lunetten.

1645 Bp. J. Hall Peace-maker x. 80 Our predecessors..could never have beleeved that there were such Lunets about some of the Planets, as our late Perspectives have descryed.

1774 J. Bryant New Syst. II. p. iv Juno Samia Selenitis, standing in a lunette, and crowned with a lunette.

1787 M. Cutler Jrnl. 14 July in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 278 In this rock a flight of steps is cut, in a winding or kind of lunette form, from the road to the top of the hill.

1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. f. 103^v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe Pul of his shooes, & shoe him with halfe Mone shooes, called Lunette.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 324/2 A Lunet shooe..is used for Horses that have weak Heels.

c1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide ii. xciv. 299 The Cure is..to shoe him with Lunets or Half-moon Shoes.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl.

1816 Sporting Mag. 47 27 A shoe in the form of the old lunette, or La Fosse's shoe.

1875 in E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Lunettes in Fortification, are Envelopes, Countergardes, or Mounts of Earth cast up before the Curtain.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Lunette..In Fortification, a small Work generally rais'd before the Courtin in Ditches full of Water: It consists of two Faces making a Re-entring Angle, and serves to dispute the Passage of the Ditch.

1711 London Gaz. No. 4883/2 His Grace..has given Orders for making several Lunettes in the Front of our Camp.

1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Sandown Castle [The castle] consists of four lunets of very thick arched work of stone... In the middle is a great round tower.

1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. II. 200 An embattled Wall, with Lunets hanging over the River.

1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 10 The lunette, like the redan, is frequently open at the gorge.

1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 263 A Lunette has two faces, similar to the redan, and also two flanks.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Invisible World (1659) iii. xii. 213 Make earthly things, not as Lunets, to shut up our sight, but Spectacles to transmit it to spirituall objects.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Lunette is also the name of two small pieces of felt made round and hollow, to clap upon the eyes of a vicious horse.

1875 in E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II.

1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass ix. 233 Lunette glasses.

1849 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Geol. (1850) ix. 466 The curvature of a lunette watch-glass.

1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 156 Lunette, the usual form of rounded watch glass.

1859 F. E. Paget Curate of Cumberworth 238 When the victim's head is fixed in the lunette.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 20 Oct. 6/2 His head had to be thrust into the lunette by two warders.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 587 The founding or melting furnace is a square brick building,..at each angle of this square a small oven or arch is constructed..vaulted within, and communicating with the melting furnace by square flues called lunettes.

1865 Athenæum 22 July 119/1 A pair of golden gorgettes or lunettes.

1875 in E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II.

1884 R. F. Burton Bk. of Sword 124 This hilt-plate has dwindled in the French fencing-foil to a lunette, a double oval of bars shaped like a pair of spectacles.

1890 in Cent. Dict.

1893 in Catholic Dict.

1940 E. S. Hills in Austral. Geographer III. vii. 15 (title) The lunette, a new land form of aeolian origin.

1940 E. S. Hills in Austral. Geographer III. vii. 15/1 Along the eastern shores of almost every lake and swamp in the plains of northern Victoria there occurs a crescentic ridge of silty clay or clay ‘loam’... It is..proposed to designate them by a new term—lunette.

1942 C. A. Cotton Geomorphol. (ed. 3) xx. 275 Dust captured from the air during gales that produce dust storms is brought down by spray whipped up from lakes, so that crescentic mounds of loamy material of this origin grow up immediately to leeward of the lakes. Being rarely more than 20 or 30 feet high these broad mounds are not conspicuous unless they rise from very level plains, as is the case in south-eastern Australia, where there are many examples of such landscape forms, there termed lunettes.

1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 127 The most important type of wind action in forming lake basins..is deflation or wind erosion. The clearest evidence of this process is provided by those cases in which the deflated material is piled up as a curved mound of sand or lunette..along the lee shore of the depression.