Castle (n.) A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman |
Castle (n.) Any strong, imposing, and stately mansion. |
Castle (n.) A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back. |
Castle (n.) A piece, made to represent a castle, used in the game of chess |
Castle (v. i.) To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king. |
Castle-guard (n.) The guard or defense of a castle. |
Castle-guard (n.) A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it |
Castle-guard (n.) A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time. |
Ladies' eardrops () The small-flowered Fuchsia (F. coccinea), and other closely related species. |
Ladies (pl. ) of Lady |
Lady (n.) A woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family |
Lady (n.) A woman having proprietary rights or authority |
Lady (n.) A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid |
Lady (n.) A woman of social distinction or position. In England, a title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower rank than a baron, or whose father was a nobleman not lower than an earl. The wife of a baronet or knight has the title of Lady by courtesy, but not by right. |
Lady (n.) A woman of refined or gentle manners |
Lady (n.) A wife |
Lady (n.) The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster |
Lady (a.) Belonging or becoming to a lady |
Lady () The day of the annunciation of the Virgin Mary, March 25. See Annunciation. |
Lady-killer (n.) A gallant who captivates the hearts of women. |
Lady-killing (n.) The art or practice of captivating the hearts of women. |
Lady's bedstraw () The common bedstraw (Galium verum) |
Lady's bower () A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba). |
Lady's comb () An umbelliferous plant (Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely resembling a comb. |
Lady's cushion () An herb growing in dense tufts |
Lady's finger () The kidney vetch. |
Lady's finger () A variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a finger. |
Lady's finger () A long, slender variety of the potato. |
Lady's finger () One of the branchiae of the lobster. |
Lady's garters () Ribbon grass. |
Lady's hair () A plant of the genus Briza (B. media) |
Lady's laces () A slender climbing plant |
Lady's looking-glass () See Venus's looking-glass, under Venus. |
Lady's mantle () A genus of rosaceous herbs (Alchemilla), esp. the European A. vulgaris, which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes. |
Lady's seal () The European Solomon's seal (Polygonatum verticillatum). |
Lady's seal () The black bryony (Tamus communis). |
Lady's slipper () 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). |
Lady's smock () A plant of the genus Cardamine (C. pratensis) |
Lady's thimble () The harebell. |
Lady's thumb () An annual weed (Polygonum Persicaria), having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle. |
Lady's traces () Alt. of Ladies' tresses |
Ladies' tresses () 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. |
Lords and Ladies () The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), -- those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies. |
castle castling | interchanging the positions of the king and a rook |
English lady crab Portunus puber | crab of the English coasts |
American lady crab lady crab calico crab Ovalipes ocellatus | brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the Atlantic coast of the United States |
ladybug ladybeetle lady beetle ladybird ladybird beetle | small round brightolored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests |
castle | a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack |
castle rook | (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard |
ladies' room powder room | a woman's restroom in a public (or semipublic) building |
lady chapel | a small chapel in a church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary |
palace castle | a large and stately mansion |
reverie revery daydream daydreaming oneirism air castle castle in the air castle in Spain | absentminded dreaming while awake |
pink lady | a cocktail made of gin and brandy with lemon juice and grenadine shaken with an egg white and ice |
Carmelite order Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel | a Roman Catholic mendicant order founded in the th century |
Balmoral Castle | a castle in northeastern Scotland that is a private residence of the British sovereign |
bag lady | a homeless woman who carries all her possessions with her in shopping bags |
charwoman char cleaning woman cleaning lady woman | a human female employed to do housework, the char will clean the carpet, I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write |
dame madam ma'am lady gentlewoman | a woman of refinement, a chauffeur opened the door of the limousine for the grand lady |
first lady | the wife of a chief executive |
first lady | the leading woman in an art or profession |
girl miss missy young lady young woman fille | a young woman, a young lady of |
girlfriend girl lady friend | a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved, his girlfriend kicked him out |
housewife homemaker lady of the house woman of the house | a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income |
Lady noblewoman peeress | a woman of the peerage in Britain |
lady | a polite name for any woman, a nice lady at the library helped me |
lady-in-waiting | a lady appointed to attend to a queen or princess |
lady's maid | a maid who is a lady's personal attendant |
leading lady | actress who plays the leading female role |
lollipop lady lollipop woman | a woman hired to help children cross a road safely near a school |
old lady | your own wife, meet my old lady |
c prostitute cocotte whore harlot bawd tart cyprian fancy woman working girl sporting lady lady of pleasure woman of the street | a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money |
seducer ladies' man lady killer | a man who takes advantage of women |
Diana Princess Diana Princess of Wales Lady Diana Frances Spencer | English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles, her death in an automobile accident in Paris produced intense national mourning (-) |
Godiva Lady Godiva | according to legend she rode naked through Coventry in order to persuade her husband not to tax the townspeople so heavily, the only person to look at her as she rode by was a man named Tom and Peeping Tom has become a synonym for voyeur (circ-) |
Grey Lady Jane Grey | Queen of England for nine days in , she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (-) |
Hamilton Lady Emma Hamilton Amy Lyon | English beauty who was the mistress of Admiral Nelson (-) |
Lillie Beatrice Lillie Lady Peel | British actress (born in Canada) (-) |
Nightingale Florence Nightingale Lady with the Lamp | English nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean War (-) |
Thatcher Margaret Thatcher Margaret Hilda Thatcher Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven Iron Lady | British stateswoman, first woman to serve as Prime Minister (born in ) |
cuckoopint lords-and-ladies jack-in-the-pulpit Arum maculatum | common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix, emerges in early spring, source of a starch called arum |
lady's smock cuckooflower cuckoo flower meadow cress Cardamine pratensis | a bitter cress of Europe and America |
ladies' tobacco lady's tobacco Antennaria plantaginifolia | North American perennial propagated by means of runners |
milk thistle lady's thistle Our Lady's mild thistle holy thistle blessed thistle Silybum marianum | tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads, naturalized in California and South America |
lady's slipper lady-slipper ladies' slipper slipper orchid | any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip, difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden |
common lady's-slipper showy lady's-slipper showy lady slipper Cypripedium reginae Cypripedium album | pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip |
ram's-head ram's-head lady's slipper Cypripedium arietinum | orchid of northern North America having a brownish-green flower and red-and-white lip suggestive of a ram's head |
yellow lady's slipper yellow lady-slipper Cypripedium calceolus Cypripedium parviflorum | maroon to purple-brown orchid with yellow lip, Europe, North America and Japan |
large yellow lady's slipper Cypripedium calceolus pubescens | plant of eastern and central North America having slightly fragrant purple-marked greenish-yellow flowers |
California lady's slipper Cypripedium californicum | often having many yellow-green orchids with white pouches growing along streams and seeps of southwestern Oregon and northern California |
clustered lady's slipper Cypripedium fasciculatum | clusters of several short stems each having broad leaves and - drooping brownish to greenish flowers with pouches mottled with purple, British Columbia to central California and northern Colorado |
mountain lady's slipper Cypripedium montanum | leafy plant having a few stems in a clump with white and dull purple flower in each upper leaf axil, Alaska to northern California and Wyoming |
oncidium dancing lady orchid butterfly plant butterfly orchid | any orchid of the genus Oncidium: characterized by slender branching sprays of small yellow and brown flowers, often grown as houseplants |