2. A fondling term, applied to a young man, S.
_Ritson._
LADE, LAID, _s._ A load, S.
_Ross._
A. S. _hlad_, id.
LADE, LEAD, MILL-LADE, _s._ The ca.n.a.l which carries water to a mill, S.
_Chalm. Air._
A. S. _lade_, Teut. _leyde_, aquaeductus.
LADENIN TIME, the time of laying in winter provisions, S.
Su. G. _lad-a_, to heap together.
LADE-STERNE, LEIDE-STERNE, _s._ The polestar, E.
_Douglas._
Teut. _leyd-sterre_, Isl. _leidar-stiarna_, cynosura, polus.
LADNAIRE, LARDNER, _s._ A larder, S., _laidner_.
_Barbour._
Fr. _lardier_, id., from _lard_, fat.
LADRY, _s._ The rabble.
_Priests Peblis._
A. S. _leod-wera_, incola, _leod-weras_, common people, Isl.
_lydur_, plebs.
LADRONE, LAYDRON, _s._ A lazy knave, a sloven; _laithron_, S.
V. ~Lidder~.
Su. G. _lat_, lazy.
_Lyndsay._
LAFE, LAIFF, LAVE, LAW, _s._ The remainder; _laive_, S.
_Wallace._
A. S. _lafe_, Isl. _leif_, id. from the verbs signifying to _leave_.
LAGABAG, _s._ The hindmost, Fife; from E. _lag_, and _aback_.
LAGENE, LAGGEN, p.r.o.n. _leiggen_, _s._
1. The projecting part of the staves at the bottom of a cask, S.
_Acts Ja. VI._
2. The angle within, between the side and bottom of a cask, S.
_Burns._
Su. G. _lagg_, id.
~Lagen-gird~, _s._ A hoop securing the bottom of a wooden vessel, S.
_To cast a lagen-gird_, to bear a spurious child, S.
_Ramsay._
LAGGERY, _adj._ Miry, dirty, S. B.
~Laggerit~, _part. pa._
1. Bemired, S.
_Doug._
2. Enc.u.mbered, from whatever cause, S. B.
_Poems Buchan Dial._
Su. G. _lag_, Isl. _laug-ur_, water.