These are the meanings of the letters LUTER when you unscramble them.
- Lure (n.)
A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks.
- Lure (n.)
A velvet smoothing brush.
- Lure (n.)
Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; a decoy.
- Lure (n.)
To draw to the lure; hence, to allure or invite by means of anything that promises pleasure or advantage; to entice; to attract.
- Lure (v. i.)
To recall a hawk or other animal.
- Lute (n.)
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.
- Lute (n.)
A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
- Lute (n.)
A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.
- Lute (n.)
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.
- Lute (v. i.)
To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.
- Lute (v. t.)
To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.
- Lute (v. t.)
To play on a lute, or as on a lute.
- Rule (a.)
A composing rule. See under Conposing.
- Rule (a.)
A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result; as, a rule for extracting the cube root.
- Rule (a.)
A general principle concerning the formation or use of words, or a concise statement thereof; thus, it is a rule in England, that s or es , added to a noun in the singular number, forms the plural of that noun; but \"man\" forms its plural \"men\", and is an exception to the rule.
- Rule (a.)
A measuring instrument consisting of a graduated bar of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, which is usually marked so as to show inches and fractions of an inch, and jointed so that it may be folded compactly.
- Rule (a.)
A straight strip of wood, metal, or the like, which serves as a guide in drawing a straight line; a ruler.
- Rule (a.)
A thin plate of metal (usually brass) of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.
- Rule (a.)
An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
- Rule (a.)
Conduct in general; behavior.
- Rule (a.)
Ordibary course of procedure; usual way; comon state or condition of things; as, it is a rule to which there are many exeptions.
- Rule (a.)
Systematic method or practice; as, my ule is to rise at six o'clock.
- Rule (a.)
That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a regulation; a prescription; a precept; as, the rules of various societies; the rules governing a school; a rule of etiquette or propriety; the rules of cricket.
- Rule (a.)
The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
- Rule (a.)
Uniform or established course of things.
- Rule (n.)
To control or direct by influence, counsel, or persuasion; to guide; -- used chiefly in the passive.
- Rule (n.)
To control the will and actions of; to exercise authority or dominion over; to govern; to manage.
- Rule (n.)
To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
- Rule (n.)
To mark with lines made with a pen, pencil, etc., guided by a rule or ruler; to print or mark with lines by means of a rule or other contrivance effecting a similar result; as, to rule a sheet of paper of a blank book.
- Rule (n.)
To require or command by rule; to give as a direction or order of court.
- Rule (v. i.)
To have power or command; to exercise supreme authority; -- often followed by over.
- Rule (v. i.)
To keep within a (certain) range for a time; to be in general, or as a rule; as, prices ruled lower yesterday than the day before.
- Rule (v. i.)
To lay down and settle a rule or order of court; to decide an incidental point; to enter a rule.
- True (adv.)
In accordance with truth; truly.
- True (n.)
Actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended; genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of country; a true Christian.
- True (n.)
Conformable to fact; in accordance with the actual state of things; correct; not false, erroneous, inaccurate, or the like; as, a true relation or narration; a true history; a declaration is true when it states the facts.
- True (n.)
Right to precision; conformable to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate; as, a true copy; a true likeness of the original.
- True (n.)
Steady in adhering to friends, to promises, to a prince, or the like; unwavering; faithful; loyal; not false, fickle, or perfidious; as, a true friend; a wife true to her husband; an officer true to his charge.
- Tule (n.)
A large bulrush (Scirpus lacustris, and S. Tatora) growing abundantly on overflowed land in California and elsewhere.