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- English Word Luculent Definition Bright; shining in beauty.
- English Word Luculently Definition In a luculent manner; clearly.
- English Word Lucullite Definition A variety of black limestone, often polished for ornamental purposes.
- English Word Lucuma Definition An American genus of sapotaceous trees bearing sweet and edible fruits.
- English Word Luddite Definition One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames.
- English Word Ludibrious Definition Sportive; ridiculous; wanton.
- English Word Ludibund Definition Sportive.
- English Word Ludicrous Definition Adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt; sportive.
- English Word Ludification Definition The act of deriding.
- English Word Ludificatory Definition Making sport; tending to excite derision.
- English Word Ludlamite Definition A mineral occurring in small, green, transparent, monoclinic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.
- English Word Ludlow group Definition A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.
- English Word Ludwigite Definition A borate of iron and magnesia, occurring in fibrous masses of a blackish green color.
- English Word Lues Definition Disease, especially of a contagious kind.
- English Word Luff Definition The side of a ship toward the wind.
- English Word Luff Definition The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.
- English Word Luff Definition The roundest part of a ship's bow.
- English Word Luff Definition The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
- English Word Luff Definition To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the wind.
- English Word Luffed Definition of Luff