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Favored by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune; -- said of persons; as, a lucky adventurer. " Lucky wight." Spenser.

See Fatherlasher.

Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office. The trade of merchandise being the most lucrative, may bear usury at a good rate. Bacon.

In a lucrative manner.

Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense. The lust of lucre and the dread of death. Pope.

Gainful; profitable. [Obs.] Boyle.

Producing profit; gainful. [Obs.]

Effort to overcome in contest; struggle; endeavor. [R.] Farindon.

Producing grief; saddening. [Obs.] Sir G. Buck.

To study by candlelight or a lamp; to study by night.

The act of lucubrating, or studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation. After long lucubration I have hit upon such an expedient. Goldsmith.

One who studies by night; also, one who produces lucubrations.

Composed by candlelight, or by night; of or pertaining to night studies; laborious or painstaking. Pope.

A spot or fleck on the sun brighter than the surrounding surface.

Lucid; clear; transparent. Thomson.

In a luculent manner; clearly.

A variety of black limestone, often polished for ornamental purposes.

An American genus of sapotaceous trees bearing sweet and edible fruits.

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. J. & H. Smith. H. Martineau.

Sportive; ridiculous; wanton. [Obs.] Tooker.