Lune vs Rune - What's the difference?
lune | rune |
(obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak
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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
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Anything crescent-shaped
(label) A leash for a hawk.
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A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.
A Finnish poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.
Any verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; an incantation.
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, page 15:
(obsolete) A roun.
As an adjective lune
is (only with bien'' or ''mal ) having a good or bad disposition, in a good or bad mood.As a noun rune is
air-hole (of a chimney).lune
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) lune, from (etyl) luna.Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
The corresponding convex shape is sometimes called a lune , but is, strictly, a lens .Etymology 3
Alteration of (lyon).Noun
(en noun)- And thenne was he ware of a Faucon came fleynge ouer his hede toward an hyghe elme / and longe lunys' aboute her feet / and she flewe vnto the elme to take her perche / the ' lunys ouer cast aboute a bough / And whanne she wold haue taken her flyghte / she henge by the legges fast / and syre launcelot sawe how he henge
See also
* loon * Monday ----rune
English
(runes)Noun
(en noun)- the fiddle sang and sang as ceaselessly as the chanting cicada without, and the frogs intoning their sylvan runes by the waterside.
