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Lucern   Listen
noun
Lucern  n.  (Obs.)
1.
A sort of hunting dog; perhaps from Lucerne, in Switzerland. "My lucerns, too, or dogs inured to hunt Beasts of most rapine."
2.
An animal whose fur was formerly much in request (by some supposed to be the lynx). (Written also lusern and luzern) "The polecat, mastern, and the richskinned lucern I know to chase."





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"Lucern" Quotes from Famous Books



... From these documents I have even been able to establish the composition of the hay delivered by this officer. The words waistcoat, drawers, pocket handkerchief, collars, drink, tobacco, cigars, mean clover, meadowgrass, lucern, burnet, oats, rye-grass, vernal-grass, and common cat's tail grass. And these are precisely the constituents of the hay furnished by Count Maubec to the Penguin cavalry. In this way Pyrot mentioned his crimes in a language that ...
— Penguin Island • Anatole France


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