or LOTING, among chemists, a mixed, tenacious, dudge substance, which grows solid by drying, and, being applied to the juncture of vessels, flops them up so as to prevent the air from getting in or out.

LUTE is also a musical instrument with strings.—The lute consists of four parts, viz. the table, the body or belly, which has nine or ten sides: the neck, which has nine or ten steps or divisions, marked with strings: and the head or crois, where the screws for raising and lowering the strings to a proper pitch of tone are fixed. In the middle of the table there is a roe or passage for the sound; there is also a bridge that the strings are fastened to, and a piece of ivory between the head and the neck to which the other extremities of the strings are fitted. In playing, the strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the flops are prefixed. The lutes of Bologna are esteemed the best on account of the wood, which is said to have an uncommon disposition for producing a sweet sound.