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was held on th^ tenth day of Tifri, or the feventh month 
of the Jewiih year, anfwering to part of our September 
and October. It was inilituted by God himfelf; (Levit. 
xxiii 27, &c.) On that day the high-prieft, the figure 
or type of Jefus Chrift, entered into the moft holy place, 
and confeffed his fins ; and, after feveral ceremonies, made 
an atonement for all the people, to wa(h them from their 
fins. And, as the heathens either deftroyed or drove away 
thofe animals or perfons who had ferved in the luftration, 
fo the Jews fet at liberty the fcape-goat on the day of fo- 
lemn expiation. For the ceremonies on this occafion, fee 
Levit. Xvi. 5, 6, &c. Some fay, that a piece of fcarlet cloth, 
in form of a tongue, was tied on the forehead of the fcape- 
goat. Hoff. Lex. Univ. in voc. Lingua. 
Many have been the difpntes among the interpreters 
concerning the meaning of the word fcape goat ; or rather 
of azazel, for which fcape-goat is put in our verfion of the 
Bible. Spencer is of opinion, that Azazel is a proper 
name, fignifying the devil, or evil daemon ; and that the 
genuine reafons of the ceremony were, 1. That the goat, 
loaded with the fins of the people, and fent to Azazel, 
might be a fymbolical reprefentation of the miferable con¬ 
dition of linnets. 2. God fent the goat thus loaded to 
the evil daemons, to (how that they were impure, thereby 
to deter the people from any converfation or familiarity 
with them. 3. That, the' goat fent to Azazel fufficiently 
expiating all evils, the Ifraelites might the more wil¬ 
lingly abftain from the expiatory facrifices of the Gentiles. 
Spencer de Leg. Heb. Ritual. Dill', viii. 
LUS TRE,/, [lufre, Fr.] Brightnefs ; fplendour; glit¬ 
ter-—Out, vile jelly! where is thy/u/renow? Shakefpeare’s 
King Lear. 
Pafs but fome fleeting years, and thefe poor eyes, 
Where now without a boaft fome lufre lies, 
No longer fhall their little honours keep, 
But only be of ufe to read or weep. Prior. 
A fconce with lightss 
Ridotta fips, and dances till (he fee 
The doubling luf res dance as quick as (he. Pope. 
Eminence ; renown.—His anceftors continued about four 
hundred years, rather without obfcurity than with any great 
lufre, Wot.ton. —I ufed to wonder how a man of birth and 
fpirit could endure to be wholly infignificant and obfcure 
in a foreign country, when-he might live with lufre in 
his own. Swift. 
Lustre is particularly ufed to denote the glofs or 
brightnefs appearing on any thing, particularly on manu¬ 
factures of filk, wool, or fluff. It is likewife ufed to de¬ 
note the compofition or manner of giving that glofs. The 
luftre of filksisgiven them by walking in foap, then in clear 
water, and dipping them in alum-water cold. To give 
fluffs a beautiful luftre : For every eight pounds of fluff 
allow a quarter of a pound of linfeed ; boil it half an 
hour, and then ltrain it through a cloth, and let it Hand 
till it is turned almoft to a jelly : afterwards put an ounce 
and a half of gum to dillolve twenty-four hours ; then 
mix the liquor, and put the cloth into this mixture; take 
it out, dry it in the ihade, and prefs it. If once doing is 
not fufHcient, repeat the operation. Curriers give a luftre 
to black leather firlt with juice of barberries, then with 
gum-arabic, ale, vinegar, and Flanders glue, boiled toge¬ 
ther. For coloured leather, they ufe the white of an egg 
beaten in water. Moroccoes have their luftre from juice of 
barberries, and lemon or orange. For hats, the luftre is 
frequently given with common water: fometimes a little 
black dye is added : the fame luftre ferves for furs, ex¬ 
cept that for very black furs they fometimes prepare a 
luftre of galls, copperas, Roman alum, ox’s marrow, and 
other ingredients. Ency. Brit. 
LUSTRIF'ICAL, adj. [from lifrum, Lat. a purifica¬ 
tion, and facio, to make.] Purifying, expiating. Cole. 
