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Definition of Lucern
1. n. A sort of hunting dog; -- perhaps from Lucerne, in Switzerland.
2. n. A leguminous plant (Medicago sativa), having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder; -- called also alfalfa.
3. n. A lamp.
Definition of Lucern
1. Noun. (obsolete) A lamp. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lucern
1. lucerne [n -S] - See also: lucerne
Medical Definition of Lucern
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1. A sort of hunting dog; perhaps from Lucerne, in Switzerland. "My lucerns, too, or dogs inured to hunt Beasts of most rapine." (Chapman)
2. An animal whose fur was formerly much in reqest (by some supposed to be the lynx).
Alternative forms: lusern and luzern] "The polecat, mastern, and the richskinned lucern I know to chase." (Beau. & Fl)
Origin: Etymology uncertain.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lucern
Literary usage of Lucern
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Encyclopædia of Agriculture: Comprising the Theory and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon (1831)
"There arc no varieties of the lucern deserving the notice of a cultivator. 5577.
... The soil for lucern must be dry, friable, inclining to sand, ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1870)
"forth says obediently, ' lucern is medicago sativa,' &c., he makes no act of
assent to the proposition which he enunciates, but speaks like a parrot. ..."
3. Georgical Essays by Alexander Hunter (1804)
"On Barky sown with lucern*. Two acres of land were thoroughly dunged and prepared
for lucern, which were sowa with buck-wheat in the spring of 1795, ..."
4. The Rural Economy of the Southern Counties: Comprizing Kent, Surrey, Sussex by Marshall (William), Mr Marshall, William Marshall (1798)
"In many parts of England, we see lucern in gardens, and on other small plots of
ground, about the residences of gentlemen; and, there, it is nursed, ..."
5. European Agriculture and Rural Economy by Henry Colman (1851)
"Indian corn will yield more green food, but a crop of lucern may be got much
earlier. Three things are important in the culture of it; first, that the soil ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1891)
"the sowing of the seed ; twenty-five cc in the case the vetches, and clover, and
fifty cc in that of the lupii lucern. The seeds, carefully selected and ..."
7. The Industries of Russia by Russia Ministerstvo finansov, John Martin Crawford, World's Columbian Exposition (1893)
"which is generally the last oi the first year of lucern culture. In the second
year, lucern yields from three to four crops, each more abundant than those ..."
8. The Farmer's Calendar: Containing the Business Necessary to be Performed on by Arthur Young (1809)
"lucern. This is the right season for sowing lucern, which) must now be considered
under the several heads. 1. Of the utility of the crop, which should ..."
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