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Luminous Paint – Lynching

Luminous Paint

a paint containing phosphorus, which after exposure to strong light becomes luminous in the dark for a time.

Luna

the Latin name for the moon, among the Greeks Selēnē. Her worship is said to have been introduced among the Romans in the time of Romulus.

Lunda

a Bantu tribe living in British Central Africa. They till the land and trade in ivory and slaves. As a whole they are among the superior African tribes.

Lunenburg

a S. E. county of Nova Scotia, bordering on the Atlantic Ocean; area about 600 square miles; rivers, Le Have river, and numerous smaller streams; surface, broken; soil in some parts fertile; the coast is deeply indented with bays and inlets, of which Margaret's Bay and Mahone Bay are the largest. Capital Lunenburg; sometimes called Malaguash. Pop. about 35,000.

Lungchow

a city of China, in the province of Kwangsi, China, a short distance from the border of Tongking. It is an important military station. Pop. 13,000.

Lupine

a very extensive genus of hardy annual, perennial, and half-shrubby plants, some of which are cultivated in gardens for the sake of their gailycolored flowers. They belong to the natural order Leguminose.

Lussin

or LOSSINI, an island in the Adriatic Sea, formerly belonging to Austria, but since the World War in the possession of Italy. Area, 29 square miles. Pop. 15,000.

LUTHERANS

Luxor

a village in Egypt on the banks of the Nile, standing now on the site of the ancient city of Thebes. The great court erected by Rameses II. is perhaps the greatest building in this section of Egypt.

LUZERN. See LUCERNE.

Luzerne

a town in Luzerne co., Pennsylvania, near the Susquehanna river, a little north of Wilkes-Barre. It is near the center of the coal region, and in addition to coal mines possesses a foundry, drill factories, etc. Pop. (1910) 5,426; (1920) 5,998.

Lye

a solution of an alkali; water impregnated with alkaline salt imbibed from the ashes of wood. Used in soapmaking, in neutralizing an acid, in remov. ing grease from objects, such as thin iron plates in the operation of tinning, etc.

Lyme Regis

a seaport and watering-place of Dorsetshire, England, at the mouth of the Lyme rivulet, 5 miles S. E. of Axminster and 23 W. of Dorchester.

The Cobb breakwater, dating from the 14th century, was reconstructed by government in 1825-1826. Lyme Regis beat off Prince Maurice (1644), and was Mon- LYNCHING

Lynching

a term used in the LYMPH, VACCINE. See VACCINATION. United States, meaning the punishment