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<p><b>3.</b> <def>A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>These dangerous, unsafe <b>lunes</b> i' the king. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Lu"net</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Lunette</er>.]</ety> <def>A little moon or satellite.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bp. Hall.</i>

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<hw>Lu*nette"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., dim. of <ets>lune</ets> moon, L.<ets>luna</ets>. See <er>Lune</er> a crescent.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Fort.)</fld> <def>A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See <er>Bastion</er>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Far.)</fld> <def>A half horseshoe, which wants the sponge.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.</def>

<cs><col>Lunette window</col> <fld>(Arch.)</fld>, <cd>a window which fills or partly fills a lunette.</cd></cs>

<h1>Lung</h1> <Xpage=875>

<hw>Lung</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>lunge</ets>, AS. <ets>lunge</ets>, pl. <ets>lungen</ets>; akin to D. <ets>long</ets>, G. <ets>lunge</ets>, Icel. & Sw. <ets>lunga</ets>, Dan. <ets>lunge</ets>, all prob. from the root of E. <ets>light</ets>. <ets><?/</ets> See <er>Light</er> not heavy.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>An organ for a\'89rial respiration; -- commonly in the plural.</def>

<blockquote>My <b>lungs</b> began to crow like chanticleer. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<-- Insert: Illustration of lungs with description. -->

<note>&hand; In all air-breathing vertebrates the lungs are developed from the ventral wall of the esophagus as a pouch which divides into two sacs. In amphibians and many reptiles the lungs retain very nearly this primitive saclike character, but in the higher forms the connection with the esophagus becomes elongated into the windpipe and the inner walls of the sacs become more and more divided, until, in the mammals, the air spaces become minutely divided into tubes ending in small air cells, in the walls of which the blood circulates in a fine network of capillaries. In mammals the lungs are more or less divided into lobes, and each lung occupies a separate cavity in the thorax. See <er>Respiration</er>.</note>

<cs><col>Lung fever</col> <fld>(Med.)</fld>, <cd>pneumonia.</cd> -- <col>Lung flower</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a species of gentian (<spn>G. Pneumonanthe</spn>).</cd> -- <mcol><col>Lung lichen</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>tree lungwort.</cd> See under <er>Lungwort</er>. <col>Lung sac</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>one of the breathing organs of spiders and snails.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Lunge</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Also spelt <ets>longe</ets>, fr. <ets>allonge</ets>. See <er>Allonge</er>, <er>Long</er>.]</ety> <def>A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.</def>

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<hw>Lunge</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Lunged</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Lunging</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <def>To make a lunge.</def>

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<hw>Lunge</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To cause to go round in a ring, as a horse, while holding his halter.</def>

<i>Thackeray.</i>

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<hw>Lunge</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Namaycush</er>.</def>