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A Spanish title of courtesy given to a young lady; Miss; also, a young lady.

A Spanish title of courtesy given to a lady; Mrs.; Madam; also, a lady.

A Spanish title of courtesy given to a young lady; Miss; also, a young lady.

To be suitor to; to profess love to. [Obs.] To serve a lady in his beste wise. Chaucer.

ate with objects placed here and there. High on their heads, with jewels richly set, Each lady wore a radiant coronet. Dryden. Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms. Wordsworth.

A woman; a female; -- used substantively. [R.] Lady, you are the cruelest she alive. Shak.

urved so as to form a large hook, -- used by shepherds. -- Shepherd's needle (Bot.), the lady's comb. -- Shepherd's plaid, a kind of woolen cloth of a checkered black and white pattern. -- Shephered spider (Zoöl.), a daddy longlegs, or harvestman. -- Shepherd's pouch, or Shepherd's purse (Bot.), an annual crucifero…

The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady. I do lament the sickness of the king. Shak. Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. Pope.

gil writ Roscommon. About two years since, it so fell out, that he was brought to a great lady's house. Sir P. Sidney.

Amorous glance or inclination. [Obs.] "A smickering to our young lady." Dryden.

That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain. A lady's honor . . . will not bear a soil. Dryden.

A female servant or attendant; specifically, as a term of the theater, a lady's maid, in comedies, who acts the part of an intrigante; a meddlesome, mischievous female servant or young woman.

better man. Shak. To spare one's self. (a) To act with reserve. [Obs.] Her thought that a lady should her spare. Chaucer.

3. His parents were weak enough to believe that the royal touch was a specific for this malady. Macaulay.

rried person, husband or wife. At last such grace I found, and means I wrought, That that lady to my spouse had won. Spenser.

Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just. She's a most truimphant lady, if report be square to her. Shak.

male attendant on a great personage; also (Colloq.), a devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.

ginally both by men and women. Those worn by women were often richly decorated. A stately lady in a diamond stomacher. Johnson.

Strong; powerful; hardy; bold; audacious. [Obs. or Scot.] O stronge lady stoor, what doest thou Chaucer.

To rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume. The master storms, the lady scolds. Swift.