[Anglicized form of LACUNA. Cf. F. lacune.]
1. = LACUNA 1. Now rare.
1701. Beverley, Apoc. Quest., 43. Which … I look upon as a very Great Lacune in his Scheme.
1784. Henley, in Beckford’s Vathek (1868), 189, note. There being a lacune in his transcript of the original.
1814. W. Taylor, in Robberd, Mem., II. 450. He could trust to his extempore eloquence for supplying the lacunes of his text.
1887. Dublin Rev., July, 213. In the episcopal succession there are some few lacunes which there are no data to fill.
2. = LACUNA 2.
1846. Dana, Zooph., iv. (1848), 35. The various cavities, lacunes, or pores in the tissues of the animal.
