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Definitions for Lunes

[1] Archaic . fits of madness.
[2] anything shaped like a crescent or a half moon.
[3] a crescent-shaped figure bounded by two arcs of circles, either on a plane or a spherical surface.
[4] a line for securing a hawk.
[5] a section of the surface of a sphere enclosed between two semicircles that intersect at opposite points on the sphere a crescent-shaped figure formed on a plane surface by the intersection of the arcs of two circles
[6] something shaped like a crescent
[7] RC Church another word for lunette (def. 6)
[8] falconry a leash for hawks or falcons

Words related to Lunes

curve, bow, meniscus, sickle, half-moon, demilune

Words nearby Lunes

lundberg, lundy, lundy isle, lundy's lane, lune, lunes, lunette, lung, lung book, lung fluke, lungan

Origin of Lunes

21425–75; late Middle English, variant of loyn < Middle French loigne longe

Word origin for Lunes

C14 loigne, from Old French, from Medieval Latin longia, longea, from Latin longus long 1

Synonyms for Lunes

bow, curve, half-moon, meniscus, sickle, concave figure, convex figure, cresentoid, demilune, horned moon, hornlike, new moon, old moon