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- 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 The kidney vetch.
- English Word Lady's finger Definition A variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a finger.
- 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.