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A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson.

Being or placed within; inner; interior; -- opposed to outward. Milton.

Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward.

inner parts; internally. Let Benedick, like covered fire, Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly. Shak.

Internal or true state; essential nature; as, the inwardness of conduct. Sense can not arrive to the inwardness Of things. Dr. H. More.

See Inward.

Articles made of iron, as household utensils, tools, and the like.

Same as Kelp, 2.

Toward the land.

Somewhat late; backward. [Obs.] "Lateward lands." Holland.

Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the part or side toward which the wind blows; -- opposed to windward; as, a leeward berth; a leeward ship. -- n.

Toward or on the left side. Rightward and leftward rise the rocks. Southey.

Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid; not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent. " Lukewarm blood." Spenser. " Lukewarm patriots." Addison. An obedience so lukewarm and languishing that it merits not the name of passion. Dryden. -- Luce"warm`ly, adv. -- Luce"warm`ness, n.

A government vessel employed for the purposes of war, esp. one of large size; a ship of war. Man-of-war bird (Zoöl.), The frigate bird; also applied to the skua gulls, and to the wandering albatross. -- Man-of-war hawk (Zoöl.), the frigate bird. -- Man-of-war's man, a sailor serving in a ship of war. -- Portuguese m…

A warden of the marches; a marcher.

In or toward the midst.

See Mole the animal. Spenser.

See Moldwarp.

Towards the morn. [Poetic] And mornward now the starry hands move on. Lowell.