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earts of women. Better for the sake of womankind that this dangerous dog should leave off lady-killing. Thackeray.

l beetles of the genus Coccinella and allied genera (family Coccinellidæ); -- called also ladybug, ladyclock, lady cow, lady fly, and lady beetle. Coccinella seplempunctata in one of the common European species. See Coccinella.

Same as Ladybird.

See Ladyrird.

A large, handsome oceanic fish (Albula vulpes), found both in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonefish, grubber, French mullet, and macabé.

The state or quality of being a lady; the personality of a lady.

A little lady; -- applied by the writers of Queen Elizabeth's time, in the abbreviated form Lakin, to the Virgin Mary.

Like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred. She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days. Hawthorne.

The quality or state of being ladylike.

A sweetheart or mistress.

The rank or position of a lady; -- given as a title (preceded by her or your.) Your ladyship shall observe their gravity. B. Jonson.

Consisting of blades. [R.] "Blady grass." Drayton.

A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants.

A moral or mental defect or disorder. Love's a malady without a cure. Dryden.

Lit., my lady; hence (as used on the Continent), an English noblewoman or gentlewoman.

A lady's waiting-maid. Pepys. Her abigail reported that Mrs. Gutheridge had a set of night curls for sleeping in. Leslie.

Attention in the way one's addresses to a lady. Addison.

Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison.

To please. [Obs.] Each one sought his lady to aggrate. Spenser.

the Church of England, of Rome, etc., in memory of the angel's announcement, on that day; Lady Day.