Lum"ber*er (?), n. One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs
from the forest for lumber; a lumberman. [U.S.]
Lumberers have a notion that he (the woodpecker) is harmful to
timber.
Lowell.
Lum"ber*ing, n. The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from
the forest for lumber. [U.S.]
Lum"ber*man (?), n.; pl. Lumbermen (&?;). One who is engaged in
lumbering as a business or employment. [U.S.]
Lum`bo*sa"cral (?), n. [L. lumbus loin + E. sacral.] (Anat.) Of or
pertaining to the loins and sacrum; as, the lumbosacral nerve, a branch
of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum.
Lum"bric (?), n. [L. lumbricus.] (Zoöl.) An earthworm, or a worm
resembling an earthworm.
Lum"bric*al (?), a. [Cf. F. lombrical. See Lumbric.] (Anat.) Resembling
a worm; as, the lumbrical muscles of the hands of the hands and feet.
-- n. A lumbrical muscle.
Lum*bric"i*form (?), a. [L. lumbricus worm + -form.] (Zoöl.) Resembling
an earthworm; vermiform.
Lum"bri*coid (?), a. [Lumbricus + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Like an earthworm;
belonging to the genus Lumbricus, or family Lumbricidæ.
||Lum"bri*cus (?), n. [L. See Lumbric.] (Zoöl.) A genus of annelids,
||belonging to the Oligochæta, and including the common earthworms. See
||Earthworm.
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Lu"mi*nant (?), a. Luminous. [R.]
Lu"mi*na*ry (?), n.; pl. Luminaries (#), [F. luminaire, L. luminare a
light or lamp, which was lighted in the churches, a luminary, fr.
lumen, luminis, light, fr. lucere to be light, to shine, lux, lucis,
light. See Light.]
1. Any body that gives light, especially one of the heavenly bodies. "
Radiant luminary." Skelton.
Where the great luminary . . . Dispenses light from far.
Milton.
2. One who illustrates any subject, or enlightens mankind; as, Newton
was a distinguished luminary.
Lu"mi*nate (?), v. t. [L. luminatus, p. p. of luminare to illumine, fr.
lumen light. See Limn.] To illuminate. [Obs.]