lave

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You are but a woman like the lave, and you maun thole the brunt of what life may bring.

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  1. transitive verb To wash; bathe.
  2. transitive verb To lap or wash against.
  3. transitive verb To refresh or soothe as if by washing: "The quiet and the cool laved her” (Edna Ferber).

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  • But Tania's heart is not at ease, Winter's approach she doth not hail Nor the frost particles inhale Nor the first snow of winter seize Her shoulders, breast and face to lave-- Alarm the winter journey gave XXIX The date was fixed though oft postponed, But ultimately doth approach. —  Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse
  • You are but a woman like the lave, and you maun thole the brunt of what life may bring. —  Janet's Love and Service
  • An' see, Coolin, fer the warnin' she give ye fer me, the kit I lave is yours, an' what more, be the will uv God! —  Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete
  • Let us pretermit the question till another occasion; anyway here's Drimdarroch wi' the lave, at any rate the weight of it in processes, records, caveats, multiple poindings, actions of suspension and declator, interim decrees, fugie warrants, compts, and reckonings--God! —  Doom Castle
  • Then he built thim a church an the hill be the bog, an’ gev thim a holy man fur a priest be the name o’ Caruck, that I b’lave is a saint too or lasteways ought to be fur phat he done. —  Irish Wonders
 

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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English laven, from Old English gelafian and from Old French laver, both from Latin lavāre; see leu(ə)- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English laven, from Anglo-Saxon lafian, gelafian (rare), pour out or sprinkle water, = Dutch laven = Old High German labōn, labēn, Middle High German laben, wash, German laben, refresh; cf. Greek λαπάζειν, ἀλαπάζειν, empty out. Connection with lave, from Latin lavare, wash, is uncertain. The two words in English seem to have become confused. Hence lavish.
  2. from Middle English laven, from Old French laver, French laver = Spanish Portuguese lavar = Italian lavare, from Latin lavare (past participle lautus, lotus, lavatus), wash, bathe, akin to luere, wash, bathe, = Greek λούειν, wash, bathe. From Latin lavare come also English lava, lavender, lavender, launder, laundry, etc., lotion, etc., and from luere, English ablution, alluvium, deluge, diluvial, dilute, etc.
  3. from Middle English lave, laif, lafe, from Anglo-Saxon lāf (= Old Saxon lēba = OFries. lava = Old High German leiba, leipa, Middle High German leibe = Icelandic leif, plural leifar = Danish lev (frequent in local names: Haders lev, Snolde löv, etc.) = Gothic (Moesogothic) laiba), what is left, from līfan, remain: see leave.
  4. lave, v.
 

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