Definition of "luting" [lut•ing]

• See lute2. (noun)

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• "Unfortunately I had forgotten a sulphur-still; and the engineer vainly attempted to extract the ore by luting together two iron mortars, and by heating them to a red heat."
• "Their attempted solutions of the problem of evil are in most cases dualistic; evil is due either to the disturbing and pol - luting influence of a preexisting matter, coeternal with and not created by God, or to an evil soul, again a coeternal independent principle."
• "Apply with an old brush, or by repeatedly plunging the neck of the bottle in the luting before the latter becomes cold."