A Laird's a member of the gentry and a heritable title in Scotland. The word Laird comes from the shortened form of 'lavered', which's an old Scottish word deriving from an Anglo-Saxon term meaning 'Lord', and's also derived from the middle-English word 'lard', also meaning 'Lord'. History and Definition A Laird's a member of the gentry; historically Lairds rank below a Baron and above an Esquire in the non-peerage table of precedence in the Statutes of 1592 and the Baronetcy Warrents of King C… (More on Laird)