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; sustenance; estate. She can spin for her living. Shak. He divided unto them his living. Luke xv. 12.

failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth. Luke xxi. 26.

; loud thunder. They were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. Luke xxiii. 23.

The song of the Virgin Mary, Luke i. 46; -- so called because it commences with this word in the Vulgate.

g the sense of a plural, sorts or kinds. Ye tithe mint, and rue, and all manner of herbs. Luke xi. 42. I bid thee say, What manner of man art thou Coleridge.

A large British fluke, or flounder (Rhombus megastoma); -- called also carter, and whiff. marchpane.

Liberty; permission; allowance. Thou mayst be no longer steward. Luke xvi. 2.

antity or amount. It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal. Luke xiii. 21.

; fit; proper; appropriate; qualified; convenient. It was meet that we should make merry. Luke xv. 32. To be meet with, to be even with; to be equal to. [Obs.]

Compassionate treatment of the unfortunate and helpless; sometimes, favor, beneficence. Luke x. 37.

midst of the forest. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him. Luke iv. 35. There is nothing... in the midst [of the play] which might not have been placed in the beginning. Dryden.

quality in respect of size, character, importance, consequences, etc. "A mighty famine." Luke xv.

The act of ministering; service; ministry. "The days of his ministration." Luke i. 23.

Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.

y not "nay." Chaucer. I tell you nay; but except ye repent, ye shall all likewisr perish. Luke xiii. 3. And now do they thrust us out privily nay, verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out. Acts xvi. 37. He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay. Old Prov.

hich now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves Luke x. 36. The gospel allows no such term as "stranger;" makes every man my neighbor. South.

To spread by rumor or report. All these sayings were noised abroad. Luke i. 65.

The song of Simeon (Luke ii. 29-32), used in the ritual of many churches. It begins with these words in the Vulgate.

To hold possession; to be an occupant. "Occupy till I come." Luke xix. 13.

noble blood. That holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. Luke i. 35. I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you. 1 Cor. xi. 23.