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A chimney. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns.

A grayish brown limestone, containing fossil shells, which reflect a beautiful play of colors. It is also called fire marble, from its fiery reflections.

Of or pertaining to lumbago.

A rheumatic pain in the loins and the small of the back.

Of, pertaining to, or near, the loins; as, the lumbar arteries. Lumbar region (Anat.), the region of the loin; specifically, a region between the hypochondriac and ilias regions, and outside of the umbilical region.

t in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [Obs.] They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came. Lady Murray.

Maine; -- a nickname.

One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman. [U.S.] Lumberers have a notion that he (the woodpecker) is harmful to timber. Lowell.

The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber. [U.S.]

One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment. [U.S.]

Of or pertaining to the loins and sacrum; as, the lumbosacral nerve, a branch of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum.

An earthworm, or a worm resembling an earthworm.

Resembling a worm; as, the lumbrical muscles of the hands of the hands and feet. -- n.

Resembling an earthworm; vermiform.

Like an earthworm; belonging to the genus Lumbricus, or family Lumbricidæ.

A genus of annelids, belonging to the Oligochæta, and including the common earthworms. See Earthworm.

A unit of illumination, being the amount of illumination of a unit area of spherical surface, due to a light of unit intensity placed at the center of the sphere.

Luminous. [R.]

Any body that gives light, especially one of the heavenly bodies. " Radiant luminary." Skelton. Where the great luminary . . . Dispenses light from far. Milton.

To illuminate. [Obs.]