In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
lune (plural lunes)
(obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
lune (plural lunes)
A concave figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles.
Anything crescent-shaped.
The corresponding convex shape is sometimes called a lune, but is, strictly, a lens.
lune (plural lunes)
(hawking) A leash for a hawk.
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Lune
A river in Lancashire, England, which passes Lancaster.
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Source: Wiktionary
Lune, n. Etym: [L. luna moon: cf. F. lune. See Luna.]
1. Anything in the shape of a half moon. [R.]
2. (Geom.)
Definition: A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles.
3. A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak. [Obs.] These dangerous, unsafe lunes i' the king. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.