Meaning of Lave | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An act of bathing or washing; a bath or bathe, a wash.
2. That which is left over; a remainder, a remnant, the rest.
   uncountable
3. The sea.
   also, figuratively, rare
4. A relict, a widow.
   rare, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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; […]”

“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.”

“The Mother, vvi' a vvoman's vviles, can ſpy / VVhat makes the Youth ſae baſhfu' and ſae grave; / VVeel-pleas'd to think her bairn's reſpected like the lave.”

“[D]inna vex him ony mair, I'll pay the lave out o' the butter siller, and nae mair words about it.”

Don't vex him any more, I'll pay the rest out of the butter silver, and no more words about it.

“[A]uld Mucklebacket's gane wi' the lave—muckle gude he'll do!”

Old Mucklebucket's gone with the rest—much good he'll do!

“[T]hey ca' it fasting when they hae the best o' fish frae Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forbye trouts, gilses, salmon, and a' the lave o't, and so they make their very fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]”

They call it fasting when they have the best of fish from Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forby [i.e., besides] trouts, grilses, salmon, and all the rest of it, and so they make their fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]

“Noo, Annie, pit on yer bonnet, an' gang to the schuil wi' the lave (rest); an' be a good girrl.”

No, Annie, put on your bonnet, and go to the school with the rest; and be a good girl.

“Then they set upon us and slew some of my slaves and put the lave to flight; and I also fled after I had gotten a wound, a grievous hurt, whilst the Arabs were taken up with the money and the presents which were with us.”

“Give to me the life I love, / Let the lave go by me, / Give the jolly heaven above / And the byway nigh me.”

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