(historical) The commercial and military alliance of Low German merchant guilds and privileged market towns which dominated trade along the coasts of northern Europe from the mid-12th to mid-17th centuries.

(Behaving) determinedly recklessly, in a manner that lacks restraint. / Synonym of hell-for-leather (“very fast”) / Synonym of hell-bent (“(recklessly) determined”)

(cooking) a dish consisting of diced chicken in a cream sauce, and often with sherry, mushrooms, and vegetables, served over rice, pasta, or bread.

(slang) A woman's breasts.

(idiomatic) The hierarchy or ranking system of employment positions within a business organization.

(poetic) A fatherland; an ancestral homeland.

plural of leaf-cutter bee

plural of leaf spring

Alternative form of labor market

A scientific generalization about nature based upon empirical observation. / A natural law (any of a number of doctrines in moral, political and legal theory)