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ly warm; not hot; tepid. -- Luke"ness, n. [Obs.] Nine penn'orth o'brandy and water luke. Dickens.

Consisting, or like, malt. Dickens.

A maudlin state. Dickens.

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

to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person. [Eng.] Dickens.

asy change in Mr. Micawber, which sat tightly on him, as if his new duties were a misfit. Dickens.

ch law. -- Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] Dickens.

One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about, as if moonstruck. [R.] Dickens.

A great quantity or number. [Prov. Eng.] There was a mort of merrymaking. Dickens.

bid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness. We both grub on in a muddle. Dickens.

A stupid person. [Colloq.] C. Reade. -- Mud"dle-head`ed, a. [Colloq.] Dickens.

object of superstitious homage and fear. Carlyle. The miserable Mumbo Jumbo they paraded. Dickens.

egative voice. Eikon Basilike. Something between an affirmative bow and a negative shake. Dickens.

objurgating; reproof. While the good lady was bestowing this objurgation on Mr.Ben Allen. Dickens. With a strong objurgation of the elbow in his ribs. Landor.

haracter or appearance of an ogre; suitable for an ogre. "An ogreish kind of jocularity." Dickens.

Hence: A vacant place; an opportunity; as, an opening for business. [Colloq.] Dickens.

To play the orator. [Jocose or derisive] Dickens.

, the candle will not last overnight. I had been telling her all that happened overnight. Dickens.

An overcoat. Dickens.

n baked without a dish; a meat pie. "If ye pinch me like a pasty." Shak. "Apple pasties." Dickens. A large pasty baked in a pewter platter. Sir W. Scott.