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 packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.

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.