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Same as Ladybird.

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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.

ring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.

A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.

One of a sect of freethinkers among the Mohammedans.

A dry kind of cherry, of a light color. Simmonds.

A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.

A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster. Shak.

A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.

A writer of ballads.

Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads. "Base balladry is so beloved." Drayton.

A home-made woolen blanket without nap. [Local, New York] Bartlett.

An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nigh…