luncheon, lunch i on, lunch in, lunshin

[For lunching, from lunch, s. (q. v.).] *1. A lump, a big piece, as of bread or other edible. "I sliced the luncheon from the barley-loaf." Gay: Shepherd's Week; Tuesday. 2. A slight meal between breakfast and dinner. luncheon-bar, s. A bar or counter in an inn or eating-house where meals can be taken. ( Eng .) lunch'-eồn, v . i. [LUNCHEON, 8.] To take lunch or luncheon. lŭn-dre , s . [From London (?), the city.] Coinage: A sterling silver penny formerly coined in London. (Lownd: E ay on Coins.) lûne (1), s . [Lat. luna =the moon.] I. Ordinary Language : +1. Lit .: Anything in the shape of a half-moon or crescent. "A troop of Janizaries strewed the field, Fallen in just ranks or wedges, lunes or squares, Firm as they stood." Watts: Lyric Poems , ii. 2. Fig .: A fit of lunacy or frenzy; a mad freak, a crotchet. "Why, woman, your husband is in his old lunes again." -Shakesp.: Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. 2. II. Geom.: The area included between the arcs of two circles which intersect each other. IMG:content-0771.jpg:[blocks in formation] employment by Hippo crates in his celebrated theorem. ACBis a right angled triangle, right angled at c; AGHB, AEC, and CFBare semi-circles, with the diameters A В, АС, and c в respectively. By Euclid vi. 31, A EC+CFB= AGHB. By taking away the common areas AGC and Cив, it is clear that lune AECGA+ lune CFBHC=triangle ACB. This A B "The Greeks observed the lunary year, that is, twelve revolutions of the moon, 354 days." -Browne: Vulgar proved equal to a rectilinear one. Errors, bk. iv., ch. xii. B. As subst.: A plant, moonwort (q. v.). "By the vervaine and lunary Draw near." Fuimus Troes, ii. 6.