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ately 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.

That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.

One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor.

A measuring rod. Ascham.

A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.

To cry, as a young child; to squall. [Written also meawl.] Shak.

One that mewls.

ow passage; a confined place. [Eng.] Mr. Turveydrop's great room... was built out into a mews at the back. Dickens.

To taint with mildew. He... mildews the white wheat. Shak.

See Moldwarp.

The striped maple (Acer Pennsylvanicum).

To cover with a morphew. [Obs.]

A dish of meats and other ingredients, cooked together; an ollapodrida. Chaucer. Bacon.

A fern of the genus Hemionitis.

A talebearer. [Obs.]

See Navew.

A kind of small turnip, a variety of Brassica campestris. See Brassica. [Writen also naphew.]

A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.

Work executed with a needle; sewed work; sewing; embroidery; also, the business of a seamstress.

or grandchild, or remoter lineal descendant. [Obs.] But if any widow have children or nephews [Rev. Ver. grandchildren,]. 1 Tim. v. 4. If naturalists say true that nephews are often liker to their grandfathers than to their fathers. Jer. Taylor.