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Definition of Lunary
1. a. Lunar.
2. n. The herb moonwort or "honesty".
Definition of Lunary
1. Adjective. (obsolete) lunar ¹
2. Noun. moonwort (''Botrychium lunaria'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lunary
1. the moonwort fern [n LUNARIES]
Medical Definition of Lunary
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lunary
Literary usage of Lunary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Elementary Treatise on Plane and Solid Geometry by Benjamin Peirce (1873)
"... and the portion of the surface of the sphere comprehended between them is
called a lunary surface, and is the base of the wedge. 434. Definitions. ..."
2. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829)
"Of the salary and lunary yean, and how they are reconciled; with the form of the
Hebrew year, and their manner of intercalation. The Hebrew months are thus ..."
3. Elements of Geometry Upon the Inductive Method by James Hayward (1829)
"If the lunary angle IAL is incommensurable with four right-angles, we can lake
a measure of four right-angles so small that the remainder after dividing the ..."
4. Three Books of Occult Philosophy Or Magic by Willis F. Whitehead (1898)
"What Things are lunary, or Under the Power of the Moon. THESE things are lunary,
amongst the Elements, viz.: The earth, then the water, as well that of the ..."
5. The Sacred Beetle by Jean-Henri Fabre (1918)
"CHAPTER XVI THE lunary COPRIS; THE BISON ONITIS SMALLER than the Spanish Copris
and less particular about a mild climate, the lunary Copris (C. lunaris, ..."
6. Antiquities of the Jews by William Brown (1826)
"... their lunary, political, and mixed translations. 1. Da [fa. The Jewish day
consisted of 24 hours, and was computed from evening to evening. ..."
7. Antiquities of the Jews by William Brown, David Jennings (1823)
"The intercalation of years explained; the translation of feasts depended on this
intercalation; their lunary, political, and mixed translations. 1. Days. ..."
8. First Part of an Elementary Treatise on Spherical Trigonometry by Benjamin Peirce (1836)
"A lunary surface is a part of the (869) surface of a sphere comprehended between
two semi- circumferences of great circles, which terminate in a common ..."
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