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Webster 1913 Edition
Lute
Lute
,Noun.
[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.
Lute
,Verb.
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.Lute
,Noun.
[OF.
leut
, F. luth
; skin to Pr. laút
, It. liúto
, leúto
, Sp. laúd
, Pg. alaude
; all fr. Ar. al‘ūd
; al
the + ‘ūd
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.
Lute
,Verb.
I.
To sound, as a lute.
Piers Plowman
. Keats
. Lute
,Verb.
T.
To play on a lute, or as on a lute.
Knaves are men
That
That
lute
and flute fantastic tenderness. Tennyson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Lute
LUTE
,Noun.
An instrument of music with strings. It consists of four parts, viz; the table, the body or belly which has nine or ten sides, the neck, which has nine or ten stops or divisions marked with strings, and the head or cross. In the middle of the table there is a passage for the sound. There is also a bridge to which the strings are fastened. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.