lusern
See also: Lusérn
English
editNoun
editlusern (plural luserns)
- Alternative form of lucern (“lynx”)
- 1532-3, The Statutes of the Realm, 24 Hen. VIII c. 13, page 430:
- Ne also weare in any maner apparell of his body or on his Hors […] any Furres of Blake Jenettes or Luserns […]
- 1674, John Josselyn, An account of two voyages to New-England:
- The Wild-cat, Lusern or luceret, or Ounce as some call it, is not inferiour to Lamb […]
- 1600, Richard Hakluyt, The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation, page 333:
- […] the King whereof being desirous of my friendship, sent vnto mee a quiuer made of a Luserns skinne full of arrowes […]
References
edit- “lusern”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editWelsh
editNoun
editlusern
- Soft mutation of llusern.