lord

Ymbe ðet lond et cert ðe hire eðelmod hire hlabard salde.

Als oure lauerd has heuen in hand

Sua suld man be lauerd of land.

Men myghten lordis knowe

By there arraye, from oþir folke.

Farre excellyng the state of lordes, erles, dukes or kynges.

The Tobacco Lords were a group of Scottish merchants and slave traders who in the 18th century made enormous fortunes by trading in tobacco.

The assendent, & eke the lord of the assendent, may be shapen for to be fortunat or infortunat, as thus, a fortunat assendent clepen they whan þat no wykkid planete, as Saturne or Mars, or elles the tail of the dragoun, is in þe hows of the assendent.

Lord, a very crooked, deformed... Person.

Twenty years ago you might hear a sixpence described as a ‘Lord’ meaning ‘Lord of the Manor’; that is, a tanner.