lunes

Noun (1)

lune (plural lunes)

1. (obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
   • Why woman, your husband is in his olde Lunes againe: […]c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Noun (2)

lune (plural lunes)

1. A concave figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles.
   • What he worried about was any eventual convexity, a shrinking, it might be, of the planet itself to some palpable curvature of whatever he would be standing on, so that he would be left sticking out like a projected radius, unsheltered and reeling across the empty lunes of his tiny sphere.1984, Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner
2. Anything crescent-shaped.

Noun (3)

lune (plural lunes)

1. A leash for a hawk.
   • And thenne was he ware of a Faucon came fleynge ouer his hede toward an hyghe elme / and longe lunys aboute her feet / and she flewe vnto the elme to take her perche / the lunys ouer cast aboute a bough / And whanne she wold haue taken her flyghte / she henge by the legges fast / and syre launcelot...1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xvj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VI

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