Lord

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·noun The Savior; Jesus Christ.

II. Lord ·noun The Supreme Being; Jehovah.

III. Lord ·noun A Husband.

IV. Lord ·vt To rule or preside over as a lord.

V. Lord ·noun A hump-backed person;

— so called sportively.

VI. Lord ·vt To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord.

VII. Lord ·noun One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.

VIII. 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.

IX. 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.

X. 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.

XI. 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.

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