LUS'TRING,/ [from lufre.'] A fhining filk; com¬ 
monly pronounced lutefring, and fometimes written fo.— 
Voi. XIII. No. 944. 
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Charles Townlhend calls the prefent a lutefring miniftry. 
Cheferf eld. 
A companv was incorporated for making, drefling, and 
luftrating, alamodes and iuftrings in England, who were 
to have the lole benefit thereof, by flat. 4 and 5 William 
and Mary. And no foreign fiiks known by the name of 
lif rings, or alamodes, are to be imported but at the port 
of London, See. 9, jo, William III. c. 43. See Silk. 
LUS'TROUS, adj. Bright; (fining; luminous.—Noble 
heroes, my (word and yours are kin, good fparks and 
luf rous. Shakefpeare. —The more lufrous the imagination 
is, it filleth and fixeth the better. Bacon's Nat. Hif. 
LUS'TRUM,/ A term ufed by the Romans, to fignify 
a (pace of rive years. Varro derives the word from luo , to 
pay; becaufe at the beginning of every fifth year they 
paid the cenfus, or tribute impofed by the cenfors ; whole 
authority, at their firft inftitution, was continued them 
for five years ; though afterwards it was abridged to one. 
Others rather derive the word from luf rare, to make a re¬ 
view ; becaufe once in five years the cenfors reviewed the 
army. 
Lustrum was alfoa ceremony, or facrifice, ufed by the 
Romans, after numbering their people, once in five years. 
See Lustration. The cenfus was accompanied always 
by a luftration of the people, hence the word luf rum has 
conftantly been taken by the ancients and moderns for a 
term of five years; yet, if we enquire into the real (late of 
the cafe, we (hall find no good ground for fixing fo pre- 
cife a fignification to it; but, on the contrary, that the 
cenfus and luftrum were, for the moft part, held irregularly 
and uncertainly, at very different and various intervals of 
time, as the particular exigencies of the ftate required. 
Thus, though the cuftom was firft inftituted by Servius 
Tullius about 180 years after the foundation of Rome, we 
find the fifth luftrum celebrated at Rome only in the 574th 
year of that city. 
LUS'TY, adj. [lufig, Dut.] Stout 5 vigorous; healthy} 
able of body : 
If lufy love fliould go in queft of beauty. 
Where Ihould he find it fairer than in Blanch? Shakefp. 
We yet may fee the old man in a morning, 
Lufy as health, come ruddy to the field. 
And there purfue the chace. Otway. 
Proud ; conceited : 
Proud of their numbers, and fecure in foul. 
The confident and over -lufy French 
Do the low-rated Englifli play at dice. Shakefpeare. 
LU'SUC. See Lucko, p.764. 
LU'SUS,/ [Latin.] A (port; a frolic; a natural pro¬ 
duction out of the common way. 
LUTAN'GE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Mofelle : eight miles fouth-eatt of Thionville, and 
eleven north-north-eaft of Metz. 
LUTAN'GER, a fmall ifland in the Eaftern Indian 
Sea, near the foutli coaft of Mindanao. Lat. 7.19. N. 
Ion.123.15. E. 
LU'TANIST, f. [from lute.] One who plays upon the 
lute. 
LUTA'RIOUS, adj . [lutarius , Lat.] Living in mud.— 
Of the colour of mud.—A Italy tortoife-fhell, of the luta- 
rious kind. Grew. 
LUTA'YA, one of the fmaller Philippine iflands, near 
the iftand of Panay. 
LUTE,/, [leuto, Ital. lauten, Germ, to found.] A mufi- 
cal ftringed inltrument, of which, though the (hape or found 
is now hardly known, yet during the fixteenth and feven- 
teenth centuries it was the favourite chamber-inllrument 
of every nation in Europe; and in the beginning of dra¬ 
matic mufic the recitatives were accompanied by the arch¬ 
lute, or theorbo, inftead of the harpfichord. Sir Thomas 
Wyat, the elder, one of the beft: early poets, has left us a 
fonnet to his lute, written very early in the fixteenth cen- 
S I tury; 
