LUTE

(It. limo.) A musical stringed instrument of the guitar species, and played In a similar way; but In form more resembling the section of a pear, with a back in ribs, <• of a melon. LI 1 'nistry, applications by which the junctions of ve els are rendered tight, A gla retort is said to be luted when smeared over with clay, so as more perfectly it the effects of heat, and to prevent its fusion. Coatman lute is a mixture' of pipe-clay, linseed mesL and water, and is spread upon paper and applied to the joinings of stills and of retorts and receivers, tat lute is a mixture of pipeclay and linseed oil. LUTHER ANS, or [s. 707]