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Lum [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The chimney of a cottage.

Lum [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A chimney.

2. A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.

3. A woody valley; also, a deep pool.

Lumachel [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. LUM'ACHEL ,

2. LUMACHEL'LA, noun A calcarious stone composed of shells and coral conglutinated, but so far retaining their organization as to exhibit different colors, and so hard as to admit of polish.

Lumachel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Lumachella

Lumachella [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A grayish brown limestone, containing fossil shells, which reflect a beautiful play of colors. It is also called fire marble, from its fiery reflections.

Lumbaginous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pertaining to lumbago.

Lumbaginous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to lumbago.

Lumbago [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A pain in the loins and small of the back, such as precedes certain fevers.

2. A rheumatic affection of the muscles about the loins.

Lumbago [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A rheumatic pain in the loins and the small of the back.

Lumbago Encyclopedia Britannica

LUMBAGO, a term in medicine applied to a painful ailment affecting the muscles of the lower part of the back, generally regarded as of rheumatic origin. An attack of lumbago may occur alone, or be associated with rheumatism in other parts of the body at the time. It usually comes on by a seizure, often sudden, of pain in one or both sides of the small of the back, of a severe cutting or stabbing character, greatly aggravated on movement of the body, especially in attempting to rise from the recumbent posture, and also in the acts of drawing a deep breath, coughing, or sneezing. So intense is the suffering that it is apt to suggest the existence of inflammation in some of the neighbouring internal organs, such as the kidneys, bowels, <fcc., but the absence of the symptoms specially characteristic of these latter complaints, or of any great constitutional disturbance beyond the pain, renders the diagnosis a matter of no great difficulty. Lumbago seems to be brought on by exposure to cold and damp, and by the other exciting causes of rheumatism. Sometimes it follows a strain of the muscles of the loins. The attack is in general of short duration, but occasionally it continues for a long time, not in such an acute form as at first, but rather as a feeling of soreness and stiffness on movement. The treatment includes that for rheumatic affections in general (see Rheumatism) and the application of local remedies to allay the severe pain. Of these the best are hot fomentations with turpentine or laudanum applied by means of flannel or spongio-piline to the part ; or the rubbing in, if this can be borne, of stimulating liniments, such as those of opium, belladonna, chloroform, aconite, <fcc. The old and homely plan of counter-irritation by applying a heated iron to the part ...

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Lumbal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of, pertaining to, or near, the loins; as, the lumbar arteries.

Lumbar [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pertaining to the loins. The lumbar region is the posterior portion of the body between the false ribs and the upper edge of the haunch bone.

Lumbar [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Lumbal

Lumber [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Any thing useless and cumbersome, or things bulky and thrown aside as of no use.

2. The very bed was violated - and thrown among the common lumber

3. In America, timber sawed or split for use; as beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops and the like.

4. Harm; mischief. [Local.]

Lumber [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To heap together in disorder.

2. To fill with lumber; as, to lumber a room.

Lumber [B. t.] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To heap together in disorder.

2. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.

Lumber [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.

2. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.

3. Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.

Lumber [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To move heavily, as if burdened.

2. To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.

3. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.

Lumber-room [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A place for the reception of lumber or useless things.

Lumbered [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Lumber

Lumberer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman.

Lumbering [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber.

Lumbering [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Lumber

Lumberman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment.

Lumbermen [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Lumberman

Lumbosacral [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to the loins and sacrum; as, the lumbosacral nerve, a branch of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum.

Lumbric [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A worm.

Lumbric [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An earthworm, or a worm resembling an earthworm.

Lumbrical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Resembling a worm; as the lumbrical muscles.

2. Pertaining to the loins.

Lumbrical [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A muscle of the fingers and toes, so named from its resembling a worm. Of these muscles, there are four of the fingers and as many of the toes.

Lumbrical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Resembling a worm; as, the lumbrical muscles of the hands of the hands and feet.

Lumbrical [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A lumbrical muscle.

Lumbriciform [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Resembling a worm in shape.

Lumbriciform [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Resembling an earthworm; vermiform.

Lumbricoid [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Like an earthworm; belonging to the genus Lumbricus, or family Lumbricidae.

Lumbricus [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A genus of annelids, belonging to the Oligochaeta, and including the common earthworms. See Earthworm.

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9 KJV and 3 BSB verses contain “Lum”

2 Kings 20:7

And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” So they brought it and applied it to the boil, and Hezekiah recovered.

Isaiah 38:21

For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.

Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”

Haggai 1:8

Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.

Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD.

Romans 9:21

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?

Romans 11:16

For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

1 Corinthians 5:7

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

Galatians 5:9

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

A little leaven works through the whole batch of dough.

Judith 10:5

Then she gave her maid a bottle of wine, and a cruse of oil, and filled a bag with parched corn, and lumps of figs, and with fine bread; so she folded all these things together, and laid them upon her.

Bel and the Dragon 1:27

Then Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and did seethe them together, and made lumps thereof: this he put in the dragon’s mouth, and so the dragon burst in sunder: and Daniel said, Lo, these are the gods ye worship.