lugworm

[Eng. lug (1), and worm.] Zool.: Are nicol a piscatorum , an annelid of the family Tele thu side, sub-order Tubicole, sometimes cla ed with the Errant i a. The body is composed of a number of segments, thirteen of them furnished with red or purple arborescent branchial tufts, said by Go e to be protrusile. The first six segments are furnished with setæ only. It attains an extreme length of ten inches, and is found on various parts of the coast, near low-water mark, burrowing in the sand or in a muddy bottom. Its locality is easily detected from the spiral coils of sandy excrement near the aperture of the burrow. Called also Lob worm. lûhế ạ, s. [Named after Charles Luhe, a German botanist.] Bot.: A genus of Tiliaceae, family Grewide. It consists of Mexican and South American trees or shrubs. The Brazil i ans use the bark of Luhea grandiflora for tanning leather, and the wood of L. divaricans , which is light and white, but very close grained, for wooden shoes and musket stocks. +lûke, *lewk, *lewke, *leuke, a . [An extension of Mid. Eng. lew (q. v.).] Lukewarm; neither hot nor cold. [LUKEWARM.] "Let me have nine penn'ortho' brandy and water luke ." -Dickens Pickwick , ch. xxxiii. Lûke, s. [Gr. Loukas . Not connected with the name Lucius (Acts xiii. 1; Rom. xvi. 21), but contracted from Lat. Lucanus, as Silas is from Silvan us, or Apollos from A poll on i us. Po ibly from Lucania, in the south of Italy.] Scrip. Biog .: A New Testament evangelist, whose name was not a common one, but in its uncontracted form [see etym.) was immortalized by Lucan, author of the celebrated Roman poem Phar salia. It has been supposed that the poet, who was born at Cordova, in Spain, may have been connected with St. Luke, who is mentioned three times in the New Testament. In Col. iv. 14, he is called "Luke the beloved physician." In Philemon he is called Lucas, and described as one of St. Paul's fellow laborers, and when "Paul was ready to be offered" (2 Tim. iv. 6), he adds, "Only Luke is with me." Identifying him with the writer of the Acts of the Apostles, his use of the pronoun "we," commencing with xvi. 10, shows that he joined Paul at Troas and accompanied him to Philippi (11-17). The resumption of the pronouns "he" and "they" (xvi. 19, xvii. 1, 17, .) shows that he remained at Philippi till the return of the Apostle thither (xx. 6). He accompanied him on his subsequent mi ionary journeys (xx. 13-15, xxi. 1, .), was with him in his shipwreck (xxvii. 3, 27, xxviii. 2, 10), and his subsequent voyage to Rome (13-16). There is no trustworthy information as to the remainder of St. Luke's life. The Gospel according to St. Luke : New Testament Canon: The third gospel. The writer had his information from those who "from the beginning were eyewitne es and ministers of the word" (Luke i. 2), implying that he was not himself an eyewitne of the events that he records. It has been suggested that he may have got many details, as, e. g., of the birth of Jesus, from the "certain women" (Luke viii. 2,3). When speaking of diseases, there is a technical accuracy, greater than that exhibited by the other evangelists, and in describing the failure of the physicians in the case of the woman with the i ue of blood, he uses mild language (viii. 43), forcibly contrasting with that of St. Mark, written probably on information given by St. Peter (Markv. 26). Universal tradition considers that the gospel was penned under divine inspiration by St. Luke, "the beloved physician." There exists, or, rather, is recoverable from the writings of Justin Martyr, Irenæus, Tertullian, and Epiphanius, a Gospel i ued by the celebrated Gnostic, Marcion, so related to that of St. Luke, that Marcion's gospel must have been an abridgment of St. Luke's, or Luke's an expansion of Marcion's. They cannot have been independent shoots from the root of evangelical tradition, for of fifty three sections peculiar to St. Luke, from iv. 16 on ward, all but eight are found in Marcion's Gospel, and in the same order. The foregoing fathers charged Marcion with mutilating, for dogmatic ends, St. Luke's Gospel and the Epistles to the Galatians and Ephesians. This view has been generally accepted. Marcion is believed to have begun to teach in Rome about A. D. 139 to 142 (Sanday), or 138 (Volkmar), or 130 (Tischendorf). "At that time St. Luke's Gospel had been so long published that various readings of it had already arisen." The incidents recorded are not in chronological order. There is a marked superiority to Jewish IMG:content-0763.png:[blocks in formation] *lûke-ne , s. [English luke , a.; -ne .] Lukewarmne . lûke-warm, adj [A. S. wlæc = tepid; cf. Icel. hláka =a thaw; hlana =to thaw; hlær , hlýr =warm, mild; hlýja , hlúa = to shelter; A. S. hleó , hleów = a shelter; Dut. leukwarm ; Ger.lauwarm ; O. H. Ger láo .] 1. Lit.: Moderately hot or warm; tepid; neither too hot nor too cold. "With lukewarm water wash the gore away." Pope: Homer's Iliad, xi. 964. 2. Fig .: Not ardent, zealous, or enthusiastic; indifferent, cool. lûke-warm-ly, adv. [Eng. lukewarm; -ly.] 1. In lukewarm manner or degree; with moderate warmth. 2. With indifference; without ardor, zeal, or enthusiasm.