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ladrone
Also 8 Sc. ladren, laydron, latherin, 7, 9 ladron, 9 lath(e)ron.
[a. early OF. ladron (see laroun):—L. latrōn-em robber. In mod. use ad. Sp. ladrón:—L. latrōn-em.]
1. Sc. (Stressed ˈladron.) Used as a vague term of reproach: Rogue, blackguard.
a1557Lyndesay in Pinkerton's Sc. Poems (1792) II. 8 Quhair hes thow bene, fals ladrone lown? 1706J. Watson's Collect. Poems i. 11 But when Indemnity came down, The Laydron caught me by the Thraple. 1718Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. iii. xv, Whisht, ladren. 1789D. Davidson Seasons 90 Maggy wha fu' well did ken, The lurking Latherin's meaning. 1887Service Dr. Duguid, Thou impiddent latheron!
attrib.1811Galt Ann. Parish xxiv. 159 She..would not let me..mess or mell with the lathron lasses of the clachan.
2. (ləˈdrəʊn.) Used occas. in books on Spain or Spanish America for: A highwayman. Also attrib. (see quot. 1867).
[1626Shirley Brothers v. iii. (1652) 62 Ped. I am become the talk Of every Picaro and Ladron.] 1832W. Irving Alhambra I. 17 With the protection of our redoubtable Squire, Sancho, we were not afraid of all the ladrones of Andalusia. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. ix. 74 There are other ladrones besides the Indians. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Ladrone ship, literally a pirate, but it is the usual epithet applied by the Chinese to a man-of-war. 1883Ld. Saltoun Scraps I. ii. 189 They would have been bold ladrones that molested any travellers conducted by him. |