Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.]

1. A pain in the loins and small of the back. – Quincy.
2. 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.]

1. 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.
2. In America, timber sawed or split for use; as beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops and the like.
3. Harm; mischief. [Local.] Pegge.

LUM'BER, v.t.

1. To heap together in disorder. – Rymer.
2. 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.]

1. 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.
2. One that illustrates any subject, or enlightens mankind; as, Bacon and Newton were distinguished luminaries.

LU-MIN-A'TION, n. [See ILLUMINATION.]