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La"dy's bow"er (?). (Bot.) A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba).

This term is sometimes applied to other plants of the same genus.

La"dy's comb" (?), (Bot.) An umbelliferous plant (Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely resembling a comb.

La"dy's cush"ion (?), (Bot.) An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift (Armeria vulgaris).

La"dy's fin"ger (?), 1. pl. (Bot.) The kidney vetch.

2. (Cookery) A variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a finger.

3. A long, slender variety of the potato.

4. (Zoöl.) One of the branchiæ of the lobster.

La"dy's gar"ters (?). (Bot.) Ribbon grass.

La"dy's hair" (?). (Bot.) A plant of the genus Briza (B. media); a variety of quaking grass.

La"dy*ship (?), n. The rank or position of a lady; -- given as a title (preceded by her or your).

Your ladyship shall observe their gravity.

B. Jonson.

La"dy's la"ces (?). (Bot.) A slender climbing plant; dodder.

La"dy's look"ing-glass` (?). (Bot.) See Venus's looking-glass, under Venus.

La"dy's man"tle (?). (Bot.) A genus of rosaceous herbs (Alchemilla), esp. the European A. vulgaris, which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes.

La"dy's seal" (?).(Bot.) (a) The European Solomon's seal (Polygonatum verticillatum). (b) The black bryony (Tamus communis).

La"dy's slip"per (?). (Bot.) Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United States, the garden balsam (Impatiens Balsamina).

La"dy's smock" (?). (Bot.) A plant of the genus Cardamine (C. pratensis); cuckoo flower.

La"dy's thim"ble (?). (Bot.) The harebell.

La"dy's thumb" (?). (Bot.) An annual weed (Polygonum Persicaria), having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle.

{ La"dy's tra"ces (?), La"dies' tress"es (?). } (Bot.) A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.

||Læ"laps (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a dark, furious storm.] (Paleon.) A ||genus of huge, carnivorous, dinosaurian reptiles from the Cretaceous ||formation of the United States. They had very large hind legs and ||tail, and are supposed to have been bipedal. Some of the species were ||about eighteen feet high. || Laem"mer*gey`er (?), n. (Zoöl.) See Lammergeir.

Læ*mod"i*pod (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Læmodipoda.

||Læ`mo*dip"o*da (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. &?; throat + &?; twice + ||&?;, &?;, foot.] (Zoöl.) A division of amphipod Crustacea, in which ||the abdomen is small or rudimentary and the legs are often reduced to ||five pairs. The whale louse, or Cyamus, and Caprella are examples. || Læ`mo*dip"o*dous (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Læmodipoda.

Læ*te"re Sun"day (?). The fourth Sunday of Lent; -- so named from the Latin word Lætare (rejoice), the first word in the antiphone of the introit sung that day in the Roman Catholic service.

Læv"i*gate (?), a. [See Levigate.] (Biol.) Having a smooth surface, as if polished.

Læ"vo- (?). A prefix. See Levo.