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A lad; a male sweetheart. [Scot.]

he particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart. The soldier here his wasted store supplies, And takes new valor from his lady's eyes. Waller.

A sweetheart or mistress.

A youth woman; a girl; a sweetheart.

A sweetheart, of either sex; a gallant, or a mistress; -- usually in a bad sense. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser. Shak.

Lethean. [Obs.] Marston.

A dear one; a sweetheart. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.

s I like those that burn To light the dead. Pope. One hundred years ago, to have lit this theater as brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pounds. F. Harrison. The sun has set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, has lighted up the sky. Dryden.

A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners.

taken by an army or body of troops in marching. -- Line of operations, that portion of a theater of war which an army passes over in attaining its object. H. W. Halleck. -- Line of sight (Firearms), the line which passes through the front and rear sight, at any elevation, when they are sighted at an object. -- Line…

tted to a country free of duty. (b) A list of persons admitted to any entertainment, as a theater or opera, without payment, or to whom a periodical, or the like, is furnished without cost.

A very singular rodent (Lophiomys Imhausi) of Northeastern Africa. It is the only known representative of a special family (Lophiomyidæ), remarkable for the structure of the skull. It has handlike feet, and the hair is peculiar in structure and arrangement.

A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.

One who manages; a conductor or director; as, the manager of a theater. A skillful manager of the rabble. South.

A round-bottomed glass flask having a long neck; a bolthead.

A small fish of the Mediterranean; a gilthead. See Gilthead (a).

ded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart. [Poetic] Clarendon.

rom the southwest from the latter part of May to the middle of September, and from the northeast from about the middle of October to the middle of December.

A rope or chain fitted around the masthead to hold hanging blocks for jibs and stays.