Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of the soft turtle, Dermatochelys (Sphargis) coriacea. See cut under
leatherback . - noun An abbreviation of
Lutheran .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The leatherback.
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- noun The
leatherback turtle .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's their word luth, for what we here in 'Merica would call a lute.
Fore, right! 2009
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It's their word luth, for what we here in 'Merica would call a lute.
Fore, right! 2009
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It's their word luth, for what we here in 'Merica would call a lute.
Fore, right! 2009
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“Et nous jongleurs inutiles, frivoles joueurs de luth!” ...
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“Et nous jongleurs inutiles, frivoles joueurs de luth!” ...
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The flesh of the luth or leathery turtle (DERMOCHELYS CORIACEA) which diets on fish, crustacea, molluscs, radiates, and other animals, causes symptoms of poisoning; but the luth does not appear to be common in this part of the Pacific, though it occurs in
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Perhaps the poor Spaniards of those days happened in the first instance upon an ancient bull, or a hawks-bill, and tapped the poison gland, or a loggerhead or a luth, and came ever after to entertain, with right good cause, a holy terror of turtle, irrespective of species.
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Claude Perrault, [9] writing in the 18th century, states that "les modernes appellent notre luth barbiton"
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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Prends ton luth! prends ton luth! je ne peux plus me taire; 110
La Nuit de Mai 1920
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Publick, having been very much delighted by the rehearsal of it; the music was done by Mr Cohaut who teaches my wife to play on the luth.
Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918
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