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Outdated, to coat with clay; to lute: Mary enluted or covered the earthenware vase with clay in order to seal the tiny cracks.

1. luteus, lutea, lutum: of mud or clay; dirty, covered with dirt.
2. luto, lutare: to smear with mud or dirt.
3. lutulentus, lutulenta, lutulentum: muddy, dirty; morally filthy, dirty.
4. lutum, luti: mud, mire, dirt; scum.

Pertaining to, made of, or formed from mud: The children used some fine-grained clay or mud to form some lutaceous bowls for their game in the garden.

A reference to the fact of living in mud; like mud; pertaining to the color of mud: Some animals like dwelling in lutarious habitats, like worms, insects, and crustaceans.

1. A substance, especially a cement of clay or the like, used to close up a hole: Sam read that lute could be used for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to produce imperviousness to gas or liquid.

Lute is a soft, earthy packing mixture used for closing or sealing apertures, joints, or porous surfaces in order to make them resistant to liquids or gases.
2. A packing ring, as of rubber: A lute was necessary to seal the fruit jar.

To cover or to seal something: Jane luted the cracks and the porous surface in the plate

Pertaining to smething like mud or clay: Jane tried to remove the luteous and sticky matter from her shoes after returning from a walk in the forest.

One who applies lute (mud, etc.): Mr. Jefferson was a luter who sealed the doors of kilns, furnaces, ovens, or coke-ovens which were used for reducing bituminous coal to coke.

Concerning an organism that inhabits or lives in mud: A lutecole is a creature that dwells, feeds, and breeds in boggy, swampy, or miry areas.

Relating to the existence and survival of organisms in mud: Plants and reptiles can be luticolous in that they live in soggy or waterlogged regions.

A reference to being bedaubed or befouled with mud: Jane's dog came back home completely in a lutit condition and it took her a long time to get all the dirt, clay, and grime removed from its fur.

A rock that is made of clay or silty sediments: A lutite is any fine-grained, consolidated sedimentary rock derived from or composed of mud and its associated materials.

Descriptive of an organism covered with a powdery substance resembling dirt or mud: There are some living lutose creaturess, like insects, that like to have a miry outer coating at times. .

Muddy, filthy, impure; turbid, thick: After the wind, storm, and thunder had past, the little stream behind Jim's house was quite lutulent and dark and full of sediments.

Any substance, such as certain chemicals or waste products, that makes the air, soil, water, or other natural resources harmful or unsuitable to use: More people are becoming more aware of how pollutants are harming their lives."