Lune
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /luːn/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Lune is a noun meaning Anything crescent-shaped.
Meaning
Anything crescent-shaped.
More Meanings
- (hawking) A leash for a hawk.
- (geometry) A concave figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles.
- (obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
Example Sentences
Why woman, your husband is in his olde Lunes againe: […]
Theſe dangerous, vnſafe Lunes i'th' King, beſhrew them: / He muſt be told on't, and he ſhall[…]
A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes, petty and other; in lunes other than petty now for some time; in petty-lunes, pettilettes, or pantalettes, about these six weeks, ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land.
What he worried about was any eventual convexity, a shrinking, it might be, of the planet itself to some palpable curvature of whatever he would be standing on, so that he would be left sticking out like a projected radius, unsheltered and reeling across the empty lunes of his tiny sphere.
Word Forms
- lunes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include moonlight, lunar, cinque, moon, luna, demi.
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