In the evening Messer Folco would often walk there with grave and learned elders like himself, and stir the sweet air with changing old-time philosophies, while Monna Beatrice and her maidens sang or danced or Luted or played ball.
"The God of Love"
Justin Huntly McCarthy
For if, for example, White Harts-horn, being, in Vessels well Luted to each other, expos'd to the fire, be said to turn Black by the Infection of its own Smoak, I think I may justly demand, what it is that makes the Smoak or Soot it self Black, since no Such Colour, but its contrary, appear'd before in the Harts-horn?
"Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664)"
Robert Boyle
This was accomplished by placing a thin slice of the Sclerotium in a drop of water under a glass slide, surrounded by a pellicle of air, and Luted to prevent evaporation and external influences.
"Fungi: Their Nature and Uses"
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke