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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
lute
and flute fantastic tenderness.
Tennyson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Lute

LUTE

,
Noun.
[L. laudo.]
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.

LUTE

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Definition 2024

lute

lute

English

A man playing a lute

Noun

lute ‎(plural lutes)

  1. A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
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Verb

lute ‎(third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)

  1. To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
    • Tennyson
      Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.
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Etymology 2

From Old French lut, ultimately from Latin lutum ‎(“mud”).

Noun

lute ‎(plural lutes)

  1. Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
  2. A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
  3. (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mould.

Verb

lute ‎(third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)

  1. To fix or fasten something with lute.
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘A Friend's Friend’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2005, page 179:
      To protect everything till it dried, a man […] luted a big blue paper cap from a cracker, with meringue-cream, low down on Jevon's forehead.

Anagrams

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlutɛ/

Adjective

lute

  1. nominative singular neuter of luty
  2. accusative singular neuter of luty
  3. nominative plural of luty
  4. accusative plural of luty

Middle Low German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /luːtə/

Etymology

Borrowing from Middle French leut ‎(“lute, stringed instrument with a wide corpus”), from Old French leüt ‎(“lute”), probably from Old Provençal laüt, from Arabic عود ‎(al-ʿūd, “wood”).

Noun

lûte f

  1. A lute.

Portuguese

Verb

lute

  1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of lutar
  2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present subjunctive of lutar
  3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of lutar
  4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of lutar

Etymology

From Middle French lut (modern luth), from Old French leüt, probably from Old Provençal laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود ‎(al-ʿūd, “wood”) (probably representing an Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /luːt/, /l(j)uːt/
  • Rhymes: -uːt
  • Homophone: loot

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