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Silver. Luna cornea (Old Chem.), horn silver, or fused silver chloride, a tough, brown, translucent mass; -- so called from its resemblance to horn. Luna moth (Zoöl.), a very large and beautiful American moth (Actias luna). Its wings are delicate light green, with a stripe of purple along the front edge of the anterior…

he kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation. Brande. Burrill. Your kindred shuns your house As beaten hence by your strange lunacy. Shak.…

Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations.

An inhabitant of the moon.

Lunar. [Obs.] Fuller.

Crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross. Gray.

Affected by lunacy; insane; mad. Lord, have mercy on my son; for he is lunatic. Wyclif (Matt. xvii. 15).

The period of a synodic revolution of the moon, or the time from one new moon to the next; varying in length, at different times, from about 29

A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner.

A lump of food. [Prov. Eng.]

A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak. [Obs.] These dangerous, unsafe lunes i' the king. Shak.

A little moon or satellite. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage. Lunette window (Arch.), a window which fills or partly fills a lunette.

An organ for aërial respiration; -- commonly in the plural. My lungs began to crow like chanticleer. Shak.

Having lungs that adhere to the pleura.

To make a lunge.

Having lungs, or breathing organs similar to lungs.

Any fish belonging to the Dipnoi; -- so called because they have both lungs and gills.

A guillemot. [Written also longie.] [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A lingerer; a dull, drowsy fellow. [Obs.]