My lucerns, too, or dogs inured to hunt Beasts of most rapine.
Chapman.
2. An animal whose fur was formerly much in request (by some supposed
to be the lynx). [Written also lusern and luzern.]
The polecat, mastern, and the richskinned lucern I know to chase.
Beau. & Fl.
Lu"cern, n. [F. luzerne.] (Bot.) A leguminous plant (Medicago sativa),
having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder; --
called also alfalfa. [Written also lucerne.]
Lu"cern, n. [L. lucerna.] A lamp. [Obs.] Lydgate.
Lu*cer"nal (?), a. [L. lucerna a lamp.] Of or pertaining to a lamp.
Lucernal microscope, a form of the microscope in which the object is
illuminated by means of a lamp, and its image is thrown upon a plate of
ground glass connected with the instrument, or on a screen independent
of it.
||Lu`cer*na"ri*a (?), n. [NL., fr. L. lucerna a lamp.] (Zoöl.) A genus
||of acalephs, having a bell-shaped body with eight groups of short
||tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by a sucker at the
||base of the pedicel.
||
Lu`cer*na"ri*an (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Lucernarida. -
- n. One of the Lucernarida.
||Lu`cer*nar"i*da (?), n. pl. [NL. See Lucernaria.] (Zoöl.) (a) A
||division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; --
||called also Calycozoa. (b) A more extensive group of acalephs,
||including both the true Lucernarida and the Discophora.
||
Lu"cerne (?), n. (Bot.) See Lucern, the plant.
Lu"cid (?), a. [L. lucidus, fr. lux, lucis, light. See Light, n.] 1.
Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven.
Lucid, like a glowworm.
Sir I. Newton.
A court compact of lucid marbles.
Tennyson.