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 French synonyms. La baude (thieves'); un coup de pied de jument or de Venus (common = a mare's kick or a kick from Venus); la goutte militaire (military = soldiers' gout); un gros lot (common = a prize); le lazzi-lof (thieves'); le mal de Naples or le mal frances; le naze (thieves').

Italian synonyms. Galicar; galicodo; picado; potro.

German synonyms. Der Kleiner Franzose (= the little French girl); Laufer (= running); Türkische-musik (= Turkish-delight).

Ladies' Finger (or Wish), subs. phr. (common).—A tapering glass of spirits, especially gin.

Ladies' Grog, subs. phr. (common).—Grog: hot, strong, sweet, and plenty of it.—Dickens.

Ladies' Mile, subs. phr. (general).—Rotten Row in Hyde Park—the principal airing ground during the London season.

1871. Daily News, 10 May. Why should not a handsome young Englishwoman, he may ask himself, as she canters along the Ladies' Mile, be as good to look at as a cow?

1885 J. Coleman, in Longman's Mag., v. 494. The fashionable mob in the Ladies' Mile.

Ladies' Tailoring, subs. phr. (venery).—Copulation. Cf. Stitch. For synonyms see Greens and Ride.

Ladies' Treasure (Delight, or Plaything), subs. phr. (venery).—The penis.

Ladle, verb. (theatrical).—To enunciate pretentiously; to mouth (q.v.).

Lad of (or on) the Cross, subs. phr. See Cross.

Lad o' Wax, subs. phr. (old).—1. A cobbler; a Cock o' wax (q.v.). For synonyms see Snob.

2. (old).—A boy; a doll of a man; a man of wax = a 'proper' man.

Ladron, subs. (old).—A thief. [From the Spanish].

1652. Shirley, The Brothers [Nares]. Ped. I am become the talk Of every picaro and ladron.

Lad's leavings (A), subs. phr. (old).—A girl. For synonyms see Titter.

1737. Ray, Proverbs (3rd ed.), 58. Lasses are lad's leavings.

Lady, subs. (old).—1. See quot. 1690: cf. Lord.

1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, a very crooked, deformed, and ill-shapen Woman.

1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.

1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.

1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.

1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.

2. (common).—The reverse or tail (q.v.) of a coin: see Head, subs., sense 2.

3. (common).—A quart or pint pitcher wrong side uppermost.

4. (nautical).—The keeper of the gunner's small stores: lady's hole = the place where such stores are kept.

5. (American).—A woman of any station; usually in combination, as Fore-lady, Sales-lady, Cook-lady.