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单词 lune
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lunen.1

Brit. /luːn/, /ljuːn/, U.S. /lun/
Forms: Also Middle English lewne; and see loyn n.
Etymology: variant of loyn n.
Hawking.
A leash for a hawk.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > falconry or hawking equipment > [noun] > leash
creance14..
loync1400
lunea1470
leash1497
line1590
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 282 Than was ware of a faucon..and longe lunes aboute her feete.
1486 Bk. St. Albans B v b The lewnes shulde be fastened to theym, with a payre of tyrettis.
1580 H. Gifford Posie of Gilloflowers ii. sig. Lv In fancies lune I fast was cought.
a1592 R. Greene Mamillia (1593) ii. sig. E3 The closer shee couered the sparke, the more it kindled: yea, in seeking to vnlose the Lunes, the more shee was intangled.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Longe,..a hawkes lune or leash.
1895 ‘Q’ Wandering Heath 230 A gerfalcon lying with long lunes tangled about his feet.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

lunen.2

Brit. /luːn/, /ljuːn/, U.S. /lun/
Etymology: < medieval Latin lūna lit. ‘moon’, hence ‘fit of lunacy’ (compare lunatic adj. and n.), whence French lune, Middle High German lûne (German laune whim, humour).
archaic.
plural. Fits of frenzy or lunacy; mad freaks or tantrums. (Cf. line n.2 29.)
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness > fit of madness
widden-dreamOE
resea1300
ragec1330
lunacy1541
raving1549
fit1594
moon1607
ravening1607
lunesa1616
rapturea1616
widdrim1644
raptus1740
brain storm1890
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. ii. 33 These dangerous, vnsafe Lunes i'th'King, beshrew them. View more context for this quotation
1778 S. Johnson Let. 14 Nov. (1992) III. 140 My Master is in his old lunes, and so am I.
1799 C. Lamb John Woodvil iii Let him alone. I have seen him in these lunes before.
1867 J. H. Stirling in Fortn. Rev. Oct. 381 This is the central weak point, the special lunes of the De Quincey nature.
1883 J. A. Symonds Ital. Lit. in Renaissance in Italy II. ii. x. 97 Their tales for the most part are the lunes of wanton love.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

lunen.3

Brit. /luːn/, /ljuːn/, U.S. /lun/
Etymology: < French lune < Latin lūna moon.
1. Geometry. The figure formed on a sphere or on a plane by two arcs of circles that enclose a space.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > two-dimensional > lune
lunula?a1560
lunular1570
lune1704
lunule1737
meniscus1817
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Lunes or Lunulæ.
1839 in Penny Cycl. XIV. 199.
1854 H. Moseley Lect. Astron. (ed. 4) xxxiv. 119 Her [the moon's] crescent..now presents the appearance of a lune.
1891 A. Cayley Coll. Papers (1897) XIII. 205 The two lunes ACB and ABD of figure 6.
2. Anything in the shape of a crescent or half-moon.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > crescent
lunary1610
sickle1657
crescent1672
lune1709
demilunea1734
lunette1774
semi-lune1862
1709 I. Watts Horæ Lyricæ (ed. 2) ii. 235 Faithful Janizaries..Fall'n in just Ranks or Wedges, Lunes or Squares.
1805 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 95 36 This made them [the globules] gradually assume the shape of half moons..The dark part of these little lunes..did not appear sensibly less than the enlightened part.
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