Part 6336

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

<hw>La"dy's gar"ters</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Ribbon grass.</def>

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

<hw>La"dy's hair"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A plant of the genus <spn>Briza</spn> (<spn>B. media</spn>); a variety of quaking grass.</def>

<h1>Ladyship</h1> <Xpage=824>

<hw>La"dy*ship</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The rank or position of a lady; -- given as a title (preceded by <i>her</i> or <i>your</i>.)</def>

<blockquote>Your <b>ladyship</b> shall observe their gravity. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

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

<hw>La"dy's la"ces</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A slender climbing plant; dodder.</def>

<h1>Lady's looking-glass</h1> <Xpage=824>

<hw>La"dy's look"ing-glass`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>See <cref>Venus's looking-glass</cref>, under <er>Venus</er>.</def>

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

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

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

<hw>La"dy's seal"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>.<fld>(Bot.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The European Solomon's seal (<spn>Polygonatum verticillatum</spn>).</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The black bryony (<spn>Tamus communis</spn>).</def>

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

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

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

<hw>La"dy's smock"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A plant of the genus <spn>Cardamine</spn> (<spn>C. pratensis</spn>); cuckoo flower.</def>

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

<hw>La"dy's thim"ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The harebell.</def>

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

<hw>La"dy's thumb"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>An annual weed (<spn>Polygonum Persicaria</spn>), having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle.</def>

<h1>Lady's traces, Ladies' tresses</h1> <Xpage=824>

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

<h1>L\'91laps</h1> <Xpage=824>

<hw>L\'91"laps</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. (<?/) a dark, furious storm.]</ety> <fld>(Paleon.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Laemmergeyer</h1> <Xpage=824>