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te; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used for good luck; as, luck is better than skill. If thou dost play with him at any game, Thou art sure to lose; and of that natural luck, He beats thee 'gainst the odds. Shak. Luck penny, a small sum given ba…

In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately; -- used in a good sense; as, they luckily escaped injury.

The state or quality of being lucky; as, the luckiness of a man or of an event.

Being without luck; unpropitious; unfortunate; unlucky; meeting with ill success or bad fortune; as, a luckless gamester; a luckless maid. Prayers made and granted in a luckless hour. Dryden. -- Luck"less*ly, adv. -- Lock"less*ness, n.

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

See Fatherlasher.

call to follow, as a hen does her chickens. She, poor hen, fond of no second brood, Has clucked three to the wars. Shak.

The noise or call of a brooding hen.

Ill luck; misfortune.

To pull; to draw. Its own nature . . . plucks on its own dissolution. Je

Having courage and spirit. [R.]

One who, or that which, plucks. Thou setter up and plucker down of kings. Shak.

A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which the part through which the discharge takes place is a capillary tube, thus producing intense incandescence of the contained gases.

In a plucky manner.

The quality or state of being plucky.

Without pluck; timid; faint-hearted.

Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race. If you're plucky, and not over subject to fright. Barham.

Whatever may chance to be in the pot, or may be provided for a meal. A woman whose potluck was always to be relied on. G. Eliot. To take potluck, to take what food may chance to be provided.

In an unlucky manner.

Quality or state of being unlucky.