Definition of lute

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Lute (n.) 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..

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Lute :: Lute (v. t.) To play on a lute, or as on a lute..
Chanter :: Chanter (n.) The flute or finger pipe in a bagpipe. See Bagpipe.
Salute :: Salute (v.) A sign, token, or ceremony, expressing good will, compliment, or respect, as a kiss, a bow, etc..
Free Will :: Free will () The power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing without the restraints of physical or absolute necessity.
Down :: Down (a.) Downright; absolute; positive; as, a down denial..
Luteous :: Luteous (a.) Yellowish; more or less like buff.
Halse :: Halse (v. t.) To embrace about the neck; to salute; to greet.
Convoluted :: Convoluted (a.) Having convolutions.
Hail :: Hail (v. t.) To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address..
Conditional :: Conditional (a.) Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise..
Bassoon :: Bassoon (n.) A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc..
Rakish :: Rakish (a.) Dissolute; lewd; debauched.
Embouchure :: Embouchure (n.) The shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece; as, a flute player has a good embouchure..
Wanton :: Wanton (v. t.) Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute.
Dilution :: Dilution (n.) The act of diluting, or the state of being diluted..
Luteic :: Luteic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, weld (Reseda luteola)..
Precisive :: Precisive (a.) Cutting off; (Logic) exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose; as, precisive censure; precisive abstraction..
Karyokinesis :: Karyokinesis (n.) The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed to karyostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called also mitosis. See Cell development, under Cell..
Blank :: Blank (a.) Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror..
Rhachiglossa :: Rhachiglossa (n. pl.) A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append..
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