Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: LULL – LU-MIN-A'TION
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LULL, n.
Power or quality of soothing. – Young.
LULL, v.i.
To subside; to cease; to become calm; as, the wind lulls.
LULL, v.t. [Dan. luller; G. and D. lullen; L. lallo. Qu. Russ. leleyu, to dandle or fondle. The sense is to throw down, to still, to appease. Seamen say, the wind lulls when it subsides.]
To quiet; to compose; to cause to rest. The nation may be lulled into security. To lull him soft asleep. – Spenser. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, / To lull the daughters of necessity. – Milton.
LULL'A-BY, n. [lull and by; Russ. bayu. See By.]
A song to quiet babes; that which quiets. – Shak. Locke.
LULL'ED, pp.
Quieted; appeased; composed to rest.
LULL'ER, n.
One that lulls; one that fondles.
LULL'ING, ppr.
Stilling; composing to rest.
LUM, n. [Qu. Sax. leoma.]
The chimney of a cottage. – Todd.
LUM'A-CHEL, or LUM-A-CHEL'LA, n.
A calcarious stone composed of shells and coral conglutinated, but so far retaining their organization as to exhibit different colors, and so hard as to admit of polish. – Nicholson. Fourcroy.
LUM-BAG'I-NOUS, a.
Pertaining to lumbago. – Cheyne.
LUM-BA'GO, n. [L. lumbus, loins.]
- A pain in the loins and small of the back. – Quincy.
- A rheumatic affection of the muscles about the loins. – Hooper.
LUM'BAR, a. [L. lumbus, loins.]
Pertaining to the loins. The lumbar region is the posterior portion of the body, between the false ribs and the upper edge of the haunch bone. – Parr.
LUM'BER, n. [allied to Sax. leoma, utensils, or to lump, clump, mass, or Dan. lumpe, a rag; lumperie, trifles; Sw. lumpor, rags, old cloths; D. lomp; G. lumpen; Fr. lambeau. In French, lambourde is a joist.]
- Any thing useless and cumbersome, or things bulky an thrown aside or of no use. The very bed was violated … / And thrown among the common lumber. – Otway.
- In America, timber sawed or split for use; as beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops and the like.
- Harm; mischief. [Local.] Pegge.
LUM'BER, v.t.
- To heap together in disorder. – Rymer.
- To fill with lumber; as, to lumber a room.
LUM'BER-ED, pp.
Heaped together in disorder.
LUM'BER-ING, ppr.
Filling with lumber; putting in disorder.
LUM'BER-ROOM, n.
A place for the reception of lumber or useless things.
LUM'BRIC, n. [L. lumbricus, a worm.]
A worm. – Med. Repos.
LUM'BRIC-AL, a.
Pertaining to the loins.
LUM'BRIC-AL, a.1 [L. lumbricus, a worm.]
Resembling a worm; as, the lumbrical muscles.
LUM'BRIC-AL, a.2
Pertaining to the loins.
LUM'BRIC-AL, n.
A muscle of the fingers and toes, so named from its resembling a worm. Of these muscles, there are four of the fingers and as many of the toes.
LUM-BRIC'IFORM, a. [L. lumbricus, a worm, and form.]
Resembling a worm in shape.
LU'MIN-A-RY, n. [L. luminare, from lumen, light. Lumen is the Saxon leoma, a ray, or from luceo, by contraction, for lucmen, lugmen.]
- Any body that gives light, but chiefly one of the celestial orbs. The sun is the principal luminary in our system. The stars are inferior luminaries.
- One that illustrates any subject, or enlightens mankind; as, Bacon and Newton were distinguished luminaries.
LU-MIN-A'TION, n. [See ILLUMINATION.]