an epithet applied to anything that shines or emits light.

LUMINOUS Emanations have been observed from human bodies, as also from those of brutes. The light arising from currying a horse, or from rubbing a cat's back, are well known. Instances of a similar kind have been observed on combing a woman's head. Bartholin gives an account, which he entitles Muller Splendens, of a lady in Italy whose body shone whenever slightly touched with a piece of linen. These effluvia of animal bodies have many properties in common with those produced from glass; such as being lucid, snapping, and not being excited without some degree of friction; and they are undoubtedly electrical, as a cat's back when stroked has been found strongly electrical.

LUMEZZANO, two towns of Italy, in the delegation of Brescia, part of the Austrian government of Milan. One of them, with the addition of St Apollonia, is situated on a hill, and contains 1386 inhabitants; the other, called De Pieve, is situated in the valley of Trompia, and contains 1310 inhabitants. Both are celebrated for their manufactures of bayonets, gun-stocks, muskets, swords, pistols, daggers, and other weapons.