LORDS AND LADIES
Lords" and La"dies. (Bot.)
Defn: The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), — those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies. Dr. Prior.
LORDSHIP
Lord"ship, n.
1. The state or condition of being a lord; hence (with his or your), a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a judge (in Great Britain), etc.
2. Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds
jurisdiction; a manor.
What lands and lordships for their owner know My quondam barber.
Dryden.
3. Dominion; power; authority. They which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them. Mark x. 42.
LORE Lore, n. Etym: [F. lore, L. lorum thong.] (Zoöl.) (a) The space between the eye and bill, in birds, and the corresponding region in reptiles and fishes. (b) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.
LORE
Lore, obs. imp. & p. p. of Lose. Etym: [See Lose.]
Defn: Lost.
Neither of them she found where she them lore. Spenser.
LORE Lore, n. Etym: [OE. lore, lare, AS. lar, fr. l to teach; akin to D. leer teaching, doctrine, G. lehre, Dan. lære, Sw. lära. See Learn, and cf. Lere, v. t.]