ladys

noun

1. (form-of, obsolete, plural)plural of lady

   “Yf they ſett men thus to ſcole ⸝ / I trowe they make many a fole ⸝ / Of ladys and gentill wemen.”

   “[Nick] Bot[tom]. There are things in this Comedy of Piramus and Thisby, that will neuer pleaſe. Firſt, Piramus muſt draw a ſword to kill himſelfe; which the Ladys cannot abide. How anſwer you that? / [Tom] Snout. Berlaken, a parlous feare.”

   “[W]hen they can no other way prevail with the Town, they charge it with the old never failing Scandal———That ’tis not fit for the Ladys: As if (if it were as they falſly give it out) the Ladys were oblig’d to hear Indecencys only from their Pens and Plays and ſome of them have ventur’d to treat ’em as Courſely as ’twas poſſible, without the leaſt Reproach from them; […]”

2. (form-of, genitive, obsolete)genitive of lady

   “Our ladys ymage ought to ſtande gylte in a tabernacle apon a baſe of marble.”

   “[H]e had ſayd our ladys ſauter euery day wherfoꝛe ſhe gaue hym a lytyll of the oyle. And anone ſe went to another aſkyng hym what he had done foꝛ her ſake which ſayd that he had ſayd .ii ladys ſauters euery day ⸝ wherfoꝛe our lady gaue hym moꝛe of yͤ oytement than ſhe gaue yͤ other.”

   “And ſo to my ladys chamber ⸝ / Formoſt pricketh in the elder ⸝ / Which of theym is moſt auncient.”

   “Now Sir we are two to two, for this Way you muſt paſs or be taken in the Ladys Lodgings————I’ll firſt adventure out to make you paſs the ſafer.”