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To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.

Having a curved spine.

A metallic element separated from ytterbium in 1907, by Urbain in Paris and by von Welsbach in Vienna. Symbol, Lu; at. wt. 174.0.

Pertaining to, or derived from, weld (Reseda luteola).

y marked yellow color, extracted from the yelk of eggs, and from the tissue of the corpus luteum.

Same as Lutanist.

A combining form signifying orange yellow or brownish yellow.

ning to, or designating, certain compounds of cobalt having a yellow color. Cf. Cobaltic. Luteocobaltic chloride (Chem.), a brilliant reddish yellow crystalline compound, Co2Cl6(NH3)12, obtained by the action of ammonium chloride on an ammoniacal solution of cobaltic chloride.

A yellow dyestuff obtained from the foliage of the dyer's broom (Reseda luteola).

Yellowish; more or less like buff.

One who plays on a lute.

Of a yellowish color.

A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon. Goldsmith.

osed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.

In an absolute, independent, or unconditional manner; wholly; positively.

The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

A large theorbo, or double-necked lute, formerly in use, having the bass strings doubled with an octave, and the higher strings with a unison.

Prolonged at the base, as certain leaves.

To bespatter, as with mud. [R.] Sterne.

Of or pertaining to Complutum (now Alcala de Henares) a city near Madrid; as, the Complutensian Bible.