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LUR a marquifate of Upper Saxony, bounded

LUMBAGO, in medicine, denotes a pain about the loins,

LUSATIA, by Brandenburg, on the north; by Silefia, on the as that preceding fevers, agues, and the rheurnatifm.; by Bohemia, on the fouth; and by the duchy LUMBARIS, a name given to the arteries and veins eaft of Saxony, on the weft: it is fubjefl to the king of which fpread over the loins. See Anatomy. LUMBRICAL, a name given to four mufcles of the Poland. in antiquity, facrifices or ceremonies fingers, and to as many of the toes. See Anatomy, LUSTRATION, by which the ancients purified their cities, fields, armies, part II. people, defiled by any crime or impurity. LUMBRICUS, the earth-worm, in zoology, a ge- or Some of thefe luftrations were public, others private. nus of infers belonging to the order of veimes inwere three fpecies or manners of performing teftina. The body is cylindrical, annulated, with an e- There viz. by fire and fulphur, by water, and by levated belt near the middle. There is but one fpecies of luftration, which laft was done by fanning and agitating the this animal. It Jives underground, and feeds upon the air; round the thing to be purified. Some of thefe feeds and roots of plants. It comes above ground in air were neceffary, that is, could not be difthe night, or during rain, for the purpofe of copula- luftrations with, as luftrations of houfes in time of a plague, tion. For the effects of thefe animals in the human penfed death of any perfon; others again were body, and the method of expelling them, fee Medi- ordoneuponouttheof choice, and at pleafure. The public lufcine. trations at Rome were celebrated every fifth year, in LUMME, in ornithology. SeeCoLYMBUS. which they led a vi&im thrice round the place to be LUMP-FISH. See Cyclopterus. and in the mean time burnt a great quantity LUNA, in aftronomy, the moon. See Astronomy. ofpurified, perfumes. LUNAR, fomething belonging to the moon; thus we LUSTRE, the glofs or brightnefs appearing on any fay, lunar month, lunar year, &c. LUNARIA, honesty, in botany, a genus of the thing, particularly on manufaftures of filk, wool, or tttradynamia filiculofa clafs. The filicula, or pod, is ftuff. It is likewife ufed to denote the compofition or entire, elliptical, and comprefled; with plain, equal, manner of giving that glofs. The lull re of iilksis given them by waftiing in foap, parallel valves. There are two fpecies, none of them then clear water, and dipping them in alum water cold. natives of Britain. LUN ATIC, a perfon affe&ed with lunacy. See Medi- To give ftuffs a beautiful luftre, for every eight pounds of fluff allow a quarter of 1 pound of linfeed; boil it cine. LUND, or Lunden, a city of Sweden, in the pro- half an hour, and then ftrain it through a cloth, and vince of Gothland, the capital of the territory of let it ftand till it is turned almoft to a jelly; afterwards put an ounce and a half of gum to diffolve twenty four Schonen, fituated thirty miles call of Copenhageo. LUNDY, a little ifland in the mouth of the Briltol- hours; then mix the liquor, and put the cloth into this mixture; take it out, dry it in the fhade, and channel: W. long. 40 50', N. lat. 510 25'. LUNENBURG, the capital of the duchy of the fame prefs it. If once doing is not fufikient, repeat the name, operation. Curriers give a luftre to black leather firll 0 thirty miles 0fouth-eaft of Hamburg: E- long, with juice of bar-berries, then with gum arabic, ale, to 20', N. lat. 53 35'. vinegar, and flanders-glue, boiled together. For coLUNGS. See Anatomy, p. 280. Lungwort, in botany. See Pulmonaria. loured leather, they ufe the white of an egg beaten in LUNISOLAR year., in chronology, the fpace of $32 water. Moroccoes have their luftre from juice of common years; found by multiplying the cycle of the bar-berries and lemon or orange. For hats, the luftre fun by that of the moon. is frequently given with common water, fometimes a LUNULA, in geometry, a plane figure like a crefcent little black dye is added: the fame luftre ferves for or half moon. furs, except that for very black furs they fometimes LUPERCALIA, a feftival of the ancient Romans in prepare a luftre of galls, copperas, Roman alum, ox's honour of the god Pan, obferved on the 15th of Fe- marrow, and other ingredients, bruary, and fo called from luperci, the priefts of that LUSTRUM, in Roman antiquity, a general mufter and' fabulous deity. review of all the citizens and their goods, which was LUPINUS, in botany, a genus of the diadelphia decam performed by the cenfors every fifth year, who afterdria clafs. The calix conlifts of two lips; five of the wards made a folemn Juftration. See Lustration. antherae are oblong, and the. other five round; and LUTE, or Luting, among chemifts. See Chemisthe pod is coreaceous. There are feven fpecies, none try, p. 116; of them natives of Britain. Lute, is alfo a mufical inftrument with firings. LUPULUS, in botany, &c. See Humulus.. The lute confifts of four parts, viz the table; the LUPUS, in zoology. See Can is. body or belly,, which has nine or ten fides; the neck,, Lupqs marinus. See Anarrichas. which has nine or ten flops or divifions, marked with Lupus, in aftronomy. See Astronomy, p. 487.; and the head, or crofs, where the fcrew for LURE, in folconry, a device of leather, in the form of firings railing lowering the firings to a proper pitch of a bird, with two wings ftuck with feathers, and baited tone areandfixed. middle of the table there is a with a piece of flefh; wherewith to reclaim or call rofe or paffage forInthethefound; there is alfo a bridge hack a hawk, when, at a considerable diftance. that the firings are faftened to, and a piece of ivory bet weea-