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Definition of Lucerns
1. lucern [n] - See also: lucern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lucerns
Literary usage of Lucerns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Obscure Words and Phrases in the Writings of Shakspeare and by Charles Mackay (1887)
"Let me have My lucerns too, or dogs inur'd to hunt Beasts of most rapine. ...
As when a den of bloody lucerns cling About a goodly hart . . . but mastered ..."
2. Old English Plays: Being a Selection from the Early Dramatic Writers by Charles Wentworth Dilke (1814)
"t " My lucerns too." The word seems evidently used here to denote a certain
species of dogs ; but in the " Beggar's Bush'' of Beaumont and Fletcher, ..."
3. A History of the Holy Eastern Church by John Mason Neale (1850)
"... and the Priest saith four prayers of lucerns. ... the lucerns, tains
the 'Ai-a/Jad^o!, called also the and the ..."
4. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"He. Fly at him and his brood ; I cast thee off. lia. 1 '11 make you sport enough,
then ; let eagle. » me have My lucerns 9 too, or dogs inur'd to ..."
5. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1838)
"The beasts best known in this country are stags, roes, deer, goats, leopards,
ounces, lucerns, divers sorts of wolves, wild dogs, hares, conies, ..."
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