3. Delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate.

Too ladylike a long fatigue to bear.

Dryden.

La"dy*like`ness (?), n. The quality or state of being ladylike.

La"dy*love` (?), n. A sweetheart or mistress.

La"dy's bed"straw` (?), (Bot.) The common bedstraw (Galium verum);

also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo), with

white flowers in umbels.

La"dy's bow"er (?). (Bot.) A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms

(Clematis vitalba).

This term is sometimes applied to other plants of the same genus.

La"dy's comb" (?), (Bot.) An umbelliferous plant (Scandix

Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely

resembling a comb.

La"dy's cush"ion (?), (Bot.) An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift

(Armeria vulgaris).

La"dy's fin"ger (?), 1. pl. (Bot.) The kidney vetch.

2. (Cookery) A variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a

finger.

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