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nexpectedly; favorable; auspicious; fortunate; as, a lucky mistake; a lucky cast; a lucky hour. We doubt not of a fair and lucky war. Shak.

doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality. Hawthorne. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ness, n.

efraction and parallax. -- Lunar year, the period of twelve lunar months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, and 34.38 seconds.

nd the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day.

The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles.

r washed in a lye of water and wood ashes. It burns at the rate of four or five inches an hour, and is used for firing cannon, fireworks, etc.

Time of morning service; the first canonical hour in the Roman Catholic Church.

A memorial. [Obs.] These weeds are memories of those worser hours. Shak.

r passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course. "Meridian hour." Milton. Tables ... to find the altitude meridian. Chaucer.

rage, fortitude, ardor, etc.; disposition; -- usually in a good sense. A certain critical hour which shall... try what mettle his heart is made of. South. Gentlemen of brave mettle. Shak. The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course. Pope. To put one one's mettle, to cause…

Occupying a middle position; middle; as, the mid finger; the mid hour of night.

Middle; middlemost. Ere night's midmost, stillest hour was past. Byron.

The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.) Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. Chaucer.

A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house.

To slight or undervalue. O, for those vanished hours, so much misprized! Hillhouse. I do not blame them, madam, nor misprize. Mrs. Browning.

The first or early part of the day, variously understood as the earliest hours of light, the time near sunrise; the time from midnight to noon, from rising to noon, etc.

the time of death. Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal or the mortal hour. Pope.

omary garb of a mourner. We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood Shak. Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year. Pope.

A Mohammedan crier of the hour of prayer. [Written also mouezzin, mueddin, and muwazzin.]

tal places. Camden. Propitious star, whose sacred power Presided o'er the monarch's natal hour. Prior.