lune

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak. obsolete
    — Why woman, your husband is in his olde Lunes againe: […]
  2. 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.
  3. 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 sawe how he henge
  4. Anything crescent-shaped.

词形变化

lunes plural lunes plural lunes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
demi-lune lune of Hippocrates semilune spherical lune

词源

词源 1
From Latin lūna (“moon”).
词源 2
From French lune, from Latin luna.
词源 3
Alteration of lyon.
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