n. [ LL. lutanista, fr. lutana lute. See Lute the instrument. ] A person that plays on the lute. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. lutarius fr. lutum mud. ] Of, pertaining to, or like, mud; living in mud. [ Obs. ] Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. lutare, lutatum, to bedaub with mud, fr. lutum mud: cf. F. lutation. ] The act or method of luting vessels. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To play on a lute, or as on a lute. [ 1913 Webster ]
Knaves are men
That lute and flute fantastic tenderness. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
n. [ L. lutum mud, clay: cf. OF. lut. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OF. leut, F. luth; skin to Pr. laút, It. liúto, leúto, Sp. laúd, Pg. alaude; all fr. Ar. al‘ūd; al the + ‘ūd wood, timber, trunk or branch of a tree, staff, stick, wood of aloes, lute or harp. ] (Mus.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having a curved spine. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Chem.) same as Lutetium; -- an older spelling. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]