'Lucern' definitions:
Definition of 'Lucern'
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- Lucern \Lu"cern\, n. [L. lucerna.] A lamp. [Obs.] --Lydgate. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lucern'
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- Lucern \Lu"cern\, n. [F. luzerne.] (Bot.) A leguminous plant (Medicago sativa), having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder; -- called also alfalfa. [Written also lucerne.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lucern'
From: GCIDE
- Lucern \Lu"cern\, n. [Etymology uncertain.] [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. A sort of hunting dog; -- perhaps from Lucerne, in Switzerland. [1913 Webster]
- My lucerns, too, or dogs inured to hunt Beasts of most rapine. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An animal whose fur was formerly much in request (by some supposed to be the lynx). [Written also lusern and luzern.] [1913 Webster]
- The polecat, mastern, and the richskinned lucern I know to chase. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]