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The act of lustrating or purifying. And holy water for lustration bring. Dryden.

Same as Luster.

Pertaining to, or used for, purification.

A kind of glossy silk fabric. See Lutestring.

Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv.

A lustration or purification, especially the purification of the whole Roman people, which was made by the censors once in five years. Hence: A period of five years.

See Sundew.

Exhibiting lust or vigor; stout; strong; vigorous; robust; healthful; able of body. Neither would their old men, so many as were yet vigorous and lusty, be left at home. Milton.

Sport or freak of nature; a deformed or unnatural production.

A person that plays on the lute. Johnson.

Of, pertaining to, or like, mud; living in mud. [Obs.] Grew.

The act or method of luting vessels.

r tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.

Having a curved spine.

parated from ytterbium in 1907, by Urbain in Paris and by von Welsbach in Vienna. Symbol, Lu; at. wt. 174.0.

Pertaining to, or derived from, weld (Reseda luteola).

y marked yellow color, extracted from the yelk of eggs, and from the tissue of the corpus luteum.

Same as Lutanist.

A combining form signifying orange yellow or brownish yellow.

ning to, or designating, certain compounds of cobalt having a yellow color. Cf. Cobaltic. Luteocobaltic chloride (Chem.), a brilliant reddish yellow crystalline compound, Co2Cl6(NH3)12, obtained by the action of ammonium chloride on an ammoniacal solution of cobaltic chloride.