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Lad's love   /lædz ləv/   Listen
noun
Lad  n.  
1.
A boy; a youth; a stripling. "Cupid is a knavish lad." "There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves and two small fishes."
2.
A companion; a comrade; a mate.
Lad's love. (Bot.) See Boy's love, under Boy.





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"Lad's love" Quotes from Famous Books



... One member alone of his family felt with him that complete and vivid sympathy which is so necessary to the full development of such a nature. When he was fourteen this sister married and left home, but the bond between them was not broken. In some ways it was strengthened by the lad's love for her children; by his grief, scarcely less than her own, at the death of her eldest little girl. Moreover they were brought into close companionship for a considerable time when, after his dismal period of apprenticeship at Rotherhithe—to ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley


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