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n. - A substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid.

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  • Verb (used with object) : a musician skilled at luting Elizabethan ballads. ,The minstrel eloquently luted his melancholy
  • Apply with an old brush, or by repeatedly plunging the neck of the bottle in the luting before the latter becomes cold.
  • 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...
  • The furnace was closed at the top with fire brick slabs containing two or three holes for the escape of the gaseous products of the reduction, and the entire furnace made...
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