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Ladd, Alan Walbridge (American actor)
American motion picture actor most noted for roles in which he portrayed detectives, cowboys, and war heroes....
Ladd, Christine (American scientist)
American scientist and logician known for contributions to the theory of colour vision....
Ladd, George Trumbull (American psychologist and philosopher)
philosopher and psychologist whose textbooks were influential in establishing experimental psychology in the United States. He called for a scientific psychology, but he viewed psychology as ancillary to philosophy....
Ladd-Franklin, Christine (American scientist)
American scientist and logician known for contributions to the theory of colour vision....
Ladd-Franklin theory (optics)
She is probably best-known for her work on colour vision. While studying in Germany in 1891–92, she developed the Ladd-Franklin theory, which emphasized the evolutionary development of increased differentiation in colour vision and assumed a photochemical model for the visual system. Her theory, which criticized the views of ......
ladder dredge (device)
...where it bites because of its weight and the action of the bucket-closing mechanism. A grab dredge can work at virtually unlimited depths. A ladder dredge employs a continuous chain of buckets rotating around a rigid adjustable frame called a ladder. When the ladder is lowered to the bottom at a slant, the empty buckets descend along the......
“Ladder of Perfection, The” (work by Hilton)
...of Cambridge before becoming a hermit and later joined the Augustinians at Thurgarton Priory, where he remained for the rest of his life. His major work was The Scale [or Ladder] of Perfection, written separately in two books. The first teaches the means by which a soul may advance toward perfection by destroying the image of sin and......
ladder shell (gastropod family)
any marine snail of the family Epitoniidae (subclass Prosobranchia of the class Gastropoda), in which the turreted shell—consisting of whorls that form a high, conical spiral—has deeply ribbed sculpturing. Most species are white, less than 5 cm (2 inches) long, and exude a pink or purplish dye. Wentletraps occur in all seas, usua...
ladder truck
...feet, or 300 metres), and a water tank for use where a supply of water is not available. Specialized auxiliary vehicles were also soon developed, including water tank trucks for rural areas. The ladder truck (hook and ladder) mounts a ladder that may be capable of rapid extension to 150 ft, often with a large-capacity nozzle built into the top section. The older type of overlength ladder......
ladder vein (geology)
Ladder veins are short, rather regularly spaced, roughly parallel fractures that traverse dikes (tabular bodies of igneous rocks) from wall to wall. Their width is restricted to the width of the dike, but they may extend great distances along it. Ladder veins are not as numerous or important as fissure veins....
ladder-back chair (furniture)
chair with a tall back constructed of horizontal slats or spindles between two uprights. The type is utilitarian and often rustic; the seat is often of cane or rush....
Lade, battle of (495 BC, Greco-Persian Wars)
...of the Greco-Persian Wars. Although the rebels found wide support in the Greek cities of the Propontis region, at the Bosporus, and in Caria, Lycia, and Cyprus, they lost the decisive sea battle at Lade in 495 bc. In the following year Miletus, the heart of the insurrection, was taken and destroyed. In the last administrative division of satrapies under Darius I, Karka (Caria) was...
LADEE (United States spacecraft)
U.S. spacecraft designed to study the thin lunar atmosphere and the amount of dust in it before it is altered by human activity on the Moon. LADEE is scheduled to launch on May 1, 2012, and is the first spacecraft based on the Modular Common Spacecraft Bus (MCSB), an inexpensive modular platform that is designed to do away with the need to build a new spacecra...
Ladefoged, Peter Nielsen (American linguist)
British-born American linguist and phonetician (b. Sept. 17, 1925, Sutton, Eng.—d. Jan. 24, 2006, London, Eng.), traveled to remote villages around the world in an effort to record and analyze some 60 endangered languages. He also played an integral role in advancing the field of forensic phonetics, used in police work and in courtrooms. Ladefoged taught phonetics in Nigeria and at the Univ...
Laden zum Gutenberg, Johann Gensfleisch zur (German printer)
German craftsman and inventor who originated a method of printing from movable type that was used without important change until the 20th century. The unique elements of his invention consisted of a mold, with punch-stamped matrices (metal prisms used to mold the face of the type) with which type could be cast precisely and ...
