Dame

Dame [fr. dame, Fr.; dama, Sp.], the legal designation of the wife of a knight or baronet a woman, lady; maid of honour; the mistress of a house; a matron; a mother; a noble lady; a name given to members of certain order of nuns....

Domina (Dame)

Domina (Dame), a title given to honourable women, who, anciently, in their own right of inheritance, held a barony, Cowel...

Dame

A mistress of a family who is a lady a woman in authority especially a lady...

Damewort

A cruciferrous plant Hesperis matronalis remarkable for its fragrance especially toward the close of the day called also rocket and dames violet...

Hakes dame

See Forkbeard...

VerbarLorette

In France a name for a woman who is supported by her lovers and devotes herself to idleness show and pleasure so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette in Paris near which many of them resided...

Caveat viator

Caveat viator (let the traveller beware), meaning that he must use reasonable care for his own safety; but a traveller or passer-by on premises on or over which he has a right to be or to pass is entitled to be protected from the negligence of those who are under some duty to passers-by or users of the premises. The degree of duty varies according to whether the victim of the accident has a contract involving care or even absolute assurance or warranty on the part of the defendant in regard to the soundness of the premises or otherwise, or whether the plaintiff was a visitor or licensee. See Indermaur v. Dames, (1866) LR 1 CP 274, Latham v. Johnson, 1913 (1) KB 398, and Norman v. Great Western Railway Company, 1915 (1) KB 584 (2) CP 311. The case of a trespasser is quite different, but even then the owner of the land or person in possession has no right to lay a trap for him or commit any other wilful injury, see Bird v. Holbrook, (1828) 4 Bing 628, with that exception, the owner of th...

Knight

Knight, a title of honour; when used simply, denoting a knight bachelor, who does not belong to any Order of Knighthood. It entitles the person on whom it is conferred to be styled 'Sir,' and his wife 'Dame.' The recognised courtesy title of Lady'is, however, almost universally adopted for the wife of knight bachelor. A knight is now made by the sovereign touching him with a sword as he kneels, and saying, 'Rise, Sir',' or by Letters Patent. See Halsbury's Laws of England.'...

Lady

Lady [fr. h'f dig,Sax., loaf-day, which words have in time been contracted into the present appellation]. It was the fashion for the lady of the manor, once a week or oftener, to distribute to her poor neighbours, with her own hands, a certain quantity of bread. The title is borne by the wives of knights, and of all barons and knightly degrees above them, either in their own right, or by courtesy, except the wives of bishops; but see DAME....

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