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Lave   /leɪv/   Listen
Lave

verb
(past & past part. laved; pres. part. laving)
1.
Wash or flow against.  Synonyms: lap, wash.
2.
Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water.  Synonym: wash.
3.
Wash one's face and hands.  Synonym: wash up.






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"Lave" Quotes from Famous Books



... "if I'd known 'ow it really was, I never would lave listened to such a thing, never. And there isn't another 'ole in the louse to lay me ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... an' lave it on the mantletry till we see if the breath's in her yit. Sure an' sich a little crather niver ...
— Outpost • J.G. Austin

... faut un litre d'eau acidulee par deux ou trois cuillerees de vinaigre, ou deux cuillerees de sel gris. Dans le cas ou l'on n'aurait que de l'eau a sa disposition, il faut la renouveler une ou deux fois. On laisse les champignons macerer dans le liquids pendant deux heures entieres, puis on les lave a grande eau. Ils sont alors mis dans de l'eau froide qu'on porte a l'ebullition, et apres un quart d'heure ou une demi-heure, on les retire, on les lave, on les essuie, et ou les apprete soit comme un mets special, et ils comportent les memes assaisonnements ...
— Fungi: Their Nature and Uses • Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

... I used to hear, were shouting on the earth, As if to greet me back again with their wild strains of mirth; My own bright stream was at my feet, and how I laughed to lave My burning lip, and cheek, and brow, in ...
— The Liberty Minstrel • George W. Clark

... children of the tent bring you barley, camel's milk, or dhourra in the hollow of their hands. No longer will you gallop free as the wind across the desert; no longer cleave the waters with your breast, and lave your sides in the pure stream. If I am to be a slave, at least you shall go free. Hasten back to our tent. Tell my wife that Abou el Marek will return ...
— Stories of Animal Sagacity • W.H.G. Kingston


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