Lādhiqīyah, Al- (Syria)
city and muḥāfaẓah (governorate), northwestern Syria. The city, capital of the governorate, is situated on the low-lying Raʿs Ziyārah promontory that projects into the Mediterranean Sea. It was known to the Phoenicians as Ramitha and to the Greeks as ...
Ladhon (river, Greece)
...channels. The western plateau is more open, with isolated mountains through which wind the Alpheus River and its tributaries. One of those, the Ládhon, provides hydroelectric power at a dam and reservoir. A region of erratic rainfall, Arcadia has a few vineyards but no olive......
Ladhon Dam (dam, Greece)
...empties into the Ionian Sea (Ióvio Pélagos). Its main tributaries are the Ládhon and Erímanthos. The hydroelectric Ládhon Dam near the village of Trópaia has created a lake 4 square miles (10 square km) in area....
Ladies’ Delight (work by Zola)
...by a theatrical metaphor that extends throughout the novel, revealing the ceremonial falseness of the Second Empire. Au Bonheur des Dames (1883; Ladies’ Delight) depicts the mechanisms of a new economic entity, the department store, and its impact on smaller merchants. The sweeping......
ladies’ fingers (plant)
perennial herb, of the pea family (Fabaceae), found in meadows, alpine pastures, and dry places of Europe and northern Africa. The low, hairy plant grows to a height of 15–40 cm (6–16 inches) and has narrow leaves 1.4–3.8 cm (0.5–1.5 inches) long and yellow, reddish, or white flowers. It was forme...
Ladies’ Home Journal (American magazine)
American monthly magazine, one of the longest-running in the country and long the trendsetter among women’s magazines. It was founded in 1883 as a women’s supplement to the Tribune and Farmer (1879–85) of Cyrus H.K. Curtis and was edited by his wife, Louisa Knapp. The Journal began independent pub...
Ladies’ Mercury (English periodical)
...and poetry. In 1693, after devoting some experimental numbers of the Athenian Mercury to “the Fair Sex,” Dunton brought out the first magazine specifically for women, the Ladies’ Mercury. Finally, another note, taken up time and again later, was struck by The London Spy (1698–1700), issued by a tavern keeper, Ned Ward, and containing a running......
Ladies Professional Golf Association (sports organization)
organization that provides professional tournament golf for women and annually holds the LPGA Championship tournament....
ladies’ tobacco (plant)
...small clusters of white to rose flowers. In some species, including smaller pussy-toes (A. neodioica), male flowers are rare. The plantain-leaved pussy-toes (A. plantaginifolia), also called ladies’ tobacco, has longer and broader basal leaves....
ladies’ tresses (plant)
any plant of the genus Spiranthes, family Orchidaceae, numbering as many as 30 species of orchids found in woods and grasslands throughout most of the world. Goodyera repens, an unrelated British species, is known as creeping ladies’ tresses....
Lâdik (Turkey)
city, southwestern Turkey. It lies near a tributary of the Menderes River. Set among the gardens at the foot of Mount Gökbel (7,572 feet [2,308 metres]), Denizli inherited the economic position of ancient Laodicea ad Lycum, 4 miles (6 km) away, when that town was deserted during w...
Ladik carpet (prayer rug)
handwoven floor covering usually in a prayer design and made in or near Lâdik, a town in the Konya Plain of south-central Turkey. Ladik prayer rugs have either a high, stepped arch design or a triple arch with a dominating central portion. In a separate panel above or below the prayer-niche motif, a...
Ladin (people)
...representing those rocks deposited worldwide during Ladinian time (237 million to 228 million years ago) in the Triassic Period. The stage name is derived from the Ladini people of the Dolomites in northern Italy. The stratotypes for the Ladinian are the Buchenstein and Wengen beds of the Dolomites. The Ladinian is subdivided into two substages, which in......
