<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A stringed musical instrument having a long, fretted neck and a hollow, typically pear-shaped body with a vaulted back.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong> (used without object)</p><ul><li>To play a lute.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong> (used with object)</p><ul><li>To perform (music) on a lute: a musician skilled at luting Elizabethan ballads.</li><li>To express (a feeling, mood, etc.) by means of a lute: The minstrel eloquently luted his melancholy.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>