What does lave mean?
Definitions for lave
leɪvlave
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word lave.
Princeton's WordNet
lave, lap, washverb
wash or flow against
"the waves laved the shore"
wash, laveverb
cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
wash up, laveverb
wash one's face and hands
"She freshened up in the bathroom"
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Laveverb
Etymology: lavo, Latin.
Unsafe, that we must lave our honours
In these so flatt’ring streams. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.But as I rose out of the laving stream,
Heav’n open’d her eternal doors, from whence
The spirit descended on me like a dove. Paradise Reg.With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength,
Whose low-laid mouths each mounting billow laves,
Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length,
She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves. Dryden.Though hills were set on hills,
And seas met seas to guard thee, I would through:
I’d plough up rocks, steep as the Alps, in dust,
And lave the Tyrrhene waters into clouds,
But I would reach thy head. Ben Jonson, Catiline.Some stow their oars, or stop the leaky sides,
Another bolder yet the yard bestrides,
And folds the sails; a fourth with labour laves
Th’ intruding seas, and waves ejects on waves. Dryden.To Laveverb
To wash himself; to bathe.
In her chaste current oft the goddess laves,
And with celestial tears augments the waves. Alexander Pope.
Wikipedia
lave
Lave was an ironclad floating battery of the French Navy during the 19th century. She was part of the Dévastation class of floating batteries. In the 1850s, the British and French navies deployed iron-armoured floating batteries as a supplement to the wooden steam battlefleet in the Crimean War. The role of the battery was to assist unarmoured mortar and gunboats bombarding shore fortifications. The French used three of their ironclad batteries (Lave, Tonnante, and Dévastation) in 1855 against the defences at the Battle of Kinburn (1855) on the Black Sea, where they were effective against Russian shore defences. They would later be used again during the Italian war in the Adriatic in 1859. The ships were flat-bottomed, and commonly nicknamed "soapboxes". They were towed from France to Crimea to participate in the conflict. Lave was towed by the paddle frigate Magellan.
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lave
Lave is a verb that means to wash or bathe oneself or another object. It can also refer to the process of flowing or washing against, commonly used to describe how water interacts with a shore or riverbank.
Webster Dictionary
Laveverb
to wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise
Laveverb
to bathe; to wash one's self
Laveverb
to lade, dip, or pour out
Lavenoun
the remainder; others
Etymology: [OE. laven. See Lavish.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Lave
lāv, v.t. and v.i. to wash: to bathe.—ns. Lā′vabo, the ritual act of washing the celebrant's fingers after the offertory, before proceeding with the eucharistic service—from Lavabo manus meas in innocentia (Ps. xxvi. 6): a stone basin in monasteries for washing in before meals or religious exercises: a modern convenience or lavatory of similar kind; Lā′vage, a washing out; Lavā′tion, a washing or cleansing; Lav′atory, a place for washing: a medieval stone table in monasteries, &c., on which bodies were washed before burial: (med.) a lotion for a diseased part; Lā′ver, a large vessel for laving or washing. [Fr. laver—L. lavāre, -ātum; Gr. louein, to wash.]
Lave
lāv, n. (Scot.) what is left, the remainder. [A.S. láf; Ice. leif. See Leave.]
Lave
lāv, v.t. to lade or throw out (as water from a boat). [A.S. lafian, pour out water; Ger. laben, refresh. Conn. with L. lavāre, to wash, dub.]
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
LAVE
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Lave is ranked #59742 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Lave surname appeared 338 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Lave.
62.4% or 211 total occurrences were White.
22.7% or 77 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
6.2% or 21 total occurrences were Asian.
5.9% or 20 total occurrences were of two or more races.
Anagrams for lave »
veal
vale
vela
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of lave in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of lave in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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