Ladin language (Romance language)
In the Trento-Alto Adige region of northeastern Italy, some 30,000 persons speak Ladin. Some Italian scholars have claimed that it is really an Italian (Veneto-Lombard) dialect. The other main language spoken in this now semiautonomous region, much of which was Austrian until 1919, is German, a non-Romance language. Although sometimes said to be threatened with extinction, Ladin appears to......
lading, bill of (law)
document executed by a carrier, such as a railroad or shipping line, acknowledging receipt of goods and embodying an agreement to transport the goods to a stated destination. Bills of lading are closely related to warehouse receipts, which contain an agreement for storage rather than carriage. Both may be negotiable when they provide that the ...
Ladini (people)
...representing those rocks deposited worldwide during Ladinian time (237 million to 228 million years ago) in the Triassic Period. The stage name is derived from the Ladini people of the Dolomites in northern Italy. The stratotypes for the Ladinian are the Buchenstein and Wengen beds of the Dolomites. The Ladinian is subdivided into two substages, which in......
Ladinian Stage (geology)
uppermost of two divisions of the Middle Triassic Series, representing those rocks deposited worldwide during Ladinian time (237 million to 228 million years ago) in the Triassic Period. The stage name is derived from the Ladini people of the Dolomites in northern Italy. The stratotypes ...
Ladino (people)
Europeanized Central American person of predominantly Spanish origin. Despite regional variations, there is a cultural similarity among Ladinos stemming from their common Spanish origins and speech. Ladinos include urban classes, rural labourers, and peasantry. Although not always physically distinguishable from Indians, Ladinos may be recognized by their exclusive use of the ...
Ladino language
Romance language spoken by Sefardic Jews in the Balkans, the Middle East, North Africa, Greece, and Turkey; it is very nearly extinct in many of these areas. A very archaic form of Castilian Spanish, mixed somewhat with Hebrew elemen...
Ladipo, Duro (Nigerian dramatist)
Nigerian dramatist whose innovative folk operas incorporating ritual poetry and traditional rhythms performed on indigenous instruments were based on Yoruba history....
Lādīq (Turkey)
city, southwestern Turkey. It lies near a tributary of the Menderes River. Set among the gardens at the foot of Mount Gökbel (7,572 feet [2,308 metres]), Denizli inherited the economic position of ancient Laodicea ad Lycum, 4 miles (6 km) away, when that town was deserted during w...
Ladislas (king of Naples)
king of Naples (from 1386), claimant to the throne of Hungary (from 1390), and prince of Taranto (from 1406). He became a skilled political and military leader, taking advantage of power struggles on the Italian peninsula to greatly expand his kingdom and his power....
Ladislas I (king of Hungary)
king of Hungary who greatly expanded the boundaries of the kingdom and consolidated it internally; no other Hungarian king was so generally beloved by the people....
Ladislas II (king of Hungary)
...and Béla’s eldest son, Géza II (1141–62), ruled thereafter unchallenged, but the succession of Géza’s son, Stephen III (1162–72), was disputed by two of his uncles, Ladislas II (1162–63) and Stephen IV (1163–65). Happily, the death of Stephen IV exhausted the supply of uncles, and Stephen III’s brother, Béla III (1173...
Ladislas IV (king of Hungary)
king of Hungary who, by his support of the German king Rudolf I at the Battle of Dürnkrut, helped to establish the future power of the Habsburg dynasty in Austria....
Ladislas Posthumus (king of Hungary and Bohemia)
boy king of Hungary and of Bohemia (from 1453), who was caught up in the feud between his guardian Ulrich, count of Cilli, and the Hunyadi family of Hungary....
Ladislas, Saint (king of Hungary)
king of Hungary who greatly expanded the boundaries of the kingdom and consolidated it internally; no other Hungarian king was so generally beloved by the people....
Ladislas the Cuman (king of Hungary)
king of Hungary who, by his support of the German king Rudolf I at the Battle of Dürnkrut, helped to establish the future power of the Habsburg dynasty in Austria....
Ladislas the Kuman (king of Hungary)
king of Hungary who, by his support of the German king Rudolf I at the Battle of Dürnkrut, helped to establish the future power of the Habsburg dynasty in Austria....
Ladislas V (king of Hungary and Bohemia)
boy king of Hungary and of Bohemia (from 1453), who was caught up in the feud between his guardian Ulrich, count of Cilli, and the Hunyadi family of Hungary....
