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cient; full; complete. Good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over. Luke vi. 38.

e of the four narratives of the life and death of Jesus Christ, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

The fluke of sheep. See Fluke.

A small anchor, with four or five flukes or claws, used to hold boats or small vessels; hence, any instrument designed to grapple or hold; a grappling iron; a grab; -- written also grapline, and crapnel.

rveyed Hell and the gulf between. Milton. Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed. Luke xvi. 26.

rruption. Acts ii. 31 (Rev. Ver.). And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments. Luke xvi.23 (Rev. Ver.).

Lacking zeal or courage; lukewarm. H. James.

in walking; lame. Bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. Luke xiv. 21.

the hand; to use or hold with the hand. Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh. Luke xxiv. 39. About his altar, handling holy things. Milton.

he service, after the parashoth, or lessons from the Law. Such a practice is evidenced in Luke iv.17 and Acts xiii.15.

To take place; to occur. All these things which had happened. Luke xxiv. 14. To happen on, to meet with; to fall or light upon. "I have happened on some other accounts." Graunt. -- To happen in, to make a casual call. [Colloq.]

To love less, relatively. Luke xiv. 26.

t. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- On high, aloft; above. The dayspring from on high hath visited us. Luke i. 78. -- The Most High, the Supreme Being; God.

rs the growth of plants; to hinder me from going. Them that were entering in ye hindered. Luke xi. 52. I hinder you too long. Shak.

for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay. The laborer is worthy of his hire. Luke x. 7.

n. Dryden. The foxes have holes, . . . but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. Luke ix. 58.

ong. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God. Luke ii. 13. All at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils. Wordsworth.

. . mine hour is not yet come. John ii. 4. This is your hour, and the power of darkness. Luke xxii. 53.

der, or within anything especially a fuid; to dip; to immerse. See Immerse. We took . . . lukewarm water, and in it immerged a quantity of the leaves of senna. Boyle. Their souls are immerged in matter. Jer. Taylor.

To give a part or share. He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none. Luke iii. 11.