lute

Harpsichord and viola da gamba act as soloists as well as continuo; a modern lute song is a lullaby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

And Azerbaijan's Mamagama go all Maroon 5 on Run With U, a smooth pop song elevated by a twinkling riff on the saz – a long-necked plucked instrument similar to the lute.

From BBC ● May 9, 2025

A Dutch guide to marine life from the late 1500s claims that some whale species “like to hear music played on the lute, harp, flute and similar instruments.”

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2024

Jein even had the Vulcan lute played by Leonard Nimoy’s “Mr. Spock.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

I headed to the Eolian first to retrieve my lute.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

I wouldn't trade the cramped, pol luted, noisy and ungovernable city for any purified and antiseptic community in the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

For 'tis of a nature so subtile, That, if it's not luted with care, The spirit will work through the bottle, And vanish away into air.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Sir Walter Scott

The seams of the box are well luted with clay to prevent the gases from the consumed bone-dust from escaping, and to exclude air.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

It is of the form my master mostly uses—round, with a small neck and a narrow mouth, to be luted closely, without doubt.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various

This had to be thickened by boiling, and the joinings were luted with it, thus rendering the canoe perfectly water-tight.

From Snow Shoes and Canoes The Early Days of a Fur-Trader in the Hudson Bay Territory by Norman Little

As they were talking, in came one of the Khalif's maidservants and whispered him that they had heard a noise of singing and luting in Mehboubeh's chamber and knew not what this meant.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by John Payne

Instances of nouns and adjectives employed as verbs are: pennanc’d, luting, passion’d, neighbour’d, syllabling, companion’d, labrynth, anguish’d, poesied, vineyard’d, woof’d, loaned, medicin’d, zon’d, mesh, pleasure, legion’d, companion, green’d, gordian’d, character’d, finn’d, forest’d, tusk’d, monitor.

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller

Apply with an old brush, or by repeatedly plunging the neck of the bottle in the luting before the latter becomes cold.

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Montagu Browne

The proportions of this luting are determined by putting more or less resin and red ochre, or turpentine and wax, as the "lithocolle" is to be more or less brittle or elastic.

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Montagu Browne

Wine-stained moments on the wing, Moonlit hours go luting by, She who leads the flight of Spring Leads the midnight revelry.

From A Lute of Jade : selections from the classical poets of China by L. (Launcelot) Cranmer-Byng