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adness; 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.

A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. See Ravelin.

The full moon. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The half of a lune.

t flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.

Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula, a lune.

ands, and also between the fibers of connective tissue, as in tendons. See Illust. of Demilune.

A minor defense constructed beyond the main body of a work, as a ravelin, lunette, hornwork, etc. Wilhelm.

le. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.

bed on its surface. -- Spherical harmonic analysis. See under Harmonic, a. -- Spherical lune,portion of the surface of a sphere included between two great semicircles having a common diameter. -- Spherical opening, the magnitude of a solid angle. It is measured by the portion within the solid angle of the surface of…