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perfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind. 'T is the infirmity of his age. Shak.

e sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. Matt. xxvii. 4. The aidless,innocent lady, his wished prey. Milton.

I hope through the insinuation of Lord Scarborough to keep them here till further orders. Lady Cowper.

To unite by locking or linking together; to secure in place by mutual fastening. My lady with her fingers interlocked. Tennyson.

aucer. I have not been putting a jape upon you. Sir W. Scott. The coy giggle of the young lady to whom he has imparted his latest merry jape. W. Besant.

A lady who wears a kerchief. Dryden.

nce used as a remedy for renal disorders, and also to stop the flow of blood from wounds; lady's-fingers.

Ladylike; not rough; gentle. [Obs.] "Stroked with a ladied land." Feltham.

To make a lady of; to make ladylike. [Obs.] Massinger.

See Ladykin.

To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap. To lap his head on lady's breast. Praed.

Tending to produce voluptuous or lewd emotions. He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. Shak. -- Las*civ"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Las*civ"i*ous*ness, n.

d. Chaucer. She looked as grand as doomsday and as grave; And he, he reverenced his liege lady there. Tennyson.

dle gait or stroll; the state of reclining indolently; a place of lounging. She went with Lady Stock to a bookseller's whose shop lounge. Miss Edgeworth.

Bright; shining in beauty. [Obs.] Most debonair and luculent lady. B. Jonson.

ut all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came. Lady Murray.

A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch. Lady --- has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch. Walpole. To leave one in the lurch. (a) In the game of cribbage, to leave one's adversary so far behind that the game is won before he has scored thirty-one. (b) To leave one behin…

Madam; my lady; -- a colloquial contraction of madam often used in direct address, and sometimes as an appellation.

A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a married lady; -- much used in the address, at the beginning of a letter, to a woman. The corresponding word in addressing a man is Sir.

My lady; -- a French title formerly given to ladies of quality; now, in France, given to all married women. Chaucer.