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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Archaic Used as a form of address for a lord.
  • noun Obsolete A lordling.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A lord; master; in address, in the plural, sirs; masters; gentlemen.
  • noun A young or little lord; a lordling; also, a little lord in a derogatory sense.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete The son of a lord; a person of noble lineage.
  • noun obsolete A little lord; a lordling; a lord, in contempt or ridicule.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun archaic lord
  • noun obsolete lordling
  • verb Present participle of lord.

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