lave

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To bathe or wash (someone or something).

   “[M]y houſe vvithin the City / Is richly furniſhed vvith plate and gold, / Baſons and evvers to laue her dainty hands: […]”

2. fiil Of a river or other water body: to flow along or past (a place or thing); to wash.

   “VVith roomy decks, her Guns of mighty ſtrength, / (VVhoſe lovv-laid mouthes each mounting billovv laves:) / Deep in her draught, and vvarlike in her length, / She ſeems a Sea-vvaſp flying on the vvaves.”

3. fiil Followed by into, on, or upon: to pour (water or some other liquid) with or as if with a ladle into or on someone or something; to lade, to ladle.

   “Then the Lead being melted, […] it is laved into the Pan, […]”

4. fiil To remove (something), as if by washing away with water.

   “And now, she sat down under the leafless tree, to weep; and in those bitter tears, childhood itself was laved from her soul for ever.”

5. fiil To surround or gently touch (someone or something), as if with water.

   “[W]hen the midnight moon did lave / Her forehead in the silver wave, / How solemn on the ear would come / The holy mattin's distant hum, […]”

6. fiil Chiefly in sexual contexts: to lick (someone or something).

   “"Who could resist such a temptation?" he drawled, and bent to lave each nipple with his tongue till the satin was wet and clinging.”

7. fiil Followed by out or up: to draw or scoop (water) out of something with a bucket, scoop, etc.; specifically, to bail (water) out of a boat.

   “Thou haſt plaid muſique to my dolefull ſoule; / And vvhen my heart vvas tympaniz'd vvith griefe, / Thou lauedſt out ſome into thy heart from mine, / And kept it ſo from burſting; […]”

8. fiil To bathe or wash.

   “Happy he that ſips Eternally ſuch Nectar dovvn, that unconfin'd may Lave, and VVanton there in ſateleſs Draughts of ever ſpringing Beauty— […]”

9. fiil To surround as if with water.
10. fiil Chiefly in sexual contexts; followed by at: to lick.

    “Alexander went from laving at her breasts to nuzzling her belly and then his mouth was on her bare thigh, nibbling at her flesh as his fingers delved inside her sheath. She felt herself stretch and squeeze against his long fingers.”

11. isim An act of bathing or washing; a bath or bathe, a wash.

    “Once more Arion and his loving nymph / Together rest within their summer cave, / In the green woodland, where the crystal lymph / Through sands and ivy pulsed with ceaseless lave.”

12. isim The sea.

    “When Nature, languid, seems to rest, / Nor moves a leaf, nor heaves a wave, / And Zephyrs sleep, by Sol caress'd, / And sportive swallows skim the lave; […]”

13. isim That which is left over; a remainder, a remnant, the rest.

    “Of prelates proud, a populous lave, / And abbots boldly there vvere known. / VVith Biſhop of St. Andrevv's brave, / VVho vvas King James's baſtard ſon.”

14. isim A relict, a widow.
15. sıfat Chiefly in lave ears: of ears: drooping, hanging down.

    “And I ſvveare by the bloud of my codpiece, / An I vvere a vvoman I vvould lug off his laue eares, / Or run him to death vvith a ſpit: […]”

16. fiil Of ears: to droop, to hang down.

    “His mouth ſhrinks ſidevvard like a ſcornfull Playſe / To take his tired Eares ingratefull place; / His Eares hang lauing like a nevv-lug'd ſvvine / To take ſome counſell of his grieued eyne, […]”