[Lunar Month], a month of 29 days, the time of the revolution of the moon, a lunar year consisting of 12 times the number.
[Lunar Theory], an explanation by mathematical reasoning of perturbations in the movements of the moon founded on the law of gravitation.
[Lunar Year], a period of 12 synodic lunar months, being about 354.5 days.
[Lund] (14), a city in the S. of Sweden, 10 m. NE. of Malmö, once the capital of the Danish kingdom, the seat of an archbishop, with a Romanesque cathedral and a flourishing university.
[Lundy Island], a precipitous rugged island 3 m. long by 1 m. broad, belonging to Devon, with the remains of an old castle, and frequented by myriads of sea-fowl.
[Lüneburg] (21), on the Ilmenau, 30 m. SE. of Hamburg, an ancient German city with old Gothic churches, once the capital of an independent duchy, now in Hanover; has salt and gypsum mines, iron and chemical manufactures; the British royal house is descended from the princes of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
[Lupercalia], a Roman festival held on Feb. 15 in honour of Lupercus, regarded as the god of fertility, in the celebration of which dogs and goats were sacrificed and their skins cut up into thongs, with which the priests ran through the city striking every one, particularly women, that threw themselves in their way.
[Lupercus], an ancient Italian god, worshipped by shepherds as the protector of their flocks against wolves.
[Lupus], a chronic disease of the skin, characterised by the tuberculous eruptions which eat into the skin, particularly of the face, and disfigure it.