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noun

Lacuna, Lacunae n. (pl. L. lacunae; E. lacunas)

A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.

(Biol.) A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... bone showing minute structure.* Magnified. 1. Surface layer of bone. 2. Deeper portion. 3. Haversian canals from which pass the canaliculi. 4. A lacuna. Observe arrangement of lacunae at surface ...

— Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools • Francis M. Walters, A.M.

... Englishmen and slew them all simultaneously, what, think you, would be the effect from the point of view of the State? The effect, I conceive, would be indefinitely small, wonderfully transitory; there would, of course, be a momentary lacuna in the boiling surge: yet the womb of humanity is full of sap, and uberant; Ocean-tide, wooed of that Ilithyia whose breasts are many, would flow on, and the void would soon be filled. But the effect would only be thus insignificant, ...

— Prince Zaleski • M.P. Shiel

... notice that there is a lacuna in that passage of Petronius in which Encolpius is left with Quartilla, looking through a chink in the door, at the actions of Giton and little Pannychis. A few lines below, it relates, in effect, that he was fatigued by the voluptuous enjoyment of Quartilla, ...

— The Satyricon, Complete • Petronius Arbiter

... memory; strange lacunae. I remember the Roof, the slabs, the big snow patch above the Shoulder. Much that comes between I know nothing of. But the snow-patch is burnt into my mind, for though it was but a hundred metres across it took us half-an-hour's slow care to get down it. Without the stakes set ...

— A Tramp's Notebook • Morley Roberts

... letter is very obscure from the many lacunae. We naturally turn to the letters of Ashur-risua. This man may well be the same as the witness, shaku, and scribe of the queen, at Kalah in B.C. 709. We have nine letters of his referring to Armenian affairs. ...

— Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters • C. H. W. Johns

... no satisfactory explanation to offer. He may have set his own judgment above Homer—a most unlikely hypothesis: he may have been consistently following, in the framework of his story, some original now lost to us: there may be more, and longer, lacunae in the text than any editors have ventured to indicate: but, whatever theory we adopt, it must be ...

— The Fall of Troy • Smyrnaeus Quintus

Words linked to "Lacuna" : gap, coffer, crack