Rotten-roasted or rare, i.e., over-roasted or under-done.

[Footnote 6: 'laggingly represented'A word belonging to time is substituted for a word belonging to space:'this over-done, or inadequately effected'; 'this over-done, or under-done.']

She often protested that she was weighed down by "responserbility;" the whole of the discredit of overdone beef, or under-done fish, together with those which attach themselves to heavy bread, lead-like buckwheat-cakes, and a hundred other similar cases, belonging exclusively to her office.