LORD

noun the savior; jesus christ.

2. lord ·noun the supreme being; jehovah.

3. lord ·noun a husband.

4. lord ·vt to rule or preside over as a lord.

5. lord ·noun a hump-backed person;

— so called sportively.

6. lord ·vt to invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord.

7. lord ·noun one who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.

8. lord ·noun one of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor.

9. lord ·noun a title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, ·etc.

10. lord ·vi to play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway;

— sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb.

11. lord ·noun a titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the house of lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank.