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A pike when full grown. Halliwell.

The quality of being lucent.

Shining; bright; resplendent. " The sun's lucent orb." Milton.

A sort of hunting dog; -- perhaps from Lucerne, in Switzerland. My lucerns, too, or dogs inured to hunt Beasts of most rapine. Chapman.

Of or pertaining to a lamp. Lucernal microscope, a form of the microscope in which the object is illuminated by means of a lamp, and its image is thrown upon a plate of ground glass connected with the instrument, or on a screen independent of it.

A genus of acalephs, having a bell-shaped body with eight groups of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by a sucker at the base of the pedicel.

Of or pertaining to the Lucernarida. -- n.

A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; - - called also Calycozoa.

See Lucern, the plant.

A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem.

Shining between.

A partial, secondary, or small involucre. See Illust. of Involucre.

Furnished with involucels.

See Involucel.

The European hake; -- called also herring hake and sea pike.

ight; luminous; splendid. Gorgeous banners to the sun expand Their streaming volumes of relucent gold. Glover.

Slightly clear; transmitting light in a slight degree.

Not perfectly translucent.

Translucency; as, the tralucency of a gem. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Translucent. [Obs.] The air's tralucent gallery. Sir. J. Davies.