1. lute - Noun
2. lute - Verb
3. Lute - Proper noun
A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.
A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.
To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.
A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.
To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.
To play on a lute, or as on a lute.
Source: Webster's dictionary1526 49) were particularly important for their contributions to the development of lute polyphony in Spain. Source: Internet
19th abd 20th Century laoutos The Greek laouto or laghouto (long-necked lute) is similar to a mandocello, ordinarily tuned C3/C2-G3/G2-D3/D3-A3/A3 with half of each pair of the lower two courses being tuned an octave high on a lighter gauge string. Source: Internet
A collection of pieces for lute was purchased by Dohna and kept at the Elbing library. Source: Internet
After Schlick, a string of composers developed German lute music: Hans Judenkünig (c.1445–50 1526), the Neusidler family (particularly Hans Neusidler (c.1508/9 1563)) and others. Source: Internet
Apel 1961, xxiii and 22. In most lute tablatures, a staff is used, but instead of pitch values, the lines of the staff represent the strings of the instrument. Source: Internet
A guitar recital may include a variety of works, e.g. works written originally for the lute or vihuela by composers such as John Dowland (b. Source: Internet