'Luce' definitions:
Definition of 'Luce'
From: WordNet
noun
United States publisher of magazines (1898-1967) [syn: Luce, Henry Luce, Henry Robinson Luce]
noun
United States playwright and public official (1902-1987) [syn: Luce, Clare Booth Luce]
Definition of 'Luce'
From: GCIDE
- Luce \Luce\ (l[imac]s), n. [OF. lus, L. lucius a kind of fish.] (Zool.) A pike when full grown. --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'luce'
From: GCIDE
- Pike \Pike\, n. [F. pique; perhaps of Celtic origin; cf. W. pig a prick, a point, beak, Arm. pik pick. But cf. also L. picus woodpecker (see Pie magpie), and E. spike. Cf. Pick, n. & v., Peak, Pique.]
- 1. (Mil.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A hayfork. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Tusser. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A pick. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright. Raymond. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A pointed or peaked hill. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- 6. A large haycock. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
- 7. A turnpike; a toll bar. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Zool.) sing. & pl. A large fresh-water fish ({Esox lucius}), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Blue pike, grass pike, green pike, wall-eyed pike, and yellow pike, are names, not of true pike, but of the wall-eye. See Wall-eye. [1913 Webster]
- Gar pike. See under Gar.
- Pike perch (Zool.), any fresh-water fish of the genus Stizostedion (formerly Lucioperca). See Wall-eye, and Sauger.
- Pike pole, a long pole with a pike in one end, used in directing floating logs.
- Pike whale (Zool.), a finback whale of the North Atlantic (Bal[ae]noptera rostrata), having an elongated snout; -- called also piked whale.
- Sand pike (Zool.), the lizard fish.
- Sea pike (Zool.), the garfish (a) . [1913 Webster]
Luce -- U.S. County in Michigan
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Luce -- U.S. County in Michigan
Population (2000) :
7024
Housing Units (2000) :
4008
Land area (2000) :
903.083024 sq. miles (2338.974196 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
1008.802908 sq. miles (2612.787425 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
1911.885932 sq. miles (4951.761621 sq. km)
Located within :
Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location :
46.461723 N, 85.593089 W