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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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... brilliant work in the classics and biology. Firsts were made by Bentley, who did the 220 lines of Homer in 29-3/5 minutes, scanned 100 Alcaics from Horace in 62 seconds flat, and hurdled over nine doubtful readings and seven lacunae in the text of Aristotle's 'Poetics' in 17-1/2 minutes. Two firsts went to Ramsdell, who made only two errors in Protective Colouration and one error in explaining the mutations of the ...

— The Patient Observer - And His Friends • Simeon Strunsky

... was the mountainous land, particularly the southern hill country of "Mount Ephraim;" yet, even here the Canaanites retained possession of not a few cities, such as Jebus, Shechem, Thebez. It was only after the lapse of centuries that all the lacunae were filled up, and the Canaanite enclaves ...

— Prolegomena to the History of Israel • Julius Wellhausen

... issued in a reprint a few omissions might be well. I fear we lost however by some lacunae which you had caused by covering up a page ...

— Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) • Edward FitzGerald

... without a motive to hold apart vast distances or intervals that lie in a field which has all gathered into a blue haze. Stars, divided by millions of miles, collapse into each other. So mythi: and then comes the perplexity—the entanglement. Then come also, from lacunae arising in these interwelded stories, temptations to falsehood. By the way, even the recent tale of Astyages seems to have been pieced: the difficulty was to find a motive for Cyrus, reputed a good man, to make war on his grandfather. Kill him ...

— The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 (2 vols) • Thomas De Quincey

... 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. In one of them(862) he announces that "at the commencement of Nisan the King ...

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

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