Ladislav Pohrobek (king of Hungary and Bohemia)
boy king of Hungary and of Bohemia (from 1453), who was caught up in the feud between his guardian Ulrich, count of Cilli, and the Hunyadi family of Hungary....
ladle (metallurgy)
...the furnace by heavy cranes or special charging machines that drop one or two large boxes full of scrap through the converter mouth. Hot metal is poured into the converter by a special iron-charging ladle; this ladle receives the iron at a transfer station from transport ladles, which bring the iron from the blast furnace. Many plants lower the sulfur content of the iron just before it is......
ladle furnace (metallurgy)
...of the ladle lining and slag layer, the expected holding times and stirring conditions, and the thermal effects of alloying additions. Actual control over steel temperature can be achieved in a ladle furnace (LF). This is a small electric-arc furnace with an 8- to 25-megavolt-ampere transformer, three electrodes for arc heating, and the ladle acting as the furnace shell—as shown in A......
Lado Enclave (region, Africa)
region in central Africa bordering on Lake Albert Nyanza (now Lake Albert), on the west bank of the Upper Nile, that was administered by the Congo Free State in 1894–1909 ...
Ladoga, Lake (lake, Russia)
largest lake in Europe, located in northwestern Russia about 25 miles (40 km) east of St. Petersburg. It is 6,700 square miles (17,600 square km) in area—exclusive of islands—and 136 miles (219 km) long, with an average width of 51 miles (82 km) and an average depth of 167 feet (51 m). Its greatest depth, at a point west of Valaam Island, is 754 feet (230 m)....
Ladozhskoe Ozero (lake, Russia)
largest lake in Europe, located in northwestern Russia about 25 miles (40 km) east of St. Petersburg. It is 6,700 square miles (17,600 square km) in area—exclusive of islands—and 136 miles (219 km) long, with an average width of 51 miles (82 km) and an average depth of 167 feet (51 m). Its greatest depth, at a point west of Valaam Island, is 754 feet (230 m)....
Ladozhskoye Ozero (lake, Russia)
largest lake in Europe, located in northwestern Russia about 25 miles (40 km) east of St. Petersburg. It is 6,700 square miles (17,600 square km) in area—exclusive of islands—and 136 miles (219 km) long, with an average width of 51 miles (82 km) and an average depth of 167 feet (51 m). Its greatest depth, at a point west of Valaam Island, is 754 feet (230 m)....
“Ladri di biciclette” (film by De Sica [1948])
...of the genre: Sciuscià (1946; Shoeshine), an account of the tragic lives of two children during the American occupation of Italy; Ladri di biciclette (1948; The Bicycle Thief), an Oscar winner for best foreign film; Miracolo a Milano (1951; Miracle in Milan), a comic parable about the clash of rich and poor in Milan; and......
Ladrones Islands (islands, Pacific Ocean)
island arc, a series of volcanic and uplifted coral formations in the western Pacific Ocean, about 1,500 miles (2,400 km) east of the Philippines. They are the highest slopes of a massive undersea mountain range, rising some 6 miles (9.5 km) from the M...
lady (British peerage)
in the British Isles, a general title for any peeress below the rank of duchess and also for the wife of a baronet or of a knight. Before the Hanoverian succession, when the use of “princess” became settled practice, royal daughters were styled Lady Forename or the Lady Forename. “Lady” is ordinarily used as a less formal alternative to the full title of a countess, vis...
Lady Amherst’s pheasant (bird)
...have been kept for centuries, and the birds are represented in collections throughout the world. The best-known ornamentals in the West are two species of ruffed pheasants: Lady Amherst’s (Chrysolophus amherstiae) and the golden pheasant (C. pictus)....
Lady and the Tramp (animated film by Disney)
...and Quincy Jones. Lee also cowrote the theme songs for several films, and she and Sonny Burke collaborated on the entire score for Walt Disney’s animated feature Lady and the Tramp (1955), for which Lee also provided voices for four characters. She is regarded as the first important female singer-songwriter in the history of American ......
Lady Audley’s Secret (work by Braddon)
English novelist whose Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) was the most successful of the sensation novels of the 1860s....
Lady Be Good (film by McLeod [1941])
English novelist whose Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) was the most successful of the sensation novels of the 1860s.......
