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<hw>La"dy*kin</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Lady</ets> + <ets>-kin</ets>.]</ety> <def>A little lady; -- applied by the writers of Queen Elizabeth's time, in the abbreviated form <altname>Lakin</altname>, to the Virgin Mary.</def>

<note>&hand; The diminutive does not refer to size, but is equivalent to "dear."</note>

<i>Brewer.</i>

<h1>Ladylike</h1> <Xpage=824>

<hw>La"dy*like`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred.</def>

<blockquote>She was <b>ladylike</b>, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days. <i>Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Becoming or suitable to a lady; <as>as, <ex>ladylike</ex> manners</as>.</def> "With fingers <i>ladylike</i>."

<i>Warner.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate.</def>

<blockquote>Too <b>ladylike</b> a long fatigue to bear. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Ladylikeness</h1> <Xpage=824>

<hw>La"dy*like`ness</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality or state of being ladylike.</def>

<h1>Ladylove</h1> <Xpage=824>

<hw>La"dy*love`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A sweetheart or mistress.</def>

<h1>Lady's bedstraw</h1> <Xpage=824>

<hw>La"dy's bed"straw`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The common bedstraw (<spn>Galium verum</spn>); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (<spn>Pharnaceum Mollugo</spn>), with white flowers in umbels.</def>

<h1>Lady's bower</h1> <Xpage=824>

<hw>La"dy's bow"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (<spn>Clematis vitalba</spn>).</def>

<note>&hand; This term is sometimes applied to other plants of the same genus.</note>

<h1>Lady's comb</h1> <Xpage=824>

<hw>La"dy's comb"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>An umbelliferous plant (<spn>Scandix Pecten-Veneris</spn>), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely resembling a comb.</def>

<h1>Lady's cushion</h1> <Xpage=824>

<hw>La"dy's cush"ion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift (<spn>Armeria vulgaris</spn>).</def>

<h1>Lady's finger</h1> <Xpage=824>

<hw>La"dy's fin"ger</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <p><b>1.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The kidney vetch.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Cookery)</fld> <def>A variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a finger.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A long, slender variety of the potato.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>One of the branchi\'91 of the lobster.</def>