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Webster 1913 Edition

(lūn)

Noun.

[L.

luna

moon: cf. F.

lune

. See

Anything in the shape of a half moon.

[R.]

(Geom.)

A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles.

A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.

[Obs.]

These dangerous, unsafe

lunes

i’ the king.

Shakespeare

Noun.

[L. luna, the moon.]

Any thing in the shape of a half-moon. [Little used.]

A fit of lunacy or madness, or a freak. [Not used.]

A leash; as the lune of a hawk.