Lady Bird Johnson Wildlife Center (American organization)
...for retirement in Texas. There she continued the interests that had long sustained her, especially her family and environmental concerns, including the National Wildflower Research Center (now the Lady Bird Johnson Wildlife Center). Although she occasionally made political appearances for her son-in-law, Virginia governor (and later senator) Charles Robb, she dedicated most of her time to the.....
Lady Byng Memorial Trophy (sports award)
...the rookie of the year; the Hart Memorial Trophy, for the most valuable player; the James Norris Memorial Trophy, for the outstanding defenseman; the Art Ross Trophy, for the top point scorer; the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy, for the player best combining clean play with a high degree of skill; the Conn Smythe Trophy, for the play-offs’ outstanding performer; the Frank J. Selke Trophy, for...
Lady chapel (architecture)
chapel attached to a church and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin. As the development of the chevet, or radiating system of apse chapels, progressed during the 12th and 13th centuries, custom began to dictate that the chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin be given the most important position, directly behind the high altar. The Lady chapel was frequently made larger than other chapels in the churc...
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (work by Lawrence)
Lawrence returned to Italy in 1925, and in 1926 he embarked on the first versions of Lady Chatterley’s Lover and wrote Sketches of Etruscan Places, a “travel” book that projects Lawrence’s ideal personal and social life upon the Etruscans. Privately published in 1928, Lady Chatterley’s Lover led an underground life until leg...
Lady Day (American jazz singer)
American jazz singer, one of the greatest from the 1930s to the ’50s....
Lady Di (British princess)
former consort (1981–96) of Charles, prince of Wales, and mother of the heir second in line to the British throne, Prince William of Wales (born 1982)....
Lady Elizabeth’s Men (English theatrical troupe)
One of the first plays written for the Hope was Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair, performed by Lady Elizabeth’s Men in the fall of 1614. Although the agreement with this troupe stipulated that bearbaiting would occupy the Hope only once every two weeks, that sport proved to be more profitable than the plays, and disputes soon developed over priorities, provoking players to quit t...
lady fern (fern)
a large, feathery fern classified in the family Woodsiaceae, widely cultivated for ornamentation. Leaves are about 75 cm (30 inches) long and 25 cm (10 inches) wide and grow in circular clusters. Characteristic of the genus are curved or horseshoe-shaped spore-producing clusters (sori) that are covered by a fringed, membranous protective structure (indusium). Lady ferns occur in moist, semi-shaded...
Lady Frederica Stanhope at Chevening Church (sculpture by Chantrey)
...these unusual qualities inspired the next generation of English sculptors in their approach to a modern perspective. Of his many works, he considered his sculpture Lady Frederica Stanhope at Chevening Church (1824) to be the best....
Lady from Shanghai, The (film by Welles [1948])
American film noir, released in 1947, that was adapted from the Sherwood King novel If I Die Before I Wake. Director, writer, and star Orson Welles cast his estranged wife, Rita Hayworth, opposite himself in a film that became famous for its confounding plot and for the studio interference that marred Welles’s...
Lady Gaga (American singer-songwriter)
American singer-songwriter and performance artist, known for her flamboyant costumes and sexy lyrics, who achieved enormous popular success with songs such as Just Dance and Poker Face....
Lady in the Lake (film by Montgomery)
...does this point of view literally take over the optical view of the character for an extended period. (One noted exception is the 1946 film directed by the actor Robert Montgomery, Lady in the Lake, in which the camera actually plays the main character. The entire film is seen from the camera/character’s point of view so that the audience sees only what the......
Lady Lever Art Gallery (museum, Bebington, England, United Kingdom)
in Port Sunlight, a model village founded for workers in Bebington, Cheshire (now in Merseyside), Eng. The museum was a gift to the public of the 1st Viscount Leverhulme, as a memorial to his wife, who died in 1913. The building was begun in 1914 and opened in December 1922. The collection of works exhibited at the gallery was formed by Lord Leverhulme and records his personal taste, which was str...
“Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District” (opera by Shostakovich)
...Not surprisingly, Shostakovich’s incomparably finer second opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (composed 1930–32; revised and retitled Katerina Izmaylova), marked a stylistic retreat. Yet even this more accessible musical language was too radical for the Soviet authorities....
