Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
lute .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) See
lute , a cement.
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- verb Present participle of
lute . - noun
lute (a kind of sticky clay or cement)
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- noun a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid
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Examples
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Unfortunately I had forgotten a sulphur-still; and the engineer vainly attempted to extract the ore by luting together two iron mortars, and by heating them to a red heat.
The Land of Midian 2003
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Their attempted solutions of the problem of evil are in most cases dualistic; evil is due either to the disturbing and pol - luting influence of a preexisting matter, coeternal with and not created by God, or to an evil soul, again a coeternal independent principle.
NEO-PLATONISM A. HILARY ARMSTRONG 1968
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Break off the stem of one close to the bowl and fill the hole with well worked clay (some battery slimes make the best luting clay).
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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This tube is composed of two pieces of bamboo, fastened at an acute angle, and it is covered the whole length with a strong binding of corded string, over which is a luting of earth to prevent the vapour from escaping.
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Now fit the whole pipe, bowl inverted, on to the under one, luting the edges of both well with clay.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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It is smooth reading, and is attributed to Bertrand de Born, [3] who lived in the time when even the lion-hearted King Richard turned his brawny fingers to the luting of a song.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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The proportions of this luting are determined by putting more or less resin and red ochre, or turpentine and wax, as the "lithocolle" is to be more or less brittle or elastic.
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The furnace was closed at the top with fire brick slabs containing two or three holes for the escape of the gaseous products of the reduction, and the entire furnace made air-tight by luting with fire clay.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 Various
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Apply with an old brush, or by repeatedly plunging the neck of the bottle in the luting before the latter becomes cold.
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The mouth of the crucible is closed with a luting of clay, or otherwise, and the opening, _d_, made in the upper side of the crucible, near its extremity, comes entirely within the retort, and forms a passage for the zinc fumes from the retort chamber into the condensing chamber.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 Various
hernesheir commented on the word luting
Not to be confused with the stringed instrument, the lute.
November 28, 2010