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Lune :: Lune (n.) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.

Lune :: Lune (n.) A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles..

Lune :: Lune (n.) Anything in the shape of a half moon.

Lunette :: Lunette (n.) A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.

Lunette :: Lunette (n.) A kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles..

Demilune :: Demilune (n.) A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. See Ravelin..

Lunette :: Lunette (n.) An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.

Lunule :: Lunule (n.) A lune. See Lune.

Plenilune :: Plenilune (n.) The full moon.

Semilune :: Semilune (n.) The half of a lune.

Bastion :: Bastion (n.) A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin..

Ravelin :: Ravelin (n.) A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune, and half-moon..

Mucin :: Mucin (n.) An albuminoid substance which is contained in mucus, and gives to the latter secretion its peculiar ropy character. It is found in all the secretions from mucous glands, and also between the fibers of connective tissue, as in tendons. See Illust. of Demilune..

Lunette :: Lunette (n.) A half horseshoe, which wants the sponge..

Lunule :: Lunule (n.) Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula, a lune..

Demilune :: Demilune (n.) A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands.

Lunette :: Lunette (n.) Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line..

Lunette :: Lunette (n.) A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion..

Lunet :: Lunet (n.) A little moon or satellite.

Outwork :: Outwork (n.) A minor defense constructed beyond the main body of a work, as a ravelin, lunette, hornwork, etc..

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