Lady Maisry (ballad)
...of their sons. Thus “The Douglas Tragedy”—the Danish “Ribold and Guldborg”—occurs when an eloping couple is overtaken by the girl’s father and brothers or “Lady Maisry,” pregnant by an English lord, is burned by her fanatically Scottish brother. Incest, frequent in ballads recorded before 1800 (“Lizie Wan,” “The...
Lady of Elche, The (sculpture)
...domination the name was changed to Elx, whence Elche. A well-known example of 5th-century-bc Iberian art, a polychrome stone statue known as La dama de Elche (“The Lady of Elche”), was found on a nearby archaeological site in 1897; a mosaic floor with Latin inscriptions was also unco...
Lady of Massachusetts, A (American writer)
American novelist whose single successful novel, though highly sentimental, broke with some of the conventions of its time and type....
Lady of Shalott, The (painting by Crane)
...new fashion. The ideas and teachings of the Pre-Raphaelites and of John Ruskin manifested themselves in his early paintings such as “The Lady of Shalott” (1862). He came to oppose the policies of the academy, which steadily refused his later work. In 1864 he began to illustrate an admirable series of sixpenny toy books of......
Lady of the Camellias, The (play by Dumas)
...Augier. Dumas fils is best remembered for his romanticization of the courtesan in La Dame aux camélias (1848; The Lady with the Camellias), the novel and play on which the libretto of Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata was based, but the moralizing Les......
Lady of the Dead (Aztec deity)
...and making peace with the eventuality of death by treating it familiarly, without fear and dread. The holiday is derived from the rituals of the pre-Hispanic peoples of Mexico. Led by the goddess Mictecacihuatl, known as “Lady of the Dead,” the celebration lasted a month. After the Spanish arrived in Mexico and began converting the native peoples to ......
Lady of the Lamp (English nurse)
foundational philosopher of modern nursing, statistician, and social reformer. Nightingale was put in charge of nursing British and allied soldiers in Turkey during the Crimean War. She spent many hours in the wards, and her night rounds giving personal care to the wounded established her image as the “Lady with the Lamp.” Her efforts to formaliz...
Lady Redgrave (British actress)
British actress (b. May 28, 1910, Dartmouth, Eng.—d. May 24, 2003, Millbrook, N.Y.), had a distinguished stage, film, and television career in Great Britain but, especially in the U.S., became better known as the matriarch of the Redgrave acting family—the wife of Sir Michael Redgrave, the mother of Vanessa, Co...
Lady Sings the Blues (American film)
...race riots, and in the early ’70s the company relocated to Los Angeles, where its move into filmmaking was generally fruitful. Motown’s most famous film, Lady Sings the Blues (1972), starred Ross and was loosely based on the career of jazz singer Billie Holiday....
Lady Sings the Blues (autobiography by Holiday)
...and private liaison with Young were marked by some of the best recordings of the interplay between a vocal line and an instrumental obbligato. In 1956 she wrote an autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues (with William Dufty), that was made into a motion picture in 1972....
Lady Susan (book by Austen)
...parody of existing literary forms, notably sentimental fiction. Her passage to a more serious view of life from the exuberant high spirits and extravagances of her earliest writings is evident in Lady Susan, a short novel-in-letters written about 1793–94 (and not published until 1871). This portrait of a woman bent on the exercise of her own powerful mind and personality to the......
Lady Vanishes, The (film by Hitchcock)
...(1952), Cast a Dark Shadow (1955), and as Cinderella’s stepmother in The Slipper and the Rose (1976). Her most popular roles were as the spunky heroine of Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery The Lady Vanishes (1938) and as the voluptuous highwaywoman in the costume drama The Wicked Lady (1945)....
Lady Vols (American basketball team)
Named head coach of the Lady Vols at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1974, she posted a 16–8 record in her inaugural season. (In 1980 she married R.B. Summitt; the couple divorced in 2008.) Driven and uncompromising, Summitt demanded the best from her players and was known for her strenuous practices and the legendary “look” that would send athletes for cover. In.....
