(anc. geog.), a forest of Germany, at no great distance from the Hercynia; below which were the Boemi: it was therefore in Moravia, near the springs of the Marus, now March, which runs into the Danube over against Carnutum.

or Luna, a town of Gallia Celtica. Now Clugny in Burgundy.

a town and port of Liguria, at the mouth of the Macra. The town was but small, but the port large and beautiful, according to Strabo. Now extinct, and its ruins called Luna Distruita. It was famous for its quarries of white marble, thence called Lunense, and for its cheese, remarkable rather for its size than goodness, each being a thousand weight.

in astronomy, the moon. See ASTRONOMY, paffim.

in the jargon of the alchemists, signifies silver; so called from the supposed influence of the moon thereupon.