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One who leads a pack horse; a miller's servant. [Obs. or Local]

ady having jurisdiction of a manor; also, the wife of a manor lord. Lady's maid, a maidservant who dresses and waits upon a lady. Thackeray. -- Our Lady, the Virgin Mary.

ull in statement; diffuse; full; profuse. I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education. Felton.

Acting as a hired servant; serving; ministering; assisting. [Obs.]

To place (new type) properly in the cases. To lay asleep, to put sleep; to make unobservant or careless. Bacon. -- To lay bare, to make bare; to strip. And laid those proud roofs bare to summer's rain. Byron. -- To lay before, to present to; to submit for consideration; as, the papers are laid before Congress. -- To…

One who lends. The borrower is servant to the lender. Prov. xxii. 7.

The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever. Leverage of a couple (Mech.), the perpendicular distance between the lines of action of two forces which act in parallel and opposite directions. -- Leverage of a force, the perpendicular distance from the line in which a force acts upon a body to a poin…

opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection. But ye . . . caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection. Jer. xxxiv. 16. Delivered fro the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. Bibl…

ch an artist or writer indulges, assuming that it will be permitted for the sake of the advantage or effect gained; as, poetic license; grammatical license, etc.

ccess probable; well adapted to the place; promising; as, a likely young man; a likely servant.

condition of being pleased with; as, to hold a place of service on liking; to engage a servant on liking. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line . . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance Hazlitt.

The commercial language of the Levant, -- a mixture of the language of the people of the region and foreign traders.

t lived upon the sea. Shak. To live out, to be at service; to live away from home as a servant. [U. S.] -- To live with. (a) To dwell or to be a lodger with. (b) To cohabit with; to have intercourse with, as male with female.

Wearing a livery. See Livery, 3. The liveried servants wait. Parnell.

The peculiar dress by which the servants of a nobleman or gentleman are distinguished; as, a claret-colored livery.

One who wears a livery, as a servant.

ol, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair. These gray locks, the pursuivants of death. Shak.

ost me this glory. Baxter. To lose ground, to fall behind; to suffer gradual loss or disadvantage. -- To lose heart, to lose courage; to become timid. "The mutineers lost heart." Macaulay. -- To lose one's head, to be thrown off one's balance; to lose the use of one's good sense or judgment. In the excitement of such…

Failure to use advantageously; as, loss of time.

Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; a decoy. Milton.