of Lead, to guide Chaucer.
A boy; a youth; a stripling. "Cupid is a knavish lad." Shak. There is a lad here, which hath fire barley loaves and two small fishes. John vi. 9.
A companion; a comrade; a mate. Lad's love. (Bot.) See Boy's love, under Boy.
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