[Fictionary] Lierne Definitions

[David Randall]

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lierne - n. (fr. German) -  a ditch on the side of the road.

lierne - n. - an urn used at a crematorium as a repository for miscellaneous ash leavings, to be buried in a grave with a fictional name when full.

lierne - n. (fr. Middle French, probably from lier to bind, from Latin ligare) - a rib in Gothic vaulting that passes from one intersection of the principal ribs to another.

lierne - n. - a tree, Pouteria dahomensis, whose wood is used for building boats in West Africa.

lierne - n. - in astronomy, the repeated observation of an object each sidereal day. Named for Jean Liérne, an assistant to Charles Messier.

lierne - n. - the seemingly shaky but highly controlled stroke of the Avignon School was known as the "lierne", after the park where they would gather to draw and argue.
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