Vocabulary : Lustrums to Lutecium

Lustrums : of Lustrum
Lustwort : See Sundew.
Lusty : Exhibiting lust or vigor; stout; strong; vigorous; robust; healthful; able of body. ;; Beautiful; handsome; pleasant. ;; Of large size; big. [Obs.] " Three lusty vessels." Evelyn. Hence, sometimes, pregnant. ;; Lustful; lascivious.
Lusus naturae : Sport or freak of nature; a deformed or unnatural production.
Lutanist : A person that plays on the lute.

Lutarious : Of, pertaining to, or like, mud; living in mud.
Lutation : The act or method of luting vessels.
Lute : 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. ;; A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc. ;; A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold. ;; To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint. ;; 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. ;; To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats. ;; To play on a lute, or as on a lute.
Lute-backed : Having a curved spine.
Lutecium : A metallic element separated from ytterbium in 1907, by Urbain in Paris and by von Welsbach in Vienna. Symbol, Lu; at. wt. 174.0.

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