Lady Windermere’s Fan (play by Wilde)
...social intrigues and artificial devices to resolve conflict), he employed his paradoxical, epigrammatic wit to create a form of comedy new to the 19th-century English theatre. His first success, Lady Windermere’s Fan, demonstrated that this wit could revitalize the rusty machinery of French drama. In the same year, rehearsals of his macabre play Salomé, written in Fr...
Lady with a Fan (painting by Velázquez)
...character of the dwarfs’ deformities is revealed through their awkward, unconventional poses, their individual expressions, and by the exceptionally free and bold brushwork. The Lady with a Fan, one of the few informal portraits of women, is, on the other hand, remarkable for the subtle and delicate painting and for the sensitive portrayal of personal charm....
Lady with Primroses (work by Verrocchio)
...National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) from the idealization of the individual that characterizes his marble bust known as Lady with Primroses (Bargello Museum, Florence). The latter work created a new type of Renaissance bust, in which the arms of the sitter are included in the manner of ancient Roman models.......
Lady with the Dog (work by Chekov)
...Henry short story is also an example of dramatic irony, as is the more subtly achieved effect of Anton Chekhov’s story “Lady with the Dog,” in which an accomplished Don Juan engages in a routine flirtation only to find himself seduced into a pas...
Lady with the Unicorn, The (tapestry)
...of Philip the Good or acts as a background for scenes of the chivalric aristocratic life during the late Middle Ages, such as in The Hunt of the Unicorn or The Lady and the Unicorn. The origin of millefleurs tapestries is disputed, but it is thought that they were woven in the Flemish workshops of Brussels and Bruges and by......
ladybell (plant)
Adenophora, the ladybell genus, is similar to Campanula except for a cuplike disk at the base of the style, which covers the ovary (the basal part of the pistil). It includes 60 species native to cool parts of Europe and Asia and mostly flowering with blue, bell-shaped blooms in spikes or loose clusters. The leaves are in whorls of three or are alternately arranged on the stems....
ladybird beetle (insect)
any of approximately 5,000 widely distributed species of beetles (insect order Coleoptera) whose name originated in the Middle Ages, when the beetle was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and called “beetle of Our Lady.”...
ladybug (insect)
any of approximately 5,000 widely distributed species of beetles (insect order Coleoptera) whose name originated in the Middle Ages, when the beetle was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and called “beetle of Our Lady.”...
ladyfish (fish)
(Albula vulpes), marine game fish of the family Albulidae (order Elopiformes). It inhabits shallow coastal and island waters in tropical seas and is admired by anglers for its speed and strength. Maximum length and weight are about 76 cm (30 inches) and 6.4 kg (14 pounds). The bonefish has a deeply notched caudal fin ...
ladyfish (Elops saurus)
(Elops saurus), primarily tropical coastal marine fish of the family Elopidae (order Elopiformes), related to the tarpon and bonefish. The ladyfish is slender and pikelike in form and covered with fine silver scales; there are grooves into which the dorsal and anal fins can be depressed. A predatory fish, the ladyfish...
lady’s bedstraw (plant)
...Asperula odorata), or waldmeister, has an odour similar to that of freshly mown hay; its dried shoots are used in perfumes and sachets and for flavouring beverages. Lady’s bedstraw, or yellow bedstraw (G. verum), is used in Europe to curdle milk and to colour cheese. The roots of several species of....
Lady’s Magazine, The (British magazine)
Typical of the late Georgian and Regency magazines in Britain were The Lady’s Magazine (1770), a sixpenny monthly that, along with its literary contributions and fashion notes, gave away embroidery patterns and sheet music; The Lady’s Monthly Museum (1798), which had a half-yearly “Cabinet of Fashion” illustrated by coloured engravings, the first to appear...
lady’s mantle (plant species)
any of several herbaceous perennials of the genus Alchemilla, particularly A. vulgaris, within the rose family (Rosaceae). A. vulgaris is widely distributed in Eurasia and has been introduced into North America.......
lady’s mantle (plant genus)
any of several herbaceous perennials of the genus Alchemilla, particularly A. vulgaris, within the rose family (Rosaceae). A. vulgaris is widely distributed in Eurasia and has been introduced into North America...

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