1. (n.)lute a stringed musical instrument having a long, fretted neck and a hollow, typically pear-shaped body with a vaulted back.
2. (v.t.)lute to seal or cement with luting.
Etymology: (1375–1425; late ME < ML lutum (L: mud, clay))
Definition of 'lute'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)lute, luting a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid
2. (noun)lute chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard
Definition of 'lute'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)lute a cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting
2. (noun)lute a packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc
3. (noun)lute a straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold
4. (noun)lute 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
5. (verb)lute to close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint
6. (verb)lute to sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats
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