LADY

noun a wife;

— not now in approved usage.

2. lady ·adj belonging or becoming to a lady; ladylike.

3. lady ·noun a woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress;

— a feminine correlative of lord.

4. lady ·- the day of the annunciation of the virgin mary, march 25. ·see annunciation.

5. lady ·noun a woman of refined or gentle manners; a well-bred woman;

— the feminine correlative of gentleman.

6. lady ·noun a woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a mistress; the female head of a household.

7. lady ·noun a woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart.

8. lady ·noun the triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster;

— so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure. it consists of calcareous plates.

9. lady ·noun 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.