luminousness

[Eng. luminous; = ne .] The quality or state of being luminous; brightne , clearne , perspicuity. lum-mox, 8. (q.v.).] A fat, unwieldy, stupid person. [Perhaps connected with lump lump, *lompe, *lumpe, 8. [Of Scand in avian origin: cf. Sw.dial. lump =a piece hewn off, a log; Norw.lump=a block, a stump; Dut. lomp , O. Dut. lompe a rag, a tatter, a lump. Lump is a nasalized form from the same root as lubber (q. v.).] I. Ordinary Language : lect, and one born idiotic, and with a brain of so limited a circumference that he is never capable of exercising proper reason. In strictne , only the former is a lunatic. The distinction is not now legally regarded as much as formerly. B. As adj.: Of or pertaining to lunacy or lunatics. Commi ion of lunacy. [COMMISSION, 8.]