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A river in Cumbria and Lancashire, England, which passes Lancaster.
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noun
A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
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.
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Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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noun
Anything crescent-shaped.
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noun
A leash for a hawk.
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Topics: falconry, hawking, hobbies, hunting, lifestyle
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History
Inherited from Northern Middle English Lune, probably of Romano-British (Latin) origin, such as Old English ea (“river”) Lōn, a phonetic adaptation of Latin Ialonus, a local Celtic god (and thus from Proto-Celtic *yalom (“clearing”)). Or, possibly from lune, referring to the river's shape.
From Latin lūna (“moon”).
From French lune, from Latin luna.
Alteration of lyon.
Across languages
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