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  • English Word Ladkin Definition A little lad.
  • English Word Ladle Definition A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.
  • English Word Ladle Definition A vessel to carry liquid metal from the furnace to the mold.
  • English Word Ladle Definition The float of a mill wheel; -- called also ladle board.
  • English Word Ladle Definition An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
  • English Word Ladle Definition A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.
  • English Word Ladle Definition To take up and convey in a ladle; to dip with, or as with, a ladle; as, to ladle out soup; to ladle oatmeal into a kettle.
  • English Word Ladled Definition of Ladle
  • English Word Ladleful Definition A quantity sufficient to fill a ladle.
  • English Word Ladlefuls Definition of Ladleful
  • English Word Ladling Definition of Ladle
  • English Word Ladrone Definition A robber; a pirate; hence, loosely, a rogue or rascal.
  • English Word Lady Definition A woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a mistress; the female head of a household.
  • English Word Lady Definition A woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress; -- a feminine correlative of lord.
  • English Word Lady Definition A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart.
  • English Word Lady Definition A woman of social distinction or position. In England, a title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower rank than a baron, or whose father was a nobleman not lower than an earl. The wife of a baronet or knight has the title of Lady by courtesy, but not by right.
  • English Word Lady Definition A woman of refined or gentle manners; a well-bred woman; -- the feminine correlative of gentleman.
  • English Word Lady Definition A wife; -- not now in approved usage.
  • English Word Lady Definition The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster; -- so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure. It consists of calcareous plates.
  • English Word Lady Definition Belonging or becoming to a lady; ladylike.
  • English Word Lady Definition The day of the annunciation of the Virgin Mary, March 25. See Annunciation.
  • English Word Lady's bedstraw Definition The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo), with white flowers in umbels.
  • English Word Lady's bower Definition A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba).
  • English Word Lady's comb Definition An umbelliferous plant (Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely resembling a comb.
  • English Word Lady's cushion Definition An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift (Armeria vulgaris).
  • English Word Lady's finger Definition A variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a finger.
  • English Word Lady's finger Definition The kidney vetch.
  • English Word Lady's finger Definition A long, slender variety of the potato.
  • English Word Lady's finger Definition One of the branchiae of the lobster.
  • English Word Lady's garters Definition Ribbon grass.