LUNETTE

noun a half horseshoe, which wants the sponge.

2. lunette ·noun a piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.

3. lunette ·noun an iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.

4. lunette ·noun a fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. ·see bastion.

5. lunette ·noun any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line.

6. lunette ·noun a kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles.