lute

n 1: a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface

to make it impervious to gas or liquid [syn: {luting}]

2: a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually

bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard

lite

(Misspelling of "light", when used to mean

"lightweight") A suffix denoting a scaled-down or crippled

product, often designed to be distributed without charge,

e.g. on a magazine {coverdisk}. An example is {pklite}.

(1995-10-06)