'Lad's love' definitions:

Definition of 'lad's love'

noun

Aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe [syn: common wormwood, absinthe, old man, lad's love, Artemisia absinthium]

From: GCIDE

Lad \Lad\ (l[a^]d), n. [OE. ladde, of Celtic origin; cf. W. llawd, Ir. lath. [root]123. Cf. Lass.]
1. A boy; a youth; a stripling. "Cupid is a knavish lad." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves and two small fishes. --John vi. 9. [1913 Webster]
2. A companion; a comrade; a mate. [1913 Webster]
Lad's love. (Bot.) See Boy's love, under Boy. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Boy \Boy\, n. [Cf. D. boef, Fries. boi, boy; akin to G. bube, Icel. bofi rouge.]
1. A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son. [1913 Webster]
My only boy fell by the side of great Dundee. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
Note: Boy is often used as a term of comradeship, as in college, or in the army or navy. In the plural used colloquially of members of an associaton, fraternity, or party. [1913 Webster]
2. In various countries, a male servant, laborer, or slave of a native or inferior race; also, any man of such a race; -- considered derogatory by those so called, and now seldom used. [derog.]
He reverted again and again to the labor difficulty, and spoke of importing boys from Capetown. --Frances Macnab. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Boy bishop, a boy (usually a chorister) elected bishop, in old Christian sports, and invested with robes and other insignia. He practiced a kind of mimicry of the ceremonies in which the bishop usually officiated.
The Old Boy, the Devil. [Slang]
Yellow boys, guineas. [Slang, Eng.]
Boy's love, a popular English name of Southernwood (Artemisia abrotonum); -- called also lad's love.
Boy's play, childish amusements; anything trifling. [1913 Webster]