
and probably of a popular ballad in the six- 'that which is washed down,' < luere, wash, = 
Gr. Ttohetv, wash. Cf. faster*.] 1. A composi- 
tion of clay or other tenacious substance used 
for stopping the joints of vessels, as in chemi- 
cal operations or in founding, so closely as to 
prevent the escape or entrance of air. 2. An 
extern al coating of clay, sand', or other substanc e 
t rf _ % __ _ applied to a glass retort, to enable it to support 
naturce, gen. ot*natwa, nature : 'see nature.'] 'A a high temperature without fusing or cracking, 
freak of nature; anything of a monstrous or 3. A brickmakers' straight-edge, a tool used 
unnatural kind: specifically, in nat. hist, and to strike off surplus clay from a brick-mold, 
phys. geog., an isolated and curious growth or and to level the molding-floor. 4. A rubber 
form, including, in natural history, mere un- packing-ring compressed between the lip and 
usual variations as well as pronounced mon- the lid of a jar to exclude the air Copper- 
strosities smiths' lute, bullocks' blood thickened with finely pow- 
rAlorv J,,tftiiat Jiitiniaf- dered quicklime. Spans' JSncyc. Manvf., p. 629. 
rer C the ^futeVfatoa, lute 2 Jlut), . t. ; pret. and pp. luted, ppr. lutin~ 
and probably of a popul 
teenth century. Nares. 
After all they danst lusKe gallant, and a drunken Dan- 
ish lavalto or two, and so departed. 
Nash, Terrors of the Night (1594). (Nares.) 
lustyhedet, n. See lustihead. 
lusus naturae (lu'sus na-tu're). [L.: lusus, a 
play, < ludere, pp. lusus, play (see ludicrous) ; 
' 
alute: seefate 1 .] person who play son a lute 
even after he sees plainly and comprehends fully all that 
the cunning lutenist doth. 
Sir E. Digby, Nature of Man's Soul, xi. 
As music follows the finger 
Of the dreaming lutanist. 
Lowell, Telepathy. 
lutarious (lu-ta'ri-us), a. [< L. lutarius, of or 
belonging to mud, < lutum, mud: see fate 2 , n.] 
Pertaining to, living in, or of the color of mud. 
A scaly tortoise-shell, of the lutarious kind [Emys luta- 
ria] N. Grew, Museum. Iute 4 t, A Middle English form of lout'-. 
lutation (lu-ta'shon), n. [< F. lutation = Sp. lute-backedt (lut'bakt), a. Having a curved 
lutacion, <'L. lutatio(n-), < lutare, pp. fatates, spine. Holland. 
daub with mud, < lutum, mud: see fate 2 , .] lutenist (lu'te-nist), .See lutamst. 
The act or method of luting vessels. luteoleine, luteolme (lu-te-o'le-in, or lu te-o- 
lute 1 (lut), n. [< ME. fate (= D. luit = MLG. fate hn ). . C< F - luteoleme, luteohne, < L. luteolus, 
substance for the purpose of closing cracks or 
joints. A glass retort is said to be luted when it is 
smeared over with clay to enable it to resist more perfectly 
the effects of heat, and thus guard it against fusion. 
Lute me up in a glass with my own seals. 
B. Jonson, Mercury Vindicated. 
Small boats, made of the barkes of trees, Bowed with 
barke and well luted with gumme. 
Capt. John Smith, Works, I. 135. 
t, a., n., and adv. A Middle English form 
yellowish, dim. of luteus, golden-yellow : see 
The yellow coloring matter of weld 
like that of a mandolin. The front of the body, or belly, had 
one or more sound-holes. The strings were usually of cat- 
= MHG. fate, G. laute = Sw. fata = Dan. luth), < 
OF.lut,Uut,F.luth = lt.liuto,leuto,Uudo(>^Gr. ----., 
kaovrov ; ML. lutana), < Sp. laud, orig. *alaud = or dyer>s-weed (C 2 qH 14 O 8 ). When sublimed it 
Pg. alaude, a lute, < Ar. al'ud, a lute, < al, the, crystallizes in needles. 
+ 'ud, a lute, harp, lit. wood, timber, whence luteolous (lu-te o-lus), a. [< L. luteolus, dun. of 
also the senses 'stick,' ' staff,' etc.] A medi- fatews, golden-yellow: see luteous.] Yellowish; 
eval musical instrument, the type of the class faintly luteous. 
which has strings stretched over a resonant body The microgonidia indefinite in number, much the small- 
o,.^ a ln( fnottoil nonlr and TjtfliinVi ia nla vorl Tvir er , P^ 6 OT dirty green Or luteoloUS. 
ana a long irettea necK, ana wmcn is piayea oy a c Wood Fresh . Watel . Alga) p . 99. 
twanging or snapping the strings with the fin- , . r , T 
flat as ir the Meous 1 (lu'te-us), a. [< L. fates, golden-yel- 
low, flame-colored, rose-colored, < lutum, a weed 
used in dyeing yellow, weld.] Of a golden-yel- 
low color ; also, more generally, yellow with a 
tinge of red, somewhat approaching the color of 
saffron or the yolk of an egg. 
luteous 2 (lu'te-us), a. [< L. luteus, muddy, < 
lutum, mud : see fate 2 , .] Like mud or clay. 
Inter (lu'ter),. Alutist. Levins; Baret. [Rare.] 
lutescent (lu-tes'ent),a. [< lut^eous)^ + -escent. 
The form was appar. suggested by L. lutes- 
cen(t-)s, ppr. of lutescere, turn to mud, < lutum, 
mud: see fate 2 , .] Yellow-tinged; tending to 
be or become luteous. 
lutestring 1 (lut'string), . [< fatel + string.] 
1. A string such as was used on a lute. 2. 
One of certain noctuid moths: so called from 
the lines on the fore wings, likened to lute- 
strings: as, the poplar-fates<n'M</, Cymatophora 
or; the lesser lutestring, C. diluta. 
lutestring 2 (lut'string), . [A^corruption of 
lustring, q. v.] 1. A plain glossy kind of silk 
formerly used for women's dresses. 2. A rib- 
bon of such silk TO speak in lutestrlngt, to speak 
in an affected manner. 
I was led to trouble you with these observations by a 
passage which, tn speak in lutestring, I met with this morn- 
ing in the course of my reading. Junius, Letters. 
[NL., < L. Lutetia, a 
city of Gaul (also called Lutetia Parisionim), 
^ ^ ^ 3 Of \ 
stopped upon the frets, "while the other lay beside the fin- 
ger-board, so as to be played un- 
stopped for the bass. The number 
of strings varied considerably, as 
did the tuning or accordatura; a 
common tuning for the six upper 
pairs of strings was 
p ! f ft-t 
and for the bass strings 
Lute. 
The frets were arranged so as to yield 
semitones. The tone was sweet, but 
light and incapable of much variation. 
The construction of the instrument was 
not strong enough to make the tuning 
sure or stable. In the effort to obtain 
varied and striking effects, many modifications were at- 
tempted, such as the archlute, the chitarrone, the harp- 
lute, and the theorbo, in which the number of strings was 
increased, the bass strings attached to a second neck 
above the first one, or metal strings introduced. A group 
or family of lutes of different sizes was also elaborated for T . 
concerted music; but the mechanical and acoustical JjUtCtia (lu-te sni-a), n. 
feebleness of the type prevented the results from being 
