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  • English Word Lunching Definition of Lunch
  • English Word Lune Definition Anything in the shape of a half moon.
  • English Word Lune Definition A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles.
  • English Word Lune Definition A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
  • English Word Lunet Definition A little moon or satellite.
  • English Word Lunette Definition A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.
  • English Word Lunette Definition A half horseshoe, which wants the sponge.
  • English Word Lunette Definition A kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles.
  • English Word Lunette Definition A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
  • English Word Lunette Definition Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line.
  • English Word Lunette Definition An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.
  • English Word Lung Definition An organ for aerial respiration; -- commonly in the plural.
  • English Word Lung-grown Definition Having lungs that adhere to the pleura.
  • English Word Lunge Definition A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.
  • English Word Lunge Definition To make a lunge.
  • English Word Lunge Definition To cause to go round in a ring, as a horse, while holding his halter.
  • English Word Lunge Definition Same as Namaycush.
  • English Word Lunged Definition of Lunge
  • English Word Lunged Definition Having lungs, or breathing organs similar to lungs.
  • English Word Lungfish Definition Any fish belonging to the Dipnoi; -- so called because they have both lungs and gills.
  • English Word Lungie Definition A guillemot.
  • English Word Lunging Definition of Lunge
  • English Word Lungis Definition A lingerer; a dull, drowsy fellow.
  • English Word Lungless Definition Being without lungs.
  • English Word Lungoor Definition A long-tailed monkey (Semnopithecus schislaceus), from the mountainous districts of India.
  • English Word Lungworm Definition Any one of several species of parasitic nematoid worms which infest the lungs and air passages of cattle, sheep, and other animals, often proving fatal. The lungworm of cattle (Strongylus micrurus) and that of sheep (S. filaria) are the best known.
  • English Word Lungwort Definition An herb of the genus Pulmonaria (P. officinalis), of Europe; -- so called because the spotted appearance of the leaves resembles that of a diseased lung.
  • English Word Lungwort Definition Any plant of the genus Mertensia (esp. M. Virginica and M. Sibirica) plants nearly related to Pulmonaria. The American lungwort is Mertensia Virginica, Virginia cowslip.
  • English Word Lunicurrent Definition Having relation to changes in currents that depend on the moon's phases.
  • English Word Luniform Definition Resembling the moon in shape.