Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A wooded valley.
- n. A deep pool.
- n. A chimney.
- n. In coal-mining, a chimney placed on the top of the upcast-shaft to increase the draft and carry off the smoke.
Wiktionary
- n. Scotland A chimney.
- n. Scotland A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
- n. Scotland A woody valley.
- n. Scotland A deep pool.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Prov. Eng. & Scot. A chimney.
- n. A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
- n. Prov. Eng. A woody valley; also, a deep pool.
Etymologies
- Origin uncertain. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Cdterum Koftt qux anteapreffifuerut 3 m label lum demittito, Cr ajfufs oclo Iibris Cr qaadrante ffiffatt olei tterumpremito, entj, fecundaium eleum.”
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“The Bush and Cheney names are political garbage, just as the GOP party has become the ins ane asy lum of politics.”
“I am, though, no expert on the Hollywood oeuvre and it is an honour to have him and his missus visit us at this time: lang may his lum reek and may the road rise to meet him etc.”
““Prakto lum nut zortinagel faz!” it sounded like it said, and the other one tried to explain, pointing at the sky and the trees and saying “Lossa lossa,” a lot.”
“When I wrote my film "MOOZ-lum," which speaks about the Muslim-American experience, I had no idea so much would be at stake; I simply wanted to give a voice to a generation that is often drowned out by the heavy volume of extremism.”
“Mr. QASIM BASIR (Writer/Director, "Mooz-lum"): Thank you.”
“It is called "Mooz-lum" and it can now be seen on the film festival circuit.”
“Mr. ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH (Actor, "Mooz-lum"): Thank you for having us.”
“(Soundbite of movie, "Mooz-lum") Unidentified Woman #1: He's got a chicken sandwich and some vegetables.”
“MARTIN: Mr. Basir also talked about the whole way in which "Mooz-lum" portrayed in the media now.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lum’.
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Coal Mining Terms
Coal mining has engendered fascinating subcultures in industry, labor, music, folklore, environment and energy. It has a rich vocabulary as well, and I've encountered some gorgeous mining words. I...
firedamp, scrip, bituminous, anthracite, company store, blackdamp, brattice, bug dust, tipple, whitedamp, float dust, fly ash and 136 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Words that have gone out of fashion
words are fashionable -wane and wax - in usage. This is an open list of those words now out of fashion.
marconigram, flapper, bully, glockenspiel, periphrastic, bouffant, cackle, oldfangled, brigadoon, nohow, cat-salt, indecorous and 45 more...
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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New words
Words that are new to me.
autostrada, gimlet, clyster, gravida, skelped, nacreous, susurrus, intransigent, puissant, turbid, plangent, fungible and 99 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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An Echo in the Bone
Words that were listed when reading An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon.
vivisection, emergent, portmanteau, apostrophize, apostrophe, dissentient, napery, adduce, provenance, vertiginious, spontoon, gorget and 25 more...
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jey's Words
clerestory, outwith, sublunary, machair, luskentyre, antisyzygy, narthex, halyard, anegada, hebrides, schiehallion, quiraing and 53 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for lum.
PossibleUnderscore The balls of light that give Rayman power! Jul 23, 2009
yarb '"It is a queer thing," his mind droned on, "that when I came here when I was young I saw there was a peck of dust in every room, and I blamed old Mr. Logan for keeping on yon dirty old wife of a caretaker. I said to myself that when I was the master I would have it like a new pin and put a decent buddy in the basement. And now Mr. Logan is long dead, and the old wife is long dead, and I have had things my own way these many years, but the place is still foul as a lum, and I keep on yon slut of a Mrs. Powell. Ah well! Ah well!"'
- Rebecca West, The Judge Jul 23, 2009
bilby Scots - chimney, chimney stack. Dec 9, 2007