Lord Muck see under muck

Lord of Appeal in Ordinary noun

A judge appointed to the House of Lords to hear appeals to the House in its capacity as court of final appeal

Lord of Misrule see under misrule

Lord of Session noun

A judge of the Court of Session

Lord Provost see under provost

lords and ladies noun (botany)

Common arum

Lord's Day noun

Sunday

Lords Ordinary plural noun

The judges forming the Outer House of the Court of Session

Lord's Prayer noun

The prayer that Christ taught his disciples (Matthew 6.9–13)

Lords Spiritual plural noun

The archbishops and bishops (and formerly mitred abbots) in the House of Lords

Lord's Supper noun

Holy communion

Lord's table noun

The communion table

Lords Temporal plural noun

The lay peers

lord-superior see lord (n) above.

drunk as a lord

Extremely drunk

House of Lords

The upper house of the British parliament

live like a lord

To live in luxury

Lord knows (who, what, etc)

I don't know, and I doubt if anybody knows

My Lord /mi-lördˈ or mi-ludˈ/

1. Used in addressing a judge or other lord
2. Formerly also used as a prefix

muck /muk/

noun

1. Dung
2. Manure
3. Wet or clinging filth
4. Anything contemptible or worthless
5. Dirt, debris, rubble
6. Gold (poetic and archaic)
7. Rubbishy reading matter
8. A mess

transitive verb

1. To clear of muck (with out)
2. To manure with muck
3. To make dirty (with up)
4. To make a mess of, to bungle (with up; muckˈ-up noun)
5. To treat inconsiderately (with about or around)

intransitive verb (usu with about or around; informal)

1. To potter
2. To act the fool

muckˈer noun

1. A person who mucks
2. A money-grubber (obsolete)
3. A mess
4. A mishap, disaster (orig a fall in the mire)
5. A coarse, unrefined person
6. A best friend, mate, sidekick
7. A young townsman, not a student (old US)

transitive verb

1. To hoard (obsolete)
2. To squander
3. To vitiate

intransitive verb

1. To come to grief
2. To make a muddle of anything

muckˈiness noun

muckˈy adjective (muckˈier; muckˈiest)

1. Nasty, filthy
2. Of the nature of muck
3. Like muck

muck-a-muck see high-muck-a-muck

muckˈheap or muckˈ-midden noun

A dunghill

muckˈ-rake noun

A rake for manure

intransitive verb

To seek out and expose scandals or supposed scandals, whether for worthy or unworthy motives

muckˈ-raker noun

muckˈ-raking noun

muckˈspread intransitive verb

To spread manure

muckˈspreader noun

An agricultural machine for spreading manure

muckˈspreading noun

muckˈsweat noun (Brit)

Profuse sweat

muckˈ-worm noun

1. A worm or grub that lives in muck
2. A person who acquires money by mean devices
3. A miser

Lady or Lord Muck (facetious)

A title or name applied to a woman or man assuming aristocratic airs

make a muck of (informal)

1. To make dirty
2. To bungle, mismanage

muck in (with) (informal)

1. To share with
2. To help, participate (in)